Terence McKenna chilling with Robert Anton Wilson and Rudy Rucker (Movie Excerpt)

Out of nowhere

So that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning

“The idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your sets of experience so that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning.”

Terence McKenna

That. That is it. That is what all the interest and practice in psi research and the paranormal and forbidden history and entheology is about. Triangulating data points. To free oneself from prison.

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Terence McKenna - Terra Lucida

Directed by Wes Richardson - www.wesrichardson.me with Terence Mckenna's - Terra Lucida (World of Iights) layered over the top, Terra Lucida is an experiment with psychedelic visionary McKenna. McKenna points to a realm of light beyond this current world-We are engaging an imaginatrix of unlimited revelation and post-DNA photon ecologies. McKenna indicates a portal for shamanistic journeying into worlds beyond life where Nothing really ends... The recordings were made circa 1989 in Petaluma, California with collaborator Britt Welin.

via Alienpunk

These are a few of my favorite books

Robert Anton Wilson - Prometheus Rising: awesome manual on how to deprogram & reprogram.

Robert Anton Wilson - Cosmic Trigger: fascinating biography

Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea - Illuminatus! Trilogy: Funny and intriguing conspiracy story featuring Hagbard Celine and his golden submarine (the Leif Ericson) vs the Illuminati.

Philip K. Dick - Valis & The Divine Invasion: PKD wrote "revelation" disguised as sci-fi, he didn't really understand what was going on in his head, a quote by him: "After all if you're a buddha, you should be able to figure it out for yourself."

Terence McKenna - True Hallucinations: my favorite orator goes into the Amazon with his brother to trip on psychedelics and things get weird. (The audiobook has great production, music and sound effects that really add to the experience.)

Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking glass for the wonderful lifehacks. (Lesser imaginative conspiracy theorists, this obviously means I am a mind controlled puppet of the illuminati.)

Rick Strassman - DMT The Spirit Molecule: fascinating musings and reports of his experiments on test subjects with the psychedelic DMT, specifically the weird alien encounters.

Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf: visit the Magic Theatre!

Lon Milo DuQuette - Low Magick It's All in Your Head You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is: my favorite occult author, great humor and explanations.

John Lilly - Simulations of God: Great exposition of different reality tunnels and human motivations.

Anything from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series: Hilarious fantasy humor, only read a handful so far but enjoyed each one, reading "Guards! Guards!" now. Small Gods is my favorite so far, I'm still wondering if Terry Pratchett is in fact a master magician in real life or just really clever at life.

Favorite Comic Books are The Invisibles by Grant Morrison and Promethea by Alan Moore. 

Psychedelic Salon 351 Terence McKenna - What is Truth?

You can listen to or download it here at the Psychedelic Salon

It starts with a bang!

What is truth?
"What one is sure of, very little. I would think. Well, I'm getting ready to say nothin'! I guess that's what it is, everything is provisional. As to what I believe in, is what I call the felt presence of immediate experience, the primary datum, I'm very aware that everything else is a construct moving out from that. And so the primary datum is the first level of being, but to say I believe in it..."

"If you're not thinking than you are no more than the onrush of your metabolism and not greatly different from your cat or your dog."

"And so I live by questions, I don't see how you can live any other way."

"I actually try to create a complete explanation, but I always call them models. Because you have to throw them away, you have to keep adding to the model and then throwing it away."

And the quotes listed at Psychedelic Salon:

“Why does mathematics describe nature. That’s a deeper question than most.”

“The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.”

“If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don’t. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don’t.”

“So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That’s why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in.”

“I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.”

“I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.”

“Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.”

“The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we’ve all been hungering for.”

 

“The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don’t see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It’s beautiful.”

“Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.”

“In the Newtonian and print-created social space that we’re walking around in you are like a self-extracting archive that hasn’t self-extracted itself yet. And then you take psilocybin and you self-extract and unfold.”

Art by Spayce

Joe Rogan Podcast #298 Dennis McKenna

Fascinating talk between Dennis McKenna and Joe Rogan.

More Joe Rogan Podcasts here.

Jason Silva - Radical Openness

The Joe Rogan Experience | Jason Silva

Fascinating fascinating talk.

Daniel Pinchbeck interviews Joe Rogan

This is pre-2012 but great to see these 2 interesting guys together. 

I'm reading Daniel Pinchbeck's Breaking open the head and am amazed for some reason that's it's so well written. I mean it's spectacularly good.

Terence McKenna - The Message

Terence McKenna talks about culture, 5 dried grams of psilocybin mushrooms and self empowerment, from the question and answer session of his lecture entitled 'Eros And The Eschaton'. More info about the video in the youtube info.

Mind Blown! Machine Elves dance around the Fermi paradox

The Fermi paradox (or Fermi's paradox) is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization and humanity's lack of contact with, or evidence for, such civilizations. The basic points of the argument, made by physicists Enrico Fermi and Michael H. Hart, are: 

• The Sun is a young star. There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are billions of years older; 
• Some of these stars likely have Earth-like planets which, if the Earth is typical, may develop intelligent life; 
• Presumably some of these civilizations will develop interstellar travel, a technology Earth is investigating even now; 
• At any practical pace of interstellar travel, the galaxy can be completely colonized in just a few tens of millions of years. 

According to this line of thinking, the Earth should have already been colonized, or at least visited. But no convincing evidence of this exists. Furthermore, no confirmed signs of intelligence elsewhere have been spotted, either in our galaxy or the more than 80 billion other galaxies of the observable universe. Hence Fermi's question "Where is everybody?". 

From the Psychonaut Subreddit: All I'm saying is... Machine Elves.

More! the Transcension Hypothesis by futurist John Smart, video by Jason Silva:



Now that's some tasty brainfood!

WOW!

"Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed." — Terence McKenna

Awesome RAW Painting, source: http://disorderedmatter.tumblr.com/

Terence McKenna - Evolving Times 1995

What's fascinating and disturbing is that McKenna's thoughts are still a great indication of how we probably should evolve as a society.

NOTE: The ending is cut a couple minutes short because the camera ran out of film.

Bruce Damer & Dennis McKenna – “A Deep Dive Into the Mind of McKenna”

Dear Terence McKenna fans, this podcast at the Psychedelic Salon Podcast 316 will probably break your heart as it broke mine. However it also affirmed for me that not becoming a fulltime entheogenic explorer - something I have sort of regretted a long time - was the right thing to do after all, I only found this out about Terence from this podcast (to know exactly what, you'll have to listen). A bad trip doesn't mean you should stop travelling alltogether, but these travels take you to unexpected destinations and it's not to be taken lightly at all. And mine sure got me frightened enough to not wanna do it alone ever again, and who knows how the heaven one can find a sitter for an entheogen trip these days if you don't have any likeminded friends nearby. Anyway this is a must listen (I typed "lesson" first, haha) for Terence McKenna fans. Prepare to have some illusions destroyed if you're not fully aware about his history yet as I was, but don't worry, he's still one of my main heroes and should probably remain a hero to all who know him regardless of his faults, which I find were maybe sort of overstated a bit too in the podcast. Bless you Terence, wherever you are!

Stoned Ape Theory

This is a hilarious clip from Duncan Trussell's Comedy Central Pilot "Thunderbrain." The animation and voice over was by Will Carsola from daybyday and it was produced by RZO Hothouse. The Stoned Ape Theory is of course by Terence McKenna.

Thanks to Alienpunk!

Terence! Where's my singularity!

A friend was organizing an "end of the world" party but it got cancelled (too) :p

"In what way does the expansion of consciousness threaten industrial democracies?"

Web Randomness

Thanks to Relaxed Focus for most of these.