kyser_soze
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Terence Mckenna - anyone heard of him?
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butchersapron
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max_freakout
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there are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary code, and those who dont
kyser_soze
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Voley
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"there are 2 types of people, psychedelic, and clueless"
It's possible to sit in both of those camps.
danny la rouge
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It's old, but I find it amusing on and off.That's actually quite funny
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It's possible to sit in both of those camps.
i realise that, but i would count such people in the 'psychedelic' category
so long as you have a vague idea what the existence of the psychedelic experience entails, you have a clue
Mckenna said, you don't need to be a psychedelic drug user, but you do need to acknowledge to yourself the possibility
By recent you mean 1890? I really don't think anyone has seriously claimed that for at least 60 years.
littlebabyjesus
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If, within the next 100 years, anti-aging therapy were able to prolong life far beyond the current limits, but this were relatively expensive treatment only available to, say, 5 or 10% of the world's population, this could within a few decades, begin to create an übermensch class.
max_freakout
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Mckenna said that the world is going to end in 2012, so we havent got very long......
danny la rouge
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And then we'll have some of that evidence stuff he so disdained.
Before or after Euro 2012?
Yetman
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6057734.stm
He didnt exactly say the world was going to end did he.....
Structaural
in Chatsubo
I enjoyed his book Food of the Gods - seemed plausible. I tried a few of his others but they were so impenetrable I gave up.
Don't know much about his alleged fascism. Doesn't his brother run a foundation that helps protect the Hawiian rainforests and flora?
Don't know much about his alleged fascism. Doesn't his brother run a foundation that helps protect the Hawiian rainforests and flora?
The Groke
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I see what you did there.
danny la rouge
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At last, someone who appreciates me.
bi0boy
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He didn't say "The world will end in 2012!"
He actually said "The world will end in 2012, LOL!"
He was a bit of a LOL man.
i-am-your-idea
pretty vacant
its the end of the world as we know it
Structaural
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ah it was Kathleen Harrison (his wife) who runs the Hawiian preserve she stared with Terrence. Botanical Dimensions. That's pretty good work.
max_freakout
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i met Kathleen Harrison at the World Psychedelic forum and had a chat with her, she is a lovely woman and very intelligent (but a bit of a staunch scarey feminist 
)
she was his wife but later became his ex-wife
)she was his wife but later became his ex-wife
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he certainly did, many times
he made various speculations about 2012, that it was the end of the world, end of time, end of history etc etc
it is important to realise about Terence that his speaking/writing career spanned decades, and his ideas did not remain 100% consistent across that time
max_freakout
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the most impenetrable one is 'Invisible Landscape' it took me years to understand what that was all about, however, the book 'true hallucinations' is in many ways a much simplfied version of 'invisible landscape'
i recommend 'The Archaic Revival' it is very accesible and gives a great overview of his crazy ideas about aliens, evolution etc.
but most of all, forget about his books and download his lectures, Mckenna was a speaker much more than a book-writer
not his brother, Dennis Mckenna is a scientist and researches for the Heffner insitute
i recently podcasted a couple of Dennis Mckenna's talks from the world psychedelic forum, download them here:
"bitter brews and other abominations: the use of some little known psychoactive agents"
http://media.libsyn.com/media/dopecast/psychonautica035.mp3
'Psychedelics in basic neuroscience and clinical practise'
http://media.libsyn.com/media/dopecast/psychonautica034.mp3
max_freakout
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or the end of the world as we don't know it
the end of everything, the beginning of nothing
Structaural
in Chatsubo
Well my psychedelic days are long behind me, but I did read True Hallucinations' - more a biography of his experiences in the jungle. Invisible Landscape I gave up on and I think I read The Archaic Revival back when I was into all this stuff (15 years ago).
I think all that stuff is great when you're young but I know too many proper casualties and have too many responsibilties to take it seriously these days.
The astral is essentially manipulated by your own imagination so any sense made of it is highly subjective. I'll stick with the occasional lucid dream.
max_freakout
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when do you stop being young?
Structaural
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Yetman
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he certainly did, many times
he made various speculations about 2012, that it was the end of the world, end of time, end of history etc etc
it is important to realise about Terence that his speaking/writing career spanned decades, and his ideas did not remain 100% consistent across that time
Ah, fair enough. Its not that though - have you seen Zeitgeist yet? Thats a much more likely scenario, the next chapter of an age (an age being a historic measurement of time - moving from the age of pisces into aquarius)
Structaural
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Most likely scenario is that it's bollocks. The only reason it's given credibility is because it dovetails with the end of the Mayan calendar -you know, that bunch of highly enlightened sacrifiers of virgins.
It's bad enough that Christians await the end of the world without hippies doing it too.
BTW the Age Of Aquarius starts around 2600AD.
It's bad enough that Christians await the end of the world without hippies doing it too.
BTW the Age Of Aquarius starts around 2600AD.
Yetman
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Does it? Oh, well thats that theory out of the fucking water then eh
What the hell is zeitgeist on about then? Is it misled, disillusioned or just full of shit?
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