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cf0660a8af9b-0	Ask TMK Talks Wiki Login Search Talks Wiki Login Psilocybin and the Sands of Time Share Download PDF Download Audio Download Video Last Updated: 15/09/18 Info Reviews Date Location Words December 1982 SEN Interview, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California 8169 End of Results No youtube link availab...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Psilocybin+and+the+Sands+of+Time
cf0660a8af9b-1	ut it was not until the Amazon that I saw that this was possible in a way that was accessible to me. So then I concentrated on those people, those chemical families and that, uh, that then became the compass for all the work that I've done since then, and, uh, I regard the degree more or less as a joke because it was s...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Psilocybin+and+the+Sands+of+Time
cf0660a8af9b-2	F: How do you perceive in this context the future of mankind and the human mind? F: Were you just talking about the Bell theory? F: What is the Bell Theorem you were talking about? F: Some people talk about entities? F: This is all what Jung called the Collective Unconscious? F: Are these entities coming from oute...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Psilocybin+and+the+Sands+of+Time
cf0660a8af9b-3	Follow up on a phrase you remember hearing. The Terence McKenna Page © 2016-2020 asktmk.com Contact	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Psilocybin+and+the+Sands+of+Time
a2e48515d69e-0	Ask TMK Talks Wiki Login Search Talks Wiki Login Tryptamine Hallucinogens and Consciousness Share Download PDF Download Audio Download Video Last Updated: 15/09/18 Info Reviews Date Location Words December 1982 Lilly/Goswami Conference, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California 7714 End of Results No...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Tryptamine+Hallucinogens+and+Consciousness
a2e48515d69e-1	Erowid Note: The audio recording of this talk was republished in 1986 by Lux Natura, and has recently been posted online. In addition to appearing in the 1991 book The Archaic Revival, a longer transcription of the recording that includes some of the audience question-and-answer session was published in 1993 in the Jah...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Tryptamine+Hallucinogens+and+Consciousness
6f00d197619d-0	Ask TMK Talks Wiki Login Search Talks Wiki Login New and Old Maps of Hyperspace Share Download PDF Download Audio Download Video Last Updated: 15/09/18 Info Reviews Date Location Words November 1982 Institute for the Study of Consciousness, Berkeley, California 10992 End of Results No youtube lin...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/New+and+Old+Maps+of+Hyperspace
6f00d197619d-1	[Announcer: Let's have a break] [Applause] [BREAK] teonanácatl, the flesh of the gods. Well, the Catholic church has a monopoly on theophagia and was not pleased by this particular approach to what was going on. Now, three hundred, four hundred, whatever it is years after that initial contact, I think that the uh, th...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/New+and+Old+Maps+of+Hyperspace
6f00d197619d-2	Q: Yes, Yes] you do believe it, you do believe it. Q: But I was going to say that, that you're speaking of 'seeing', and we say 'Q.E.D.' after the demonstration in geometry but, the Hindus says 'Behold'. Now the seeing involved there, I wouldn't think of as visual, but does get the word 'seeing' or name 'seeing'. You ...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/New+and+Old+Maps+of+Hyperspace
6f00d197619d-3	Q: I'd like some clarification on some of the things you said. I can, um, understand, at least in my own way, how this idea about, uh, an overconsciousness--or, you know--casting a shadow, and, um, that our psychedelic experience or dream experience has to do with getting in touch with that. But you said that, um, some...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/New+and+Old+Maps+of+Hyperspace
20c491686497-0	Ask TMK Talks Wiki Login Search Talks Wiki Login The Transformations of Language Under the Influence of the Psychedelic Experience Share Download PDF Download Audio Download Video Last Updated: 15/09/18 Info Youtube Reviews Date Location Words October 1983 Berkeley, California 10441 End of Result...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Transformations+of+Language+Under+the+Influence+of+the+Psychedelic+Experience
20c491686497-1	Q: Take your pick. [laughs] Q: You talked about language as information structures... Q: ...and, but you could also think of personality structure, that with which the witness consciousness identifies with as an information structure, too. Wh- Where do you draw the line between language that is beheld as something ot...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Transformations+of+Language+Under+the+Influence+of+the+Psychedelic+Experience
20c491686497-2	Q: Could you comment on how that issue relates to the more general one that seems to contain it: of the turning towards the archaic, the attempt to recapture or reintegrate the unconscious forces after a period of deliberately not being able to do so as a society and what- how that's going to affect both individual and...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Transformations+of+Language+Under+the+Influence+of+the+Psychedelic+Experience
9b948dc1e36c-0	Ask TMK Talks Wiki Login Search Talks Wiki Login The Syntax of Psychedelic Time Share Download PDF Download Audio Download Video Last Updated: 15/09/18 Info Audio Reviews Date Location Words July 1983 Berkeley, CA 11245 End of Results No youtube link available, try the following: Audio Link Tra...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-1	The poster says 'The Syntax of Psychedelic Time: Fractals, Endpoints, End-times, Zero points', something like that. What all this indicates is a set of ideas that I want to share with you that are a slightly different tack than my normal lectures. My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-2	(perhaps with an element of ego) I think that this idea intrinsically has an elegance that makes it worth pursuing. But before I talk about that, I want to, uh, talk about fractals for a moment, as they are understood in orthodox mathematics, because the idea 'fractals' will serve as a basis for much of what I'm going ...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-3	against the light, you discover that the edge of the small fragment of rock and the edge of the mountain range are in fact the same thing. And at first this doesn't appear startling because you say 'well, the mountain is made of this stuff, this small boulder is made of this stuff, and it simply...fractures the same wa...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-4	structure. Some fractals have been known for quite some time, since the late 19th century, but they were considered pathological curves because they had the property of, uh, infinite lengths in very short distances because they adumbrate themselves so intricately that their, uh, length can be said to be infinite. In th...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-5	Ok, so you get the drift of what fractals are and how they've been treated by, uh, mathematicians, particularly one mathematician. You can't discuss fractals without giving all the credit there is to Benoit Mandelbrot because if you don't give him all the credit there is, he'll ask you why not. So, he has invented this...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-6	Ok, so that's what fractals are for orthodox mathematics. The psychedelic part... and what I did with this was I began to think about time. I've always had this idea that our physics has failed us because it is not true to experience, and every advance in physics has been gained at the expense of moving the terms of ph...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-7	like, uh, 'every day is rather like every other day, and every week is rather like every other week, and every year, and to some degree every century, and to some degree every millennium. But, I noticed that as you raise the ante on these temporal scales, change did become apparent, but at the daily level, every day is...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-8	and I looked at the I Ching, which I was familiar with but had never particularly been obsessed with, and I noticed something very interesting about it, which is: the King Wen sequence, which is the oldest sequence of the hexagrams, uh, a sequence which precedes any written commentary. When mathed for its first order o...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-9	5s whatsoever, no breaks of order 5, and that there had been an obvious effort to, uh, optimize breaks of value 2 and 4, so.. that in itself, I mean, obviously it's ordered some way, so this wouldn't be too startling to discover a property like that. And I should pause for a moment and point out for people who have int...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-10	is all broken lines. So, in studying the sequence of the I Ching, your problem is not really wh--'how are these 64 hexagrams arranged'? The question is 'how are these 32 pairs of hexagrams arranged.' So, I graphed the first order of difference as I mentioned, and, uh, and then I noticed a peculiar visual symmetry in my...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-11	some audiences I have to make a complicated apology about Logos and voices in the head and all that. I'll just skip that and say 'and so I continued working with this thing under the instruction of the voices in my head'. And...and, the first thing that I noticed when the wave was fitted together in this particular way...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-12	modular hierarchies. I will collapse it to the simplest term in a system...of levels, and I will treat this rather complicated looking thing as though it were a line, one of only 384, and then I, uh, then from there, over a period of years and many pencil sharpenings, we went to computers and produced very complicated ...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-13	Ok, so now, what's so great about this?......... In its own terms, it is a self-consistent idea about time that tries to be true to experience. It's saying that, uh..... time is made of elements. It is not simply an event-space, something required for things to have duration. You see, before Einstein, space was thought...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-14	and what astrology and all forms of prophecy and intuition and clairvoyance and all these things are are the idea that we can know about time by deploying our feelings into it, and, uh.... what this theory does is take what has generally been a very, uh, feeling-toned, intuitional kind of idea and, uh, mathematecize it...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-15	bonding, so there's only a plasma of stripped, uh, er, uh... particles, charged particles, and then as the universe cools, atomic bonds become possible and atomic systems come into being, which, which, uh, indicate a....m-more refined level of organization, and then later, much later, molecular systems and st--and on a...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-16	uh, a billion or two or three billion years ago, about 20% of what we assume to be the total life of the universe ago, life appeared, and then the mammalian line, the early mammalian line appeared 60 or 70 million years ago at the close of the dinosaurs, then we get culture, 25, 30, 50 thousand years ago. And very shor...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-17	make sure that it's always confined within the realm of biology so that a real..., uh, an orthodox evolutionist is very uncomfortable if you start speaking of stellar evolution or cultural evolution. I've heard these guys say 'if there are no genes involved, you do not use the word evolution'. See, they don't want to s...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-18	Uh...So, uh, I took very seriously this deepening ingression into novelty, and I said it is a physical quality of the continuum that we're existing in. It is not a, um, a loose and unconstrained tendency, but it is a predictable tendency like charge, speed, momentum, that kind of thing. And I noticed something very int...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-19	this 384-day solar year, uh, resonances of 64. So, for instance, I would take the 384-day year and multiply it times 64. This gives you a period of time which is 67 years, 104.25 days. That is, uh, 6 minor sunspot cycles and 2 major sunspot cycles. Plus it also...in The Invisible Landcape, the other astro..logical... a...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-20	years for a sign to be transited, so two signs can be transited in exactly the cycle of time indicated.	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-21	Now, I want to talk briefly about, uh, something which happened in the past which happened, possibly, hypothetically, and how it relates to this running into the short epochs where all time and culture and information seem to flow together in a kind psychedelic, uh, eternity, uh, and information stasis, a kind of stand...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-22	bodies--this is the cultural metaphor that the self is inside the body--they experienced as outside the body and exterior from the ego and, uh, somehow independent of their own will, so that what we experience as the self and the ego, they experienced as a kind of disembodied god, or guiding voice, or inner spirit, or ...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-23	egotists, or the world's first individuated people, because they correctly identified a psychic function as arising from themselves and they integrated it. And, then, he goes on--I don't want to spend to much time with this--but then he goes on to say that it was the spread of trade, the rise of money, all these things...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-24	water, uh...herd the cows, sheer the sheep...whatever they were told to do.	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-25	Ok...I mention this, because, I thinks that something similar is happening in the present, and that, unwittingly Jaynes may have provided a, uh, metaphor for understanding this. We talked a bit last time about the flying saucer and how it was, uh, a projection of a future state of mankind, a mobile psychic entity, link...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-26	period, so that...ph-phenomena like the Nuclear Freeze Movement, or, uh, the t-the rise of the term 'networking', or, uh, all of these integrative, holistic, feeling-toned, you could almost say 'liberal', or you could almost say that liberalism in its classic 19th century guise is the first faint, uh, uh, uh-uh, soundi...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-27	are the keyyy to moving from wearing culture like clothes to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self. And, that's what all the hullaballoo is about, I think. And, I think that, uh, this is happening. And, uh, if, if the date 2012 means anything,...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-28	in the system, then, you know, you can say it's going to go all the way, and I prefer to think of....I prefer to probabilitalize all of these predictions of the end of the world and to think of them simply, uh-uh, the way you think of a particle in the quantum mechanical model. When we assign a position to the particle...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-29	for the apocalypse. You understand that as soon as you push yourself over the brink, you've done the major piece of work that has to be done in your cosmos. From then you just sit around, uh, watching it happen. So, uh, it's an invitation...we're, we're all very fortunate. It reminds me, and I probably mentioned this l...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-30	time vectors, about history having an end, about, in fact, history being the shockwave of an event at the end of time, these are the ideas that religions handle, uh, fairly well...I mean, not religions so much but theology. Religion tends to concern itself with, uh, with public morality. But, underpinning religion is t...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-31	[start side 2 of tape--ambient music in background]...so that they actually look down on their culture. They become extra-environmentals is a way of putting this: they act the role of the extraterrestrial. And, and, uh, we all connect the role of the extraterrestrial when..and do, when we adopt this extra-environmental...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-32	positive thing. And, I think I mentioned either here as Will [last name?]'s show about ET and how clever this was to make people identify with something which looks like a cross between a can of anchovies and the Pilsbury Dough Boy [audience laughter] and to actually....you know, love is what that movie is about and it...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-33	most of the future is present in the past. I mean, think of any point in the past. Think of 1950. Think of how much of today was present in 1950. It means that this idea that science fiction has sold us that the future is a total other world just up around the bend, it isn't actually true. The future is, uh, 95% presen...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
9b948dc1e36c-34	Save the following quote? Completed this talk? Review: Rating: Saved Share Transcript ASKTMK Terence McKenna Search Follow up on a phrase you remember hearing. The Terence McKenna Page © 2016-2020 asktmk.com Contact	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Syntax+of+Psychedelic+Time
4a1ca6290c0e-0	Ask TMK Talks Wiki Login Search Talks Wiki Login Dynamics of Hyperspace Share Download PDF Download Audio Download Video Last Updated: 15/09/18 Info Audio Reviews Date Location Words June 1983 Santa Cruz, California 10346 End of Results No youtube link available, try the following: Audio Link r...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Dynamics+of+Hyperspace
c713b0191918-0	Ask TMK Talks Wiki Login Search Talks Wiki Login A Necessary Chaos Share Download PDF Download Audio Download Video Last Updated: 15/09/18 Info Youtube Reviews Date Location Words 10 June 1983 New Dimensions Radio 7433 End of Results Terence McKenna in conversation with Michael Toms Terence McK...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-1	Q: So long long ago in the far away gala TM: Well, it's in our present I think. Our future is probably almost unimaginable because I think the transformation that leaving the planet will bring will also involve a transformation of our consciousness. We are not going as 1950s style human beings. We are going to have to...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-2	TM: Well, not particularly. They hold a certain fascination for a persistent majority, and in that way they do their catalytic work on society, which is to introduce new ideas and to release a certain kind of creative energy into society. I certainly would not like to see a return to the psychedelic hysterias of the 19...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-3	model of psychedelic drugs, and by that I refer to the Logos-like phenomenon of an interiorized voice that seems to be almost a superhuman agency, a kind of genus loci. And I have been writing recently about alien intelligence, which is what i call this, where you have contact with an entity so beyond the normal struct...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-4	demons since the paleolithic and probably before. That doesn't mean that we can rule out this approach to communication. It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate interdimensionally and telepathically. That amounts of time available for intelligent species to evolve these kinds of c...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-5	another species with a world around another star that is getting in touch with us. I think it's something that's so bizarre so that it actually masquerades as an extraterrestrial so as not to alarm us by the true implications of what it is.	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-6	But I suspect it is something like an overmind of the species, that actually the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. It is no...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-7	TM: Well I think it's more complicated that a prejudice. it's a prejudice born of respect because most people sense that these compounds probably actually do what their adherents claim they do. It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-8	I think that the psychedelics, the doors of perception are cleansed and you see very very deeply. I spent time in India, and I would always go to the local sadhus * of great reputation, and I met many people who possessed wise old man wisdom. But wise old man wisdom is a kind of Tao of how to live. It has nothing to sa...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-9	the beliefs of a Princeton phenomenologist have an equal chance of being correct, and there are no arbiters of who is right	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-10	So It's the power of these things, the fact that here is something we have not assimilated. We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean, the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that here is where all the contradictions flow together. And the same p...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-11	Q: What is the value of exploring the extraordinary realities? TM: Well I guess it's the same value that attends the exploration of ordinary realities. There's an alchemical saying that one should read the oldest books, climb the highest mountains, and visit the broadest deserts. I think that being imposes some kind o...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-12	TM: Well I think there's a shamanic temperment, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. IN other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experience that are found a...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-13	TM: Yes well they are beyond ordinary language. I always think of PHylojudeas writing on the logos. He posed to himself the question: What would be a more perfect logos? And then he answered, saying it would be a logos which is not heard, but beheld, and he imagined a form of communication where the ears would not be t...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-14	TM: How would you relate to Socrates' view of the world. Q: Well, I think that it's hard not to be a platonist, but it's something perhaps we should struggle against or at least struggle to modify. I think of myself as sort of a Whiteheadian platonist. Certainly the central Platonic idea which is the idea of the ideas...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-15	Q: It is an amazing synchronicity it seems, that. Also I was interested, I was talking with Andy Wile some time ago about the fact that there are a new genus of mushroom appearing that have psilocybin in them that had never been seen before, never been tracked before, and it's almost as if they're appearing now. TM: W...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-16	Q: Is psilocybin illegal? TM: Oh yes, it's a schedule 1 drug. Without any public debate it was placed on the list at the same time that LSD was, and yet the issue was always couched in terms of LSD being made illegal, but actually at that point in time a whole bunch of things were made illegal. And there was never any...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-17	TM: Yes, this is an interesting phenomenon. You see, the spores of the mushroom are not illegal because they do not contain psilocybin. They only contain the message and the DNA of the mushroom for the production of psilocybin, so it's a kind of bizarre catch-22. The mushroom spores can move anywhere legally, can be bo...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-18	TM: Well I think in a sense it signals the rebirth of the institution of shamanism in the context of modern society, and anthropologists have always made the point about shaman, that they were very important social catalysts in their group, but they were always peripheral to it, peripheral to the political power and ac...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-19	because as man gains power he is becoming the defining fact on the planet in the near space area. So the question that looms is, is man good? And then, if he is, what is it he's good for. And the shaman will point the way, because what they are are visionaries, poets, cultural architects, forecasters, all these roles w...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-20	Skywalker, Luke Skywalker, Skywalker is a direct translation of the word 'shaman' out of the Temgusik which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together....	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-21	I think that the character Yoda describes a sort of shamanic character. Very much so As we talk about shamans and shamanism, again that brings up cross-cultural currents. Do you see the shaman taking on a new...certainly you don't see Indian shamans walking into the metropolitan areas...but do you see the shaman taki...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-22	TM: Tremendous social change. I see in fact what is happening is a tendency to what I call turn the body inside out. We are through our media and our cybernetics, we are actually approaching the point where consciousness can be experienced in a state of disconnection from the body. We have changed. We are no longer, as...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-23	Q: Are we just talking about another version of the Christian death, resurrection, ascention, and heaven? TM: Except that it is coming into history. What is happening is that the paradise promised the soul is actually going to enter into history because technological man took the apocalyptic aspirations of Christianit...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-24	TM: Well, again I scoured India and my humble personal opinion is that it is highly unlikely. I have always approached people of spiritual accomplishment with the question 'what can you show me' because as I said earlier this 'wise old man' wisdom is one thing, but only the hallucinogen-using shaman of the Amazon seem ...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-25	My question had to do with with or without a guide. Oh, I don't think people should do it without a guide unless they feel very confident from experience that they don't need a guide. Because I like to have these ideas get out. I think it's important that we discuss all this in a way that is only now becoming possible...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-26	0:42:08.9 Well someone asked when we first went around to try and talk about the furture. I don't know if I made the point strongly enough. I wasn't sure I felt it click, and I think it's a strong one and it's somewhat new with me. It's this idea that our...that we represent some kind of singularity, or that we announc...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-27	to be fading,it seems to have been written off the menu by the powers that be as the Soviet Union cracks to pieces, the human race's ability to leave this planet becomes a memory of ancient times. I mean, we could not return to the moon in less than fifteen years if we committed ourselves to it tomorrow, so the space t...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-28	attention to world problems. If it's true, great, we're golden. If it's not true, and what a long shot it is, then we should still keep our eye on the ball with all of this stuff. It is overpopulation is what's driving us crazy. All other problems, toxic waste disposal, epidemic disease, resource extraction, degradatio...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-29	assumes an unlimited exploitable frontier. There is no such creature, so it has turned pathological. The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space, but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt. But this frontier, the end is in sight, ...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-30	Q: So how are you preparing for 2012 yourself? TM: Well, by going way out on a limb, I guess. People ask me 'what will you do if nothing happens in 2012'. Well, by god-sent coincidence, my 65th birthday occurs a month before the date, so then I think I'll just steal away in disgrace and find myself a girl on an island...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-31	Do you all know that Van Morrisson song about 'no guru, no method no teacher, just you and me and nature, in the garden, in the garden.' I think that's actually where it's at. So what I do between now and 2012 is I'm a meme spreader, a mean replicator, and the purpose of these teaching things is to turn you into fellow...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-32	because we have the wrong language for dealing with this problem. You learn that with computers. Certain languages are good for certain kinds of problems. We have to constantly evolve language and push it forward, and the way I think of the psychedelics is they are catalysts to the imagination. That's what they were ba...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-33	and cultures that existed in the past, we can uncover, reveal, unravel the lost secret of our origins. I haven't talked too much this weekend, but I'm very keen for the notion of what I call the archaic revival, and the archaic revival is this overarching metaphor that is the way for us to go to save our necks at this ...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-34	a stable model, and finally they reached the golden age of Periclean Athens. And there they found Plato, Aristotle, the dramatists, so forth, and they created Classicism. Notice that we're talking here about the 1400's. Classicism was brought to birth in the 1400's, two thousand years after the death of Plato, and we a...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-35	say it's failed, but it has just taken us as far as it can go. So now we again, we confront great existential confusion, we confront cultural values completely different from our own such as rainforest aborigines and so forth. We confront the toxic legacy of modern science, the retreating species counts of the earth, t...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-36	primitive unconscious. They are revealing to Edwardian and Viennese ladies and gentlemen of great culture and breeding that they have inside them brawling, incestuous, violent, lust-driven animal natures. In other words, they are reintroducing an awareness of the primitive into this tremendously constipated male domina...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-37	the European intellectual community this vast repository of integrated mythology. National socialism, surrealism, all of these things- some negative, some positive- are all aspects of the 20th century fascination and re-vivification of the primitive. Rock and roll, the rise of sexual permissiveness, the rise of styles ...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-38	the assumptions of this society, if the George Bush's and Helmut Coles of this world are going to continue to run things, then head for the bunkers folks and pray, because the bunkers aren't going to be any consolation.	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
c713b0191918-39	Save the following quote? Completed this talk? Review: Rating: Saved Share Transcript ASKTMK Terence McKenna Search Follow up on a phrase you remember hearing. The Terence McKenna Page © 2016-2020 asktmk.com Contact	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/A+Necessary+Chaos
d335a7d96113-0	Ask TMK Talks Wiki Login Search Talks Wiki Login New Dimensions Radio Interview (aka Towards the Unknown) Share Download PDF Download Audio Download Video Last Updated: 15/09/18 Info Youtube Reviews Date Location Words 10 June 1983 San Francisco, California 5759 End of Results Michael Toms: So, ...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/New+Dimensions+Radio+Interview+%28aka+Towards+the+Unknown%29
d335a7d96113-1	MT: Terence, could you identify Philos for us and tell him-tell us who he was? MT: How would you relate to, uh, Socrates view of the world? MT: What I think most of us don't understand, or don't-don't really know is the fact that Greek culture and the Eleusinian min-mysteries, um, incorporated the use of something th...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/New+Dimensions+Radio+Interview+%28aka+Towards+the+Unknown%29
d335a7d96113-2	MT: Is psilocybin illegal? MT: Are the mushrooms illegal? MT: I recall Andy Weil saying that he walked along a downtown Seattle residential street picking up psilocybin mushrooms from the front yards of... MT: ...residential homes. [chuckles] MT: Hm, interesting. It turns out, uh, going back to the Andy Weil story,...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/New+Dimensions+Radio+Interview+%28aka+Towards+the+Unknown%29
d335a7d96113-3	MT: ...certainly as a shamanic type character. MT: Yea..... As we talk about shamans and shamanism, again that brings up, uh, cross-cultural currents, and, um, do you see the-the shaman taking on a new uh, -certainly you don't see Indian shamans walking, uh, into metropolitan areas, uh, but do you see the shaman takin...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/New+Dimensions+Radio+Interview+%28aka+Towards+the+Unknown%29
0f9bca6ebac6-0	Ask TMK Talks Wiki Login Search Talks Wiki Login Hallucinogens Before and After Psychology (aka Beyond Psychology) Share Download PDF Download Audio Download Video Last Updated: 15/09/18 Info Youtube Reviews Date Location Words 14 May 1983 University of California Santa Barbara, Psychedelics & Spir...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Hallucinogens+Before+and+After+Psychology+%28aka+Beyond+Psychology%29
019a31850ca6-0	Ask TMK Talks Wiki Login Search Talks Wiki Login The Definitive UFO Tape Share Download PDF Download Audio Download Video Last Updated: 15/09/18 Info Youtube Reviews Date Location Words April 1983 Mill Valley, CA 8014 End of Results Save the following quote? Completed this talk? Review: Ratin...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Definitive+UFO+Tape
0f398e56b0eb-0	Ask TMK Talks Wiki Login Search Talks Wiki Login The Voynich Manuscript Share Download PDF Download Audio Download Video Last Updated: 15/09/18 Info Youtube Reviews Date Location Words April 1983 Mill Valley, CA 4376 End of Results Faustin Bray: Greetings, this is Faustin Bray for Sound Photosyn...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Voynich+Manuscript
0f398e56b0eb-1	FB: Boy, Bacon gets in there everywhere- BW: [Unintelligible] FB: Collapse of the Winter King and Queen? FB: Are you pursuing it? FB: And so concludes the interview with Terence McKenna in 1983. Since that time, a book composed of interviews by Terence and various other people, including this one, called "The Archa...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Voynich+Manuscript
d3c97e4fff2d-0	Ask TMK Talks Wiki Login Search Talks Wiki Login Alien Love Share Download PDF Download Audio Download Video Last Updated: 15/09/18 Info Youtube Reviews Date Location Words 1983 Shared Visions Bookstore, Berkeley, CA 8213 End of Results Save the following quote? Completed this talk? Review: R...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Love
925ac46ea210-0	Ask TMK Talks Wiki Login Search Talks Wiki Login The Gnostic Astronaut Share Download PDF Download Audio Download Video Last Updated: 15/09/18 Info Youtube Reviews Date Location Words June 1984 Shared Visions Bookstore, Berkeley, CA 10987 End of Results [audience member says something--"...tell ...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Gnostic+Astronaut
925ac46ea210-1	[audience member: "you didn't tell a story, the UFO story"] Oh, which UFO story [audience commotion]......Well.....I don't know. It has to do with this whole thing. You see, the alien is an archetype, as well as whatever else it may be. I mean, if aliens didn't exist or don't exist, we would still invent them, because ...	https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Gnostic+Astronaut

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