#terrence mckenna

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

If you're a true believer; if you have some pre-packaged philosophy then you're going to miss a great deal because you're pre-programmed to ignore what doesn't fit into your model. And it doesn't matter what your model is.

Terrence McKenna

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

~Terence McKenna

(Source: From his February 25, 1991 speech 'The Archaic Revival'/ Books: The Archaic Revival)

[Philo Thoughts]

[theidealistphilosophy]

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation.

Terrence McKenna, Source Unlisted.

[eyeofthestorm888]

[abonbons]

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I leave you with the full Terence McKenna quote 🍄

“We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you’re giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told ‘no’, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. ‘Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.’ And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”

― Terence McKenna

[scifi-fantasy-horror]

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[chronosq]

Terrence McKenna Portrait // 2024

[minotaurmerkaba]

[cobotis]

My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage... He has courage to face the whole pressure of the society which is bent upon splitting him into divisions —into good and bad, into saint and sinner... He is really a brave, courageous being who stands against the whole history of man, of morality, and declares to the skies his reality, whatever it is...

~ Osho

[sataniccapitalist]

[indigo47soul]

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[postersbykeith]

[airbrickwall]

[theidealistphilosophy]

The truth does not require your participation to exist. Bullshit does.

Terence McKenna, Source Unlisted.

[protoslacker]

[W]e are prosthetic devices for these machines. We are their eyes and ears in the world. We provide the code. We provide the constraints. We build the hardware. It is a relationship of mutual benefit. It’s not entirely clear that our contribution will always be creative—in the sense that our primate hand will be on the tiller of existence as it has been—but certainly we are part of this equation of transformation that is making itself felt.

Terrence McKenna at The Library of Conscuousness. PSYCHEDELICS IN THE AGE OF INTELLIGENT MACHINES April 22, 1999

Terence's last public appearance before falling seriously ill to brain cancer a month later. A techno-centric evening (alternately titled Shamans Among the Machines) in which he explores the inevitable merging of humanity with its AI offspring.

My Internet connectionhas been on the fritz for about a week. I discovered a sound file of this lecture on my computer, It's amazing the lecture is nearly 25 years old.

[samuelfarrand]

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