Terence McKenna Part 2: Psychedelics, Consciousness & the Evolution of Thought

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This week is one of my favorite terms. McKenna, you know him, I know him. We love him. Let us start off with a little bit of some of Terrence's thoughts here. We'll go through a couple quotes. Then we'll jump into an article and I'm sure I'll stop from time to time just to tell you my thoughts on it. Are you ready? Let's do it in James Joyce's. Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus tells us history is the nightmare from which I am trying to awaken.

<inaudible> do you guys feel that way? Do you feel like history is the nightmare from which you are trying to awaken some pretty scandalous things happen in history? Haven't they, science has nothing to say about how one can decide to one's hand and do a fist. And yet it happens. This is utterly outside the realm of scientific explanation, because what we see in that phenomenon is mind as a first cause it is an example of telekinesis matter is caused by mind to move technology is the real skin of our species.

Humanity correctly seen in the context of the last 500 years is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization. We put it through mental filters and we extrude jewelry, gospels space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals and embedded in a technological reef of extruded, psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.

That tool, could it be the flying saucer or the soul exteriorized in three dimensional space. The body can become an internalized holographic object embedded in a solid state, hyper dimensional matrix that is eternal so that we each wander through a true Elysium. The English poet, mystic William Blake said that as one starts into the spiral, there is the possibility of falling from the golden track until eternal death.

Light is composed of photons, which have no antiparticle. This means that there is no dualism in the world of light. The only experience of time that one can have is of a subjective time that is created by one's own mental processes. But in relationship to the Newtonian universe, there is no time. What so ever the one mind contains all experiences of the other.

We should try to assimilate and integrate the psychedelic experience since it is a plane of experience that is directly accessible to each of us, the role that we play in relationship to it determines how we will present ourselves and that final intimated transformation. In other words, in this notion, there was a kind of teal logical basis. There is a belief that there is a hyper object called the over mine or God that casts a shadow into time.

I am here using the word logos in the sense in which phylo Jew Deus uses it, that of the divine reason that embraces the archetypal complex of platonic ideas that serve as the models of creation language, isn't ecstatic activity of signification intoxicated by the mushrooms, the fluency, the ease, the Atmos of expression, one becomes capable of are such that one is astounded by the words that issue forth from the contact of the intention of articulation.

With the matter of experience, the spontaneity, the mushrooms liberate is not only perceptual, but linguistic for the shaman. It is as if existence were uttering itself through him. Isn't it amazing. The potential for beauty we have in the world of linguistics, have you ever spoken to someone and we're able to be it through inspiration or desperation, you were able to string together a set of syntactical poetry, a string of syntactical excellence, the cause the other person to blush.

Have you been able to truly connect with someone using your words to bring about goosebumps on their flesh? I would argue that that is communication. I would argue that only when the spoken word is felt, are you truly communicating with the other person? And we have gotten away from that. We have been stuck in this world of linear print and linear thinking.

I think it was Marshall McLuhan who spoke about the printing press, giving us the idea of interchangeable parts, which led to the idea of human capital and people being interchangeable in factories. And the degradation of our language has caused the degradation of our lifestyle. One thing I have found reading terms, McKenna is this idea he has about the archaic revival.

And it's a beautiful idea. It's a return to the classics are returned to communicating effectively and efficiently a beautiful expression of beautiful ideas. One such beautiful idea that I was able to think about after reading some McKenna and listening to some music. And of course using some psychedelics is the redefining of our language.

You know what I mean by that? If you just take a few moments to think about the words we use on every day talking points, if you just take some time to think about the words you use in a daily conversation, I bet some of those words you use are some of the words you've always used. Some of the words your parents use or your grandparents used, might it be possible to take a good look and think about how those words have been redefined are the words you're using today that were used by your grandparents and your parents.

Do those words mean the same things or have the definitions of those words changed? Have the definitions of those words been challenged or cheapened? I would say yes. I would say yes. If you look at the handwriting of anyone from the 18 hundreds, if you listened to the vocabulary that's in those letters, I think you will be able to see actually close your eyes and envision a better education.

It seems to me that the process of specialization has caused not only a more focused and narrow view on the world, but a more focused and narrow view in our ability to see the future and move forward. Yeah, well, you know, I know a lot of people invested the time as with any great crisis comes great opportunity.

There are lot of people who are unsure of where we're moving from here. And for you listening to this, my friend that is a phenomenal opportunit...