Terence McKenna - Esalen Scholar In Residence, June 1989Esalen Scholar In Residence, June 1989
Originally aired on (and thanks to) The Psychedelic Salon Podcast.
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/
Michelangelo's 'The Creation of Adam' remixed by Zarquon.
Quotes from this upload
"The world isn't this unbelievably strange thing which is 'out there'. The world is this stranger-than-we-can-suppose thing which begins from the core of us out. That means nothing can be taken for granted. It can be taken apart. It can be put together many, many ways."
"The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?"
"Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant."
"The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words."
"Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial."
"Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue."
"I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage."
"I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind."
"I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way."
"If you're interested in drugs, the first stop is the library. And it's a long stop. And you educate yourself."
"Culture can be redefined as software and radically re-written so that it runs much more smoothly."
"We are much more suited for dancing than for whatever it is that we have been doing."
Terence McKenna - Workshop, Esalen - December, 1994Episodes 347, 349, 351, 352 & 353 of The Psychedelic Salon Podcast http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/
A weekend workshop given sometime in December, 1994
There is no correct title given for this talk but I'm guessing
it's one of these three..,
'Deeper and Broader Questions'
'Eros, Chaos, and Meaning's Edge'
'Hot Concepts and Melting Edges'
...all presented at Esalen, 1994. Recorded by Dolphin Tapes.
If anyone was there or knows the correct title it would be nice to have it confirmed for posterity.
Terence Quotes:
"Our best efforts are nothing more than half-completed stories told around the campfire. We don't actually know what our predicament is. We are up against a phenomenon which we can barely bring into focus in our cognitive sphere, and it's the phenomenon of our own existence"
"These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses."
"Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy."
"In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, tainted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation."
"To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything."
"For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is."
"And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum."
"We need a metaphor that can contain the demon of the future that we have conjured into being."
"National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented."
"Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris."
"In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum."
"The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs."
"Our medium is meat, but we are made of information."
Art: Alex Grey 'Net Of Being'
Terence McKenna - Search For The Original Tree Of Knowledge, Workshop, 1992http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Terence K. McKenna (1992) Search For The Original Tree Of Knowledge.
Recorded live in Boulder, Colorado May 29-31, 1992.
Art: Michelangelo. The Fall of Man and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. 1508-1512. Fresco. Sistine Chapel, Vatican
Terence McKenna & Riane Eisler ~ Man & Woman At The End Of History (1988)http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.co.uk/
Terence McKenna & Riane Tennenhaus Eisler
Man And Woman At The End Of History. Ojai CA, Mill Valley CA. (1988)
This seminar examined how one of the most fundamental human relationships, that between male and female, shapes our relationship to technology and ultimately to culture and nature. We looked at the forms of relationship between women and men in the shift from a society based on domination to one based on partnership. This is an exploration of how feminism, technology and the telling of a new story will contribute to rescuing us from history. Riane Eisler is best known for her scholarily authoring of her formidable book, "Chalice and the Blade."
Note: This recording comes from a serialization on Roy of Hollywood's show on KPFK. It ends with Terence cut short mid sentence.
Art: Alex Grey ~ New Man New Woman (1984)
Terence McKenna & Ralph Metzner ~ Shamanism: Before And Beyond History (1988)http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.co.uk/
Terence McKenna & Ralph Metzner:
Shamanism: Before and Beyond History - A Weekend at Ojai (1988)
Deep sessions in a natural setting. The whole workshop: Metzner tells the ancient story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, and his aspirations in the Gaia arena while dialoguing with shamanologically wired McKenna.
Note: Taken from MP3 files that have been doing the rounds on the internet for years. Where cuts and edits happen are where the original tapes/files ended.
"History itself is a kind of alchemical process. ... History is the catalyst of nature."
"If we could raise to consciousness our alchemical heritage, and our heritage in the shamanism of the archaic, then we could actually see that the purpose of technology is to liberate, not to enslave, and somehow we've lost the thread."
"You know, Tim Leary used to say, 'When in doubt, double the dose.' "
"Capitalism, I can't say this enough, is NOT in our interest."
"The Earth is perfectly capable of raising outrageous hell without us triggering a nuclear war."
"My faith is that we're just slow to get rolling, and that once the battle is joined, once every person on Earth realizes that we're in a battle for planetary survival, then people will get with the program, it's just that things aren't bad enough yet."
"We're lead by jackasses. We [the psychedelic community] don't bother with our political processes."
"What we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us makes their way into those positions of power. I mean, you can see that now [1992], those guys are not fit to throw guts down to a bear ... ANY OF THEM!"
"What we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state. I mean, what we are are the propagandized masses inside a Fascist dictatorship."
"Know your enemy and they probably will not be your enemy."
"I think that the Third Reich was a Sunday school picnic compared to the population policies of the Roman Catholic Church. ... In a civilized political environment those people would be placed under immediate arrest."
"The way to gain power is to reclaim a command of history."
"And so it's up to the creativity of ordinary people, and the strongest weapon to support and augment the creativity of ordinary people is the psychedelic experience, because it allows you to put information together in new and exciting ways. And this is to be then the basis of a new political order. It has to be."
"The model of human nature which this society has deified makes it a pathological act, a sin, and a crime to alter your own consciousness. This doesn't make any sense. We are at war with ourselves, and we're losing."
"It's all about personal empowerment, and personal empowerment means deconditioning yourself from the values and the programs of the society and putting your own values and programs in place."
Image: 14th Century Plague Doctor's Mask
Exploring The Hermetic Tradition (Terence McKenna) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Terence K. McKenna (1991) Exploring the Hermetic Tradition.
This is the pre-talk anicdotes before the workshop, Hermeticism & Alchemy.
"History itself is a kind of alchemical process. ... History is the catalyst of nature."
"If we could raise to consciousness our alchemical heritage, and our heritage in the shamanism of the archaic, then we could actually see that the purpose of technology is to liberate, not to enslave, and somehow we've lost the thread."
Art: Remedios Varo 'Creation of the Birds' (1957)
Introduction To The Valley Of Novelty Workshop (Terence McKenna)http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
LISTEN TO THE FULL 8 HOUR WORKSHOP HERE: ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8UMFMM7pww
A talk given over a weekend in summer 1998. Where questions from the audience are inaudible, they have been cut out leaving a pause before Terence answers.
Originally aired and thanks to The Psychedelic Salon Podcast:
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/?p=582
"I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe."
"Actually, these things [psychedelics] reveal scenarios, modalities hierophanies of emotional and poetic power that are very emotionally moving, and sometimes leave in their wake powerful ideas, ideas as powerful as any of the ideas that have moved and shaped civilization."
"History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious."
"Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes."
Art: Garden Of Earthly Delights (detail) ~ Hieronymus Bosch
The 8 hour Workshop can be listened to here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8UMFMM7pww
In The Valley Of Novelty (Terence McKenna) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
A talk given over a weekend in summer 1998.
These were originaly aired by Lorenzo on the 'Psychedelic Salon' podcast. Where the audio cuts from one part of the talk to the next are how they were presented except my moving the 4th podcast to the begining which is the true start of this talk, minus the audience introuducing themselves which was edited due to privacy.
One of McKenna's ideas is known as novelty theory. It predicts the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. McKenna developed the theory in the mid-1970s after his experiences in the Amazon at La Chorrera led him to closely study the King Wen sequence of the I-Ching. Novelty theory involves ontology, extropy, and eschatology.
The theory proposes that the universe is an engine designed for the production and conservation of novelty. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness, or extropy (a term coined by Max More meaning the opposite of entropy). According to McKenna, when novelty is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as "timewave zero" or simply the "timewave" results. The graph shows at what time periods, but never at what locations, novelty increases or decreases and is supposed to represent a model of history's most important events.
Software for viewing Time Wave Zero was written by R.J. Pease, but was replaced by a Fortran version which appears in The Invisible Landscape.
The algorithm has also been extrapolated to be a model for future events. McKenna admitted to the expectation of a "singularity of novelty", and that he and his colleagues projected into the future to find when this singularity (runaway "newness" or extropy) could occur. Millenarians give more credence to Novelty theory as a way to predict the future (especially regarding 2012) than McKenna himself. The graph of extropy had many enormous fluctuations over the last 25,000 years, but it hits an asymptote in the middle of November, 2012. After his discovery of other doomsday theories that would take place on exactly December 21, 2012, he simply bumped up the date of "doomsday". This statement is contested, however, by McKenna's own mouth when during a lecture he said,
" An astonishing thing about the date I arrived at, by this method is that it's the same date that the Mayan civilization appointed for the end of its calendar. In all eternity ... You know, you may choose not to believe that I didn't know this when I made this prediction. But I didn't, know it! I didn't. Yet I chose not the month, not the same year - the same day, month and year. "
In other words, entropy (or habituation) no longer exists after that date. It is impossible to define that state. This is also the date on which the Mayan long calendar ends one cycle through the zodiac signs, then it begins a new 26,000 year cycle through the next era, or the Age of Peace. The technological singularity concept parallels this, only at a date roughly three decades later.
Author Steve Wilson has stated that his reluctance to accept this technological endpoint was shattered when reading of the Adam robot experiment's success. Since endpoint theory needs the creation of machines that can design and program other machines for the final stages to be possible, this experiment is a major step towards practical artificial intelligence.
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There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules. The noetic enterprise is a primary obligation toward being. Our salvation is linked to it. Not everyone has to read alchemical texts or study superconducting biomolecules to make the transition. Most people make it naively by thinking clearly about the present at hand, but we intellectuals are trapped in a world of too much information. Innocence is gone for us. We cannot expect to cross the rainbow bridge through a good act of contrition; that will not be sufficient.
We have to understand. Whitehead said, "Understanding is the apperception of pattern as such"; to fear death is to misunderstand life. Cognitive activity is the defining act of humanness. Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton. We humans may be released into a realm of pure self-engineering. The imagination is everything. This was Blake's perception. This is where we came from. This is where we are going. And it is only to be approached through cognitive activity.
Art: Hieronymus Bosch, 'Garden of Earthly Delights' (tryptich, centre panel)1503 - 1504
Terence K. McKenna (1995) Plants, Consciousness, and Transformation.
two day workshop, April 8-9, 1995 in which Terence talks about a wide range of topics, including the evolution of consciousness, the role of psychedelics in prehistory, politics and his theory of the timewave. A very complete introduction to the latest thinking by this intellectual pioneer. Terence answers the questions: What are the psychoactive plants? How do they affect human consciousness? Why do they exist?
The "Stoned Ape" hypothesis of human evolution:
McKenna hypothesized that as the North African jungles receded and gave way to savannas and grasslands near the end of the most recent ice age, a branch of our tree-dwelling primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began to live in the open areas outside of the forest. There they experimented with new varieties of foods as they adapted, physically and mentally, to their new environment.
Among the new food items found in this new environment were psilocybin-containing mushrooms growing near the dung of ungulate herds that occupied the savannas and grasslands at that time. McKenna, referencing the research of Roland L. Fisher, claimed that enhancement of visual acuity was an effect of psilocybin at low doses, and supposed that this would have conferred an adaptive advantage. He also argued that the effects of slightly larger doses, including sexual arousal, and in still larger doses, ecstatic hallucinations and glossolalia — gave selective evolutionary advantages to members of those tribes who partook of it. There were many changes caused by the introduction of this psychoactive mushroom to the primate diet. McKenna hypothesizes, for instance, that synesthesia (the blurring of boundaries between the senses) caused by psilocybin led to the development of spoken language: the ability to form pictures in another person's mind through the use of vocal sounds.
About 12,000 years ago, further climate changes removed psilocybin-containing mushrooms from the human diet. McKenna argued that this event resulted in a new set of profound changes in our species as we reverted to the previous brutal primate social structures that had been modified and/or repressed by frequent consumption of psilocybin.
Photo: Psilocybe Semilanceata (Liberty Cap)
Terence McKenna - Under The Teaching Tree, April 1985http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Ojai Foundation in April of 1985
Terence speaks about death and DMT among other things, such as: "I came to feel, and I still sometimes offhandedly refer to it like this, that it [DMT] is secret. It is not a secret. It is THE secret. There is a secret, and this is it. It is the secret that the world is not only not the way you think it is. It's that the way the world is, is a way that you can't think it is, because you simply do not have the imaginative capacity to conceive of such overwhelming peculiarity."
The surface of things is not where attention should rest."
"I've never actually seen it [smoked DMT] hit anybody quite as hard as it hit me. For about fifteen minutes all I could say was, 'I can't believe it!' ... This is no drug. It's magic. It masquerades as a drug. It's a doorway into another world."
"We're a society where people jump out of airplanes on weekends because their lives are so boring and empty. Well then, if you think jumping out of an airplane is a thrill to write home about you should try this stuff. No one would jump out of an airplane if they had DMT on their menu."
"You see, a secret is not something untold. It's something which can't be told."
"Without this [the smoked DMT experience] in the picture, half the world is missing."
"What we have discovered in DMT is, literally, a chemical doorway to the bardo."
"One thing psychedelics will do for you, for sure, is to convince you that what's real is what I call the felt presence of immediate experience. That's what's real."
"The biological object is made of time itself as much as it's made of space and matter."
"I've come to see the body as basically the placenta of the soul."
"The Twentieth Century is analogous to the birth canal of human history."
"What's interesting about DMT is that it occurs naturally in the human brain. We all make it all the time. And so, in a sense, this is not a drug at all. This is a human metabolite that you're getting a tremendous of, but the fact that it occurs naturally in the human brain means that you have chemical pathways, bio synthetic pathways, that can deal with it."
Art: Gustav Klimt 'The Tree Of Life' - 1909
The Rites Of Spring (Terence McKenna) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Terence K. McKenna (1986) Rites of spring. Ojai Foundation, Ojai CA 93023. More information: http://www.futurehi.net/media.html.
Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 -- April 3, 2000) was an American author, public speaker, metaphysician, psychonaut, philosopher, ethnobotanist, art historian, and self-described anarchist, anti-materialist, environmentalist, feminist, Platonist and skeptic. During his lifetime he was noted for his knowledge of psychedelics, metaphysics, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, mysticism, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, biology, geology, physics, phenomenology, and his concept of novelty theory.
Terence McKenna at the Earth Trust Foundation conference:
"Ideas compete with each other in the way animals compete in an environment, and the most fitting ideas for the human adventure will eliminate their competition. If you are right you don't need to feel any urgency, because that will quite naturally peculate out in the mix, William Blake said: "If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed".
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Over the years with judicious manipulations with substances eventually you see what it is: language is trying to be born out of matter, we are heading towards becoming the pure syntactical intentionality, just shedding the monkey. Matter is becoming a fairly uncomfortable dimension for us to be in, and I dare to say, matter will probably be highly relieved to have us just move on, so that the rain forests and chipmunks can go back to what they do best."
A workshop that Terence McKenna conducted at Esalen Institute in 1994, the focus of which was the human imagination. While he has some interesting thoughts about imagination such as, "Art is like the footprint of where the imagination has been." It was his thought about computers that most people may take away from this first part of the workshop where he also says, "The only difference between computers and drugs is that one is too large to swallow ... and our best people are working on that very problem."
"The imagination is actually a kind of window onto realities not present."
"If the imagination runs riot in the dimension of the mundane it's paranoia."
"Art is like the footprint of where the imagination has been."
"Below the ordinary surface of space and time, ruled by relativistic physics, there is this strange domain of instantaneous connectivity of all matter, of all phenomenon. It raises the possibility then that the imagination is in fact a kind of organ of perception, not an organ of creative unfoldment, but actually an organ of perception. And that what is perceived in the imagination is that which is not local and never can be."
"Who would have placed their bet on a monkey to be the top carnivore when there were saber toothed cats walking around that weighted 1100 pounds?"
"Imitation is an act of the imagination."
"What is a city but a complete denial of nature? ... Urbanization is the first of these impulses where society leaves nature and enters into its own private Idaho."
"What this [virtual reality] should tell us, in the domain of light the intractability of matter is overcome. And so we are on the brink of a time, we have arrived, we are at the time where the human imagination now need meet no barriers to its intent. And so we are going to find out who we are. We are going to discover what it means to be human when there is no resistance to human will."
"Shamanism didn't use matter to build its realities. It was more sophisticated than that. It directly addressed the capacity of the human mind, in the presence of unusual neurochemicals, to produce unusual phenomenon and unusual sensoria of experience."
"A true civilization lives in its own imagination and lives through its imagination."
"We now know from the study of the introduction of media that if a medium of sufficient power and bandwidth is introduced into a population it will abandon all previous forms of media in favor of this."
"Clearly we [humans] view the language-forming enterprise as a task not yet brought to completion."
http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1410
The Light In Nature (Terence McKenna) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
The Light In Nature (1988) Esalen
"The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.
It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray.
At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing.
But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward."
~ Terence McKenna
Art: Blaine Garrett, Joe Lipscomb & Charles Denton
Techno-Pagans At The End Of History (Terence McKenna & Mark Pesce) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
TechnoPagans at the End of History:
Virtual Reality, Psychedelics, and the Impeding End of Everything
Terence McKenna and Mark Pesce at Esalen in August 1998.
I think we have to have character models built of ourselves, and turn the whole thing over to our writers; and we'll just go off to Tahiti, and the writers can — it's the "Uncle Duke" solution. If you can turn yourself into a cartoon character, you can retire, and a whole team of people will keep you au courant. ... You know, I think the only way to keep your career going is to retire the "bod", and create an online character-- a Saturday morning cartoon show apparently is where the action is.
It's strange — you know, the Net is denounced as austere, the product of the engineering mentality, so forth and so on. It's the most feminine influence that Western civilization has ever allowed itself to fall under the spell of. The troubadors of the fourteenth century were as nothing compared to the boundary-dissolving, feminizing, permitting, nurturing nature of the Net. Maybe that's why there is an overwhelming male preference for it, in its early form, because that's where that was needed. But it is Sophia, it is wisdom, it is the penetrating archetypal female logos of the world-soul, leading us away from what was very sharp-edged and uncomfortable and repressive to our creativity and our sexuality and our relationships to each other and to the Earth.
Virtual reality is a fairly new concept to us; but once you grok it, it seems clear that any civilization that was capable of starflight and longevity extension, and so forth and so on, would also have a full VR toolkit under control. Well then, that means that when we go looking for the extraterrestrial, what will be the footprint? Perhaps vanished races are all around us, but downloaded into solid-state matrices that we have only recently come to the point where we could even recognize that possibility.
Mark mentioned the vector of virtual reality, nanotechnology, global communications — it's clear that we're moving toward, if not the Eschaton itself, then some kind of historical echo of it, in simulation, that, for all practical purposes, will be the same thing, as far as the impact it has on our lives.
For example, you could doubt my much-vaunted prediction that the world will become unrecognizable by 2012; but do you doubt for a moment that by 2012, every major religion on Earth will have vast simulations of its eschatological vision for you to wander in and try out-- so that you can look in on Nirvana.com, or lope over to the Celestial City, or look in on Sufi paradise? I mean, religious ontologies will be marketed like beers! And will be made as realistic and compelling as possible.
Well then, who is to say what is real and what is not? "Real" is a distinction of a naïve mind, I think. We're getting beyond that. I mean, naïve empiricism worked well enough, until the discoveries of quantum physics seventy or eighty years ago revealed the hideous secret that the bedrock of reality is a funhouse basement!
Gaia, Psychedelics & The Archaic Revival (Terence McKenna) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TERENCE, SKIN UP & SMOKE A JOINT IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE BARD.
A lecture discussing human cyclical history, its future attractor and ultimate dissolution. Recalling the '60s, McKenna seeks nothing less than "symbiosis between human beings and the biosphere," and makes a stunning case for achieving this union through the psychedelic experience.
INFO & MP3 DOWNLOAD @...
http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/2011/11/terence-mckenna-history-ends-in-green.html
Art by: http://www.bobbycampbell.org/
The Invisible Landscape: Peer Review (Terence McKenna) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Terence McKenna: The Invisible Landscape (Peer Review) 1985
Mayan Conference
At the Ojai Foundation
Ojai, California
Sunday 14th April 1985
A talk about The Invisible Landscape under the famous Ojai Teaching Tree which covers his work on the I Ching (King Wen sequence) that led to the Novelty Theory and the TimeWave Zero idea and computer software. Terence also mentions the Mayan calender and in the afternoon talk he displays his Timewave Zero software on screen via a computer system. Most of the late afternoon talk, about two hours worth, centers around four main themes - Psychedelics, Cybernetics, Space & Feminism. Not too much of the latter owing to the presence of some strong women but he gives it a swirl of sorts.
About a third of the way through the morning session they have a 'peer review',
a kind of turbo charged Question & Answer session, by various people who are listening to this talk. They include Kat McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Joan Halifax, Francis Huxley, Barbara Smith and others. Some children were also present.
The time table of the day was:
Morning talk followed by Q&A then lunch
Afternoon talks followed by Q&A
http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Weekend Workshop, Esalen: 27-29 August, 1993 ~ Terence McKennaEpisodes 356, 357, 358 & 359 of The Psychedelic Salon Podcast
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/
A workshop that took place over the last weekend of August 1993
this ended a week as scholar in residence at The Esalen Institute.
The title for this workshop is unknown but themes covered touch on
The various talks he had given during the previous days. I'm still
trying to track down a copy of Esalen's catalogue for this period.
Two talks that were given in the lead up to this weekend are...
Terence K. McKenna and Brother David Steindl-Rast (1993, 23 Aug) Secular and religious visions of the Apocalypse. Esalen Institute Media Center, Big Sur CA. Presented: Esalen Institute.
Terence K. McKenna (1993, 26 Aug) On Hieronymus Bosch. Esalen Institute Media Center, Big Sur CA. Presented: Esalen Institute.
Art by Stephen Humphries,
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Terence McKenna - ''Nothing's Wrong'' - Weekend Workshop, May 1990Weekend Workshop from May 1990 given in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Cobbled together from episodes of
The Psychedelic Salon Podcast.
Podcast 381 – “A Stiff Dose of Psychedelics”
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2013/12/podcast-381-a-stiff-dose-of-psychedelics/
Podcast 382 – “The Psychedelic Option”
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2013/12/podcast-382-the-psychedelic-option/
Podcast 383- “A Psychedelic Point of View”
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2013/12/podcast-383-a-psychedelic-point-of-view/
Terence McKenna 'True Story' meme refix by Zarquon
https://plus.google.com/115736403365600123649/posts/7frDGrEcf8S
Terence McKenna - Calling The Butterflies - Workshop, 7 February 1992Terence McKenna - 7th February 1992
Views On Science And An Exploration Into Agricultural Societies.
Esalen Institute, Big Sur CA.
“I think drugs are much safer than gurus.”
“The clue that something weird is going on on this planet is ourselves. Obviously! I mean, we are like a fart at the opera.”
“The world is magic, not a little bit, one hundred percent. Every atom from one end of this cosmos to the other is magic, magic, magic.”
Spliced together from episodes of The Psychedelic Salon...
Podcast 416 – “McKenna: Psychedelics Are The Way Out”
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2014/09/podcast-416-mckenna-psychedelics-are-the-way-out/
Podcast 417 – “Earth Mind and Monkey Mind”
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2014/10/podcast-417-earth-mind-and-monkey-mind/
Podcast 418 – “Death By Astonishment”
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2014/10/podcast-418-death-by-astonishment/
Podcast 421 – “Personal Implications of a DMT Flash”
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2014/11/podcast-421-personal-implications-of-a-dmt-flash/
Podcast 423 – “Is There Hope In All Of This?”
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2014/11/podcast-423-is-there-hope-in-all-of-this/
McKenna/Che image by Zarquon
https://plus.google.com/+TerenceMcKennaTube/posts/cGkEBydPqUW
Terence McKenna - A Survey Of Shamanic Options - June 1989During the 1980′s, before the birth of the Web, Terence McKenna’s workshops were just about the only source of information about psychedelics that reached the streets. While there was some information about psychoactive plants available in professional journals and university libraries, it took Terence to pull out this information and repackage it for the rest of us. In this June 1989 workshop, he does what he did best back then, give us a detailed inventory, continent by continent, of the psychoactive plants native to each area, along with a brief history of how humans interacted with them in the distant past.
The Psychedelic Salon
Podcast 404 – “A Survey of Shamanic Options”
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2014/06/podcast-404-a-survey-of-shamanic-options/
Image: "The Shaman" by Ashes Monroe
http://bohemebox.photoshelter.com/image/I0000Lstnb8dIJqk
Terence McKenna - We Are At The Cutting Edge - Workshop, August 1991Another workshop, possibly Esalen featuring more of Lorenzo's inexplicable cuts (this one starts mid-sentence) but far better than not hearing them at all. So, much gratitude and thanks again to...
The Psychedelic Salon
Podcast 398 – “Where Does Reality Begin & End”
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2014/04/podcast-398-where-does-reality-begin-end/
Podcast 399 – “We Are At The Cutting Edge”
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2014/05/podcast-399-we-are-at-the-cutting-edge/
Terence McKenna - The Evolutionary Importance Of Technology - August 1996Workshop, Esalen, August 1996
The Psychedelic Salon Podcasts...
Podcast 407 – “The Evolutionary Importance of Technology”
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2014/07/podcast-407-the-evolutionary-importance-of-technology/
Podcast 408 – “What Do You Make Of This?”
http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2014/07/podcast-408-what-do-you-make-of-this/
Photo by Kathleen Harrison, 1976 (detail)
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http://www.vice.com/author/tao-lin
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