Trialogue #1: Cast Of Characters (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #1: Cast Of Characters
An introduction to the first series of public trialogues held at Esalen, California in 1989. Morphic Resonance, the novelty wave, chaos mathematics, and their roles in the paradigm shift. The vision of nature as alive, and a new understanding of the soul of the world. The three masks - evolutionary creativity, the cosmic imagination and chaos. Insights into the nature of time. The practical application of chaos theory to the problems of the world. The human soul as a reflection of the world soul.
Trialogue #2: The Evolutionary Mind (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #2: The Evolutionary Mind (1998)
What could have been the cause for the breakthrough in the evolution of human consciousness around 50,000 years ago? Collective memories of predation and how they may shape our minds today. The role of the imagination in our evolution. Physiological evolution and the idea of divine brain surgery. The psilocybin hypothesis. The transformation of human nature through connection with higher levels of consciousness in the universe. The universal information field and cosmic evolution.
Trialogue #3: Consciousness & Machines (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #3: Consciousness & Machines (1998)
A discussion on the evolution of consciousness as it relates to machines. Symbolic logic, nanotechnology and the possibility of a synthetic super-intelligence. Artificial Intelligence as a part of ourselves that could shape our evolution. Virtual computers as the source of the AI. Partnership or conflict between human and machine? How much control do we have in the evolution of machine intelligence? Challenges to the premises of the AI argument. Quantum computers, machine-time and the possibilities of the World Wide Web.
Trialogue #4: History, Fractals And Change (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #4: History, Fractals & Change (1998)
The fractal idea of history, and millenia as the plateaus of history. These bifurcation periods as opportunities to influence the creation of the future. What kind of future or change are we trying to create? The need for the enhancement and spread of clarity. Psychic pets and their role in breaking the spell of rationalism. Psychedelics, the World Wide Web and psychic pets as forms of boundary dissolution. The need for change in the educational system. The problem of the rejection of mathematics.
Trialogue #5: Creativity & Imagination (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #5: Creativity & The Imagination
Esalen, Big Sur, California: 1989 - 1990
The crisis in science: collision between the permanent and evolutionary views of the nature of reality. The universe as an evolving system of habits. Did natural law exist before the Big Bang? Cosmic creativity, imagination and the womb of chaos. Chaotic sudden perturbations. The Omega Point. The ego's response to chaos. The cosmic attractor in the evolutionary process
How is human imagination related to the creative principle of nature? The nature of the Gaian mind. Human history as a Gaian dream. The Divine Imagination as the source of all creativity. How can we extract the message of the Gaian mind? How could the imaginations of the solar system, galaxy and cosmos be related to each other? Dark matter and the cosmic unconscious. The nature of the Logos. The personal apocalypse. The journey of language to the Divine Imagination. Natural law, ordinary reality and chaos.
This Trialogue is included in Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness (first published as Trialogues at the Edge of the West: 1992) Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna and Rupert Sheldrake, Chapter 1
Art: Michael Angelo 'The Creation Of Adam' (detail from The Sistene Chapel) circa: 1511
Trialogue #6: Creativity & Chaos (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #6: Creativity & Chaos
Esalen, Big Sur, California: 1989 - 1990
The chaos revolution, chaotic attractors and indeterminism in nature. The emergence of form from the field of chaos. The formative process in cooling. Is the mathematical realm of the world soul in co-evolution with ordinary reality? The potential of mathematics to aid us in our own evolution by extending our language for dealing with complex systems. Visual intuitions and the Butterfly Effect.
The idea of an attractor for the entire cosmic evolutionary process. The role of the attractor in chaos dynamics. Motivation and attraction. The value of spoken language. Mathematical modelling. The relationship between mathematical models with chaotic behaviour and the chaos in life. Idolatry and models becoming reality. The feminine aspect of creativity.
Included in Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness first published as Trialogues at the Edge of the West.
Art: Katsushika Hokusai 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' c. 1829--32
Trialogue #7: Chaos & Imagination (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #7: Chaos and the Imagination
Esalen, Big Sur, California 1989 - 1991
How can chaos theory and full access to the imagination aid us in our understanding of the world and in the creation of our future? Chaos in mythology. The repression of chaos, the rise of patriarchy and the fall into history. The chaos revolution. Bringing chaos tangential to the burning planet. Vision plants and shamanism. Our 'secret history' and how it relates to the Gaian mind. The creative act as the night sea journey. The living mystery of the imagination. Dominator and partnership culture.
Festivals, a calendrical reform and 'pharmacological intervention'. Oscillating models of chaos, creativity and the imagination. Eleusis as a great turning point. The Virgin of Guadalupe. The Faustian pact with the physical world. The cultural cul-de-sac of the dominator mode. Restoring partnership values, opening our lives to chaos and the world soul. Chaos as Gaian fury and as a moment of opportunity. A forward escape into technology?
Included in Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness first published as Trialogues at the Edge of the West
Trialogue #8: Light & Vision (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #8: Light and Vision
Esalen, Big Sur, California 1989 - 1990
How is our own vision related to light, and how is the perception of the world soul related to light? What is the connection between physical light and other definitions of light? Where are visual images located? Attention felt across space and the sense of being stared at. The electromagnetic field as the medium of the morphic field. A look at some possible experiments in this area. Dowsing. Pheromones.
The electromagnetic field as intermediary among the physical fields. The field-like structure of perception and mental activity. Pheromones as the chemical regulation of the whole earth? The mystery of light and the self-luminosity of the imagination. DMT and attention. The anti-universe theory. The role of the electromagnetic field in the soul of the world. The hierarchical mental ecosystem. Galactic minds, the solar eye and divine omni-perception. How novelty can cause an unconscious Gaia to rise into awareness. A cognitive map of the Gaian mind.
Included in Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness first published as Trialogues at the Edge of the West
Trialogue #9: Entities (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #9: Entities
Esalen, Big Sur, California 1989 - 1990
Are disincarnate and non-human entities mental projections or non-physical, autonomous entities? What can we learn from them? Their variety and persistence in human history. Early modern science and angelic communication. The shamanic model. The aversion to the irrational in Christianity and science. The need to analyze the entities' messages. A mathematical model of body, soul and spirit. Entities as inhabitants of the spiritual domain of the logos. The evolution of their multifarious representations. The dogma of purgatory. Contacting these entities through dreams and psychedelics. The deepest layers of the faery tradition. Metaphors of light? Entities as artificers and their use of language. Is the world soul behind these entities? Corn circles.
Pre-Christian ritual magic. The call to prepare language for these encounters. Experiential contact with the celestial sphere. The humanist illusion of self-sufficiency, leading to societal possession. Mammon. A celestial battle on earth? Redirecting attention to the positive forms. The ultimate partnership -- reconnecting the Gaian and celestial spheres to the human spirit. Where could the new alchemical kingdom be?
Included in Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness first published as Trialogues at the Edge of the West
Art: Suzanne Treister 'The Enochian Entities' (remote-viewing drawing) 2006
Note: (DR JOHN DEE (1527-1608/9) Alchemist, mathematician, astrologer, kabbalist, occultist and magician. Active in British military and diplomatic affairs. John Dee was 'Queen's Intelligencier' to Queen Elizabeth 1 and a close associate of Sir Francis Walsingham, founder of the British Secret Service. In 1582 Dee's crystal, through contact with angelic spheres, revealed the keys to the Enochian language. The angel instructed Dee and his friend Edward Kelly to point to specific letters which when reversed backwards and forwards revealed messages. The crystal was used to fortell events of a political and military nature, for example regarding the fate of the British Empire and the Spanish Armada. Dee's practice of military/political scrying for Walsingham and Queen Elizabeth 1 is a precursor to the 1972-1995 US Military remote viewing program. The Enochian language was later studied by Aleister Crowley and US rocket scientist Jack Parsons of the O.T.O. In 1994 the Enochian letters were used as glyphs to operate the arc angle in the MGM film 'Stargate' one year before the US remote viewing program, 'Stargate', was made public. A series of remote viewing drawings were made in the presence of Dr John Dee¹s scrying crystal at the Science Museum, London and experiments were made using Dee's Aztek/Obsidian mirror at the British Museum).
Trialogue #10: The Unconscious (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #10: The Unconcious
Esalen, Big Sur, California 1989 - 1990
What is the nature of the unconscious, and how can we access its restorative powers? Bifurcation theory of the unconscious. Evil and the repression of chaos. Escape from evil by bringing the unconscious back. The idea of the sacred city. From psychedelic partnership phase to restrictive dominator phase. Alcohol and cultural neurosis. The age-related reestablishment of shamanic sacraments. Habituation and the unconscious. The calendar as an engine for illuminating the unconscious, through rituals and festivals. The unavailable unconscious and the maintenance of consciousness. Christmas as a child's festival. Caffeine and industrial capitalism.
Sacred plants and calendar-based rituals. Sacred sites and celestial communication. Invocation, psychedelic visions and the consciousness of the natural world. The role of dominator drugs. Denial and its dangers for our evolution. Sacred festivals. The difficulty of accessing the restorative powers of the unavailable unconscious. Lightening the dark through prayer, astrology and a resurrection of magic. The Gaian unconscious..
Included in Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness first published as Trialogues at the Edge of the West
Art: Martina Hoffmann 'The Muse Of Conscious Awakening'
Trialogue #11: The Resacrilisation Of The World (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #11: The Resacrilisation of the World
Esalen, Big Sur, California 1989 - 1990
In what ways can we bring the sacred back into the world? Ralph's religious background. Loss of connection to the sacred as a root cause of world problems. Resumption of rituals. Resacralization of music. The aesthetics of the world soul. Feminism, the revival of partnership society and a reinvigorated psychedelic priesthood. Revival of Gothic cathedral-building. Festivals and the sacralization of space and time. The 'greening of God'. The global consequences of the shift in the sense ratio. The 'Archaic Revival' and resacralization by religion.
The unifying flag of Gaia. A true Gaian religion. Revulsion at religion and scientism. Psychedelicizing and sacralizing green politics. The timescale problem. A green order associated with every religion. Connection with sacred places. The sacralization of science. Ritualized mushroom cults, and the mushroom as the Ur-symbiont of humanity. The will to make our own position relevant to the encroaching crisis. The forces in opposition to the resacralization programme. The revival of pilgrimage and a sense of sacred time. A possible nucleation event.
Trialogue #12: Education In The NWO (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #12: Education in the New World Order
Esalen, Big Sur, California 1989 - 1990
How could the educational system be reformed and resacralized? An initiation-based educational model not confined to the rational or humanist worldview. Initiations into trades, professions and skills. Adolescent initiation rites. The workshop system of education as a model. Feminizing the educational system. The need for choice and a complete knowledge of history. A workshop voucher system with the interplay of different specialities. A spiritually based educational system with religious initiation.
Resacralizing education and re-visioning the workshop system. The incorporation of an initiatory quality throughout the educational system. Free-market economics in education. A self-initiating, self-propagating, self-organising and self-regulating system. A pioneering pilot project in an existing workshop centre. A devious way for achieving the resacralization of the world.
Art: Salvador Dali 'Landscape With Butterflies' (1956)
Trialogue #13: The Apocalypse (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #13: The Apocalypse
Esalen, Big Sur, California 1989 - 1990
The apocalyptic tradition: paranoid self-fulfilling prophecy or an intuition of instability? Stripping the provincialism from apocalyptic messages. Apocalyptic scenarios, including the 'God-whistle' theory. The ecological catastrophe as the appropriate interpretation of the Apocalypse. Steering the Apocalypse toward a tolerable conclusion. The power of faith.
Big Bang cosmology as a projection of the Judaeo-Christian model of history. The fate of the sun. The projection of the Apocalypse in 2012. Ecological catastrophe and forces of novelty that may create planetary metamorphosis. Global crucifixion. The recovery of Eden. The personal apocalypse: a glimpse of post-mortal life. Interplanetary morphic resonance. The green version of the apocalyptic vision.
Art: Hieronymus Bosch 'The Garden Of Earthly Delights' (right panel detail) 1503-1504
Trialogue #14: Grass Roots Science (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #14: Grass Roots Science
Esalen, California, September 1991.
The institutionalisation of mainstream science has alienated the public and marginalised the amateur base of science. A new model for science is both possible and necessary. The need for big science to reintegrate with grassroots science. Examples of important low budget amateur research projects. How the computer revolution and the formulation of specific questions could empower grassroots science. Global environmental problems are likely to provide the main motivation for the revival of grassroots science. Rescuing science from the distorting demands of capitalism. The benefits of combining holistic and analytical research. A grassroots research project on holistic medicine.
Re-distributing the budget in science. How to motivate and fund more amateur research projects. How grassroots science could contribute towards the solution of global environmental problems. The grassroots component in archaeology; paleontology; astrology; nutritional studies and consciousness research. Large-scale projects can be influenced enormously by the discoveries of grassroots science. The benefits of taking a holistic approach to the whole field of knowledge. The importance of posing appropriate questions to researchers. Low budget experiments that could change the world. Encouraging amateur scientists through a revitalized scientific education.
Art: M.C. Esher 'Metamorphosis ll' (detail) 1938 - 1940
Trialogue #15: Saving The World (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #15: Saving the World
Esalen, California, 1991
What can be done to solve the problem of over-population and resource depletion? Could encouraging a population policy save the world without disregarding individual concerns? How do you provoke a shift in consciousness that would result in people wanting less children? Resource depletion in high-tech societies. The prejudice against only children. How could such a plan be implemented? A new way to empower women. Exploring the potential positive and negative effects of achieving zero population growth on a planetary scale.
Further speculations on the impact of population policies. How a capsule that enables gender choice of offspring could make population growth plummet. Saving resources by moving people to different locations. Curbing resource depletion and overpopulation. Grassroots research projects on family dynamics. The liberation of women. Reforming people's attitudes through family dynamics models. The role that social sciences, mathematics and myth could play in saving the world. A demographic modelling disc. Family numerology. A positive re-evaluation of the only child. A sociological research programme.
Trialogue #16: Gender Issues (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #16: Gender Issues
Esalen, California, 1991
Ralph's hypothesis of androgyny. A person's soul does not necessarily share the gender restriction of the biological body. Social practices that emphasize gender differences can hinder the exposure of a complete person. Achieving maximum androgyny through the exploration of sexual experience. Proposals for the salvation of the nuclear family. Healing emotional diseases in relationships. How would androgyny impact monogamy and the behaviour of women? Androgyny as a state of completeness in a person's psychological make up. Celibacy as a method for personal development. Men's and women's movements. Is gender differentiation a necessary feature of human society?
Exploring ways to recover the extended family. The popularity of computer networking. New ways to satisfy the need for community. Our addiction to travel and the need to minimise mobility. The benefits of travelling on foot. Can the computer revolution help reduce the need for travel? A model for a locally-based community. Can the men's and women's movements help stabilise gender relations? The revival of interest in rites of passage. Voluntary monogamy.
Art: Sandro Botticelli 'The Birth Of Venus' c. 1486
Trialogue #17: Cannabis Trialogue (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #17: Cannabis
Esalen, California, 1991
Terence's interest in cannabis. The feminising and boundary-dissolving influence of cannabis. Cannabis intoxication and dreams. Cannabis and anxiety. Victorian tales of cannabis. The influence of hashish on India and the Middle East. Cannabis as the carrier of a new set of values. A tool for creativity and the enhancement of empathy and communication. A medicine for cultural evolution? The difference between smoking and eating cannabis. How hemp is related to stories. An aid to the appreciation of sacred places. The impact of abstinence on peak performance. Cannabis as an aid for concentration and connectivity.
The shadow side of cannabis. The dangers of habitual usage. Cannabis and energy levels. The chemistry of cannabis. The impact of cannabis on memory and language. Aphrodisiac effects. Cannabis versus alcohol. Why is it illegal? Early use of cannabis. The drug war. Researching the different qualities and various forms of cannabis. Age-related experimentation. Decriminalisation versus legalisation. The impact of legal restraints on the attraction for illegal substances. Hemp. Is the right to the exploration of consciousness a part of the pursuit of human freedom and happiness?
Trialogue #18: Crop Circles (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #18: Crop Circles
Esalen, California, 1991
Exploring the crop circle phenomenon. The Plasma Vortex theory. Why are crop circles associated with megalithic sites? The evolution of their patterns and features. A look at some of the diverse theories: from migrating hedgehogs to the celestial theory. Is there a single satisfying explanation? Is the hoax theory an unlikely explanation? Terence's theory that crop circles are an intelligence operation and an experiment in deception.
Further investigations into the crop circle mystery. Are crop circles a method of Gaian communication? An international crop circle competition. Crop circles should be empirically investigated. Terence explains his 'trap theory' -- Are they a disinformation project aimed at preserving orthodoxy? Reactions to Terence's theory. Christian and pagan ideologies and the impact of Christianity on paganism. Christian animism. Appreciating sacred places. Rupert's plan for a research project on crop circles.
Image: 780ft. crop circle in the form of a double (six-sided) triskelion composed of 409 circles, Location: Milk Hill, 2001
Trialogue #19: Psychedics and the Computer Revolution
Esalen, California, 1991
What are the connections between psychedelics and the computer revolution? Some examples of the causal relationship between psychedelic use and creativity in the computer industry. A look at the parallel chronologies and future synthesis of computers and psychedelics. Creativity as a natural resource. Electronic media is returning us to an eye-oriented culture and causing the re-emergence of the suppressed unconscious. This reawakening of the collective and visual imagination is part of an archaic revival. The world of dreams as the prototype for this process. Print versus manuscript culture. Interactivity will be a key factor in the future of electronic media. Opening up the mathematical imagination through computer-graphics. Uploading the unconscious into a cultural artefact.
Psychedelics and the creative process. The future of the computer revolution. How the communication of visual mathematical revelation is enhanced by psychedelics. Understanding visual mathematics. The connection between mathematical visualization and the perception of ordinary reality. Is the mathematical landscape a realm of truth or a neurological construct? Exploring the mathematical landscape. The co-evolution between mathematical discovery and the neurological structures within the mind. How can mathematics help us in our understanding of the world?
Fields as the interface between the mind and brain. The role of fields in our understanding of physical reality. Can all order in nature be traced to the organising or patterning influence of fields? Memory and mental fields. A morphic field theory of the mind. Modelling brain function and the relationship between the mind and the brain. The code-checking function in DNA. How do the electromagnetic and morphic fields function? The location of mind and the questions posed by memory. Is there a storehouse for species memory? Is there a structure in the memory of the world that enables non-local resonance between individual species?
Religious explanations of memory. Exploring two different models for memory. Memory does not have to be stored. Print versus oral culture. The role of resonance in the memory process. The nature of time. Is the past somehow accessible and co-existent with the present? The evolution of the morphogenetic field. How are the physical levels of an organism connected with the mental levels? The coupling of morphic and physical fields in crystals. Experiments to uncover the possibility of the mental influence on physical fields. Morphic resonance and computers.
Trialogue #21: Crop Circles Report (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #21: A Report on Crop Circles
Esalen, California, 1992
A brief summary of the crop circle mystery. The increasing number of hypotheses. An international crop circle making competition. A mystery beyond hoaxing? Their apparent interaction with human consciousness.. Their connection with palaeolithic rock markings. If they are communications, what are they trying to tell us? Modern disillusionment with science. Crop physiology. Rupert's crop circle investigation and his encounter with the police. The amusing aspects of crop circles and the peculiar coincidences that happen around them. The Japanese investigation. Crop circles and UFOs.
Trialogue #22: Psychedelics & Mathematical Vision (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #22: Psychedelics and Mathematical Vision
Esalen, California, 1992
Exploring the connection between mathematics and the experience of the logos. The psychedelic and computer revolutions of the 1960s helped cause the rebirth of mathematics. Maths as a language of space-time pattern. To what extent could the psychedelic vision of the logos be externalised through supercomputers? Will this technology enable us to communicate and share our experience of space-time pattern? Computer-graphic displays lack the emotional intensity of a psychedelic experience. In what ways can mathematical vision serve the spirit and extend the mind? Mathematical notation.
Deep data. Is mathematics a way to generate deep meaning? How could expanding our visual linguistic capability enhance our connection to the world? Visual language as a kind of telepathy.. The differences between print lineal cultures and oral aboriginal cultures.. Are we undergoing a transition from print to visual culture? The new forms of media that are shaping our culture. Could this new media enhance our connection to the natural world? The misuse of new technologies. Language as a new frontier in natural history. Using technology to try to understand language. Mathematics is part of the natural world. Ralph explains the importance of mathematics.
Trialogue #23: The Immediate Future & The Millenium (Terence McKenna, Sheldrake, Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #23: The Immediate Future & The Millenium
Esalen, California, 1992
What is the nature of the political and social world that we should construct for ourselves and for our children? The problem of future-phobia within our society. How can society be reconstructed and improved? The crisis in values in our society. The incompatibility of capitalism and democracy. The need for intervention. Rethinking the notion of freedom. Could the idea of the eschaton be working against change? The need for leadership with positive guiding visions. Where will the new positive vision come from? What could trigger the next major shift? The return to local communities. A native peoples' intervention. The danger of pretending that catastrophe is not probable. What kind of miracle could help avert catastrophe? The need for mathematical models to aid environmental and economic interventions.
Electronic feudalism. Terence's view on and the fractionalisation and feudalisation of the world. The dangers of materialism. The need for the empowerment of women worldwide. The resurgence of shamanic practice. The need for social transformation and a vision on the mythological level. A way to achieve zero population growth. The psychedelic revival in England. The need for a collective vision quest. Entheogens and religion. The post-catastrophic world society. Crisis will force change. What is the true mission of humanity? Questions and answers: The eschaton as eraser of boundaries. 2012.
Art: Francis Bacon, 'Three Studies For Figures At The Base Of The Crucifixion' (1944)
Trialogue #24: The Heavens (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #24: The Heavens
Esalen, California, 1992
The ancient view of the universe as alive. The anima mundi. The fall into the deterministic and mechanistic worldview. How this view is now being transcended. The recovery of the sense of the life of nature and of the heavens. Creativity and morphic resonance in nature. Resacralizing the earth through seasonal festivals and pilgrimage. Linking astronomy and astrology and resacralizing the heavens. Is the universe somehow conscious? Contacting celestial intelligences. Elizabethan star magic and the concept of the great chain of being.
Are the contents of our imagination somehow real? Organismic philosophy and the re-infusion of spirit into nature. Re-animating the cosmos. The different levels of intelligence in the universe, and possible techniques for communicating with them. Channelling the stars. A synthesis of astrology and astronomy. Guiding intelligences. Questions and answers: The need to engage with the environment. Light and energy as a manifestation of spirit. Various ways to invoke stellar deities. Long barrows. The feeling of reverence for the heavens. The sky as teacher. The consciousness of the sun. Imagination as the source of creativity in nature. Renaissance magic.
Art: Unknown Artist, 'Discovering The Heavens' 16th Century Woodcut
Trialogue #25: Utopian & Millenarianism (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #25: Utopianism and Millenarianism
Esalen, California, 1992
Utopianism and Millenarianism. A cultural history of utopianism. Surges of utopian renewal. The trinitarian utopian model. Are the utopian and millenarian movements tendencies of the European mind in reaction to Christianity? Millenarians are dominated by the apocalyptic idea. How have these trends influenced the trialoguers? The Marxist utopian model. Scientific utopianism. Liberal political utopianism.. New age and psychedelic utopianism. A mathematical utopia. 2012 - the end of history? What is the connection between the Archaic Revival and the Timewave? Is millenarianism an anti-progressive force? Origins and end-points. Utopianism is reasonable if we can change our minds.
Art: Paul Laffoley 'Das Urpflanze Haus ll' (1983-1995)
Trialogue #26: Hazelwood House - 1993 (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #26: Hazelwood House, England 1993
In their first trialogue held outside of California, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake begin this session by telling us what they think about one another. Then Rupert Sheldrake challenges Terence and Ralph to speculate on the as yet unknown physical principle underlying the ability of homing pigeons to return to their roosts.
McKenna covers a wide range of topics with thoughts like, "That's what life is. It's a chemical strategy for the conquest of dimensionality."
Public workshop, Trialogues, Hazelwood House, Devon, ENGLAND (June 25- 27)
Art: Francisco De Goya, 'Where there's a will there's a way' (Donde hay ganas hay mana), Plate 13 of Los Disparates
Trialogue #27: Skepticism & The Balkanization Of Epistemology (McKenna, Sheldrake, Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #27: Skepticism & The Balkanization Of Epistemology
In this trialogue held on June 8, 1998 at Santa Cruz, CA, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake explored the "fluff factor" and what degree of healthy skepticism is required these days.
Terence McKenna: "Somehow as a part of the agenda of political correctness it has become not entirely acceptable to criticize, or demand substantial evidence, or expect people, when advancing their speculations, to make, what used to be called, old fashioned sense."
Terence: "These phenomenon, which we know exist, and which we find rich in implication, would simply not be allowed as objects of discourse, they would be ruled out of order. So there's something wrong on one level with what's called empiricism, skepticism, positivism, it has different names."
Terence:"[Empherical science] is a coarse-grained view of nature, and what it mitigates against seeing are the very things that feed the progress of science, which is the unassimilated phenomenon, the unusual data, the peculiar result of an experiment."
Rupert Sheldrake: "Weirdness and cults and most of the phenomenon you've named are phenomenon of Hawaii and California. When you live in England, things take on a rather different perspective. There's a general level of popular skepticism, such that the general tone of an English pub is one of sort of skepticism." Terence: "Well, but aren't crop circles, and Graham Hancock all homegrown British phenomenon?"
Rupert: "There is the possibility to return to a more common sense approach, common sense of the British pub type, and probably of standard American kind too, will often deal quite satisfactorily with the probono proctologists from outer space."
Terence: "You speak from your knowledge of the calculus and world history, and this person speaks from their latest transmission from fallen Atlantis. And this is all placed on an equal footing, and it's crazy-making, and it also guarantees the trivialness of the entire enterprise. I just don't think any revolution in human history can be made by fluff-heads."
Ralph Abraham: "In other words, there is no simple measuring stick of simplicity."
Ralph says he wishes we could create a measuring stick to measure the truth of something and then goes on to describe how one could be designed.
Terence: "The history of alchemy is far older than the history of science. It has always been in existence. It's thinkers have always evolved and adumbrated their field of concern. So that's one kind of fluff. Fluff with punch, because it has historical continuity."
Ralph: "The problem with this 'strict parent' approach to fluff, is that some important discoveries may be shuttled aside."
Terence: "What we have to legitimize is critical discussion. So that when someone stands up and starts talking about the face on Mars people behave as they apparently behave in British pubs and just stand up and say, 'Malarkey mate.'And force people to experience a critical deconstruction of their ideas."
Art: Christian Rex Van Minnen, 'Manfungus 1.2' & 'Keyhole 1.1'
Trialogue #28: Morphogenic Family Fields (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #28: Morphogenic Family Fields
A Trialogue held on June 8, 1998 at Santa Cruz, CA, where Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake explored Rupert's concept of a morphogenic family field.
Rupert Sheldrake: "And so in human family groups we'd expect the same kind of morphic fields [as in other animal family groups]. . . . It would mean that family fields, with their morphic fields, would have a kind of memory from the families that contributed to them. The father's and mother's families of origin would come together in a family."
Rupert: "Whatever the merits or demerits of [Bert] Hellinger's system, which I think is very interesting and apparently very effective, the idea of making models of the family field seems to me something that one could address in a more general sense."
Terence McKenna: "The family thing works because people really are complex chemical systems with genetic affinity."
Rupert: "There are amazing cases where young people commit suicide in a way that mimics the unacknowledged death of an ancestor, like suicide by drowning when an ancestor one or two generations before have committed suicide by drowning, but they've never been told about it because it was never acknowledged. And you get these extraordinary patterns that repeat."
Rupert: "We don't have adequate models for these family systems, nor the influence of ancestors within them, which my interest in morphic resonance makes me very keen on."
Rupert (describing an indigenous belief): "But you have to be on good terms with the ancestors. And what being on good terms, above all, means acknowledging them. . . . that you name and acknowledge the key ancestors, you acknowledge all the dead in your lineage. And if you miss anyone out they're going to be angry, and if they're angry that means trouble."
Ralph Abraham:"I'm extremely suspicious of the application of quantum mechanical concepts in the arena of psychology, consciousness, sociology, and so on. To me that's much fuzzier than the face on Mars."
Terence McKenna: "Part of the problem is that physical models break down when prosecuted to quantum mechanical levels."
Ralph begins his explanation of the physics of the nimbus, otherwise known as a halo.
Terence: "The more successful psychoanalytic theories, it seems to me, are the least mathmatically driven, and depend really on this mysterious business that we call the gifted therapist."
Art: Christian Rex Van Mennin 'Keyhole Portrait 3.4' & 'Keyhole Portrait 3.2'
Trialogue #29: What Hawaii Says About Evolution (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #29: What Hawaii Says About Evolution
Trialogue: A cassette tape recording made by Ralph Abraham during a private trialogue between Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, and himself. It was recorded sometime in 1994 on the Big Island in Hawaii, most likely at Terence McKenna's home there. Their conversation about evolution includes an interesting comparision between the island of Hawaii and the island in space called planet Earth.
"I think what life on islands brings home to us is that Earth itself is an island."
"I think the technological principle on which the next century [21st] will operate is a mimicking of nature, solid-state, micro-miniaturized, solar-based, no moving parts, and so forth."
"Any theory which has us gathering together in large crowds to chant should look back at the Third Reich before it proceeds too far with its agenda."
"America is a cultural bulldozer. It just tramples and destroys everything in its path."
Trialogue #30: How The Web Looked Back In 1994 (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #30: How The Web Looked Back In 1994
Trialogue: Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna, and Rupert Sheldrake were thinking about the World Wide Web at a time before it was yet two years old. Recorded in Hawaii sometime in 1994, this was a private trialogue (conversation) between the three of them in the garden at Terence's house on the Big Island of Hawaii. Fortunately for us they had the foresight to turn on a tape recorder that day.
"I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!" --Ralph Abraham
"Notice that throughout history the most oppressed group has not been the Jews, the Irish, the blacks, they've taken their hits, but the most consistently oppressed group of people throughout human history have been smart people. And now comes a tool for smart people [the Internet] utterly incomprehensible to dullards, that is essentially the equivalent of the hydrogen bomb." --Terence McKenna
"Chaotic as the Web is, what it is is a controlled psychedelic experience spreading through the populace at the highest levels of intelligentsia." --Terence McKenna
"What it [the Internet] will be in the future will depend on what kind of people with whatever motives would actually go there." --Ralph Abraham
"I think it's [the Internet] built into the evolutionary morphogenetic unfolding of the cosmos in that it could no more be stopped than mitocondria or societal organization." --Terence McKenna
"I think it [the Internet] will supersede us. I don't know how much monkey meat will be connected to the World Wide Web when the Web is complete. It may shed the monkey meat." --Terence McKenna
"The population explosion could end, let's say, because of the World Wide Web. This is my greatest dream." --Ralph Abraham
"Nature is a world wide web. That was the first world wide web." --Terence McKenna
Trialogue #31: Santa Cruz (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #31: Santa Cruz
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from an undated tape that was simply labeled "trialogue-mini".
Terence McKenna: "Another way of thinking of it (the Knot of Eternity) is it's the nexus of connectivity. It's a place where everything is cotangent, as the mathematicians say. Everything is connected, and I think that's the place we are growing toward."
Ralph Abraham: "If a present moment is between a past that's familiar and a future which is completely different, then that's a very special moment."
Terence: "The great successful conspiracies, the Catholic church, capitalism, the Communist Party of China, Zionism, these things don't call themselves conspiracies. They call themselves historical social movements."
Terence: "The task of discerning shit from Shinola looms very large at the end of history."
Terence: "I think we're going to have to come to terms with as the world moves toward this concrescence of novelty is that it gives off spurious reflections of itself."
Terence: "The truth will be beautiful, and it will be simple. And it will be persuasive to those who doubt it. So don't get into some closed loop of viviology. Make the truth seduce you. Don't be thereby seduced by error."
Terence: "We have created social institutions such as consumer capitalism that are so unfriendly to our innate humaness that they are actually redesigning us, these social systems, to be more brutal, less caring, more acquisitive, more fetishistic, than we naturally would be. And, again, the antidote to this is an awareness of your immediate environment and the tricks that are being run on you and the ways in which we are being manipulated. Man is not bad. Humanity is not flawed. What is flawed are ideologies and social systems that distort humaness for purposes usually of commerce or conquest. . . . Culture is an intelligence test."
Rupert: "I think that the suppression of ritual forms of violence can lead to an outbreak of sacrificial killings by crazed maniacs."
Terence: "Well, it's not a good idea to fear anything. Technology is prostheses. Technology is tools. We've always been defined by our tools. There is nothing about us that would be human if it weren't for our tools. Language is a tool. The cutting edge is a tool. Social organization is a tool. . . . Shamanism is simply a technology."
Trialogue #32: The World Soul (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham) [FULL]http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Trialogue #32: The World Soul
Recorded in 1989. Terence begins by telling a rather amazing story about a walk he had on a beach that turned into a fractal psychedelic experience, and without the aid of any substances I should add. From there it takes a while to get to the World Soul, and then after talking for a while, they discover that they are actually talking about different concepts! A couple of my favorite McKenna quotes from this talk are: "For my money, monotheism is the single most reactionary force in all of human history. I don't even know what is running second," and "Democracy is a step away from anarchy."
"I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it." -Rupert Sheldrake
"If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?" -Rupert Sheldrake
"Not thinking about the World Soul but the individual soul, that the seizure of DMT is almost like a simulacrum of death itself, and that you seem to see into an ecology of souls." -Terence McKenna
"The World Soul, I think, is in communication with us in the culminating moment of human history. This is all being scripted for a purpose and toward an end unglimpsed by us but tied up with the survival of everything." -Terence McKenna
"Tourism is a kind of secularized form of pilgrimage." -Rupert Sheldrake
"At the root of many problems is the denial of the problem and the fact that we maintain unconsciousness of the problem." -Ralph Abraham
"I hold monotheism responsible for the mess that we're in from Abraham right on down to the present moment. I think it is the metaphor which is responsible for the dominator break-out, and that until we get a more polytheistic, nature-oriented conception of reality we will be pretty much under the gun." -Terence McKenna
"For my money, monotheism is the single most reactionary force in all of human history. I don't even know what is running second." -Terence McKenna
"Democracy is a step away from anarchy." -Terence McKenna
"Perhaps to unify consciousness it isn't a Western hemisphere goddess we need but simply a recognition of Gaia." -Terence McKenna
Hazelwood Trialogue: Part 1 ~ Introductions (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham)http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Hazelwood Trialogue: Part 1 - Introductions
Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham
Hazelwood, Devon, England, June 1993
In this introduction to the trialogues held at Hazelwood house in Devon, England, Rupert, Ralph and Terence introduce each other and give their perspectives on their friends' lives, characters and work.
The first in a series of 5 parts, I've posted this trialogue before (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9_d1OSV9Zo) but this version is taken from a different source (http://www.sheldrake.org/) and adds an extra 45mins to the total running time. These are presented as they were found on Rupert's site and taken from the 32kps mp3 files there. If you are precious about sound quality, this is probably not for you.
Image from: http://octopuswatch.tumblr.com/
Hazelwood Trialogue: Part 2 ~ Homing Pigeons (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham)http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Hazelwood Trialogue: Part 2 - Homing Pigeons
Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham
Hazelwood, Devon, England, June 1993
How do homing pigeons find their way home? All theories attempting to explain this phenomenon have failed. More unexplained biological mysteries. Do animals and humans have senses or powers unacknowledged by science? What are the implications of these powers? Rupert's proposed experiment with a mobile pigeon loft. Pigeon racing. Ralph's visual theory and the elastic band theory. A quantum mechanical perspective on these forces. Why have humans lost contact with such powers? New domains of quantum mechanical biology. To what degree is the assumption that the future is unknowable an artefact of culture and language?
A new understanding of time. How do animals communicate? The sixth sense is a social field phenomenon. Could human problems be linked with our disconnection from this field? The need to go beyond language. Entering the atemporal sphere through assimilating animal understanding. Terence's understanding of animal magic as a hyperdimensional perception of the future. Speaking in tongues. Questions and answers: How our languages affect our view of the world. Animal teachers. Recognising science's blindness to such astonishing natural powers. The large-scale implications of Bell's theorem.
The Second in a series of 5 parts, I've posted this trialogue before (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9_d1OSV9Zo) but this version is taken from a different source (http://www.sheldrake.org/) and adds an extra 45mins to the total running time. These are presented as they were found on Rupert's site and taken from the 32kps mp3 files there. If you are precious about sound quality, this is probably not for you.
Image: Homing Pigeons
Hazelwood Trialogue: Part 3 ~ Time (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham)http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.co.uk/
Hazelwood Trialogue: Part 3 ~ Time
Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham
Hazelwood, Devon, England, June 1993
Changing the way we look at time. Orthodoxy's teachings about time. Apocalyptic intuitions from psychoactive plants. Complexity and novelty in the universe. Terence's attempts to construct a new temporal cosmology. Is the universe being pulled and shaped by a transcendental attractor? Is our planetary crisis really some kind of birth? Using dream, yoga and psychedelics to glimpse the transcendental attractor. Myths of time and their differing impact upon cultures. Life as a strategy for the conquest of dimensionality, including the conquest of time. Metamorphosis and boundary dissolution. Does Terence's vision concern the transformation of this planet or of the entire universe?
Vacuum fluctuations and the potential disappearance of the material universe. 2012 and the timetable of Terence's Novelty theory. The role of entheogens in the preparation for the future. A cosmic initiation ritual. Questions and answers: A geometric theory of spirituality. Encouraging the creative and artistic impulse. Neo-archaism and the shamanic art of gaining a familiarity with death. The need to minimise materialism within our society. The need to re-empower our sense of self and community. The 'union of opposites'. History as an alchemical process. 'All time rests within eternity'.
The Third in a series of 5 parts, I've posted this trialogue before (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9_d1OSV9Zo) but this version is taken from a different source (http://www.sheldrake.org/) and adds an extra 45mins to the total running time. These are presented as they were found on Rupert's site and taken from the 32kps mp3 files there. If you are precious about sound quality, this is probably not for you.
Image: The Time Tunnel (US, TV Series, 1966-67)
Hazelwood Trialogue: Part 4 ~ Fractals (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham)http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.co.uk/
Hazelwood Trialogue: Part 4 ~ Fractals
Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham
Hazelwood, Devon, England, June 1993
Ralph tells a fractal story and explains how fractal models can illuminate our understanding of the world. Applying fractals to individual psychology.. The need for chaos and disorder in the personality. Multiple personality 'dischaos'. A 'sandy beach' model of the mind. Therapeutic strategies to increase chaos. The need to restore pantheism. A mathematical model for monogamy. Order and chaos must be balanced. Multiple attractors at the end of time. A polytheistic psychology. The unity within polytheistic systems.. Cultures and individuals need fractal rather than rigid boundaries. A fractal cosmos.
The mystery of the Holy Trinity. The loss of unity through rigid boundaries. How can we fractalize our boundaries and create unity? Psychedelics, meditation, travel, tantra and chanting. Returning to the pre-verbal mode of expression. What about people whose boundaries are too low already? The cure to boundary anxiety can be found within. Is there any culture that has managed to avoid 'dischaos'? Questions and answers: The Aristotelian perspective of modern science needs to be balanced by the Platonic. Maths anxiety. Chaos is a kind of order and vice versa. Jung's deconstruction of Yahweh. The sacred trinity of the goddess. Recovering the aboriginal state of consciousness. Cultural taboos.
The Fourth in a series of 5 parts, I've posted this trialogue before (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9_d1OSV9Zo) but this version is taken from a different source (http://www.sheldrake.org/) and adds an extra 45mins to the total running time. These are presented as they were found on Rupert's site and taken from the 32kps mp3 files there. If you are precious about sound quality, this is probably not for you.
Image: Black and White Surreal fractal print with Endura Metallic.
Hazelwood Trialogue Part 5 ~ Angels, Entities And The Heavenshttp://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.co.uk/
Hazelwood Trialogue: Part 5 ~ Angels, Entities And The Heavens
Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham
Disincarnate entities and their messages. Their concern with the development of language. Angels as the guardians and intelligences of the natural world. Recovering a sense of the life of the universe. Recovering the link between heaven as a state of being and the actual sky. The Islamic conception of paradise. Heaven as a world without physics. Eternity and the DMT state. The need to resacralize the sky. The Merkaba mystics. The Polynesian notion of heaven. The physical collapse of the universe. Could there be negative entities located in the heavens? Black holes, quasars and galactic centres. The redemption of the world soul through the physical healing of the earth. A ritual invocation of the world soul. The soul can be conceived of in terms of fields. The noosphere. Field models for the world soul.
The Fifth in a series of 5 parts, I've posted this trialogue before (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9_d1OSV9Zo) but this version is taken from a different source (http://www.sheldrake.org/) and adds an extra 45mins to the total running time. These are presented as they were found on Rupert's site and taken from the 32kps mp3 files there. If you are precious about sound quality, this is probably not for you.
Art: Austin Osman Spare ~ Experiments in Relativity (1933, pencil and watercolour)
Alan Moore on Austin Osman Spare:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjtK7vQdgEg
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