alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/ In this 1994 Esalen appearance, Terence McKenna talks about "Laws and Freedom, Habits and Novelty" among other things. "Do not lease other people's linguistic structures and live in them. Build your own virtual worlds. Build your own values and your own house of mirrors." "The culture is so capable of assimilating and disarming its critics through hype and fashion. I mean, I was horrified to see that ad, 'Alan Ginsberg work kakis'. Did you see that!" "If habit is to replace law, then the universe is more like an organism. It's more like a creature. It learns, It gains experience. As it matures it changes its strategy. As it expands its experience it gains new domains of emergent subtlety." "Humor is an admission of ignorance. Ignorance is the precondition for knowledge. And in a sense, to take it to a deeper level, magic is a deeper perception than science. Because science believes that the world is truly there it is naive in its empiricism. Magic knows that the world is made of language. That the world is the construct of forceful imagination. And the people who don't know this are walking around in the world of the people who do."

Be the first to comment