Terence McKenna - The Human Imagination

McKenna waxes poetic about the very intimate relationship that humans have with the imagination. He uses the metaphor of birth to describe the consequence of an animal with a direct connection to this source and the ability to order ideas into matter.

Terence McKenna on Language

Then there is the phenomenon of non-ordinary, or what I call visible language and this is very interesting to me. This is where technology, virtual-reality, cybernetics, human-machine interfacing can actually make an impact and explore a frontier. Visual language is a transormation of the physiological impulse towards syntax into a final product, speech, which is not heard with the ears, but beheld with the eyes. It's very interesting that all our metaphors of clarity of speech are visual metaphors. -Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna Rock n the Chip Glasses

Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind via the ingestion of naturally occurring psychedelic substances. Although he avoided giving his allegiance to any one interpretation (part of his rejection of monotheism), he was open to the idea of psychedelics as being "trans-dimensional travel"; literally, enabling an individual to encounter what could be aliens, ancestors, or spirits of earth. He remained opposed to most forms of organized religion or guru-based forms of spiritual awakening.

Terence Mckenna - Our Last Chance

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.-Terence Mckenna

Terence Mckenna - 2012

Terence Mckenna giving his view on the year 2012. Mckenna was noted for his knowledge, and the ability to articulate his knowledge, of the use of psychedelics, metaphysics, plant-based entheogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, historical and civilizational timelines, the theoretical origins of human consciousness, and his concept of novelty theory

Taxonomy of Illusion - Terence McKenna

An Evening with Terence McKenna the famous chaos theorist mathematician. Taxonomy defined as classification, especially in relation to its general laws and principles; that department of science or subject, which consists in or relates to classification. Terence amusingly articulates by enumerating examples of the varied forms of illusions by which humans are entertained, intrigued and frightened. This talk is a particularily anecdotal way to approach the study of the imaginal, the illusive and anomalous. Terence McKenna, informs and delights his audiences through many media.

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Avoid Apocalypse - Terence McKenna

The apocalypse has arrived in many parts of the world, we who have the luxury of awaiting the apocalypse have a chance to reverse the process with a return to a relationship with the mind of nature.

McKenna on iON & the Guf

Terence McKenna avoided giving his allegiance to any one interpretation (part of his rejection of monotheism), he was open to the idea of psychedelics as being "trans-dimensional travel"; literally, enabling an individual to encounter what could be aliens, ancestors, or spirits of earth. He remained opposed to most forms of organized religion or guru-based forms of spiritual awakening.

Timewave Zero - Preface

This audio was recorded on April 14, 1985 and is an excerpt from 'The Invisible Landscape' Peer Review. Here, Terence McKenna prefaces the Timewave discussion by providing his own views on Novelty Theory, as well as belief, skepticism, and his own epistemology.

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Riding Range with Marshall McLuhan - Terence Mckenna

Mckenna uses Marshall Mcluhan's philosophy to explain the sociological influences that media has on our culture. Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar — a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory.

Light of the Third Millennium Series 1 Part 1

Terence talks about the end of time, alien intelligence, and our future in the Third Millennium.

Terence Mckenna on AI

Terence Mckenna speaks to an audience about Artificial Intelligence. You can find the rest of the audio segment somewhere around page 30-40 of the videos on Terence Mckenna Land.

Strange Attractor - Terence Mckenna

Transcendental idealism doctrine maintains that human experience of things consists of how they appear to us — implying a fundamentally subject-based component, rather than being an activity that directly (and therefore without any obvious causal link) comprehends the things as they are in and of themselves. Terence Mckenna talks about time wave and the transcendental at the end of time.

Terence Mckenna at Heaven Nightclub

Terence Mckenna seated live on the main dancefloor at Heaven nightclub London at megatripolis, underground club thursday night 1993 Archive film film by Steve Teers (of Diva Pictures) www.divapix.co.uk Terence was giving the pre-dancefloor lecture
thanks Heaven nightclub, club crew megatripolis archive flyers site at www.megatripolisarchive.co.uk
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The Last Word Documentary - Terence Mckenna

One of the last interviews of Terence Mckenna before his death on April 3, 2000, alongside his loved ones. He was 53 years old. He is survived by his brother Dennis, his son Finn, and his daughter Klea. He began to suffer from increasingly painful headaches. This culminated in a brain seizure, which led to McKenna being diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.

History Ends in Green Series 6 Part 1

The legend of Terence McKenna is with us even today, living through discussions, messages, videos, podcasts, pictures and all communication within the psychedelic community. His views on psychedelics / hallucinogenic plants, shamanism, consciousness, creation, space time continuum, reality, shamanistic approaches to the UFO phenomena, eschaton, novelty, and psilocybin.

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In the Valley of Novelty Series 1 Part 1

During this ten part series our friend, Terence Mckenna, gives a comprehensive talk about the various philosophical topics which he has mastered throughout his life.

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