In 1976, I met Terrence McKenna in Hawaii. I helped build his octagonal house--a story in its own right--and he gave me some dried mushrooms that he said were more potent than the ones we had been picking on the cattle ranch on top of the big island. I didn't know who he was then, but what he said about the mushrooms was no lie :)

The AI that made this art was on a heroic dose😆

It’s unfortunate that Terrence isn’t here in our physical realm to celebrate the psychedelic renaissance of our time. He blows my mind almost daily❤

proven very effective in the treatment of various mental health issues aside from other health benefits. Helped me get out of years of depression and excessive alcohol use.

Every time I hear Terrence speak I’m astounded by his linguistic prose, what an absolute genius.

Oh, my dear friend, Terence McKenna. The quintessential bard of the psychedelic realm, an erudite mind with an unparalleled mastery of language and an almost preternatural talent for weaving together concepts and ideas from different disciplines into a coherent and spellbinding narrative. His eloquence was matched only by his wit, and his depth of knowledge by his boundless curiosity. To listen to Terence speak was to embark on a journey through the corridors of the mind, where the boundaries between what we think we know and what lies beyond the veil of perception blur and dissolve. His lexicon was a veritable treasure trove of linguistic gems, from "hyper-dimensional constellations of meaning" to "self-transforming machine elves", from "the felt presence of immediate experience" to "the transcendental object at the end of time". He spoke of the "archaic revival", of the need to reconnect with our primal selves and our ancestral wisdom, to rediscover the power of the shamanic experience and the transformative potential of entheogens. He evoked the mystery and majesty of the natural world, the intricate dance of life and death that shapes and sustains all things, and the urgency of our ecological crisis and the need to reestablish our harmonious relationship with the biosphere. He spoke of the "novelty theory", the idea that the universe is evolving towards ever-greater levels of complexity and novelty, and that our human consciousness is a pivotal agent in this cosmic process. He posited that the psychedelic experience was a glimpse into this unfolding process, a portal into the realm of infinite possibilities and transformative potential. Terence was a prophet, a visionary, a provocateur, a philosopher, a poet, a trickster, a mystic. He challenged our assumptions, stretched our minds, and awakened us to new realms of understanding and being. He left us with a legacy of wisdom and wonder, a roadmap for exploring the inner and outer cosmos, and an invitation to participate in the great adventure of life. In short, Terence McKenna was a linguistic alchemist, a master of the word and the concept, a magician of the mind and the spirit. And his voice continues to resonate, to inspire, and to challenge us to this day.

If you are here you are a seeker, you value and seek expansion of your awareness (consciousness). You are making it all up, so choose your experience.

around 30:05 where he is describing the layers of consciousness between action and consequence is mind-blowing to me.

As time flows on, Terrance flows with it ....

Nobody articulates an abstract thought like McKenna.

I'm so grateful that so much of this amazing man's content had been left behind for us to grip onto.

So thankful to hav this mans speeches/lessons/teachings in my life for ovr 12yrs now.. I listen to a dffrnt vid wkly alwys such a great listen. Mch love and respect frm Afghanistan

I haven't heard this one yet but man he's prob one of the best thinkers ever

I wish this man was still here today

Holy shit balls!!! I wouldn’t call it prediction. He just touched base with the source within him where all the answers lie. The psychedelic experience is that. An experience that hopefully opens one up to see how unreal this world is and sends you back with some plans to make changes. The real work comes after the experience. I am so grateful he walked before us and left bread crumbs. The artist who did the visuals has an amazing talent. A must watch ❤

Terence completed his mission. It is we individuals that have failed...so far.

If only more of us understood our culture's impact the way this man did...

The last 25 mins was absolutely amazing… we all need to understand the phenomenon

I'm just grateful I found out about Terrance.I could listen to him for hours

We are one mind

Thank you for uploading this.

thanks for the ongoing images, it makes the experience much more immersive

Best hour of listening ever. Thanks Danit!

One of my favourite talks

The unique opportunity at this given moment on this planet is multiplied infinitely everywhere in every way throughout space time and dimensions. Words cannot begin to express the incomprehensible. We know this Our ancestors free of modern control and technology knew naturally

Terence was on it pure genius

Phenomenal. What an intellectual genius, what a gift.... this lecture is invaluable, he is so right. Thank you for sharing this.

I remember he was my only comforter when I awoke to the utter madness of the man made world and systems. He was a light for me in the darkness, his message resonates instantly. And here we are, about to leap into the time wqve zero, see you on the other side!

The AI portraits are freaking me out. I wasn't even looking at the screen at first but Terence looked off so I watched and now I'm just imagining each one as a parallel universe's Terence. Hopefully in a few he's still alive and hanging with his brother and Rupert and so on.

I love the art, it’s captivating, mesmerizing, eternally beautiful…. I love it no matter who or what made it.

Happy birthday Terence!!

Old T.M never gets old ❤

Oh my god. I am moving to a new place and I found a baggie of the Cubensis mushrooms. This happened while I was listening to this talk by Terence McKenna, the man I haven't heard in years.😂

I feel so behind... Idk how i just now discovered this amazing man. Does anyone else feel like hes speaking to us through these teachings?

Whew that was wonderful

After many decades I've finally found the source of inspiration for my preferred hairstyle. If only I had the wit and wisdom to honour it.

Beautiful painting

He is the master respect for the old times 🙏🏻

The mind that spontaneously weaves together phrases like, "but for that bad day, we would still be the egg-eating shrews at the edge of the reptilian garden party" is a mind I will revisit again, when the mood is right, until I may follow involuntarily to whitherever it went. Whether sylvan or swamp gas, that is a wisp I find worth flitting after, if for no other sake, then for the sake of giggling.

chill interesting talk i really enjoyed this new subscriber here thanks for showing us cool art work with the nice talk STAY AWESOME!

Great stuff!

Love this art

Thank you

This is a great one ... I can put it through a phase limiter for you to clear it up

The remarkable fact is that humanity is inventing itself into stasis and stagnation

Great artwork!

Terence McKenna was right about a lot of things, and he wasn't going to miss a single opportunity to tell you everything he thought he knew about everything there was to tell

Totally in sync with everything. This man's importance usurps Timothy Leary IMO.

Epic insight. True legend

This AI art does him justice. 💚 The Good, The True, The Beautiful

The doctrine of emptiness expressed by Nagarjuna does pass next to nihilism. But that is not a secret, and it is not little. It's a big dangerous pit. The development of understanding of things as they are experinced directly in the moment leads to the knowledge that the ego is no different from culture in McKenna's terms; it is a deceptive construct, whatever its benefits may be. If lying were not advantageous in some way, it wouldn't be a thing. And in lying to you, the ego like culture is not your friend. But Buddhism attempts to cure the path of this danger by cultivating compassion for the suffering brought on by both the false sense of self, and the disappointments of culture experienced by all of its long-lived participants. The person who taught me the meaning of Nagarjuna and Chandrakirti ironically appears to be caught up in a total ego fantasy about being the step-in of her Tibetan guru, which she says a form of reincarnation. Ironic ego trip. But I love irony and have no use at all for culture, no matter whether it's Buddhist, or Tibetan, American, New Age, Indian dot or Indian arrow, or some form of blood cult like the Abrahamic triad that continually wars against their economic competitors in the various not-to-be-spoken names of their One True God. No the question I have is about the closed loops of logic which seal the minds and therefore the fates of the adherents of all schools of thought; the path to truth does not end in a pot of gold nor the halls of religious or philosophical orthodoxy. Those are stuff of distraction. But why do some people experience the revolution of mind that results from direct inquiry into immediate experience, while others never stray from the comfort of false opinions presented as ontological necessity throughout an entire lifetime of cultural participation as a monkey in a zoo?! I really want to know that answer! _What allows a person to change their prior beliefs due to reflection on their own experience?_ But all I know is that I have had the great good fortune to have learned this trick at a young age, and to have kept the skill alive. I am not sure it can be taught, but I know I cannot teach it.

This man was definitely ahead of his time

When he talks his words just make sense.

Good stuff!

The art is awesome

us mckenna-ites need to actually, you know, talk to each other...

How many people clicked on this video because of the bad ass artwork?

gud talk havent heard this one yet

I can express myself a whole different way

The message was received

On 5 grams last xmas. I saw dead ancient mesoamerican men, women, and children. In a place made of tinkly stuff, and an iridescent emerald light. Overseen by the goddess gaian mind and the elves & fairies were everywhere after i invoked it at the peak. The little girl who felt like an archaic family relative. She said “hello, send greetings to your family, say hello for us in the collective unconscious, see you all soon”… as they waved goodbye… it wasn’t mayan, or spanish, or English or nahuatl. It was a language that i could understand. The hairs on my arms stood up. Terence Mckenna pointed the way to nature magic, the supernatural, the paranormal that i was always curious about since my first halloween but always skeptical with a scientist mind, and after my psychedelic experience turns out The afterlife is real. I was raised catholic and then became an atheist i still can’t believe i had that experience. And that was my 25th psilocybin trip and now i have a relationship with a plant 🍄👁️

The band Satsang has an album called Kulture that showcases an intro with many of these same ideas(by Daniel Weiss) but very obviously inspired by this speech

"A life of psychedelic voyaging...." That one made me laugh. Nothing like a little sojourn into the great outback from time to time, eh? Heh.

live free ....we live on...

Great portraits! I recognise Alan Ginsberg, Alan Watts, Daniel Craig, George Lucas, Heisenberg, Paul Stamets, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Fry, Terence McKenna, .. sure, I missed a couple, but … good group though!

The only thing in life that is not derivative is one's own true lived experience. The Moment between perceiving and acting. To think or act upon that moment and bring something new into the multiverse is what escapes most people. We are constantly bombarded by memes that want us to think a certain way. And despite our best efforts we become entrenched with no way out. I might be preaching to the choir here but I found it necessary to reinforce the notion that we are not slaves to culture.

25:50 "begin to forget it, it will remember itself from every sides"

This man is as close to an extant Tom Bombadil as we're likely to get.

"The exploration of the Universe of the unseen is the business of human beings"

Many so called intellectuals are very off putting because they are consumed by their own lesser ego. Not so with Terrence...

We could use the wisdom of TM today, but I can't imagine current circumstances would change his message all that much. He'd probably just shrug and nod at how things have evolved over the last two-plus decades, but his prescription for the human race would stay the same.

those who consume the earth choose to defend it

07:45 👏 love this part.

Research teams, and you can find the channel out here, are setting up to engage "psychonauts" in long duration DMT trips using machines similar to what are used in surgery to provide a constant, steady, infusion of DMT at the levels necessary to keep the door to the realm Terence notes open for hours at a time. Can you imagine? I expect the Mushroom people know we monkeys are coming, yes? So from that perspective he was absolutely right, humanity is on the verge of a paradigm shift in our evolution. The next couple of decades are going to be very interesting.....

Tree Fountain (aka Tree of Life) 1- Bore a hole into and up a tree being careful not to bisect the core of the tree. 2- Coat the inside of the hole with beeswax. 3- Put a water basin at the top and a fire pit or fireplace at the bottom. 4- Put copper pipe around the inside of the fire pit or up the chimney for a fireplace. This will act as a pump. (You can also use a hotplate if you prefer) 5- Add water wheels (fidget spinners can be used for some decent mini water wheels) for electricity. 6- Add hanging gardens for fresh produce. 7- Splice other saplings and/or fresh tree cuttings using the tongue and groove method for shelter. This design provides food, filtered and conditioned water and air, electricity, shelter and SO much more! Everything a person needs for life and survival. Hence the "Tree of Life" nickname!

Terrence is somewhere.

Smash it up!

Yes

Okay, Terrance is cool and all. Love new people discovering him… BUT THE ART US DOPE AS FUCK!!

Terrance puts words to the way I feel about the world that magic mushrooms are responsible for.

Planetary alignment supreme tonight. . . . . . . .

I would love to hear his thesis on Dogs and Humans.

15:41 felt moment of imediate experience.,,

best centrist ever

yes

Like number 1K bruh

this du had a hell of a mind

So, the quote: "We are building the nervous system.....into telepathic collectivities (typical Mckenna) of some sort." He is merely pointing towards the group think of an A.I society. No doubt he is brimming with intellectual curiosity, but he is as he describes himself, a creepy old uncle. Strip away his self acknowledged inventive language, and his observations about psychedelics being a ticket to hyper space, and you might just think Terry is just a high profile, boomer hippy. His C.V and general bio indicate he is a cultural hypocrite of the greatest magnitude. If you do think about it, rather than overdose on fascination.

Whoever you are??? thank you for releasing this knowledge!

This is the hopeful future... i just don't think everyone will understand unfortunately.

Imagine Terence Mckenna, Marshall Applewhite, David Lynch, Timothy Leary and Charles Manson all at a table having a cup of tea together.

Being we are. We been thrown into becoming. Becoming is always a lifetime or two trillion behind being. So you just ain't getting there without of stepping out of becoming. Biology. Being is laughing at the ladder of becoming.

Where did you get these images from? They look amazing, i want them as my desktop wallpaper, can you link me where you got them from please?

All birth is bloody and messy, is caotic and traumatic, and life is born in agony, pain and extasy, the worst darkness in touch with the greatest luminosity. We can choose to life it in fear clenching to the past, or with joy, hope and curiosity for the future. Our old gods are dying fast, and from their bellys they new gods will rise, a new era, a new humanity.

Hahahah that usb connect sound 0:04 got me. Whats connecting??😄

Wish the image was moving like during a trip.

Ladies n Gentlemen’s…Terrance “The Shaman” McKenna!!!

This is interesting. there is a background audio that pretends to be static but it’s an attempt at the subliminal. That’s annoying.

Where can I find that first picture? It's amazing!

I love TM, listened to 100s of hours and I think he was as close to genius as anyone could be but his appraisal of Buddhist philosophy and meditation is kind of off. Nagarjuna, the prajnaparamita, is not outlining nihilism, it's that all phenomena is of infinite nature - empty of limitation