During this time of turbulence all around the world, we all need a little insight. Friends, fans and newcomers exploring McKenna alike post some of your favorite quotes, videos, or even personal experiences if you have any from this brilliant man and wanderer of the universe.
He would be pleased with the way things are unfolding:
"If you really wanted to study an aboriginal race and you really had a hot technology, what you would do is study their social psychology and you would say, "are there any chinks in the armor of their expectations about how reality behaves?" and you would discover in studying us - this species intoxicates itself and it has a curious attitiude towards it's intoxications: anything goes.
So if someone drinks a bottle of Stoli and announces that they see pink elephants we are all amused. We say of course you do you're drunk out of your mind.. Isn't it obvious that an alien would hide its presence in an intoxication? This is the non-invasive, tasteful, respectful way to have intercourse with another species. ..you put yourself into a plant, You put a barcode into a molecule. Then the shaman intoxicates himself and he says 'aha it's an ancestor spirit' or 'it's the soul of the plant, but whatever it is it's giving me good information. It's telling me where the reindeer went..what the weather will be next week..who stole the goose..who slept with who..and which of the ill members of my tribe will live and who will die."
"We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world."
— Terence McKenna
The conclusion McKenna comes to when you research his Timewave Zero theory of why we reach that endpoint or singularity in time is that man invents time travel, thus making time irrelevant in the dimensional term we think of now. Which really blew my mind considering he came up with this theory over 15+ years ago. Then we have Cern LHC announcing last week they may use that atom-smasher for time-travel experimentation!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-512733/The-worlds-time-machine-Tunnel-past-open-door-future-months-say-Russians.html
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