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Terence McKenna: another egomaniac
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I have been listening to Terence McKenna mp3s at work again lately. I have a job where i can just listen to shit all day if I want to.

I am not liking him so much anymore. My main beef with him these days is how he keeps describing his own trips as though they are "the" trips. He says what he experiences on each drug and then says well that is what people in general experience and that just isn't so. He says mushrooms are about alien intelligence and show visions of huge machines orbiting planets in outer space. No Terence. That is what you see because you are a fan of science fiction. I mean sometimes that is what I see on Mushrooms, but usually I see all sorts of different things, and the trip is always different. I hate that. I hate that he projects his own experiences.

In another recording today he had the nerve to criticize another famous author's descriptions of the psychedelic dimension as being exactly the same only with cars that are 9' wide. Screw you Terence. If that is what that guy experiences that is what he experiences. Terence McKenna was totally full of himself as much as he liked to posture humility.


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: question_for_joo]
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been a while since anyone mentioned him, after McKenna, 2012 is again on repertoire


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: question_for_joo]
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I agree


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: question_for_joo]
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This thread is stupid. Why fault Terence McKenna for anything. It sounds to me like the guy pretty much gave his all. The way you are describing the way he acts isn't really how he acted at all. He did share his experiences and told what he felt, but never did he say or act like there is one thing to be perceived. What's the point of trashing someone other people like. Why not trash people who actually deserve it, there's plenty to choose from.

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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Yeah but his trips are 'the trips' in our subconscious mind.  Since he was tripping when we were all cum in our daddies balls and eggs in our mommies wombs, his earlier trips greatly affect the character of our trips via imprinting through collective unconscious. 

He isn't an egomaniac. 

:rolleyes:


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: tomk]
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No my trips are THE TRIPS in my mind. I venture to say that I have tripped as much or more and as intensely or more as he ever did. I have eaten more acid, San Pedro, Huasca, Peyote, or shrooms than anyone I know.

"Since he was tripping when we were all cum in our daddies balls and eggs in our mommies wombs, his earlier trips greatly affect the character of our trips via imprinting through collective unconscious."

I am not a babe in diapers exactly.


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"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: tomk]
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I have had similar thoughts about Terrence myself. Love him... Hate him... And allow him to think what he likes and life could/might be much simpler. We're involved in the same projections of how things are with almost very post, so don't be so hard on him/yourself. Just as terrence wanted a sci-fi alien world and did his best to gather support for that paradigm, you too are gathering support in favour of your argument. This is cool.

I think it would be quite boring and drye to talk always in terms that don't actually give yourself any credit of knowing anything or fully believing in anything. Just propositions and ideas without actually connecting any real emotional self to it. zzzzzz

Maybe you actually desire acceptance to speak in a similar manner because when you do you start building up a collective belief that supports creating the world you want. In this very statement I have just done the exact same thing as well. Without saying "you will experience this if you swallow this pill" you're not actually offering anything that anybody can really do anything with.

We're all walking talking contradictions.


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: iambobby]
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I would love to do Huasca (you mean a dmt brew?)

I deleted Terrence a while back for similar judgements of him. I thought "this guy has fixed ideas of tripping" and since when does tripping have limitations? Seeya...


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: iambobby]
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Without Terrence however, I would never have searched the woods to find the bark to make dmt that opened my mind to new dimensions. I too experienced the feeling of talking alien gibberish and many other things he predetermined for me but I also realised there is more then the boundaries he has talked about.


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: iambobby]
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"I would love to do Huasca (you mean a dmt brew?)"

Yeah...it was homebrew Ayahuasca, but properly made. It is unlike any other entheogen due to it's sound component. Imagine shrooms with powerful auditory hallucinations. The downside is about 15 minutes of very intense puking and shitting...often at the same time. The first time I did it I ended up in a MacDonalds restroom blowing it out both ends. The shit that comes out stinks bad. It smells like ayahuasca-shit. After this phase is is very comfortable. Read "Ayahuasca Analogues" by Ott for info.


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"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det...ks&n=507846


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"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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Jesus, what were you doing in McDonalds on DMT!?!?!??!?!?! Holy shit, literally!!!! Now that is one trip report I'd love to come across...

I've smoked it and obviously gone through the wall, so to speak but it all happens so quickly I feel I need more time in there to chill out and try and comprehend what is going down. I feel this would be available through an Ayahuasca experience. Terrence said that "if you control you're breathing well" or something like that "you can peep through" and experience the fullness of what you would have when smoking it.

I have definately noticed a correlation between breathing and the DMT trip. Like as I breath out I am noticing the trip alter, almost feeling as if I hold my breath things would remain the same. Have you experienced anything like that or have I just grabbed that from terrence and made it my reality?

I haven't done it in ages and to me its like "holy fucking sap, I respect you DMT!!!" and not something I reach for very easily. My close friend has just made a new batch that he has supplied me enough for about 30 trips and to be honest, I'm a little scared. What I've seen/experienced and heard through the 3 times I've done it was enough to make me believe in everything I didn't believe in and it was virtually life shattering for me. So now, I'm looking forward to keeping it and blowing some minds... like my Mums for example hehehe...


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: iambobby]
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I've been a science fiction maniac for ages, probably why I enjoy his stuff so much. Regardless of validity, or application of any of what he says, it captivates me.


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to manifest another.

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: AvatarofAtavism]
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TM is like any other human. I keep saying this about gurus and everyone else peple put up on a pedistal. You take what works and you can verify for yourself and dump the rest. It's all about you finding YOUR path, not his or anyone elses. But if he has some ignorant things to say and you throw it all away, you miss the help he can give you. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: question_for_joo]
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yep, not quite an egomaniac but he was a crazy bastard.


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: Icelander]
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Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

What baby? Did you just make this up?


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: Swami]
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I make it all up Swami. Comedian, chameleon, Corinthian, and caricature. :mushroom2:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: question_for_joo]
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When McKenna talked like his trips were "The Trip", it was because he was being taken over by mushrooms...

So in a sense, he was correct. :crazy:


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: alsey]
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alsey said:
yep, not quite an egomaniac but he was a crazy bastard.


How was he crazy? I would think since you didn't give any examples that he wasn't crazy but you were ignorant. But whatever, I'm not going to keep bitching about what might take years to learn. Maybe I'm ahead of the curve for knowing McKenna was a true genius, even if all he thought could be was wrong, and people like you are hacks.

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: sox24]
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I'm a big TM fan. He liked adventure, he was a bit of a scientist, he liked people and had a good heart/spirit, he could trip balls, he explored inner space and reported back. If he was incorrect about a lot of things that's to be expected.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: tomk]
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tomk said:
Yeah but his trips are 'the trips' in our subconscious mind.  Since he was tripping when we were all cum in our daddies balls and eggs in our mommies wombs, his earlier trips greatly affect the character of our trips via imprinting through collective unconscious. 

He isn't an egomaniac. 

:rolleyes:


:smile: :thumbup:


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: Jabbawaya]
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That is such a strange notion. I know it's not your idea so I don't want to say you sound like an idiot but I mean consider that native societies of Mexico, central and south america have been regularly using mushrooms and other natural hallucinogens for uh, well, only about several thousand years before Terence McKenna was himself ever a sperm in his daddie's nuts.

If people influence the collective unconscious or whatever you are suggesting then just by the weight of statistics the amount of influence anyone from modern times has on the ongoing trip experience is probably the same as the influence one ant has on the topography of a desert.

I throw the whole idea away though. My trips are my trips and Terence McKenna's trips are his trips and they have little to do with each other besides the general change psylocybin has on the human brain. The specifics of our trips and the meanings behind them are unique to each individual and it offends me when I hear Terence McKenna explaining specifically what each drug does to me. It's not even something worthy of debate because it's just not right, I don't experience hyperbolic machine elves or whatever the hell he describes, that's just not correct, end of debate.


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: question_for_joo]
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Its healthy to have a selective vision/hearing/intake of whatever, when dealing with life. Without it, the infinite could be somewhat overwhelming... You get offended for Terrence limiting the psychedelic experience while others get offended for you limiting the TM one.

Around and around it goes until we realise we're talking the same intention with different variables. Now when I hear really out there stuff I take it as entertainment and not an offense. I just think "wow how different to be in his world!" and at the same time I get a really strong feeling we're actually experiencing the same thing.

Is it any more correct to say what is correct then to say you will experience visuals of xeegoogaguniche combined with the overwhelming sensation of zeepligny?? I think not yes maybe.


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: iambobby]
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I'm not following you but all I can say is I am not limiting anything. Terence McKenna is limiting things and it offends me because he passes himself off not just as an entertainer but as some sort of superior authority on the significance behind the psychedelic experience.

Terence McKenna says:
well Datura trips are all about magic
and DMT trips are all about the circus archetype
and Mushroom trips are all about alien intelligence and the apocalypse
etc. etc.

what he should be saying is
usually my Datura trips are about magic
and usually my DMT trips are all about the circus
etc..etc..

I respect the guy for a lot of reasons and he has a real gift with language and communication but to what he says as absolute stuff about this and that just reeks of projection of his own personal quirks and interests and that kind of projection is a symptom of having a big ego.


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: iambobby]
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Yeah if you think about it wherever you take up your vision, you are reading the next line in the story. Even the distractions and all that. Every book is about the same thing, using language like fluid to wrap around it. Every author used the here and now to right his book.

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Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.


Exactly! Whew if only people understood this concept and could apply it to their lives.

Ummmm... Reread and listen to Terrence McKenna. You are talking about the same thing. We are all, always talking about the same thing. You don't follow Bobby because you don't want to, you won't give what he says a chance. Think about it. You are limiting Terrence by saying he said the trips are only a certain way. I think, were he alive, he would without a doubt say that not all his DMT trips were a circus. In fact, I know he knows set and setting, so just chill. Don't take anything for everything, words are never set in stone. As others say take what want. You only miss out when you throw it all away and label Terrence as an egomaniac. All you could do is listen and try and learn or you could reject and disagree ith it and LEARN NOTHING. I still don't know where you get that he put it in stone what happens when you trip. This is crazy to think, and all the McKenna stuff I have read and listened to does not support what you say.

Edited by mecreateme (08/19/05 08:26 PM)

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: mecreateme]
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ok well I don't have the time or energy to begin transcribing his lengthy recordings but I have listened to a lot of them from the hemperor's page and the series that bugged me the most is called Tree of Knowledge.  He always gives the same story when he talks about DMT though, in every mp3 I've heard where he talks about DMT.  "A person on DMT goes to the inside of a flying saucer where self-dribbling jeweled basketballs come near and they vomit forth extraterrestrial toys that resemble faberge eggs...." Now I have never done DMT so I can't comment if this matches my own experience or not but where he does describe tripping experiences on other drugs it only matches what i have experienced on occasion, about what probability alone would predict, so i'm highly skeptical about his DMT description as being what others experience, and it's very convinient that the one he is the most specific about as being a fixed repeating tripping experience is the drug that is most difficult to obtain and most difficult to remember.

I don't throw away all his ideas.  I agree with a hell of a lot of what he says but I mean it's more interesting to me to discuss the things that I don't agree with than to be another pothead talking like "dood!  terence mckenna was smart!" :stoned:


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: question_for_joo]
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For sure, I am all for group learning. I like to question to help people along their way. It is called the Socratic Method.

Did he ever say that all experiences are this? It is the same thing that happens. Did he explicitly state that all experiences are the same, because this seems to be what you are perturbed by so much? I have never heard him say anything to that degree. Language is very fluid, what is alien abduction is mystical religious to another. Those are only labels that someone can place on it. I think he is only trying to sort of convey what it could be like. Cmon, the guy was a big tripper, he had to know, he was in the know, he was far in. Smart guy, I like him.

I also like Tim Leary. I hear so many people say how he was so crazy, and always just go,"oh you know he was crazy as hell when he was old, all that acid." I have many Leary books and I get all of them I can get my hands on and all his material is actually fairly scientific. Forgive the turn on, tune in, drop out, but hell that was in the 60s.
He also puts words around the psychedelic experience very well. He wrote some of my favorite trip reports ever in High Priest. He also came up with good material into the 80s and 90s. I don't think he was ever crazed by acid as soooo many claim. It almost seems a popular thing to bash Leary.

Another psychedelic hero I enjoy, that not many people know about, is John Lilly. In fact, his books are very, very hard to find. However, his work is excellent. People in power do not want most to get a hold of Programming and Metaprogramming the Human Biocomputer.


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You are everything's way of feeling itself.

Happy Schwag, everygodly!

Edited by mecreateme (08/19/05 10:13 PM)

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: question_for_joo]
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McKenna liked The Rolling Stones and the Dead. He was cool, you just don't get it.

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: question_for_joo]
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question_for_joo said:
I'm not following you but all I can say is I am not limiting anything.  Terence McKenna is limiting things and it offends me because he passes himself off not just as an entertainer but as some sort of superior authority on the significance behind the psychedelic experience.


It offends you? If you are at a point where the attitudes and expessions of a person that you only indirectly know of actually causes yourself offense and a disruption of your state of mind, then perhaps you have a lot more to learn from your psychadelic experiences. :wink:

You are limiting the entire existance of a human being by deciding what image they passed themselves off as, when that notion is more based in how you personally interpret others and their expressions than any actual insight into the inner personality and the intents and motivations of that person.

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :satansmoking:
Peace. :mushroom2:


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If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
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Loving every breath of you
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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: fireworks_god]
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just stick to this rule of thumb:
NEVER TRUST PEOPLE WHO"VE DONE ACID!!!AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
<runs around and bitch slaps a pink elephant with a smelly turtle tortilla>

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: question_for_joo]
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Terence McKenna, to the public, was above all, a performance artist. If you don't feel as though you benefit from his prose, then change the fucking channel.

You sound bitter to me, for one reason or another... maybe of his iconic status, or something else, I don't know. It's really not all that becoming, though.

What Terence did was Terence's art, it was his niche, it was his prose. I don't see you here reprimanding John Lennon, saying "Wait, wait, John! Just one minute! Woman isn't THE Nigger of the World. That's just the way you see it! I demand you change it to "I think, in my subjective opinion, that Woman is A Nigger of the World!".. Awfully selective, you are.

To be displeased with the objectifying manner in which he spoke - It's IMPLIED in our faculty of speech that our descriptions are flimsy, subjective subsequents of our experience... Realize this as such, it will help you along to insurmountable distances.

Don't shoot the messenger.  :thumbup:

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: mecreateme]
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I also like Tim Leary. I hear so many people say how he was so crazy, and always just go,"oh you know he was crazy as hell when he was old, all that acid." I have many Leary books and I get all of them I can get my hands on and all his material is actually fairly scientific. Forgive the turn on, tune in, drop out, but hell that was in the 60s.
He also puts words around the psychedelic experience very well. He wrote some of my favorite trip reports ever in High Priest. He also came up with good material into the 80s and 90s. I don't think he was ever crazed by acid as soooo many claim. It almost seems a popular thing to bash Leary.




Great post! I am also a fan of Leary. The Politics of Ecstacy is one of my favorite books. He did his part to kick start a lot of change in this country. People blame them if they turned out to be human and not Gods. :tongue: It's really not his fault if most of the users coundn't handle the knowledge gained and had to go back into fear based living. Acid efected me forever. If it had been up to others it would have been only for the elite few in the spiritual in crowd.

It is popular to bash these pioneers after one has had the benefit of their work. How lame. These people tell us how stupid they were and offer up noting of their own. Pure envy and spite.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

Edited by Icelander (08/20/05 06:26 AM)

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: TubOlucinogens]
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Quote:
Don't shoot the messenger.

 




Right! :thumbup:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: Icelander]
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I've always thought of Mckenna as a conspiracy theorist at best. I totally understand what Joo is saying about him thinking how his experiences are THE experiences as it is very obviously implied in his speech and writing. My Dmt and shroom experiences are like nothing he's described so when I hear of his descriptions I just think 'yeah whatever man.'

What annoys me is when people idolise him without question, and attack anyone who critises him. Seriously, don't take him so seriously.


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: ninjapixie]
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What annoys me is when people idolise him without question, and attack anyone who critises him. Seriously, don't take him so seriously.
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Of course.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: Icelander]
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It is popular to bash these pioneers after one has had the benefit of their work. How lame. These people tell us how stupid they were and offer up noting of their own. Pure envy and spite.

I remember Alan Watts saying that when we try to describe reality, we can only talk in negatives. That is, we can only say what reality isn't as it is impossible to say what reality actually is. Therefore, saying someone's beliefs are wrong and offering no alternative isn't a bad thing to do at all.


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: ninjapixie]
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Then have at it. :mushroom2:


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: ninjapixie]
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ninjapixie said:
I remember Alan Watts saying that when we try to describe reality, we can only talk in negatives. That is, we can only say what reality isn't as it is impossible to say what reality actually is. Therefore, saying someone's beliefs are wrong and offering no alternative isn't a bad thing to do at all.


All right, then, what isn't reality? :smirk:

I think the point is to directly experience what reality is, so that what reality is will be self-evident. :grin:

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :satansmoking:
Peace. :mushroom2:


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If I should die this very moment
I wouldn't fear
For I've never known completeness
Like being here
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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: mecreateme]
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Another psychedelic hero I enjoy, that not many people know about, is John Lilly.
A dozen books, many scientific papers written and two movies about him and his work and no one has heard of him? :rofl2:

People in power do not want most to get a hold of Programming and Metaprogramming the Human Biocomputer.
Yeah, the powers that be are afraid of ketamine delusions. :rofl:


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: Swami]
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Uhhmmm...Ever read Scientist: An Autobiography? Lilly was not into Ketamine until later in his life. Programming was written after a period of legal LSD use combined with isolation tanks. At least rip on something you know.

Wow, I can't believe you said I said no one has heard of him. Get your reading skills checked. I think you even quoted it... Wtf? Did you read the quote? "that not many people know about"(wow quote myself!) Is that no one? Man, Swami, take your pot shots more clearly.

And yes, not may people I know of have heard of John Lilly. I treasure the friends I can find that have ever heard of his work cause they can usually give some good conversation.


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: mecreateme]
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OK, I stand corrected: millions of people is "not very many".

LSD delusion or ketamine delusion: neither one scares any government. E.C.C. (Earth Coincidence Control) is pure fiction.

Lilly was not into Ketamine until later in his life.
False. He first experimented with it in the '60s. Due to the success of his personal metaprogramming, he morphed into a full-blown ketamine addict later in life.


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: question_for_joo]
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I do like Terence Mckenna, but I see your point.

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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: Swami]
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How many people have you spoke to in real life conversation about Lilly? Unless I was in a psychedelic inclined environment, i.e. festival or workshop or whatever, I have not found very many people that know of Lilly. Many tripper friends have never heard of the guy. At least you could give some respect to Lilly and not mix up his works, especially if you have read his work. So he experimented with Ketamine once, so now his LSD papers are ketamine delusions? Wow, you throw so much knowledge away it is incredible.

So can I get an answer? A simple yes or no will do. Or do I have to wait for pages upon pages... I only asked a simple question. I would think any fluffernaut could answer it.


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: mecreateme]
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So he experimented with Ketamine once,
He injected ketamine multiple times every day for almost a year.

Wow, you throw so much knowledge away it is incredible.
Throw away? Fiction is NOT knowledge. Believing we are controlled by inter or supra-dimensional galactic beings has no basis in fact. Lilly went to the funny farm for a while and NOT because world leaders quaked before his unveiled "truth".


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: Swami]
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He injected ketamine multiple times every day for almost a year.

You wanna start argueing about timeline, and about nuances of language. You are not looking back and considering what has already been said. I see more stroking... :sherm: Do you really wanna make conversation or just be a meanie? I recognized this fact, ohhh a couple of posts ago. As I read it it happened in the 80s. I again ask you, does experimenting with ketamine a few times in the 60s make his book that was written mainly with the influence of LSD and isolation tanks a ketamine delusion? I bet I won't get an answer(or is that the magic phrase!?!)

Fiction is NOT knowledge
I don't know about you, but I experience and learn even when I read fiction. Experience is experience, whether it happened or not. Once you have understood that something can happen that is one more step towards embracing it if it does happen, not to say it will.

Please put not more words in mouths.

You know I think we can get five or more pages on this, seeing as how Swami doesn't answer people's questions. I ask again, can the question be answered or will we be forced to play this out on the playground? I hate when grown people resort to child politics.


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Re: Terence McKenna: another egomaniac [Re: question_for_joo]
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question_for_joo said:
I have been listening to Terence McKenna mp3s at work again lately. I have a job where i can just listen to shit all day if I want to.

I am not liking him so much anymore. My main beef with him these days is how he keeps describing his own trips as though they are "the" trips. He says what he experiences on each drug and then says well that is what people in general experience and that just isn't so. He says mushrooms are about alien intelligence and show visions of huge machines orbiting planets in outer space. No Terence. That is what you see because you are a fan of science fiction. I mean sometimes that is what I see on Mushrooms, but usually I see all sorts of different things, and the trip is always different. I hate that. I hate that he projects his own experiences.

In another recording today he had the nerve to criticize another famous author's descriptions of the psychedelic dimension as being exactly the same only with cars that are 9' wide. Screw you Terence. If that is what that guy experiences that is what he experiences. Terence McKenna was totally full of himself as much as he liked to posture humility.


Well ive experience alternate dimensions on shrooms. Where I am (quantum) AI technology, I am a virtual simulation. I should explian it farther.

What do you all think?

All our trips are collected together in collective consciousness. So no wonder it impacts others psyches.

These drugs allow use the ability to access other reality tunnels.
Reality tunnels are a complex model of collective consciousness.
On how we are all connected, even through alternate dimensions and the thought of us being one collective being. Basically travelling through reality tunnels will expand what you know of time space.

What do you all think?

Edited by Luke (08/21/05 03:21 AM)

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