#Terrence McKenna

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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

(Source: From his February 25, 1991 speech 'The Archaic Revival'/ Books: The Archaic Revival)

[Philo Thoughts]

#Terrence McKenna #PhiloThoughts #quotes #culture

[theidealistphilosophy]

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

Terence McKenna, Source Unlisted.

#philosophy tumblr #philoblr #ethology #mystic #philosopher #author #thinker #terrence mckenna #analytical psychology #archetypes #existentialism #jungian psychology #order and chaos #ego #the unconscious #dark academia #life quotes

[abonbons]

Magic Mushroom

Day 29 Theme Cryptic

Thank you for following along on my Funguary adventure! I had so much fun and learned a ton! Thank you @feefal for hosting such a great event!

I leave you with the full Terence McKenna quote 🍄

“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

#abonbons #funguary #funguary2024 #digital sketchbook #artists on tumblr #fantasy #portrait #mushrooms #terrence mckenna #digital art

[cobotis]

My whole love and respect is for the person who accepts himself totally, as he is. He has courage... He has courage to face the whole pressure of the society which is bent upon splitting him into divisions —into good and bad, into saint and sinner... He is really a brave, courageous being who stands against the whole history of man, of morality, and declares to the skies his reality, whatever it is...

~ Osho

#osho #terrence mckenna #authencity #integrity

[vcasih]

thank u angels @poesimark & @vvolkulja for tagging me to post my nine fav films! (was super difficult to choose so these may not be my favorites but rather films that rly had an impact on me / my worldview / my taste! in no particular order btw)

i tag @venusmoon @cxnthie @biopolitique if u feel like it ofc!! <3

#film #fav #vera chytilova #sedmikrásky #terrence mckenna #the tree of life #lars von trier #dogville #charlie kaufman #synecdoche new york #don hertzfeldt #it’s such a beautiful day #harmony korine #gummo #andrea arnold #american honey #ingmar bergman #wild strawberries #wim wenders #wings of desire #tag game

[samuelfarrand]

SPYROGEA 🌀🏵

Made with Illustrator & Photoshop

Artist Info

#visionary art #acid trip #colorful #trippy art #psychedelic art #dmt art #pretty #ayahuasca #samuel farrand #tetramode #entheogens #psytribe #psytrance #terrence mckenna #machine elves

[airbrickwall]

#truth #terrence mckenna #bullshit #truth and lies

[protoslacker]

[W]e are prosthetic devices for these machines. We are their eyes and ears in the world. We provide the code. We provide the constraints. We build the hardware. It is a relationship of mutual benefit. It’s not entirely clear that our contribution will always be creative—in the sense that our primate hand will be on the tiller of existence as it has been—but certainly we are part of this equation of transformation that is making itself felt.

Terrence McKenna at The Library of Conscuousness. PSYCHEDELICS IN THE AGE OF INTELLIGENT MACHINES April 22, 1999

Terence's last public appearance before falling seriously ill to brain cancer a month later. A techno-centric evening (alternately titled Shamans Among the Machines) in which he explores the inevitable merging of humanity with its AI offspring.

My Internet connectionhas been on the fritz for about a week. I discovered a sound file of this lecture on my computer, It's amazing the lecture is nearly 25 years old.

#terrence mckenna #ai #extensions of man

[sataniccapitalist]

#capitalism #terrence mckenna

[mycochaotix]

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Pic 1: patreon screen shot, text: “Okay. Turns out what Ive thought was Mckennai in my library has been umbo…

This whole time …. Lol. Since like May of 2023. Sigh. Long adventure to realize this. My mistake as I havent seen McKennai in person yet nor Umbo… well now ive seem Umbo i guess lol.

Pics are current harvest of Umbo that ive been calling mckennai. Turns out none of my swabs labeled mckennai are that. They r umbo. So note That if you havent any ‘mckennai’ labeled spore art from me.

Beautiful fruits though… pics are current harvest, last pic is the F0 parent fruits i swabbed. Current harvest is F1 fruits , got green nipple pigment… seems pheno variance to me so far. Confirming with my mycomentor though.”

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Pic 2: flush of the Umbo, but is mosty green pigmented nipples, unique pheno from the parent fruits

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Pic 3: the parent fruits i swabbed, took to plate, and the tub in pic 2 is an F0 isolate from the tub in pic 3

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Im gonna try and stabilize the nippliest cap with greenest pigment. “Umbo-Green Nip” I shall nickname it 🤣🍄

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Follow on this mycojourney! for more:

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#mycology #magic mushies #microbiology #mold #60s psychedelia #lgbtqia #lgbtqia2s #lgbtqia2s+ #myc #enby #umbo #mckennai #terrence mckenna #cubensis #i make mistakes too #queer #trans

[lastwordsofdutchschultz]

Joseph Beuys Wire Tap, 1998

(Thegn Penrose, Digital, 2023)

this is a thing I made recently relating to Joseph Beuys, Shamanism, Alchemy, and some pseudo-spiritual ideas I have about the internet and its origins in telecom in the 1990s. I might make more related to this, but who knows. since I had a deadline for the project it isn't all I wanted it to be, but it allowed me to sperg out about Joseph Beuys to people in my class that didn't care, so that's alright. I'm especially interested in the belief that Terrence Mckenna had in technological singularity and the internet before he died. McKenna believed that a technological singularity would provide the redemption of the spirit through matter prophesied in the hermetic tradition. This belief seems very out of place now, but in the 1990s it was considered perfectly logical.

formally it draws heavily on La Jetee (you absolutely have to check it out if you haven't yet, it's only 30 minutes and available on youtube), and the work of janet cardiff. I'll probably make a post about her some day, because she's a really interesting artist. she mostly makes installations, but they focus a lot on sound and physical spaces, so I was thinking of her a lot when mixing the audio. her work is very creepy and interesting, but honestly, it can only be fully experienced in person.

all that you really need to know is that the text-to-speech program in this video is recounting Joseph Beuys' story of crashing in Crimea during World War II. he had been drafted into the Luftwaffe and ended up crashing, after which, according to him, he was taken in by nomadic Tatars, who nursed him back to life using animal fat and sheets of felt. this story is probably not literally true and was either made up as part of his self-myth or hallucinated. later, after the war was over he became an artist, and like a lot of his german contemporaries was consumed by guilt and an overriding postmodern fear that whatever trauma they had inflicted upon humanity would stifle all meaning in human life. he and other artists like Anselm Kiefer, (who, not at all coincidentally was also interested in alchemy) were terrified of the urge to forget and suppress the memory of the holocaust and believed that without proper healing no actual progress could be achieved.

he is known for his especially pessimistic work in the 1950s and 60s that focused on trauma, the dissolution of humans as living beings and subjects, and a fixation on Auchwitz. following this he leaned more into his belief in alchemy and felt that through his ritualistic practices, much like the tatars healed him, he could heal the large scale trauma in the world around him. his attitude at this time was very sincere and earnest, and was accompanied by a strong involvement in the West German anti-war and anti-nuclear movements. some people would see his early involvement with the Green Party, for instance, as out of character or wacky, but it actually fits beautifully within his belief that great art would accompany meaningful material change in the world.

anyway, I'm rambling. I will not get into my ideas about the early internet yet. some day.

#video art #experimental #sizz #black and white #youtube #postmodern art #shamanism #alchemy #terrence mckenna #video #world war ii #contemporary art #art #anselm kiefer #germany #analog horror #Youtube #post war #cold war #telephone #dial up #early internet

[theidealistphilosophy]

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

Terence McKenna, Source Unlisted.

#philosophy tumblr #philoblr #author #writer #writerscommunity #intellectual #mystic #philosopher #terrence mckenna #metaphysics #conuintio oppositorun #depth psychology #analytical psychology #dark academia #life quotes

[gravityofforteana]

“We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.” — Terence McKenna

#terrence mckenna #et #ufo

[mouth-almighty]

#Big Bird #sesame street #terrence mckenna

[alchemisoul]

"Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed."

- Terence McKenna

#emma goldman #anarchist memes #anarchism #philosophy #terrence mckenna #psychonaut #kierkegaard #leap of faith #philosophy memes #fortune favors the brave #fortune favors the bold

[sausagevendor]

Reposts, probably.

#terrence mckenna #mckenna #terrence #mushrooms #magic mushrooms #meme #take it easy #but take it #quote #quotation #ideologies #ideology #barrel blur