Barbecued Iguana (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Terence shares his recipe for Ayahuasca and gives guidelines for personal use, including cautions to approach this powerful plant complex with humility. He also recounts hair-raising and fantastic personal encounters with the brew and compares and contrasts it with other entheogens. Includes discussions of Ayahuasca and brain chemistry the importance of sound to the Ayahuasca [...]
Accelerating Future (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Let’s all take a walk with Terence McKenna in the rainforest and talk about psychedelics, shall we? H/t James Sargent.
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The new-agers have been talking for ages about the magic year 2012, which is both the end of the Mayan calendar (ooooh!) and the end of psychedelic guru Terence McKenna's "timewave zero" (aaaah!). The idea is that humanity will shift to some vague higher consciousness, though whether Wall Street is considered part of "humanity" is anyone's guess. Given the new agers'...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... 2012 shtick is a light-fingered (if leaden-humored) rip-off of the late rave-culture philosopher Terence McKenna's stand-up routine, without McKenna's prodigious erudition, effortless eloquence, or arch wit" In a rare public appearance, "Twilight" novelist Stephenie Meyer told Oprah Winfrey more about how she wrote her blockbuster vampire series: ""I...
One Cosmos (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... is therefore "unreal," like an auditory hallucination? Perhaps, so long as we agree with Terence McKenna that there exist true hallucinations . What is it that converts the tone into a note, and the note into a melody? I would suggest that it is the same cosmic force that converts an atom into a molecule, molecule into a cell, and a cell into a body. As discussed somewhere...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... 2012 shtick is a light-fingered (if leaden-humored) rip-off of the late rave-culture philosopher Terence McKenna's stand-up routine, without McKenna's prodigious erudition, effortless eloquence, or arch wit, and Pinchbeck is no exception. For Quetzalcoatl's sake, if you're going to start a religion, at least invent your own cosmology. ...The worst of the 2012 bandwagon, epitomized...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... 2012 shtick is a light-fingered (if leaden-humored) rip-off of the late rave-culture philosopher Terence McKenna’s stand-up routine, without McKenna’s prodigious erudition, effortless eloquence, or arch wit, and Pinchbeck is no exception. For Quetzalcoatl’s sake, if you’re going to start a religion, at least invent your own cosmology. ...The worst of...
Human Under Construction (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
“The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.” — Terence McKenna
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... includes interviews by top experts and thinkers on the subject worldwide, including Marvin Minsky, Terence McKenna, Hans Moravec, Bruce Sterling, Robert Anton Wilson, Richard Seed, Margareth Wertheim, Kirkpatrick Sale, Ralph C. Merkle, Mark Pesce, Ray Kurzweil, Rabbi Youssouf Kazen, Rael and many others. A really fascinating and somewhat potentially terrifying look at what the future...
