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Terence McKenna Explored — Part 2: Psychedelics and the Evolution of Thought
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It's not as hard as it seems. Are you ready to start this day off? Are you ready to start off this evening? Maybe you're ready to end this day. Whatever it is. I'm happy to be with you. I'm happy you're here. Thank you for taking just a few moments to hang out with me. I missed you guys. I missed you. I'm sure you missed me too. Right? Come on. It's all right. Well, we are going to continue today with our spot lot on Boulevard.
This week is one of my favorite terms. McKenna, you know him, I know him. We love him. Let us start off with a little bit of some of Terrence's thoughts here. We'll go through a couple quotes. Then we'll jump into an article and I'm sure I'll stop from time to time just to tell you my thoughts on it. Are you ready? Let's do it in James Joyce's. Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus tells us history is the nightmare from which I am trying to awaken.
Humanity correctly seen in the context of the last 500 years is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization. We put it through mental filters and we extrude jewelry, gospels space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals and embedded in a technological reef of extruded, psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.
That tool, could it be the flying saucer or the soul exteriorized in three dimensional space. The body can become an internalized holographic object embedded in a solid state, hyper dimensional matrix that is eternal so that we each wander through a true Elysium. The English poet, mystic William Blake said that as one starts into the spiral, there is the possibility of falling from the golden track until eternal death.
Light is composed of photons, which have no antiparticle. This means that there is no dualism in the world of light. The only experience of time that one can have is of a subjective time that is created by one's own mental processes. But in relationship to the Newtonian universe, there is no time. What so ever the one mind contains all experiences of the other.
We should try to assimilate and integrate the psychedelic exper