What does Jow Forums think of Terence McKenna?

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>1990: "A word has been invented: Meme. M-E-M-E. A meme is not the smallest unit of heredity. A meme is the smallest unit of meaning, of an idea... we as artists are attempting to create memes which enter an environment of other memes that are in competition with each other, and out of this competition of memes, ever more appropriate, adaptive and suitable ideas can gather and link themselves into higher and higher organisms.

>The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

>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.

>Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.

>You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding

>If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan

>The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

>Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

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Who's this guy? I kinda like his quotes

Here you go
youtube.com/watch?v=ijA5RHTJaV4&t=27469s

nigga I'm not watching a 12 hour video

a snake in the grass like all other counter culture figures. I remember during one of his lectures he talked about how capitalism and our current state of affairs was the fault of the masculine principle out of control. Which makes no sense because the masculine tends towards order and in our current system chaos abounds. It is clearly the feminine principle that is run crazy as demonstrated by those most feminine of people the jews.
After hearing him make such a simple mistake it made me doubt nearly everything he says. Real easy to twist works of ancient dead alchemists to fit your preferred vision of the world, no one reads them.
He had a hard-on for the divine feminine and wanted to reduce the number of male babies, if I remember correctly as well, fuck him.

Think of it like a book. You don't have to listen to it all at once. But here's a shorter one anyway: youtube.com/watch?v=AiJJ3RS6e6o

Don't swallow the whole pill. Consider what he has to say and compare it to the objective standard.

The only real snake in the grass was Leary. McKenna talked a lot and said a lot but much of his work is productive

In the video the leaf posted above he is shilling for esalen. Fuck him and backers.

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=7obMB0lwnyM
This one is 17 mins and it's my favorite

Bro, the man was one on the most well read on esoteric things. You can't just say fuck him because he wasn't redpilled on womenz. Keep in mind that the feminine divine is 50% of everything

>masculine tends towards order and in our current system chaos abounds. It is clearly the feminine principle that is run crazy as demonstrated by those most feminine of people the jews.
holy fuck you peterson faggots are insufferable

Yes all of his esoteric knowledge and he still buddies up with the likes of Esalen and MAPS. These people are anything but good and kind but the same type of organizations backed by the same bankers that have the same goals as the CIA and every other rotten government and ngo in the word.
All that knowledge and he was still a tool of evil men. The bulk of which is just a bunch of recycled Plato with a bit of woo.
If you want to read hermetic texts read them yourself you don't need to follow this guy around.

One of his main points was that you shouldn't blindly follow leaders, including him. And regardless he's much closer to an artist than a politician. I don't agree with James Joyce's political views either, but that's not the point. Also, the guy was - like all of us - a product of his time. He died in 2000; he didn't know what the world would look like in 2019.

And yes, he did advocate for having two females to each male. But he also explicitly stated that that meant every man would get two women. He was a clever fellow.

youtube.com/watch?v=wC10VWDTzmU

His idea of exponentially increasing complexity is what he'll be remembered for most in 100 years. It's self-evidently true at virtually every level of reality but totally unexplained - and not even recognized as a phenomenon as far as I know - by science.

Jesus Christ dude have a little nuance. Not everyone associated with Esalen was a CIA agent. And so what if they were? What's more important is whether or not what they're saying is compelling.

By the way, Hitler originally joined the Nazi party to spy on it for the German police. The world is a complex place.

pseudo intellectual. Drug advocates are fucking scum that have caused thousands of young and easily manipulated teenagers to fry their brains with hard drugs. I'm not even strictly against drugs but anyone who thinks they had some "enlightenment" or religious experience because they did a few hits of acid is a retard.

I think it's been taken much more seriously since his death but we definitely aren't any closer to finding an explanation. I don't think there's any meaning to any of this without mystery.

>have a little nuance
For a dunce you thinks you can fix metaphysical problems by reducing the number of biological men. Take the kike metaphysically female and in terribly small number but still enough to cause havoc throughout the world.
Sorry I don't have respect for CIA shills who recommend their followers take huge doses of psychedelics while he himself cut his dosage way down. The source on that is his brother if you can find the interview.

whats'it like? needing to apologise for anyting?

You sound scared

DUDE ACID LMAO

>He wanted to reduce male babies

Complete horseshit, he said the male-ego is a wart on human civilization, and that it's not a put down of men both men and women have male-egos, heard of feminists?

Here he is predicting Jow Forums
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>Find your people

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He fucked some pretty hot chicks for a guy who looked and sounded like a garden gnome. And seriously, an old guy high on hallucinogens for days at a time? Imagine the smell.

There's 0 evidence that he's a cia shill, not every interesting thinker is a fascist, and he stopped taking large doses of psychedelics because he lost his nerve, not because he thought it was the wrong thing to do.

You're larping as a boomer conservative because it makes you feel safe.

He thought it'd produce a society of artist hippie pacifist polygamists, instead it created Jow Forums lol

It's amazing what fame and extreme charisma can do for your sex life

I think he actually made that criticism of feminism specifically. Still mostly disagree with him about the male ego thing though. It's not a wart on civilization; it is civilization.

Well... The art-meme's from Jow Forums helped getting current US President into office, or shall I say his rival out of office. The current president holds the all time record for the least amount of war crimes by a sitting US president afaik. So basically the net result was hippie pacifist through art even though it might have been done by people with the opposite in mind.

There's a clip from him somewhere literally predicting someone as Trump as president but I can't find it. He references Alex Jones in that clip as a possible catalyst "that character from Austin is a peculiar fellow"

I know the clip you're talking about, I think he was talking about Ross Perot. Not sure why he said Austin, but Perot was from Texas and it seemed like he was talking about someone who was running for president at the time. Not 100% on that though. As for Trump, you have more faith in him than I have. I think there'll be a major war before he leaves office.

>don't even listen to NPR
Dude not NPR. I gotta have that.

Also, Trump's foreign policy has been pretty atrocious so far. He brought the US to the edge of war with Iran, bombed Syria and continued Obama's bombing campaigns in the middle east.

It was the nineties, things were different then

False, he bombs an empty outhouse once a year in Syria under a praise from NPR. He's not continuing any old campaigns in the middle east, he would get more praise from NPR if he did. He is however not putting a stop to the Saudi/Alq war against Yemen though.

Terence McKenna is a true OG

I smoked way too much weed tonight baka

Obama never bombed Syria at all. And it's just a fact that American foreign policy in the middle east has been more aggressive since Trump took office.
merip.org/2018/02/trumps-drone-surge/

I've done a decent amount of hard drugs, and I've actually had some okay experiences sometimes but nothing that I couldn't have had sober and anyone who thinks they need a shortcut to give them a fake epiphany is actually just a dumb fuck.

If by "hard drugs" you mean psychedelics, you're either a moron or a liar. There's no experience like a psychedelic trip.

What you're saying is fucking idiotic. Do you also regularly get the feeling of a morphine rush without taking morphine?

Well destroying Libya was a bit aggressive, although probably approved by NPR.

Giving the Golan Heights to Israel and moving the capitol to Jerusalem will probably have more far-reaching consequences in the long run. Anyway even if Obama was worse Trump is still abysmally bad

*capital*

Obama called for regime change in Syria and leveled Libya. The guy before him was even worse, and the guys before him similar. You think Trump is faking it and will go to war in Iran, I'm not so sure, because I remember watching this clip when it aired 12 years ago and it still gives me hope:
youtube.com/watch?v=WqA2Hs5dTFM

I think Trump is a conman and has thoroughly sold out to the zionist lobby. I really, really hope that you're right and I'm wrong. But his actions toward Syria and Iran aren't promising.

Awesome vid user

Seems like a good bucko roughly speaking

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Not versed on everything he said, but that machine elf stuff is pure nonsense.

I mean, to my knowledge, he invented how to cultivate shrooms. That's a pretty big thing to be remembered for. He was also an unusually talented orator.

Here is his brother, Dennis, talking on Joe Rogan.

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Who needs psychedelics when the clown world is just one step out the door?

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Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma
Rāma Rāma Hare Hare

Chant till you end up in the cosmic river...

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you are a moron, study jan irvin's work then come back to Jow Forums

Probably a good guy to drink with. If you look into him with any degree of thoroughness you'll find discrepancies that really undermine his over the top pronouncements. And I'm thinking chiefly of the fact he continued to recommend heroic doses of psychedelics years after he'd ceased using them himself, but chose to keep that fact to himself. That is pretty cheezy; encouraging impressionable people to toy with extremely powerful psychoactives. You know, like practice what you preach. His brother wrote a book, read it.

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