Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

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[NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence Kenna.]

"The good. What is it? Tricky, tricky, tricky. The true. What is it? Trickier, even trickier. The beautiful. What is it? Easy to discern. The beautiful is easy to discern. You are going to be condemned to live out the consequences of your taste."

"Beauty is downloaded into the human cultural milieu largely through dreams."

"On a planet where hundreds of millions of people are starving, the obligation upon the conscious people near the control surfaces, near the levers of the human machine is immense."

"When I say psychedelic I have something very specific in mind that a substance or a plant should do. It should not inhibit clarity, in other words not episodes of forgetfulness, lack of memory, passing out or confusion. It shouldn’t interfere with that, and it should transform thought. And it should be accompanied by visual hallucinations with eyes closed."

"The biggest danger with psychedelics is that while you are in that open state some moron will mess with you."

"Matter is not lacking in magic. Matter is magic."

"At bedrock, the universe is more like a DMT flash than it is like an 18th century garden party, as we were previously assured by the practitioners of science."

"An incredible ability to not register radical change seems to be a precondition of existing in the presence of radical change."

"But if I’m right, that the universe has an appetite for novelty, then we are the apple of its eye. … You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose, to add to the complexity. Your enemy, disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness."

"The psychedelic community is cleverly invisible. Because our choices in gender expression, fashion, and so on have, by crypto-osmosis, come to dominate the values of the culture, we can no longer tell ourselves from straight people."

"Basically, when you smoke DMT what happens is pure confoundment."

"DMT does not provide ‘an’ experience which you analyze. Nothing so tidy goes on. The syntactical machinery of description undergoes some kind of hyperdimensional inflation, instantly. And then you cannot tell yourself what it is that you understand. In other words, what DMT does can’t be downloaded into as low dimensional a language as English."

"One toke [of DMT] away is this absolutely reality-dissolving, catagory-reconstructing, mind-boggling possibility. And I feel like this is a truth that has to be told."

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from pg. 20 of the December issue of the BBC’s new magazine Knowledge; available here and from the original journal source here

“Space:

Life from Venus could be blown to Earth by solar winds. The atmosphere above Venus contains chemicals that are consistent with the presence of microorganisms and these could be blown into Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists at Cardiff University in Wales say this will happen when the Sun, Earth and Venus are suitably aligned- this will next happen in 2012.”

Now, if that doesn’t say Novelty, I don’t know what does!! I think our teacher Terrence would rank that pretty high on the Novelty index (nothing less than the transfer of extraterrestrial life to this planet & all the potential evolutionary/ environmental impacts one can extrapolate from something like this) Don’t you agree?

Question is though, would this be among those extremely and exponentially novel final moments before we meet the Eschaton (as described by TM) or within the 11 or so months prior during 2012 when novelty is being ratcheted higher and higher? If not within those hugely creative last moments, then how grand could the last developments of our final throws be?

We dreamers, artists, psychics and psychonauts can now see a time when we will stand side by side, with the most pragmatic scientists and (hopefully) policy makers among us, in agreement of our understanding of the mystery of Experience! I suggest that that is the trans-formative change we all desperately seek.

The chatter is getting louder and louder as our bard has put it! Keep watch for signs… even or especially from science!

Thank you Lorenzo for the Psychedelic Salon. I firmly believe you are doing some of the best work on the frontier of awakening humankind.

Love and Light,

Elvin

NYC

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   I  and Happy new year for you Lorenzo and all “Saloners”!!!

   To a great year beginning here is another Mckenna talk that I converted into mp3.

This one was in Seattle 1999. Was one of the last talks (if not the very last one) of the great man.

It is called  psychedelics in the Age of Intelligent Machines.

Hope you liked!

Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/178715741/
mckenna_Psychedelics_In_The_Age_Of_Intelligent_Machines.mp3

And for you all, again, a Fantastic 2009!!!

Miguel Fernandes

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Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Abbie Hoffman, Gregory Corso, and Diane Di Prima(?)

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"There are no bad drugs. There are simply people who don’t know how to use them. Intelligent people use drugs intelligently, and stupid people are going to abuse drugs the way they abuse everything else. And our function is to raise the level of intelligence. We have to have a program of drug education." –Timothy Leary

"I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made." –Allen Ginsberg

[NOTE: The following quotes are all by Terence McKenna.]

"To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances." –Terence McKenna

"It occurs to me that at any given moment, because of the way the planet is as a thing, some percentage of human beings are asleep, always, and many are awake. And so if the world soul is made of the collective consciousness of human beings, then it is never entirely awake. It is never entirely asleep. It exists in some kind of indeterminate zone."

"Technology, or the historical momentum of things, is creating such a bewildering social milieu that the monkey-mind cannot find a simple story, a simple creation myth, or redemption myth, to lay over the crazy, contradictory patchwork of profane techno-consumerist, post McLuanist, electronic, pre-apocalyptic existence."

"I believe that the truth of the matter is far more terrifying [than conspiracy theories]. The real truth that dare not speak itself is that no one is in control. Absolutely no one!"

"The global destiny of the [human] species is somehow unfolding with the logic of a dream."

"The carrier of the field of the cosmic giggle in most people’s lives is love. Love is some kind of output which messes with the entropic tendency toward probabilistic behavior in Nature."

"The primary contribution of 20th century thinking, if you will, is to have understood, finally, that information is primary. That this world, this cosmos, this universe, this body and soul are all made of information. … The implication for the digerati is that reality can therefore be hacked."

The Butterfly Hunter by Klea McKenna

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Psychedelic Salon Forum at TheGrowReport.com

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     Hi Lorenzo! 

  First of all I want to congratulate you for the great work on the Psychedelic Salon! It´s awesome!

  I´m an attentive listener from Portugal. I`m also a great fan of the bard Mckenna. His lectures are  absolutely fascinating to me. In relation to that, I recently convert a video to mp3 from his lecture in San Francisco “Dream Awake”, you probably heard this before on one of many links in circulation on the net, but the version(in circulation) of this particular lecture ends on the 34 minute mark, and since I`ve heard this talk it stimulate my curiosity to find out more about it. And recently after many hours searching I found the complete video of the lecture, it has the duration of 2 hours. It has the same structure of the other single Mckenna talks:he talks for about 1hour-  break  -questions from the audience for another hour, and in my opinion it was the most inspiring single talk that i`ve ever heard of him (discounting the weekend workshops)  I`ve upload the mp3 file to Rapidshare.com. Feel free to post it on the Psychedelic Salon. It`s good to spread hope on this planet.

Here is the link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/175138879/Dream_Awake.mp3

 Keep up the good work. Cheers from Portugal

PS-Dream Awake December 13, 1998

Miguel Fernandes

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