Sage: Terrence McKenna

[drumminmama]

We lost Terrence and his physical conduit to Spirit, but Archaic Revival is possibly a top ten most important book in the English Language.
obligatory wiki here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_mckenna
why I think he needs a spot in our discourse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominator_culture
and this land o links:
http://deoxy.org/mckenna.htm

Although I'm trailing on timewave zero, (i'm lost in jeweled machine elves for now) I believe that his theories, flaky as they are, have that kernel of real within them.

[Skip]

I was fortunate enough to go to a Terence McKenna lecture. He was quite a character. I loved his manner of speech, very hypnotizing. I have his video on the Archaic Revival, it's psychedelic & deeply mystical.

A few of his ideas are hard to support, like the Timewave theory, which is in itself plausible, (I think it represents the harmonics of the solar system & universe), but the actual graphs he produced were arbitrary and even he admitted they needed adjustment.

But as far as his ethnobotany research goes, he's THE MAN! He did a great job explaining how humanity can benefit from our relationship with plants, by absorbing a part of their consciousness.

Mushrooms, peyote, ayahuasca were the agents he preferred to raise his consciousness. He was very aware of the shamanic traditions and was a modern shaman himself.

[BlackBillBlake]

'Food of the Gods' is good too - I don't agree with all he says in it, but it's very interesting nonetheless.

[drumminmama]

one of my favorite writers is basically preaching McKenna: Tom Robbins.
Often if the McKenna version doesn't jibe, I go read Tom's version, then reread TM