Ask Terence McKenna

...se as some kind of transformational event, and how your experience in altered states has lead you to believe or feel that there is some hope for changing ...

...y of you, I came to it in the 60s when the basic argument in favor of altered states of consciousness were almost entirely narcissistic: deep insight into...

... is Terence McKenna, a philosopher and thinker of note in the area of altered states of consciousness and alternative realities. Terence is the coauthor, ...

...e. If you're interested in ethnobotany, shamanism, ethnopharmacology, altered states of consciousness, the politics of all of this, this is as intense and...

...we will do that, and so on. Q: ???? TM: It certainly is a vehicle for altered states, whether I would call them imagination or not, I suppose I would, but...

...h a relationship to nature makes it important for us to address these altered states of consciousness and the plants, the substances, and the cultural ins...

...our brother Dennis have talked about different, uh, chemicals and how altered states of consciousness are evidently essential, historically, for human bei...

...his is our birthright this is part of what it means to be human these altered states of consciousness i think are pretty much scripted into the existence ...

...nt and had never been there. So, it’s interesting. There are a lot of altered states and maybe that’s a good point to make. There are all kinds of strange...

...M: This was in '67 when I was a sophomore in college. The interest in altered states of consciousness came simply from, I don't know whether I was a preco...

...e isnt given the credit he deserves one of the greatest researches of altered states, hes retired now and live in ------- but he did a series of experimen...

...u into these spaces, but people have different proclivities for these altered states of consciousness. It’s very hard to move me off the baseline of consc...

...cate to bring into our culture new elements like an easy way to reach altered states of consciousness? What can we learn from these experiences? TM: Well,...