Ask Terence McKenna

...mass psyche of the species, the period that we have settled on is the archaic period, which precedes human history. And, so, uh, Cubism and, uh, uh...

... it was uh in the amazon basin, where as you know there are extremely archaic groups of people people who never submitted themselves to the histori...

...[Audience] - I’d like to hear a more satisfactory explanation of what archaic revival means. I haven’t got it straightened out. I suspect it means ...

...areness is part of a much larger cultural phenomenon which I call the archaic revival. I hate the term "New Age." I think it’s just, you know, 11 o...

...the psychedelics. This is why I proposed in a book of mine called The archaic Re- vival the idea that the values of the archaic, of the high Paleol...

...cultural icon, but surrounding that are all the other impulses to the archaic that surround us now. It begins as far back as impressionism, which d...

... of Gods and The Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide and most recently, The archaic Revival. He is also the founder [0:00:30] of the Botanical Dimensions...

...wn on Western institutions is to be found in a revivifying of uh, the archaic. And this takes many different kinds of forms. It's nothing to do wit...

...art of which calls itself the New Age or what have you. I call it the archaic Revival, and the reason that I call it the archaic Revival is rooted ...

...sort of thing. So I think, uh, it's important as the, what I call the archaic revival, gets rolling, it is important for us to clarify where we're ...

...ilocybin-containing species Stropharia cubensis is not known to be in archaic use in a shamanic rite anywhere in the world. DMT is used in the Amaz...

...all. You know, I wrote a book, which is around and about, called “The archaic Revival”, and that’s why my belief in the archaic revival is what bri...

...you collected together stuffed birds, amanites, gnostic gems, bits of archaic detritus, large insects, narwhale horns, all of this stuff. It was pr...

...nd sound by Spacetime. Words and ideas by Terence McKenna. Rap 1, The archaic Revival. History is ending because the dominator culture has led the ...

...evolution which means global capitalism. They have nothing to do with archaic values which are enormous families, not nuclear families but extended...

...eurotic behavior until it either is our undoing or until we awaken to archaic values. That’s why the weekend is called what it is. The archaic revi...

...e impact of psychotropic plants on human culture and evolution and Thearchaic Revival, in which this interview appears. His latest book Trialogues ...

...the snake which takes its tail in its mouth. The end of history is an archaic revival. The ground of being in which the original archaic renaissanc...

...n exfoliate in ways that it can’t do in 3D. I wrote a book called The archaic Revival, which was all about this letdown from the abstraction of pri...

... audience: One of the big ideas that seems to be in the notion of the archaic Revival is that the whole big thing is really conscious and alive – t...

...nt, or at least I like to think so, an impulse which I have named the archaic Revival. What happens is that whenever a society really gets in troub...

...enging and very interesting. I think that somehow the way back to the archaic, to the world of ecological balance and low technology and retraction...

...Eliade wrote a book called ‘Shamanism,’ and then he subtitled it ‘The archaic Techniques of Ecstasy.” Now he wrote the book in French. In French . ...

...tenances of media are in fact having the effect of returning us to an archaic sensory ratio. And McLuhan was onto this, he’s the one that coined th...

...tenances of media are in fact having the effect of returning us to an archaic sensory ratio, and McLuhan was on to this. He is the one who coined t...

...mple. In the 20th century, this has taken the form of what I call the archaic revival. One of my books is called the archaic Revival. The 20th cent...

... not into some science-fiction future. Ram: No. Terence: It's into an archaic recursion of some sort. We… We once knew everything we needed to know...

... um, acting out of what I have been calling now for several years the archaic Revival. And I want to talk about that a little bit this evening, bec...

...can we do about it? This is what I talked about last night, about the archaic revival as the notion of making a sharp left turn away from the momen...

... by Terence and various other people, including this one, called "The archaic Revival" has been put out by Harper Collins, and in that book he cont...

... TM: Well, you remember Eliade's basic book which was 'Shamanism: The archaic Techniques of Ecstasy', that book was originally written in French. A...

... it just doesn’t make any sense. I mean, life is health, uh, in those archaic societies. I mean, it is in our society, too; but then it gets murky,...

.... You know, uh, mass media shaped that whole psychology and it is now archaic – it’s not archaic it’s obsolete. Uh, it-it’s wonderful that the phra...

...the imagination, form symbiotic relationships with the plants, affirm archaic values and spread the good news that what is out of control, what is ...

...even count the dead when they get pissed off. That’s why I think this archaic Revival is in full throttle right now. I think the dominator model is...

...is up for grabs. And the, uh, the 20th century’s fascination with the archaic, with shamanism and, uh, breakdown of perception through modern art, ...

...uch this weekend, but I'm very keen for the notion of what I call the archaic revival, and the archaic revival is this overarching metaphor that is...

...written a number of books, uh, Food of the Gods, Invisible Landscape, archaic Revival, just to mention 3 of them. RH: And the one that I had this I...

...in isolation from the rest of the culture. I just want, basically, an archaic world of nature and natural values, and the fastest most hi-tech mach...

... worldwide movement of trance, dance, consciousness, psychedelics and archaic revivalism is taking place. And my place in all this, I suppose, is t...

...umber of books, one of which is, I happen to have with me, called The archaic Revival. And there are numbers of others. True Hallucinations is the ...

...says, "End of story!" That's what's happening. Imagine a person in an archaic society. The most dramatic narrative event is an old shaman telling a...

...things that are important to me; which are: psychedelics, recovery of archaic lifestyles, use of media to subvert existing paradigms, empowerment o...

... this paridisicle ac...matriarchal, partnership psychedelic, shamanic archaic whatever you wannna call ti society was then pushed into crisis, and ...

...e we want to go. And I think that’s where history is headed. What the archaic revival is about, is a revivification of the aboriginal dream time. W...

... years before Eleusis laid its cornerstone. I wrote a book called The archaic Revival, in which I try to say that the entire cultural impulse of th...

...aw-dropping news that will come out of all this re-exploration of the archaic and shamanism and hallucinogenic plants and so forth and so on – is a...

...ience laughs] or "‘The Invisible Landscape" [audience laughs] or "The archaic Revival" [audience laughs] or "Black Neon" – a book I haven’t written...

...e clear that the real impulse of the Twentieth Century is towards the archaic, toward the primitive. Everything from Freudianism to body piercing, ...

...eas have hit the media in the form of several books, most notably The archaic Revival (HarperCollins), Food of the Gods (Bantam), and True Hallucin...

...goddess and the end of history. His numerous books include the recent archaic Revival and Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Kno...

...pping] Well, what is the antidote to this? Well, it's what I call the archaic revival. It's something that's been going on throughout most of the 2...

... man hier zusammenkommt. TM: What put me on to the connection between archaic shamanism and the new technology and the new music was when I went to...

...sion to explore the irrational. This really is the bridge back to the archaic, shamanic function of the artist: permission to explore the irrationa...

...omadic context. And, that was paradise and that was the ideal for the archaic revival. In other words, that Eden actually existed. That, we are mad...

...s of the fathers, and all this rubbish which is handed down. What the archaic revival is going to have to mean if it has teeth, is a re-­‐empowerin...

...t.My ordinary concern is shamanism, which is usually thought of as an archaic or an historical phenomenon. However, in my looking at the shamanisti...

...ing-back-toward this state of non-neurotic empathy that characterized archaic time. And that is what has specifically been lost by the descent into...

...odel of hallucinogenic and shamanic experience. This model holds that archaic peoples have deputized special people to probe hidden information fie...

...of the twentieth century, being an effort to recapture and understand archaic, uh, forms of thought. This is why our fascination with the unconscio...

...lennia and complete the modern program of realizing the ideals of the archaic Revival, recognizing that what the 20th century really is about is an...