Ask Terence McKenna

...very important for the argument, is it creates- it causes what I call boundary dissolution. And boundary dissolution in human beings, like you and m...

...adroitly as we practice them today. And it was under the aegis of the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin. We were nomadic, we were breeders...

...up to keep ourselves from feeling our circumstance are dissolved, and boundary dissolution is the most threatening activity that can go on in a soci...

... dissolves boundaries. One of the boundaries that it dissolves is the boundary between community, which is a behavioral boundary maintained by the c...

...cal breakthrough are always presented terms of overcoming some set of boundary constraints imposed by nature. And in virtual reality, all boundary c...

...aboo of all subjects for the Western dominator ­­mind, the subject of boundary dissolving, consciousness expanding plants. And so every point of vie...

... mind exactly what you would expect in a culture long deprived of the boundary ddesolving numinous encounter with the vegetable mind so um a lot of ...

...her 50,000 variations on that theme. So, Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that...

...he fear that societies run along the lines of male dominance, have of boundary dissolution. I mean, for a thousand years in western civilization, th...

... Where the alchemists saw this river of alchemical mercury was in the boundary between waking and sleeping. There is a place, not quite sleeping, no...

...but notice, at a certain point of alienation, maturation, psychedelic boundary dissolution — it doesn’t matter what the vocabulary is you use — you ...

...ve anything to be part of this. You have to have certain experiences. boundary dissolving experiences that, uh, teach you that the surface of things...

...asically, “We’re here”. We’re here. That you have crossed this energy boundary, and look at what a low energy boundary it is. You didn’t have to fly...

...fects of higher doses of psilocybin to create a situation of frequent boundary dissolution. That's what sexuality is, on one level, about and it's w...

...don’t remember them. Well it’s debatable. I think that because it’s a boundary dissolver. I have sort of a pressure theory of dreams. Somehow cannab...

..., and we are always struggling with dissolving them. And the ultimate boundary is this belief in the sanctity of the ego versus everything else in t...

... an everythingness. That when I talk about what I envision it as - as boundary dissolution. If all boundaries dissolve then, you know, I am you, and...

...man intent, that’s part of the story. The other part of the story are boundary-dissolving states of ecstasy in which all the factoids of the culture...

... And, so, so somehow the spreading zaniness of reality is part of the boundary-dissolving qualities that are going to make up this new cultural mix ...

...ause what it does is it dissolves boundaries, and most of us are over-boundary-defined. But some of us are having an uphill battle getting some boun...

...nd I've been saying this since 1971, and the only model I had was the boundary-dissolving challenge of the psychedelic experience. And I still think...

... disappears. If you give a population of people a kind of psychedelic boundary dissolving aphrodisiac that promotes group bonding and erodes monogam...

...e assume our uniqueness and our isolation and the strength of the ego boundary, but if you saw the brain -- that's why my idea -- the regulation of ...

...imal complexity increases, there’s this concentration on this bust of boundary-dissolving pleasure in the central nervous system. I don’t exactly un...

...ast full moon. Which I also think would be, uh, a fine idea. You see, boundary dissolution is what is needed here. boundary dissolution of all type,...

...repeated exposure to psychedelic plants. This is the essence of their boundary-dissolving function, and 12 to 20 thousand years ago the ordinary sty...

...hat the real truth about it is, the real experience is so deep and so boundary dissolving that it's frightening, and a lot of people took these thin...

...aterial in the soil, yet when it sporulates it can actually cross the boundary of outer space. Great economy, great artistry, tremendous Zen-like ae...

...hat they do. That is the ultimately subversive behavior. Cultures are boundary-defining engines. That’s what they do! They teach you: “We do it this...

...electronic circuitry. And that’s just one aspect of what crossing the boundary into machine domains of time and relationships to machine intelligenc...

...tural thrust since the ’60s has been coherently one thing. It’s about boundary dissolution and connectivity and strange pictures in your head. The p...

...-but the larger impact is the psychological impact on people. It's by boundary- by dissolving boundaries, people are able to realign themselves with...

...ecent into dream and that every single night we are reunited with the boundary-less oceanic mystery of being that we are so frantic about in waking ...

...in the play, and you let it all roll on without anxiety. This is what boundary dissolution means. It means nothing less than the anticipation of the...

...y mind, the psychedelic thing in the 60s, based on rock 'n roll and a boundary dissolving psychedelic, we almost, by a random walk, are finding our ...

...of the psyche, can actually be dissolved by repeated exposure to this boundary-dissolving psychedelic compound. Well, so then if things were so wond...

...e is to participate in a true form of telepathy and I think this true boundary dissolving telepathy that unites us all into one family should be the...

...ng to somehow destroy the idols of the tribe, dissolve the conceptual boundary of ordinary expectation. Well, in order to do this, it seems to me th...

...ous, ambiguous intensity that we also reserve for sex which is also a boundary-dissolving, momentary, uh, loss of self into some kind of greater who...

...nds and thousands of years that humanness emerged. And environment of boundary dissolution of, uh, uh, where erotic connection was actually the basi...

...d given large amounts of datura over days. This would be a completely boundary-dissolving, consciousness-altering experience. As we go deeper into M...

...y, to throw out complexity by reducing it to a simple model creates a boundary war. Let me say something about mathematics. The very word elicits fe...

... There was, uh, a dispute between Colombia and Peru, and when the new boundary was drawn, these people felt they were in the wrong country. They fel...

...ust believe in it anyway. But, uh, this thing about the shifting, uh, boundary between self and other is very tricky. When I first smoked DMT, for i...

...d novelty, and the flow of time is conceived of as a kind of shifting boundary or tension between habit and novelty and the unfolding of this in its...