Ask Terence McKenna

...n one level but on another level it's fairly illusory. It's sort of a coincidencia oppositorum. You have to hold these two antithetical things in your mind at once ...

...alive and dead, here and there before and after. The singularity is a coincidencia oppositorum, it can simultaneously coexist in states which are contradictory. It ...

...ss the Tao, we have no sense of self. The ideal seems to be a kind of coincidencia oppositorum… a kind of literalizing of a paradox where what we have is Tao, but w...

...is indicative of that. I think the thing at the end of time will be a coincidencia oppositorum. It will be a union of opposites. It will not be rationally apprehend...

...destruction could take the same form. It's what the alchemists call a coincidencia oppositorum. Q: It is an amazing synchronicity it seems, that. Also I was interes...

...estruction could take the same form. It's, uh, what alchemists call a coincidencia oppositorum. MT: Hm, it is an amazing synchronicity it seems uh, that uh... Also,...

...arth, unless we fuse this- these dichotomist opposites. It is only in coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites that does not strive for closure that we are go...

...ever I am confronted with opposites to try to unify them, to create a coincidencia oppositorum as was done in alchemy, to not force the system to closure, but to tr...