Ask Terence McKenna

...rth this intelligence in order to create the possibility of a future. gaia is a living planet; its atmosphere, its hydrosphere, its sociosphere,...

...be a spiritual virus that attacks the planetary body, in fact attacks gaia? The reason I ask that, you remember Porphyry long ago when Christian...

..., and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a gaian entelechy. It turns out, if we can trust the evidence of the psyched...

...y, civilizations were able to evolve outside of the noetic input from gaia, outside of the biological radio which envelops the planet and inputs...

...the role of Nature. And different responses have gone on to that, the gaia response which claims Nature as a stabilizing feminine force, which I...

...de, and I think it is, uh- I'm sure most of you are familiar with the gaia [pronounced gae-uh] or gaia [pronounced guy-uh] hypothesis of homeost...

...nd exalted. Uh, one with the souls of the ancestors, one with the s-, gaian spirit of the planet. And I don’t mean to imply that psychedelics ar...

...s about where is it, what is it, how does it do it, but just that the gaian, uh, process is more than a process; it is a self-reflecting, uh, en...

... which is his trademark, spinning together the cognitive destinies of gaia, machines, and language and offering a highly unorthodox description ...

...kind of projection from the consciousness of the planet -- that it is gaia, that it is in fact a kind of alchemical object haunting human histor...

...n mind, uh, more and more important. The rise of the consciousness of gaia, which is the notion of the planet as, at le-, at the very least, a s...

... to do it, to systematically explore these relationships and see that gaia apparently works through the intercession of catalytic compounds that...

..., is your idea of an overmind some version of Margulis and Lovelock’s gaia Hypothesis, and is that healthy? TM: I don’t believe they think of Ga...

...ous area. When I go up in an airplane at night and am looking down on gaia and thinking this is an organism, a giant organism. And say, "Gee, th...

...iew for something like this. I mean, is it an extraterrestrial, is it gaia, is it, uh, as some Jungians have said merely autonomous fragments of...

...uld probably put me right back there again. Getting it worked down to gaia, or the Overmind of the species, is a kind of process of coming down ...

...ppose. We are actually trapped inside a giant organism. And it is not gaia...that's a much larger organism. We are trapped inside a large organi...