Ask Terence McKenna

...cently we’re entered into a phase where you should get out your lawn chairs and learn to play solitaire or something. Because at least by the ex...

...s is a male dominant society. I mean there’s a lot of complaining and hair pulling about nit and there’s a political alternative in the form of ...

...s a profit and loss chart and it’s clearly headed into hell, and the chairman of the board is saying to a small smiling man sitting on the other...

...ign there is, because other than seating criminals in electric-wired chairs, it is not a weapon of mass destruction. You cannot rain it down on ...

...uman being. The notion of someone actually taking that stuff was just hair raising. What you should have is a very steep spike at 620 nanometers...

...nobody is in charge. You want a vertiginous vision that’ll stand your hair on end? How about that? It’s not the Catholic Church, not the World B...

...acteristics into adulthood. So, for instance, all primate fetuses are hairless but only the human being retains this fetal characteristic throug...

...these operating systems, and at each swap-out there has been a lot of hair-pulling and cussing and screaming. Anyone who has installed a new ope...

...elic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is. I mean, a hair-raising oddness that adheres to it that is, I call being in the prese...

...ing expanded, being edited and changed, as we speak. We’re now just a hair’s breadth away from there being six billion people on this planet. Uh...

...red something the size of the moon, so it had to have been a very bad hair day. TM: A Mars-sized object crashed into the earth and it separated ...

...g. They could trap it in bottles, and carry it around and cause their hair to stand on end. At one point under the U.S. Capitol in the 1830s the...

...presence of art. But we will build art that will literally stand your hair on end. And the amount of creativity in a single human mind, as I sai...

...t entirely defined on its terms. So this is just one of many standard hair-on-end scenarios that we can discuss here. But this is a very real on...

...en as we could make it, I maintain that three quarters of the way our hair would be standing on end because we would realize we are not inventin...

...cess which is forced upon you. You have no choice about getting pubic hair and sprouting secondary sexual characteristics and so forth and so on...

...now you can find the others. You don’t have to stick a flower in your hair and go to San Francisco. You just go to the web. Find the others! We ...

...ogy of human souls in another dimension of some sort. I mean, this is hair raising to me and I’ve spent my whole adolescence and early adulthood...

...nly, you know, we all do build our images according to how we cut our hair, according to how we dress, what particular reconstructive surgeries ...

... into the microphysical realm, we don't know. I mean if it makes your hair stand on end to think of being downloaded into the digital realm. The...

...er mentions it or has a name for it except some people call it a 'bad hair day' or some people say 'Things are really weird recently.' And I thi...

...going to have to discuss and contemplate things that would stand your hair on end and things that to people of another generation are going to s...

...undly conservative impulse. A conservative impulse that would set the hair of George Bush and his Skull & Bones buddies standing on end. Because...

.... They’re human beings and when you try that on for size, it’s pretty hair-raising because it feels right and yet your mind boggles. I mean, I a...

... one-way trip up the chimney. There's another warehouse there full of hair. Now, maybe you haven't been there, but you're hearing me tell you of...

...ink going deeply means doing a lot, and they do amounts that stand my hair on end. I mean, in the past month traveling around I've heard stories...

...t with the phenomenon of extraterrestrial intelligence, and this is a hair, uh, hackle-raising notion. [Mishlove]: We're dealing with more than ...

...ent too much time in the Amazon and things go on that would curl your hair. There are people whose idea of a hilarious joke is to toss a dog in ...

...istorical and supra-organic. It is, uh, uncanny, alien, it raises the hair on the back of your neck. It is both the apotheosis and the antithesi...