Ask Terence McKenna

...n’t imagine uh, a domain of human endeavor that isn’t impacted by the imagination. I mean, teasing the imagination apart from the talking monkey is not...

... stabilizing of light. It’s possible to suggest that the world of the imagination is simply the world of internal light, that it’s a world where light ...

..., it’s a coincidentia oppositorum. It is something which behaves like imagination and matter without ever doing damage to the ontological status of one...

...icky Remann: Und in dem Masse in dem wir uns anschicken das Reich der imagination im Cyberspace zu erkunden und zu bewohnen, sollen wir uns bemühen die...

...crosecond of cosmic time. Uh, the immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. ...

...ese two nights in Los Angeles, uh, which are called Understanding and imagination in the Light of Nature, are a kind of effort to take ter- several tel...

...in a sense, the images of science shift the parameters of the popular imagination. A painter like Alex Grey creates a permission to image the human bod...

...ve response to unusual circumstances and I believe that’s because the imagination has played such an important role in defining who and what we are. Wh...

... death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination, in the sense that for, uh, characters in a book, what we experience ...

...And what it seems to me to point out is, you know, that the dime- the imagination really is the ground of being and this is the great discovery which w...

... could we? TM: Well, uh human culture is essentially a product of the imagination. All our religions our technical accomplishments our literature our p...

...happening the first time around the time I was 7 or 8. Nature and the imagination seemed to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experie...

...turn the switch and be at play in the fields of the Lord in the human imagination. Don’t you think the human imagination is where history is carrying u...

...them, and I think spiritualism is like a reflection in the archetypal imagination of modernity, about the kind of communication that is introduced by e...

...om, for miles and miles in all directions, is an exudate of the human imagination. There is nothing that didn't come out of human minds. We have surrou...

...ou had invested in, and I suppose these things would compete. In your imagination they would compete — but anybody who’s studied economics for ten minu...

...bols, on technologies, on tools, on ideas downloaded out of the human imagination and concretized into three dimensional space as choppers, aeropoints,...

... visible, we want the body to become an idea, freely commanded in the imagination; and then at that point as James Joyce said ‘Man will be durgible (?)...

...n’t think that [audience laughs] clouds the issue. You mean, that you imagination that love can only go on in this dyadic situation? [Audience: indecip...

...lics do – and I think this isn't too challengeable – is they catalyze imagination. They drive you to think what you would not think otherwise. Well, no...

...cLuhan apotheosis and I think visible language is coming. Life in the imagination is to be, uh, uh, the life[sp?] of creativity carried on through [sp?...

...se was born. Now, what is so interesting about it and what boggles my imagination and what causes me to wonder if I wasn’t in fact losing my marbles an...

... McKenna in conversation with Michael Toms Terence McKenna: The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it...

...yond that, into consciousness of the imaginal world, the world of the imagination inside our heads. What happened was, aah, the mushroom faded, the cli...

...all human souls free at last in what William Blake called ‘the Divine imagination’. And you don’t have to wait for the general dispensation. You can jo...

... personal growth work, for shamanic exploration, as an enzyme for the imagination, as a force that forces us to grow up and, uh, clean up. However, wha...

...ertain point in time. We are moving, literally, into the realm of the imagination. This is where the human future lies. This has been understood by som...

...se as we move more and more into this cultural domain that I call the imagination, nothing lies between us and the expression of our dreams, you know. ...

...though it is an enzyme which stimulates eyesight,sexual interest, and imagination. And the three of these going together produce language-using primate...

...but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination. This is what is meant by the return to the Father, the transcendence...

...we behold. This is why we have always been led into the future by our imaginations; because we dream and then we realize the dreams. This fact about ou...

...a focus of self image, but it will exist in a world made by the human imagination. This is what the return to the father, the transendence of physis, t...

...uring glass and gold and silicon down the micro-tubules of the racial imagination and as it were making a kind of casting of the state of the human ima...

...of the planet and for ourselves is to somehow find a doorway into the imagination, that's where the future lies. Our powers have grown too great to be ...

...tonishing. It’s also very psychedelic. Here’s a little passage on the imagination. I’m reading from Book Nine of the Corpus Hermeticum in the Scott tra...

... the idea of projection of psychic contents, projective of the active imagination onto processes and uh objects in the exterior world in the case of th...

...piritual realm. And, the spiritual realm in practical terms means the imagination. The -- the frontier of our species is the imagination. Now, we have ...

...transform ourselves without technology, to move into the realm of the imagination 'on the natch', as it were, with an interiorized psychopharmacologica...

...Terence McKenna: The human imagination in conjunction with technology has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the sur...

...key business and get on with the great business of inhabiting our own imaginations, and it’s impossible to take that position without someone saying, M...

...en minds, confrontations with the Other, probes into dimensions where imagination and chance held the winning hands; so the shaman, as paradigmatic fig...

...s?” And the answer seems to me to be that ins- that the inside of our imagination, the inside of our heads, really is the most vast frontier imaginable...

...exual children, these mind children that we have assembled out of the imagination. I find it very promising and very challenging and very interesting. ...

... that we sense in our dreams. I mean, where we are headed is into the imagination. It's where we've always been headed. That's what telling stories aro...

...tment to our own sort of ordering the wunderkammer of our own private imagination? What it means is important because if you look around you, you will ...

...what is the dream? The dream is a place where the laws are set by the imagination. The imagination is God in the dream. If there is a way for us to mir...

...ulse in human beings. It’s been somehow confined in the domain of the imagination. We, meaning we who trace our, uh, our ancestry back to Europe are pa...

..., because that permitted anything. I suddenly got the idea, aha!, the imagination sets the perimeters. If it will work in your head, that’s good enough...

...ed us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters ...

..., we convey anger, and eventually we recreate the entire world of our imaginations. I mean, this is culture is, is a kind of coaxing into reality of th...

...of these will be dissolved into something like William Blake’s Divine imagination. And, we will become, you know, our, our grandest dreams. And, so, th...

... to the heart of the sun. The scenarios are endless because the human imagination has such a power to bootstrap itself to higher and higher levels. Wha...

... psilocybin question is: - can you envision ,Terence, in your wildest imagination that we as a society, instead of as individuals taking mushrooms and ...

...cinogenic plants. Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes that stimulate imagination. imagination is reconnected to this feedback loop in which we ask our...

...ome to terms with the fact that, uh, we are moving off into the human imagination. That's what this godlike thing is. It is not a filled space, a lovin...

...hysical presence of what you can become, the timeless realm is in the imagination, and where there is timelessness Time travel exists on a continnuum. ...

...lves, cavorting harlequins, and less easily described denizens of the imagination… and then it all goes thumping and marching past, and disappears; but...

...tures who possess the hyperdimensional organ of perception called the imagination, the imagining mind. Perhaps a a carnivore in the act of hunting its ...

...guage, they…probably as a footnote to the fact that they catalyze the imagination. They catalyze cognitive process. We don’t know what that exactly mea...

...e. Clearly such a book is not meant to be idly fingered. It tasks the imagination, exacts discipline and tenacity from those who would march with it, y...

...h the medium of transforming our languages, through the medium of the imagination which is, after all, this mysterious mental domain in which we are wh...

...ks all the rules and comes back with pearls. Welcome Terence McKenna: imagination in the Light of Nature. [applause] Terence McKenna - "Well it's a ple...

...] will be recast as an experimental composer of great, uh, energy and imagination, and I hope you'll all, uh, turn out for Roy. He's been a wonderful f...

...the male ego, then they are also pheromones which synergize the human imagination, cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective min...

...ll, I think we are rapidly growing into what I call a religion of the imagination, where we transcend individual archetypes and begin instead to realiz...

... system ne plus ultra. It seems to, very early, uh, have captured the imagination of western orientalists James Legge and Richard Wilhelm. Their transl...

...exist in this world. So it’s, uh, great fun, it’s stimulation for the imagination. It shows, I think, uh, one person’s response to the psychedelic, uh ...

...we had to really put ourselves through a head trip and close down the imagination or, uh, deputize special people to be imaginative who we called poets...

...it he explained numerous methods drawn from Roman sources and his own imagination for composing codes and encrypting messages, and all of the, uh, occu...