Ask Terence McKenna

... stead of the natural truth of the animal body and the felt moment of immediate experience. This is where I want to tie it up, with this notion of the felt pres...

...r friend... Who's your friend? Well, to my mind, the felt presence of immediate experience is the surest dimension, the surest guide that you can possibly have....

...ns the awakening of many people to the fact that the felt presence of immediate experience is not negotiable. It has no price. And yet this is what's taken from...

...inforest and tundra that are living in worlds of their own, worlds of immediate experience so alien to our own that there's no need to point radio telescopes at...

...ngings, regrets, doubts, fears. You just say no, the felt presence of immediate experience. Yeah, sentimentalism. Q: (Question/commentary) TM: Oh, well first of...

...iate moment, to this thing that I’ve been calling "the felt moment of immediate experience." It isn’t who you were or what you were or who you will be or what y...

...et at that point, but when we recede into what I call 'the primacy of immediate experience', the, the rules and models that we’ve been handed by science, and, u...

...d. The only thing you can trust at this point is the felt presence of immediate experience, otherwise known as “feelings,” and mathematics; and mathematics is s...

...s to the inner worth of the self, to the importance of the feeling of immediate experience - and nobody can sell that to you and nobody can buy it from you, so ...

...tanding in for the real thing. The real thing is the felt presence of immediate experience and that’s what this is giving back to us. It is putting you back int...

...ngs. We have ideas, we have ideals that get in the way of realism and immediate experience. And when I was thinking about all of this and how to put I into a me...

...ure with a direct relationship to beauty through the felt presence of immediate experience. That’s what the growing beyond ideology and certitude gives back to ...

...about. It’s about discordian ecstasy; it’s about the felt presence of immediate experience in the absence of theory. That’s what it’s about. So, this, this, uh,...

...shes between reason and science, an obligation to self-involvement in immediate experience, which means psychedelics, sexuality and what I call “time”; a deep l...

...and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experience that are found always to be applicable. You see I don't believe that ...

...what you believe, but immediately- uh, cosmologies constructed out of immediate experience but are found always to be applicable. You see, I-I don't believe tha...