Ask Terence McKenna

...many possibilities. The English biologist, Dawkins, invented the word meme. Do you all know what a meme is? It’s the smallest unit of an idea. I...

...es. And, uh, the whole concern is to get the word out, to spread this meme, to empower people, to confirm the existence of these realities for t...

...say, we cannot communicate. And, by 'say', I mean dance, paint, sing, meme. What we cannot say, we cannot communicate. We can conceive of things...

...sly in these kinds of meaning is we're trying to launch and replicate memes. You all know this concept? A meme is the smallest unit of an idea i...

... is all, uh, Whitehead-type stuff. Some of you may know the notion of memes. A meme is the smallest unit of an idea. It’s to ideas what genes ar...

... some transcultural superspace, forage around out there and bring new memes back into the tribe. To some degree our artists do this, to some deg...

...e my ordinary time-wave lecture because I’ve given it enough that the meme is actually established in the culture and there are dozens of tapes ...

...tricted by government. lThat there -- whatever the means by which the memes are sorted out, it should not be the wisdom of a benevolent governme...

... as simply a cunning linguist, but now I realize that I am actually a meme replicator. A meme, as I’m sure you all have been told many times, is...

...'s actually where it's at. So what I do between now and 2012 is I'm a meme spreader, a mean replicator, and the purpose of these teaching things...

... it [audience laughs], so long ago. Is that the victory of a cultural meme, or is that just, uh, oh I don't know, the yawning grave sort of open...

...y old, communicating is very old, by glance, by gesture, by dance, by meme, by intuition. But speech is very recent. It’s a technological innova...

...ullshit." I did it first when I was about 18 years old and it was the meme of the hour and it held -- it blew their minds; it did blow their min...

...we’re trying to do with meetings like this is empower this particular meme, empower this idea. I can’t remember who developed the idea of memes,...

...cation. A theory of communication depends on correct mirroring of the meme that is being transmitted, no matter how far down the line it has com...

...ur printing press, you could run off more and more copies of whatever meme you had invested in, and I suppose these things would compete. In you...

...ven images, not in gold and stone, but in film and light. This is the meme engine of the western world. Those of you who work in media know the ...

... This!". What do they want? What do I have that they want?... They're meme traders, is what it is. And I think that what they wanted, and got, a...