Ask Terence McKenna

...n't know what a black hole is. A black hole has at the center of it a singularity. The definition of singularity is, you don't know what it is! This is...

...tivity. Uh, I mean, what happens in a black hole for example, what is singularity? It simply means that the laws that normally apply in everyday experi...

...ifferent from all other points in the system. So if we have to have a singularity in our modeling of what reality is, let’s make it as modest and as no...

...stake. My view is somewhat different. It's that, if we have to have a singularity in our cosmology, in other words, it's so hard to figure out how you ...

...ck holes, we have singularities… and don’t be fooled folks, what is a singularity? It’s just a place where you agree that the rules are cancelled becau...

...esn’t work. You just have to throw up your hands and say “Well it’s a singularity” And until black-holes were taken seriously, physics only tolerated o...

... model that I’m proposing is a little different. It says that the big singularity lies not at the beginning of the universe but at the end. So, I call ...

...enerated. Trying to imagine what time would be like near the temporal singularity is difficult because we are far from it, in another domain of physica...

...n, information finally compressed to such a degree that it’s like the singularity inside a black hole. A black hole has at its center a place where the...

...new with me. It's this idea that our...that we represent some kind of singularity, or that we announce the nearby presence of a singularity, that the e...

...ays, every 60 days, uh, redefined toward some kind of [clears throat] singularity, some kind of extraordinary moment in the fractal pattern of historic...

...ransformation of how we do language is part of this acceleration into singularity. I believe you made a reference in one of your books to Julian Haines...

...us together, to dissolve our boundaries and to bring us to a point of singularity where language fails, where we lean over meaning’s edge and feel the ...

...nce, we're clearly being sucked into something almost unimaginable. A singularity. And some people say well it's a thousand years in the future, it's a...

...cly crazy, is the whole business of novelty theory, the approach of a singularity in time, that is sculpting the human and natural world and that is so...

...chemical quintessence, the lapis. It’s a zone of space-time that is a singularity. It’s where matter and imagination exchange clothing, and matter beha...

...er dimension. Time is the traversing of that thing. The nature of the singularity is hard to anticipate. If you use the old fractal principle: ontogeny...