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49c6b31c6f79-7 | As the collectivity of our humanness becomes an intellectual legacy for all of us, there is a dissolving of boundaries of race, class, status, language, so forth and so on; and the whole of the 20th century has seen a massive acceleration of this. The breakdown of the Soviet Union was in fact simply – it was even so de... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-8 | Where is life carrying us? What is this all about? Is it carrying us toward extinction, so that the rest of Nature can heave an enormous sigh of relief and then get back to the business of nest-building, mating flights and overposturing, and whatever it is that they’re doing out there? – or is it carrying us toward som... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-9 | So history, I believe, is not an aberration, any more than leaving the sea could be called an aberration of marine existence. I mean, obviously it is not marine existence, and obviously we are not living in the same world as groundhogs and hummingbirds, psychologically; but leaving the sea did not represent an ontologi... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-10 | It’s as though Nature is saying, “We are willing to place the entire planetary ecology in danger for 50,000 years in order for the opportunity to be explored of language-using, technological-expressing, intelligence carrying all of life to the next level”. And it’s a terrifying enterprise, because apparently to carry l... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-11 | Why? Because we have extracted all the available metals near the surface of the Earth; an evolving species following after us will find the Earth strangely depleted of usable materials, down to the 1500-foot level; and so intelligence coming beyond us will find it just does not have the resources to make the leap to te... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-12 | I've argued in the past – and I’m going to try not to repeat it here today, because I think you've all heard it, but I will just mention it in a sentence or two – that the critical catalyst propelling us out of the slowly evolving hominid line and caused us to take an orthogonal right-hand turn into culture, language, ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-13 | Well, if psychedelics are a catalyst for the imagination, and if history is driven by the imagination, it is driven through the fall-out from the imagination, which is technology and culture. Technology and culture are the consequences, the derivatives, of the ratiocination of the mind. And technology has – like biolog... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-14 | But ever-accelerating; this is the important point – because the ever-accelerating accretion of technology means that history is strangely foreshortened at the future end, because it happens faster and faster. It’s like a process that begins very slowly, but once started has the quality of a cascade – or, you know, the... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-15 | of our world will undergo that kind of transformation, and that the synergy among these transformed objects will create phenomena and situations that we can’t anticipate – that’s the key thing: our inability to anticipate the synergies between our technologies. I mean, the computer, LSD, spacecraft, holograms, organic ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-16 | world of dinosaurs. That’s because it’s a very recent development. | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-17 | I guess I have to go back to this scenario of human development, and say, just very briefly: here’s how I think this worked. I’m not going to run through the whole evolutionary scenario, but this thing about ego… All primates have what are called dominance hierarchies. That simply means that the hard-bodied, long-fange... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-18 | First of all, the key on one level to maintaining the dominance hierarchy is monogamous pair-bonding. That’s where it begins. In a society taking a lot of psilocybin, monogamous pair-bonding breaks down, because of the CNS activation, and sexual arousal. So in a psilocybin-using culture, there will be a tendency to org... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-19 | When psilocybin was taken out of the diet, the old, old primate program was still there. It had not been bred out; the genes were always there; it’s just that for 50,000 or 100,000 years, we medicated ourselves – literally, religiously – we religiously medicated ourselves every new and full moon, perhaps oftener; these... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-20 | And that’s our circumstance! We have, you know, the tools that would allow us to sculpt paradise, but we have the reflexes and value systems of anthropoid apes of some sort – so the split between our conscious hopes, our best foot, and the bottom of the human scale, is appalling. I mean, look at the spread! It’s a spre... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-21 | And I believe it’s because – and slowly you've forced me to do this whole rap, which I swore I wouldn't do – I believe it’s because the psilocybin led us halfway toward a kind of godhead, but then it disappeared, and we are left in this very peculiar situation. This is the myth of the Fall; you know, we are half angel,... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-22 | See, here is the final piece of this evolutionary key. Psilocybin, in small amounts, increases visual acuity. This is not an arguable point; I mean, you can just give people psilocybin and give them eye tests, and people with astigmatisms see better; your edge-detection ability is greatly increased. Well, you can see t... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-23 | Yet higher doses, 5 grams and up: hunting is out of the question; sex is out of the question; you’re just nailed to the ground by the campfire, and in the course of the evening you discover religion! [laughter] Philosophy! Art! – and, you know, all of that. So here is a unique chemical that, at every dose level, synerg... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-24 | Well, I guess this leads us to a subject worth talking about, which is, it's very important to talk to the state or the substance or...if you don't talk to it, it won't talk to you. It follows the rules of ordinary etiquette, and it does not speak to strangers. But if you will say to it the simplest thing like "Hello?"... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-25 | you can see. You see hallucinations, but you do not see the author of the data stream that's saying "did you know? I'll bet you did know!' The standard form of address. But on DMT, they come bounding out of the woodwork. The strangest things happen on DMT. The most intense, and you can remember them. DMT is not like a ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-26 | Your reaction is exactly what it would be if it happened to you without DMT. You're appalled! | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
49c6b31c6f79-27 | I mean, these Yogans have been over there digging away for millenia; Egyptian religion, Kabbalism, Alchemy, Western traditions of mysticism. And I am a connoisseur of all that, don’t get me wrong, but what astonishes me is how embryonic it all is. We are not the tired inheritors of an ancient and sophisticated civiliza... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+World+And+Its+Double |
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5af179e4c930-1 | Sure. I'm very interested in this. Here's the great paradox in this domain, as far as I'm concerned. DMT, without contest, is the most powerful psychedelic that I know of--and I hope there's nothing stronger, cause if there is, I don't wanna know about it! [laughter] It's very brief and fast acting, and it clears your ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Live+in+New+York |
5af179e4c930-2 | if you've had it, it's possible to have a dream, years later, in which something's going on, and going on, and then someone whips out a little glass pipe, and puts it in your mouth, and you have the complete experience. Not a pale memory or a vivid memory--the real thing happens in the dream. Well this is big news, bec... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Live+in+New+York |
5af179e4c930-3 | or 20 million dollars that it would take to develop a drug that allows people to remember their dreams. Because I think every night, we return to the psychedelic source, that the dreams you remember are the surface of the dream, and that every single night, we sink back down in to the primordial field of mind out of wh... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Live+in+New+York |
5af179e4c930-4 | that we would feel alright about handing our children on to. Because if we don't do that, we're going to come off as the lamest generation in human history, and we aren't. The creativity, the connectedness, the potential for good is enormous. And most people in this planet are embedded in pre-potent systems of relation... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Live+in+New+York |
5af179e4c930-5 | US. It's our responsibility to make a change and to act for all those silent, downtrodden people who have been so victimized by the system that they couldn't turn out at a New York nightclub and hear an esthete rail against the evils of the Establishment. And that's probably enough railing against the evils of the Esta... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Live+in+New+York |
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d88c404eef5d-1 | PHF: Can you briefly explain the theory you put forth in Food of the Gods?
Terence McKenna: The primate tendency to form dominance heirarchies was temporarily interrupted for about 100,000 years by the psilocybin in the paleolithic diet. This behavioral style of male dominance was chemically interrupted by psilocybin ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Mushrooms%2C+Sex+and+Society |
d88c404eef5d-2 | PHF: In what sense did the mushroom influence or create an orgiastic state?
Terence McKenna: All central nervous system stimulants create what's called 'arousal', which means restlessness. In highly sexed animals like primates, it also means sexual arousal. So, psilocybin was a stimulant to sexual acitivity. In an evo... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Mushrooms%2C+Sex+and+Society |
d88c404eef5d-3 | PHF: What is the place of set and setting in the arousal response?
Terence McKenna: In the primitive context, I think, probably, there were orgies which were regulated by the lunar phases. In other words, orgies at the new and full moon. Basically, I think of the ego like a tumor or a calcarious growth in the psyche t... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Mushrooms%2C+Sex+and+Society |
d88c404eef5d-4 | Terence McKenna: No, I'm just suggesting that as human intellectual capacities evolved, people went from unconsciously getting loaded and being stimulated by these things, to actually realizing that the mushroom was what was behind it, and then to consciously seek them out for those kinds of experiences.
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d88c404eef5d-5 | PHF: Do you think that there's an ideal recreational drug that may be created?
Terence McKenna: Many psychedelics have the effect that I've mentioned here. The reason I fasten in on the mushroom is because we evolved in the African grasslands, so if you're looking for a psychedelic stimulant to sexuality and conscious... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Mushrooms%2C+Sex+and+Society |
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df45a8090cb6-1 | The Archaic Revival. History is ending because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley, and as the inevitable chaostrophie approaches, people look for metaphors and answers. Every time a culture gets into trouble it casts itself back into the past looking for the last sane moment it ever knew... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-2 | theory. The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled 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 b... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-3 | is regularly part of the human experience the ego is suppressed and the suppression of the ego means the defeat of the dominators, the materialists, the product peddlers. Psychedelics return us to the inner worth of the self, to the importance of the feeling of immediate experience - and nobody can sell that to you and... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-4 | what it is all about. The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature. What the Archaic Revival means is shamanism, ecstasy, orgiastic sexuality, and the defeat of the three enemies of the people. And the three enemies of the people are hegemony, monogamy and monotony! And if you get them on th... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-5 | the compass of the self through community, through ecstatic dance, through psychedelics, sexuality, intelligence, Intelligence. This is what we have to have to make the forward escape into hyperspace. | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
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df45a8090cb6-7 | Alien Love Hello... So that was like an introduction, now for some preaching to the choir on the subject of how come it is that the further in you go the bigger it gets. I remember the very, very first time that I smoked DMT. It was sort of a benchmark you might say, and I remember that this friend of mine that always ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-8 | of mind, it seemed like another place. And what was going on in this place aside from the tastefully soffited indirect lighting, and the crawling geometric hallucinations along the domed walls, what was happening was that there were a lot of beings in there, what I call self-transforming machine elves. Sort of like jew... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-9 | intentionality put through a kind of hyper-dimensional transform into three-dimensional space. And these little machines offered themselves to me. And I realized when I looked at them that if I could bring just one of these little trinkets back, nothing would ever be quite the same again. And I wondered, Where Am I? An... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-10 | think about it. Don't think about who you are. Think about doing what we're doing. Do it. Do it now. Do It!!' | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
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df45a8090cb6-12 | Speaking in Tongues And what they meant was use your voice to make an object. And as I understood, I felt a bubble kind of grow inside of me. And I watched these little elf tykes jumping in and out of my chest; they like to do that to reassure you. And they said, 'Do it.' And I felt language rise up in me that was unho... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-13 | the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish. And one of the things that I learned about DMT was that if you've ever had it, even just once, then you can have a dream, and in this dream somebody will pull out a little glass pipe, and then it will happen! It will happen just like the real thi... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-14 | and we never talk about it because we're embedded in a culture that expects us to believe that all times are the same, and that your bank account doesn't fluctuate except according to the vicissitudes of your own existence. In other words, every moment is expected to be the same and yet this isn't what we experience. A... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-15 | There were no planets, no stars, no molecules, no atoms, no magnetic fields; there was only an ocean of free electrons. And then time passed and the universe cooled and novel structures crystallized out of disorder. First, atoms; atoms of hydrogen and helium aggregating into stars. And at the center of those stars the ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-16 | we come to ourselves. And where do WE fit into all of this. Five million years ago we were an animal of some sort. Where will we be five million years from tonight? What we represent is not a sideshow, or an epiphenomenon, or an ancillary something-or-other on the edge of nowhere. What WE represent is the nexus of conc... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-17 | something new. Not genetic information, not genetic mutation, not natural selection, but epigenetic activity: writing, theater, poetry, dance, art, tattooing, body piercing and philosophy. And these things have accelerated the ingression into novelty so that we have become an idea excreting force in nature that builds ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-18 | about to occur and is about to be revealed as a universal process of compressing and expressing novelty that is now going to become so intensified that it is going to flow over into another dimension. You can feel it. You can feel it in your own dreams. You can feel it in your own trips. You can feel that we're approac... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-19 | the pond surface of ordinary biology. We are flesh which has been caught in the grip of some kind of an attractor that lies ahead of us in time, and that is sculpting us to its ends; speaking to us through psychedelics, through visions, through culture, and technology, consciousness. The language forming capacity in ou... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-20 | birth canal of collective transformation toward something right around the corner and nearly completely unimaginable. And this is where the psychedelic shaman comes is because I believe that what we really contact through psychedelics is a kind of hyperspace. And from that hyperspace we look down on..., we look down on... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-21 | more like the past than the future because materialism, consumerism, product-fetishism, all of these things will be eliminated and technology will become nanotechnology and disappear from our physical presence. If we have the dream, if we allow the wave of novelty to propel us toward the creativity that is inimitable t... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-22 | that created us and brought us forth out of animal organization. We are somehow part of the planetary destiny. How well we do determines how well the experiment of life on Earth does, because we have become the cutting edge of that experiment, we define it, and we hold in our hands the power to make or to break it. Thi... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-23 | holds it together which is the celebration of mind as play, the celebration of love as a genuine social value in the community. This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else's being y... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
df45a8090cb6-24 | technology in our hands we ought to be able to reach out and actually exteriorize the human soul at the end of time, invoke it into existence like a UFO and open the violet doorway into hyperspace and walk through it, out of profane history and into the world beyond the grave, beyond shamanism, beyond the end of histor... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Alien+Dreamtime |
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f97ddb17f28e-1 | Alright, can you hear in the back? Yeah, is the sound comfortable for everyone? Is the light comfortable for everyone? And are you comfortable? Well, you shouldn’t be, the planet’s going to shit in a handbag. No, I’m, I’m… That's just my John Lily imitation – it’s not me at all. Most of you were probably at the talk I ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-2 | I think that’s ground zero of what we’re talking about. Psychedelics are like any other social phenomena – there are a lot of wannabe’s. There are a lot of people who are along for the ride. I’m sure the pagan community is no stranger to this phenomenon because there are certain residual spinoffs if you proclaim yourse... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-3 | plants, hyoscyamine, those things. That’s a different chemical family and a different group of plant families that these compounds occur in. I’ve been at this fairly steadily since 1964. And have tried to do everything with a certain level of attention and reverence because I think that it’s all very fine to go armed w... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-4 | of the world, my theory of life’s exploration is to run edges. And I’ve mellowed over the years but I use to say if a book isn’t 100 years old you shouldn’t read it, if a person isn’t dead you shouldn’t worry about them; if they wrote in English you shouldn’t bother with them; so forth and so on. In the course of sorti... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-5 | Christ came again, but in this conversation the apostle Thomas said ‘unless I put my hand into the wound, I will not believe it.’ And then time passed, and then Christ came again to the upper room. And he said, ‘Thomas, come forward, put your hand into the wound.’ And he did and then he said ‘Lord, I am not worthy’ so ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-6 | happy to give you the benefit of my personal life’s experience preceding along those lines. I want to talk about what to my mind is the quintessential hallucinogen, and consequently the quintessential spiritual and magical tool of this dimension. And that is DMT – dimethyltryptamine. A compound that occurs in the human... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-7 | the millstones of the world. But I’m here to tell you that it is real – there is a doorway into another dimension. Aladdin’s lamp is real. Fairyland is real. Magic is real in the most real sense! In the same sense that what we call reality is real. And I learned this through this compound. And one of the great puzzles ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-8 | won’t keep it. I’m against secrets, I’m against hierarchies, lineages, all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I mean, I am a true anarchist first and foremost. So, DMT, like all things in this world, has a physical body – a presence and a presentatio... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-9 | Well, the answer is ‘only if you fear death by astonishment!’. Yes, that’s a joke here. It’s not a joke there because you find yourself literally holding your heart to verify that you have not, in fact, had a coronary thrombosis induced by wonder, terror, reverence, and astonishment. So, here it is. The quintessence, t... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-10 | All edges become sharp. Distant things stand out in their clarity. This is at one toke. At two tokes, you close your eyes, you feel a sense of anesthesia seeping through your body. You close your eyes and you see a floral pattern rotating in space, usually yellow-orange. People who do this occasionally – and nobody doe... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-11 | vaporize this stuff. You don’t mix it with weed or oregano or any of that which was done in the past. You want the pure stuff. And you take it in and in and in and there is definitely somewhere in here a threshold. A threshold which you must exceed. And when you do that, this membrane-like thing, this chrysanthemum wil... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-12 | that you are tumbling down, being propelled by some kind of muscle behind you that is pushing you. I mean, yes, birth canal, yes yes of course. But anyway, a tunnel. And what I’ve noticed about this tunnel is the walls and ceiling flux and come down to meet each other and where they touch, they pull apart with a [makes... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-13 | at the center of a mountain or something. And you’re in a room which aficionados call ‘the dome’ and people will ask each other ‘did you see the dome? Were you there?’ It’s softly lit, indirectly lit, and the walls – if such they be – are crawling with geometric hallucinations: very brightly colored, very iridescent wi... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-14 | toward you. And they say ‘Hooray! Welcome! You’re here!‘, and in my case, ‘you sent so many and you come so rarely’. And my immediate impression, no matter how many times I do this – and I’ve done it maybe 30 or 40 times which isn’t a lot in a lifetime of worshiping it – my immediate impression is that they are welcomi... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-15 | you know, drugs they make you giggly, they frighten you, they stimulate you, they depress you. DMT does none of this. You go to that place with all your groceries. You’re there, and you’re there thinking ‘Jesus H fucking Christ, what is this? What is it?’ And you’re thinking ‘I must be dead, I’ve done it this time.’ Th... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-16 | see it. They speak in a language which you see. And this is completely confounding! Because syntax is not something you ordinarily reach out and touch. And in this space that’s what happening. And so like jeweled self-dribbling basketballs, these things come running forward. And what they are doing with this visible la... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-17 | you direct your attention into these things, you have the overwhelming conviction that if you could bring a single one of these objects back to this world, that somehow you wouldn’t have to say anything. You would just walk up to people and say ‘friend’. And people would say ‘Oh my god! You got a piece of the action, t... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-18 | your esophagus. And eventually when it reaches your mouth, your mouth just flies open and this language-like stuff comes out. Acoustically, it’s [language disassociated from meaning] But what you’re – you’re not hearing it. The startled friends who sent you to this place are putting up with this – what you’re experienc... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-19 | is the surface of something of which this is the volume. And I’m a great fan of sex. I don’t mean to denigrate it. I mean to raise DMT to a very high status. But it’s astonishing. In one trip as the pull-away maneuver began, all the elves turned simultaneously and looked at me and said ‘déjà vu, déjà vu.’ So, this is a... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-20 | central exhibit for the presence of the other in the human world? I don’t know. I can tell the secret. As you notice, nothing shuts me up. But why this is not four-inch headlines on every newspaper on the planet I cannot understand because I don’t know what news you were waiting for, but this is the news that I was wai... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-21 | but a certain kind of beauty that only words that I can find for the kind of beauty that it is, is ‘bizarre’, ‘alien’, ‘outlandish’, outré, ‘freaky’, and at the very edge of what the human mind seems to be able to hold. Well, where is this coming from? And what is happening? And this is what I like to discuss with peop... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-22 | What we’ve got here is either ‘this is an extraterrestrial’, you know, evolved around a different star possibly with a different biology, may not even be made of matter, came across an enormous distance sometime maybe long ago, has some agenda which we may or may not be able to conceive of, this is it – the real thing ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-23 | accept whatever happens to them. So let’s hide inside the load and we’ll talk to them from there and they’ll never realize that we’re of a different status than pink elephants.’ Okay, that’s one possibility. Now another possibility is that this is not about extraterrestrials, flight, and enormous technologies and dista... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-24 | conservative position or the more radical position. And I reached this reluctantly and I’m not sure this is my position, but uh … These things have a weird – these tykes, as I call them, these self-transforming machine elves, these syntactical homunculi – have a very weird relationship to human beings. First of all, th... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-25 | raising to me and I’ve spent my whole adolescence and early adulthood getting free from Catholicism and its assumptions and I never imagined that a thorough exploration of life’s mysteries would lead to the conclusion that, in fact, this is but a prelude. We are in a very tiny womb of some sort. Our lives are just stat... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-26 | stand naked in the presence of the mystery, it is still utterly and completely mysterious. But I enjoy talking to people about this, because I think that the human body, the human mind, these are tools for the soul to use in the effort to unlock its meaning and its destiny. And millions of people, perhaps billions of p... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-27 | this compound – you take a hit of DMT and your body says ‘oh, I recognize this, activate deamination cycle, activate demethylation cycle, activate …’ – it knows what to do. And so within ten minutes your down. A drug that you take and 48 hours later you’re lying around in warm baths and refusing telephone calls is a dr... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-28 | from us? How can we be trapped in a dimension of such limitation and such mundaneness when our own nervous systems, and the ecology around us, and our own history over the past half million years argues that this is what we were born and bred for. This is where we belong. This is what ‘at play in the fields of the Godd... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-29 | believe it’s called ‘Labyrinths’ – and in Labyrinths there is a short story called ‘The Sect of the Phoenix’ and it says ‘There is a sacrament older than mankind. The sectarians have been the victims of every persecution in human history, and the sectarians have been the purveyors of every persecution in history. These... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-30 | the secret! It is, it is! It cannot be anything else. It is the neoplatonic One. It is the trans-substantiant object – the panis supersubstantialis of the alchemists. I’m not saying that people have known about this for a long time. DMT is in many plants as I said, but spread very thinly and we don’t have historical re... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-31 | one of the campesinos comes rushing back from having encountered a brontosaur in the forest, and he can only point inarticulately at the woods and say ‘something, something, something, something!!’ And that’s what I am! I’m a monkey. And I’ve come back to the troop, and I’m telling you there’s something over the next h... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
f97ddb17f28e-32 | what this thing is. It’s another dimension. It is literally another dimension. I took DMT to a lama of great accomplishment, not one of the grab-ass can of Budweiser welded to the good right hand lamas but a real lama. This guy was over 90 when he smoked DMT and since his wheel has turned. And he said to me ‘it’s the l... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Rap+Dancing+Into+the+Third+Millenium |
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