09.09.09 1) Terence_McKenna - download
Ah - you know, Self transforming Elf machines from hyper--------space. No one of us, I think can imagine that history could go on for another 1000 years. i mean what would it look like? rate of invention, connectivity, depletion of resources, the atmosphere - it is impossible to conceive of another 1000 years of human history - history then is ending... History is a kind of gestation process. Its a kind of metamorphosis - its an episode! - intermediate resting stage, where the caterpillar is for all practical purposes - enzymatically dissolved - and then reconstituted - as an entirely different kind of organism. With different physical structures, different eyes, different legs, with a different kind of feeding apparatus - where no wings were before.... This is what's happening to us. and it ends - with a human machine planet girdling interface, capable of releasing the energies that light the stars. Well - its a period of high risk. Its like what a butterfly is doing in a cocoon - or what is happening to a child in the womb. Its a gestation process - where one form of life is being changed into another. Its a gestation process - where one form of life is being changed into another. With wings where no wings were before.... The universe didn't begin in a singularity - but the universe ends in a singularity. It has been growing more singular, more complex, more unique, more novel - every passing moment since it burst into existence. History isn't just a story of bad people doing bad things. The self you were really intended to be - Something coming down from the world of light, and power, and knowledge. From the beginning to the end of the world - Everyone's heard of evolution. How men evolve from lower types of life. The next step has already appeared. The next step is from being mere creatures - The next step has already appeared. But somehow something goes wrong. And people often ask - What's the next step? The next step is from being mere creatures - to being sons of God. But somehow something goes wrong.
Pushing in the direction of less freedom - There are a number of technological devices - which anybody who wishes to use - can use - to accelerate this process - of going away from freedom - of imposing control. Pushing in the direction of less freedom - Pushing - Pushiiing - Pushiiiiiing -Pushiiiiiiiiiing less freedom - less and less freedom - less and less and less freedom - freedom? ah - as technology becomes more and more complicated - it becomes necessary to have more and more elaborate organization... We may have drugs which will profoundly change our mental states - Without doing us any harm. ...He was using every modern device at that time - he didn't have TV, What I feel very strongly is that we mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advance in technology - this has happened again and again in history - I postulated a substance called Soma,
What do you think of LSD? Well he said I know some hate his guts but I think he's the greatest president we ever had. ummhumm And what do you think of marijuana? Well as for marijuana, my wife and I spent a week there last year and it's terrific! ummhumm The thing that holds the world together is sound. Resonance. Auditory space is a very peculiar thing and we live in echo land now. In a simultaneous - instantaneous - all at once - electric world. Auditory space is a very peculiar thing and we live in echo land now. That is echo land. And it happened to be auditory echo land. And I said the medium is the message you've nothing to fear. I can say that to you. The medium is the message you've nothing to fear. The book is a very special form of communication. It is unique. And it will persist. I would suggest that one of the main reasons for its persistence in the future will be scriptural study. It is unique. And it will persist. - And that is auditory space. Auditory space has a very peculiar property - It is a perfect sphere who's center is everywhere and who's margin is nowhere. It is totally non visual and non visualizable. It is a perfect sphere who's center is everywhere and who's margin is nowhere. It is totally non visual and non visualizable. The printed page which you provide for school children is useless for the TV child. The TV child is a cyclops - he only uses one eye. He is not a reader. He's a hunter. He is not a reader. He's a hunter. He is not a reader. He's a - There are not two alphabets there is only one alphabet that creates civilization and that's the phonetic alphabet. The Hebrew alphabet does not do this. Sound - The Arabic alphabet does not do this. Resonance - The Chinese and Japanese letters or ideograms do not create literacy - in any - sense - at all. Literacy consist in separating the "I" from the other senses, Creating euclidean space. And creating all the illusions of rationality, And uniformity. And the continuum of existence. There are lots of things better then civilization but if you like civilization that's the end of it...
I had the feeling like I saw the world - as it really is. If you have open eyes you see it as it really is - And this gave me the security - if you have open eyes - Wonderful!
To turn on you have to have a key - Now how do you turn on? Well I'll tell you this - Teaching people how to use their head... The point is - You have to go out of your mind to lose your head. Think that man's technology is creative - can be dangerous - Energy language... You got to use your head to operate your brain - And its amazing isn't it? Cause the brain designs reality.
Where by we switch - From one attitude to another - One situation to another - And this pulse - Switch situation - Is the very nature of existence - That's why your heart does that - That's why all sounds - All light - Everything! - Is going - bleep - bleep - bleep.... And see because of that - bleep - you know you're here. You have absolutely no fear of pain - You have no anxieties - You have no hang ups. The man who woke up - From the dream - Of life as we ordinarily take it to be - And found out - Who he was - Who he is - Everybody has in himself the capacity to wake up - From the illusion - It's simply pointing out, like - If you put your hand in the fire you'll get burned - If it so happens that you don't want to get burned - These keys are to unlock doors - Out of your present prison - Doors opening on new vistas - Doors beyond where you are now. Our main problem - in the universe and in realities which we do not talk about or perceive - of a self beyond our present self - directly in our present state - the superself - being present - we will illustrate by using one problem in human existence - repeating words... somehow... is a set of hindrances... communicates.. and repeat.. a set of evasions... feeling, thinking action... a set of refusals to see.. again and again and again.. in both directions. Somehow communicates in both directions... On these tapes are recorded what one says in one track - Deep empathy - And love.
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