Terence McKenna - Mushrooms, Evolution, and the Millennium 

I’ve literally listened too this 100 times over the last ten years now 🤯

McKenna, you will be missed. I cannot with human vocabulary, describe the level to which I truly & genuinely without even having ever met you in person, miss you on this Earth.

"Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half baked moron, consuming all this trash that's been manufactured out of a dying world." - McKenna

Best audio quality I've heard an any McKenna recording period..... me likey

Mushrooms are powerful medicine and are no joke. I ate 3.5 grams, had a wacky and fun visual experience for an hour or so, and then the challenging trip began. Once it was over I was a figurative Scrooge running through the streets of Victorian London at the conclusion of "A Christmas Carol," so desperate was I to make up for my short comings. Mushrooms mentally purge you, and once you've had a good trip all the way through you'll know, for the time-being at least, that you are doing a good job at life.

this is absolutely brilliant. if more people were half this intelligent, this species might well survive.

You can almost throw out the saying 'the best things cant be said' when listening to Terence

I took an epic dose yesterday. I didn't get any visuals or a trip. but I did talk to my dead father telepathically. and several other dead people. very strange experience and not all of it was pleasant. I'm still pretty shaken by it, but I'm glad I did it.

"and so forth and so on...." i dont know why i get such a kick out of when he always says this

This particular lecture almost made me cry. Almost like his words bring about a notch less than complete break through to what the spirit itself tries to get off it's chest throughout the time that man has been aggressive, and animalistic toward each other. Also, the shrooms I ate before listening to this, just pushes the emotions of self to the forefront of the conscious mind. Peace be with everyone who listens to these lectures, hoping to gain truth from beyond the veil of what man has been regurgitating as such based off man's own experience, while not traveling from beyond the realm of man, being afraid of having to possibly change its archaic perception of morality.

I’ve only just discovered an interest in the capabilities and applications of Magic Mushrooms and psychedelics.. this talk is in a language I’ve never found anywhere else and I feel like it talks to my soul and begins to answer all the questions I’ve held deep in my conscious for most of my life..

Brothers, sisters, you are not alone. There is love in existence. You are felt!

Terence’s intelligence and passion always shines through. Can’t think of anyone his equal living today. Thank god he left behind a permanent record of his thoughts.

Love this man. "Take it easy, BUT take it!"

Just ate 6 grams of Cambodians. Gonna let this play and begin drawing. Bless every once of you ❤

Single most eloquent, delightful and informative speaker of our lifetime.

McKenna possessed what makes us all so very human. He was a searcher. He asked why, he needed to know why. It is this that makes us all so very human. At my heart I have many desires and needs, but most of all, I think I can honestly say that I want to know as many men before me wanted to, I want to know why, and science by it’s own nature is limited, this I know for sure. I don’t think we necessarily need psychedelics necessarily to attain this, as this man believed also. He just wasn’t hardlined against psychedelics as a way of searching. You really can’t be a true searcher unless you’re hardlined against anything except evil, you can’t lose yourself in your search. - my own opinion

See, true genius in the modern world is about being the idea connector. We actually need people like Einstein and Terrence McKenna . I put them in the same sentence because they share the same qualities in which made them both generate genius. They read and read and connect all the great ideas together to visualise abstract concepts. I believe that’ is what genius is.

Love you mckenna! Wherever you are! You are the best thing to happen to society! If only you were still here to see the appreciation the world has for you now!

2018 from Toronto Ontario. We still believe.

Listening to this stoned is seriously trippy. One of the best if not the best talk I’ve ever listened to.

I love this man, he and Watts saved my life, and I find it comforting somehow that the day he was born (16th of Nov.) is the same day Alan Watts died. "First world" people often look down on what we call "third world people", as if they are lesser people and we (1st world people) are more evolved somehow. I love to travel and had the honor to meet quite a lot of different people and what stood out for me is that when I approach a person on the street in a "1st world country" they look at me with distrust and a look of "what do you want from me". But when I meet a person in a 3rd world country I get a smile, and often one of the 1st things they want to do is give me food and introduce me to their families (I`m not talking about people who live in poverty because some greedy people exploit them). To me this says that they are happier people, and then I question myself; "Who are the 3rd world people, they...or the people in 1st world countries ?" Sometime it looks as if evolution is going backwards in "the west". I thank you for this beautiful upload...and I wish everybody a healthy, happy, and magical life 🙏🍄🌎☮

46:38 scared the shit out of me lol

Mushrooms with Honey is the best way,flavour wise and more euphoria 👁️

Tripping hard af right now. The greatest trip ive ever had

One of the most engaging speakers of all time ! Legendary

This is his "stoned ape" theory explained. Great video.

Shrooms fixed me, for real

Wonderful man. I love him. Thank you for keeping his heritage alive!

He tells us it's up to us or be history FFS xxxxx I love Terrance McKenna I stumbled across him by chance or maybe fate I don't know but all I know is everything he has said in all his talks just makes sense every talk I've listened to I have moments of wow I can't be the only one let's start taking a new direction to our civilisation or we will fail to carry on our history as a species

Listened to this while tripping and 46:37 sent me into a full on panic attack

Fantastic! Absolutly fantastic! Its amazing that only earlier in the week was I contemplating how psychedelics may hold evolutionary keys for humanity to evolve further into amazing creatures, and then to find this?! I am astounded at how the world works and things come together like this. Thank you for sharing!

I’ve always always felt nostalgia for a time when we were forest dwelling plant and fungi eaters. I could never explain it.

46:38 I thought I was subject to an involuntary dimensional shift. I had prepared for death in a split second....

Has to be my favourite Terence recording, it fits with us right now.

This man was way way ahead of his time!

Thank you for uploading! His eloquence his a pure delight and his knowledge is truly inspiring. We miss you terence

Listening to this for probably the 50th time, 3rd time this year, Dec 2021

That audible oddity around 046:50 scared the shit out of me. I'm sober and I thought for sure I'd somehow accessed impossible knowledge (directly or indirectly correlated to this) without realizing it and that reality was about to get weird as a consequence.

I need to go through utterly challenging and excruciatingly exhausted work to change my life back to how it was. I know where to start. Thank you Terrence, for fueling me with belief by your great lessons.

Take it easy, but...TAKE IT! Absolutely brilliant!

"All of these things are the unique contribution made to reality-existence if you will. By the existence of the qualities in us which we call humanness, which sets us aside from the rest of organic existence."

How come this brand new talk out of no-where? I've not heard before, the audio quality is awesome. I want to re-upload, I wont run into copyright issues, will I?

This is mind melting.

Great audio quality, thanks for the upload.

46:37 Wtf was that, scared the shit out of me, thought it was the devil

I understood that all life was connected and truly needed to work together to continue to work together and without selfish decisions for self. I love this man's wisdom I found this knowledge on lsd and was 17 downtown Leslie Michigan at the railroad bridge. Enlightenment..

A Lovely way to listen...is to open another youtube window and play something like 963hz solfeggio tone or the Love frequency tone vibrations in the background. Thank you...just Beautiful x

One of the best talks I've heard of his yet!!!

46:38 audio glitch here scared TF out of me

WOW! Thank you so much. This talk was outstanding and quite confronting! Perhaps together we can come up with some way to hack into, and then play this very tour over every television station and radio frequency on the planet at the same time! Just joking, but this has really inspired me to do SOMETHING. At this point, I have absolutely no idea what, however I am going to sit on this. Does anybody have any thoughts? I think it's time we really came together and created one single, and very large online community in an attempt to speed up the spreading and acceptance of this type of necessary information about our harsh reality. Peace.

4:27 Love how honest he is here.

I was on shrooms not to long ago and i was thinking of this theory and i basically saw it happen and then put pieces together you know?? seems that the genius is living thru me lol thank you for this video

It's just a shame we only allow small test groups to try mushrooms to treat depression and anxiety it should be giving to everyone it should not be illegal by any means

Yeah the endless loop… you can only dip your toes in, and you can bring back less than wet toes from it. Like Terrance said in a metaphor, “Our brain is the dipstick, stuck into the crank case of the mind” So that you can dive in a try to find information (oil level) but all you are is a dipstick, and the interior workings of the engine will always be a mystery, and all you can take back with you is the notion that “yup the oil level is good/bad” So basically you can only see a tiny portion of what actually is happening, and beyond that you can only see a tiny portion of what actually applies to you. And even beyond that, we have to describe the rest it in metaphors relating to engines😂 and other things that are easily understandable. It is a complete loop. We can experience infinity but can only bring back the finite, which can only be communicated using metaphors which implicate infinity. Which cannot be understood. So it’s like we can gain and understanding of that which is ineffable and cannot be explained or understood, and through understanding the unknown, we know that the unknown is unable to be understood The loop requires individual perspective to give it meaning. And even then meaning in subjective. It all just dissolves in your hands like sand… the more you understand the less you understand. Like this “I KNOW, that the unknown is unknowable” so what do you really know? At this point what can even be known? You already know that the unknown is unknowable but that creates the question, “what do I even know?” And the resounding answer is that you know nothing. You can run around in circles and circles about trying to know what cannot be known but in my mind, the answers is that nothing is known, nothing is understood, and before us stand the “reality” of life. Which is that nobody knows anything. Nothing can ever be known. Things can be experienced and felt but their “mechanism” the reason for their behavior, the reason for why things are the way they are, cannot be known. Reality, true reality is beyond our capabilities of understanding. This is why we find ourselves in thought loops. “I know that I don’t know that I know that I don’t know that I know that I don’t know” Nobody knows anything. No intelligent person CAN k n o w Anything. Damn look at me transcending reality The smarter the person, the more the subject of the unknown looms above their head. Only simple people “know” things I must be Jesus or sumn cuz I just had a revaluation, and a revelation. The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know What the fuck is that shit reality is a sadistic and extremely dark humorous bastard LOL This all brings me to The paradox of knowing

Great audio, for what its worth, I threw it in mono because the stereo channel seemed unbalanced but the audio was crispy

46:38. Looks like we lost another one to Hyperspace. 😂

Great art! Science are camp fire stories 🔥 All of us will experience the different dimensions of these stories yet it remains up to us whether or not we want to be heroic on our journey. Can we overcome the self on this heroes’ journey ? Peace and love.

I like that he admits that he hasn't had many original ideas.

Terence is such a brilliant presenter! Fabulous word selection and delivery, and hes totally hilarious! Very fucking fascinating stuff!!

“We now are the inheritors of a planet that is dying under anesthesia. Our entire cultural crisis is predicated on the fact that we cannot feel or connect with the consequences of our history. That we have behaved very badly(we of the high tech societies), we have trashed gender relationships, we have trashed aboriginal societies, we have cut down the rainforests, we have robbed our own children of a future as rich as a future that we expect ourselves to enjoy. There isn’t even a name for this sin, where you destroy the opportunity of your own children, I mean no society has been that perverse. And we’re doing it under a massive infusion of alcohol laced with monotheistic moral propaganda.” - Terence McKenna

here we have, if you want, a holy man, someone who is combinding heart and mind. Is he right you might ask... maby not, maby he is. But he is a self reflection being, some one who finds meaning in him self and in the mean of others.

Mushrooms are one of my favorite foods ❤️

when he talks about the honey in to alcohol make so much sense

The challenge in thinking the mushroom is a kind of ''sentient being'' is that it doesn't care if the host (you) wind up in prison or the hospital or dead. Mushrooms feast on rotting carbon based life forms. "It'' is using the human being to become an ambulatory fungus.

Terence talks always good

great talk, thanks. Never heard this one. Probably one of the best explanations for SAT in any talk I've heard

Imagine if you could aerosolize psilocybin over a battlefield. Would continued aggression even be possible?

The small book "30 Days to Overcome Procrastination" by Corin Devaso is a nice book to have on hand. It uses a mindfulness and inquiry approach.

the way he talks kinda reminds me of a car struggling to stay running, slowly sputtering along hahaha

I dont like that he keeps pushing that you should keep taking those drugs. Once the drug shows you the unity of creation you have become initiated into the mysteries you can put the drugs down, you got the message hang up the phone. That is exactly what the Buddha meant when he said after you cross the river let the raft go.

.5 of mushrooms every morning and cannabis throughout the day has cured my PTSD.

I couldn't listen to enough of this.

So interesting. He even talks about sugar.

Kids with ADHD would probably react more strongly to sugar than to cocaine. Paradoxical reaction to stimulants means they wouldn't get anything but tired from the cocaine, whereas sugar is exciting.

Anyone else smoked some funny stuff or ate some weird fast foods filled with transmutational chemicals and sometimes even work psychedelicly? Once I drew a very powerful symbol faster than the speed of light. Something that amplified informational processing, into a magical flow that was dubbed 'torpedo sigil' or perhaps, as time will tell, a true harpoon. I am genuinely curious by other people's experiences related to the modern drugs, substances or chemicals, depending on what we talk about. As of late, certain foods stimulate my clarity and open up weird, new possible spirirual adventures. It can be terrifying and dreddful, as well as beautiful and magnificent

Firstly...just for the record!!! i wrote this issuing...and then discovered Terence x

oh, but what if Terence McKenna really saved the world, by dying in the one that ended in 2012; and through some weird spirit-mojo pact, that he worked-out with the multi- verse, we're all able to go on existing in a version of reality where the world didn't end.. that scenario would kind of make him seem a bit jesus-ish..

WARNING for anyone tripping or stoned as shit the sound goes crazy demonic at 46.39. It scared the fuck out of me hahaha

We live in a simulation and the life we are living now is the life we've once already lived and created. We will live in this simulation for eternity called eternal recurrence

I wonder if there are mushrooms on other planets?

McKenna is missing the mark a bit around ~1:11:30. The resource-abuse problem is not because of the "citizens" of high tech societies as much as it is the producers of the high tech. The idea of wealthy whites using more resources than tribal indigenous people is 100% true, but there's a deeper layer to the onion... The consumption is unnaturally high because there is a driving, underlying factor and that is the use of sophisticated marketing and advertising tactics that employ the use of behavioral psychology and neurolinguistic programming. Those wealthy whites who are over-consuming have been targeted more, induced into wanting and buying things they otherwise would, or at least might, not. The artificial demand is like a spell cast upon the citizenry by the marketing "wizards" who work for companies that have as their business plan the over-consumption of resources, and that first over-consume - then unload these resources at a profit. This is akin to how folks in 2022 are acting artificially dumber than they really are because of the media and the shunting/blocking of information. Yes, each of us is kind of dumb, but it's not hard to fathom how a lot of our ignorance isn't natural, but is rather, the result of our exposure to lies, PR manipulations, and our inheritance of bad "programs". Whether induced-consumption or induced-stupidity, the blame lies less on the end consumers of any demographic who are duped by the magician's sleight-of-hand than on the demographic of high tech pushers using what we might call "wizardry". Why else would they use such tactics? They know they can get way more folks buy their pillaged resources in the form or whatever products, than they would without using such tricky tactics. Conscious manipulators drive the very thing they deem to be the over-population problem, and then blame over-population - again in an unconscious attempt to hide their own conscious lies, manipulations, and self-consumption. "Did you eat ALL the cookies in the cookie jar?" - "No, it was my brother and sister." In truth, they had taken ALL the cookies to school, eaten a bunch of them, and sold the rest as though they were the most delicious and nutritious vegetables on the planet. And now it's the "vegetable-eaters" fault.

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My feelings of distress were also accompanied by ..."A Beautiful Juxtaposition"...

Upvote for the signal boost 🙏.

46:38 really almost f...ed me up xD

The artwork is simply the best

Amazing talk by a visionary. Too bad I way too little to to one his talk when we was around :( Hope to see u in the afterlife bro. On sugar, Arnold chwarzenegger in the 1970s called high refined sugar as his biggest enemy and termed it as 'White Death' , I have consciosuly given up sugar for over 7 years other than the occassional cake, mufffin etc here and there and it has never felt better.

Terence 2021!

Imagine the unsuspecting primate who stumbled upon a sizly patch of psychedelic mushrooms and ate his fill.

And "So..It Goes!!!" x

Love it. That part where he makes up words got me

Exactly they gave the next generation mushrooms too

First grasslands appeared in South America 38 millions years ago, so they cannot be the result of humans burning the forests. It is true that some grasslands are the result of human activity, but saying that grasslands can't exist without humans is a little bit of a stretch.

Thank you for posting this.

Thank you for uploading this!

What a talk.. i am thrilled

When gathering magic shrooms, one can find them much more easily, while having some already in your system.

The word, "malaki" never sounded better than from Terences' lips!

If the ego used to be a god, maybe that's why caffeine makes me feel the way I imagine omnipotence would. I react weirdly to stimulants, and unusually positively to this one, and I'm not giving up my caffeine for your better world. I'll switch to yaupon or locally grown tea as the source if we need to reduce our transport costs, and I'll happily stay away from alcohol, but I'm keeping my caffeine.