Terence Mckenna: Reclaim Your Mind

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Terence waxes poetic


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARIG-BQRATs

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He gets it.

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'We are, in fact, closing distance with the most profound event a planetary ecology can encounter - the freeing of life from the dark chrysalis of matter. The old metaphor of psyche as the caterpillar transformed by metamorphosis is a specieswide analogy. We must undergo a metamorphosis in order to survive the momentum of the historical forces already set in motion.
Evolutionary biologists consider humans to be an unevolving species. Some time in the last fifty thousand years, with the invention of culture, the biological evolution of humans ceased and evolution became an epigenetic, cultural phenomenon. Tools, languages, and philosophies began to evolve, but the human somatotype remained the same. Hence, physically, we are very much like people of a long time ago. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material, be it print, media or communication tools. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelery, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. The body itself can become an internalized holographic object embedded in a solid-state, hyperdimensional matrix that is eternal, so that we each may wander through a true Elysium.'
Terence McKenna