That’s the best part of a trip. That moment when you’re at a loss for words, concepts and any mental control over what’s going on and your world just fills up with light, the mind goes silent and gives up trying to analyze. The best part of the trip, is the part you can’t tell anyone else about. Not because you’re afraid to, but because it’s impossible. And yet because of its impossibility and silencing of the mind, it’s incredibly nourishing and healing.
Perhaps this condition can never be satisfactorily conveyed. Perhaps this is what it means to be an individual—to have experiences that cannot be absorbed and replicated by language.
This is why it is difficult to not only talk to others about the psychedelic experience sufficiently but to also have an internal monologue that accurately describes ones experience during the experience. As a result, we often hear about the ineffability of the psychedelic experience. There is a point when one reaches an intellectual impasse and comes to a state of silent awe.
Yes, I agree. The psychedelic experience is two-fold, perceptual and interpretive. As you said, we are very much conditioned by our socio-cultural environments. An instrumental part of this conditioning is language itself. As Heidegger claims, we do not speak language: language speaks us. We are born in a matrix of language and it is to this common denominator that we are bound when attempting to interpret our most personal and intimate experiences.
@Kaniki80 untill you break out of the things that make you not beleive in yourself and it opens your mind to new ideas and things beyond your imagination, its almost as if you get a fresh start at life again everything seems new to you again, as if you were a child, you almost have a attitude of a child, more carring about the environment and life in general, it can make you want to learn a lot of shit, make you think differntly, their is no more biest attitutude, facts are all that matter.
@Kaniki80 well you have to undergo the psychadelic experince in your life to understand and Feel where hes comeing from, dont get me wrong but you would have had to undergo his experince to understand his experince, psychadelics really help you understand how primitive we actually are in our minds, and it allows for a bypass of this set concioussness thats been programed from years of constant conditioning to the environment and the civilization in it, its almost as if their is no free will.
Ha ha, that’s funny. Before checking the comments, I was thinking, wow, a video where McKenna actually articulates his thoughts lucidly. I typically find his ideas brilliant but rather anemic in terms of providing specific examples of what he’s talking about. He’s always enjoyable to listen to, nonetheless.
He does appear slightly out of it here almost like his on a trip – stoned – his eyes are not as wide as they usually are – look at him stutter and hesitate after the other guy’s interuptive contribution
this good man went to soon RIP
Cool dude.
I looooove this man <3
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@Kaniki80
That’s the best part of a trip. That moment when you’re at a loss for words, concepts and any mental control over what’s going on and your world just fills up with light, the mind goes silent and gives up trying to analyze. The best part of the trip, is the part you can’t tell anyone else about. Not because you’re afraid to, but because it’s impossible. And yet because of its impossibility and silencing of the mind, it’s incredibly nourishing and healing.
@Sisiutlforyou
You’ll never go where he did without them. You people are ridiculous.
Why do great people who speak TRUTH die young…..John Lennon, Terence Mckenna, BIll Hicks. and so many others.
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I uploaded every Terence recording I could find into the 13Gb “The Complete Terence Mckenna Collection” to PirateBay! Please Seed!
Bingo is dead alas.
excellent
*watches in TEXTp*
lolwut
when he said animal he ment it is a symbol for a different behavior
he speaks truth
Perhaps this condition can never be satisfactorily conveyed. Perhaps this is what it means to be an individual—to have experiences that cannot be absorbed and replicated by language.
This is why it is difficult to not only talk to others about the psychedelic experience sufficiently but to also have an internal monologue that accurately describes ones experience during the experience. As a result, we often hear about the ineffability of the psychedelic experience. There is a point when one reaches an intellectual impasse and comes to a state of silent awe.
Yes, I agree. The psychedelic experience is two-fold, perceptual and interpretive. As you said, we are very much conditioned by our socio-cultural environments. An instrumental part of this conditioning is language itself. As Heidegger claims, we do not speak language: language speaks us. We are born in a matrix of language and it is to this common denominator that we are bound when attempting to interpret our most personal and intimate experiences.
@Kaniki80 untill you break out of the things that make you not beleive in yourself and it opens your mind to new ideas and things beyond your imagination, its almost as if you get a fresh start at life again everything seems new to you again, as if you were a child, you almost have a attitude of a child, more carring about the environment and life in general, it can make you want to learn a lot of shit, make you think differntly, their is no more biest attitutude, facts are all that matter.
@Kaniki80 well you have to undergo the psychadelic experince in your life to understand and Feel where hes comeing from, dont get me wrong but you would have had to undergo his experince to understand his experince, psychadelics really help you understand how primitive we actually are in our minds, and it allows for a bypass of this set concioussness thats been programed from years of constant conditioning to the environment and the civilization in it, its almost as if their is no free will.
Ha ha, that’s funny. Before checking the comments, I was thinking, wow, a video where McKenna actually articulates his thoughts lucidly. I typically find his ideas brilliant but rather anemic in terms of providing specific examples of what he’s talking about. He’s always enjoyable to listen to, nonetheless.
He does appear slightly out of it here almost like his on a trip – stoned – his eyes are not as wide as they usually are – look at him stutter and hesitate after the other guy’s interuptive contribution
does any1 know of the best playlist of his work or the best video? i want to introduce him to some peers
WHY oh WHY isn’t he still alive?!
At least his words and wisdom will live on!
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i totally get it…