Showing posts with label Terence Mckenna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terence Mckenna. Show all posts

Sense Of Unity

Unity is the concept behind the artwork. An analogy would be the way in which a conductor directs a wide variety of instruments in an orchestra to produce a symphony that is recognized as a single comprehensible piece. Unity is how well different parts of an artwork build on each other.

Four on Reality

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there's no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves. - Bill Hicks

Reality and Life

Reality is the state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or may be thought to be. In a wider definition, reality includes everything that is and has been, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible. A still more broad definition includes everything that has existed, exists, or will exist, not just in the mind, or even more broadly also including what is only in the mind.

Historically, philosophers have sometimes considered reality to include nonexistent things such as "gold mountains" in a sense referred to as a subsistence, as well. By contrast existence is often restricted solely to being (compare with nature).
Reality is often contrasted with what is imaginary, delusional, in the mind, dreams, what is abstract, what is false, or what is fictional. To reify is to make more real, and to abstract is the opposite. The truth refers to what is real, while falsity refers to what is not. Fictions are not considered real.

It is always contrasted with what is not so included, as being not real, so the term is somewhat ambiguous in its contradictory usages.

Free Your Mind

"In a sense we're all artists because we're all creative beings. Terence McKenna advocates self-creation rather than compliance with an imposed cultural paradigm"
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Birth of the Human Imagination

McKenna waxes poetic about the very intimate relationship that humans have with the imagination. He uses the metaphor of birth to describe the consequence of an animal with a direct connection to this source and the ability to order ideas into matter.

Culture Is Your Operating System

Terence McKenna and his idea of extropy is explained through the window of opportunity we can call novelty.
One of Terence McKenna's most widely promulgated ideas is known as Novelty theory. It predicts the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. McKenna developed the theory in the mid 1970s after his experiences in the Amazon at La Chorrera led him to closely study the King Wen sequence of the I-Ching. Novelty theory involves ontology, extropy, and eschatology

The Goddess

what "real science" may be, I do not know... science can only be applied within a cultural context. Every scientist is first and foremost a subjective human being who is a member of a historically conditioned society with certain unconscious values and underlying mythological assumptions.

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