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Terence McKenna and Spacetime Continuum - Alien Dreamtime (93 ^ 136mb)
Terence McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was a writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist. He is noted for his many speculations on the use of psychedelic, plant-based hallucinogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, the development of human consciousness, and the novelty theory. At age 16, McKenna moved to, Los Altos, California. He was introduced to psychedelics through reading The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley and Village Voice. One of his early experiences with them came through morning glory seeds (containing LSA), which he claimed showed him "that there was something there worth pursuing.". He spent the years after his graduation (degree in Ecology and Conservation) teaching English in Japan, traveling through India and South Asia collecting butterflies for biological supply companies, and smuggling hashish into the United States. Together with his brother he travelled to Columbia checking out the psychedelic snuff called yopo, at the urging of his brother, he took the shamen substance.( The effects of properly made insufflated yopo are similar to the effects of vaporized DMT but much longer in duration. The effects begin approximately 15-30 minutes after insufflation and can last up to 2-3 hours,the mind normally remains clear and focused during the entire experience ). As a consequence Terrance claimed it put him in contact with Logos: an informative, hallucinatory voice he believed was universal to visionary religious experience. The revelations of this voice, and his brother's peculiar experience during the experiment, prompted him to explore the structure of an early form of the I Ching, which led to his "Novelty Theory".
In the early 1980s, McKenna began to speak publicly on the topic of psychedelic drugs, lecturing extensively and conducting weekend workshops, repeatedly stressing the importance of the primacy of felt experience as opposed to dogmatic ideologies. In addition to psychedelic drugs, McKenna spoke on the subjects of virtual reality (which he saw as a way to artistically communicate the experience of psychedelics), techno-paganism, artificial intelligence, evolution, extraterrestrials, and aesthetic theory (art/visual experience as information-- representing the significance of hallucinatory visions experienced under the influence of psychedelics). He advised the taking of psychedelic mushrooms, in both low and high doses, alone and with others.He remained opposed to most forms of organized religion or guru-based forms of spiritual awakening. He believed DMT was the apotheosis of the psychedelic experience and spoke of the "jeweled, self-dribbling basketballs" or "self-transforming machine elves" that one encounters in that state.
McKenna also co-founded Botanical Dimensions with Kathleen Harrison (his colleague and wife of 17 years), a non-profit ethnobotanical preserve on the island of Hawaii, where he lived for many years before he died. A longtime sufferer of migraines, in mid-1999 McKenna returned to his home in Hawaii after a long and tiring lecturing tour. He began to suffer from increasingly painful headaches. This culminated in a brain seizure, which led to McKenna being diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.He died 53 years old on April 3, 2000, alongside his loved ones.
Stoned Ape
Perhaps the most famous of Terence McKenna's theories and observations is his explanation for the origin of the human mind and culture. McKenna theorized that as the North African jungles receded toward the end of the most recent ice age, giving way to grasslands, a branch of our tree-dwelling primate ancestors left the branches and took up a life out in the open — following around herds of ungulates, nibbling what they could along the way. Among the new items in their diet were psilocybin-containing mushrooms growing in the dung of these ungulate herds. McKenna, claimed enhancement of visual acuity as an effect of psilocybin at low doses, and supposed that this would have conferred an adaptive advantage. He also argued that the effects of slightly larger doses, including a physical sexual arousal (obviously, not reported as a typical effect in scientific studies) — and in still larger doses, ecstatic hallucinations and glossolalia — gave evolutionary advantages to those tribes who partook of it.
Novelty theory/Timewave zero
One of 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.The theory proposes that the universe is an engine designed for the production and conservation of novelty. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness. According to McKenna, when novelty is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as "timewave zero" or simply the "timewave" results. The graph shows at what time periods, but never at what locations, novelty increases or decreases.
This universal algorithm has also been extrapolated to be a model for future events. McKenna admitted to the expectation of a "singularity of novelty", and that he and his colleagues projected many hundreds of years into the future to find when this singularity (runaway "newness" ) could occur. The graph had many enormous fluctuations over the last 25,000 years, but amazingly, it hit an asymptote at exactly December 22, 2012, in other words, entropy (or habituation) no longer exists after that date.Basically it's impossible to define that state. The technological singularity concept parallels this, only at a date roughly three decades later. Terrence claimed to have no knowledge of the Mayan calendar, which ends one day before the Timewave graph does: December 21, 2012, this is likely to be true as Mckennas timewave theory was published in The Invisible Landscape 12 years before the book which brought the Mayan calendar into public consciousness.
Alien Dreamtime (93 ^75mb)
01 - Archaic Revival (12:02)
02 - Transient Generator (7:33)
03 - Alien Love (7:09)
04 - Speaking In Tongues (10:33)
Alien Dreamtime 2 (93 ^61mb)
05 - Aerobatic (6:32)
06 - Timewave Zero (21:09)
great site on McKenna
33 mp3 files of talks for download
Novelty Theory @ Wiki
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The Cosmic Jokers - (74 ^ 96mb)
From February to May of 1973 Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser organized a series of psychedelic jam sessions at Studio Dierks. Apparently the musicians were all high on acid and didn't even notice they were being recorded (at least in the case of Klaus Schulze). In any case, the following year Kaiser took the tapes from these sessions, edited and mixed them with Dierks, and released them on his label, Kosmische Musik, complete with the musicians' pictures on the LP sleeve, without asking for their permission. While none of the other musicians (Manuel Göttsching , Jurgen Dollase and Harold Grosskopf of Wallenstein) were very happy with the recordings, Klaus Schulze was so angry after the release of the fourth release within a year from these sessions, Gilles Zeitschiff with added narration mostly by Kaisers girlfriend Gille Lettmann, that he sued Kaiser. In 1975, Kaiser was forced to discontinue and withdraw the recordings, and he fled the country over the affair, abandoning the record label over the threat of impending legal problems.
Even so, the Cosmic Jokers album (the first session release) represents cosmic/space rock music at its finest. Galactic Joke is more a guitar orientated track with Gottsching unique style (free form rock meet spacey arrangements). The second track is more meditative, dominated by intergalactic keyboards, doom-laden bass guitar lines & hypnotic helicopter drums pattern, presented in the quadrophonic format.
01 - Galactic Joke (22:16)
02 - Cosmic Joy (18:57)
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