Lotus Wind
A brief spoken fragment from Terence McKenna's archive, running just under five minutes. The piece unfolds as a poetic meditation on cosmic rebirth and the transience of human life - from the flaking of flint and building of temples through to the present moment as witness to a new cosmic order. Nothing persists: not fortune, not sorrow, not even the self - everything fades away, a paradox that yields both exultation and despair. The brevity and intensity make it a powerful distillation of McKenna's vision on time, entropy, and human meaning-making.
transcriptmachine-transcribed, unedited
What is happening here is not the death of a species or the death of a planetary
Ecosystem what is happening here is the birth of a new cosmic order
All that we can see of it at this point in time is the rosy glow of its promise
Dawn is breaking over jerusalem
The east is streaked with red
Is the process that was served by the chipping of the first flint the raising of the first temple the offering of the first
sacrifice and we
Now are in a position to understand this to appreciate this process and to communicate it
To other people is our great bugaboo
Because we are born into the realization
That everything is slipping through our fingers at the very moment that it comes into existence
It's a cause for exaltation. It's a cause for despair. It's that nothing lasts
nothing
lasts
Not your fortune
Not your misfortune
Not your lovers your enemies your children ultimately not even your own life and body
Everything fades
Not your fortune
You
I
You
I
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