You Get Elves, Everybody Does

A Terence McKenna talk on the reliability of DMT contact and why encounters with autonomous entities are so consistent across users. Drawing on the hermetic principle of 'as without, so within,' McKenna connects this phenomenon to larger questions about consciousness and the nature of reality itself. The piece concentrates some of his most direct observations on what may be the most striking universal phenomenon in the psychedelic experience.
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What we drug people have that you don't is repeatability.
Huge mass movements of power and efficiency.
It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get L's.
Everybody does.
I have always suspected that either of the great religious teachers were completely irrelevant.
All you need to do is inhale deeply, three times, and, you know, you want contact, you want L's, you want alien intelligence, you'll have enough to consume.
It was not of some kind of pious hope, but in fact an observation.
The Amazon face and, uh, experimenting with mushrooms.
Exactly.
That's something else that most Americans and Westerns don't realize, that the science of consciousness is just as regular, just as lawful, and as complicated as the science of energies outside.
One of the early mottos of my profession was the hermetic code.
Seeming to divide my consciousness and send it all back through my family tree.
Uh, uh, uh, was, uh, a hermetic code.
The future.
I seem to see all the years still ahead.
On the emerald tablet of Hermes back in Alexandria's.
I saw some technique emerging from this contact.
What is without is within.
Our career is perceived across the time of space.
That's simply reminding us that there's no energy transformation that you find outside around you.
And finally vindication is the one to realize the truth of the trans-dimensional nature.
It's recorded when you go to, uh, historical records inside your body.
The strafarious nations.
And the true nearings of the gods that they have filed like them.
For is it become my belief that the contact with any intelligent and utterly alien machine
that we see here in the world.
And out of the world, I took the cosmic time.
The novelty of novelties.
When it comes to space exploration.
As I have taken LSD and hurtled them around inside inner space.
There are all sorts of unidentified flying objects.
In the metaphorical sense that, uh.
So, I think what the government was doing at the time was a reasonable, in some ways, response.
They, uh, felt there was an epidemic.
There was a major problem happening.
And there, and there probably was.
What?
To begin.
We were among the first to achieve all the time.
With this other.
It was the real thing.
All night long.
Strange vistas and insides.
For its moon.
No big deal.
Return.
To the source.
You are the Buddha.
Return.
To see.
I feel my self sincere.
I don't have vision.
Power.
More.






