dennis mckenna's 2008 talk at the fourth annual amazonian shamanism conference. speaking without prepared remarks, he explores ayahuasca as a planetary teacher, the scientific stud

terence mckenna answering audience questions about artificial intelligence, machine consciousness, and the future of human-machine coevolution

a 1998 trialogue between terence mckenna, rupert sheldrake, and ralph abraham. three perspectives on the evolution of consciousness and the evolutionary mind.

terence mckenna's lecture on plant alkaloids, secondary metabolites, and the evolutionary relationship between plants and humans through biochemical innovation.

terence mckenna on the UFO phenomenon, examining contact experiences, jung's depth psychology, and the notion that UFOs may be an assertion of the feminine into the male-dominated

terence mckenna's talk on imagination as the uniquely human faculty, exploring its evolutionary origins, its relationship to consciousness and perception, and its expression throug

terence mckenna on shamanism, psychedelia, and the archaic revival. he argues the psychedelic experience is a doorway out of dominator culture and back to the paleolithic conscious

terence mckenna on ayahuasca preparation and shamanic phenomenology. drawing from ethnographic research in the Amazon, a discussion of brewing techniques, sound-driven visions, and

terence mckenna on the neurological and anthropological foundations of human consciousness, arguing for psilocybin's role in our transition from animal to self-aware beings.

terence mckenna on sleep, wakefulness, and the dream-like nature of reality. he explores how contact with transcendent consciousness may require a certain unconsciousness and recep

terence mckenna's november 1982 lecture exploring shamanism, hallucinogens, and the psychological, biological, historical, and cosmic abysses confronting human existence

terence mckenna on james joyce's finnegan's wake as a work of psychedelic linguistic alchemy, where all narrative boundaries dissolve and language mirrors the mechanisms of conscio

terence mckenna's live lecture at the phoenix bookstore presenting his argument that psychedelic plants shaped human evolution and consciousness

terence mckenna's opening address at the inaugural albert hofmann foundation event in los angeles, celebrating fifty years of lsd research

terence mckenna on the earth's strategy for transcendence through machines and consciousness expansion as humanity interfaces with advancing technology

terence mckenna's lecture at earth trust foundation on psychedelics, shamanism, consciousness and the future of human culture.

terence mckenna returns to austin for a wide ranging discussion of psychedelics, technology, novelty theory and the balance between past stability and future freedom

terence mckenna's 1997 chicago lecture on consciousness, culture, psychedelics, and human evolutionary transformation.

terence mckenna on psychedelics as a philosophical tool, threading together astrophysical discovery, artificial intelligence, and the future of human consciousness expansion

the first cassette from terence mckenna's six-part 'history ends in green' series, exploring psychedelics' role in twentieth-century consciousness, the archaic revival, and the pla

terence mckenna describing the phenomenology of DMT, its appearance, the method of ingestion, the rapid onset, and the linguistic quality of the hallucinogenic state.

terence mckenna delivers a recorded lecture on marshall mcluhan, the media theorist who briefly dominated 1960s culture. He examines mcluhan's roots as a joyce scholar, his difficu

terence mckenna explores marshall mcluhan's media theory. a lecture on how print culture, television, and electronic media reshape consciousness and sensory ratios

terence mckenna's lecture on nature as the mirror of consciousness, the limits of scientific materialism, and why psychedelics matter to human evolution

a thirty-two-part workshop series of dialogues between terence mckenna and an interviewer on shamanism, technology, psychedelics, consciousness, and the sacred possibilities of ani

terence mckenna describing the dmt experience from ingestion through breakthrough and encounter with entities.

terence mckenna on creativity, shamanism, and psychedelic vision. the artist as shaman opening human consciousness to transcendental experience and cultural transformation

terence mckenna on art, consciousness, and psychedelics as a gateway to transcendent creativity and the moral imperative of vision

terence mckenna on recent astrophysical discoveries, the cosmological constant, and what they reveal about novelty theory, consciousness, and the role of psychedelics in human evol

terence mckenna's 1988 talk on botanical conservation, travel as spiritual practice, and the role of psychedelics in recovering direct experience

terence mckenna's workshop on plants and consciousness. a two-day lecture series exploring the psychological and mental interpenetration of plants and human beings.

terence mckenna on earth's path toward self-transcendence through technological development and the consciousness required to navigate machine-human symbiosis.

terence mckenna's 1982 esalen workshop on psilocybin as a path to altered consciousness and human evolution. explores how tryptamine experience anticipates the future development o

terence mckenna explores the nature of psychedelic experience, particularly dmt, describing decades of shamanic exploration and the entities encountered in altered states

terence mckenna examines marshall mcluhan's radical media theory, tracing how print and communication technologies reshaped human consciousness and built the foundations of western

terence mckenna addressing the jung society on ethnobotany, shamanism, and psychoactive plants as doorways to transpersonal consciousness

terence mckenna's 1984 mill valley workshop on shamanism and plant psychedelics. drawing from his 1982 amazon fieldwork, he traces ayahuasca's chemistry, ethnobotany, and role in a

terence mckenna explores planetary intelligence and the idea that all reality operates as code, from DNA to language to cosmic consciousness. the talk moves through hallucinations,

terence mckenna at starwood on dmt and the machine elves, exploring this powerful psychedelic as a gateway to another dimension and what it reveals about consciousness and death

terence mckenna on james joyce's finnegan's wake, exploring its psychedelic and apocalyptic dimensions as a hermetic text where all boundaries dissolve.

terence mckenna explores consciousness and time through psychedelic phenomenology, novelty theory, and the mystery of autonomous intelligences encountered in tryptamine states.

a terence mckenna lecture on virtual reality, shamanism, magic, and navigating a world where the boundary between simulation and reality has become fluid.

terence mckenna on a collaborative biomedical study of ayahuasca's chemistry and physiological effects, conducted in brazil with the udv and sponsored by botanical dimensions.

recorded in december 1982 and recovered by the psychedelic salon, mckenna explores ufos as psychological phenomena linked to psilocybin experience and the collective oversoul.

terence mckenna teaching on plants and consciousness. exploring how plants function as teachers, plant intelligence, and the botanical foundations of shamanic and psychedelic pract

terence mckenna on the voynich manuscript. an undeciphered medieval codex of unknown authorship, traced from rudolf ii's court through centuries of cryptographic mystery and schola

terence mckenna's sounds true workshop on shamanism and psilocybin's role in human evolution, recorded live in boulder colorado.

terence mckenna's talk on his ufo encounter in the amazon basin and his argument that tryptamine hallucinogens offer the pathway to genuine contact with alien intelligence

terence mckenna at the ojai foundation recounting his formative years in western colorado, from childhood fossil hunts to the philosophical influences that shaped his vision of dee

terence mckenna at wfmu. a lecture on whether intelligent people can hope, developed through novelty theory, psychedelics, and shamanism as counter to existential materialism.

terence mckenna's recorded talk at the wetlands nightclub in manhattan, exploring cultural acceleration, consciousness, and the transformation of meaning as the twentieth century c

a talk in which alan watts contrasts the analytic "scanning" mind that reduces nature's wiggliness into discrete measured things with the nervous system's wider capacity to grasp a