An economic translation to McKenna's musings [imho]:
'The tool-kit redesigned now we can move information'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prmKNU0R9Lw
Topic: Terence McKenna Prognostications (Read 737 times)
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I really believe that we are now in a relationship to the trancendental object at the end of time such that the revelations are daily -- the unfoldment, the connectivity. We can see light at the end of the tunnel. I mean... I've had long practice with this, I've been thinking like this since 1968, talking about it like this since 1980, but I never knew what... how it would come or what it would be.
In the last few years, with the rise of a technological, a cultural artifact like the internet, I now see how it will make its way into the world. We are building the nervous system of the human over-soul. We are individual units operating under social rules that are pushing us ever closer toward dissolving our societies... societies -- human groups run by rules... into telepathic collectivities of some sort.
The chaos of the internet is chaos only to the constipated order-freaks of the human sociological machine. It makes them uncomfortable because they can't find the head, they can't find the hierarchy. But it's head and hierarchy that has distorted and made institutions, uh, so abrasive and uncomfortable for the people who inhabit them.
So, I really believe there is no contradiction between technology and the spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyper-spacial cyber-culture and paleolithic, archaic culture.
We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness. Uh, this is all very scary. None of us know what it means. But the forces that have been called into being are now, uh, beyond the control of any institution or any strategic planning committee, or any banking committee.
These things have a life of their own.
There is a morphological unfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a perfect part of this. Individually, our hope is to understand and participate in the epiphany. There is no blame. Nothing is off-kilter or wrong or un-natural or artificial. No principle has been betrayed. This is how it is supposed to be.
But, as it picks up speed, it's going to become more and more frightening, as most metaphors fail. And this is why the rise of cults, and why the grasping at autological straws, and why the whisperings from various corners of the universe have grown to a roar.
Because we are uncertain. We are not sure. But, you become sure by connecting to the source. And then what you become for other people is a source of reassurance.
A perfect metaphor for understanding this situation is... a birth.
In the last few years, with the rise of a technological, a cultural artifact like the internet, I now see how it will make its way into the world. We are building the nervous system of the human over-soul. We are individual units operating under social rules that are pushing us ever closer toward dissolving our societies... societies -- human groups run by rules... into telepathic collectivities of some sort.
The chaos of the internet is chaos only to the constipated order-freaks of the human sociological machine. It makes them uncomfortable because they can't find the head, they can't find the hierarchy. But it's head and hierarchy that has distorted and made institutions, uh, so abrasive and uncomfortable for the people who inhabit them.
So, I really believe there is no contradiction between technology and the spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyper-spacial cyber-culture and paleolithic, archaic culture.
We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness. Uh, this is all very scary. None of us know what it means. But the forces that have been called into being are now, uh, beyond the control of any institution or any strategic planning committee, or any banking committee.
These things have a life of their own.
There is a morphological unfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a perfect part of this. Individually, our hope is to understand and participate in the epiphany. There is no blame. Nothing is off-kilter or wrong or un-natural or artificial. No principle has been betrayed. This is how it is supposed to be.
But, as it picks up speed, it's going to become more and more frightening, as most metaphors fail. And this is why the rise of cults, and why the grasping at autological straws, and why the whisperings from various corners of the universe have grown to a roar.
Because we are uncertain. We are not sure. But, you become sure by connecting to the source. And then what you become for other people is a source of reassurance.
A perfect metaphor for understanding this situation is... a birth.
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