Terence McKenna at the Palenque Entheobotany Seminar in 1999

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"Linear Societies & Non-Linear Drugs"
Entheobotany Seminar - Palenque, Mexico
January 1999

On Saturday night, January 16, 1999, Terence McKenna gave one of his last lectures at the legendary Entheobotany Series by the foot of the pool at the Chan Kha Hotel near the Mayan ruins of Palenque. There were about 100 people sitting in the moonlight, listening to the lowing of cattle in the distance and the occasional chatter of the howler monkeys in the trees nearby. This was Terence doing what he did best, which was to challenge all of us to stretch our minds to their far limits and then expand them once again.

This recording was made by our dear friend, Noah, who recorded most of the talks at this and many other conferences. Later he gave me this copy of the recording. Noah wouldn't take any money for the copy he gave me, in fact, he wouldn't even take anything to pay for his cost in duplicating the tape. He just said, "I want as many people as possible to hear what Terence has to say. Please pass it around." Sadly for us, Noah has moved on to another dimension. But wherever you are, Noah, you will be remembered every time someone listens to these wonderful recordings you made.

MP3 Recording of Terence McKenna at the
Entheobotany Seminar
Palenque, Mexico on January 16, 1999

"Linear Societies & Non-Linear Drugs"
(Left click to play, right click to download
. . . or subscribe to our PodCasts and get Terence's talk automatically)

SOUND BITES: A snoot full of tequila and a messianic mission . . . the psychedelic experience contextualized . . . what I'm interested in is psychedelics as philosophical tools . . . what can the psychedelic experience bring to philosophy . . . where did the world come from, where is it bound, and who's along for the ride . . . The psychedelic community has given itself the image of an underclass . . . evidence of a major paradigm shift . . . we are a culture of science, yet this rhetoric is not the rhetoric of the larger community of psychedelic users who share a nostalgia for shamanism . . . The news coming out of science is the most psychedelic news there is . . . while we struggle to legalize psychedelics, psychedelic thinking is everywhere triumphant . . . the entire universe is ruled by a very weird force that has been known to science for precisely five months! . . . Forces shaping the cultural modality . . . the 20th century had the most spectacular celebratory affair with the irrational since the 16th century . . . if you aren't current in a field then your version of that field is only a myth . . . we've had some fairly existential characters in our ranks over the years . . . we are not relativists . . . I believe the psychedelic experience is the only reliable contact with the numinous . . . Optimism . . . the best story will win . . . Ur was a virtual reality . . . artificial intelligences: while the naïve are scanning the stars our appliances have become telepathic . . . I've come to a kind of cyber pantheistic Emersonianism . . . the Earth's strategy for its own salvation is through machines . . . human beings are the deputized bride in this alchemical rarefaction of glasses, ceramics, metals, and volatile materials . . . the nervous system of Earth is appearing . . . at who's behest are we doing this . . . we are actors in a cosmic drama that involves Earth at one polarity and machines at the other polarity . . . why I like this story . . . Where does the psychedelic experience fit into all of this . . . consciousness expansion in human beings is going to become an absolute necessity . . . the Internet is a partner in the understanding of the world that is Genie-like . . . the only people who can see the game move against the background of the forest pattern are the psychedelic heads . . .A future where the expression of the individual is muted . . . the dichotomy between the natural and the artificial is an obsession of the 20th century, hence canceled . . . Things about the cosmological constant that are very counterintuitive . . . the Novelty wave (Timewave) . . . space itself is in the act of exploding

An anomalous high-energy short-duration fluctuation of radiation . . . how things are really arranged on a high level . . . the boonies are where biology thrives . . . Greg Egan's novels . . . How is the psychedelic community different from other people . . . our cause is the human cause . . . the muse in the mushroom . . . I suppose I will go to the 'grave with life as mysterious to me as I found it when I came to consciousness . . . whatever life is, it is an opportunity of some sort . . . the things I am most grateful for . . . I think the future is bound to be very confusing and demanding for most people . . . in my early youth I dreamed of a miracle . . . the enduring miracle is the psychedelic rush . . . the psychedelic experience is one of the primary compasses of being . . . how good life is in the shadow of this particular tree . . . Q&A: The Earth is the foundation of everything . . . what if you take the view that Earth "permitted" the processes of evolution to occur . .. I think we give too much credit to the human species . . . the myth of taking control . . . we are building and connecting machines that are modeled on biology . . . but we are creating a creature that lives in a different kind of temporal universe than us . . . we are going to be a different kind of people because we are going to have to live in the presence of alien minds . . . this is the Faustian enterprise of all times









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This was Terence doing what he did best, which was to challenge all of us to stretch our minds to their far limits and then expand them once again. This recording was made by our dear friend, Noah, who recorded most of the talks at this and many other conferences. Later he gave me this copy of the recording. Noah wouldn't take any money for the copy he gave me, in fact, he wouldn't even take anything to pay for his cost in duplicating the tape. He just said, "I want as many people as possible to hear what Terence has to say. Please pass it around." Sadly for us, Noah has moved on to another dimension. But wherever you are, Noah, you will be remembered every time someone listens to these wonderful recordings you made. MP3 Recording of Terence McKenna at the Entheobotany Seminar Palenque, Mexico on January 16, 1999 "Linear Societies & Non-Linear Drugs" (Left click to play, right click to download . . . or subscribe to our PodCasts and get Terence's talk automatically) SOUND BITES: A snoot full of tequila and a messianic mission . . . the psychedelic experience contextualized . . . what I'm interested in is psychedelics as philosophical tools . . . what can the psychedelic experience bring to philosophy . . . where did the world come from, where is it bound, and who's along for the ride . . . The psychedelic community has given itself the image of an underclass . . . evidence of a major paradigm shift . . . we are a culture of science, yet this rhetoric is not the rhetoric of the larger community of psychedelic users who share a nostalgia for shamanism . . . The news coming out of science is the most psychedelic news there is . . . while we struggle to legalize psychedelics, psychedelic thinking is everywhere triumphant . . . the entire universe is ruled by a very weird force that has been known to science for precisely five months! . . . Forces shaping the cultural modality . . . the 20th century had the most spectacular celebratory affair with the irrational since the 16th century . . . if you aren't current in a field then your version of that field is only a myth . . . we've had some fairly existential characters in our ranks over the years . . . we are not relativists . . . I believe the psychedelic experience is the only reliable contact with the numinous . . . Optimism . . . the best story will win . . . Ur was a virtual reality . . . artificial intelligences: while the naïve are scanning the stars our appliances have become telepathic . . . I've come to a kind of cyber pantheistic Emersonianism . . . the Earth's strategy for its own salvation is through machines . . . human beings are the deputized bride in this alchemical rarefaction of glasses, ceramics, metals, and volatile materials . . . the nervous system of Earth is appearing . . . at who's behest are we doing this . . . we are actors in a cosmic drama that involves Earth at one polarity and machines at the other polarity . . . why I like this story . . . Where does the psychedelic experience fit into all of this . . . consciousness expansion in human beings is going to become an absolute necessity . . . the Internet is a partner in the understanding of the world that is Genie-like . . . the only people who can see the game move against the background of the forest pattern are the psychedelic heads . . .A future where the expression of the individual is muted . . . the dichotomy between the natural and the artificial is an obsession of the 20th century, hence canceled . . . Things about the cosmological constant that are very counterintuitive . . . the Novelty wave (Timewave) . . . space itself is in the act of exploding An anomalous high-energy short-duration fluctuation of radiation . . . how things are really arranged on a high level . . . the boonies are where biology thrives . . . Greg Egan's novels . . . How is the psychedelic community different from other people . . . our cause is the human cause . . . the muse in the mushroom . . . I suppose I will go to the 'grave with life as mysterious to me as I found it when I came to consciousness . . . whatever life is, it is an opportunity of some sort . . . the things I am most grateful for . . . I think the future is bound to be very confusing and demanding for most people . . . in my early youth I dreamed of a miracle . . . the enduring miracle is the psychedelic rush . . . the psychedelic experience is one of the primary compasses of being . . . how good life is in the shadow of this particular tree . . . Q&A: The Earth is the foundation of everything . . . what if you take the view that Earth "permitted" the processes of evolution to occur . .. I think we give too much credit to the human species . . . the myth of taking control . . . we are building and connecting machines that are modeled on biology . . . but we are creating a creature that lives in a different kind of temporal universe than us . . . we are going to be a different kind of people because we are going to have to live in the presence of alien minds . . . this is the Faustian enterprise of all times
		*Palenque Photos* [more photos] We want to thank Richard Racette who provided the photos for this page ... Thanks Richard! Christian Rätsch looks on as The pool at the Chan Kah Hotel near the ruins at Palenque. In Noah shoots back. the distance is the end of the pool where Terence gave his talk. Christian Rätsch giving an afternoon talk by the pool. Detail on a tomb at Palenque Some of the members of the faculty at the the last Entheobotany Seminar at Palenque, January 2001. From left to right (seated): Sasha Shulgin, Ann Shulgin, Kat Harrison, Christian Rätsch, Rob Montgomery, Manuel Torres, Ralph Metzner (at least 1/2 of Ralph made the shot), sitting on the ground are Claudia Mueller-Ebeling and Jonathan Ott. Noah, sitting by the Chan Kah pool in 1999. This photo and those below are by Michael Bock, who was a featured speaker at the conference that year. On the porch at night, aaaah, now that is where the real action took place. One of our favroite huts at the Chan Kah
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