Terence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system

thankz alot

to terrence

Terence was one of the greats!

Yup, TM was the man!

Culture is NOT your friend.

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the guy has a faggy voice

i think faggy chakra types that beleive in crap like karma get into his great idea because he is like them

lets get this straight- we are shaped by our culture. wow. thanks.

but i like what gave him fame. a time chart. lol

how about putting in 57 BC when Shalla gave birth to Kron and a few thousand years down the road his progeny came up with fission.

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crap theory

This better get a PIN!

100% Truth!!

-peace

Well thanks for showing us your outdated OS... what are you using windows 3.1?

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yes, he is incredible

much better then Seneca, or Spinoza or others

because he sees through the veil. lol

alot of these guys make a killing off the uneducated

PIN!!

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yes pin this.

because a effeminate guy with a lisping voice compares culture to computer operating systems

and suggests people are flocking to shaman because shaman are the real deal

lol

here is a snippet from one of his speeches.....it's about visible language:


Shall we talk about language?

First of all lets talk about ordinary language which is probably the closest thing to a miracle in the natural world. It's the major neurological manifestation of difference between ourselves and other animals and primates and it's not a physiological difference it's a difference in behavior. Language represents the most complex behavior ever observed in any animal and certainly it's the most complex thing any of us ever learns to do. We're born into what William James calls a blooming buzzing confusion, but by the aquisition of words we mosaic over various sectors of this blooming buzzing confusion with words. We replace the unknown with the known through the substitution of words and by the time a child is two or three they have completely created a cultural mosaic of words that is interposed between them and reality. Reality from that point on is only an unconfirmed rumor brought through the medium of language and every culture accentuates different parts of reality so that in a sense every culture is a different reality. Language is the stuff of the world, not quarks or wave-packets or neutrinos, but language.

Everything is made of language. All the constructs of science are actually interlocking constructs of syntax. So that's ordinary language which seems to define reality through a kind of process of lying about it. For instance by creating subject-object distinctions which are, in fact, not true to the matter, but somehow operationally necessary for us to navigate in the kind of lower dimensional space that we inhabit.

visible language

Then there is the phenomenon of non-ordinary, or what I call visible language and this is very interesting to me. This is where technology, virtual-reality, cybernetics, human-machine interfacing can actually make an impact and explore a frontier. Visual language is a transormation of the physiological impulse towards syntax into a final product, speech, which is not heard with the ears, but beheld with the eyes. It's very interesting that all our metaphors of clarity of speech are visual metaphors. We say, "I see what you mean, he spoke clearly." This means that at the organismic level we associate a higher signal clarity with visual input, and on DMT and other tryptamine psychedelics you actually experience the field of language both heard and self generated as something that is visibly beheld. It's almost as though the project of communication becomes high-speed sculpture in a conceptual dimension made of light and intentionality. This would remain a kind of esoteric performance on the part of shamans at the height of intoxication if it were not for the fact that electronics and electronic cultural media, computers, make it possible for us to actually create records of these higher linguistic modalities.

In other words it's possible to imagine a virtual reality that was driven by a speech operated synthesizer where the various parts of ordinary speech adjectives, modifiers, subjects and objects were interpreted by the cybernetic environment as topological manifolds of various shapes so that speech would then generate a visibly beheld topology and it's possible to imagine a future world where in setting up marriage contracts or in negotiating corporate takeovers, in areas where clear communication, clear expression of intentionality was very important, that people would actually go into the virtual reality to use the visible language because its capacity for conveying intent would be much greater than ordinary spoken language. It's not for nothing that Plato connected up the notion of the Good, the True, and ultimately, the Beautiful. The beautiful of those three concepts is the primary concept because it is visibly beheld, because it is seen. This is the great convincing power of the psychedelic experience. That it ultimately appeals to us through the sense that we value most. That we existentially relate to as the most authentic and that is the visual. Visible language is a kind of telepathy because if I make a statement in visual language and then you and I regard my statement, we are somehow, in the act of regarding, made one. Because meaning is not being created out of interiorized dictionaries which we each consult in the privacy of our own meaning goes public mind but rather meaning is a visible manifold in the public domain. Meaning goes public and the differences between people then decline toward being insignificant. It's a kind of final confirmation of the McLuhan apotheosis and I think visible language is coming. Life in the imagination is to be the life of creativity carried on through these virtual environments driven by linguistic engines.

the rest is here:

[link to deoxy.org]

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wow, we are visual and use language

stunning- the man is beyond compare

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bitter...party of one. bitter......

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"and I think visible language is coming."

its called "writing" you know, visual symbols that form words? lol

and the last bit...lol

"Life in the imagination is to be the life of creativity carried on through these virtual environments driven by linguistic engines."

life in the imagination? makes no sense. we live, we have imagination. ...carried on through these virtual....lol
oh- we talk about it. lol

no wonder only retards know this clown

sure, but that's not exactly what he's referring to.

here is an example out of jonathan goldman's bbok healing sound:


Jonathan Goldman tells in his book, Healing Sound, about a mind shaking experience in a completely dark cave in Palenque in Mexico, where his guide asked him to perform harmonious singing. When he began to tone harmonics towards the area the guide has indicated before the lights went out, the cave began to become illuminated, but it was not ordinarily light. It was more subtle, but it was definitely lighter in the room. The outline and figures of the people there could be seen and everyone was aware of it.
This experience was one of the more dramatic episodes in his life. It was only later that he began to process the experience and try to understand what had gone on: "I had been able to use sound to create light".
His conclusion was: by use of vocally created harmonics, it is possible to resonate and stimulate the pineal gland.

The pineal gland is a small, pine-cone-shaped gland located in the middle of the head. Esoterically, the pineal is often associated with the 'third eye' and was believed by Descartes to be the 'Seat of the Soul'. lt was once thought to be a vestigial organ and is now known to be a light sensitive clock affecting sleep and the sex glands.

Research by scientists such as Robert Beck suggest that the pineal is an organic device which is tuned towards magnetic north to give both humans and animals their sense of direction, Other scientists believe that the pineal is a bio-luminescent organ which has the ability to create light.

The pineal is rich in neuromelanin, which, according to scientist Frank Barr, is a phase-timing, information processing interface molecule which is a photo transducer. This is a substance which has the ability, among other traits, of absorbing and converting light energy to sound.
It also has the ability to turn sound energy into light. Barr believes that melanin and its brain counterpart, neuromelanin, may be the key link between the mind and the brain.

Through stimulation of the pineal gland, neuromelanin is produced. Neuromelanin, a light-sensitive compound triggers the release of a substance which contains phosphorus, a light-producing chemical. By stimulating the pineal gland through vocal harmonics, it may be possible that actual fields of light around the body are enhanced.

While this phenomenon is not too widely known, there does seem to be some reference to it in certain texts.
Dhyani Ywahoo, a Native American medicine woman, writes in "Voices of Our Ancestors", that in the Ancient Mystery Schools the initiations were held in total darkness. The initiates had to be able to produce their own light.
May be this was done through the creation of vocal harmonics. Spiritual scientist J. J. Hurtak writes of the phenomenon of creating light through the pineal gland in The Keys of Enoch:

The 'light' which activates the pineal gland is not the conventional light of the sun... the brain produces its own light field on a molecular level... our neurocircuitry can produce its own light field .

Jonathan Goldman discussed with Dr. Tomatis his experience of producing light through sound and suggested the hypothesis of the pineal creating this light. Dr. Tomatis knew of this phenomenon of creating light through sound, but believed that this light was created not through the pineal (the third eye) but through the heart.



and the last bit...lol

"Life in the imagination is to be the life of creativity carried on through these virtual environments driven by linguistic engines."

life in the imagination? makes no sense. we live, we have imagination. ...carried on through these virtual....lol
oh- we talk about it. lol

no wonder only retards know this clown

actually that wasn't the last bit because i didn't paste the whole thing.

when someone is speaking from the point of view of the "psychedelic" experience it's helps if the listener has some subjective experience or at least some openness to what is being offered with the understanding that what is trying to be shared is like the wetness of a particular water.

if you really want to KNOW you have to put your foot in the pool.

the thing the people really like about terence was his amazing ability to put the subjective into descriptive objective language. eerie voice and all.

sorry...i messed up that last post and didn't separate the 2nd part of your quote from my response.

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i would agree with the assertion that this makes more sense if your stoned or trip'n or do so alot

but he is creative- had a following - so good for him

but its entertainment and art- not revelation or truth

and i suspect this guy is from acadamia- and they all try to be entertainers- but they are not that good at it

man there goes another one using that windows 3.1 again.

lets see ...

You looked at his voice and passed judgement. Thats cute.
And I bet you've never talked to or spent time with a shaman in your life.

You missed the whole thing. And thats what he is clearly talking about.
People like you messing whats real.

What do you think really happens to the human mind when you put it in a class room for 12 years. Knowing damn well that humans are creatures of habit?

What time did you wake up on monday? What time did you go to work? What time did you eat lunch? What time did you go back to work? What time did you leave work? Was there a boss at work? Was that cute girl you don't talk to but would like to at work? Do you hate your boss?

Does it sound kinda like high school? emmmm yeah!!!

Down slave mind.... You wake up when your ready. This post is for the wise ones. Not better than you just for people trying to wake up.

Go back to sleep
Call me when your ready to wake up!

-peace

You are on the path of waking up! Be safe and help the others.
Quick question. Is it time to wake up?

Why is it only a few of us?

"People like you messing whats real."

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yeah, real like u tubes with lisping guys impressing those that don't read or something

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i need to work with a shaman i guess

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Wait before the teachers in here get mad at me... Your You're There Their...
I know I know.

I just have a hard time with knowing so many other languages.
As I got older my brain said... Fuck it...

"Why is it only a few of us"

because you have super secret shaman powers enhanced by your pineal gland

Freud, Kant, Pascal, Balzac, Gaugain, Cezanne, Picasso, were all mental midgets compared to terrance and his operating system theory delivered via u tubes

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I think it's just odd that you come to a lunatic forum and try to make it fit your world.

Don't you think thats a bit strange?

But you are on the right path.

Not seeing it now will make it all the more fun when you do see it.

-peace

the sooner the better is my feeling. but you can't talk a rose into blooming or what color it should be....so all things on their own accord i guess.


the difference is why.... ;)

"I think it's just odd that you come to a lunatic forum and try to make it fit your world.

Don't you think thats a bit strange""

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i do believe terence died before youtubecame into existence