terence_mckenna alien janetime "History is ending, because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley. And as the inevitable chaostrophe approaches, people look for metaphors and answers. Every time a culture gets into trouble, it casts itself back into the past looking for the last sane moment it ever knew. And the last sane moment we ever knew was on the plains of Africa, 15,000 years ago, rocked in cradle of the great horned mushroom goddess before history. Before standing armies, before slavery and property, before warfare and phonetic alphabets and monotheism. Before, before, before. And this is where the future is taking us. Because the secret faith of the 20th century is not modernism. The secret faith of the 20th century is nostalgia for the archaic, nostalgia for the Paleolithic, and that gives us body piercing, abstract expressionism, surrealism, jazz, rock and roll, and Catastrophe Theory. The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom-dotted plains of Africa, where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it chose that the way out is back, and that the future is a forward escape into the past." 071227 ... REAListic optimIST Terence was at the crux of much of what was an is happening in contemporary current anthropology. Losing his mind to death at the early age of 53 was truly sad for the world, but enlightening for Terence: "I always thought death would come on the freeway in a few horrifying moments, so you'd have no time to sort it out. Having months and months to look at it and think about it and talk to people and hear what they have to say, its a kind of blessing. It's certainly an opportunity to grow up and get a grip and sort it all out. Just being told by an unsmiling guy in a white coat that you're going to be dead in four months definitely turns on the lights. ... It makes life rich and poignant. When it first happened, and I got these diagnoses, I could see the light of eternity, a la William Blake, shining through every leaf. I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to tears." - 1999 interview with Erik Davis 071228 ... h|s|g low_sample_rates flawed bugs sterotypes contradictions dudes right. doesn't have a chip_on_his_shoulder probably why he lived so long. 110227 ... shpaaaaaaaaaaaa shpaaaaaaaaaaaa 110228 ... h|s|g Funkopath - Skwirm (1997) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5x52z0NpPc&feature=related 111113 what's it to you? who go blather from