Evolution

Your floor-model animal mitochondrion. Public domain. Click for link. Two billion years ago, around the time atmospheric oxygen levels were rising, one cell engulfed another, and instead of becoming lunch, the ingestee became an Earth-changer and, even…

This is another early Terence McKenna lecture that was given sometime in 1984. Particularly considering the year it was delivered, there is more talk about psychedelics and the psychedelic experience than could be found elsewhere. But McKenna doesn’t c…

This podcast brings us to the last part of the April 1986 workshop conducted by Kat Harrison and Terence McKenna under the Teaching Tree at the Ojai Foundation in California. I almost didn’t play this part because I was afraid that it would just be a r…

In this final session of the last trialogue between Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, and Ralph Abraham the discussion is begun by Ralph when he states, “The edge of the millennium, any edge of any of the millennia, is particularly important to those …

In this two hour Terence Day (April 3rd) podcast, we hear Terence McKenna waxing his poetic best. For example:

“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence, a situation in which men and women, par…

Today’s podcast is from a cassette tape recording made by Ralph Abraham during a private trialogue between Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, and himself. It was recorded sometime in 1994 on the Big Island in Hawaii, most likely at Terence McKenna’s ho…

In this lecture (originally titled “Eros to Eschaton”) Terence McKenna says, “If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an…