Terence Mckenna - ''Culture is your operating system''

[DeSwiss]

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- Exactly.

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. Amazing intellect

Terence McKenna - Time and the I-Ching

Here is an interesting article and explaination on his time wave theory




http://www.viewzone2.com/timewavex.html

[DeSwiss]

6. A couple of oldies but goodies.....

- Enjoy!

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"I Seem to be a Verb"
13 Phoebus 80 p.s.U.
http://www.rawilson.com/thoughts.html




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http://fusionanomaly.net/historyendsingreen.html


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[cantbeserious]

2. Amusing Ourselves To Death - A Cultural Operating System On Steroids

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

4. Enlightening. Thank you.

[zeemike]

5. That could be an OP by itself.

But it does fit perfectly with this one...and I Kick and Recommend for both.
Sometimes fiction is more real than fact.

[mother earth]

11. I agree, zeemike.

[DeSwiss]

7. This is quite a succinctly accurate pictorial of their views.

They were the two most successful authors (among several others) who featured the dystopian perspective in viewing society and where it seemed headed. Which began mainly in the early 20th century writings of with Jack London (''The Iron Heel'' - 1908) and Yevgeny Zamyatin (''We'' - 1921), the purported ''grandfathers'' of the dystopian genre'. Appellations to which I agree.

- Huxley and Orwell were also both the best, in my opinion, of projecting outwards onto dystopic societies in their work, what are actually reflections of our innermost fears.....

[navarth]

14. Posts like this are a big piece of the reason I come to DU.

thanks very much for sharing this.

[valerief]

19. +1000

[canoeist52]

3. Setting the tone for my day.

“It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it’s not easy.”
– Terence McKenna

[DeSwiss]

8. !

[SoLeftIAmRight]

13. Read - Ideas and Opinions -

This man said so very many great things.

[DeSwiss]

16. Like this:

[SoLeftIAmRight]

17. here are some more

http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/einstein/

[RufusTFirefly]

9. K & R

Although I take some of McKenna with a grain of salt, I still find him irresistible to listen to:

[DeSwiss]

10. Salt isn't the correct crystal to use if you're trying to understand Terence McKenna.....

- Here it is:

[RufusTFirefly]

12. Hahaha! Yup

So I've heard.

I've listened to several of his lectures (including the ones I posted) dozens of times. I download them as MP4, convert them to MP3, and then listen to them on my ancient MP3 player.

[DeSwiss]

15. Another favorite philosopher....

[RufusTFirefly]

18. Yes. Agreed!

I also enjoy listening to Colin Wilson, although he can sometimes be a lot loopier than either Watts or McKenna.