Trialogues at the Edge of the Millenium

Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham Edited video recordings of the three trialogues share their theories, ideas and observations in a public event in Santa Cruz, June 6, 1998. Trialogues are a unique form of intellectual performance in which three people, optimally very different, discuss (or debate) a set topic for a fixed period of time. Sheldrake, McKenna, and Abraham have been in trialogue as friends since 1982, in public since since 1989. Here they discuss grassroots sciences, visual math, biogeography, the world wide web, psychic pets, fractals, the structure of time, the celestial sphere, the millennium, the holistic vision and the Evolutionary Mind.

There are 3 videos, below is the first hour, ill trust you can find the other 2 tapes. Mind blowing stuff! Also interesting to see this was shot in 1998 and to listen their proposed foresight's of what will happen with the new millennium post 2000 considering we are a decade into it.

Terence McKenna - Shamanic UFO

Terence McKenna shares his theories on the collective phenomenon our species experiences called UFO and philosophizes on the transcendental object at the end of spacetime; Which possibly lies within.

The Alchemical Dream

Terence McKenna philosophizes the alchemical hub of the 16th century and ponders its history. He exposes the true nature of union between spirit, mind and matter through the alchemical process. Trans-mutating meager metals into gold but was not the ultimate amalgamation, the dream of the real was fusing spirit into matter. He notes comparisons of practicing alchemy to the practice of shamanism, in that Alchemist were looking for the philosophers stone when Shamanism has already found it.

Terence McKenna - Prague Gnosis

Some heavy hitting stuff from Terence here. Definitely a mouth full of words to google their definition but i expect nothing less from McKenna. Terence travels to Prague and discusses with some top people in their field on various topics of, Neo-Shamanism, UFO phenomenon, Philosophical reflections on the revolutions in the 60's and 70's, Morphogenetic Fields and more.

Some excellent quotes from this video

"If the Truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed."

"Alchemy is the culminating metaphor of the search for union between spirit and matter."

"Mysteries are there for exploration, not explanation"

Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna (1946 - 2000)

Terence McKenna was a writer, philosopher , and ethnobotanist. He was noted for his many speculations on the use of psychedelic, plant-based hallucinogens and subjects ranging from shamanism, the development of human consciousness, and novelty theory.

One of McKenna's most widely-promulgated ideas is known as Novelty theory. It predicts the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. McKenna developed the theory in the mid-1970s after his experiences in the Amazon at La Chorrera led him to closely study the King Wen sequence of the I-Ching. Novelty theory involves ontology, extropy, and eschatology.

The theory proposes that the universe is an engine designed for the production and conservation of novelty. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness, or extropy (a term coined by Max More meaning the opposite of entropy). According to McKenna, when novelty is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as "timewave zero" or simply the "timewave" results. The graph shows at what time periods, but never at what locations, novelty increases or decreases.

Considered by some to represent a model of history's most important events, the universal algorithm has also been extrapolated to be a model for future events. McKenna admitted to the expectation of a "singularity of novelty", and that he and his colleagues projected many hundreds of years into the future to find when this singularity (runaway "newness" or extropy) could occur. The graph of extropy had many enormous fluctuations over the last 25,000 years, but amazingly, it hit an asymptote at exactly December 22, 2012. In other words, entropy (or habituation) no longer exists after that date. It is impossible to define that state. The technological singularity concept parallels this, only at a date roughly three decades later. According to leading expert Ray Kurzweil), another concept called cultural singularity (essentially cultural dissolution, or language dissolution), parallels this as well. Terrence claimed to have no knowledge of the Mayan calendar, which ends one day before the Timewave graph does: December 21, 2012, this is likely to be true as Mckennas timewave theory was published in The Invisible Landscape 12 years before the book which brought the Mayan calendar into public consciousness.

Terence McKenna on the Nature of Time.

Terrence Mckenna on The purpose of psychedelics

Culture Is Your Operating System - Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna's message to Artists

Terence McKenna: The World and its Double

"The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish"

Terence McKenna

Novelty theory

"As above so below, as within so without"

Novelty theory attempts to calculate the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. It is an idea conceived of and discussed at length by Terence McKenna from the early 1970s until his death in the year 2000. Novelty theory involves ontology, morphogenesis, and eschatology. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation. According to McKenna, when "novelty" is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as timewave zero or simply the timewave results. The graph shows at what times, but never at what locations, novelty is increasing or decreasing. According to the timewave graph, great periods of novelty occurred about 4 billion years ago when Earth was formed, 65 million years ago when dinosaurs were extinct and mammals expanded, about 10,000 years ago after the end of the ice age, around late 18th century when social and scientific revolutions progressed, during the sixties, around the time of 911, and with coming novelty periods in November 2008, October 2010, with the novelty progressing towards the infinity on 21st December 2012.

McKenna repeatedly describes human cultural development as a succession of historical periods which are "compressed" versions of each other. In this manner, he describes an overall acceleration of human cultural development, which he likens to a "tightening spiral" approaching what he describes as the "transcendental object at the end of the universe". Source - Wikipedia