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McKenna Thread

'Gear

'Gear

RIP 1970~2018
I'm going to post some TM stuff here. Feel free.

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Excerpt from Psychedelic Salon podcast #295 -

"We live at the end of a thousand year binge on the philosophical position known as materialism in it's many guises. The basic message of materialism is that the world is what it appears to be; a thing composed of matter and pretty much confined to it's surface. The world is what it appears to be. Now this, on the face of it, is a tremendously naive position because what it says is the animal body that you inhabit, the eyes you look through, the fingers you feel through are somehow the ultimate instruments of metaphysical conjecture."
 
same source, podcast #288

“When talking about evolution it is important to remember that the cardinal dictum of Darwinian mechanics is that there is no teleology. That means that evolution is not moving toward something. All notion of purpose has to be given up. It isn’t that things evolve or move toward higher forms. It’s just that things complexify, and this complexification gives rise to what we define as higher form.”
 
"Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existance is defined in terms of control."
 
While I'm sure you academic types don't have some of the trouble I do listening to a TM talk, I thought I'd offer a suggestion or two in the event someone else does.

I had some amount of trouble formulating an overarching understanding of what I'd heard at the end of any given lecture. Also, the names/titles of the podcasts threw me a little too. It seemed to me there was only most minor connection between what a pc was named, what it contained and what it presumed to accomplish.

So here's what works for me. Fuck the title. I don't know who named the speeches or what their understanding of what was said might be, so I tossed the idea that the title has anything to do with the content.

Then, after listening several more times then it should of to realize it, it occurred to me that - a. He repeats the same ideas in a slightly different form over and over again. b. He could give a shit less what the question might be - After a minor nod to the person asking any question, he launches right back into the pitch without a hitch. c. (and the most important part for me) TM makes points in small segments. Usually between a minute and 3 or 4. At the end of any one of these segments in the talk you can pause and ponder or even stop and absorb a complete idea. At that point, you can either go to the next or step away for a time and lose nothing with regard to the entirety of the message. Since the message of every lecture is essentially the same at the core, you have the opportunity to re-examine recurring ideas from a slightly different angle each time no matter what talk you're in or which place you are in that talk.

Granted this may just by my weird, hobbled way of grinding through shit that's admittedly far above my paygrade, but this is how I get the point. HTH.

Also, if this doesn't make sense, send me some money and I'll hire an editor. Or maybe you're dumber than me. And if that's the case, god help you.
 
Taken for PC# 187 about 45:00 -

"I think there is some kind of event ahead of us in time; not far, on the order of twenty to forty years, that is casting an enormous shadow back through the lower dimensional slice of being which we call history. So religions and mystical visions and the visions of revolutionary leaders are a response to flickering intimations of this transcendental object that is pulling intelligence out of the organic matrix of life on this planet in a process that is occupying fifty to one hundred thousand years."
 
"The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and driven organizations: You have gone far enough. We are going to turn the world upside down. Your science is going to be shown up for what it is, nothing more than a pleasant metaphor usefully extrapolated into the production of toys for healthy children. That's what science is good for. It is not some meta-theory at whose feet every point of view from astrology to acupressure to channeling need be laid to have the hand of science announce thumbs up or thumbs down."
 
'Gear said:
That's what science is good for. It is not some meta-theory at whose feet every point of view from astrology to acupressure to channeling need be laid to have the hand of science announce thumbs up or thumbs down."
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That. Yes. YES.
 
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