Terence McKenna And The Future Of Our Imaginations

“History is a wink of God’s eye. 25,000 years maximum. A geological instant. Which begins with people chipping stone flint and which ends with people walking through a violet doorway into a super-civilization spread throughout space and time, through levels of continui we can barely imagine.

We are like paleolithic man staring dumbly into his campfire, seeing there the shimmering towers of Babylon, Memphis, Athens, Rome and New York and saying what is it? It seems so important, it looks so familiar, yet it is utterly comprehensible. Our future is our mystery. Our destiny is to live in the imagination. And the historical process we are going through is not cause for despair. It is a major transition point in the life of the entire planet.”

Two short talks by Terence McKenna, who appears to be in the business of blowing minds.

Terence McKenna – Birth Of The Human Imagination

A fascinating talk about being alive and imagining the future in such a transitional epoch.

Terence McKenna – Culture Is Your Operating System

Another thought-provoking talk by Terence McKenna about how culture is an operating system that can be wiped clean and transformed.