Voice – Terence McKenna https://erowid.org/culture/characters/mckenna_terence/mckenna_terence.shtml CG/Compositing – Martin Stebbing https://vimeo.com/stebbing3d Sound – Toke Klinke https://soundcloud.com/toke_artist "The reason it's so confounding is because its impact is on the language-forming capacity itself. So the reason it's so confounding is because the thing that is trying to look at the DMT is infected by it—by the process of inspection. So DMT does not provide an experience that you analyze. Nothing so tidy goes on. The syntactical machinery of description undergoes some sort of hyper-dimensional inflation instantly, and then, you know, you cannot tell yourself what it is that you understand. In other words, what DMT does can't be downloaded into as low-dimensional a language as English." "There is a self-erasing mechanism in it. I have the feeling that you find out something there that is so contra-intuitive that you literally cannot think of it sitting here. So as you go from there to here, there comes a moment where it slips below the surface of rational apprehensibility." "Call it fairyland, call it the Western Realm—whatever you like—but you don't go there in starships. You go there through magical doorways which are opened via ritual and things like that. That is a possibility as well. Certainly human folklore in all times and places—except Western Europe for the last 300 years—has insisted that these parallel domains of intelligence and organization exist." "These things... have a very weird relationship to human beings. First of all, they love us! They care for some reason. Whoever and whatever they are, they're far more aware of us than we are aware of them. Witness the fact that they welcome me. So is it possible that at the end of the 20th century, at the end of 500 years of materialism, reductionism, positivism, what we're about to discover is probably the least likely denouement any of us expected out of our dilemma—what we're about to discover is that death has no sting." "Why this is not four-inch headlines on every newspaper on the planet I cannot understand, because I don't know what news you were waiting for, but this is the news that I was waiting for." —Terence McKenna on the DMT experience Books by Terence McKenna: True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise: https://amzn.to/2ogQw5Y The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History: https://amzn.to/2PKjo3h The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching: https://amzn.to/2Pdaj1B Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution: https://amzn.to/2odhVFQ

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Three theorists of the secret in modernity are to be named: Leo Strauss, Mircea Eliade, and Gershom Scholem. At the beginning of the lecture, various "arcanizations" (secrets) of Judaism prior to Kabbalah will be discussed and reflections on the background of the understanding of Kabbalah in the history of science will be given. The lecture will focus on the function of the various biblical and rabbinic terms for mystery. The term "Sod" can take on three different meanings and functions: on the one hand, the purely numerical value of the meaning of the word, which is to be determined comparatively; on the other hand, the symbolic function of the secret in the biblical vocabulary and in the rituals of Judaism; and beyond that, the allegorical, the 'intellectual' decoding of the "Sod". The meaning of the "secrets of the Torah" ("Sitrei Torah") is controversial: the question of an "authentic" esotericism. The term "Seter" concerns the multiple meanings of the term secret in the writings of Abraham Abulafia. Finally, the schematization of what is meant by "secret" in Kabbalah will be discussed, as in Martin Buber and in the mystifications of some modern scholars.

The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions: https://amzn.to/2NvvQT0 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Zynut4VRg