Terence McKenna, Shamans Among the Machines (1999). 🤖

"Though the glory of our humanness is our spontaneous creativity, we too- as creatures of physics and chemistry and memory and hope, tend to fall into repetitious patterns. And these repetitious patterns are the death of creativity. They diminish our humanness- they diminish our individuality, make each of us somehow like cogs in some larger system. And we associate this cog-like membership in larger solus systems with the machines that we inherit from the age of the internal combustion engine and the age of the jet engine… you know, Marshall McLuhan said that we navigate our way into the future like someone driving who uses the rearview mirror to tell them where they're going. It's not a very successful strategy for navigating into the future."
– Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna, Shamans Among the Machines (1999)
Recorded Live in Seattle, April 22nd 1999, Shamans Among the Machines. Terence McKenna
Originally this video was live feedback for rear screen projection behind Terence McKenna in the Seattle nightclub where McKenna gave this, his final talk. At the time no one knew that McKenna was soon to become seriously ill, and that this would be his last public appearance. There was no intention at the time to make this recording available to the public. This edit is made from several cameras and the live video mixing board for the rear screen. This is a new, cleaned-up copy that is clear video footage of Terence McKenna without the additional computer graphics from the 1999 DVD, Psychedelics in the Age of Intelligent Machines. This is available on DVD by contacting Dr. Jon via HPX.net.
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