Fractal Enlightenment

Who is Terence McKenna?

Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was a writer, philosopher, explorer and ethnobotanist. He is noted for his many speculations on the use of psychedelic, plant-based hallucinogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, development of human consciousness and the novelty theory. He traveled widely in Asia, South America, and Europe during his college years.

The Works of Terence McKenna:

His first book, co-authored with his brother Dennis McKenna, was based on their 1971 investigations of Amazonian hallucinogens. In 1975, Terence graduated from Berkeley with a degree in ecology, resource conservation, and shamanism. He and Dennis then pseudonymously published one of the earliest psilocybin mushroom growing guides under the names Oss and Oeric.

In 1985, Terence co-founded the non-profit Botanical Dimensions, with Kathleen Harrison-McKenna, to collect and propagate medicinal and shamanic plants from the tropics around the world.

From Terence McKenna’s Food of The Gods, “Why, as a species, are humans so fascinated by altered states of consciousness? Can altered states reveal something to us about our origins and our place in nature? In Food of the Gods, ethnobotanist Terence McKenna’s research on man’s ancient relationship with chemicals opens a doorway to the divine, and perhaps a solution for saving our troubled world. McKenna provides a revisionist look at the historical role of drugs in the East and the West, from the ancient spice, sugar, and rum trades to marijuana, cocaine, synthetics, and even television — illustrating the human desire for the “food of the gods” and the powerful potential to replace abuse of illegal drugs with a shamanic understanding, insistence on community, reverence for nature, and increased self-awareness.”

Terence McKenna’s Reclaim Your Mind!

Terence McKenna’s Psychedelic Society

Terence McKenna speaks of a new model for society, its a 47-minute video, extremely interesting for free thinkers. It also dissects societies current model and speaks of its flaws.

“Attention to attention, or paying attention to the nuances of cognition, is a psychedelic way of being, a refined art of awareness of the tensions and nuances in the moment. The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education,” ~ Terence McKenna.

 McKenna’s Novelty theory and “Time Wave: Zero Point”

One of his 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. 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.

Words with the Sha man

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The Life and Works of Terence McKenna

Do you feel that the current situation of the global race and the use of resources is going to end up with humans destroying themselves? A story of Easter Island may bring to light human nature, competing with each other for power and status. It may also enlighten us about our path to self destruction.

What is Easter Island?

Easter Island, is an island in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile. The island is famous for its numerous moai, the stone statues located along the coastlines. Easter Island was given its common name of “Easter” because the first recorded European visit, by the Dutch was on Easter Sunday, 1722. It is Located 3,600 km (2,237 statute miles) west of continental Chile and 2,075 km (1,290 statute miles) east of Pitcairn Island. Easter Island is one of the most isolated inhabited islands in the world.

You may have heard of Easter Island or at least find the moai familiar. The island is famous for the numerous moai located along the coastlines.

What are Moai?

Moai are monolithic stone figures on Easter Island (“Rapa Nui” in Tahitian and today also in Rapa Nui language), Chile. Between c.1000-1700 AD they were cut from the islands quarries in Rano Raraku and set on ahu (platforms) facing the ocean along the perimeter of the island.

The transportation process from the quarries to their final positions required significant intellect, use of resources, creativity and is considered a remarkable feat of human endeavour.

How did the Rapa Nui Construct & Transport the Moai

This mystery has no proved solution till date although there are many theories as to how the Rapa Nui created and transported them, the most logical one is explained below.

In short, a bunch of people came to easter island, saw that it had plenty of resources, trees, stone, sweet potato etc. Just how our mother earth provides a bounty full of resources for us at the moment, oil, water, trees etc.

As the days went by the people began to compete with each other to build bigger Moai. In the process they would use more rocks, trees to transport, sweet potato as food as well as a lubricant in moving the moai.

Everything was going well except man’s desire to be more powerful than the others. The largest moai erected, “Paro”, was almost 10 meters (33 ft) high and weighed 83 tons while one unfinished sculpture would have been approximately 21 meters (69 ft) tall with a weight of about 270 tons.

This continued till one day they realized they have nearly depleted their resources and are on the verge of starvation. What do they do next? The begin killing each other for survival, a few of them escape into caves nearby and hide. They painted and carved out their entire history in caves besides the sea.

The surprising part is we have not yet managed to decipher the Rapa nui writings, Rongorongo. The Christian missionaries that came to the island destroyed most of the tablets that had their scriptures written. There are only 26 Rongorongo tablets left around the world in museums, its surprising we call ourself advanced, but cant learn from a civilization that managed to wipe itself out by doing just what we are doing now on a global level.

Read the Entire Easter Island Story

The Arrival of the Rapa Nui
Constructing the Moai
Erecting the Moai
Conflict: The Fall of the Moai
A New Cult
Lessons from the Past?

Will we rape Mother Earth till she has nothing left to offer us? Why are we part of this race, this competition makes, no sense to me. There is enough for everybody, I do hope we realize this one day.

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Easter Island Copes with World Heritage Designation
Did humans devastate Easter Island on arrival?
Easter Island Archaeology Quiz
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Easter Island Statue Project

Who is Dr. Alesha Sivartha?
Dr Alesha Sivartha a.k.a. Arthur Merton (1834-1915) was an author, scientist and philosopher who wrote and illustrated books, between 1887 and 1903, like ‘The Book of Life or The Spiritual, Social and Physical Constitution of Man’ (1898) and ‘The Growth of Man into Coming Civilization: Harmonism, Christian, Greco-Roman, Semitic, Hindoo, Mongolian, Egyptian’ (1903).

One of his masterpiece of mysticism was ‘The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man’ where Sivartha maps out the human psyche like never seen before. Its truly a work of art created in beginning 1859 and was published by his son Holmes W. Merton in New York City in 1912.

His writings and drawings speak clearly of his conviction in the oneness of Body and Mind and in the oneness of our Physical and Spiritual Constitutions. The Book of Life is at once scientific and biblical: evolutionist, creationist, messianic, and spiritualist. All woven together to create a fascinating mixture of ancient and modern points of view. His father was a Hindu, mother a Unitarian, and Sivartha believed that science could finally answer the deepest mysteries to prove religion. Some might call it Biblical Humanism with a Judaic twist; others call it Theosophy. ‘The Growth of Man into Coming Civilization: Harmonism, Christian, Greco-Roman, Semitic, Hindoo, Mongolian, Egyptian’ (1903) was published by the Theosophical Society, an organization founded in 1875 to promote understanding of the nature of the universe and humanity’s place in it and cross-cultural harmony.

You can read his book, ‘The Growth of Man into Coming Civilization online. In it, Sivartha brings together scientific discoveries about the geologic history and Darwinian evolution to make the case that science shows the way toward creating an ideal social structure and harmony on earth, a task that eluded previous great civilizations because their scientific understanding was incomplete.
The Growth of Man: “Seven great forces were concerned in the vast movements of early creation. Gravity marked elliptic orbits for the path of worlds. Electricity and magnetism polarized and thus rotated these worlds on their axes. Chemic force, heat and light built up the solid rocks and arranged their wide-spread layers. And the vital force crowded the sea and land with the myriad tribes of animal and plant life.”

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Sivartha’s Chart of the Earth and Heavens

New Age Religions