The Door of Perception
The first video is a catchy excerpt of a long lecture by Terence McKenna. To me it seems like it serves as a battle call, the manifesto of the limitless beings we all are. It’s definitely a bold initiation to Terence’s world of thought:
Promoting the felt presence of direct experience against disempowerment and manipulation!
And here’s the full lecture:
Terence McKenna — Eros And The Eschaton / What science forgot
Doma India is the love of a life applied to working with horses. Being truly connected with yourself and others can move mountains.
Language and all forms of image making are very insufficient means of representation. But the urge to try is strong.
I’m reading the autobiography of Carl Gustav Jung. It was a name I’ve come across constantly and I knew there’s…
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
Many people ask me about Ayahuasca and I’m happy to share my experiences and the information I gathered.
The film examines the re-emergence of archaic techniques of ecstasy in the modern world by weaving a synthesis of ecological…
Orgyan Chopel translates cryptic Buddhism into a simplified language of symbols, easier to understand and accept.
I’m just realizing that many people don’t know Aldous Huxley‘s classic book about his experiences with mescaline. It’s years ago since I read it myself but I think the title is a brilliant metaphor for the psychedelic experience.
Or what being present means to me. And why I practice Ashtanga Yoga.
This video from 1998 is one of the last interviews before Terence passed away in April 2000.
Dürckheim’s legacy is psychotherapy in the spirit of Zen. His books are classics of transpersonal psychology.
This film from 1997 pays homage to Aldous Huxley, the seer who was nearly blind. His cultural criticism and social prophecy still remind us of great dangers and infinite potentials.
A personal project exploring the real world of scientific research. Not the stainless steel surfaces bathed in purple light, but real people in their basements working on selfbuilt contraptions
Watching this video, I felt captured by a primal feeling of awe. One of these rare moments when we glimpse how inconceivably vast and powerful this reality is.
This text is immensely powerful to illuminate death or any transition into the unknown. Remember that you already went through a fantastic metamorphosis before.
Alexander Shulgin’s lab books were scanned in 2007 and made available online.
Terence’s way of exposing culture as our operating system conveys the idea just perfectly. It’s not as determined as you might think.
When the substance revealed itself to Albert Hofmann in 1943 he took on the responsibility and changed the world.
The publication uses AI to mash up ages, geographies and traditions, creating virtual artifacts indistinguishable from historical records.
I follow Theo Jansen for many years now. What I like so much about his design approach is the playfulness…
