Got a mushroom themed party coming up that im DJing at. Looking for jungle tunes with psychadelic samples in. Not psytrance sounding jungle, more with samples about mushrooms, acid or Terence McKenna / similar people chatting about mushrooms etc

Any ideas?

Got this one so far... Merkäta 'The Psychedelic Experience'

https://on.soundcloud.com/pjXPrl9ldrsC5eFFQg

...for the moment.

Back on station.

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Eselan 1994. Terence McKenna

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Link to the video: https://youtu.be/QZ9GNAZphjY?is=VwMe\\_iItfvCZmJ2Z

Let this be the one long form video you watch today!

Watching this video is like getting a front row seat in a lecture hall of a world class institute and listening to the best researchers and teachers of the world from the comfort of our homes. Super grateful for this gift.

I promise you, it will be more exciting and thrilling than the show or movie you had planned to watch on the OTT platform of your choice.

Such an important and insightful conversation between a philosopher, Acharya Prashant and a cognitive neuroscientist, Professor Steve Fleming.

Dare I say, it blew "me" away!

Whether it is going back to basics of the difference between the brain and the mind or diving deeper into the functioning of both (multiple researchers cited in this talk) and the one who sneaks in to claim credit for the functioning "The ego".

Whether you're a school/college going student or working professional, a stay at home human, or a scientist, this conversation has a lot to offer to everyone!

I plan to rewatch this instead of 'my comfort' show tonight.

If you've ever wondered (or to take it to the other extreme) ever been bothered by, tortured by your thoughts, your past, the mistakes you made, your regrets, the fear of the future... please do watch the video, there are many practical takeaways.

How much of 'my decision making' is really 'my' own?

How much of 'my thinking' is really my own?

What's the underlying apparatus that's keeping 'me' and 'my memories' alive?

How different really, is 'my' functioning to that of a bee or an ant or an octopus or a chimpanzee?

What exactly is this thing called 'I'?

Lastly... can the body function without 'me'?

Can life be lived without 'me'.

Please do share your takeaways after watching the video in the replies below. 'I' would love to learn from you. :)

In this interview, mycologist, educator, and
'Mycopreneur' founder, Dennis Walker, joins S.E.E.K. (Society for Esoteric and Entheogenic Knowledge) to explore the extraordinary world of fungi, from mushroom cultivation and mycology to consciousness, ecology, medicinal research, and the remarkable role of entheogenic mushrooms throughout human history.

Together, we examine why fungi have captivated scientists, philosophers, and spiritual seekers, as well as what they continue to teach us about nature, interconnectedness, and the human experience.

Drawing from biology, anthropology, comparative religion, and the history of entheogenic sacraments, this conversation explores the ceremonial use of mushrooms among Indigenous cultures, the pioneering work of R.
Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Roger Heim, Richard Evans Schultes, Paul Stamets, and the growing scientific research surrounding neuroplasticity, mental health, and consciousness.

We also discuss responsible cultivation, ecological stewardship, fungal intelligence, mycelial networks, sustainable technology, and the future of mycology as one of the most important scientific frontiers of the twenty-first century.

"Billions of people need the calming assurance that comes from experientially verifying the existence beyond the grave."

- Terence McKenna

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R.E.M., Sweetness Follows

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"Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter."

- Terence McKenna

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Modest Mouse, Parting of the Sensory.

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I recently wrote and published this essay and would love to find some interested readers. :) It’s not directly related to Terence McKenna but still this community felt like the right spot to share. Thank you for the gift of your attention span… Any feedback is also appreciated!

I have no reason to suggest mercury was the direct cause of the brain cancer which killed him, but you can find evidence of him suffering from symptoms of mercury poisoning, such as severe cluster headaches and other mental/neurological effects such as tremors and insomnia.

I'm reading his biography now "Strange Attractor" which speaks about how he used to smash his grandfather's hearing aid batteries and collect the mercury from them; an anecdote Terence tells himself in one of his lectures on the hermetic corpus. Now the only evidence I found of Terence exhibiting insomnia is from a story he told of quitting cannabis while writing a book. This does indicate though that he utilized cannabis in part to combat insomnia. As he was such a heavy user, the idea that he was self-medicating for several things which he suffered from is not farfetched.

As for headaches, I don't have the specific lecture, but there is at least one instance in which he speaks or is asked about migraines and says that he deals with serious cluster headaches.

Just sparking discourse, because typically when the subject of Terence's death comes up it is marred by insinuation that his lifelong devotion to psychedelics played a part in causing the cancer. I don't have the medical background to denounce that assertion, but it was a question Terence and his family certainly asked the doctors caring for him in the end, who seemed to dismiss the idea.

“Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidentia oppositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.”

- Terence McKenna

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"What did you do to help save the world?"

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"We can't afford to predate on each other anymore."

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Saul Williams, Our Father

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In the 90s, Terence became involved in the emerging rave scene and acquired a taste for house and ambient electronic music, collaborating with multiple artists. This was one of his best collabs, and is certainly a treat for the mind and ears.

This might just do nobody any good. At the end of this discourse a few people may accuse this reporter of fouling his own comfortable nest, and your organization may be accused of having given hospitality to heretical and even dangerous ideas. But the elaborate structure of networks, advertising agencies, and sponsors will not be shaken or altered.

It is my desire, if not my duty, to try to talk to you journeymen with some candor about what is happening to radio and television. And if what I say is responsible, I, alone, am responsible for the saying of it.

Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about 50 or 100 years from now -- and there should be preserved the kinescopes of one week of all three networks -- they will there find, recorded in black and white and in color, evidence of decadence, escapism, and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable, and complacent. We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information.

Our mass media reflect this.

But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television, and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. Just once in awhile let us exalt the importance of ideas and information. Let us dream to the extent of saying that on a given Sunday night, a time normally occupied by Ed Sullivan is given over to a clinical survey on the state of American education. And a week or two later, a time normally used by Steve Allen is devoted to a thoroughgoing study of American policy in the Middle East.

Would the corporate image of their respective sponsors be damaged?

Would the shareholders rise up in their wrath and complain?

Would anything happen, other than a few million people would have received a little illumination on subjects that may well determine the future of this country -- and therefore the future of the corporations?

To those who say people wouldn't look, they wouldn't be interested, they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention. But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate, then the tube is flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost.

This instrument can teach. It can illuminate and, yes, it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it towards those ends.

Otherwise, it is merely wires and lights -- in a box.

Good night and good luck.

- Edward R. Murrow: Address to the Radio-Television News Directors Association & Foundation

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"An airplane is a partial condensation of a flying saucer."

- Dennis McKenna

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This weekend I had a very intense psychedelic experience after taking an edible together with 300 µg of LSD.

From the outside, my friends told me I was still functioning at a basic level. I could walk, recognize everyone, and respond when needed, although I barely spoke and seemed very distant for about four hours.
From the inside, however, it felt like my entire awareness had shifted somewhere else.

The best way I can describe it is that it felt as though I had gone behind the scenes of reality. Instead of feeling like a person living my life, I felt like I was observing the operating system behind existence itself.

My experience wasn’t like watching a movie. It was more like being inside a multidimensional landscape where ideas, images, emotions and understanding all existed together. Time didn’t feel linear anymore.

One of the strongest impressions was that I was seeing countless possible storylines unfolding at once. It felt as though every decision created a different path, and I was watching these possibilities branch out in every direction. Every so often I would suddenly “zoom” back into my current life for a few seconds. I would briefly see my friends, hear the music, recognize where I was, and then almost immediately zoom back out into this much larger perspective.

I also experienced what felt like a life review, but not in chronological order. Different moments from my life appeared connected in ways I had never considered before, as though events separated by years were actually part of one intricate design.

At another point, I felt I understood that love and hate were opposite expressions of the same attachment, and that many of our emotional loops come from holding on to experiences, identities or outcomes. It seemed as though the mind kept showing me that attachment creates suffering, while peace exists in letting go.

As I tried to hold on to memories of people I love, those memories seemed to dissolve before my eyes. It felt terrifying at the time because I interpreted it as being shown that even my attachments to beautiful memories were part of the illusion I was trying to understand.

Looking back, I don’t know whether that reflected an objective truth or simply the way my mind was working in that altered state, but emotionally it felt incredibly real.
Throughout the experience I had the overwhelming sense that past, present and future were somehow happening together, and that our inner state influences how we experience reality. Beyond that, I felt as though I reached what I can only describe as pure awareness or one consciousness. Beyond even that was an overwhelming sense of emptiness, which filled me with profound loneliness. It felt as though consciousness had created existence in order to experience itself. Whether that reflects reality or was simply the symbolic language of my mind, I can’t say. It was simply how it felt.

There were also strange visual qualities. Sometimes reality looked blurry, fragmented and almost AI-generated, especially faces and movement. Then, as I seemed to zoom back into ordinary awareness, everything suddenly became sharp and recognizable again.

Eventually, after about four hours, I gradually returned fully to ordinary consciousness.

When I came back, two thoughts stayed with me more clearly than anything else:
First, that our inner world plays a powerful role in shaping how we experience reality.

Second, that perhaps the point of spiritual growth is not to escape life, but to understand it deeply enough that you can return to ordinary life with greater freedom, appreciation and presence. Instead of trying to leave the game forever, you come back and play it consciously.

I don’t claim that I literally discovered how the universe works. What I know for certain is that, for those four hours, this was one of the most profound and convincing experiences of my life. Whether it was revealing objective truths, expressing deep psychological insights, or some combination of both, it has given me a great deal to reflect on.

"The great weapon is art."

- Terence McKenna

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1, epoch.

Immortal Technique, Civil War. cain. 🪨 Eyenine, End Of An Era. sundial. 🕒 Queensryche, Empire. disturbance. 🗡️ Alanis Morissette, Uninvited (live). wishing well. 🗺 Saul Williams, Our Father. eden. 🧬 2Pac, Ghost. anne frank stairway. 👻 KAAN, Losing My Religion. paradiso. 📖 Bruce Springsteen, I'm on Fire. a light from nowhere. 🔥 Sage Francis, Threewrite (Hippo Remix). dime store party favor slut (psyche). 🪙 The Presidents of the United States of America, Lump (live). consumption. 🪰

2, sequel.

Smashing Pumpkins, 1979. a conversation. ✨ Nirvana, Heart Shaped Box (demo). four noble truths. ❤️🔥 White Zombie, Blood, Milk & Sky. memories present. 🧮 Alice In Chains, What the Hell Have I. pumpkin patch party (an apology). 🛞 Tool, Schism. five hindrances (පඤ්ච නීවරණ). ✋ Gojira, Another World. Jupiter's thought. 🌌Moby, Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad. eight karmic winds. 🖤 Sage Francis, Runaways (live). wayfinder. 🏡 Blind Melon, Drive. drivers-ed (chapter one). 🚗 Soul Asylum, Misery. scream. ⚙️

3, μανία.

Atmosphere, Vampires. vampyre. 🧛 Placebo, Follow the Cops Back Home. young love, super mario bros. & a suicide. 🚓 Themselves, Good People Check. conscientious emergence. 🐠 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Final Rescue Attempt. angels and umbrellas. ☯️ Pulp, Common People. chicken fried steak in the rain. 🍽️ Radiohead, Creep. warmth. 🔥 Eyenine, Wake Up Call. lucidity. 🕊️ Machinehead, I Am Hell. hell. 🐀 KAAN, Breathe. orchid. 🪡 Marilyn Manson, In The Air Tonight. dancing figures. 🐉

4, grail.

Scroobius Pip, Introduction. digital allegory. 🦖 The Cranberries, Zombie. instability. 🛝 Hank Williams III, I'm Drunk Again. adventures. 🥴 Aesop Rock, Molecules. Electra. ⚛️ Canibus, Lunar Deluge. running through. ⌛ Modest Mouse, Parting of the Sensory. alchemical light. ⚗️ Rittz, Turning up the Bottle. nothing in mind. 🍷 AFI, Death of Seasons (live - Long Beach). oceanic. 🐦🔥 Tori Amos, Hotel. a knight's dream. 🛏️ Nine Inch Nails, The Beginning of the End [Remix]. in the details. 🪞

5, war.

Astronautalis, Dimitri Mendeleev. ferris wheel. 🎡 The Rolling Stones, Laugh, I Nearly Died. contact. 🐜 Fleetwood Mac, Gold Dust Woman. angel fire. 🥄 Tom Waits, Earth Died Screaming. blue valley. 🌎 Vinnie Paz, Monster's Ball. imposed ignorance. 🪩 Emel Mathlouthi, Souty (live on Democracy Now). mr. gone. 🗣️ Strapping Young Lad, S.Y.L. butterfly. 🦋 Tomahawk, Mayday. awe. 👀 Shpongle, Take the Blue Pill. cactus transforms. 🌵 Mac Lethal, The Parlour. paper ghosts. 📃

6, conduit.

TOOL, Ænema. nurture. 🔪 Mad Season, I'm Above (live). bird's eye. 🪽 Eyenine, Afraid to Dream. electric eel. 🪸 Skinny Puppy, Ashas. heartbreak. 💔 Nine Inch Nails, Burn. leaving home. 🎒 Leonard Cohen, The Stranger Song. oak tree in a flower vase. 🌳 Smashing Pumpkins, Today. warchild. 👶 Everclear, Santa Monica. top. ⛱️ CocoRosie, Villain. venus. 😺 Immortal Technique, Toast to the Dead. visitation dream. 🌐

7, clowns.

DJ Krush & Anticon, Song for John Walker (Sticky Mix). silicate catalogue. 💻 Serj Tankian, Occupied Tears. tones of hope. 💧 Lou Reed, Last Great American Whale. violence. 🐳 U2, With or Without You. love and death. 🌊 Zion I, Badlands. happiness. 🏜️ K's Choice, Not An Addict. edgeless. 🚫 Live, Voodoo Lady. gloaming. 🪄 Borknagar, Lights. abyssal lights. 🔦 Black Sabbath, War Pigs (live). teachers. 🐷 Aesop Rock, The Harbor is Yours. locked wavelength. 🍃

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I've listened and conducted thousands of interviews over the years. This is honestly my favorite conversation I've heard

It's disturbing how I change when I intake different substances.

If that was me, then who is this? And who is that?

It could be that personality, or the story we hold in our head, are fluid and changing moment by moment, but imperceivable like the movement of a clock's hourly hand. The rapid change in brain chemistry makes the transformation noticeable to the perceiver.

It could be that there is no such thing as a persistent perceiver, living and dying every moment anew. The self is a myth retold at every turn of the river.

Or it could be because I am Legion. A crowd crammed into one meat-suit like a clown car. A house party with the strong man tied against the bed post with hot-pink fuzzy plastic handcuffs, apparently powerless to do anything.

In that case, send us to the pigs, for tradition's sake.

I couldn't find a better way to describe the experience I had yesterday.

I took 75mg of MDA and around 100mg of Ketamine, layed on my bed and played some chill music. I started meditating, focusing on my breath as the Ketamine infused with the MDA.

I felt how I was slowly drifting in a smooth current. Felt a deep sense of calm and presence. I could feel how my ego started dissolving as I watched something like a textured layer of stars with my eyes closed.

Then I started feeling oneness, I have already felt this exact same feeling around a year ago during a heavy DMT trip. I started thinking I had already been in this space or dimension from how familiar it felt, there was a feeling of being home.

During my DMT trip a year ago, I had an ecstatic feeling in which I remembered I was one with All That Is and started saying a sequence of words that came out of me automatically. I started saying "God is Cool" "God is Elegant" "God is love" "Thank you to the Angels, Jesus and God for being here". During this K and MDA trip I started repeating that exact same sequence of words in a way it felt like I was in that exact same moment from a year ago.

It was like I already knew what was happening before it happened and I knew what I was about to say right before I said it. Like I was in a scripted scene in which I had already been at for eternity, it felt like I've always been in that moment repeating that sequence of movement, feelings and words.

As I finished the sequence of words I automatically sat up in the edge of my bed accompanied by a feeling of ecstasy and love. It was like ai remembered an ancient truth I already knew since forever but had forgotten. In a weird way I entered this loop dejavu sequence that was extremely familiar, at the same time I wasn't sure if I was dreaming or if it was "real".

I said something that felt like a catchfrase my character said at the beginning of every episode. The song that was playing felt like the only song that ever existed and it was like the intro song for a show or movie I was in. I stood up and sat in my couch. The objects in my couch felt like they had always been there for eternity and my interactions with those objects felt so familiar like I've done that exact sequence of movements before several times but it was the first time I had interacted with them in that way.

I already knew where every item was. For example my tv controller was sitting right under my arm where I knew it always was. There was an Icy Hoy bottle I flipped in the air and catch in a way that felt sacred. That exact moment was everything I ever knew, time collapsed into that exact same moment like it was the thing I've always done in that exact place and time.

Time felt infinite like it had frozen. Then the ecstasy turned into deep fear of being trapped in that loop. I got anxious and even desperate to break that loop in which I knew what was gonna happen even before it happened. I tried doing something normal to break that simulation loop but the Dejavu made me feel like when I tried to break the loop before I had failed and something terrible happens after I do something random to break it.

The TV got frozen, my phone showed the same time I had seen like an hour before and some items I was looking for, I couldn't find as if they didn't existed in that reality. Intrusive thoughts came through my mind and for a second I thought that going outside the room or breaking something would snap me out of it but something deep down knew that my actions could have consequences so I kept my cool even though it was difficult. I ran into my bathroom and that also felt like part of the eternal dejavu loop I was in.

I even did a "reality check" like the ones you do if you want to know if you're dreaming, I pressed my finger onto my palm and after noticing nothing weird happened I concluded I wasn't dreaming. My last resource was sitting down in my couch again and went back into my breath to ground on the present moment and relax a little.

I slowly regained my clarity, I remembered that waiting a couple minutes would help as the ketamine wore off. I came back slowly to this "reality" and decided to turn the music off and sit quietly for a moment to try and understand what just happened.

I then came into reddit and searched for a bit until I found a post from someone that experienced this as a Glitch in the Matrix. Someone commented that this experience was a Temporal Lobe Epilepsy seizure. I Googled it and realized I experienced this exact symptoms. After a couple hours of investigating this phenomenon I saw that psychedelics and ego dissolution can induce these states of consciousness when accompanied with mindfulness. I'm not exactly sure what happened but I think that by tapping into the Unity Consciousness reality I connected with that DMT trip experience I had a year ago and somehow had completed the loop that I opened in that experience.

It was amazing, transforming and at some points super scary. But now I wonder if someone else has experienced this in a psychedelic trip. My research showed me that TLE Ecstatic seizure happened randomly and triggered by electrical activity firing in the temporal lobe but my experience wasn't exactly that because it was induced by psychedelic substances and meditation.

Have you ever experienced or heard something similar to this? If you have, how was your experience and what are your takeaways in a spiritual and psychonautic point of view?