Terence McKenna’s alternate version of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point

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The following YouTube video titled…

“A Shockingly Accurate 1998 Prediction About Today and What Comes Next”

…looks back at the words and predictions of one of my all-time favorite space cadets - Terence McKenna…

A Shockingly Accurate 1998 Prediction About Today and What Comes Next

Here’s a short excerpt from the video’s transcript:

McKenna:

We are about to take the step out of matter. It’s only going to get weirder. The level of contradiction is going to rise excruciatingly even beyond the excruciating present levels of contradiction.

I think it’s just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder and finally it’s going to be so weird that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is. Eventually, people are going to say, “What the hell is going on? It’s just too nuts.”

It’s not enough to say it’s nuts. You have to explain why it’s so nuts. It is under the sway of what I call the transcendental object at the end of time. The planet is on a collision course with the most profound event it’s possible to imagine → The freeing of organic life from the chrysalis of matter.

For a billion years, there’s been life on this planet, but never life that could step outside of matter. But this is obviously what’s in the cards. Processes are now in play which so totally rewrite the script that no one can imagine.

…Now we stand close enough to it that I think all but the most lumpen among us must feel the tug of the transcendental and the transformative.

I humbly suggest that…

“…the freeing of organic life from the chrysalis of matter…”

…had already taken place as far back as eternity itself, and that this universe is simply the most recent example of what an incorporeal (non-material) lifeform is capable of creating out of the living fabric of its very own being…

And even though Terence may have been full of horse crap just like the rest of us ,…

…I nevertheless contend that only “the most lumpen among us” fail to appreciate McKenna’s gift of improvisational eloquence (and humor) when it came to fielding and answering pretty much any philosophical question directed his way.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 26 years since he took the “ultimate trip.”

[Socrates]

I have to agree with that assessment. He was an asshole, but who isn’t, and he was an asshole with flair and precision.

[Socrates]

I think it’s more to do with the inevitable consequences of socialicization, which itself is the culminatuon of the state as a philosophical object (distinct from property).

The masses never went through the multigenerational, painful, expensive task of education, and instead got indoctrinated with a bunch of flash. That flash represents itself as thought, but isn’t, so therfore the inevitable contradictions and the “weirdness.”

Thought takes time and work and built up stores and is very difficult.

But socialization includes commodization, nothing can compete with the comfy chair and the 10 minute ride to walmart. The educated elite that Walter Lipman wrote about became extinct. The flash program went back and ate its creators, now that is all there is, as well as dispersed shamans here and there.

[Socrates]

There’s no reason to believe this process is reversible. Humans may become a mixed mash of flesh and alluminum, a steaming rubble of undefined nothing until the Sun eats it all.

I don’t wager this will stop the shamans from taking a crack at it.

[Socrates]

By the way, the reason the process was viable is that bankers eventually realized that, instead of periodically getting sacked by states, they could make them stakeholders. The state, with all its apparati, as part of the bank. The bank, also, now not really having owners, only stakeholders.

You may ask why a powerful banking family might willingly give up all that power to an entity that no longer belongs to it.

Many families did ask. They all went broke.

This is also why taxes went from being a barely tolerated 5-10% to a “well how do you want them to build roads rhen?!?!?!” 50+%.