The Singularity

BROOK · 09-13-2009, 06:51 AM

I don't hear too much from the forum about Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna was a psychedelic author, explorer, and showman. He was born in 1946 and grew up in Paonia, Colorado. In high school he moved to Los Altos, California and from there attended U.C. Berkeley for two years before setting off to travel. He travelled widely in Asia, South America, and Europe during his college years and 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. Soon thereafter, he and Dennis pseudonymously published one of the earliest psilocybin mushroom growing guides under the names Oss and Oeric. Terence then spent some time doing large-scale farming of psilocybin mushrooms during the 1980s.

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. During the 90s, he wrote and lectured widely about shamanism, ethnopharmacology, and psychoactive plants and chemicals (especially psilocybin mushrooms and DMT). His sometimes fantasic theories, lectures, and writings led some to dismiss him as a kook, some to follow him as a visionary, and others to enjoy him as an intellectual entertainer.

He spent the last few years of his life living in Hawaii and died of brain cancer in 2000 at the age of 54.

This Video is quite interesting for a starter....

BROOK · 09-13-2009, 06:54 AM

Time Acceleration

giovonni · 09-13-2009, 10:28 AM

Thanks BROOK

TM~ was quite the visionary~
obviously reached point zero

09-13-2009, 03:54 PM

I don't think TM is here

A singular university - February 03, 2009

America is getting a new university. A rather strange sounding university.

Based at NASA’s Ames facility in California, the Singularity University has been inspired by the writing of ‘futurist’ Ray Kurzweil. This summer students – who may number 30 or 120 – will start work at the university, which is backed by Google (who else) to the tune of $1 million.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegrea...niversity.html

http://singularityu.org/overview/

There's interesting comments here about artificial wisdom and buddhism
http://ginx.com/t/singularity

BROOK · 09-13-2009, 04:38 PM

Voynich Manuscript

Anybody wanna crack at it....
The complete Voynich manuscript
http://awesta.sibirjak.ru/files/Voynich.pdf

09-13-2009, 06:51 AM	#1
BROOK Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 3,117	The Singularity I don't hear too much from the forum about Terence McKenna Terence McKenna was a psychedelic author, explorer, and showman. He was born in 1946 and grew up in Paonia, Colorado. In high school he moved to Los Altos, California and from there attended U.C. Berkeley for two years before setting off to travel. He travelled widely in Asia, South America, and Europe during his college years and 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. Soon thereafter, he and Dennis pseudonymously published one of the earliest psilocybin mushroom growing guides under the names Oss and Oeric. Terence then spent some time doing large-scale farming of psilocybin mushrooms during the 1980s. 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. During the 90s, he wrote and lectured widely about shamanism, ethnopharmacology, and psychoactive plants and chemicals (especially psilocybin mushrooms and DMT). His sometimes fantasic theories, lectures, and writings led some to dismiss him as a kook, some to follow him as a visionary, and others to enjoy him as an intellectual entertainer. He spent the last few years of his life living in Hawaii and died of brain cancer in 2000 at the age of 54. This Video is quite interesting for a starter.... Last edited by BROOK; 09-13-2009 at 06:59 AM.

09-13-2009, 06:54 AM	#2
BROOK Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 3,117	Re: The Singularity Time Acceleration Last edited by BROOK; 09-13-2009 at 07:10 AM.

09-13-2009, 10:28 AM	#3
giovonni Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: within my heart Posts: 1,209	Re: The Singularity Thanks BROOK TM~ was quite the visionary~ obviously reached point zero

09-13-2009, 03:54 PM	#4
no caste Guest Posts: n/a	Re: The Singularity I don't think TM is here A singular university - February 03, 2009 America is getting a new university. A rather strange sounding university. Based at NASA’s Ames facility in California, the Singularity University has been inspired by the writing of ‘futurist’ Ray Kurzweil. This summer students – who may number 30 or 120 – will start work at the university, which is backed by Google (who else) to the tune of $1 million. http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegrea...niversity.html http://singularityu.org/overview/ There's interesting comments here about artificial wisdom and buddhism http://ginx.com/t/singularity

09-13-2009, 04:38 PM	#5
BROOK Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 3,117	Re: The Singularity Voynich Manuscript Anybody wanna crack at it.... The complete Voynich manuscript http://awesta.sibirjak.ru/files/Voynich.pdf Last edited by BROOK; 09-13-2009 at 06:17 PM.