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Hey bro,
Just noticed you wrote on one of my pics... Yeah, I am in Houston. You? If you want to jump from a perfectly good airplane I can take you. This is gonna be a great weekend for it. Let me know...
Dave
Hey man I've been trying to get ahold of you, is there a way we can get in contact more reliably or something? I noticed you wrote some more on the masks story we wrote together and I was wondering if you had found the original copy of that so maybe I can help out or something. Hope to hear from you. Jason.
Forrest Jones December 31 at 6:08am
forrestjones2010@gmail.com is the easiest I check it several times a day
text also at 409-351-2956
I forget to turn on Yahoo(will put it on start up)
FB IM is a good way
office# is 409-813-1204
I have use The 4 masks here and there for a few things...I have incorporated it into a larger work(which will be credited to you on publication ofcourse)
The two things that I am working on right now are
The Chrome a Novel under the alias Helford Jersey
and
Billy Purgatory a Novel/graphic novel by Jessie James Freeman
I am writing the chrome and doing the visual art on a team with Purgatory...
Would love to work with you again and yes I do have a copy of notes and the like over the 4 masks...im conversations...i saved everything...i can email it to you...is the yahoo the best one to send it to?
forrest
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The God Virus
the fly
by Price Pritchett
I'm sitting in a quiet room at the Milcroft Inn, a peaceful little place hidden back among the pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. It's just past noon, late July, and I'm listening to the desperate sounds of a life-or-death struggle going on a few feet away.
There's a small fly burning out the last of its short life's energies in a futile attempt to fly through the glass of the windowpane. The whining wings tell the poignant story of the fly's strategy: Try harder.
But it's not working.
The frenzied effort offers no hope for survival. Ironically, the struggle is part of the trap. It is impossible for the fly to try hard enough to succeed at breaking through the glass. Nevertheless, this little insect has staked its life on reaching its goal through raw effort and determination.
This fly is doomed. It will die there on the windowsill.
Across the room, ten steps away, the door is open. Ten seconds of flying time and this small creature could reach the outside world it seeks. With only a fraction of the effort now being wasted, it could be free of this self-imposed trap. The breakthrough possibility is there. It would be so easy.
Why doesn't the fly try another approach, something dramatically different? How did it get so locked in on the idea that this particular route and determined effort offer the most promise for success? What logic is there in continuing until death to seek a breakthrough with more of the same?
No doubt this approach makes sense to the fly. Regrettably, it's an idea that will kill.
Trying harder isn't necessarily the solution to achieving more. It may not offer any real promise for getting what you want out of life. Sometimes, in fact, it's a big part of the problem.
If you stake your hopes for a breakthrough on trying harder than ever, you may kill your chances of success.
Forrest Jones
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income
by Kevin McCormally
Wednesday, December 23, 2009provided by
Where do you rank as a taxpayer? You may not feel rich earning $35,000 a year, but you're in the top half of taxpayers. Make $70,000, and you earn more than 75 percent of fellow taxpayers.
More from Kiplinger.com
• How Do You Rank as a Taxpayer?
• Quiz: Is It Tax Deductible?
• 19 Most Overlooked Tax Deductions
Even as the Great Recession ends, we know the economic wounds it inflicted will take years to heal. The national unemployment rate has breached 10 percent, and unemployment is higher than 12 percent in California and above 15 percent in Michigan. A new study from the Department of Agriculture found that nearly 50 million Americans struggled at some point in 2008 to get enough to eat.
More than 40 million Americans are officially living in poverty. And you might be surprised at how little income it takes to not be considered poor by the federal government. For 2008, the poverty threshold for a single person under age 65 was an income of $11,201, or less than $1,000 a month. For a family of four, the threshold was $21,834. For a family of six, $28,769.
With that perspective, you may wonder just how your income stacks up against that of your fellow citizens. New statistics from the IRS provide an answer. The numbers here come from an analysis of 2007 tax returns, the most recent ones that have been studied.
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The data show that an income of $32,879 or more puts you in the top half of taxpayers. Earning a bit more than twice that much -- $66,532 -- earns you a spot among the top 25 percent of all earners. You crack the elite top 10 percent if you earn more than $113,018.
And $410,096 buys top bragging rights: Earn that much or more and you're among the top 1 percent of all American earners.
Kiplinger has developed an online calculator to quickly show you -- based on your personal adjusted gross income -- into which income category you fall and, as a bonus, what percentage of the nation's tax burden is borne collectively by you and your fellow citizens who are in that income category. The following table shows the income categories and the percentage of income earned and tax burden paid by each category.
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12.28.2009 9:39AM
BUSINESS DO’S
PRAY
READ BIBLE DAILY
RECOMMIT TO TITHEING IN THE TRADITIONAL SENSE 10% GROSS
RECOMMIT TO THE 5 CRITICAL ACTIVITIES
CONTACT 10 PEOPLE PER DAY TO SELL THEM AN INVESTMENT
SEE AT LEAST 2 NEW PEOPLE PER DAY 10/2
READ NO LESS THAN ONE POSITIVE BUSINESS BOOK PER MONTH
FORGIVE EVERYONE THAT I HAVE ANY PERCEPTION OF THEM DOING ME WRONG
BE THANKFUL FOR EDWARD JONES AND MY WORK & TO EDJ
FOCUS ON THESE THINGS IN BUSINESS: EDWARD JONES
INTERNATIONAL ASSET SOLUTIONS
BILLY PURGATORY
THE CHROME
BUSINESS DON’T’S
STOP BRINGING COMPUTER TO WORK
STOP VIEWING MEDIA IN THE OFFICE
PERSONAL DO’S
PRAY UPON WAKING OVER MY FAMILY
READ BIBLE DAILY
RECOMMIT TO TITHEING IN THE TRADITIONAL SENCE 10% GROSS
FOCUS ON YOUR WIFE AND FAMILY LIKE YOU NEVER HAVE BEFORE!
HONOR A YEAR LONG PSYCH PLAN STARTING ON 1.20.2010
THAT WILL FOCUS ON OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR ERADICATION
AND DEPRESSION CYCLES
EXERCISE AT THE GYM AT LEAST 2 TIMES PER WEEK
PERSONAL DON’T’S
STOP VIEWING MEDIA IN GENERAL
***TREAT THIS AS A RUNNING LIST THAT IS ALIVE AND CAN BE ADDED TO OR AUGMENTED AT ANYTIME***
2010 VISIONS AND RESOLUTIONS
FORREST JONES
12.28.2009 9:39AM
BUSINESS DO’S
PRAY
READ BIBLE DAILY
RECOMMIT TO TITHEING IN THE TRADITIONAL SENSE 10% GROSS
RECOMMIT TO THE 5 CRITICAL ACTIVITIES
CONTACT 10 PEOPLE PER DAY TO SELL THEM AN INVESTMENT
SEE AT LEAST 2 NEW PEOPLE PER DAY 10/2
READ NO LESS THAN ONE POSITIVE BUSINESS BOOK PER MONTH
FORGIVE EVERYONE THAT I HAVE ANY PERCEPTION OF THEM DOING ME WRONG
BE THANKFUL FOR EDWARD JONES AND MY WORK & TO EDJ
FOCUS ON THESE THINGS IN BUSINESS: EDWARD JONES
INTERNATIONA ASSET SOLUTIONS
BILLY PURGATORY
THE CHROME
BUSINESS DON’T’S
STOP BRINGING COMPUTER TO WORK
STOP VIEWING MEDIA IN THE OFFICE
PERSONAL DO’S
PRAY UPON WAKING OVER MY FAMILY
READ BIBLE DAILY
RECOMMIT TO TITHEING IN THE TRADITIONAL SENCE 10% GROSS
FOCUS ON YOUR WIFE AND FAMILY LIKE YOU NEVER HAVE BEFORE!
HONOR A YEAR LONG PSYCH PLAN STARTING ON 1.20.2010
THAT WILL FOCUS ON OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR ERADICATION
AND DEPRESSION CYCLES
EXERCISE AT THE GYM AT LEAST 2 TIMES PER WEEK
PERSONAL DON’T’S
STOP VIEWING MEDIA IN GENERAL
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Tabs for song: Who By Fire
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Send “Who By Fire” to Cell Phone
Who By Fire ( Leonard Cohen )
From the New Skin for the Old Ceremony album
Transcribed and tabbed by Jean-Marc Orliaguet
( jmo@fy.chalmers.se, http://fy.chalmers.se/~jmo )
Notes : This is the guitar part on the left channel in the studio version.
( The guitar on the right will be posted later )
No capo
The most difficult part is the finger picking.
the thumb, index, major and ring fingers are referred
as t, i, m and r.
Am/E
> > > > >
e-|--------------------------------------------------|
B-|--1-----------------------------------------------|
G-|--------2-----------2-----------2-----------2-----|
D-|-----------2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------------------|
E-|--0----------(0)---------(0)----------0-----------|
i i i t t i i t t i i t t i i
t
Am/F
> > > > >
e-|--------------------------------------------------|
B-|--1-----------------------------------------------|
G-|--------2-----------2-----------2-----------2-----|
D-|-----------2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------------------|
E-|--1----------(1)---------(1)---------(1)----------|
i i i t t i i t t i i t t i i
t
E(7)
> > > > > > > >
e-|--------------------------------------------------|
B-|--------------------------------------------------|
G-|--------1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------------------|
E-|--0-----------------------------------------------|
t t i t i t i t i t i t i t i t
> > > > > > > >
e-|--------------------------------------------------|
B-|--------------------------------------------------|
G-|--1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2----2------2--|
A-|--------------------------------------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------------------|
i t i t i t i t i t i t i t i t
Am G Am
> > > > >
e-|--------------------------------------------------|
B-|--1-----------0-----------1-----------------------|
G-|--------2-----------0-----------2-----------2-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------0-----------|
E-|--------------------------------------------------|
m t i t m t i t m t i i t t i t
Who by fire
Am G Am
> > > > >
e-|--------------------------------------------------|
B-|--1-----------0-----------1-----------------------|
G-|--------2-----------0-----------2-----------2-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------0-----------|
E-|--------------------------------------------------|
m t i t m t i t m t i i t t i t
Who by water
C/E G/D C/E
> > > > >
e-|--------------------------0-----------------------|
B-|--1-----------3-----------------------1-----------|
G-|--------0-----------0-----------0-----------0-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------------------|
m t i t m t i t r t i t m t i t
Who in the sun - shine
C/E G/D C/E
> > > > >
e-|--------------------------0-----------------------|
B-|--1-----------3-----------------------1-----------|
G-|--------0-----------0-----------0-----------0-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------------------|
m t i t m t i t r t i t m t i t
Who in the night - time
Am G Am
> > > > >
e-|--------------------------------------------------|
B-|--1-----------0-----------1-----------------------|
G-|--------2-----------0-----------2-----------2-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------0-----------|
E-|--------------------------------------------------|
m t i t m t i t m t i i t t i t
Who by high ordeal
Am G Am
> > > > >
e-|--------------------------------------------------|
B-|--1-----------0-----------1-----------------------|
G-|--------2-----------0-----------2-----------2-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------0-----------|
E-|--------------------------------------------------|
m t i t m t i t m t i i t t i t
Who by common trial
C/E G/D C/E
> > > > >
e-|--------------------------0-----------------------|
B-|--1-----------3-----------------------1-----------|
G-|--------0-----------0-----------0-----------0-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------------------|
m t i t m t i t m t i t m t i t
Who in your merry merry month of May,
C/E G/D C/E
> > > > >
e-|--------------------------0-----------------------|
B-|--1-----------3-----------------------1-----------|
G-|--------0-----------0-----------0-----------0-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------------------|
m t i t m t i t r t i t m t i t
Who by very slow decay and
Am/E
> > > > >
e-|--------------------------------------------------|
B-|--1-----------------------------------------------|
G-|--------2-----------2-----------2-----------2-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------------------|
E-|--------------0-----------0-----------0-----------|
m t i i t t i i t t i i t t i i
Shall I say
Am/F
> > > > >
e-|--------------------------------------------------|
B-|--------------------------------------------------|
G-|--------2-----------2-----------2-----------2-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------------------|
E-|--1-----------1-----------1-----------1-----------|
t t i i t t i i t t i i t t i i
is
E/B
> > > > > > > >
e-|--------------------------------------------------|
B-|--0-----------------------------------------------|
G-|--1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--2-----------------------------------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------------------|
m t i t i t i t i t i t i t i t
i
t
calling
> > > > > > > >
e-|--------------------------------------------------|
B-|--------------------------------------------------|
G-|--1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----1-----|
D-|-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----2--|
A-|--------------------------------------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------------------|
Lyrics :
And who by fire, who by water,
who in the sunshine, who in the night time,
who by high ordeal, who by common trial,
who in your merry merry month of may,
who by very slow decay,
and who shall I say is calling?
And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate,
who in these realms of love, who by something blunt,
and who by avalanche, who by powder,
who for his greed, who for his hunger,
and who shall I say is calling?
And who by brave assent, who by accident,
who in solitude, who in this mirror,
who by his lady's command, who by his own hand,
who in mortal chains, who in power,
and who shall I say is calling?
--
Jean-Marc Orliaguet ( jmo@fy.chalmers.se http://fy.chalmers.se/~jmo )
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For the Canadian documentary filmmaker, see Terence McKenna (film producer).
Terence Kemp McKenna
Full name Terence Kemp McKenna
Born November 16, 1946
Paonia, Colorado, USA
Died April 3, 2000 (aged 53)
Hawaii, USA
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School metaphysics, phenomenology
Main interests shamanism, ethnobotany, metaphysics, psychedelic drugs and plants, futurism, primitivism, environmentalism, consciousness, phenomenology, historical revisionism, evolution, ontology, Mind at Large, virtual reality, dominator culture, criticizing science, the Logos
Notable ideas novelty theory, "stoned ape" hypothesis, Machine elf, psychedelic exopheromones, the "felt presence of direct experience"
Influenced by[show]
Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was a writer, public speaker, philosopher, psychonaut, ethnobotanist, art historian, and self described anarchist, feminist, platonist and skeptic.[1]. He was noted for his knowledge, and the ability to articulate his knowledge, of the use of psychedelics, metaphysics, plant-based entheogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, mysticism, hermeticism, neo-platonism, biology, geology, physics, astrophysics, media theory, linguistics, poetry, historical and civilizational timelines, the theoretical origins of human consciousness, psychedelic phenomenology, and his concept of novelty theory.[2]
Contents [hide]
1 Biography
1.1 Early life
1.2 Adult life
1.3 Last interview
1.4 Death
1.5 The library fire
2 Ideas
2.1 The "Stoned Ape" hypothesis of human evolution
2.2 Novelty theory and "Time Wave: Zero Point"
3 Bibliography
4 Spoken word
5 Discography
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
8.1 Writings online
8.2 Audio and video resources
[edit]Biography
[edit]Early life
Terence McKenna grew up in Paonia, Colorado.[3] He was introduced to geology through his uncle and developed a hobby of solitary fossil hunting in the arroyos near his home.[4] From this he developed a deep artistic and scientific appreciation of nature.
At age 16, McKenna moved to, and attended high school in, Los Altos, California.[3] He lived with family friends because his parents in Colorado wished him to have the benefit of highly rated California public schools. He was introduced to psychedelics through The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley[3] and the Village Voice.[5]
One of his early experiences with them came through morning glory seeds (containing LSA), which he claimed showed him "that there was something there worth pursuing."[3]
In 1964, circumstances required McKenna to move to Lancaster, California, to live with a different set of family friends. In 1965, he graduated from Antelope Valley High School.
McKenna then enrolled in U.C. Berkeley. He moved to San Francisco during the summer of 1965 before his classes began, was introduced that year to cannabis by Barry Melton[6] and tried LSD soon after.
As a freshman at U.C. Berkeley McKenna participated in the Tussman Experimental College, a short-lived two-year program on the Berkeley campus. He graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Ecology and Conservation.
[edit]Adult life
He spent the years after his graduation teaching English in Japan, traveling through India and South Asia collecting butterflies for biological supply companies.[7]
Following the death of his mother in 1971, Terence, his brother Dennis, and three friends traveled to the Colombian Amazon in search of oo-koo-hé, a plant preparation containing DMT. Instead of oo-koo-hé they found various forms of ayahuasca and gigantic psilocybe cubensis which became the new focus of the expedition.[7] In La Chorrera, at the urging of his brother, he allowed himself to be the subject of a psychedelic experiment which he claimed put him in contact with Logos: an informative, divine voice he believed was universal to visionary religious experience.[7] The revelations of this voice, and his brother's peculiar experience during the experiment, prompted him to explore the structure of an early form of the I Ching, which led to his "Novelty Theory".[7] These ideas were explored extensively by Terence and Dennis in their 1975 book The Invisible Landscape - Mind Hallucinogens and The I Ching.
In the early 1980s, McKenna began to speak publicly on the topic of psychedelic drugs, lecturing extensively and conducting weekend workshops. Though somewhat associated with the New Age or human potential movement, McKenna himself had little patience for New Age sensibilities, repeatedly stressing the importance of the primacy of felt experience as opposed to dogmatic ideologies.[8] Timothy Leary once introduced him as "one of the five or six most important people on the planet".[9]
“ It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy. ”
—Terence McKenna, "This World...and Its Double", [10]
He soon became a fixture of popular counterculture, and his popularity continued to grow, culminating in the early to mid 1990's with the publication of several books such as True Hallucinations (which relates the tale of his 1971 experience at La Chorrera), Food of the Gods and The Archaic Revival. He became a popular personality in the psychedelic rave/dance scene of the early 1990s, with frequent spoken word performances at raves and contributions to psychedelic and goa trance albums by The Shamen, Spacetime Continuum, Alien Project, Capsula, Entheogenic, Zuvuya, Shpongle, and Shakti Twins. His speeches were (and continue to be) sampled by many others. In 1994 he appeared as a speaker at the Starwood Festival, which was documented in the book Tripping by Charles Hayes (his lectures were produced on both cassette tape and CD).[11]
McKenna was a contemporary and colleague of chaos mathematician Ralph Abraham and biologist Rupert Sheldrake (creator of the theory of "morphogenetic fields", not to be confused with the mainstream usage of the same term), and conducted several public debates known as trialogues with them, from the late 1980s up until his death. Books which contained transcriptions of some of these events were published. He was also a friend and associate of Ralph Metzner, Nicole Maxwell, and Riane Eisler, participating in joint workshops and symposia with them. He was a personal friend of Tom Robbins, and influenced the thought of numerous scientists, writers, artists, and entertainers, including comedian Bill Hicks, whose routines concerning psychedelic drugs drew heavily from McKenna's works. He is also the inspiration for the Twin Peaks character Dr. Jacoby.[12]
In addition to psychedelic drugs, McKenna spoke on the subjects of virtual reality (which he saw as a way to artistically communicate the experience of psychedelics), techno-paganism, artificial intelligence, evolution, extraterrestrials, and aesthetic theory (art/visual experience as information-- representing the significance of hallucinatory visions experienced under the influence of psychedelics).
McKenna also co-founded Botanical Dimensions with Kathleen Harrison (ethnobotanist) (his colleague and wife of 17 years), a non-profit ethnobotanical preserve on the island of Hawaii, where he lived for many years before he died. Before moving to Hawaii permanently, McKenna split his time between Hawaii and a town called Occidental, located in the redwood-studded hills of Sonoma County, California, a town unique for its high concentration of artistic notables, including Tom Waits and Mickey Hart.
[edit]Last interview
Erik Davis, author of the book TechGnosis, conducted what would be the last interview with McKenna in October and early November 1999. This interview was held in preparation for a profile featured in Wired Magazine in 2000, entitled "Terence McKenna's Last Trip."[13] Erik Davis later published larger excerpts from this interview at his site, techgnosis.com, and the recorded interview has also been released on CD. Commenting on the reality of his own death, McKenna said during the interview:
“
I always thought death would come on the freeway in a few horrifying moments, so you'd have no time to sort it out. Having months and months to look at it and think about it and talk to people and hear what they have to say, it's a kind of blessing. It's certainly an opportunity to grow up and get a grip and sort it all out. Just being told by an unsmiling guy in a white coat that you're going to be dead in four months definitely turns on the lights. ... It makes life rich and poignant. When it first happened, and I got these diagnoses, I could see the light of eternity, a la William Blake, shining through every leaf. I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to tears.[14]
”
[edit]Death
A longtime sufferer of migraines, in mid-1999 McKenna returned to his home on the big island of Hawaii after a long lecturing tour. He began to suffer from increasingly painful headaches. This culminated in three brain seizures in one night, which he claimed were the most powerful psychedelic experiences he had ever known. Upon his emergency trip to the hospital on Oahu, Terence was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer. For the next several months he underwent various treatments, including experimental gamma knife radiation treatment. He died on April 3, 2000, at the age of 53, with his loved ones at his bedside. He is survived by his brother Dennis, his son Finn, and his daughter Klea.
[edit]The library fire
On February 7, 2007, McKenna's library of rare books and personal notes was destroyed in a fire which burned offices belonging to Big Sur's Esalen Institute storing the collection. An index maintained by his brother Dennis survives, though little else.
[edit]Ideas
“ There are these things, which I call "self transforming machine elves," I also call them self-dribbling basketballs. They are, but they are none of these things. I mean you have to understand: these are metaphors in the truest sense, meaning that they're lies! [...] I name them 'Tykes' because tyke is a word that means to me a small child, ... and when you burst into the DMT space this is the Aeon - it's a child, and it's at play with colored balls, and I am in eternity, apparently, in the presence of this thing. ”
—Terence McKenna, "Time and Mind", [15]
Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind via the ingestion of naturally occurring psychedelic substances. For example, and in particular, as facilitated by the ingestion of high doses of psychedelic mushrooms, and DMT, which he believed was the apotheosis of the psychedelic experience. He spoke of the "jeweled, self-dribbling basketballs" or "self-transforming machine elves" that one encounters in that state.
Although he avoided giving his allegiance to any one interpretation (part of his rejection of monotheism), he was open to the idea of psychedelics as being "trans-dimensional travel"; literally, enabling an individual to encounter what could be aliens, ancestors, or spirits of earth.[8] He remained opposed to most forms of organized religion or guru-based forms of spiritual awakening.
Philosophically and religiously, he expressed admiration for Marshall McLuhan, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Gnostic Christianity, Alfred North Whitehead, Alchemy, and James Joyce (calling Finnegans Wake "the quintessential work of art, or at least work of literature of the 20th century").[16]
[edit]The "Stoned Ape" hypothesis of human evolution
McKenna hypothesized that as the North African jungles receded and gave way to savannas and grasslands near the end of the most recent ice age, a branch of our tree-dwelling primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began to live in the open areas outside of the forest. There they experimented with new varieties of foods as they adapted, physically and mentally, to their new environment.
Among the new food items found in this new environment were psilocybin-containing mushrooms growing near the dung of ungulate herds that occupied the savannas and grasslands at that time. McKenna, referencing the research of Roland L. Fisher,[17][18][19][20] claimed that enhancement of visual acuity was an effect of psilocybin at low doses, and supposed that this would have conferred an adaptive advantage. He also argued that the effects of slightly larger doses, including sexual arousal, and in still larger doses, ecstatic hallucinations and glossolalia — gave selective evolutionary advantages to members of those tribes who partook of it. There were many changes caused by the introduction of this psychoactive mushroom to the primate diet. McKenna hypothesizes, for instance, that synesthesia (the blurring of boundaries between the senses) caused by psilocybin led to the development of spoken language: the ability to form pictures in another person's mind through the use of vocal sounds.
About 12,000 years ago, further climate changes removed psilocybin-containing mushrooms from the human diet. McKenna argued that this event resulted in a new set of profound changes in our species as we reverted to the previous brutal primate social structures that had been modified and/or repressed by frequent consumption of psilocybin.
[edit]Novelty theory and "Time Wave: Zero Point"
See also: 2012 phenomenon
One of McKenna's ideas is known as novelty theory. It predicts the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. McKenna developed the theory in the mid-1970s after his experiences in the Amazon at La Chorrera led him to closely study the King Wen sequence of the I-Ching. Novelty theory involves ontology, extropy, and eschatology.
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, or extropy (a term coined by Max More meaning the opposite of entropy). According to McKenna, when novelty is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as "timewave zero" or simply the "timewave" results. The graph shows at what time periods, but never at what locations, novelty increases or decreases and is supposed to represent a model of history's most important events.
The algorithm has also been extrapolated to be a model for future events. McKenna admitted to the expectation of a "singularity of novelty", and that he and his colleagues projected into the future to find when this singularity (runaway "newness" or extropy) could occur. Millenarians give more credence to Novelty theory as a way to predict the future (especially regarding 2012) than McKenna himself. The graph of extropy had many enormous fluctuations over the last 25,000 years, but it hits an asymptote in the middle of November, 2012. After his discovery of other doomsday theories that would take place on exactly December 21, 2012, he simply bumped up the date of "doomsday".[21] This statement is contested, however, by McKenna's own mouth when during a lecture he said,
“ An astonishing thing about the date I arrived at, by this method is that it's the same date that the Mayan civilization appointed for the end of its calendar. In all eternity ... You know, you may choose not to believe that I didn't know this when I made this prediction. But I didn't, know it! I didn't. Yet I chose not the month, not the same year - the same day, month and year.[22] ”
In other words, entropy (or habituation) no longer exists after that date. It is impossible to define that state. This is also the date on which the Mayan long calendar ends one cycle through the zodiac signs, then it begins a new 26,000 year cycle through the next era, or the Age of Peace. The technological singularity concept parallels this, only at a date roughly three decades later.
Author Steve Wilson has stated that his reluctance to accept this technological endpoint was shattered when reading of the Adam robot experiment's success. Since endpoint theory needs the creation of machines that can design and program other machines for the final stages to be possible (otherwise the slowness of human beings will make it impossible for such technological novelty to be achieved), this experiment is a major step towards practical artificial intelligence.
[edit]Bibliography
1975 - The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching (with Dennis McKenna) (Seabury; 1st Ed) ISBN 0-8164-9249-2.
1976 - The Invisible Landscape (with Dennis McKenna, and Quinn Taylor) (Scribner) ISBN 0-8264-0122-8
1976 - Psilocybin - Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide (with Dennis McKenna: credited under the pseudonyms OT Oss and ON Oeric) (2nd edition 1986) (And/Or Press) ISBN 0-915904-13-6
1992 - Psilocybin - Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide (with Dennis McKenna: (credited under the pseudonyms OT Oss and ON Oeric) (Quick American Publishing Company; Revised edition) ISBN 0-932551-06-8
1992 - The Archaic Revival (HarperSanFrancisco; 1st edition) ISBN 0-06-250613-7
1992 - Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge - A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution (Bantam) ISBN 0-553-37130-4
1992 - Synesthesia (with Timothy C. Ely) (Granary Books 1st Ed) ISBN 1-887123-04-0
1992 - Trialogues at the Edge of the West: Chaos, Creativity, and the Resacralization of the World (with Ralph H. Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake and Jean Houston) (Bear & Company Publishing 1st Ed) ISBN 0-939680-97-1
1993 - True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil’s Paradise (HarperSanFrancisco 1st Ed) ISBN 0-06-250545-9
1994 - The Invisible Landscape (HarperSanFrancisco; Reprint edition) ISBN 0-06-250635-8
1998 - True Hallucinations & the Archaic Revival: Tales and Speculations About the Mysteries of the Psychedelic Experience (Fine Communications/MJF Books) (Hardbound) ISBN 1-56731-289-6
1998 - The Evolutionary Mind : Trialogues at the Edge of the Unthinkable (with Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph H. Abraham) (Trialogue Press; 1st Ed) ISBN 0-942344-13-8
1999 - Food of the Gods: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution (Rider & Co; New edition) ISBN 0-7126-7038-6
1999 - Robert Venosa: Illuminatus (with Robert Venosa, Ernst Fuchs, H. R. Giger, and Mati Klarwein) (Craftsman House) ISBN 90-5703-272-4
2001 - Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness (with Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph H. Abraham) (Park Street Press; revised ed) ISBN 0-89281-977-4 (Revised edition of Trialogues at the Edge of the West)
2005 - The Evolutionary Mind: Trialogues on Science, Spirit & Psychedelics (Monkfish Book Publishing; Revised Ed) ISBN 0-9749359-7-2
[edit]Spoken word
TechnoPagans at the End of History (transcription of rap with Mark Pesce from 1998)
Psychedelics in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1999)
Alien Dreamtime with Spacetime Continuum & Stephen Kent (Magic Carpet Media) (CD)
Conversations on the Edge of Magic (1994) (CD & Cassette) ACE
Rap-Dancing Into the Third Millennium (1994) (Cassette) (Re-issued on CD as The Quintessential Hallucinogen) ACE
Packing For the Long Strange Trip (1994) (Cassette) ACE
Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell, broadcast on May 22, 1997, Five hour interview covering various topics
[edit]Discography
Re : Evolution with The Shamen (1992)
Alien Dreamtime with Spacetime Continuum & Stephen Kent (Magic Carpet Media) (DVD)
2009 - Cognition Factor (2009)
[edit]See also
Machine Elf
Dominator culture
List of notable brain tumor patients
Ethnomycology
Exopheromone
Wade Davis
Antiscience
[edit]References
^ McKenna, Terrence (1992). The Archaic Revival. Harper Collins Publishers. p. 12. ISBN 9780062506149.
^ Watkins, Matthew. "Autopsy for a Mathematical Hallucination?".
^ a b c d Terence McKenna Interview, Part 1. Tripzine.com. Accessed on April 26, 2007.
^ McKenna, Terence. "Under The Teaching Tree" Ojai Foundation, Upper Ojai, California (Unknown (1985)).
^ Erowid Terence McKenna Vault: The High Times Interview. Accessed on April 26, 2007.
^ "Terence McKenna, 53, Dies; Patron of Psychedelics". Cannabis News. 2000-04-09.
^ a b c d True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise. Terence McKenna, 1993.
^ a b "The Invisible Landscape (lecture)". Terence Mckenna.
^ Introduction by Timothy Leary to "Unfolding the Stone" lecture by Terence McKenna
^ Terence McKenna. (1993-09-11). This World...and Its Double. Mill Valley, California: Sound Photosynthesis.
^ Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures by Charles Hayes. Accessed on April 26, 2007.
^ "Twin Peaks (1990) - Trivia". IMDB.
^ Wired 8.05: Terence McKenna's Last Trip
^ Terence McKenna Vs. the Black Hole: by Erik Davis
^ McKenna, Terence (May 1990). "Time and Mind". - Partial transcription of a taped workshop held in New Mexico. The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension (deoxy.org).
^ "Surfing Finnegans Wake". Terence Mckenna.
^ Fischer, Roland & Richard M. Hill - "Interpretation of visual space under drug-induced ergotropic and trophotropic arousal" - Journal: Inflammation Research Issue Volume 2, Number 3 / November, 1971 (Publisher Birkhäuser Basel) ISSN 1023-3830 (Print) 1420-908X (Online),
^ Fischer, Roland & R. Hill, K. Thatcher & J. Scheib - "Psilocybin-induced contraction of nearby visual space" - Journal Inflammation Research Issue, Volume 1, Number 4 / August, 1970 (Publisher Birkhäuser Basel) ISSN 1023-3830 (Print) 1420-908X (Online)
^ Fischer, Roland L. (Ph.D.) "The Realities of Hallucinogenic Drugs: A Compendium" - Criminology, Volume 4 Issue 3 Page 2-15, November 1966 (Blackwell Publishing Ltd)
^ Fischer, Roland L. (Ph.D.) - "A Cartography of the Ecstatic and Meditative States" - Science, November 26th, 1971
^ Lawrence E Joseph "Apocalypse 2012: An Optimist Investigates the end of Civilisation" Morgan Road Books, New York, 2007. p. 204
^ Terrence McKenna (flv). Terence McKenna Timewave Zero 2012 Prophecy Uncovered. [Lecture]. Youtube. Event occurs at 2m 20s. Retrieved 9-3-2009.
[edit]External links
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FloatingWorldWeb's McKenna Pages
Terence McKenna's Last Trip 2000 Wired Magazine article by Erik Davis
"Mind contagions" (2001) at disinfo.com
Psychedelics, Evolution & Fun 2008 essay by Patrick Lundborg
[edit]Writings online
DataChurch Library of McKenna Media (click on People >Terence McKenna)
[edit]Audio and video resources
Audio and video archive at Deoxy.org
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For the Canadian documentary filmmaker, see Terence McKenna (film producer).
Terence Kemp McKenna
Full name Terence Kemp McKenna
Born November 16, 1946
Paonia, Colorado, USA
Died April 3, 2000 (aged 53)
Hawaii, USA
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School metaphysics, phenomenology
Main interests shamanism, ethnobotany, metaphysics, psychedelic drugs and plants, futurism, primitivism, environmentalism, consciousness, phenomenology, historical revisionism, evolution, ontology, Mind at Large, virtual reality, dominator culture, criticizing science, the Logos
Notable ideas novelty theory, "stoned ape" hypothesis, Machine elf, psychedelic exopheromones, the "felt presence of direct experience"
Influenced by[show]
Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was a writer, public speaker, philosopher, psychonaut, ethnobotanist, art historian, and self described anarchist, feminist, platonist and skeptic.[1]. He was noted for his knowledge, and the ability to articulate his knowledge, of the use of psychedelics, metaphysics, plant-based entheogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, mysticism, hermeticism, neo-platonism, biology, geology, physics, astrophysics, media theory, linguistics, poetry, historical and civilizational timelines, the theoretical origins of human consciousness, psychedelic phenomenology, and his concept of novelty theory.[2]
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This article is about the country in Eurasia. For other uses, see Azerbaijan (disambiguation).
Republic of Azerbaijan
Azərbaycan Respublikası
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem: Azərbaycan Marşı
(English: March of Azerbaijan)
Location of Azerbaijan (green)
on the European continent (dark grey) — [Legend]
Capital
(and largest city) Baku
40°22′N 49°53′E
Official languages Azerbaijani
Demonym Azerbaijani
Government Presidential republic
- President Ilham Aliyev
- Prime Minister Artur Rasizade
Formation and independence
- Azerbaijan Democratic Republic established
May 28, 1918
- Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
April 28, 1920
- Independence
from the Soviet Union
Declared
Completed
August 30, 1990
October 18, 1991
Area
- Total 86,600 km2 (113th)
33,436 sq mi
- Water (%) 1.6%
Population
- 2009 estimate 8,832,000[1] (91st)
- 1999 census 7,953,438[2]
- Density 102/km2 (104th)
264.1/sq mi
GDP (PPP) 2008 estimate
- Total $74.856 billion[3] (71st)
- Per capita $8,634[3] (70th)
GDP (nominal) 2008 estimate
- Total $46.378 billion[3] (72nd)
- Per capita $5,349[3] (74th)
Gini (2006) 36.5 (58th)
HDI (2007) ▲ 0.787 (medium) (86th)
Currency Manat (AZN)
Time zone (UTC+4)
- Summer (DST) (UTC+5)
Drives on the right
Internet TLD .az
Calling code 994
Azerbaijan (pronounced /ˌæzərbaɪˈdʒɑːn/ ( listen); Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), formally the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası), is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia,[4] it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. The exclave of Nakhichevan is bounded by Armenia to the north and east, Iran to the south and west, while having a short borderline with Turkey to the northwest. The Nagorno-Karabakh region in the southwest of Azerbaijan proper declared itself independent from Azerbaijan in 1991, but it is not recognized by any nation and considered a legal part of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan, a nation with a majority Turkic[5][6] and Shi‘ite Muslim[7] population, is a secular and unitary republic with an ancient and historic cultural heritage. Azerbaijan was the first successful attempt to establish a democratic and secular republic in the Muslim world.[8][9] Azerbaijan is one of the founder members of GUAM and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in September 1993.[10] A Special Envoy of the European Commission is present in the country, which is also a member of the United Nations, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, and the NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) program.
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From: jmf@endor.harvard.edu ( ghost )
Subject: Leonard Cohen's classic rewrite
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 15:30:27 GMT
>From the Hartford Prayerbook Press, 1951,
translation or collection by Rabbi Morris Silverman of a religious verse
by Kelonymus ben Meshullam, 11th century Germany
(this data on the actual author is from a more recent but
less poetic translation)
(verse 1)
On New Year's Day the Decree is inscribed
And on the Day of Atonement it is sealed
How many shall pass away and how many shall be born
Who shall live and who shall die
Who shall attain the measure of man's day
And who shall not attain it
Who shall perish by fire and who by water
Who by sword and who by beast
Who by hunger and who by thirst
Who by strangling and who by stoning
Who shall have rest and who shall go wandering
Who shall be tranquil and who shall be disturbed
Who shall be at ease and who shall be afflicted
Who shall become poor and who shall wax rich
Who shall be brought low and who shall be exalted
But Repentance, Prayer and Righteousness
Avert the Severe Decree
there's 3 verses more to the prayer, and very beautiful ones, in the way of
exposition of the above rather than more to the list, but I won't stretch
your patience further;
now look at "Who By Fire"
Needless to say there's more verses to Lenny's version too,
& all to the list, but that Repentance, Prayer & Righteousness
don't ever begin to enter into it
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From: jmo@fysparc3.fy.chalmers.se (Jean Marc Orliaguet)
Date: 12 Jul 1995 14:26:16 GMT
Who By Fire ( Leonard Cohen )
From the New Skin for the Old Ceremony album
Transcribed and tabbed by Jean-Marc Orliaguet
( jmo@fy.chalmers.se, http://fy.chalmers.se/~jmo )
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( The guitar on the right will be posted later )
No capo
The most difficult part is the finger picking.
the thumb, index, major and ring fingers are referred
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Lyrics :
And who by fire, who by water,
who in the sunshine, who in the night time,
who by high ordeal, who by common trial,
who in your merry merry month of may,
who by very slow decay,
and who shall I say is calling?
And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate,
who in these realms of love, who by something blunt,
and who by avalanche, who by powder,
who for his greed, who for his hunger,
and who shall I say is calling?
And who by brave assent, who by accident,
who in solitude, who in this mirror,
who by his lady's command, who by his own hand,
who in mortal chains, who in power,
and who shall I say is calling?
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TAG
“Black China”
I. Gather and Organize ALL Raw Data in a time line.
II. Begin a Rough Draft.
III. Time Line
A. Start with Daily agenda and Jones Itinerary to spark memory.
B. View Pictures and write about each pertinent event.
C. View Video Footage and do the same.
1. Two Personal Videos
2. One Viking Video
3. One DVD Power Point given to me by Max Wang concerning the Yangtze River.
IV. Consult written notes in Black China Journal
V. Chinese business Idea
A. Create a website called “thechinesestamp.com” a simple site where you plug your name into a field and software immediately translates your name into Chinese. You then get to choose from several shapes, sizes, colors, and designs of your personal Chinese Stamp(like the ones Tish, me, and Canan got in Shanghai)…Discuss this with Thaddeus.
TAG
(working title)
Bringing out the dead like a wilde-wiked space opera… one by one the dead and the eaters of the dead unfolded their (Dostoveskic), thanic, death train...a hypersonic time quake yielded its living...the apes of god screaming…the possessed…watching in the distance(LUBAY-the Chinese Shakespeare) sits as the king who was no king carving the demons of his time into the silent rock face that would soon be swallowed by time and an insatiable (spirit) -hungry river…the Yangtze…his stories recording an Atlantianic epic that would not be viewed by human souls for another 10,000 years…
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This is the opening sentence for a novel that will incorporate my thoughts while in China on the Yangtze River in March of 2007. It is about a fictitious artist that paints murals on the cliffs of the villages along the river that will knowingly be covered up by a river that will rise from 75meters to 175meters over the next five years due to a massive industrialization project know as the Three Gorges Damn project.
waking destiny
DESTINY
original word document is currupt this work(complete/200pp) exists only in hard copy as of 12.25.2009 fj
it is copyright protected through USA...
claushtane bertron
1. COPYRIGHT ALL FINISHED WORKS
2. ORDER 25 COPIES OF EACH AFTER COPYRIGHT IS COMPLETE.
3. ACTIVELY MARKET BOOKS TO LOCAL BOOK STORES AFTER STEPS ONE AND 2 ARE COMPLETE.
2 And the Lord answered me, and said,
Write the VISION, and make it plain
upon tables, that he may run that readeth it
3 For the VISION is yet for an appointed
time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it:
because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
copyright
waking destiny
the omega rain
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query letter
Beaumont, TX 77707
July 13, 2007
Forrest Jones aka Claushtane Bertron
Sangsara Enterprises an Affiliate of
International Asset Solutions
Dear Mr. Stanley,
I have recently authored to completion a comical science fiction/fantasy screenplay entitled Waking Destiny. I hope you will consider taking the time to read it. It is my earnest hope that you may be able to offer guidance toward the direction of publication and ultimately the sell of the work to a major American publisher.
This work blends literary aesthetics with a dark abstraction of science fiction/fantasy world building, and it will appeal to the same audience that has made best sellers of works by Kurt Vonnegut, R. A. Salvatorie, and Frank Herbert.
There are independent but intertwining subplots revolving around the influence of the universal precepts that govern nature and technology as it pertains to the actions and reactions of the known universe. These principles are realized in various eras through the mental disabilities and addictions of its lead characters.
The predominate theme in the screen play is the life force of a goddess named Gaia who is the source of all balance, and is the impetus for creation as well as the catalyst for the beginning of evolution and adaptation. Subsequently, there are multiple conspiracy plots to attempt the removal of her spirit from the nature of life both from entities in the future as well as the established pillars of the past.
This is actualized by the utilization of multiple strong characters that are derived from the influences of high philosophy such as the works of Frederich Nietzche, Goethe’s Faust, Schopenhuaer, as well as many other existential paradigms.
In the end these interwoven personas will collide with fierce intensity in the mind of a chemically imbalanced young girl named Destiny. Near catastrophic events that could destroy all but the most prized virtues that form the infrastructure of the Earth’s Gaiatic core belief system are eminent.
You are the first person I have approached for a public reading. As a former student at Lamar I thank you for taking the time to consider Waking Destiny.
In respect,
Forrest Jones
query letter
Beaumont, TX 77707
July 13, 2007
Forrest Jones aka Claushtane Bertron
Sangsara Enterprises an Affiliate of
International Asset Solutions
Dear Mr. Stanley,
I have recently authored to completion a comical science fiction/fantasy screenplay entitled Waking Destiny. I hope you will consider taking the time to read it. It is my earnest hope that you may be able to offer guidance toward the direction of publication and ultimately the sell of the work to a major American publisher.
This work blends literary aesthetics with a dark abstraction of science fiction/fantasy world building, and it will appeal to the same audience that has made best sellers of works by Kurt Vonnegut, R. A. Salvatorie, and Frank Herbert.
There are independent but intertwining subplots revolving around the influence of the universal precepts that govern nature and technology as it pertains to the actions and reactions of the known universe. These principles are realized in various eras through the mental disabilities and addictions of its lead characters.
The predominate theme in the screen play is the life force of a goddess named Gaia who is the source of all balance, and is the impetus for creation as well as the catalyst for the beginning of evolution and adaptation. Subsequently, there are multiple conspiracy plots to attempt the removal of her spirit from the nature of life both from entities in the future as well as the established pillars of the past.
This is actualized by the utilization of multiple strong characters that are derived from the influences of high philosophy such as the works of Frederich Nietzche, Goethe’s Faust, Schopenhuaer, as well as many other existential paradigms.
In the end these interwoven personas will collide with fierce intensity in the mind of a chemically imbalanced young girl named Destiny. Near catastrophic events that could destroy all but the most prized virtues that form the infrastructure of the Earth’s Gaiatic core belief system are eminent.
You are the first person I have approached for a public reading. As a former student at Lamar I thank you for taking the time to consider Waking Destiny.
In respect,
Forrest Jones
query letter
Nederland, Texas
77627
August 13, 2004
Jason Gaudet & Claushtane Bertron
Sangsara Enterprises
3756 Kinard Street
Groves, Texas
Dear Mr./Mrs. X:
We have recently co-authored to completion a science fiction/fantasy novel entitled The Gaian Fallacy and we hope you will consider taking us on as clients, with the goal of selling it to a major American publisher.
This novel blends literary aesthetics with a dark abstraction of science fiction/fantasy world building, and it will appeal to the same audience that has made best sellers of works by Kurt Vonnegut, R. A. Salvatorie, and Frank Herbert.
There are independent but intertwining eras revolving around the influence of four universal precepts governing all action of the known universe. These principles are realized in various eras under three different civilizations.
The predominate theme in the novel is the life force of a goddess named Gaia who is the source of all balance, and is the impetus for creation as well as the catalyst for the beginning of evolution and adaptation. Subsequently, there are multiple conspiracy plots to attempt the removal of her spirit from the nature of life both from entities in the future as well as the established pillars of the past.
This is actualized by the utilization of multiple strong characters that are derived from the influences of high philosophy such as the works of Frederich Nietzche, Goethe’s Faust, Schopenhuaer, as well as many existential paradigms.
In the end these interwoven eras collide with intensity in a catastrophic event known as the scalping that nearly destroys all but the most prized virtues that form the infrastructure of the Gaiatic core belief system.
You are the first agent we have queried, and we thank you for taking the time to consider The Gaian Fallacy.
In respect,
Jason Gaudet & Claushtane Bertron
Reading List Past
12.25.2009
1. The Bible 3 Times.
2. Nietzche Everything in Print as of 2000.
3. Beyond Good and Evil.
4. The Gay Sciene.
5. The Will To Power.
6. Alas Spak Zarathustra.
7. The Prophet by Kahlil Gilbran
8. Sand and Foam.
9. NOAM CHOMSKY
10. Michael Talbot The Holographic Universe.
11. Terrence Mckenna The Archaic Reviaval (Everything in print and audio to my knowledge his complete canon)
12. Kurt Vonnegut Complete Canon excluding posthumous works(This are estate publications and are inherently of lesser value)
13. Robert Heinlen
14. Arthur Rimbaud Complete Canon.
15.
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