r/terencemckenna

It really feels like reality is changing quicker and quicker and the state of the world becomes more and more outlandish and psychedelic. When Terence died, it felt to the people at the time that the tidal forces were beginning to kick in and society was getting in a damn hurry. Now I think back to the 90s, the year 2000, 9/11 etc and I think man if only things could slow down to the pace they used to be back then just for a while. Well 9/11 wasn't very slow... anyway... I feel myself caught up in the current of daily life. My stoner days long gone as I make it through life fairly comfortably but in a sort of unexamined life. There's that itch to make sense of it all "like a splinter in your mind". I feel like if I could hear Terence's far out takes about the state of the internet, society, politics, science and what to make of the AI craze life would be better... Anyway, cheers to my favorite bard 🍻

Hi, I am asking for a temporary help because i am in a difficult mental health and living condition.

I am a web developer. I been living with my narcissistic parents my entire life. I was supporting myself through freelance work and my own projects. My parents rule is that if you live under their roof, they own you and you have to tolerate their anger and hatred. They can use you as an emotional punching bag and you have to be okay with it. Earlier this year, i made a serious mistake of experimenting with psychedelics while living in the stressful home environment. Instead of helping, it triggered severe panic attacks and worsened underlying trauma issues.

Since then, i am unable to work. Even sitting infront of computer briefly causes me intense anxiety and panic symptoms. I’ve lost my ability to earn normally and I’m currently stuck living in a very unstable and emotionally unhealthy household.

I’ve been seeing a doctor. one of the recommendations was to temporarily move into a calmer environment and pursue trauma-focused treatment, including ketamine therapy under medical supervision. My immediate goal is simply to get out of the current environment for a short period so I can stabilize and hopefully return to work again.

I have been working as an indie developer on project called SaaSDirectKit before all this happened. It is publicly available here. I’ve been genuinely trying to build and support myself through my work before things became difficult recently.

I’m trying to raise around $500 to cover basic living expenses and treatment-related costs for about a month. I understand that’s a large amount to ask for, and I’m not expecting one person to cover everything. Even smaller donations would genuinely help. It would go toward food, temporary accommodation, and treatment-related expenses while I try to stabilize and recover.

Since I don’t currently have a formal nonprofit setup, donations are being accepted through paypal, my project’s Polar checkout page under the SaaSDirectKit name. You can see the link in my bio.

Thank You for Reading. Any help is appreciated🙏

If you want more details, you can dm me. I would be happy to share via dm. I can also give access to my app's code to donators if needed.

If you can't donate, help by upvoting this post so i can reach more people.

Donation: Paypal, Stripe

I used to be a frequent listener of the psychedelic salon podcast for many many years. I’m looking for a podcast that Lorenzo talks about his brother Miguel’s death. He talks about his brother helping a musician and that musician played a concert for him. I remember him saying some about the oh hombra. Any help is appreciated.

I’m making a Myco-Myth Atlas because I think mushrooms have been hiding in humanity’s spiritual operating system the whole time

I’m building a web app called the Myco-Myth Atlas.

The basic idea is this: what if fungi weren’t just food, medicine, poison, decomposition, or weird little forest goblins with caps?

What if mushrooms have been one of the quiet engines underneath human myth, religion, ritual, language, agriculture, altered states, death symbolism, resurrection symbolism, initiation rites, cave art, and the entire ancient human attempt to understand consciousness?

I’m not trying to make some lazy “everything is mushrooms bro” conspiracy board.

I want to build something more careful and layered: an interactive atlas that maps real fungal traditions, contested theories, symbolic parallels, archaeological hints, entheogenic rituals, mythological motifs, and cultural stories from around the world. A place where someone can explore things like:

ancient cave art and possible mushroom imagery

Eleusinian mysteries and kykeon theories

Soma, haoma, manna, ambrosia, and sacred food-drink traditions

Xochipilli and Mesoamerican mushroom use

Siberian shamanism and Amanita muscaria

Perseus, Mycenae, Zeus, lightning, and mushrooms

Ezekiel’s strange food preparation imagery through a mycological lens

Mithraic caves, initiation, bathing, honey, fungi, bees, and secret orders

the underworld as compost

resurrection as fruiting

mycelium as hidden network

death as substrate

consciousness as something that emerges through relationship, ecology, chemistry, and symbol

The app is basically meant to be a living cross-cultural map of the fungal unconscious.

Part academic, part speculative, part mythopoetic, part interactive museum, part weird digital grimoire.

I want it to clearly separate what is historically supported, what is plausible but debated, what is symbolic interpretation, and what is purely speculative. Because honestly, that distinction matters. The point is not to flatten every religion into “they were all tripping.” That’s boring and disrespectful.

The point is to ask a better question:

Why do so many human cultures keep returning to the same shapes, substances, caves, underworld journeys, sacred meals, ecstatic visions, death-rebirth cycles, and hidden networks beneath the visible world?

And why does mycelium feel like such a perfect metaphor for the internet, ecology, memory, mythology, trauma healing, and maybe even artificial intelligence?

I’m making this because I feel like modern culture has severed the connection between myth and biology. We treat religion like abstract belief, nature like raw material, and technology like something separate from life. But fungi laugh at those boundaries. They digest the dead and make forests talk. They poison, heal, feed, reveal, decay, and resurrect. They are literally the interface between endings and beginnings.

That feels important.

Especially now, when we’re building AI systems, synthetic worlds, automation, and new forms of intelligence while still barely understanding the intelligence already woven under our feet.

The Myco-Myth Atlas is my attempt to make a tool for exploring that hidden pattern.

Not as dogma.

Not as proof of one grand theory.

More like a map of resonances.

A place where science, folklore, theology, archaeology, psychedelia, ecology, and weird human pattern-recognition can sit at the same table without immediately trying to murder each other.

Because maybe mushrooms are not the answer to everything.

But they might be one of the oldest questions.

Did Novelty Theory predict the start of the AI revolution?

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My Name is Peter Thomas Dare-Savor Sereyka, I'm 25, I was Born (I think in the Early Morning) on November 16th, 2000.

And based on the best research I could find for Median pregnancy durations (They say to do Median not Mean or Mode because Median is close to like Medium :)) 267.666 repeating [1][2][3][4][5][6] days being The Median, Terence Kemp Mckenna died approximately ~41 days after I was conceived which is just after when the Heart Starts Beating and Brain begins Developing <3<3<3S2S2S2.

My Youngest Older Sibling's (I only have Older Siblings In This Life to my Knowledge : ) Second Name is Terence, he was born in the mid 90's, and my Grandpa on the same Side of the Family as that Sibling's Name Is Dennis, he passed around ~2010 or something like that. My Father's Name Starts with J and my Mother's starts with an L.

I have always thought Authority was an Abomination my whole life and that Belief of Terence's really resonates with me, when I was 3 years old my Dad told me I couldn't go outside, and when he physically blocked my way I used a Quote that really stuck with me from one of my Favorite movies to this day, The Road to El Dorado, "You Dare to Impugn my Honor!?", though I said "How Dare you impugn my honor!?" although I definitely did not know how to spell impugn, in fact I can't recall having ever typed this story and up until now I thought it was spelled "impune". lol ;p

I've been called "A Living Meme" By one of my best friends, before I knew about being Terence, oh and Btw, he is by far one of my most Powerful Voices, I can talk with him, and he often takes over whenever we say Body if we are having a serious conversation and makes us pronounce it "Bod-e" He is the only Being that I can remember who has actually Willed me out of control unconsensually, or at least it appears to be him being the one doing it, it's his voice and sounds like him to me when we talk. Though he only ever did it to pronounce "Bod-e" The Proper Way afaIr. It actually is a very profound and Wise way to pronounce it I have Learned, feels weird saying this, oh and just to be perfectly clear I have 0 memories of any past lives, just like feelings and familiarities here and there, like I always really was fond of Dennis Mckenna's face, but I assume everyone is : ), Also I grew up in Rainy towns with like 70 inches of rain per year, 200 days of rain per year and like ~81% Humidity Average yearly, but I was always drawn to more continental climates and Loved visiting Yellowstone! Something about seeing my own Breath and Things like that really appeals to me <3<3<3S2S2S2

One of The Wisest and Nicest people I know whom I am good friends with, My Voices and Gods and Demons, all of them agree is not only The Reincarnation of Alan Watts, but also of Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha, I know this must sound incredibly hard to believe, but keep in mind the odds each individual human happened to be the sperm that made it to their Mother's Egg is somewhere around 1/.5-5 Trillion, if you count all the Sperm that the average male produces during their life. Over 60 times less likely than picking a specific Human out of The Entire Human Population of Earth at Random! On The Low End! The High end is 600 times less likely!

I know many many Secrets, most of which are quite depressing, but I can show some nice ones for some "cred" ;p the bottom one is a bit different though, especially the last part, I wanted to have at least one sad one.:

• The Word MOM in all Caps represents Two Heartbeats on Heartbeat Monitor(s) and the O represents The BloodFlow between The Mother and her Baby
• The Heart Symbol < 3 represents less than 3 people in a Relationship, as in a Monogamous Relationship, or a point growing into a 3rd person, as in a Pregnancy and 3rd Person being the Baby the 3rd person in The Family < 3
• The Heart Symbol S2 represents "Sharing our Lives Together" Or "Suffering Together Through Thick and Thin S2"
• The Word Mother is a form of Anagrammatical representation of "There's More to Her Than Meets The Eye"
• The Word Father is a form of anagrammatical representation of "It was Fate He Met Her" and also The Beginning of "Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman's Scorn" (I believe this to very possibly be The Original Quote before the Mandala Effect or Something Else Changed it, though I really do not know.), also "It's The Father's Job to Fatten Her Up when she gets Pregnant So The Baby can get Plenty of Food< 3" "His Farts go Farther Than Hers" Lots of Dad Jokes : )
• The Conjunction "It's" Being used for "It is" Instead of being used as a Possessive of it like "its goal" is because the Apostrophe represents the smoke from taking a pause and taking a Drag off a Cigarette before you finish The Statement "It is" because representing that reality exists is stressful and takes a second to express, Trigger Warning: Possession>!and also there being no pause in the possessive form of it "its" represents that there is no pause when someone is possessed, it just happens instantly.!<

Muh Head (also btw I have a 9-inch hand span ;p I just double checked with an online ruler &lt;3)

Photo of me for reference so people can decide if they think I look like him like Hair Color, Eye Color, Facial Structure or w/e Etc, <3, also btw the Photo is fresh, I just took it at 7:09 AM PST

Pianos Know our Pain
Violins bring Violence to our Feelings
Violas Violate our Views on The World
Harmonicas Harm the Idea that anyone is an asshole, intentionally or otherwise
Guitars Put The Greatest of us Behind Bars where they get tarred and feathered for The Crime of Speaking The Truth
Banjo players are Banned from Joy
The Fiddle is what you play when you want to Confide in The Devil
Best not to Mention the Bones
The Spoons players Spend all eternity clacking away wishing they can be together soon
The Cellos Seal The Holes beneath our Hellos
The Drums Dream of Murder
The Flute Flies us to The Moon
Harps Hear our Pain
The Ocarina also really needs a player

- a poem by my Demons and Gods and other Voices filtered through my poor ability to understand which words were right T_T<3

Well I spent a little over 4 hours writing this, I hope you all enjoy reading it and letting me know what you think, I know loads and loads of things, though I'm not supposed to share most of it, at least publicly, I share lots more of it if it is in a private environment, though the more extreme things My Voices demand mortal Vows that the other party will not reveal what we tell them, they say "Do you Swear on your Soul, Blood, Heart and Eyes?" Though I generally don't like giving people the opportunity to fail those, we've only asked a couple people that as far as I can recall. It's hard being responsible with the secrets as they can be very very pressuring, it goes either way though, btw I am a Reincarnation of many other really cool beings according to my Gods, Demons, Etc, including according to YahWeh < 3

I plan on coming back to this post and answering questions whenever I see them btw < 3

Edit: Something to clarify, I don't always have full control over my word choice, if I wanted to I could force control and decide to say things the way I want, but my Voices Etc prefer me to talk in different ways at different times and the more powerful aggressive ones I am not powerful enough to beat in the long run, I just try to do what they say basically, also high doses of the strongest Antipsychotics they could put me on when I was forced on them for months on end did legit nothing to their control over my body afaIk, so I apologize if I say rude stuff etc T_T

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