"The way in
which [the internet] will dissolve boundaries is by making us transparent. To
each other. I mean, I can imagine a child of the future, we all bring home our
drawings to stick on refrigerators, and things like that—in the future we won’t
stick them on refrigerators, we will stick them in our website. And everything
will go into our website. And by the time we’re 25, or something, our website
will be the size of the American Museum of Natural History. And you can wander
through it. And as a gesture of intimacy you can invite someone else to wander
through it. Well that’s who you are—it’s your imagination. And, I think, in a
sense, I’ve said, at times, that: The
cultural enterprise is an effort to turn ourselves inside out. We want to put
the body into the imagination, and we want the imagination to replace the laws
of physics." Terrance McKenna, 1995
I read what Terrance said, and I thought, "Yes, exactly." And so, as a gesture of intimacy, I invite you to wander through this blog - stories of wonder, of love, of war, of hope, of people sparkling in beauty, of death, of creating, of growing...
I read what Terrance said, and I thought, "Yes, exactly." And so, as a gesture of intimacy, I invite you to wander through this blog - stories of wonder, of love, of war, of hope, of people sparkling in beauty, of death, of creating, of growing...
The above mandala and a lot more available from my friend, Chops Wanderweird at http://www.wanderweird.com/
1 comment:
You are a wonderful writer. I would be sad to tell Terrence though the reality of what the present day internet truly represents. There are usurpers in the museum. We may have to go back to just handing pictures to each other or just putting them on the fridge again.
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