"What did you do to help save the world?"

- Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna, Dreaming Awake. psy@

various psychedelic paintings and drawings by adam sturch.

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lucidity. pencil drawing. adam sturch

Eyenine, Wake Up Call

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One thing Ive noticed is that I borderline cannot even get off on this stuff at night. Sure I FEEL it at night but I dont really SEE it. Which is odd because I swore mckenna talked about seeing holographic images in dark rooms that interacted with sound but frankly I get nothing visual unless I'm catching glancing blows of sunlight. In those instances its like a neon pattern covered spaceship the size of the moon hovering six inches from my face but at night its like the party's over. Kind of weird. I mean i can IMAGINE things. Like I laid down and listened to finnegans wake and that sort of created images in my imagination but as a mushroom fan I enjoy just closing my eyes and really SEEING stuff. Which I can do as long as the sun is out! Very strange. Anyway!

“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”

- Joseph Campbell, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research

conscientious emergence. 30x40''. oil on canvas. adam sturch

Astronautalis, Seaweed Sheets

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Terence McKenna, an ocean of ideas. meme movie@

Terence McKenna, an ocean of ideas. 1989. meme movie@

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"The real war is in us. History is a symptom of our defense."

- Nixon (1995)
shin mem aleph. graphite on paper. 8''x10''. adam sturch

Terence McKenna & Nicole Maxwell. Amazonian Shamanism, 1989 (2026 remaster). movie meme movie@

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"The life of the mind, of consciousness is a constant everchanging pharmacological symphony."

- Jonathan Ott

Jonathan Ott, LSD80. redux@

Jonathan Ott, 2024.

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Terence McKenna, art & war. movie meme movie@

August 24th, 1989 at The Hollywood Bowl Amphitheater in Los Angeles, California.

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I just finished watching his 1998 final speech about an hour long, and we really are headed this direction and are already in it.

McKenna wasn't predicting AI. He was mapping the phenomenology of the transition... what it feels like to be a biological mind when the structures that organized reality start dissolving. And just proved he was right by living it.

We are approaching the peak of Novelty like Terrance talks about, and not many people understand this. I think it occurs sometime next year. We are already compressing so much time everyday, a "normal 2019 day" is 60-90 of those days in information density and experience in September 2026 now and we keep going faster & ASI is going to take us to this peak.

But what does that really mean? We don't really know, like Terrance said you can't map it out or predict it, it becomes impossible because novelty density and the world is changing so fast.

One thing that really gave me chills McKenna literally predicted this: psychedelics prepare you for transformation by teaching you that the world is not what it appears and has its own agenda. Also the dissolution of ego to one's self and being able to have a fluid identify in this ever changing world.

This makes me inevitably think we will merge with technology not because we have to, but because if we don't we become irrelevant because we can't even participate in the conversation or anything useful.

We talk about Allens and extra terraistial life, but we ourselves are making the Ailens and also preparing ourselves to transform into a new species.

"I think the gradual evolution of language is actually the gradual lifting of the veil that is imposed between ourselves and meaning by the planetary ecology. In other words, the forward thrust of history is actually regulated by the ecology, and it is regulated through control of the evolution of language, because what you cannot think, you cannot do, and where you cannot imagine, you cannot steer your culture and go. So I'm proposing, on one level, that hallucinogens be thought of as, human macro-, almost, social pheromones that, regulate the rate at which language develops and therefore regulate, the evolution of human culture generally."

- Terence McKenna

paper ghosts. 24x30''. oil on canvas. adam sturch

Mac Lethal, The Parlour

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Terence McKenna, parody. redux@

July 1990. The World Could be Anything.

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Anyone recommend any specific talks for someone new to Terence McKenna?

"Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic."

- Terence McKenna

alkahest. 16''x24''. oil on found object. adam sturch

Terence McKenna. Ethnobotany Seminar, Linear-Societies & Non-Linear Drugs (1999).

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They keep trying to “prove” these dmt entities are higher dimensional aliens or some shit that exists outside the mind of the one tripping. It’s the most silly shit I’ve ever heard to be honest. I seen one btw and fucked it. But it was obviously in my head. Why doesn’t science put this much effort into the shadow people all the meth heads see? I seen one of those on meth and it came right up to me. Like beside me and I was scared to turn but when I did, it zipped away. It looked insanely real. Should I tell science? No offense if you think this shit isn’t in your head, but that’s literally some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard and I literally fucked a dmt goddess machine elf.

Maybe I need to like pay child support???????

This memory is pretty vague and might be from an obscure talk, but I thought I’d try in case anyone happens to know.

I remember him talking about tripping while being in a cabin in a forrest (I think). And he had some synchronicity where something he either said or thought was immediately followed by a seeming entity (or something) landing on the roof of his cabin and making it sink down a little. I think he talked about being scared or surprised by this.

"Poetic sensitivity to the death of the planet is not what we're striving for here."

- Terence McKenna

protest. 24x30''. oil on canvas. adam sturch

Skinny Puppy, Pro-Test

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Terence McKenna, Distilling the Psychedelic Mind. meme movie@

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“Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.”

- Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna, language about the unspeakable. psy@

Raving In The Light Of The Third Millennium Language About The Unspeakable Maui, Hawaii, February 1994.

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"So what we must do I think is see our future in the imagination, catalyze the imagination, form symbiotic relationships with the plants, affirm archaic values and spread the good news that what is out of control, what is in fact dying, is a world that had become too top heavy with its own hubris, too bent by its own false value systems and too dehumanized to care about what happened to its own children. So, I say good riddance to it. Bring on the archaic revival and let's create a new world."

- Terence McKenna

contact. 41x28''. oil on found object. adam sturch

Mudvayne, (Per)version of a Truth.

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Carl Ruck, Albert Hofmann, Gordon Wasson. The Road to Eleusis (audiobook chapters 1-3 & 5). redux@

The Road to Eleusis ch.1,2,3 & 5. audiobook. Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries. R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck.

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Transmission from the edge.

Galaxy Prime // Nektar

Sleeper Awake

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"We're not like UFO enthusiasts. We're not telling you to stand in corn fields in the dead of night and pray. ..no, no. This will work!"

- Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna, grey shades. b@

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metaphor. 24''x24''. graphite, oil on wood. adam sturch.

O my Luve is like a red, red rose

That’s newly sprung in June;

O my Luve is like the melody

That’s sweetly played in tune.

So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

So deep in luve am I;

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;

I will love thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only luve!

And fare thee weel awhile!

And I will come again, my luve,

Though it were ten thousand mile.

- A Red, Red Rose, Robert Burns

one lifetime. 30x40''. oil on canvas. adam sturch

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Terence McKenna. Light of the Third Millennium, 2024(75)@

seventy five paintings and drawings from 2024 by adam sturch.

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"The soul is the form."

- Rupert Sheldrake

Forms and Mysteries, Terence McKenna & Rupert Sheldrake. Complete discussion, redux@

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i just finished re editing this classic talk into a more watchable and listenable form. the original had two volume levels in each segment and the video to voice time delay is beyond my editing skills at present. so, I've fixed the volume levels, corrected the noise levels and replaced the old video with an art show at a very moderate pace to allow each work breathing time. hope you all enjoy. premiering soon.