Imagine what might happen if more people concentrated on love, on freedom, on eternity.

Most people think ideas are flimsy things.

i dont have the link on hand, but i remember reading on a website about:

language being essential to knowledge and cultural values that (tribal) people maintain and pass on. how each language holds special information that other languages cant express, i.e. for plants, herbs, that people have discovered and pass on with their language, whereas a person coming to the same place using a different language, cant understand what that is.

language is an essential link to the earth and our relationship with it.

...the mighty LOGOS!

language is a manifestation of intention. it is a pathway for bringing the "as above" into the "so below".

there is also a connection between the evolution of language and the creation of new realities...i don't have a firm (linguistic) grip on this, but i think it's what mckenna was getting at when he talked about logos.

T. McK. discusses the evolution of language and linguistic intent...(oh yeah, also aliens and goddess culture)

www.youtube.com/watch

might want to check out the book, The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker. Bit dated but classic. Language definately did not precede thought - in other words, we do not need language in order to think. I loved Orwell's 1984 but Double Speak really would not work - we would still have the thoughts even if the words for the thoughts did not exist.
I think language is a lot like our senses in that mostly what language does for us is exclusive, helping to filter out sensory input so we can function. One of the things plant teachers do is remove this filter.

Why language and Terence? If you listen carefully, in one of his talks he mentions that all of this "creating pictures and symbols" in our head with our internal video player came about from mushrooms, and the accompanying sensation of synesthesia (google it). He says that he sees a connection, but someone after him will find out why. I don't know how he knew, but he did.

I found the connection after listening to a talk on consciousness by Vilayanur Ramachandran.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vila...ynesthesia

Here is another talk he gave:

www.ted.com/index.php/ta...our_mind.html

It is a modulation and demodulation of our brain that keeps us creative into adult hood, and gives us the power of symbolic speech.

I will be writing a book about all of this soon...

Spacetime Continuem and Terence McKenna
"Timewave Zero" from "Alien Dreamtime" Album.
www.youtube.com/watch
6 parts!!

the perspective I gained from reading The Archaic Revival (which I HIGHLY recommend) is that our perception of reality is based solely on the language we have to describe it. What McKenna brings up is the idea that as language evolves, so does our consciousness (and that as our consciousness evolves, so does our language), and that we are moving forward to a point where language will not be spoken, but "beheld." This is reiterated in his talks about how the Ayahuasceros (the Ayahuasca healers of South America) will sing songs called Icaros, which in that specific altered-state actually produce visions. He argues that when we reach the place of language evolution where our language is "beheld" that it will allow for pure communication, without misinterpretation, as all parties involved in communicating will be able to see each other's words as thought-forms, and that they can in turn look at every angle of these thoughtforms with no difference in translation. The evolution of language can be seen in many forms...look at how computers, which at first could just produce basic binary sequences, are now creating moving images...McKenna was particularly interested in Virtual Reality and how it would open up our capability to evolve language. Also look at our bodies themselves (which also also composed of language- DNA), and how much we have grown from our ancestors...the evolution of humans is not something that has ended, but is something which is continuously moving forward and perfecting itself to fit with its environment. It seems that we are getting better and better at describing the world around us......

Though I usually hate to reference movies when making a point, this one fits...In the end of the first Matrix movie, Neo begins to see the Matrix code flowing through everything around him, and upon this realization is able to see that the Matrix reality is solely composed of language, and that he can directly affect this reality through this understanding. When McKenna claims that the universe is composed of language, I feel like this is the image he is trying to convey, an ever-flowing stream of symbols that compose our perception of reality...except in our case I do not feel like this reality is a cage we must break out of, but rather it is a place we must fully understand, and that when we do understand the language that composes all things here, we will have ultimate control over it. Imagine knowing the language to alter your appearance, or create something out of "thin air" by uttering the right codes...we would become like gods in this realm...in full power and able to co-create anything we so desired. this is why, i believe, the evolution of language is directly related to the evolution of human consciousness...because when we finally evolve to the place where we have full control of our reality, we better be damned sure we're in a place to create the best reality possible (which would mean we'd all have to be incredibly highly evolved beings). what mckenna is touching on is another way of looking towards the same goal so many others have been looking towards for a long time, realizing our inherent ability to create (which many would call realizing our divine selves). When an artist fully masters a medium, it allows him/her to create anything he/she so desires within that medium. So when we master the language of our reality, we will be able to create within it, anything we so desire, and we will be able to do it easily as we will be able to be completely understood by all around us and any dispute caused by translation would just fade away.