Terence McKenna - How To Talk To Elves

"I think elf calling is actually a tradition in certain cultures."
Terence McKenna talks about visionary encounters.
art by INCEDIGRIS
music: We Plants Are Happy Plants - The Secret

[OdnanrefMASTER]

Terence's voice is psychedelic on it's own. The mushrooms sent him to spread the message amongst human beings. God bless his soul.

[gergelybolla]

'I could believe it, I couldn't stop believing it and yet I had not been prepared, I had not thought that magic ruled the world from top to bottom, side to side, atom to atom from first to last..' Thanks for this gem.

[DigitalBard]

This made me cry. I love Terrance. The way he articulates the machine elf realm, is beyond any other way I've heard it decribed before. Incredibly articulate, and beautiful, as that is indeed exactly how the elves behave.

[technoshaman]

Brings tears to my eyes, see you in hyperspace mckenna

[susiefairfield]

The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
-Terence McKenna

[starwinksbackfromtheskypit]

I discovered Terrence McKenna a few years after a heavy mushroom trip. This was the mid 90s when I was researching what I saw in my visions. I have taken LSD/Acid, pretty much every psychedelic you name it and this one time my friend and I took about 8/9 grams each at the Farm in Summertown, TN. We played a show there at a Festival, drove to Nashville to score mushrooms and put up gear, went back to The Farm and ate away. A few days later I heard that the people that got these mushrooms freaked out from a couple of grams and went to the hospital. For us, definitely not the case! I clearly remember having telepathy with my friend throughout the night and most importantly going through the geometric shapes as if they were just a stained glass window we broke through into a temple that had an ecosystem that I’ve never could possibly imagine. And within this ecosystem, I witnessed Elf Tikes coming out of their own bellies and placing what looked like a stone with Druid symbols on them and placing them onto what looked like a pyramid base. But the pyramid was what I thought at the time was matter.
I felt like I was seeing reality being physically built. I saw them as I see everyday “reality” and couldn’t stop observing them and my friend saw them as well and we felt like we discovered new lifeforms or fire or something that grandiose. I remember they saw me/us but were too busy doing their thing, they were friendly but not as friendly as McKenna describes in his DMT experience. Almost like when you’re at a construction site and the workers smile and say wassup but continue to work. After our observation was over, it was dawn and after long (felt like infinite) night in a dark yet hyper colored tent, I could see, and we got out of the tent and I remember falling over onto the tent being “drunk on mushrooms” and also saw that everything was green as if I had green glasses on “everything is green green green...” except the spirits flying from the earth and traveling through the trees & plants to the sky, and some of them would cycle back down and flow back up but some would go back up straight into the sky to disappear.
I was heavily impacted by this experience and wanted to research what I saw and this was before everyone had the internet in their pockets and it was very hard to tell the librarian “yeah so I’m looking for a book on psychedelic elves building matter and realities” lol. But luckily I found a tiny record store in Nashville called “Safe Psychs” that was owned by a guy that looked like Gandalf and he turned me onto bands like The Ozric Tentacles etc and one time he was playing Spacetime Continuum featuring Terrance McKenna and I heard the part where he spoke about “Self transforming Machine Elves”. To hear this was such a relief because those whom I did speak to about this looked at me like I was clearly insane and after a while you start to question your sanity. Since then I’ve read every book by McKenna and have visited those Elves many times after and applying them to quantum physics. The science is real, the Elves are real. If anyone or scientist knows the E8 theory, then you will know what I speak of when I state, our dimension, is just a shadow of their dimension. And what we call reality is nothing more than shadows of a greater and Ever-evolving one. Or another way to look at it as they are the comet and our existence is the comet’s tale. Thanks for reading and thank you for sharing.

[clinthaley]

I saw the elves before I've ever heard about them. 2 of them, I tried to talk to them. I felt embarrassed... the decided to show me myself as a perfect/beautiful wall that I built. I felt like I had to tear down that wall. Best thing that ever happened to me.

[parkersalwayssmokin]

"It's someone's idea of a reassuring environment for human beings." Whoa.

[danlucas]

I have felt their hands on me and heard their voices. But when I closed my eyes I saw the mother goddess, a figure of pure light. I was filled with awe such as I have never experienced.

[DaKloneLiving]

"When in doubt, double the dose." - Timothy Leary

[calebblack]

When I wanna try to talk to god, or the universal forces at work, I lay down and hold my hand up, reaching out like Adam in that painting where he's reaching out and god is also reaching out. For some reason it usually feels like there's a weight in my hand like someone is actually holding on. I think it's just gravity but it works enough to trick myself into thinking I've established some sort of connection. I usually use this to vent my thoughts, ask for advice or signs. It works for me for some weird reason.

[mbtrewick]

I never had a bucket list. Just this one thing.

[P.Subaeruginosa]

Know of someone who does 10grams and goes about his day. I imagine he just lives on multiple plains of existence at once

[lebasson]

Hearing Terrence McKenna laugh always lights up my day

[Allplussomeminus]

3:23 the way he handled the word "stopped". It had an effect on communicating how he did indeed stop his previous ways. The upward inflection and very slight hault in cadence.

[josephgarbark]

'How to talk to this world really is stranger than what we can suppose as Mr. McKenna suggested.

[nathanbellamy]

They are us. We are them. We are all and everything. We are nothing. We are not ready. Because we are not ready. Enjoy the show. Spread love joy and compassion. All will be revealed upon death.

[catstack_]

I’ve never seen machine elves as far as I know, on mushrooms acid or DMT. But, the last time I smoked salvia, I went to a trippy dimension similar to the graphic of this video minus the faces. At this place were two entities that i couldn’t see clearly but I knew they were there, and they were dancing/marching and singing/speaking to a beat and a language I remember clearly but didn’t understand at all. Their language seemed to be intertwined with this marching rhythm and dance, like their speech was also a song and their dance may have just been their typical movement but it all aligned with this beat and the dimension itself seemed to be made out of this beat. I didn’t know if they were aware of me, because I couldn’t see them but I knew they were there and speaking to eachother. It seemed they were speaking to eachother about me being there/observing them.. but I wasn’t sure. They seemed ENORMOUS, like I was the size of a gnat in comparison. Then I came back.

[soulfulmisfit]

God is reborn at every moment through everything and everyone. We are the imaginations of ourselves. <3

[annonymeandfish]

I don’t think I met elves but I did meet silent angels that seemed to beam understanding and love trough me.