"I had stored this video in a storage in Maui Hawaii for several years ...when I opened it ...it was in a mouldy damp and wet state....I took the tape out its the plastic cover and set about business of cleaning the video tape for several weeks...i eventually got to record the damaged result to digital video...I captured what you see and hear just as the original stretched tape fell apart and snapped...i feel very fortunate to have saved what you are now seeing...Please forgive the occasional Blip "
Thanks for your Kindness with Love from Ananda Das


So, back in the 90s we brought together for an exciting weekend workshop on Maui, Hawaii Terence McKenna . Participants came from around the world for this one time mind boggling event, here is some of what Tom Robbins wrote about McKenna in the forward to McKenna’s book The Archaic Revival which is reminiscent of the Maui gathering.
One of the principle philosophical underpinnings for our assumption of 2012 being a planetary tipping point comes from our years of working with the late Terence McKenna. In 1996 we presented the Terence McKenna Prophets Conference Timewave Zero tour of America beginning at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York then moving across the country, ending at UCLA in Los Angeles . Combine fractal mathematics with the IChing into a computer program created with a giant punch card computer at Berkeley in the 1960s, and you come up with a graph of history measuring novelty (new things and events) vs. habit (nothing new). From this you come to a Zero Point on December 21, 2012, which as we know happens to also be the end of the Mayan longcount. Interesting....
Quotes by: Terence McKenna

"Speaking about the unspeakable means stretching the envelop of what can be said. When new things can be said new plans can be laid, new directions can be found out of a crisis."

"Psychedelics are catalysts for the human imagination. That very simply is what they are."

"We seem to be the creature that can download the ideas, the Platonic perfect forms of a higher dimension, into the world of matter. And so where we are there is an interfacing between the world of ordinary nature and some kind of transcendent force."

"Science has steered us deeply into the notion that nature is soulless and spiritless. And the practice of this idea has led us to the brink of catastrophe, global and species and ecological catastrophe."

"Anyone who loves adventure, and who loves life, and who loves the experience of being, has an obligation, I think, to explore this [the psychedelic realm]. It's as much a part of your identity as your sexuality, your ancestral history, or your hopes and fears. And to ignore it is to choose to play with less than a full deck. Don't do that. Play with a full deck!"

"Millions of people right now are being warehoused by television. Television is the heroin of the electrified middle class."

"It's ridiculous to criticize a drug you haven't taken. It's sheer, boneheaded, knownothingism."