…the same as it remains yet today. Now, in about 20 minutes, you're going to hear Terence talking about the ideas of Marshall McLuhan and say that he didn't think that democracy could survive except within the world of print. And in the past, we've heard…

…to ordinary perception. To the 19th century mind, this was completely occult and astonishing. We take it for granted. Marshall McLuhan at one point suggested that the worldwide electrification of the planet through the spread of radio and television and…

…then it's really something. I mean, I haven't. There hasn't been that much fun between the covers of one book since Marshall McLuhan wrote the Gutenberg Galaxy. So, you know, if you think of yourself as a feminist, an art historian, a literary critic,…

…forth. He worked off an earlier book by Ivan Ilyich called the Abcdisation of Culture, who was also then cribbing from Marshall McLuhan, who talked about how sensory ratios changed culture. You've got the genealogy and the derivations right. But I mean, do…

…the phonetic Alphabet, through the abuse that print has laid on to our thinking. You all probably know the ideas of Marshall McLuhan, who felt that the linear quality of print created such notions as the citizen, the industrial assembly line, the theory of…

…work on our technology if that's the direction that we choose to go. Well, we are the flexible part of technology. Or Marshall McLuhan put it more graphically. He said, we are the genitals of our machines. We exist to make sure that next year's model…

…it. I mean, think about. I mean, I don't think you could discover consciousness if you didn't perturb it, because, as Marshall McLuhan said, whoever discovered water, it certainly wasn't a fish. Well, we are fish swimming in consciousness, and yet we know…

…it. So these fields became very mundane and could be used for radio and television and so forth. It took someone like Marshall McLuhan to point out that the christian program for the entry of God into history reaches the period of the intercession of the…

…to let you know that this is the continuation of last week's program, because a more accurate title might be something like surfing Marshall McLuhan and I think you'll see what I mean in just a few seconds. Until just now, I had never taken the time to…

…the time, and somebody said, we have to go up to the student union at 06:00 because Mike Wallace is interviewing Marshall McLuhan. And it seemed an incredibly freaky notion that McLuhan would be on tv. It shows you what a stultified, categorically…

…is why we have such a terrible culture crisis, because, well, a kind of a trivial example. You know, it was said by Marshall McLuhan, strangely enough, that the Vietnam war could not be won the way an ordinary war is won, because the citizenry of this…

…could fully explicate. And yet, because that mathematics exists, we think that this is all very hum drum. You know, it took Marshall McLuhan to say that the age of electricity was nothing less than the descent of the Holy Ghost onto this planet. I mean,…

…the diversity and featured speakers that you've included lately and was wondering if you have any talks from Robert Anton Wilson, Marshall McLuhan, Aldous Huxley, or Andrew Weil? Thanks Mark. Well, thank you again, Mark and I agree that we could use some…

…now for this final session of this workshop today we're going to hear Terence McKenna waxing eloquent about topics that range from Marshall McLuhan to the I Ching in a workshop that was recorded sometime in 1984. Curious to know how you see the role of…

…it. I mean, think about. I mean, I don't think you could discover consciousness if you didn't perturb it, because, as Marshall McLuhan said, whoever discovered water, it certainly wasn't a fish. Well, we are fish swimming in consciousness, and yet we know…

…in the way in which we modern people process information. I don't know how many of you are familiar with Marshall McLuhan, but McLuhan argued that an equally profound transition occurred with the introduction of print. Print is not simply writing that's…

…the collective future has become for us a focus of major anxiety. We need to know where we're going. You know, Marshall McLuhan said, the way we run our societies is like driving an automobile using only the rearview mirror. Well, in shamanically guided…

…with the machines that we inherit from the age of the internal combustion engine, the age of the jet engine. You know, Marshall McLuhan said, we navigate our way into the future like someone driving who uses only the rear view mirror to tell them where…

…story all that well. The irony for me is that I can perfectly recall the very first time that I learned about the work of Marshall McLuhan. It was in February of 1966, and I was in Heathrow Airport in England. And at the time, I was on my way back…

…in the lounge, and in it was a long article about this new intellectual who was taking America by storm. His name was Marshall McLuhan. I must admit that the article made me want to rush out and buy a copy of his latest book. Right then, unfortunately…

…copy of his latest book. Right then, unfortunately for me, three days later, I was in the Navy and I all but forgot about Marshall McLuhan. Now, many years later, I finally got around to reading two or three of his books but to be honest, I don't feel…

…the time, and somebody said, we have to go up to the student union at 06:00 because Mike Wallace is interviewing Marshall McLuhan. And it seemed an incredibly freaky notion that McLuhan would be on tv. It shows you what a stultified, categorically…

…such a terrible culture crisis, you know, because, well, just a kind of a trivial example, you know, it was said by Marshall McLuhan, strangely enough, that the Vietnam war could not be won the way an ordinary war is won, because the citizenry of this…

…Korish, and some distort it. Maybe we like to think less a Buddha, a mahavira, but the point is, they all distort it. Marshall McLuhan said, you know, we, our mistake is that we're driving the vehicle of culture into the future using only the rear view…

…broadening as we speak. The whole world is being brought into the domain of electricity. And you may not know it, but Marshall McLuhan thought that this was the descent of the Holy Ghost. As a convert to Catholicism, he sort of went the opposite…

…systems is this. Well, let's say we don't need. If the World Wide Web were a medium only in the sense of Marshall McLuhan then it's not too important because we already have telepathy. But maybe it's more and one kind of information, information that…