Terrance Mckenna was famous for a lot of things. There were few that could rival the hypnotic technique of his speech. I put 5 people at the top.
Berne Brown, Gabor Mate, Alan Watts, Ram Das, and Terrance McKenna
That is my basketball team of speakers. At some point I will reference all of them through this channel, as I do my yoga classes and trainings.

Here are 2 of the most powerful rants I have heard from the great Terrance McKenna back in my teen years, I hope you enjoy them.

Nature Loves Courage

Terrance McKenna - Nature Loves Courage
Transposition:
'Nature loves courage.'
and I said, 'what's the pay off on that?'
and it said, 'it shows you that it loves courage because it will remove obstacles, you make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles, so dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.

Terrance frantic translation starts:
This is the trick! this is uh what all the teachers, and philosphers, who really counted, who really touched the alchemical role, this is what they understood, this is the shamanic dance in the waterfall, this is how magic is done, it's done by hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering that it's a feather bed! (laugher in the background) and there's no other way to do it.

The moment of surrender in Yin Yoga

In the second step of a yin yoga pose, I split into 2 parts. Stillness, and softening.

There is a subtle moment, when one is still, almost pressed up against this thin veil of holding on and perhaps with a faint tension still present across some irrelevant part of the body. Other times the area still with tension has alot of relevance to the line of facia we are targeting.

It is in this moment where it feels like Terrance describes, "to hurl yourself into the abyss, and discovering that it's a feather bed!"

It seems that it is in this process where so much healing, and courage is slowly gained. Pose after pose, class after class, triggered trauma after trigger trauma, when I get flashes of my abuse, my heartbreak, my loneliness, and my greatest fears arise in my quiet of my yin pose, and I am mental curled up flexing and tense, the more I practice this hurling myself, spiritually screaming inside although in a silent room surrounded by peers, I come back to the gifts of nature. and perhaps my own nature. Being resourceful, brave, calm, and courageous

The truth is... that nothing lasts...

Terrance McKenna - Nothing Lasts
Transposition:

The last thing I'll leave you with which is sort of uh coincidental posiotorum thought, because it will bumm some, and exalt others is the one thing that I've learned from psychedelics that seems secure over all the decades, and uh you know, embracing one idea, one ideology after another, the one thing that seems secure is uh a truth, that is uh hard to hear in the context of a dominator culture with a obsession with the material world, and that truth is... that nothing lasts...
NOTHING (laughter in the background)... lasts... you know,
your enemies will fade, your friends will fade, your fortune, your poverty, your disappointments , your dreams, everything is in the process of changing.. into something else..
so you agony is about to be assuaged, on the other hand your happiness is about to be destroyed, so the obligation that comes out of this realization, is a n obligation to the immediate moment. to this thing I have been calling 'the felt moment of immediate experience.'

Nowness

Trauma sometimes is described as living in the past, or the future. Or living in fight, flight, or freeze.

Perhaps one of the keys then to trauma healing is the realization that the trigger itself it temporary. That all things are temporary. And the sooner we come to this realization of transience, the sooner we transcend. And become present again.

Our efforts for healing trauma perhaps is a seeking for Nowness, and can be accessed through the tapping in of the 'felt moment of immediate experience' that Terrance McKenna describes.

Back then..ness

In the start of my yoga practice, my insecurities and self judgements were relentless. And to some extent now they still are. As are my traumas, they would repeat in my head like horror films and in my Yin yoga, they manifest through nervous twitching, dis-ease, and un-wellness.
On an unassuming evening, a rapturous flood disturbing memories, and visions out of a beautiful psychedelic visual art film, suddenly poured upon me like a thunderous waterfall.
It was the cathartic tears on my mat, the painful but mindful enough to cry to myself, bouts of unfolding, where I learned the tools that helped and is helping me heal. I got it then. I began to understand myself, and in a way I did not have to convince anyone else. It like I was being let free by something. And now perhaps I was ready for something new, and I could sit in that uncertainty of what came next, with courage.

This last time I cried on my yoga mat in proper Yin Yoga session. And it was then my teacher convinced me to teach yoga.

Whole...ness

Angelina turned me on to a paragraph on page 108, that goes into page 109 in, "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying."- Sogal Rinpoche

"Anyone looking honest at life will see that we live in a constant state of suspense and ambiguity. Our minds are perpetually shifting in and out of confusion and clarity. If only we were confused all the time, that would at least make for some kind of clarity. What is really baffling about life is that sometimes, despite all our confusion, we can all be really wise! This shows us what the bardo is: a continuous, unnerving oscillation between clarity and confusion, bewilderment and insight, certainty and uncertainty, sanity and insanity. In our minds, as we are now, wisdom and confusion arise simultaneously, or, as we say, are 'co-emergent.' This means we face a continuous state of choice between the two, and that everything depends on which we will choose."