June 16, 1999: Goodbye Terence McKenna | Comet Lee - Stewart Best

Terence McKenna's brain tumor diagnosisMcKenna recounts thinking he had the flu, then suffering a massive seizure and being told he has stage 4 glioblastoma multiforme - the fastest-moving brain tumor known to medicine - with 30 days to live untreated.

Feeling the audience's healing meditationMcKenna tells Art that during the group meditation Art organized just before the gamma knife procedure, he felt energy welling up out of the earth and pouring in, and he believes that is why he survived the operation.

Consciousness can exist outside the bodyAsked whether we are more than biology, McKenna offers a philosophical conclusion drawn from a lifetime of psychedelic exploration: nature does not build patterns this complex only to discard them at the grave.

Walking down the street, seeing who is living and who is dyingMcKenna describes a strange new perception since the diagnosis - looking into people's faces and being able to tell who has figured out the living condition and who is just spinning their lives away in money chasing and anxiety.

Did the CIA commission Deep Impact and Armageddon?Stewart Best claims inside sources told him the CIA approached Hollywood to produce both Deep Impact and Armageddon as part of preparing the public for an extinction-level event tied to Comet Lee and Nostradamus' 1999 prophecy.