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McKenna just uses a lot of terms from different philosophies and cultures, most often leaning to Eastern philosophies though.

Here it's what you probably thought of, the yang in "to yin and yang". So if you're into Chinese creative theory... (but if you're not you can just tldr; an "active"/"masculine" solution, but I realise those don't properly translate the concept and simplify it a tad too much)

In Chinese creative theory, the universe develops out of a primary chaos of primordial qi or material energy, organized into the cycles of yin and yang, force and motion leading to form and matter. "Yin" is retractive, passive, contractive and receptive in nature in a contrasting relationship to "yang" is repelling, active, expansive and repulsive in principle; this dichotomy in some form, is seen in all things in nature and their patterns of change, difference and transformations. For example, biological, psychological and cosmological seasonal cycles, the historical evolution of landscapes over days, weeks, years to eons. The original meaning of yin was depicted as the northerly shaded side of a hill and yang being the bright southerly aspect. When pertaining to human gender Yin is associated to more rounded feminine characteristics and Yang as sharp and masculine traits.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang