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Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…He had books. We have a partial catalog of his library. He had books that do not exist now. He had Roger Bacon manuscripts. Because, you see, when Henry VIII kicked the catholic church out of England, the northumbrian monasteries were looted by the Earl…
…by the Earl of Northumberland. And basically Dee was allowed to pick over the lute from these monasteries. And there were Roger Bacon manuscripts, which perished when Dee's library was burned by an angry mob while he was on the continent because he was…
…has a curious relationship to 16th century English. But when Dee and Kelly traveled to Europe, they were talking up Roger Bacon, who was a 14th century english monk who had dabbled in alchemy. And they claimed to have bacon manuscripts. And Rudolph…