…It's actually it's only three pages long and you should read this book anyway many of you have I'm sure labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges but there's a story in labyrinths called the sect of the Phoenix and it lasts it's about two pages long and it goes…

…it it's always with embarrassment and slight deprecation it is orange and it goes on and on like this I don't know who Jorge Luis Borges is but his read some of his other stories I mean this was definitely ahead of some sort but there it is and it's…

…it's who don't quite make the extinct of the moment. Well the instruction well you know here's the idea the Jorge Luis Borges the argentine surrealist he had an interesting idea he felt that a superspace whatever that means until the last member of that…

…Maybe what you might say is: show me what I haven't yet imagined. Right, because everything is possible, that's right. But if they can't Borges has a story I don't remember which one it is but the basic idea of it is that no individual member of a…

…director of the center for the study of myth and the talk he gave that we're now going to hear is titled Borges and McKenna: Iconoclasm, boundary dissolution and living symbolically. It's a tremendous pleasure and honor to be here. This is a tremendous…

…going to be talking about. I don't know if any of you will be a little bit alarmed at seeing Terence McKenna and Louise Borges placed together in the same paper. I think it works very well and I'll explain a little bit about this. I've heard over the…

…I've been smoking Cannabis since I was 14 or I've been taking LSD since I was 15. Well in my case I've been reading Borges since I was 15 and I think that has been more of a groundbreaking and culture breaking activity than probably any amount of LSD.…

…groundbreaking and culture breaking activity than probably any amount of LSD. Well, he can be equated to that. So I'd recommend Borges is not for the faint hearted I certainly agree with that. And I've been reading Terence McKenna and listening to Terence…

…read tom robbins but those who haven't I recommend tom robbins tom robbins and Terence McKenna were rapping together and they talked about Borges. And I was blown out of my chair with this because they are three people whom I held very dear to my heart:…

…are has become trapped in a lower dimensional matrix. And our greatest delusion is to cling to this most tenaciously. Jorge Luis Borges, in one of his stories, has this idea that the species any species is somehow not completed in eternity until the last…

…entertain the idea that all of us will die and that in fact, somehow this is what it's for. The argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges had this idea that a species is not free until the last member of the species dies. And that's, you know, fairly mind…

…to die. Then the question becomes, what is that? What does it mean to, you know, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Borges had a story where the entire of the species could not move on until the last member of the species became extinct. There is…

…we've gone too far, and maybe it is that this planet is doomed, and maybe it is that somehow that too is part of the plan. Borges had this idea. He said that he believed in what he called the soul of the species. And he said the soul of the species…

…the main vein of the peculiar I always talk about, and I might as well. Again, what the hell? That short story by Jorge Luis Borges in labyrinths called the sect of the phoenix. Do you know that story? It's a page and a half long, and it talks about…

…While the entry about the sect of the Phoenix on Wikipedia does acknowledge Terence's idea. Apparently, many scholars believe that Borges was actually referring to homosexuality, which seems to make a lot of sense when you re listen to Terence's description…

…ever had a couple of assets. Instead of going on for four days at mom. Anybody have any questions? Do you know of Borges, if he has any psychedelic history. No longer alive. I don't know. I don't think you could write that stuff without some experience,…

…nine minutes later and all life would die instantly. Interesting concept. Die instantly. You know, the argentine surrealist writer Jorge Luis Borges has a story. I can't remember what it's called, but the idea of this story is that a species cannot enter…

…If. A very suggestive short story, I'm sure many of you know and love the argentine surrealist writer Jorge Louis Borges. Well, Borges has a book, I believe. It's called labyrinth. And in labyrinth, there is a short story called the sect of the phoenix.…

…aboriginal times. We used to, years and years ago, call it the secret. And in a way, it really is the secret. Jorge Luis Borges has a story called the cult of the Phoenix and he talks about a secret that seems profound and yet preposterous to the…