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Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…with angels and all sorts of entities of this type over decades. No less a founder of modern scientific rationalism than Rene Descartes Actually was set on the path toward the realization of the ideals of modern science by an angel who appeared to…
…is just the habit, the wish or the means the technology of communicating with angels so that we can receive this information. Descartes was somehow open to this dream, kikou was open to this dream and we actually have worked hard, the three of us…
…the reality of the trinity, the full trinity that means the body, the soul the spirit and so on at the same time Descartes also Descartes and newton that we frequently blame for our mechanistic paradigm and so on they were full of the spirit themselves…
…of the trinity, the full trinity that means the body, the soul the spirit and so on at the same time Descartes also Descartes and newton that we frequently blame for our mechanistic paradigm and so on they were full of the spirit themselves yet they…
…possible, but it has presumed to be the arbiter of all thought, all feeling, all worth. My God. The hubris of Rene Descartes to divide the world into the primary and secondary qualities. And what are the primary qualities? Motion, mass, spin, momentum. And…
…talk I got to dig in at cartesian logic or cartesian rationalism. As you know, modern scientific materialism was founded by Rene Descartes, french philosopher of the 17th century. But what the historians of science have been at great pains to keep from…
…what the historians of science have been at great pains to keep from view is the following story, which is attested to in Descartes own journal. When he was a young man of about 22 years old, he decided to go soldiering and wenching around Europe, which…
…They made camp at Ulm in southern Germany. And just as an aside, Ulm later was the birthplace of Albert Einstein. But that night, Descartes had a dream. And the dream in the dream, a radiant angel appeared to him and said, the conquest of nature is to…
…angel appeared to him and said, the conquest of nature is to be achieved through number and measure. And in that moment, Rene Descartes went from being a nobody to being the founder. Modern science. Modern science was founded at the direction of an angel,…
…years war. One of the young french soldiers in this habsburg army lane siege to the city was the 19 year old Rene Descartes, who would grow up to be the great proponent of modern french materialism. Michael Meyer, one of the last great synthesizers of…
…nothing, happily soldiering and wenching his way around Europe while he decided what to do with it himself. And his name was Rene Descartes, a frenchman. And Descartes, in his later years, reminisced about his period as a soldier in this army. And I like…
…wenching his way around Europe while he decided what to do with it himself. And his name was Rene Descartes, a frenchman. And Descartes, in his later years, reminisced about his period as a soldier in this army. And I like to think that it was actually…
…Descartes, in his later years, reminisced about his period as a soldier in this army. And I like to think that it was actually Descartes who murdered Meyer. One of my ambitions is to write a play or a novel where these two confront themselves in a back…
…alley of burning Prague and carry on a debate about the future of Europe before Michael Meyer falls to the sword of Descartes. Well, that may be apocryphal, but what is not apocryphal is that this hapsburgian army, having laid siege and destroyed the…
…Now, by a strange coincidence, Ulm is the birthplace of Einstein some hundreds of years later. But on the night of September 16, Descartes had a dream. And in this dream, an angel appeared to him. This is documented by his own hand. And the angel said,…
…and an angel appeared to this young man and said, the mastery of nature is achieved through measure and number. This was Rene Descartes. This was the founder of what is called materialism, rationalism. His marching orders were given to him in the same way…
…possible, but it has presumed to be the arbiter of all thought, all feeling, all worth. My God. The hubris of Rene Descartes to divide the world into the primary and secondary qualities. And what are the primary qualities? Motion, mass, spin, momentum. And…
…talk, I got a dig in at cartesian logic, or cartesian rationalism. As you know, modern scientific materialism was founded by Rene Descartes, french philosopher of the 17th century. But what the historians of science have been at great pains to keep from…
…what the historians of science have been at great pains to keep from view is the following story, which is attested to in Descartes own journal. When he was a young man of about 22 years old, he decided to go soldiering and wenching around Europe, which…
…They made camp at Ulm in southern Germany. And just as an aside, Ulm later was the birthplace of Albert Einstein. But that night Descartes had a dream. And the dream in the dream, a radiant angel appeared to him and said, the conquest of nature is to…
…angel appeared to him and said, the conquest of nature is to be achieved through number and measure. And in that moment, Rene Descartes went from being a nobody to being the founder of modern science. Modern science was founded at the direction of an…
…who was basically soldiering and wenching his way across Europe, which was something gentlemen did in those days. And his name was Rene Descartes. And after the fall of Prague, I can't remember the exact date, but I think it was in early August of 1619,…
…those coincidences, folks, would be the birthplace of Einstein some centuries later. But anyway, they pitched their tents at Ulm. And Descartes, who was not the mature philosopher of science that we know, but just to some punk mercenary, you know, getting…
…angel appeared to him. And the angel said, the conquest of nature is to be achieved through measurement and number. And Descartes awoke from this dream and he founded scientific materialism. He founded modern science based on the revelation of an angel.…
…loud. You know, they posture and preen about the glory of the rational intellect and all this malarkey. It's malarkey. If Descartes had not been given the clue by this angelic visitor, probably modern science would have been delayed for another century or…
…revelations. One of the best kept secrets of the birth of modern science is that it was founded by an angel, that the young Rene Descartes was whoring and soldiering as a way across Europe as a 21 year old in the Hapsburg army. And one night in the…
…Ulm in southern Germany, he had a dream strange that this would be the birthplace of Albert Einstein some 200 years later. But Descartes had to dream, and an angel appeared to him in the dream. And the angel said, the conquest of nature is achieved…
…very shady and shaky mystical ways. The classic example that I always give because it has so much fun basically, is that Rene Descartes invention of scientific materialism was at the behest of an angel. An angel appeared to him in a dream. He records it…
…mathematical analysis and measure. That is the secret of the scientific conquest of nature. And it's a secret that was imparted to Rene Descartes by an angelic entity. So I'd like you to leave this evening wondering, who do we work for and how does it…
…the conquest of nature is to be achieved through measure and number. And that revelation lay the basis for modern science. Rene Descartes is the founder of the distinction between the res Virens and the res Extensa, the founder of modern science, the…
…mathematical analysis and measure. That is the secret of the scientific conquest of nature. And it's a secret that was imparted to Rene Descartes by an angelic entity. So I'd like you to leave this evening wondering, who do we work for and how does it…
…me just say that, yes, I too picked up a couple of incorrect facts about him, but it's a minor detail in the story of Descartes, which I think he got right. Now, when we were a little over 30 minutes into this talk and Terrence was reciting a litany…