…that this is. These dances go on between the stars. But, you know, the mushroom is full of answers. It's like that Robert Graves book of essays. Difficult questions, easy answers. He called his book, this is what the mushroom loves. Think of a difficult…

…through to the burden of flesh, where do you see the function of the poets? Well, you know, people have talked, Robert Graves and others, about what he called an ursch brachen, an original speech and celtic poetics somewhat assumes this. I think this…

…beer. A small voice in opposition to this theory of wasp and Hoffman and ruck was the english poet and bon vivant, Robert Graves. He believed that it was simply mushrooms, that it was simply mushrooms. And his argument for this was he took the list…

…of ingredients that was always. And the ingredients were always listed in a certain order. And one of the ingredients was water. And Graves argued that it's crazy in a Recipe for beer to include water because you know that you're going to add water. So…

…one to think of discussions of primary poetic languages, such as the one that goes on in the white goddess by Robert Graves, where he wants to suggest that there is a proto language, an Ursch brach, that transcends conventionalized dictionaries, a language…

…was to be able to slow it down, to be able to do it, to be able to show it to people. And I read Robert Graves, the white goddess, and had the notion in there, you know, he talks about a primary poetic language that he thinks existed before history,…

…modules are manipulated to entertain people. And, you know, it's a cliche that there are only five stories. And I think Robert Graves in the white goddess argued, there's only one story, and we keep telling variants of this story over and over again.…

…That's a key question. Roland Fisher, who was a great psychedelic researcher with psilocybin and later retired to Majorca to be Robert Graves next door neighbor, coined the phrase state bounded. This means you can't bring it back. And I'm sure you all have…

…we're supposed to condense machines out of the air in front of us? How does this relate to the persistent idea promulgated by Robert Graves and other people, that there is a primal language of poetry. That poetry as we know it is a pale, pale thing.…

…opium diadems and opium poppies being used as ornaments by various goddesses. So it was understood that it was psychoactive? Yeah. Robert Graves makes mention in one of his books that he suggests that Ambrosia, the ambrosia of the greek gods, were actually…

…strain grew on the eleusinian plain that was made into a kind of beer that was then this hallucinogenic intoxicant. But Robert Graves, who didn't have the kind of public relations machinery that was, had a different notion. And he claimed that the…

…first letter of the items of a list spells out a secret meaning. And it was a favorite trick of irish bardic poets, which Graves was very much into that. But I entail. Now, here is a great project for somebody. We need someone to prove that you can…

…is a fictionalized retelling of that incident, intercut with a modern cast of character characters very clearly modeled on the poet Robert Graves. So if you like to absorb your information in a fictionalized form, this is a wonderful book. John Borman, the…

…However, he doesn't mention the strongest competitor in terms of an interpretation of the eleusinian mystery, which is that Robert Graves showed that the recipes for the eleusinian ambrosia always contained words which could be arranged in such a way…

…one to think of discussions of primary poetic languages, such as the one that goes on in the white goddess by Robert Graves, where he wants to suggest that there is a proto language, an Urspra, that transcends conventionalized dictionaries, a language which…

…a brain state, which allows either the assembly language, which lies behind language, or a primal language of the sort that Robert Graves was talking about in the white goddess, or a kabbalistic language of the sort that is described in the Zohar. A…

…miss the mark? He talks about it, but they never got down to the acid test. They never brewed it up and did it. Now, Robert Graves, who was the guy who turned the wasens on to the idea of going to Mexico to look for mushrooms, he had an entirely…

…on Eleusis. I think he should have at least denounced the guy's position and showed what was wrong with it. What Graves argued, Washington. He said, at these mystery sites, they're always drinking something and they always publish the recipe of what they're…

…immortality is just, you know, hair raising. And as someone pointed out, you know, hair raising is the quality that Robert Graves associates with the near approach of Leucathea. Leucothea is the white goddess. The white goddess is the goddess of death.…

…when I was in the Amazon. There's a celtic saying that poetry is made at the edge of running water. I think Robert Graves discusses this in the white goddess, which, if you've never read the white God, that's basic reading for psychedelicos. And so he…

…the DMT is some kind of synesthesia where ordinary speech or speech or sound is perceived visually, it seems to suggest. And Robert Graves wrote about this in an amazing book, which, if you want a mind bending, read the White Goddess by Robert Graves. I…

…to suggest. And Robert Graves wrote about this in an amazing book, which, if you want a mind bending, read the White Goddess by Robert Graves. I mean, this is truly a puzzling book. And after you've read it, give me a call and tell me what it's all…

…require a gene shift where then we would see what we each mean. You know, there's this persistent idea, promulgated by Robert Graves and the white goddess, among other people, that there was once what he calls an Urspach, a primal language so emotionally…

…my hope for psilocybin, that this can become an experience for people, a kind of Wirsch brach. You may be aware of Robert Graves book, the White Goddess, where he talks about a perfect poetic language that predates history, a language of poetry so intense…

…was to be able to slow it down, to be able to do it, to be able to show it to people. And I read Robert Graves, the white goddess, and had the notion in there, you know, he talks about a yemenite primary poetic language that he thinks existed before…

…so on. If you're interested in the more trippy aspects of it all, I suppose, certainly you should read the white goddess by Robert Graves, which is a very complex and challenging book. In fact, once you've read it, you can explain to me what it's about.…

…in the history of psychedelics. Just as an example, the reason Gordon Wasson and his wife Valentina went to Mexico was because Robert Graves told them that they should do that, that there was something in Mexico having to do with mushrooms that they would…

…they would find very interesting. Many people know this part of the story, but very few people know that the person who told Robert Graves was, of all people, Idris Shaw. And why Idris Shaw knew, this is not clear. But at wasens death, all of his…

…the DMT is some kind of synesthesia where ordinary speech or speech or sound is perceived visually, it seems to suggest, and Robert Graves wrote about this in an amazing book, which, if you want a mind bending, read the white goddess by Robert Graves. I…

…to suggest, and Robert Graves wrote about this in an amazing book, which, if you want a mind bending, read the white goddess by Robert Graves. I mean, this is truly a puzzling book. And after you've read it, give me a call and tell me what it's all…

…then the scholars whip out their knives and all kinds of theories have been brought forward. Some of you may know the scholar Robert Graves discusses this in the white goddess and his theory, which I think deserves to be more looked at than it has. His…

…cup called a kekekion, and recipes supposedly exist for what they drank and it's honey, barley, something else. And always water. And Graves argued that water is not something that you list as an ingredient of something you drink. Obviously it has water in…

…ingredient that I can't remember, those four words can be arranged to spell out the word miko, which means mushroom. So Robert Graves was convinced that a psilocybin mushroom lay behind the elecinian mysteries. This is a pretty good. This is not entirely…