c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…always been confused about this when you say that we better communicate without language, what about art forms like poetry or I mean Shakespeare, where the point is what it's about is the words, and they get to a point where point where you can say…
…ways of analysing Shakespeare's plays for example for school exams where such and such a character does this role and here Shakespeare was borrowing from this tradition and putting this and taking the whole thing to pieces by this kind of detached…
…reached, the third act you know it has to be this way or it's hardly a play at all it's just a mess as Shakespeare said, sound and fury signifying nothing. That's your other children. Maybe a bill will be forwarded to the future so that after the…
…is a new object for western languages. It will be very interesting to see what English, the language of Milton, Chaucer and Shakespeare will be able to do with the psychedelic experience. I mean, my God, in William Blake you get the feeling that English…
…was an agent for the british crown, but he was also the finest flower of the medieval mind. He was used by Shakespeare as the model for Prospero in the tempest and is the model for Doctor Faustus in Christopher Marlowe's version, that classic spellbinder.…
…and is the model for Doctor Faustus in Christopher Marlowe's version, that classic spellbinder. What do you think about the bacon Shakespeare controversy? Does that fit into that at all? Well, it just shows, you know, how tenuous our grip is on what…
…shows, you know, how tenuous our grip is on what was going on in this time. I mean, besides whether Bacon wrote Shakespeare, then you have the problem of things like the Vonage manuscript. Bacon visited Dean, we're now talking about Francis Bacon, who…
…or nuances of rapport and understanding, then the language is being impoverished. Most scholars of English believe that, you know, Shakespeare caught the wave. Shakespeare is not only a phenomenon of immense human genius focused in one person, but it's also…
…and understanding, then the language is being impoverished. Most scholars of English believe that, you know, Shakespeare caught the wave. Shakespeare is not only a phenomenon of immense human genius focused in one person, but it's also a moment of incredible…
…Well, Dee returned to England, and he was now very old, and he died at Mortlake in 1606. Elizabeth died in 1604. Shakespeare was happening. Sir Philip Sidney was happening through this period, John Dee reputedly had over 6000 books in his library. He had…
…own mind. Or if one could, then every single one of us is a Beethoven, is a Gilbert and Sullivan is a Shakespeare. And maybe that's true, but if that's true, that is empowering and worth knowing. Remember once, many years ago, interviewing Ram Dass,…
…That. The message is that the mind is poised on the precipice of incomprehension and that there are, you know, as Shakespeare said, more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio, that the enterprise of understanding is…
…is that history can't be rushed. And that history is not made by individuals, even righteous individuals. That. You know what Shakespeare said, all the world's a stage and it's people, merely players. They have their entrances and their exits. And each man…
…for triggering madness? The question doesn't even exist back in the world you left behind. And the only way I. You know, Shakespeare says, screw your courage to the sticking point. The only way I found to deal with this is the rough, personally speaking,…
…interesting technique. They take a number of works of art, either literature, such as the song from Love's labor lost by William Shakespeare, or the ballade of Geoffrey Chaucer, or the rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne, and then comment on it, and also visual arts,…
…anticipator of Joyce in English, I think, is Thomas Nash, who most people have never heard of. Thomas Nash was a contemporary of Shakespeare and wrote a famous. I don't know what that means in such a context, but a novel called the. It was called the…
…still going to die in five minutes, but you will be able to lead your elephants over the alps and write the plays of Shakespeare and conquer the new world and still have plenty of time on your hands. In other words, time is going to become a very…
…confused thinking about cetaceans, we could take Mogadig and make it our national state. You know, another interesting thing is Shakespeare and Anthony and Cleopatra. Well, the whole central dynamic of human history has been conflict between the individual and…
…knowledge of this theory, the age of the marvelous. This is the age of the great hermetic flowering. This is the age of Shakespeare and the Rudolphine court in Prague. This is the age of Arkamboldo and John Dee and Robert Flood. And, you know, that…
…squeak, and chimpanzees do what they do, but it's a hell of a step from there to WallaCe Stevens, let alone William Shakespeare. Language is the unique province of human beings, and language is the unique tool, the artist. The artist is the person of…
…to be some kind of animal who just went a little further than the next guy. But to get out of that, Shakespeare and Milton is a pretty amazing accomplishment, hardly, to speak of the mathematical languages that we generate. So something happened, some…
…interesting technique. They take a number of works of art, either literature, such as the song from Love's labor lost by William Shakespeare, or the ballade de bon Consieux of Geoffrey Chaucer, or the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and then comment on it. And…
…development and then say, and then once we'd done that, we had so much brain capacity left over that the plays of Shakespeare and modern mathematics were no problem. Well, this seems. I say this is holcomb, you know, and that obviously, they've done these…
…for triggering madness? The question doesn't even exist back in the world you left behind. And the only way I. You know, Shakespeare says, screw your courage to the sticking point. The only way I found to deal with this is the rough, personally speaking,…