…what's in store for the psychedelic salon in the weeks ahead. Well first one historical note that the revelation of st John the divine is not a unique phenomenon in the judeo Christian Tradition. It's in a succession of apocalyptic books which abounded…

…a succession of apocalyptic books which abounded around the time of Christ because many people believed that the end was literally at hand. St John the baptist's message was: repent for the end is at hand. It was a period very similar to our own in the…

…The book of Daniel in the old testament is an apocalyptic prophetic book and is a precursor of the revelation of st John the divine. These are just two examples in a large and extensive literature. It pervades the teachings of jesus this apocalyptic sense…

…used to it happening. Yes, well get used to the fact it could happen at any time. You see, Terence is so much like st John, both in his st John the baptist form and in the st John the divine. There's in the gospels, there's these passages of jesus…

…get used to the fact it could happen at any time. You see, Terence is so much like st John, both in his st John the baptist form and in the st John the divine. There's in the gospels, there's these passages of jesus which Terence could easily quote…

…at any time. You see, Terence is so much like st John, both in his st John the baptist form and in the st John the divine. There's in the gospels, there's these passages of jesus which Terence could easily quote and add to his armamentarium of: is…

…and so on it's a great thing to what I'm suggesting is that the coupling of the apocalyptic vision of the revelation of st John with the concept of the end of time in the year 2012 makes most likely the response of the secretary of the interior who…

…who says well so what I mean there's nothing we can do about it so let it go yes going back to the revelation of John which I would have seen I could have seen this discussion go on with never a mention of it that's just an obscure Christian text…

…the word apocalypse, our subject here. Well I called it the end of the world. Good that's much better. It was my notion that lets John Off the hook and the Bible Yes the end of the world all right the proposal of the end of the world happening in a…

…that it's moving it's moving toward some kind of other thing not death yes well this is the new gospel of st John is what you're raving? Gnostic apotheosis? This is the green version of the apocalyptic vision that the apocalypse is actually this, this…

…aggregate like cells in the body. Individuals are like atoms in the body of leviathan and there's a dragon in the revelation of st John Yes, the idea of heaven crushes the head of the serpent. So here's the serpent which is and in the last days the…

…exactly? What is the secretary of the interior referring to? He's referring to in the gospels or somewhere in the revelation of st John this thing is laid out. It's very complex. Angels come and pour down diseases, oceans boil it takes a long time. There…

…the most puzzling pieces of literature in the Christian Canon. The textual basis for this fantasy is entirely this revelation of st John the divine that's right. Is that the apocalyptic, the millenarian or both? Both yes because at the end you see the 12…

…another story. I do think that might be even a bigger danger but that's another story. Right now I'm after the revelation of saint John the divine no this is the end of the world scenario of scientism and then we've had the end of the world scenario…

…is all these scenarios are metaphors for something really weird, of which we are in a much better position to anticipate it than John the divine of Patmos was. Well you sort of started on the scientific end with the mention of astronomical chaos and the…

…in a way if you take the year 2000 we have the coincidence of several sacred documents. Yes the revelation of saint John the divine yes, the time wave another sacred document in software form: the mayans and the judeo Christian Calendar or the gregorian…

…to a point where, well, we can at least make out most of the words. And I wouldn't have done that except for Graham St. John. Later this year, MIT press is going to be publishing a biography of Terrence that Graham is now putting the final touches on.…

…to this book, which is called the Rock Painting, and it is by Andre Leroy Gourval, World Public Paint Company. Oh, no. John. Dominique, I'll pass this around. Be careful with it. The patient are coming undone. But you can see that beyond these two…

…conceit of neurophysiology that they are grappling with the origin of thought, but no less the thinker on the subject than Mister John actually decided, finding that he could own them for embrace a clean dualism. And he said, and you probably heard me…

…thing? It's very very much like a very deep profound the way a saint these people, not only these people were saints besides being mystics, John of the cross, but what did any way. I mean I think that there are so many levels of sonic you can go, you…

…displayed. Drug sound proposition. There is this same author writing of mescaline and reaching for metaphors drawn from Meister Eckhart, St. John of the Cross, John Chrysostom, comparing the light falling into the folds of his trousers to the light of…

…There is this same author writing of mescaline and reaching for metaphors drawn from Meister Eckhart, St. John of the Cross, John Chrysostom, comparing the light falling into the folds of his trousers to the light of Caravaggio and Duccio and Fra Angelico,…

…Not only did my mother not tell me and my father not tell me, but Aldous Huxley never told me, and neither did John of the cross, and neither did Meister Eckhart. All those people were apparently flying at a lower altitude than I, 19 year old…

…I think it's important that the audience hear it. I wanted to, you know, what happens with drugs is what. What happens when St. John of the cross, writing in the 16th century, talks about as the dark night of the soul. And this is something that…

…the contrast between the incredible light and joy that you were feeling and the absence of it produces great depression, which John calls the dark night in traditional mysticism, what happens when this. When the dark night of the soul occurs, when the…

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…of creativity? Some of you may be familiar with the theme that was very big in medieval religious art, which was the apocalypse of St. John or of somebody. There are a number of these apocalypses. And I think that many of us may come out of a kind of…