c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…this. The same problem is confronted by the size of newton's idea. When he chose the word attraction, the gravitational attraction, as Voltaire said in 1730 when he visited London. It was years after 30 40 years after newton 50 years after newton had…
…30 40 years after newton 50 years after newton had developed these ideas they were still not accepted in France and Voltaire said the principal reason the French Academicians scorned newton's ideas was that he'd used the word attraction. Voltaire said if…
…France and Voltaire said the principal reason the French Academicians scorned newton's ideas was that he'd used the word attraction. Voltaire said if he'd used a different word his ideas would have been readily accepted, because the word attraction which for…
…view of the world as an attractive world that could be attracting a man seems to them absurdly animistic. And newton was, Voltaire said if he'd chosen a different word his theory would have been adopted 30 years earlier in France. Now Voltaire had been…
…newton was, Voltaire said if he'd chosen a different word his theory would have been adopted 30 years earlier in France. Now Voltaire had been wrong with the fact that he liked those words accepted in France from the very beginning the notion of…
…know no peace until the last politician is strangled in the entrails of the last priest? I think that's the theory. Give us Voltaire here today and let's discuss this I think he will agree with me. We are the priests, we are the politicians. Who's this…
…here today and let's discuss this I think he will agree with me. We are the priests, we are the politicians. Who's this Voltaire? He's one of us too. But climbing in bed with the dominator institution, parex Salas as the first move in trying to create…
…would be hung before a howling, mobilized society. Hang anybody, huh? Why would a civilized society hang anybody? Certainly it would. Voltaire said, the common people will know no peace until the last politician is strangled publicly in the entrails of the…
…salon where people are changing their lives one thought at a time. Well, maybe we shouldn't follow Terrance in the direction of Voltaire as he asked. But at times, don't you think that perhaps old Voltaire got it right after all? Of course, Voltaire died…
…maybe we shouldn't follow Terrance in the direction of Voltaire as he asked. But at times, don't you think that perhaps old Voltaire got it right after all? Of course, Voltaire died over 200 years ago and now the politicians even outnumber the priests. So…
…direction of Voltaire as he asked. But at times, don't you think that perhaps old Voltaire got it right after all? Of course, Voltaire died over 200 years ago and now the politicians even outnumber the priests. So about the only solution I can come up…
…And they discovered that if you do that, if you take everybody and make them read Plato and John Stuart mill and Voltaire and Hobbes, as we did, that you can't rule such people. They take it too seriously. They become ungovernable. They pour into…
…so on. And then up here, 1740, this is what's called the european enlightenment. And a bunch of french people, Voltaire, Rousseau, philosophers, theoreticians of how human society should be run, produced these screeds, these theoretical texts. But wild Menta…