c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…object in hyperspace. Slice it this way, aleph this way, bet this way, you know, and so on. I told Ralph about this Abraham, and he said, whoa, no problem. We could write a computer program that could take the letters of any language and backward…
…And yet this is what these religions have maintained over millennia. Refining it first, you know, the primary revelation to Abraham, and then the whole recension of the New Testament, and then Mohammed's final setting of the dials before secular scientism…
…forth, and so on. And then beginning in 1953, that would be the year zero of the second Strafariad. That when the Abraham and Sarah of the new order, Gordon and Valentina Wason discover the mushrooms in the mountains of Mexico. And then, of course,…
…the black sun of the incomprehensible event of our cultural transformation that has been built into our cultural mythology, you know, since Abraham hesitated to slay his son. I mean, this is our thing, the finite apotheosis of the world. And we've now all…
…an object in hyperspace. Slice it this way aleph this way bet this way. You know and so on. I told Ralph about this Abraham and he said: whoa no problem we could write a computer program that could take the letters of any language and backward engineer…
…the black sun of the incomprehensible event of our cultural transformation that has been built into our cultural mythology. You know since Abraham hesitated to slay his son I mean this is our thing, the finite apotheosis of the world and we've met all…
…so forth and so on and then, beginning in 1953 that would be the year zero of the second strophariad that when the Abraham and Sarah of the new order, Gordon and Valentina Wasson, discover the mushrooms in the mountains of Mexico and then of course in…
…himself. He then ran the Harvard Herbaria and all that so he is an enormous influence on anyone. He's the newton and the Abraham of the field. Now he's very elderly and retired, but his influence is major. Now well, another person is Gordon Wasson who…
…object in hyperspace slice it this way, aleph this way, bet this way you know and so on. I told Ralph about this Abraham and he said: whoa no problem, we could write a computer program that could take the letters of any language and backward engineer…
…and to see my picture occupying a large part of the first page the table of contents page, where the heading says Abraham sells drugs to mathematicians. And there were some other insulting things in the interview that as far as I could remember, was…
…these sequences were Hebrew words, including words which occur in the Torah and consequently have been read by devout Jews since Abraham and some were simply random combination of Hebrew Letters that meant nothing. And then what they did is they, I think,…
…time machine and people say to each other: have you been to the thirty five thousand years from here? Have you been back and seen Abraham, the Abraham Machine? Well, so I love this idea and I and I held it for about 48 hours as a great gimmick and…
…and people say to each other: have you been to the thirty five thousand years from here? Have you been back and seen Abraham, the Abraham Machine? Well, so I love this idea and I and I held it for about 48 hours as a great gimmick and then I…
…I about Daniel? Oh yes Daniel, that it pervades the thing and it pervades it comes very early on because the promise to Abraham it starts with Abraham. God promises Abraham that he'll take him and his descendants to another land he'll give them a land.…
…yes Daniel, that it pervades the thing and it pervades it comes very early on because the promise to Abraham it starts with Abraham. God promises Abraham that he'll take him and his descendants to another land he'll give them a land. There's a promise of…
…it pervades the thing and it pervades it comes very early on because the promise to Abraham it starts with Abraham. God promises Abraham that he'll take him and his descendants to another land he'll give them a land. There's a promise of a land where…
…so forth and so on and then, beginning in 1953 that would be the year zero of the second strophariad that when the Abraham and Sarah of the new order, Gordon and Valentina Wasson, discover the mushrooms in the mountains of Mexico and then of course in…
…is the black sun of the incomprehensible event of our cultural transformation that has been built into our cultural mythology since Abraham hesitated to slay his son. This is our thing, the finite apotheosis of the world, as yet unintegrated, but soon to…
…the flood and he's like the New Adam He's the father of all humanity of all races. It's only much later that we get to Abraham who is the father of the Jews. So Noah is a generic father of humanity. So there's a cosmic covenant of Noah which is the…
…the price that was paid for separation from our instinctual nature. And gilgamesh was King of uruk. Uruk was the city from which Abraham went out. Abraham was a pastoralist, a herder a wandering nomadic herder. He took his herds of sheep and his tribe of…
…paid for separation from our instinctual nature. And gilgamesh was King of uruk. Uruk was the city from which Abraham went out. Abraham was a pastoralist, a herder a wandering nomadic herder. He took his herds of sheep and his tribe of people and founded…
…that that's not what's going to happen. I mean I hold monotheism responsible for the mess that we're in all from you know Abraham, not this one right on down to the present moment I think it is the metaphor which is responsible for the dominator…
…even common arithmetic is an uncertain enterprise. So what are we left with? Well I argued a couple of weeks ago with Shel Drake and Abraham about this. I said we have to look at our messengers we have to look at the people who bring the news of the…
…join us please good morning, wow my mind is spinning. Hi Terrence, I was at the conference at esalen where you and Mr Abraham and Leonard Pardon me, Rupert Sheldrake I think first developed some of these ideas. Is this the book that's come out of that?…
…dealing with returned to again and again and again were the enochian, this language which they said was the true language that Abraham used to communicate with the angels and it has a special alphabet, an alien alphabet, and there's even been published an…
…edifice of the west, touches the three major religions of the west that have developed in a continuous strain since Abraham. Monotheism is the institutionalizing of this egocentric model and it has a certain philosophical appeal in one god, you know…
…Jewish people was faith in what they hadn't yet seen. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. The passage begins and by faith Abraham went out to find a strange land not having seen it or even glimpsed it afar off. By faith moses led the people of…
…Everything will be lost and do not give up the faith because at the landing of the ark the covenant was made not with Abraham, but with Noah, with humanity, and it will be redeemed. There was all this. Yes the pledge will be redeemed, the promise will…