c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…leads through a descent, never arrives without a fall, it says in Finnegan's wake. So the fall into matter, which is, you know, Adam and Eve and Lucifer, and, you know, we know how to beat that drum. The fall and redemption of ourselves is a fall…
…from there they would be taken care of in some way. But it was the miss. The missing link was a machine which the second Adam would come and build. Cat had this experience of the structure of the flying saucer. When we were in the Amazon in 71, it…
…only there. And that recapturing that is what this is really the task of reclaiming the world. If you look at Genesis, the story of Adam and Eve, which is the story of our origin, you can see it in a whole different light. It's the story of a drug…
…the tree of life, of knowledge, they would be as we are. So there's this whole tension. And in the story in Genesis, you'll recall, Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden, and an angel is set at the east of Eden with a burning sword. Well, what I take…
…was at a conference recently on psychedelics, a closed conference, mostly for healthcare professionals, and there was a lot of talk about Adam, MDMA. And then someone asked the question, what is the LD 50 of it? LD 50 is a fairly unpleasant concept, which…
…50 for psilocybin is 375 milligrams. Per kilogram. So we're talking 30,000 milligrams for 145 pound human being. The problem that emerged with Adam was that the LD 50 is very close to the effective dose and that no human trials have any ever been done.…
…the LD 50 is very close to the effective dose and that no human trials have any ever been done. The effective dose of Adam is considered to be somewhere between 75 and 150 milligrams. The LD 50 is considered to be 500 milligrams based on studies of…
…LD 50 in primates, including man, than data on dogs or cats. Nevertheless, in the absence of any human data whatsoever about Adam, it's very unnerving that the LD 50 is so close to the effective dose. So immediately, the institution which was holding this…
…for a hallucinogen. The problem is this. This toxicological data makes it clear that it could never be legalized. And in fact, if Adam cured the common cold, it would not be legalized if it has a LD 50 profile, only four times the effective dose. So…
…declared legal, or that something which is illegal be exceptions be made for researchers. I think this is fruitless. I think the Adam thing proved that. I mean, I think Adam was extremely efficacious for therapy. I think the case for its use in therapy…
…illegal be exceptions be made for researchers. I think this is fruitless. I think the Adam thing proved that. I mean, I think Adam was extremely efficacious for therapy. I think the case for its use in therapy was brilliantly made. I think the people who…
…little bit of that east of the Rockies, You're on the air with Terrence McKenna in the wilds of Hawaii. Hi this is Adam from Austin. I have an experience I'd like to relay to Mr McKenna. Sure I've been experimenting with visionary substances now for…
…clay, breathed life into him and then created the animals and made the Garden and then then he brought all the animals to Adam and said: you name them whatever you name them, that's what that's what they'll be. So the naming function I think human…
…you read the story, you will see that god, thinking aloud, says they will become as we are. They will become as we are. And so Adam and eve were cast out of the Garden and god set an angel at the eastern portal of Eden with a whirling sword so that…
…call history is the brief precursive enunciation of the emergence out of inchoate matter of the mystery, the unspeakable thing, the Anthropic Adam, the messiah, the flying saucer you name it there aren't words to tell of it. The image I like, because it…
…a very peculiar messianic and apocalyptic belief. They believe that the messiah will come and they call the messiah the secret Adam. But the secret Adam teaches no message, creates no moral revolution. The secret Adam has the blueprints to build a machine…
…and apocalyptic belief. They believe that the messiah will come and they call the messiah the secret Adam. But the secret Adam teaches no message, creates no moral revolution. The secret Adam has the blueprints to build a machine that will transmit all…
…come and they call the messiah the secret Adam. But the secret Adam teaches no message, creates no moral revolution. The secret Adam has the blueprints to build a machine that will transmit all the souls back to the light source outside the machinery of…
…the body is the means for communion, for communication, the body is what we all have in common. That's why everybody goes back to Adam and eve for instance it's one of the reasons why you have to have one pair of parents because body is what unites us…
…of the tree of life they will become as we are. This can't fly. So the issue is: everybody perceives the issue the same Adam Eve and yawa. The tension is over the fact that there would be equality if the plant knowledge were fully available and it's…
…presence of the mushroom weakened and disappeared, then these older primate patterns flowed in and dominated the situation. In the story of Adam and eve in genesis, you essentially get this message except it's told from a dominator point of view. I mean a…
…and you know, capitalism is a gun pointed at the head of global civilization. If you read the theoreticians of capitalism Adam Smith and so forth capitalism assumes an unlimited exploitable Frontier. There is no such creature so it has turned pathological.…
…led to the largest LSD bust in history and one hears that the military was experimenting with most of the psychedelic drugs Adam for example. 30 years ago Adam was synthesized in Germany in 1914. More drugs are synthesized there in Central Europe. But if…
…in history and one hears that the military was experimenting with most of the psychedelic drugs Adam for example. 30 years ago Adam was synthesized in Germany in 1914. More drugs are synthesized there in Central Europe. But if we all divorce ourselves and…
…the moon and then from there they would be taken care of in some way. But the missing link was a machine which the second Adam would come and build and cat had this experience of the structure of the flying saucer when we were in the Amazon in 71.…
…them. But anyway very rich, very old tradition and they have the notion in their cosmology of a messiah which they call the secret Adam. And the secret Adam will come at the end of the world and the mandaean notion of what's going on is that we all…
…very rich, very old tradition and they have the notion in their cosmology of a messiah which they call the secret Adam. And the secret Adam will come at the end of the world and the mandaean notion of what's going on is that we all have a soul made…
…and into our rightful home which is a much better place. Okay so the mandaean eschaton is that this messiah called the secret Adam will come. But what's unusual is that the secret Adam teaches no message, has no point of view, but builds a machine. They…
…Okay so the mandaean eschaton is that this messiah called the secret Adam will come. But what's unusual is that the secret Adam teaches no message, has no point of view, but builds a machine. They specifically say this builds an object of some sort…
…Bible as an argument for some of the points I was trying to make because if you go back and look at the story of Adam and eve from a little different perspective, I think what we've got here is the story of history's first drug bust maybe it was a…
…the gun, is a maladaptive style that arose when this you could almost say mushroom driven Paradise collapsed and the story of Adam and eve is the story of this moment of transition when the mushrooms, for reasons that we could talk about, became unwelcome…
…is actually a possibility of revisioning psychology, of changing it. One of the great things I think about the recent flap about Adam was that unnoticed in all the shilly shallying that went back was a new paradigm actually was introduced into the practice…
…be declared legal or that something which is illegal be exceptions be made for researchers. I think this is fruitless. I think the Adam thing proved that I mean I think Adam was extremely efficacious for therapy. I think the case for its use in therapy…
…illegal be exceptions be made for researchers. I think this is fruitless. I think the Adam thing proved that I mean I think Adam was extremely efficacious for therapy. I think the case for its use in therapy was brilliantly made I think the people who…
…food of the gods I talk about how that story is an echo of this circumstance that I'm talking about. If you read the story of Adam and eve, you see first of all that it involves a struggle over whether a plant will or will not be used and that the…
…the clay, breathed life into him and then created the animals and made the Garden. And then he brought all the animals to Adam and said: you name them whatever, you name them that's what they'll be. So the naming function see I think human beings are…
…end of the genesis story it says: and god set an angel at the eastern gate of Eden with a flaming sword so that Adam and his children could not find their way back into Paradise. That's a memory of the saharan sun scorching off the African Veldt and…
…temporal planes as modern personages and contemporary happenings. All time occurs simultaneously. Tristram and the duke of Wellington, father Adam and humpty dumpty merge in a single precept. Multiple meanings are present in every line. Interlocking allusions to…
…Bell is the personification of the goddess river. The river runs past even Adams and there is a church there on the shore named Adam and eve in Dublin from swerve of shore to bend of bay and then this strange phrase brings us by a commodious vicus of…
…is actually a possibility of revisioning psychology of changing it. One of the great things I think about the recent flap about Adam was that unnoticed in all the shilly shallying that went back was a new paradigm actually was introduced into the practice…
…be declared legal or that something which is illegal be exceptions be made for researchers. I think this is fruitless. I think the Adam thing proved that. I mean I think Adam was extremely efficacious for therapy. I think the case for its use in therapy…
…illegal be exceptions be made for researchers. I think this is fruitless. I think the Adam thing proved that. I mean I think Adam was extremely efficacious for therapy. I think the case for its use in therapy was brilliantly made. I think the people who…
…transformation that was necessary in order to unlock the doors of Paradise which had been slammed shut with the fall of Adam and I find Christianity fascinating. I don't believe a word of it because I don't think Christian Theologians understand what…
…lapse into some kind of smugness about this, we have to recognize that there are internal contradictions in our world as well. Adam Smith in the wealth of nations stated the general theory of capitalism and the general theory of capitalism is: access to…
…myth, which is their eschatology is: they believe that at the end of the world a savior will come called the secret Adam. And the secret Adam, rather than teaching a message will build a machine of some sort they're very explicit about this and…
…their eschatology is: they believe that at the end of the world a savior will come called the secret Adam. And the secret Adam, rather than teaching a message will build a machine of some sort they're very explicit about this and the machine is a light…
…of the tree of life, of knowledge they would be as we are. So there's this whole tension and in the story in genesis, you'll recall Adam and eve are cast out of Eden and an angel is set at the burning sword. Well what I take this to be about is…
…god like aspirations, I mean we really aspire to be god we talk about becoming the caretakers of the world. We don't want to be Adam and eve chewing on the fruit in the Garden we want to be the gardener as in the original scenario. I think that the…
…of you may know about the freemasonry and the many freemason revolts in bohemia and Bavaria Throughout the 16th and 17th century. Adam Weishaupt and the illuminati is another effort to do this and even the royal society founded by newton and Hooke and…
…in history and that's humanity. According to the Biblical account, human beings are undergoing a kind of evolutionary process from Adam through the patriarchs. Well first Noah, then the patriarchs then the history of the people of Israel, then the movement…
…Noah Isn't a jew. He's the only man and woman his family is the only family that survives 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.…
…souls they were unable to get into heaven they were held in a holding area for several thousand years, from the sin of Adam to the resurrection of Christ. Then Christ's Entry into heaven, all those souls accompanied him and the pipeline was open, and it…
…issue about plant use, that eve was tossed out of the Garden because she ate of the fruit of the tree of life and involved Adam in that. The serpent was the minion, as you said of the goddess and the serpent said: if you eat of this plant you will…
…expensive, overpriced facsimile editions or visits to libraries in obscure parts of the world to pay for microfichisons. Now one guy, Adam McLean puts a site up at levity and it's essentially a larger alchemical library that ever existed anywhere in the…
…and because there was no process for legalizing it, it was never tested at all. That's what the FDA gave us with Adam was an utterly untested psychoactive drug because they refused to test it. So the fruits of ignorance are dendritic ablation in this…
…I think that in a kind of a basic sense, if you're talking about the whole spectrum of psychedelic and psychoactive drugs, Adam is just not that interesting. It happens to be the most effective drug so far discovered for psychotherapy, for helping people…
…the relationship of this bifurcation in the history of consciousness and other bifurcations in the history of ideas, such as the fall of Adam and eve from the Garden of Eden, the fall of archangel lucifer and other angels and so on the creation of the…
…stuff no one was going to tell them or give them they had to do this. Engineering research a study of the Adam Smith study of the industrial revolution in Lancashire found that the improvements in spinning jennies and steam driven machinery came not from…
…are drawn, you can't do anything that's not within the central. The only answer to this he suggests because he's an Adam Smith follower is not to follow bacon's idea, which is Francis Bacon's vision of central government spending an academy of scientists…
…little bit of that. East of the Rockies You're on the air with Terrence McKenna in the wilds of Hawaii. Hi this is Adam from Austin. I have an experience I'd like to relay to Mr McKenna. Sure, I've been experimenting with visionary substances now for…
…hermetic philosophers drew back from the rise of Christianity with its doctrine of the fall of man and original sin and the stain of Adam and eve and that whole thing and took a different tack and made two points which I think we need to recover and…
…of their future. Do you think you are repeating the lifestyles and algorithms of your parents and grandparents AD Infinitum back to Adam? Or do you feel like you've stepped to the front of the train of human evolution, that you are making yourself new…
…to people and working with states of dysfunction but they weren't trying to understand the physiological parameters of it. Joe Adam and the guy who became the regent, Willis Harmon, all of those people were associated with those experiments. Mescaline was…
…at a conference recently on psychedelics, a closed conference mostly for health care professionals, and there was a lot of talk about Adam, MDMA, and then someone asked the question: what is the LD50 of it? LD50 is a fairly unpleasant concept which is…
…psilocybin is 375 milligrams per kilogram, so we're talking 30 000 milligrams for 145 pound human beings. The problem that emerged with Adam was that the LD50 is very close to the effective dose and that no human trials have ever been done. The effective…
…that the LD50 is very close to the effective dose and that no human trials have ever been done. The effective dose of Adam is considered to be somewhere between 75 and 150 milligrams. The LD50 is considered to be 500 milligrams, based on studies of…
…the LD50 in primates, including man than data on dogs or cats. Nevertheless in the absence of any human data whatsoever about Adam, It's very unnerving that the LD50 is so close to the effective dose so immediately. The institution which was holding this…
…so that we can't carry the dose estimation habits that we formed on LSD into these new amphetamines like MDA, MDMA Adam, Ecstasy, because it's well known among chemists that the cyclicized amphetamines are toxic. Mescaline is the most toxic of all natural…
…middle east of very long survivability, have this very interesting idea: they believe that at the end of time what they call the secret Adam will come to earth and the secret Adam is a messiah like figure but what he does is he builds a machine which…
…very interesting idea: they believe that at the end of time what they call the secret Adam will come to earth and the secret Adam is a messiah like figure but what he does is he builds a machine which then transmits all the souls back to their hidden…
…presence of the mushroom weakened and disappeared, then these older primate patterns flowed in and dominated the situation. In the story of Adam and eve in genesis you essentially get this message, except it's told from a dominator point of view. I mean a…
…And you know capitalism is a gun pointed at the head of global civilization if you read the theoreticians of capitalism, Adam Smith and so forth. Capitalism assumes an unlimited exploitable Frontier. There is no such creature so it has turned pathological.…
…old, because the profane fall into history is actually ending. The way the fall into history ends is with the progeny of Adam, the human race, recovering the control of the human form, the control of the human soul, the ability to turn ourselves into…
…a surgical recovery ward. You want your immune system to just be fully revved up. Now we have this problem apparently with Adam, and in fact, there has been one reported death at a dose of 390 milligrams. Thanks for that information. It's really important…
…that you are at death's door. You know, you will swear that you are looking at the path to the bardo. But with Adam, it's totally the feeling, the aura is that it's completely benign, even as you approach a fantastically dangerous dose. It is amazing…
…totally the feeling, the aura is that it's completely benign, even as you approach a fantastically dangerous dose. It is amazing because Adam puts you in a state of love, even for itself. That's what happens. And, you know, and I discussed this with Lou…
…for itself. That's what happens. And, you know, and I discussed this with Lou coming down. It seems to me that my experience with Adam is that I'm so much in love, in a state of love that it's dangerous in other ways, because I accept. I accept things…
…for me. So it's some boy, it's fascinating. So I've heard of people who essentially, to become courageous enough to get really stoned, take Adam ahead of it. In other words, people say, well, I take Adam and then I take LSD. An hour and a half later,…
…who essentially, to become courageous enough to get really stoned, take Adam ahead of it. In other words, people say, well, I take Adam and then I take LSD. An hour and a half later, I take psilocybin an hour halfway. Well, I think that these, in…
…and more heroic doses. Also, and I invite experimenters to try this, at the moment, there is so much attention directed toward Adam that the morphogenetic field of Adam is so strong that if you will take psilocybin, you can request it to masquerade as…
…I invite experimenters to try this, at the moment, there is so much attention directed toward Adam that the morphogenetic field of Adam is so strong that if you will take psilocybin, you can request it to masquerade as Adam. And it will immediately turn…
…toward Adam that the morphogenetic field of Adam is so strong that if you will take psilocybin, you can request it to masquerade as Adam. And it will immediately turn over and be Adam for you. And I don't think Adam can do the same trick going the…
…is so strong that if you will take psilocybin, you can request it to masquerade as Adam. And it will immediately turn over and be Adam for you. And I don't think Adam can do the same trick going the other way. Well, do you mind if I talk? I mean,…
…psilocybin, you can request it to masquerade as Adam. And it will immediately turn over and be Adam for you. And I don't think Adam can do the same trick going the other way. Well, do you mind if I talk? I mean, please do join the conversation. And…
…this conference a great deal of thought was put into there were people there who were so enthusiastic about the effects of Adam, the psychological effects, that they felt that this was the greatest chance the underground had ever had to actually obtain a…
…status for a hallucinogen. The problem is this: toxicological data makes it clear that it could never be legalized and in fact if Adam cured the common cold it would not be legalized if it has a LD50 profile only four times the effective dose. So I…
…going to have surgery and come out of surgery and be in a fully revved up. Now we have this problem apparently with Adam and in fact there has been one reported death at a dose of 390 milligrams. Thanks for that information. It's really important to…
…you are at death's door. You know you will swear that you are looking at the path to the bardo and but with Adam It's totally the feeling, the aura is that it's completely benign, even as you approach a fantastically dangerous dose. It is amazing…
…totally the feeling, the aura is that it's completely benign, even as you approach a fantastically dangerous dose. It is amazing because Adam puts you in this state of love even for itself. That's what happens and you know, and I discussed this with lou…
…for itself. That's what happens and you know, and I discussed this with lou coming down, it seems to me that my experience with Adam is that I'm so much in love in a state of love that it's dangerous in other ways because I accept I accept things…
…best for me so it's some boy it's fascinating. So I've heard of people who essentially to become courageous enough to get really stoned, take Adam Ahead of it. In other words people say well I take Adam and then I take LSD an hour and a half later or…
…people who essentially to become courageous enough to get really stoned, take Adam Ahead of it. In other words people say well I take Adam and then I take LSD an hour and a half later or I take psilocybin an hour halfway. Well, I think that these are…
…and more heroic doses. I also and I invite experimenters to try this at the moment there is so much attention directed toward Adam that the morphogenetic field of Adam is so strong that if you will take psilocybin you can request it to masquerade as…
…and I invite experimenters to try this at the moment there is so much attention directed toward Adam that the morphogenetic field of Adam is so strong that if you will take psilocybin you can request it to masquerade as Adam and it will immediately turn…
…toward Adam that the morphogenetic field of Adam is so strong that if you will take psilocybin you can request it to masquerade as Adam and it will immediately turn over and be Adam for you. And I don't think Adam can do the same trick going the other…
…Adam is so strong that if you will take psilocybin you can request it to masquerade as Adam and it will immediately turn over and be Adam for you. And I don't think Adam can do the same trick going the other way. Well, do you mind if I talk? I mean…
…take psilocybin you can request it to masquerade as Adam and it will immediately turn over and be Adam for you. And I don't think Adam can do the same trick going the other way. Well, do you mind if I talk? I mean please do join the conversation now.…