c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…least throughout the 20th century and the late 19th century. Pataphysics, for example, which was a french art movement started by Alfred Jarry and his friends. And, you know, in 1888, Lantreman stole. Strolled the streets of Paris with a lobster on a…
…his friends. And, you know, in 1888, Lantreman stole. Strolled the streets of Paris with a lobster on a leash. And Alfred Jarry made casts of his erections and displayed them prominently in his apartment. I mean, these people were tweakers, there's no…
…of burning flesh in the air. And it was clear that the ideals of the Enlightenment were not going to serve people like Alfred Jarry in 1885, and Lantrema, who said that he thirsted for the kind of beauty that arises when a bicycle meets a sewing…
…a revivifying of the archaic, and this has been sensed for over a hundred years. I mean people like l entremont and Alfred Jarry in the arts, and Lobachevsky and Riemann in mathematics and of course Einstein in the early years of this century all of…
…this all you know I mean it's fun to try and find various break points. I mean was it Tim Leary, was it Alfred Jarry, was it l entremont, was it the French Symbolists, or? I've been thinking about this a lot recently. I think that what's popularly…
…which I see reaching clear back to the birth of the 20th century and 19th century back to people like Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire and the pataphysicians, the surrealists the physicists around Einstein, Freud, Modern art, modern dance, jazz, all of…
…the emotions set the stage then for what? I take to be the truly shamanic movements in art which begin really with Alfred Jarry in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Jarry, you may remember, was the founder of something called the école Du Pataphysique, the…
…to be the truly shamanic movements in art which begin really with Alfred Jarry in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Jarry, you may remember, was the founder of something called the école Du Pataphysique, the pataphysical college. Jarry announced pataphysics is…
…and early 1890s. Jarry, you may remember, was the founder of something called the école Du Pataphysique, the pataphysical college. Jarry announced pataphysics is the science. The problem was nobody could understand what it meant or what it stood for,…
…Jarry announced pataphysics is the science. The problem was nobody could understand what it meant or what it stood for, including Jarry. Jarry was tight with l entremont who, you may recall, said: I am fascinated with that kind of beauty that arises…
…Jarry announced pataphysics is the science. The problem was nobody could understand what it meant or what it stood for, including Jarry. Jarry was tight with l entremont who, you may recall, said: I am fascinated with that kind of beauty that arises when…
…this all you know I mean it's fun to try and find various break points. I mean was it Tim Leary, was it Alfred Jarry? Was it l entrement? Was it the French Symbolists? Or? I've been thinking about this a lot recently. I think that what's popularly…
…or that it was invented in the 60s. It reaches at least back to the late 19th century. I mean people like Alfred Jarry and rené Clair and Marcel Duchamp and these people. They were enunciating long before Freud and Jung the presence of the unconscious…
…I see reaching clear back to the birth of the 20th century and the 19th century, back to people like Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire and the pataphysicians, the surrealists, the physicists around Einstein, Freud, Modern art, modern dance, jazz all of…
…I see reaching clear back to the birth of the 20th century and the 19th century, back to people like Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire, and the pataphysicians, the surrealists the physicists around Einstein Freud, Modern art, modern dance, jazz, all of…
…worked out by 1927 or 1928 I would say. I mean those people, the pataphysicians, the quantum physicists, the dadaists, the surrealists, Alfred Jarry, André breton it was all worked out. And those of us who were born after that time and have come into…