c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…me at all times but there were no real psychedelics but the butterflies and I really was sort of retracing the steps of Alfred Wallace, who was the person who discovered evolution, and I sort of felt although I'm not given to past life ism or any of…
…half months. We waited five weeks for a boat at a place called Arica on the putumayo, which is hell on earth. When Alfred Russell Wallace was there in the 1800s he described the black fly as being so dense that it would sometimes blot out the sun and…
…usually with a broad education gets it, you know I mean it happened to Einstein: he was a telegrapher. It happened to Alfred Russell Wallace: he was a surveyor who couldn't make a living and so he went to Indonesia to collect butterflies for the British…
…and you know the co discoverer of evolution who, if I believed in reincarnation I would claim him as my own, Alfred Russell Wallace, was unable to agree with Darwin and he said: no that accounts for minor change in organisms, natural selection but how…
…trying to figure it out but they didn't quite have it. And then it crystallized in the minds of certain people. For Alfred Russell Wallace, who is the real discoverer of natural selection, it sort of relates to our theory of creativity. He had malaria on…
…I hope you like the first part of the answer yeah, we can't all be Stanley, you know we can't all be Alfred Russell Wallace, we can't all be Bjorn Borg. So people opt for vicarious sensation. I don't know where this is going because the technologies…
…American Landscape. And this question of the telos in nature was to make lifelong friends into enemies and sunder families. Alfred Russell Wallace, who was the co discoverer of evolution with Darwin, really preceded him. He had a fever he was a professional…