c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…accomplishments were not surpassed until around 250 AD. Then you get Diophantine mathematics, which anticipates the calculus, the hydraulics of Archimedes, a number of advances over so-called truly ancient science but really from 2700 to about AD 300 there is…
…The largest cycle that affects this planet is what's called the precession of the equinoxes. It was discovered by is it Archimedes. Anyway it was discovered in the second century before Christ in the West, I see that Kim Malville's group excavating in…
…some influence on the creation of the future more than other times in history and the bigger the jump, the bigger the leverage, where Archimedes said: give me a lever and I'll move the world. We have a lever now and we care about what's coming next. So…