c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…our tendency to denigrate ourselves, to see the world in terms of the great ones, not here, whoever they are. Aristotle, Madonna, Jesus, whatever. Your particular bent is the overcoming of neurosis, of unhappiness, of toxic lifestyles, is the felt presence…
…just sick of their governments. So what I want to say about this is that for the first time since the Greeks advanced, Aristotle used the five basic solids to explain the structure of the universe. There are new mathematical cards on the table which seem…
…you never got a second shot. And everybody in the greek world would go at some point in their life, Plato, Aeschylus, Aristotle, the whole gang, everybody had this experience. And at the center of it. Something was drunk and something happened. And there's…
…you never got a second shot and everybody in the Greek world would go at some point in their life Plato Aeschylus Aristotle the whole gang everybody had this experience and at the center of it something was drunk and something happened and there's been…
…past looking for a stable model and finally they reached the golden age of periclean Athens, and there they found Plato, Aristotle, the dramatist so forth and they created classicism. Now notice that we're talking here about the 1400s. Classicism was brought…
…you never got a second shot, and everybody in the Greek world would go at some point in their life. Plato, Aeschylus, Aristotle, the whole gang, everybody had this experience and at the centre of it something was drunk and something happened and there's…
…that gives us permission to deny the invisible world, you know who founded the philosophy of rational materialism? Any takers? Aristotle was early I think I'd give credit to rené Descartes for modern materialism and rationalism. Well, you know who told…
…as the lower level field. It sort of intervibrates with it. And then that can be included in animals within what Aristotle called the animal soul, which is the organizing principle of instincts and movements, which organizes and coordinates the activities of…
…the relationship of ergotized beer or mushrooms to the eleusinian mysteries which put their stamp on the thinking of Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus Aristophanes, the whole pantheon of Greek Thinkers? And then you see in cold Europe a cultural aberration arose,…
…looking for a stable model and finally they reached the golden age of periclean Athens, and there they found Plato, Aristotle, the dramatists, so forth and they created classicism. Now notice that we're talking here about the 1400s. Classicism was brought…
…that gives us permission to deny the invisible world. You know who founded the philosophy of rational materialism any takers? Aristotle was early. I think I'd give credit to rené Descartes for modern materialism and rationalism. Well you know who told…