c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…presidency, it was pretty racy stuff. And you get back to the late roman emperors. We haven't even got traction yet. Art. East of the Rockies, you're on the air with Terrance McKenna. Hello? Where are you, please? Westhaven, Connecticut. All right, fire…
…ask you a million questions. Well, card line, you're on the air with Terrence McKenna in Hawaii. Where are you, please? Hello, Art and Terrence. I'm Bob in K e s country, Verton, Oregon. Okay. Right. All these things we've been talking about tonight, I'd…
…Rockies, you're on the air with Terrence McKenna. Hi, where are you, please? Hi, this is Byron in Shreveport, Louisiana. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Art, I love this show. I just discovered you this month. I didn't know such a good thing was on the air late at…
…and who's paying for this production? First time caller line, you're on the air with Terrence McKenna. Hello? Hello, Terrence. Hello, Art. Hi. Well, you're weak. Too weak. Phone connections yell at us, sir. Oh, that's better. Okay, first of all, I want…
…full 2 hours. Now, I have not disagreed with a single word I've heard, except for perhaps what you said in the introduction. Art action. It was Tom Wolf's electric Kool aid acid test, Ken Kesey and the others on the bus. It's 10,000 hits of original…
…planet. And when the mandala is flipped over and you look through it into the future, conservation has been replaced by art. Art is the ultimate expression of this transformation of unorganized matter into ideas which human beings carry on. And we carry it…
…and we all consume and in those moments when we consume we are lost souls. We need to produce and what we produce is art. Art is the greatest era of art in the history of the human race is dawning right now. If we produce images and text from the…
…organization. We can communicate with aliens, but they will always come clothed in the human, in the stuff of the human imagination. Art is the process. Of downloading non local information into local space and now that we have understood this we can carry…
…it well will tell you art is something that you discover. You scrape the dirt off of it to find out what's underneath. Art is some kind of message from the unconscious and when you use psychedelics to break into that space then you see literally oceans…
…a psychedelic drug and they will come back with their eyes reopened, ready to do new business with the reality of the universe. Art and politics and religion and you know there must be some others are all very low voltage forms of pressure to push us…
…take in more or are there in fact states of mind and perceptual states that simply fall through the mesh of linguistic intent? Art, the cutting edge of art is in here somewhere I remember I haven't been able to find it for years, but somewhere in…
…inviting me to participate. It represents a real commitment to free speech and first amendment rights I think, for an art museum. Art museums have been taking some knocks recently and so I think they doubly should be commended for their courage. And I…
…encryption that our own lives represent each to ourselves but it's also a Rosetta Stone for uncoding the historical experience. Art is this endeavor to leave the animal domain behind, to create another dimension orthogonal to the concerns of ordinary history.…
…go to the new club over on Broad Street. And you can protest the Cleveland Indians while you're over there. Yay! And Art Beat, an art festival in Davis Square, Somerville, with lots of live music, dance, and children's activities, will be Saturday, July…
…is said, so shall it be, and so the tool of the revolutionaries at the end of the millennium is, to my mind, art. Art which connects people, which transcends the mundane and which empowers hope. And of course it can have many forms and occur in many…
…tundra and all that. I mean immense beauty and yet we seem to have a very hard time translating it into the design process. Art is, you know we haven't really talked that much about art in relationship to all this but the politics of the situation here…
…planet and when the mandala is flipped over and you look through it into the future, conservation has been replaced by art. Art is the ultimate expression of this transformation of unorganized matter into ideas which human beings carry on and we carry it…
…somebody like that. And then you know, the most puzzling one of all is you can say to the mushroom: okay, enough of surprises. Art deco, Italian Baroque, show me what you are for yourself. And then it's almost like you know there's a roll of drums and…
…domain of human creativity that, in fact, separating art from imagination is simply the exercise of separating cause from effect. Art, sculpture, poetry, painting, dance is like the footprint of where the imagination has been. And you know the abstract…
…should not be enslaved, it should not whore itself to the marketplace nor should it whore itself to the interior decoration industry. Art should set the agenda. I mean I suppose that's like saying there should be philosopher kings and yeah yeah of course.…
…minus performance so far and they're just about to reach out with the hook and grab us out of the hat pretty furiously. Art is poised for this but art is ambivalent because the society is ambivalent. That's why meetings like this where you actually hear…