c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…to turn your face away from magic because it's there in this one confined area. Now I don't know what's going on with Babaji and the Roshis and the rishis, and I suspect that what's going on is they're still spinning the bicycle wheel that was set…
…a giant snake. You can choose that path or you can just sweep up around the ashram for ten or 15 years and make sure that Babaji always has a bowl of brown rice at his elbow and he will lift you up and do the thing. And people say, well, I think…
…a bowl of brown rice at his elbow and he will lift you up and do the thing. And people say, well, I think I'll go with Babaji. I don't want to. And what it is is it's a fear of surrender. I hear you. And my concern is the original values are the…
…that together, lo and behold, you would think this would lead to cynicism because you say, well I went and I stayed with Babaji and he was a jackass and then you know I joined the unitarian uniformitarian unifunctionalists and that was just a scam and…
…is if you don't do it with drugs, it seems like there's always some weird beard personality in the picture you know Babaji or shri muckaround, hamarubi or lama so and so or sister somebody and these people are inevitably pathological. I mean wouldn't you…
…by a giant snake and choose that path or you can just sweep up around the ashram for 10 or 15 years and make sure that Babaji always has a bowl of brown rice at his elbow and he will lift you up and do the thing and people say well I think…
…a bowl of brown rice at his elbow and he will lift you up and do the thing and people say well I think I'll go with Babaji I don't want to and what it is is it's a fear of surrender. And I know I hear you and my concern is: the original values…
…want to do it either because they say it rends your aura and you know, redistributes your chi in unpleasant ways and in any way Babaji said not to and on and on and on and on and on. So it's, you know we are apparently that statistically favored few…
…people's ideas because all ideas are sort of on an equal footing. So you know I follow molecular biology, you follow Babaji, Somebody else is a kabbalist, somebody else worships their broker, and you're supposed to not criticize and it doesn't make any…
…this people grab me and assure me there are other ways to it and they say: you know if you just, I want you to meet Babaji. He's as good as psilocybin. Really, I want to meet this man because because I mean, I let me say a little bit more about…
…I'm willing to say just flat out: hell no. And you know people are shocked that yoga and flagellation and being touched by Babaji and whatever I don't know I tried it all. And the other thing is what I'm talking about you wouldn't want to happen…
…This is the way to get somewhere. You'll never get anywhere if you believe in stuff because it'll take you six months to work through Babaji and then you have to go on to somebody else and life is just not long enough to give all these guys a crack…
…that together, lo and behold, you would think this would lead to cynicism because you say: well I went and I stayed with Babaji and he was a jackass and then you know I joined the unitarian uniformitarian unifunctionalists and that was just a scam and…
…We are not talking about something like a dream. It is not like meditation. No you can't get there by yourself and Babaji is equally useless because you and Babaji are starting from the same place in this game. It requires pharmacological perturbation of…
…dream. It is not like meditation. No you can't get there by yourself and Babaji is equally useless because you and Babaji are starting from the same place in this game. It requires pharmacological perturbation of ordinary neurochemistry in order to see this…
…news about these psychedelic experiences is you don't have to go to India for 10 years, you don't have to be chosen by Babaji. This works for most people and would probably work for you and if you think the world has no surprises, if you think…
…little pieces of scripture to them, and so Khizr comes to people in their dreams or in vision, and in the Hindu Tradition Babaji is this man. So the story starts with a little, an ordinary man living in a small village on the Frontier of Afghanistan…
…House is a positively mundane possibility compared to this thing which is real. It's here, it's now. You don't have to go to Babaji, you don't have to go to the Himalayas. It's three tokes away. And yet you know we argue, is it possible? What does…
…is if you don't do it with drugs. It seems like there's always some weird beard personality in the picture you know Babaji or sri muckaround hamarubi or lama so and so, or sister somebody and these people are inevitably pathological. I mean, wouldn't you…
…by a giant snake. You can choose that path. Or you can just sweep up around the ashram for 10 or 15 years and make sure that Babaji always has a bowl of brown rice at his elbow and he will lift you up and do the thing and people say well I think…
…a bowl of brown rice at his elbow and he will lift you up and do the thing and people say well I think I'll go with Babaji I don't want to, and what it is is it's a fear of surrender. And I hear you and my concern is the original values or you…
…basically from a debunking point of view. In other words, not for me sweeping up at the ashram, not for me the ambiguities of Babaji and in India the tack which I always took with these people was: what can you show me? Anything, because talk is cheap,…
…that attitude, until reality forces them to think something else. I would much rather have that attitude than the attitude that Babaji is god or because I perform this particular ritual in this particular constellation I don't have to be a decent human…