c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…experience of a lot of people, well, that concept futuristic is itself fairly modern. I mean, as recently as 200 years ago, when Blake was writing, he didn't use the word future. He used the word futurity and said, you know, and in fact, far futurity so…
…Christ told Nicodemus. He said, I will come like a thief in the light. No man will know the moment of my coming. Blake talks about this. He says, though Satan's watch fiends shall see, search through all eternity for the moment, they will never find the…
…psychedelic experiences, our sexual epiphanies, our whatever it is that moves us. And I think really? Well, it's just what Blake said. Psychedelics are window washing equipment for cleansing the glass of perception that allows you to then perceive the world…
…establishment of a dialogue that might diffuse the accelerating mad moves toward extinction. My personal philosophy might well be lifted directly from Blake: I must create a system or be slaved by another man. I may be wrong, but I must do what I must…
…and they're recongnitioning each other. And it's a really beautiful thing. There's a book coming out soon where he illustrates a book by Blake where they talk about it and he'll show it. But the thing that's most wonderful about it is when you look at…
…often think how much deeper and richer American Environmentalism would be if people would read their Emerson I mean Emerson is the American Blake in a sense, and Melville comes out of that. But there is a moment in which the first mate I'm sorry, the…
…that were part of our shamanic heritage millennia ago. So freedom has become basically a project in the blakean imagination. Blake called it the divine imagination. We now dream of transcending the constraints of matter, space, time and energy themselves. I…
…Christ told Nicodemus. He said: I will come like a thief in the night. No man will know the moment of my coming. Blake talks about this. He says, though satan's watch fiends shall search through all eternity for the moment they will never find the…
…psychedelic experiences, our sexual epiphanies, our whatever it is that moves us. And I think really well it's just what Blake said: psychedelics are window washing equipment for cleansing the glass of perception that allows you to then perceive the world…
…the discovery of the astronomical movements of the solar system, the wheel, all mechanical invention, all comes out of the imagination what Blake called the divine imagination. And if that is true, then for us to not use these psychedelics and to not build…
…don't understand what these psychedelic substances are. They open the doorway to creativity, they cleanse the doors of perception and then as Blake said, reality is perceived as it truly is, as infinite part of what is wrong with our society and hence with…
…I want people to relate to and feel the power of an unseen world, but I call it the imagination. I mean I'm with Blake there he called it the divine imagination. I think that the most interesting part of human beings is the imagination. I mean what is…
…interference, new properties become emergent and the entire thing complexifies. Well to my mind this is the divine imagination. This is what Blake called it this is the only way I can conceive of it. Time is the theater of god's becoming but it's also,…
…the role that's what I said to the idea I said you know just don't talk about it, let's do it let's do it. Well you know Blake said a wonderful thing. He said if I can get it right, if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be…
…but really attention to attention and appreciation of the immediate I always think when this comes up of William Blake's Advice. Blake was as you know a great mystical visionary English poet who spoke with angels and had these wonderful visions of the…
…the top of the trip. That works. But I will defend my obsession with vision. I think the world wants to be seen. I think Blake was right that the divine imagination is something beheld and for me the visions are the proof that this is not my mind and…
…smoke black Bombay hash. That works. But I will defend my obsession with vision. I think the world wants to be seen. I think Blake was right that the divine imagination is something to be held and for me the visions are the proof that this is not my…
…that were part of our shamanic heritage millennia ago. So freedom has become basically a project in the blakean imagination. Blake called it the divine imagination. We now dream of transcending the constraints of matter, space, time and energy themselves. I…
…our psychedelic experiences, our sexual epiphanies, our whatever it is that moves us and I think really well it's just what Blake said: psychedelics are window washing equipment for cleansing the glass of perception that allows you to then perceive the world…
…Christ told Nicodemus. He said: I will come like a thief in the night. No man will know the moment of my coming. Blake talks about this. He says, though satan's watch fiends shall search through all eternity for the moment, they will never find the…
…of interference, new properties become emergent and the entire thing complexifies. Well to my mind this is the divine imagination this is what Blake called it this is the only way I can conceive of it that Rupert and I were chatting last night in our…
…And to my mind this is what these psychedelics achieve. As Huxley said, they dial open the valve of consciousness or as Blake implied, the window of perception is cleansed and then you see through into an infinite holographic recursive world of mind and…
…the ruling priests of the church and in India I think something similar may have happened. The priests always want people like Blake says the priesthood abstracts the deities and says: we have a special relationship to this deity and we're the ones, we're…
…understand what these psychedelic substances are. They open the doorway to creativity they cleanse the doors of perception and then as Blake said, reality is perceived as it truly is, as infinite. Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with…
…of enochian can tell you is the enochian word for nothingness, friends, ha ha ha ha. A jaw dropper. So it's very interesting. Blake spoke with angels. He was the flower of English Poetry at a certain point in time. Dee spoke with angels he was the…
…dreams, our advertising, our waking fantasy, our art, our mathematics, everything is contorted by the attraction of this transcendental object. Blake talked about this kind of thing. Anyway now let's go in a little closer because, well, to human, basically,…
…break through on your own an ordinary person, to a place that verrucchio never saw Michelangelo Didn't anticipate it yates didn't know, Blake Hadn't a clue, Melville Wasn't briefed. And yet there it is. You know and this is to me as an intellectual it…
…we can get to hard wired telepathy. You know honest, straight talk that draws from as deep as it can and a search for well. Blake said this thing let's see if I can get it right. He said the truth, if it is told so that it is understood, must…