c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…play is about us. And so our struggles to attain justice and decency among ourselves are not simply a why not? Proposition, as Camus thought, but in fact, somehow the tone of the universal process is cast by human decision. I remember when I was a kid…
…was such a case going into it. I mean, if you had known me when I was 19 years old, I was into Jean Paul Sartre, Alfred Camus, Marxism, Freud. I was a jerk and I came down from it and I said, I can't believe it. That was all I could say for…
…I remember this from my own intellectual journey when I was 14 15 and 16. The world looked very bleak and so I read Camus and Sartre and the lesser lights of that dreary French Existential school. And because it was true, you had to come to terms with…
…was such a case going into it. I mean if you had known me when I was 19 years old I was into jean Paul Sartre, Alfred Camus, Marxism, Freud. I was a jerk and I came down from it and I said I can't believe it that was all I could say. For about…
…what it is. And I, as I said I was raised Catholic. I spent a huge amount of time desacralizing myself reading Camus and Sartre and Nietzsche and Husserl and Merleau Ponty and positivists, and dabbled in marxism and was a hardcore materialist. But life…
…you lift the veil then the screaming elf hordes come bounding in and when I did it I was a fan of Sartre and Camus and jean genet and situationalism, all this weird kind of European 20th century spun down, tired out stuff. I was not a believer in…
…these places was as orthodox as you can imagine. I mean it went from a Catholic upbringing to an embracing of Sartre, Camus, Artaud, all those modern people in black leather and darkness who are putting out the European line. And I discovered, and it…
…really took my first trip and I was trying to figure it out. Shopping in the supermarket of ideas of the time, reading Camus, reading Nietzsche, reading Sartre, and all these people are a huge downer as any of you know who've read them. The entire tone…
…I remember this from my own intellectual journey when I was 14 15 and 16. The world looked very bleak and so I read Camus and Sartre and the lesser lights of that dreary French Existential school. And because it was true, you had to come to terms with…
…was such a case going into it. I mean if you had known me when I was 19 years old I was into jean Paul Sartre, Alfred Camus, Marxism, Freud I was a jerk. And I came down from it and I said I can't believe it. That was all I could say for about…