c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…your summer house on Ibiza. It's nothing compared to the richness of the imagination. Not William Blake's imagination or Donatello or Caravaggio, but your imagination. There's more and better art in your head than is hanging on the walls of the great…
…angling toward it for 250 years from Pier della de Francesca and Duccio and that crowd on until they got actually to Caravaggio and the prospectivists. There was this sense of this thing breaking through, and then it crystallized. Well, I, having gone to…
…descending gradient is the Italian Renaissance, a cascade: first titian, then Leonardo, then Donatello no that's the new movie titian then Caravaggio, and then you know somebody else not in the new movie Galileo. Galileo is also on that same gradient. This…
…you can say of DMT, well it was like the sistine chapel altar, except that instead of the kind of light you get in Caravaggio or somebody like that there was a kind of oh you know the sort of thing Matthias Grunwald is doing in his resurrection where…
…if you know what you mean and speak precisely, I mean all these words have meaning. You know sistine chapel altar light like Caravaggio, modified as the way grunwald did and so forth and so on. So somehow by, and it's still an incredible flattening I…
…your summer house on ibiza. It's nothing compared to the richness of the imagination, not William Blake's Imagination or Donatello or Caravaggio, but your imagination. There's more and better art in your head than is hanging on the walls of the great…
…of in the Italian Renaissance is on that gradient. You know the early guys up here: fra Angelico and like that, Donatello, Caravaggio, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli the whole bit. And while all this art is being made don't forget all kinds of…
…meister Eckhart, St John of the cross, John Chrysostom, comparing the light falling into the folds of his trousers to the light of Caravaggio and Duccio and fra Angelico. And I was amazed I had never heard such carryings on. Well now, if you go back and…
…and say, well how come I'm not seeing a archetypes and b things which somebody else, you know I don't know Dali, Ensor, Caravaggio, Bosch, Somebody should have seen this stuff and gotten it down and there didn't seem to be a trail through the history of…
…experience by one school. That was a school where you listened to the bob b minor mass and looked at paintings by Caravaggio and Rembrandt and other scholars. And then the other school was the psychoanalytic. This is good for you even though you hated…
…an intuition. It's not clear to me that it's ever been exactly articulated as a philosophy but this is what the light of Caravaggio and you know the recessional distances of the brothers Van Eyck and you know turner and all of this stuff it's going into…
…and perfected and for me I think it's probably perfected in Jan Van Eyck, the altarpieces of the Van Eyck Brothers or Caravaggio or you know by the time you get to belafgev and the mannerists, something else is happening it's like they've overshot the…