c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…will admit that there's a problem, there's a crisis. This past week, there was a conference here called the holonomics conference. Carl Prebrom's theory of brain functioning, which is certainly state of the art and out there, but it just recently had to…
…will admit that there's a problem. There's a crisis. This past week, there was a conference here called the holonomics conference. Carl Prebrom's theory of brain functioning, which is certainly state of the art and out there, but it just recently had to…
…to talk to you west of the Rockies. You're on the air with Terrence McKenna. Oh you're up in Seattle, Aren't you right? It's Carl Up in Seattle, Carl what happened up there? Well you know I just turned on Como because I was you know thank god they…
…west of the Rockies. You're on the air with Terrence McKenna. Oh you're up in Seattle, Aren't you right? It's Carl Up in Seattle, Carl what happened up there? Well you know I just turned on Como because I was you know thank god they have redial buttons…
…social experiments with large numbers of drug users, and clinical medical work is being done there being done in Switzerland. Hans Carl Leuner is doing work. They have one they've been doing in Amsterdam where they take about 200 people, some are inmates,…
…do know, we should be excused for this defense of caution when taking to ourselves the visions which the Stropharia brings. Carl Jung's Mysterium conjunctionis reminds us of the reality of the situation that ensues once the psyche is hooked into making the…
…of perception, Joyce James, Finnegan's wake, London 1939. Ulysses Ditto, slightly earlier, yonch, Eric, the self organizing universe, Jung, Carl Gustav, flying saucers, a modern myth of things seen in the sky and mysterium functionis, New York 1963. Leibniz,…
…rock of ages, silent night, Rosemary Clooney and you know and I said no no Jackson Pollock, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Carl Yaspers, Martin Heidegger I didn't know what these things meant I just knew they were mantras that kept straight people away.…
…of modernity is just one big downer after another. If it's not Hannah Arendt on the triviality of evil, well then it's Carl Jaspers on something else, or Sartre. It's just horrible, horrible stuff. So I became aware through Huxley that there was this…
…people come apart on psychedelics I am you know if you're interested in this subject or if you share my sensitivity, read Carl Jung's little book called on the psychology of the transference, and then you will understand. In fact that should be a standard…
…science. They are not interested in investigating the kinky, the anecdotal, the possibly pathological. In preparation for this conference I reread Carl Jung's book published in 1954 called flying saucers a modern myth of things seen in the sky, and to my…
…about the soul as the ultimate tool. Another thing that, another idea that goes around in mystical circles is that and even actually Carl talks about this Carl is a historian is that one of the most important things we can do while we're alive? Is…
…the ultimate tool. Another thing that, another idea that goes around in mystical circles is that and even actually Carl talks about this Carl is a historian is that one of the most important things we can do while we're alive? Is develop a soul and…
…both social experiments with large numbers of drug users and clinical medical work is being done there being done in Switzerland. Hans Carl Leuner is doing work. Well they have one they've been doing in Amsterdam where they take about 200 people. Some are…
…he would have as litany of things that he would say so that he could come back and function. He would say: you know I'm Carl Lutz Dr Jung, my wife is so and so my children, I have this many children this many grandchildren he chills: yeah, uh huh.…
…want to talk to you west of the Rockies You're on the air with Terrence McKenna Oh you're up in Seattle Aren't you right? It's Carl Up in Seattle Carl what happened up there? Well you know I just heard on Como, because I was you know, thank god they…
…west of the Rockies You're on the air with Terrence McKenna Oh you're up in Seattle Aren't you right? It's Carl Up in Seattle Carl what happened up there? Well you know I just heard on Como, because I was you know, thank god they have redial buttons…
…single idea. I'll forswear the desire to rebut, I'll yield to the momentum of the program. I think I first heard of Carl years before I met him and it had nothing to do with his professional mathematical accomplishments, which are many, but a person…
…in collaboration with Gordon Watson, the famous ethnomycologist with whom I have worked in the research of Mexican plants and Carl Röck professor at Boston University who was a classical scholar specialized in Greek Ethnobotany. We published the results of…
…is physically. A strong vasoconstrictor ergot may have had a history of usage as a hallucinogen because Gordon Wass and Carl Rook and Albert Hoffman argued fairly persuasively that ergot, ergotized beer lay behind the hallucinian mysteries. As you probably…