c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…sound more and more hollow. Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is, is reclaiming your own experience. We expect Carl Sagan to explain it to us, or the evening news, and we don't realize all these people are just like we are. All…
…COVID of time. In other words, we want it to come down through the sanctioned machinery of truth making of our society. We want Carl Sagan to interrupt jeopardy. To announce that it's in fact true, you know, and then we would. Or we want it to land in…
…to sound more and more hollow. Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is, is reclaiming your own experience. We expect Carl Sagan to explain it to us or the evening news and we don't realize all these people are just like we are. All…
…the inorganic universe at large. And yet if you think about the life of the universe as we all have learned it from Carl Sagan you know that we all began as an infinitely small, dense hot dot but that didn't last long because there wasn't much going…
…spite of myself because the historical moment is so ripe for it and science would be the first to go, I mean Carl Sagan all these people would be lined up saying yes well we always knew the star density, the presence of biological molecules throughout…
…it's hard to get a scale on these things. Yeah I was wondering if you ever had the time rise to Stephen Hawking or Carl Sagan or people like that. Not to Stephen Hawking. Carl Sagan visited me once in Hawaii but he was more concerned to figure out…
…wondering if you ever had the time rise to Stephen Hawking or Carl Sagan or people like that. Not to Stephen Hawking. Carl Sagan visited me once in Hawaii but he was more concerned to figure out whether I really was talking to extraterrestrials on…
…somewhere and leave my home or something. And also, you know I have the certitude of megalomania. So you don't you don't need Carl Sagan to tell you you're right when you have megalomania, you just confidently sit back and wait for it all to blow your…
…turning point in that and we are going to see eventually hallucinogens taken seriously as an avenue for the other. The fact that Carl Sagan would come to see me in Hawaii just to make sure just to satisfy himself that it was in fact preposterous and…
…big bang, the asymptotic weirdness began to set in. It was interesting a few weeks ago I was visited in Hawaii by none other than Carl Sagan, and he had a number of things on his mind, but one of the things that he was at great pains to point out…
…connections going on in your brain than there are atoms in the universe. I mean you're getting I know I sound like Carl Sagan here. What's going to happen is a continual empowerment of the individual, an empowerment of the individual. And that's why some…
…big bang, the asymptotic weirdness began to set in. It was interesting a few weeks ago I was visited in Hawaii by none other than Carl Sagan, and he had a number of things on his mind, but one of the things that he was at great pains to point out…
…to be, except for this factor of embedded complexity, movement toward concrescence. I had an occasion to discuss this with Carl Sagan Recently, and it was interesting. He pointed out that information has not moved faster since the discovery of radio. Radio…
…then you know you'll find these places. The people who think life is all cut and dried and are perfectly happy to have Carl Sagan and George bush explain all of reality have never left the broad, Swift stream of mundane thinking. But you know off in…
…then you know you'll find these places. The people who think life is all cut and dried and are perfectly happy to have Carl Sagan and George bush explain all of reality have never left the broad, Swift stream of mundane thinking. But you know off in…
…is suitable. The obvious next great revelation in biology and it's strange that we can state it because once it's stated by Carl Sagan it will be headlines everywhere but it's obvious that in the same way that the Pacific ocean was a barrier to life's…
…secretary general of the United Nations. He will assemble time newsweek and the reporters from the economist they will get together with Carl Sagan and whoever and they will all explain it to all of us and then we will understand what's going on. This is…