c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…basically that the people he's talking to have read everything and have understood it. I mean, from Homer to Rabelais to Chaucer to Man magazine, he assumes you have a complete knowledge of modern film and popular print journalism and popular culture. All…
…either literature, such as the song from Love's labor lost by William Shakespeare, or the ballade de bon Consieux of Geoffrey Chaucer, or the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and then comment on it. And also visualization arts, because McLuhan really felt that the…
…Bosch is a kind of fossilization of the late medieval, its obsessions, its symbolic associations, many now lost except to Chaucer scholars and medievalists. And yet so the content, all these bizarre juxtapositions of symbolic animals and so forth, is…
…become everybody. A lamprey chimp, denier, wicker, the hero of Finnegan's wake. Here comes everybody. You know, you look here in East Chaucer, you look there in east Churchill, you just can't tell who this is. Somebody, yes. When you think of the year…
…basically, that the people he's talking to have read everything and have understood it. I mean, from Homer to Rabelais to Chaucer to Man magazine, he assumes you have a complete knowledge of modern film and popular print journalism and popular culture. All…
…of works of art, either literature, such as the song from Love's labor lost by William Shakespeare, or the ballade of Geoffrey Chaucer, or the rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne, and then comment on it, and also visual arts, because McLuhan really felt that the art…
…the hundred year war ended then Giotto is painting meister Eckhart is writing William of Ockham is formulating his philosophy, tamerlane, Chaucer, Wycliffe, so forth and so on, right there. So this is the full flowering of the middle ages. What's happening…
…went to public high schools my whole life and we studied beowulf, we memorized passages from t s Eliot's the wasteland, we read Chaucer. I mean I was educated. I have an excellent liberal education because of the colleges and high schools that I went to…
…on your own literacy. He assumes basically that you have read everything and have understood it from homer to Rabelais to Chaucer to mad magazine. He assumes you have a complete knowledge of modern film and popular print journalism and popular culture. All…
…art, either literature, such as the song from love's labor lost by William Shakespeare or the ballade Des Bons concius of Geoffrey Chaucer or the rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and then comment on it and also visual arts, because McLuhan really felt that the…
…basically that the people he's talking to have read everything and have understood it I mean from homer to Rabelais to Chaucer to mad magazine he assumes you have a complete knowledge of modern film and popular print journalism and popular culture. All…
…art, either literature, such as the song from love's labor lost by William Shakespeare or the ballade de bon concieux of Geoffrey Chaucer, or the rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and then comment on it and also visual arts, because McLuhan really felt that the…
…psychedelic experience is a new object for western languages. It will be very interesting to see what English the language of Milton Chaucer and Shakespeare will be able to do with the psychedelic experience. I mean my god in William Blake you get the…