c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…historical process but there was the transcendental object mapped into it and all of its sub reflections could be seen. This is what Christ was about this is what buddha was about this is what your most enlightened moment was about you, each of you and…
…that by the fall of our first parents and we can be redeemed this is I'm giving you the Christian rap we can be redeemed through Christ, but we don't deserve it. It is. If you are saved, it is because there is a kind of a hand extended to you from…
…one of the fathers of the early church one of the patristic writers, that's that generation of theologians that followed Christ who canonized the Christian Religion and he placed Hermes Trismegistus as older than moses, older than Pythagoras, Older than…
…was looking at the stars and it occurred to him these things are suns these little points of light are like the sun, jesus Christ, and in a single moment the universe became infinite and he said: if these are suns and he just, you know his mind was…
…of a change. Not that we're bringing back the 1960s, that's not it it's that we're bringing back the 15th millennium before Christ. That's what we're shooting for, and everything leading up to this has been prelude. We are like the prodigal son. I'm sure…
…and I have no love for Christianity Either but I'll tell a Christian story. This is what I got out of the gospels. Christ appeared several times in the upper room after the crucifixion to the apostles. The first time he appeared the apostle Thomas was…
…no no he was here and he said: unless I put my hand into the wound, I will not believe it. So time passed and Christ came again to the upper room and he was there among the other apostles. And Christ said Thomas come forward, put your hand into the…
…will not believe it. So time passed and Christ came again to the upper room and he was there among the other apostles. And Christ said Thomas come forward, put your hand into the wound. And he did, and he did. Now the conclusion that I draw from this…
…from this story is: alone of all human beings in human history, Thomas the doubter touched the incorporeal resurrected body of Christ. Only the doubter was allowed that privilege for everybody else you know the show and I just take that absolutely…
…saw this years ago in DMT flashes and lo and behold, a thorough inspection of Philo Judeus, who lived contemporary with jesus Christ and was an alexandrine jew who wrote volumes of commentary on the religions of his era. Philo Judeus talks about what he…
…kind of boil, the confounding would occur. This is a similar idea, right and he suggested that perhaps the career of Christ was an earlier confounding where roman techne and roman militarism and all these things was unseated by a peculiar religion which…
…of the resurrection on roman imperialism and the myths that are building are like the messianic myths that preceded the appearance of Christ and what they are of is of an intervention by a hyper intelligent entity that comes from the stars and reveals the…
…And some of you who are students of the ancient literature may know Philo Judeus, hellenistic alexandrine jew, absolute contemporary of Christ born before, died after, and in one of his treatises on the logos which he was always talking about, Philo Judeus…
…when you're a demiurge who can hurry okay go ahead okay. So the time splitting event had to do with the career of Christ, who was an extraordinary manifestation of energy in the historical time stream, not to be confused with a buddha or a Mohammed or…
…and this other place came into being without having any awareness, and they were identical at that moment these two worlds now Christ had no children. So oh what I forgot to say was that the event, the fractal soliton of improbability, has this quantum…
…the same, except that in one of them the immaculate conception had not taken place or the resurrection had not taken place. Now because Christ had no children. In the world in which he was absent, it was not a genetic line which was missing, it was an…
…of civilization than the one that we inherited. I've always thought you know that Christianity, Without making any judgment about Christ himself, that Christianity is hands down the single most reactionary force in all of human history and where would we…
…hang up so I don't put it down. I always think of the apostle Thomas, because you'll recall Thomas was not present when Christ returned. When he rose from the grave, he appeared to the apostles in the upper room and Thomas was not present. Then later…
…here and it was wonderful and he said: people have been smoking too many little brown cigarettes that's preposterous. And at that point Christ walked in and he said: he said Thomas come put your hand into the wound so that you'll believe. And so he did…
…claimed to be that branch of original Christian Intentionality that drew itself around John the baptist. They were a baptismal cult pre Christ, but just like 40 years before and they then in the diaspora. They were in Lebanon for a long time and they…