c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…of these mystical Jews became then the doctrine of the immaculate conception and the whole notion of an immaculately conceived child. Christ is a type of Dionysius. I mean it's heresy to say so, but comparative religionists have been saying this for…
…were all kinds of religious impulses. Yeah, yes he said that these zealots were using Amanita muscaria as a sacrament and that Christ was a symbol of the mushroom so that they could refer to the mushroom without directly referring to it so that only…
…that has also re emerged in modern times is the eminence of the end of the world. And so for about 180 years after Christ or 150 years, everybody just was so stoned out on this rap that no serious organization got done and they just waited for the…
…Why did they mandaeanism? Well mandaeanism is a very old religion. It arose around Jerusalem in a couple of centuries before Christ. It was a baptismal cult and I'm really into the mandaeans actually they were the oldest continuous western religion in the…
…John the baptist as one of their own and he was a member of some kind of baptismal cult because we know he baptized Christ. But they were driven out of the area around Jerusalem and then for centuries they were in Lebanon and then they slowly made…
…because you will recall that after the crucifixion, this is a good place to end this is an alchemical story. After the crucifixion, Christ appeared to the apostles in the upper room in Jerusalem 40 days after, and Thomas was not there. I don't know where…
…was with us and he said: unless I put my hand into the wound I will not believe it. So then time passed and then Christ came again to the apostles, and Thomas was among them on this second get go. And Christ walked in and kicked off his overshoes…
…it. So then time passed and then Christ came again to the apostles, and Thomas was among them on this second get go. And Christ walked in and kicked off his overshoes and looked around the room and he said: Thomas, come forward, put your hand into the…
…people to believe in ufos permits them to believe in the eminent expectation of the second coming or, you know the Face of Christ appearing on tortillas and all of this stuff. Terrence, may I stop here for a second. Is there a lot of people still…
…tremendous challenge to science perhaps the ultimate challenge to it. It may be as confounding to science as the resurrection of Christ was to Greek Empiricism and roman imperialism. In other words the flying saucer is definitely an agent of cultural change.…
…I'm interested in rare and high dose experiences done with immense intentionality, you know in silent darkness, at effective doses. You know Christ said the lukewarm I vomit from my mouth and that's how I feel about people who chip away at psychedelics and…
…the trick, then the sermon on the mount would have been the turning of the corner. But we have buddha we have Christ we have these examples of enormously insightful spiritual beings who have delivered their message and humanity has continued to flop on…
…You all remember in the brothers karamasov the story that Ilya or one of them tells about how during the inquisition, Christ Miraculously appears on earth and he visits he goes to visit the grand inquisitor and then this convertisation takes place between…
…on earth and he visits he goes to visit the grand inquisitor and then this convertisation takes place between them and the inquisitor and Christ says: do you know who I am? And the inquisitor says: yes I know who you are. We don't want it, we've got…
…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…