c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…of the golden dawn. Well then the golden dawn fell into schism largely due to polarities set up in the organization by Crowley, who some people let me just interrupt you for one second. Well the golden dawn was part of the pre raphaelite movement.…
…magic and sexuality and whether these were legitimate paths to experiment with. And the straighter people stuck with the golden dawn and Crowley and his crowd broke from it and established the order of dilemma and it had other names. And then in the 20s…
…alive at that time and psychedelics created an interest in these things. Psychedelics were never embraced by the new age, although certainly Crowley was the drug user, a very cosmopolitan drug user, and people got scared of LSD and all this. They were now…
…these and of the group how much how many are English? None, they're all American They're all American. Gibson's Canadian you knew that yes, Crowley hang on. Now the other thing is: and then I'll hang up and kind of get your answer off the air. I called…
…has been sorted out over the last hundred years by generations of scholars, beginning with Freud and Jung and Blavatsky and Crowley and then coming up through all the folklorists and deconstructionists, as this thing has been teased apart it has become…