Terence McKenna
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…this stuff from about 1795 through much of the 18th century. Not only the great names associated with it Coleridge and de Quincey, but Byron and Shelley all of these people dabbled in opium. Well what comes out of the English Romantic imagination's contact…
…of synesthesia through opium that created the first wave of opium addiction in literate English Society I mean Coleridge and de Quincey and these people were quite consciously trying to use drugs to create and push the definitions of art out further.…