c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…original experiment took place. Among those witoto who stopped to exchange a word or watch me collecting insects was a sturdy older man named Demetrius. In my excited state of mind the letters d m and t seemed to stand out in his name like a beacon. As…
…in a little leaf packet. I was never able personally to obtain a. The karolinska institute confirmed the presence of dimethyltryptamine. Demetrius had been as good as his word. By the time that life at la charrera had actually carried us through November…
…huitoto what is your name? I had about a 30 word huitoto vocabulary. So I asked this guy what was his name and he answered Demetrius. And I digested this and the letters d m t stood out very prominently in his name. So I just figured: look you know…
…Stockholm at Schulte's Suggestion. And it was analyzed and it came back it did have DMT in it. And so I realized, you know Demetrius had been as good as his word, but it was like sort of this weird inconclusive thing because we had never met the…