c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…scientific revolution. Because what you'll learn there, to your amazement, is that these great intellectual breakthroughs like Newton and Einstein and Planck and so forth, they don't come out of careful examination of the evidence and conservative adumbration…
…was essentially parodied to death by, guess what media they made of him. Him, an icon of cultural incomprehensibility. Not since Einstein has somebody, have you been so preprogrammed in advance to believe you ain't going to understand this guy. And that's…
…I heard Tim Leary recently say, all natural laws are simply local ordinance. There's truth to that. The problem is, I think Einstein beat into it. So to my mind, the way in which the psychedelic experience transcends the therapeutic dimension is that it…
…you're proposing a revolution in physics based on a chinese oracle, is that right? You're suggesting that we should Chuck Newton and Einstein based on a 3000 year old fortune telling book, is that right? Not exactly. The I ching. My interest in it was…
…tents at Ulm in southern Germany, which, strangely enough, keep your eye on those coincidences, folks, would be the birthplace of Einstein some centuries later. But anyway, they pitched their tents at Ulm. And Descartes, who was not the mature philosopher of…
…cars, more investments. Because if we're going to, if you chop the population of the world in half, you don't have to be Einstein to see that everybody generally is going to have twice as much disposable stuff here. I have a couple of undigested plots…
…duration. Think of it as a perfectly smooth surface. The only modification to this doctrine in the past 500 years is Einstein came along 100 years ago and said in the presence of massive gravitational fields this perfect smoothness is slightly distorted…
…essentially parodied to get to death by, guess what media they made of him. An icon of cultural incomprehensibility. Not since Einstein has somebody, have you been so preprogrammed in advance to believe you ain't going to understand this guy. And that's…
…time is made of elements. It is not simply an event space, something required for things to have duration. You see, before Einstein, space was thought of as the place where you put things. The necessary adumbration of a thing having being was that it…
…was thought of as the place where you put things. The necessary adumbration of a thing having being was that it be in space. Einstein came along and said, no, time can be thought of as a surface, as a continuum, as something which in and of itself can…
…we've been talking about. This has now emerged as the paradigmatic notion in astrophysics after being resisted for 50 years if Einstein played with the idea, called it his biggest blunder and dumped it but now observational astrophysics is forcing them to…
…to make a long thing out of this but well in newton it's described as pure duration, in other words perfect flatness. Then Einstein comes along and he says: well, no in the presence of massive gravitational objects space time has a very smooth and slight…
…in physical thought having to do with space for instance, in newtonian physics space is simply where you put things and then Einstein comes along and says: no space has properties of curvature and you have to specify these properties at any given point in…
…b will result again. Never possible to prove that. Oh I know this is a paradox. Yes see space was thought to be before Einstein a dimension in which you put things. When you had something that you had to put somewhere you put it in space and space…
…you had something that you had to put somewhere you put it in space and space was visualized as somehow analogous to emptiness. But Einstein pointed out that space is a thing which has a torque or a. It is affected by objects in other words from an…
…space will be because the space through which it travels is space is a thing is a thing and this was part of what the Einstein thing was about but not the major part. Now what we're proposing in in a nutshell is the time which was also previously a…
…haven't announced a definitive set of equations yet but there's a lot of progress happening in this field. That's really what Einstein was trying to do. Well that's a unified field theory where you're trying to bring gravitation and magnetism into agreement…
…of our calculations it's fairly near or there'll be a near miss fairly near the last time it came around was the relativity thing Einstein and all those people that was the last. We entered a new epoch then and we will enter another one soon and but…
…years. I mean people like l entremont and Alfred Jarry in the arts, and Lobachevsky and Riemann in mathematics and of course Einstein in the early years of this century all of these people were anticipating aspects of this archaism. And so was Freud, and…
…different it's the idea that time is a medium like space, not an abstraction and notice that space was an abstraction until Einstein, who demonstrated that it was a medium that it could impart curvature to light and so forth and so on. I'm suggesting…
…it seemed to concentrate in those places and it was because the seeds were being discarded there. So at some point a lady Einstein of the high paleolithic put it together and it's interesting, this has to do with the conquest of the temporal dimension in…
…a and b resulted does not mean that whenever one does a that b will be the result. This cannot be proven. Before Einstein, Space was thought to be a dimension where one put things. Space was visualized as somehow analogous to emptiness. But then Einstein…
…Einstein, Space was thought to be a dimension where one put things. Space was visualized as somehow analogous to emptiness. But then Einstein pointed out that space is a thing which has torque and is affected by objects, in other words, from an idea, a…
…things? I could only wonder now mother and possibly lots of dead people will be showing up soon. Young he will doubtless come and Einstein too and by god I want to hear what they have to say. We were embracing each other and laughing. I felt as though…
…You know what general relativity says I said the world was made of language. I just happened to be reading a paper the Einstein Minkowski, Whoop de doo today and what Einstein said was: everything is a product of the curvature of space time. There are…
…world was made of language. I just happened to be reading a paper the Einstein Minkowski, Whoop de doo today and what Einstein said was: everything is a product of the curvature of space time. There are no electrons, there are no magnetic fields these…
…figured out how to actually do this, how to go beyond the gedanken experiment into a workbench test. This is also called the Einstein Podolsky Rosen effect but you probably don't need to worry about that. And he did the experiment. And lo and behold it…
…revolutions, and what you discover there is that the great breakthroughs in science are always revelations. This is how it worked for Einstein. This is how it worked for kekule, the guy who conceived of the benzene ring and threw open the doors to organic…
…guy who conceived of the benzene ring and threw open the doors to organic chemistry. It came to him in a dream and Einstein said that he would pass into these trance like states, and then he would see this. Indeed the entire enterprise of modern science…
…and 19th century back to people like Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire and the pataphysicians, the surrealists the physicists around Einstein, Freud, Modern art, modern dance, jazz, all of this stuff is an effort to reclaim the primitive, to reclaim the…
…newton called pure duration, and the only adjustment of that idea that's ever taken place in the scientific canon is that Einstein added the very slight caveat that in the presence of massive magnetic fields, the space time continuum became very, very…
…not and so novelty theory. But novelty theory needs an equation to go up to the great simulacra of true science with newton and Einstein and Huygens and Maxwell and those people. And so over the past 20 years I've tried to do this and I've produced a…
…You know it's mine, I invented it but I can't defend it in academic mathematical terms. I don't think of myself as Einstein, Certainly, but there is a story about Einstein that after he published the general theory of relativity a physicist named Hermann…
…can't defend it in academic mathematical terms. I don't think of myself as Einstein, Certainly, but there is a story about Einstein that after he published the general theory of relativity a physicist named Hermann Bondi launched a furious attack on it and…
…published the general theory of relativity a physicist named Hermann Bondi launched a furious attack on it and Niels Bohr went to Einstein. And he said: Bondi is saying all these things he's publishing all these papers what are you going to do about it?…
…if everyone decides to look like a tennis coach then what happened to? How is this freedom and how can we expect to get an Einstein and an Andy Warhol and a William Burroughs and a mick jagger and so forth out of a world where everybody is the same?…
…that these things were expanding, it was unexpected no theory demanded it and yet you know it appears to be incontrovertibly true. Einstein in the 30s played around with this idea and he produced at one point in his career what he called the cosmological…
…to be and it gives us a universe which once born expands forever. So that was a big support for novelty theory. Why did Einstein abandon that? It was felt that it was not necessary. In other words it was felt that and it hypothesizes a force, you see…
…it is featureless and perfectly smooth, probabilistically persisted up until 1905 when there were minor adjustments made in it by Einstein who added the caveat that in the presence of massive gravitational bodies the perfectly smooth surface is given a very,…
…points of space and time. The magic of it is that the two particles are going each at the speed of light, therefore defying Einstein, and it forces the non local view. Yes the change occurs with zero time, no matter how far apart these particles are at…
…since we were at uxmal. It's probably as enormous a revolution in human thought as the revolution wrought by newton or by Einstein. But it has just happened. It has not yet been passed down through the mills of information redaction that hand the truths…
…of this and rejected it before. Well it turns out, when you go back into the history of 20th century physics that Einstein, of all people, had worried about. He felt that general relativity. He didn't like this idea of the universe collapsing back on…
…challenge you as we look at the 20th century, where are the ideas that the psychedelic community can lay clear claim to? Was Einstein loaded? Was Marx, was Freud? Were the people who fractionated DNA the first time? Were the people who went to the moon?…
…theory more worth developing. And the question is: is the field connection in quantum non locality and Bell's Theorem and the Einstein Rosen Podolsky Paradox that kind of quantum non locality related to morphic resonance? Are they two aspects of the same…
…and he was essentially parodied to death by guess what media. They made of him an icon of cultural incomprehensibility. Not since Einstein has somebody have you been so pre programmed in advance to believe you ain't going to understand this guy. And that's…
…ufos were seen, it was a weird world. The explosion of the atom bomb, the work toward the hydrogen bomb. People didn't know Einstein and Truman and all this they didn't know what it really meant. They thought that it is conceivable that the solar system…
…theory more worth developing. And the question is: is the field connection in quantum non locality in Bell's Theorem and the Einstein Rosen Podolsky Paradox that kind of quantum non locality related to morphic resonance? Are they two aspects of the same…
…understood what time is. A hundred years ago we were at such a primitive stage of culture that we didn't understand what time was. Einstein had to come along and say: you know time is not an abstraction necessary to have a place to put objects that you…
…of intelligence is without precedent in the organic world. I mean where are you going to get Milton? Where are you going to get Einstein? Where are you going to get bach and Duccio and all the REST of the gang out of a world of hummingbirds, chipmunks…
…said about this is your definition of progress things progress toward a higher level of integration mm-hmm so the urgent desire of Einstein and other physicists for a unified field theory is an expression of the universal urge for progress and here we have…
…and so on. Well this was rejected by the mechanists of the 17th century. It was introduced in the 1920s by Einstein, once again in the form of the gravitational field an invisible organizing principle that holds together the whole universe, keeps the…
…realize that space is not simply where you put things. That's how space is treated in newtonian dynamics and up until Einstein, It's just the necessary dimension for three dimensional description. But then Einstein said: well no no space is a thing affected…
…space is treated in newtonian dynamics and up until Einstein, It's just the necessary dimension for three dimensional description. But then Einstein said: well no no space is a thing affected by magnetic fields torqued in the nearby vicinity of a star and…
…sitting around making sense of things is quite preposterous. I mean we are still waiting for newton, let alone for Maxwell and Einstein. We are not prehistory, except on the highest level. So this intensification will occur. Now what is it leading to? This…
…by mid September was camped near the town of Ulm in Southern Germany. Now by a strange coincidence, Ulm is the birthplace of Einstein some hundreds of years later. But on the night of September 16th Descartes had a dream and in this dream an angel…
…different members of the family that make it happen that's where the activity is. But in a quantum field like in the Einstein Rosen Podolsky thing like if you measure the polarization of this photon here and immediately the other one has the opposite…
…he was essentially parodied to death by guess what media. They made of him an icon of cultural incomprehensibility. Not since Einstein has somebody have you been so pre programmed in advance to believe you ain't gonna understand this guy and that's what…
…that time is made of elements. It is not simply an event space, something required for things to have duration. You see before Einstein, Space was thought of as the place where you put things the necessary adumbration of a thing having being was that it…
…was thought of as the place where you put things the necessary adumbration of a thing having being was that it be in space. Einstein came along and said: no time can be thought of as a surface, as a continuum, as something which in and of itself can…
…Okay well that in itself is a measure of the kind of society we're living in because to my mind, more important than Einstein or Schrodinger or any of those people was Kurt Gödel, German Mathematician and he began by studying the calculus and he had a…
…will always be a residuum of mystery and we need to come to terms with this. I mean it's taken us 80 years to get Einstein under our belts and that's a simple notion compared to what gödel is saying because what he's saying is not about you know the…
…similarities, you see in a way one is a reflection of the other. Okay within the 20th century this is somewhere like 1903. Einstein was in 1905 the general theory, I think which came first the general or the special special came first in 1905 and the…
…fractal, that instead of treating time as a zero quantity as the newtonian equations do or as a very gentle curvature as the Einstein Equations do that we have to sub in this fractal dimension and that this will make possible a science as more powerful…
…tem nada a ver com horários. Bem, Estamos. Tentando fazer o Que Podemos. Você sabe, doutor, sim o tempo biológico é o Que Einstein Chama De excite. O tempo subjetivo é o Seu Tempo interno e você nunca tem consenso. Todo Mundo Está criando Seu Próprio…
…mind back to the ambiance of 1947. The atom bomb was in 1945, the defeat of Germany. The h bomb was under development. Einstein was advising Truman. I mean people were on the brink of things they could not understand. Nobody knew what the h bomb really…
…center of the field and somewhat at loose ends but usually with a broad education gets it, you know I mean it happened to Einstein: he was a telegrapher. It happened to Alfred Russell Wallace: he was a surveyor who couldn't make a living and so he went…
…was something which you had to have if you wanted to put something somewhere. So it was a kind of an abstract plenum. But Einstein showed that space is actually some kind of thing. It has properties of thing dom. It is distorted in the presence of a…
…view of space was that it was if you wanted to put something somewhere so it was a kind of an abstract plenum. But Einstein showed that space is actually some kind of thing it has properties of thing dom it is distorted in the presence of a large…
…Envelopes which will contain exactly the kind of thing you're talking about: people's creative work in progress, theories of the universe, why Einstein went wrong, why evolution should be understood in a new way. I have a stack too. It has insights on a…
…that we've been talking about. This has now emerged as the paradigmatic notion in astrophysics after being resisted for 50 years. Einstein played with the idea, called it his biggest blunder and dumped it but now observational astrophysics is forcing them to…
…the gravitational, the quantum matter fields and all other fields and phenomena of nature in some sense come forth? Well Einstein Couldn't find that because he was just trying to do it by pure mathematics or by applied mathematics. What's happened…
…you that this thing that they have come upon, omega, the cosmological constant this absolutely you know 50 years ago or so, Einstein called it the biggest blunder I ever made, because he played with the necessity of this thing to keep the universe from…
…acts to preserve the species, cultures act to preserve the illusions of the population. They're not interested in you if you're an Einstein or a Jackson Pollock unless they can fit you in to the pre established systems of commerce and canons of aesthetic…
…the 19th century, back to people like Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire and the pataphysicians, the surrealists, the physicists around Einstein, Freud, Modern art, modern dance, jazz all of this stuff is an effort to reclaim the primitive, to reclaim the…
…you that this thing that they have come upon, omega, the cosmological constant, this absolutely, you know 50 years ago or so, Einstein called it the biggest blunder I ever made because he played with the necessity of this thing to keep the universe from…
…seems to be expanding slightly faster than the laws of physics say it should. And they've gone back to some work Einstein did and rejected in the 20s, where he actually hypothesized this phenomenon. this anti-gravitational factor. This, if proven, could be…
…scientific revolution, because what you'll learn there to your amazement is that these great intellectual breakthroughs like newton and Einstein and Planck and so forth they don't come out of careful examination of the evidence and conservative adumbration of…
…tents at Ulm in Southern Germany which strangely enough, keep your eye on those coincidences folks would be the birthplace of Einstein some centuries later. But anyway they pitched their tents at Ulm. And Descartes who was not the mature philosopher of…
…land, more houses, more cars, more investments, because if you chop the population of the world in half you don't have to be Einstein to see that everybody generally is going to have twice as much disposable stuff here. Yeah I have a couple of undigested…
…duration think of it as a perfectly smooth surface. The only modification to this doctrine in the past 500 years is: Einstein came along 100 years ago and said: in the presence of massive gravitational fields, this perfect smoothness is slightly distorted…
…it seemed to concentrate in those places and it was because the seeds were being discarded there. So at some point a lady Einstein of the high paleolithic put it together and it's interesting this has to do with the conquest of the temporal dimension in…
…the 19th century, back to people like Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire, and the pataphysicians, the surrealists the physicists around Einstein Freud, Modern art, modern dance, jazz, all of this stuff is an effort to reclaim the primitive, to reclaim the…
…some manly soldiering skills. And he was in Ulm in Southern Germany in august of 1620, Ulm Later to be the birthplace of Einstein. And Descartes, who was completely wet behind the ears, didn't know anything, had a dream, and in the dream an angel this…
…And he said: Bondi is saying all these things he's publishing all these papers what are you going to do about it? And Einstein said: I can't do anything about it I cannot understand the man's objection. And so this was the position I found myself in.…