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The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…if I can pick it up exactly 1135. Okay this is Bernard of Clairvaux, Adrian Iv, Peter Lombard, Thomas of Beckett, Eleanor of Aquitaine That's the clue for me. All that other stuff is fine crusades, yes all for that. But Eleanor of Aquitaine participated…
…Beckett, Eleanor of Aquitaine That's the clue for me. All that other stuff is fine crusades, yes all for that. But Eleanor of Aquitaine participated in a very interesting episode in the history of western consciousness because, as I'm sure you all know she…
…it was an outburst of goddess consciousness that laid the basis for the later mariological outbreak that built Chartres. So Eleanor of Aquitaine is a very important figure in the evolution of human consciousness and the troubadours I don't have time to go…
…time, creating both the heresy of Chaitanya in bengal and the whole phenomenon of courtly love at the angivine Court of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Okay so that's there, this next. And then you know gothic Christianity and all that is represented in a fashion…
…boxed. In. Active at the bottom of that thing are Bernard of Clairvaux, Adrian Iv, Peter Lombard, Thomas of Beckett and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Now depending on how much you know about Medieval History, Eleanor of Aquitaine is it? I mean she had it all…
…Clairvaux, Adrian Iv, Peter Lombard, Thomas of Beckett and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Now depending on how much you know about Medieval History, Eleanor of Aquitaine is it? I mean she had it all together: the daughter of a King, the wife of a King and the…
…Europe under the auspices of the children's crusade. That's Peter Lombard. The upheaval in English Ecclesiastical circles, Thomas of Beckett, Eleanor of Aquitaine hit hit, hit, hit, hit. Okay so then back off and these themes are worked out in the gothic…
…of those esoteric ideas gained in the holy land during that same period of time that's right the angervine Court of Eleanor of Aquitaine and that whole business. Okay now let's Zoom in on modern history and finer scale stuff because I want to show…
…move. The goddess is, this archetype is drawing energy with a fury that has not been seen since the angervine Court of Eleanor of Aquitaine and it's a re imaging of deity that is going on at every level and certainly on psychedelics you have immense…
…the ideal of romantic love was introduced into Europe in the 1400s and earlier at the angervine Court of Eleanor of Aquitaine by troubadours. And this troubadour tradition can scholarship now reveals pretty convincingly that this is an esoteric Sufi System.…
…crusades. The people who are active in the bottom of that thing are people like Bernard of Clairvaux, Peter Lombard, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Thomas of Beckett, Pope Adrian Iv. You know all those folks famous from masterpiece theatre they were all happening…