c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…has been traced to George Macdonald's book, through the gates of the silver key. And George Macdonald was a friend of Evans Vance. So I think what we're getting here is a mining of late 19th century english folklore by Castaneda. Nevertheless, the presence…
…doors and radios and flushing toilets and sirens and stuff. You have to clear the ground. In Tibetan Meditations, like in the Evans Vance books the first direction that you're given on some of these Tibetan practices is you must leave the village and seek…
…elves and fairies. The worldwide tradition of little people is well studied in the fairy faith in celtic countries by w e Evans Vance, a book which was influential on Jacques Vallée's UFO Quest as well as our own. The mention of little men rang a…
…Vance's book the fairy faith in celtic countries and if you're interested in elves this is the book to read. You all know who Evans Vance was he was the great tibetologist who but as a student at Cambridge in 1913 before he went to tibet he did his…
…fairyland? It's the idea that the dead live all around us, linger among us as disincarnate souls. And the fairies that Evans Vance was describing were very ambiguous morally, I mean sometimes they would only sour the milk but their favorite concern of…
…of these peculiar concerns. Present company accepted what was the name of that book again, the fairy faith in celtic countries by Evans Vance, at least a couple of final points which is, you know what is this all good for? I think what it's good…
…of Evans Vance's the fairy faith in celtic countries, which if you've never read it it's quite an interesting book. Y e Evans Vance was an American who became a great scholar of mahayana Buddhism and wrote the Tibetan book of the dead the Tibetan book…
…these people just tell these stories and it's absolutely convincing. I mean the fairies are real the fairy faith is real and when Evans Vance asked these people what's going on, they said these are the dead. When you die you stay around but you're in an…
…has been traced to George McDonnell's book through the gates of the silver key and and George McDonnell was a friend of Evans Vance. So I think what we're getting here is a mining of late 19th century English Folklore by Castaneda. Nevertheless, the the…
…integrate these things? Well some of you may know this book it's a classic called the fairy faith in celtic countries by Evans Vance, and it was reprinted recently and I wrote the introduction to it. It mentions in there when Patrick arrived as a…