c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…that inscrutable thing is what I chiefly hate, he tells Starbuck. And I see it. I see Ahab as another reincarnation of Faust, another picture of a human being who seeks to go beyond what is humanly possible, and by rising up into that promethean…
…than send five graduates to Peru for three months. I'm going to pass out a flyer on this. You remember at the end of Faust or maybe you don't remember because people tend to have it drop out but you remember that what happens at the end of Faust…
…Faust or maybe you don't remember because people tend to have it drop out but you remember that what happens at the end of Faust is that he decides to clear swamps and build housing developments for poor people. This is sort of my response to that. At…
…the later things he talks about these elves because of the kibiri the kibiri are the alchemical children that appear in act 3 of Faust that Jung spent a lot of time on these alchemical kibiri and the question of the homunculus. And he says at one place…
…the spirit of self sufficiency, of being in charge, and the spirit of denial of the whole other realm, like in Goethe's Faust Faust being the paradigm scientist selling his soul to the devil in return for unlimited knowledge and power, the paradigm of the…
…spirit of self sufficiency, of being in charge, and the spirit of denial of the whole other realm, like in Goethe's Faust Faust being the paradigm scientist selling his soul to the devil in return for unlimited knowledge and power, the paradigm of the…
…entire process, by selling it through ceremonial magic. He invokes mephistopheles, so the guiding spirit of modern science according to the Faust Myth, is a demon. It's in fact a satanic demon, a fallen angel, mephistopheles. So how seriously does one take,…
…prophecy and I think that the tendency of mythic, the myths of science have an interesting dynamic because they start with the Faust Myths where Faust sells his soul to the devil in return for unlimited knowledge and power for a fixed period, 24 years.…
…I think that the tendency of mythic, the myths of science have an interesting dynamic because they start with the Faust Myths where Faust sells his soul to the devil in return for unlimited knowledge and power for a fixed period, 24 years. But when you…
…knowledge and power for a fixed period, 24 years. But when you get to the later development at the end of the period Faust is dragged down to hell and then in Goethe's Faust because he's an enlightened figure who believes in progress, Faust is actually…
…when you get to the later development at the end of the period Faust is dragged down to hell and then in Goethe's Faust because he's an enlightened figure who believes in progress, Faust is actually taken up to heaven. He's rescued from the demons. At…
…the period Faust is dragged down to hell and then in Goethe's Faust because he's an enlightened figure who believes in progress, Faust is actually taken up to heaven. He's rescued from the demons. At the last minute that all became implausible and the…
…was burned by an angry mob while he was on the continent because he was suspected of being. A wizard he was the model for Faust in the later recensions of Faust and whenever you see an old man with a white beard and a pointed cap. This image is…
…he was on the continent because he was suspected of being. A wizard he was the model for Faust in the later recensions of Faust and whenever you see an old man with a white beard and a pointed cap. This image is really referent to Dee. Well, Elizabeth…
…magical school that can be traced back to Henry Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettlesheim, who was the model for another model for Faust. Agrippa wrote de libri Quatro De occultata philosophia four books of occult philosophy, and that was the core work for European…
…you have unbridled ego. Unbridled faith in the intellect so that you proceed forward without self doubt, if you haven't read Faust Recently it's a surprising read. First of all you know it's very funny, it's hilarious, it's funnier than any of Shakespeare's…
…you have unbridled ego, unbridled faith in the intellect so that you proceed forward without self doubt. If you haven't read Faust Recently, it's a surprising read. First of all you know it's very funny, it's hilarious, it's funnier than any of…
…later things he talks about these elves because of the kibiri. The kibiri are the alchemical children that appear in act 3 of Faust that Jung spent a lot of time on these alchemical kibiri and the question of the homunculus. And he says at one place…
…to heaven. He's rescued from the demons. At the last minute that all became implausible and the modern form of the Faust Myth was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein where the scientist is destroyed by his own creation, no longer by any supernatural machinery, that…
…destroyed by his own creation, no longer by any supernatural machinery, that the whole of the kind of supernatural machinery of Faust becomes natural destruction by his own monster in the case of Frankenstein and it's obvious that the nuclear threat has a…