c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…who have such faith in their knowledge that apparent difficult situations don't freak them out. As an example, some of you know, Frank Barr, he's an emergency room doctor, and I'm amazed that he can deal with people who are dead out, unconscious and just…
…such a way that they would bind preferentially into certain molecular structures. Our candidate at the time was DNA. I think Frank Barr has convinced me that there's as great a likelihood that it involves binding into melanin bodies is as likely a…
…has already been lost. So cat and I and Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard and Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, Ralph Metzner, Frank Barr, a number of people have gathered together and formed a non profit foundation whose showcase project is a 19 acre…
…botanical dimensions. Botanical dimensions is the non profit that kat and I and Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Metzner, Ralph Abraham, Frank Barr a number of people have organized to carry out plant rescue operations for medicinal plants and plants with a…
…it's an art movement, not a science but I would number the compressionists that come to mind to be Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, Frank Barr and myself bringing up the rear and we all four of us have a slice on it each different but each leading to…
…be measurable and discernible. So morphic resonance, my novelty waves, the dynamic attractors of Ralph Abraham and the fractal hierarchies of frank Barr are all embryonic efforts. There's a feeling in the air, a sense of an idea to be nailed down and I'm…
…is why I proposed to you last night the term compressionist for this school of thought that myself and sheldrake and frank Barr and Ralph Abraham represent, because we all are talking about the dense nesting of concrescent systems and ultimately, in my own…
…it's an art movement, not a science but I would number the compressionists that come to mind to be Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, Frank Barr and myself bringing up the rear, and we all four of us have a slice on it each different but each leading to…
…be measurable and discernible. So morphic resonance, my novelty ways, the dynamic attractors of Ralph Abraham and the fractal hierarchies of frank Barr are all embryonic efforts. There's a feeling in the air a sense of an idea to be nailed down, and I'm…