Terence McKenna
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The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…are being delivered to the earth's surface from the extraterrestrial environment, and that plagues from space. That book by Fred Hoyle was very interesting, where he correlated numerous epidemics with the earth, passing through cometary veils and this sort of…
…are being delivered to the earth's surface from the extraterrestrial environment and that plagues from space. That book by Fred Hoyle was very interesting where he correlated numerous epidemics with the earth passing through cometary veils and this sort of…
…origin of life in this universe because life has been percolating between the stars for upwards of a billion years. You know Fred Hoyle had the idea that various flus and viruses actually are swept in here on cometary debris yeah, the panspermia theory? I…
…years, resonant patterns of electromagnetic waves. My thinking about this was much influenced by a science fiction novel by Fred Hoyle published in the 50s called the black cloud where Fred Hoyle shows that to imagine intelligence necessarily grounded either…
…this was much influenced by a science fiction novel by Fred Hoyle published in the 50s called the black cloud where Fred Hoyle shows that to imagine intelligence necessarily grounded either in copper wires and computers or in nerve cells and brains is a…
…a very low component of the percolation of energy between the stars. Indeed there have been many attempts to establish this idea: Fred Hoyle and the theory of the cometary origin of life some of these ideas have gone forward. It seems to me perfectly…
…billion or so years. But it's the same principle by which a plant migrates into a desert. Your theory sounds very similar to Fred Hoyle and Chandra Bikram Singh. I was very happy that they came along with that theory. Their theory is that all of us…
…that uh psilocybin is coming from outer space or that there's a possibility that this mushroom is there's a possibility of that. Fred Hoyle and an associate of his have uh come to my aid on this, saying that spore bearing life forms because spores have…