c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…Andrzej Puharich is a very mercurial person. Is that what we want to say? Recall that he was the guy who pushed Yuri Geller for a long time and they were forever tromping into the negev and coming out with blank cassettes that had held the wisdom…
…where people who say things that you don't like they can be destroyed by smear campaigns, like randy trying to smear Geller or Geller hitting back by saying randy is a pederast and a pedophile and a totally dishonest and disreputable character, pervert…
…people who say things that you don't like they can be destroyed by smear campaigns, like randy trying to smear Geller or Geller hitting back by saying randy is a pederast and a pedophile and a totally dishonest and disreputable character, pervert and so…
…and disreputable character, pervert and so on and this kind of AD Hominem argument is all too common in practice. When randy attacks Geller on the AD Hominem grounds: look at the messenger. A guy who was on a dick sheet music hall acts in Israel. And…
…stuff and then comes he's just a shaman. He hits back you see but that's where you get the AD Hominem arguments. You get Geller and randy, and randy's supposed to be a rationalist. Well it's a problem. I mean I would like to know these things about…