c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…I mean, it's moving slowly. It's moving so slowly, even the Russians. I mean, I felt like I should write a letter to Gorbachev in the interests of perestroika. They're cutting back on the space program. He said, my God, this is the one thing you have…
…kidnapping of Augustulus Romulus, which is usually used as the date of the end of the roman empire. That was the day that Gorbachev addressed the UN and flicked in the towel on communism, and as he stood on the podium, a major section of his country…
…and people with an interest in keeping the integrity of the data high. But never trust I mean always you know as Gorbachev said, trust but verify, because it's not like if you get your mantra wrong, something terrible will happen but if you get…
…it's wildly fluctuating on the fine scale but the land war is there, okay. Next low point: august. 1991, the kidnapping of Gorbachev and the first soviet coup d etat, right there. I'm going to skip over this one because the only interesting thing that…
…forth I mean what we did for human individual freedom. But the paradoxical thing about freedom is and I sympathize with poor Gorbachev how about a round of applause for Gorbachev and Raisa because she's the one behind the throne how about Raisa? I don't…
…individual freedom. But the paradoxical thing about freedom is and I sympathize with poor Gorbachev how about a round of applause for Gorbachev and Raisa because she's the one behind the throne how about Raisa? I don't know if you know this story but this…
…from Moscow as the soviet union turns into 15 independent republics I mean what's going to happen here, because what is so terrifying about Gorbachev, from the point of view of the powers that be is that he models a leader who can say: we did it wrong.…
…say: we did it wrong. Baker was on one of the talk shows after one of these we did it wrong statements by Gorbachev, and they said to him: well, under what circumstances would an official of the United States government admit a mistake? And he said:…
…waiting for it to come in the form of benevolent extraterrestrials or a religious conversion on the part of Reagan and Gorbachev, we will all go to hell in a handbasket together. So that is the stunningly central import of the botanical hallucinogens…
…turbulence that will tax the faith of a saint in reasonable conclusions because the whole world is going to undergo deconstruction. I mean, Gorbachev has it right but he's so far the only guy saying we did it wrong. 100 wrong I mean I apologize but…
…is going to be destroyed and this you know this I can't. This idiotic riff about how because he has a strawberry spot, Gorbachev fulfills the prediction of revelation and is the beast 666, this is the kind of stuff that just drives me straight up the…
…convergence, though is august 87. August 87 it was all sort of the building of the reaction of the soviet union to what Gorbachev was doing as well along that line. Well then let's go over to here. I want to see the harmonic convergence, oh you…
…rely on your own intuition, the felt presence of immediate experience and logical razors another good one I call this one the Gorbachev Razor trust but verify, trust but verify. It's okay to trust as long as you verify. This keeps you out. Of trouble.…
…energy flows through them and our civilization has to learn this. You know I think I said at one point in this weekend only Gorbachev is taking the position that we did it wrong and that we need to deconstruct. And yet every society did it wrong. We…
…flows through them and our our civilization has to learn this. You know I think I said at one point in this weekend only Gorbachev is taking the position that we did it wrong and that we need to deconstruct. And yet every society did it wrong. We all…
…over a few hundred years as telescoped into a few years in our own era you see that with the rise of Gorbachev and the continued mismanagement of the American Empire under the crypto fascist theories of rotating bimbos and buffoons that we have suffered…