c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…the vector at the end of time. They are an anticipation of who is waiting. And if, you know, the presocratic philosopher Heraclitus. The 52nd fragment of Heraclitus says, the aeon is a child at play with colored balls. This is it, folks. Heraclitus saw…
…of time. They are an anticipation of who is waiting. And if, you know, the presocratic philosopher Heraclitus. The 52nd fragment of Heraclitus says, the aeon is a child at play with colored balls. This is it, folks. Heraclitus saw the aeon. The aeon is…
…presocratic philosopher Heraclitus. The 52nd fragment of Heraclitus says, the aeon is a child at play with colored balls. This is it, folks. Heraclitus saw the aeon. The aeon is a child at play with colored balls. And it's the Pu erh at the end of time.…
…because there is no such thing thing as the restoration of initial conditions. You can never step into the same river twice, Heraclitus observed. If he'd been paying attention, he would have noticed that you can never step into the same river once. But…
…with equanimity, because all are ephemeral, all are in the very act of coming into existence, passing away. Pontit Rea Heraclitus said, all flows, everything is both simultaneously coming into existence and dissolving away to make room for something else.…
…places in our cultural canon like quantum physics and chaos mathematics places which are very like early greek philosophy, I mean, Heraclitus speaks for chaos and I suppose parmenides or thales speaks for some of these other points of view. Quantum physics,…
…which. I don't know if you're like me, but my experience of these things is basically literary. I read Plotinus, I read Heraclitus, I read all this stuff, and I try to integrate it intellectually, but it is a plane of experience that is directly…
…this thing once again. I mean, the logos can be unleashed once again, and the voice that spoke to Plato and parmenides and Heraclitus, that voice can speak again in the minds of modern people. And when it does, the alienation will be ended because we…
…this thing once again. I mean the logos can be unleashed once again and the voice that spoke to Plato and Parmenides and Heraclitus, that voice can speak again in the minds of modern people and when it does the alienation will be ended because we will…
…called it that but they looked into the functioning mind and there they saw flux coming and going the same pantitraya of Heraclitus: they saw flux and they analyzed it, asking: are its parts infinite? Are its parts finite? How many are there? And after…
…elf. I name them tykes because tyke is a word that means to me a small child. And I was fascinated by the 54th fragment of Heraclitus where he says the aeon is a child at play with colored balls and when you burst into the DMT space you say this is…
…places in our cultural canon like quantum physics and chaos mathematics, places which are very like early Greek Philosophy I mean Heraclitus speaks for chaos and I suppose Parmenides or Thales speaks for some of these other points of view quantum physics,…
…and this is the message of the time wave and this is the message of your life and my life it's that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it, pantedrea all flows. Nothing lasts not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night not the books,…
…which the species was a living reality. The presence of our dead mother, or Carl Jung, Newton and Bruno, Pythagoras and Heraclitus was an overwhelming and all inclusive intuition that we shared and could not ignore. There seemed to be an ideological lineage…
…sliding and slipping of the cosmic machinery would teach you a lesson the western mind doesn't want to learn, which is, as Heraclitus said, pantagraea: all flows, all flows, nothing lasts. So I played with that for a while and it was interesting but I…
…here we have the Universal Ebb and flow of flux. One of the greatest philosophers in the western tradition the pre socratic Heraclitus, got it down to an aphorism in Greek he said: pantikreia, all flows, all flows. This is the truth. Dominator psychology…
…Rome is dust. Most relationships, all relationships, fade finally ultimately your own relationship to your dear self fades. Pontit Rea. Heraclitus said: all flows, nothing lasts. And yet western civilization is a frantic denial of this. From the calendar to…
…the same people who run the biosphere in Oracle, Arizona. They had what they called an oceanographic research vessel called the Heraclitus, and early in 1980 botany departments all over the world got this strange letter on this stationary which was the…
…it said: dear colleague, we will be maintaining on station in the Amazon for the next 18 months, you know the research vessel Heraclitus. If you or your graduate students are doing work in the Amazon, we would be pleased to facilitate your work in any…
…thing. It can be summed up in a single phrase: nothing lasts, nothing lasts, nothing lasts everything is changing into something else. Heraclitus said this he said pante reia, all flows. We flow into this world, we inhabit it and we move on. Nothing…
…born in the generation at the end of the world this is something that would have worked at every moment in history after all, Heraclitus lived 2 500 years ago. This is the truth of true maturity. Nothing lasts I mean every time I take a trip or eat…
…the whole thing. It can be summed up in a single phrase: nothing lasts. Nothing lasts. Everything is changing into something else. Heraclitus said this he said Ponte Reia, all flows. We flow into this world we inhabit it and we move on. Nothing lasts,…
…born in the generation at the end of the world this is something that would have worked at every moment in history after all, Heraclitus lived 2 500 years ago. This is the truth of true maturity: nothing lasts. I mean every time I take a trip or eat…
…If some of you are classicists or students of the literature of the pre socratic philosophers, you might recall the 52nd fragment of Heraclitus which says: the aeon is a child at play with colored balls. The aeon is a child at play with colored balls…
…no such creature. You can never restore initial conditions. A way of putting it is: you can never go home again. You know, Heraclitus said we never step into the same river twice. If you're paying attention you might notice that that means we never step…
…now if you want to follow, if you just can't tear yourself away from the concept of following, then how about Plato, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plotinus, Proclus you know dead guys they're much safer. They're not going to try and climb into your wallet or…
…There is something very, very weirdly childlike about it in a very UN Childish way. Some of you may know the 52nd fragment of Heraclitus where he says the aeon is a child at play with colored balls. The aeon is the child that you encounter in the elk…
…it everywhere we see it in the birth that I was just describing, we see it in the metamorphosis of insects. You know Heraclitus said pantatreia, all flows, and I think that this is the hardest thing to learn it certainly has been the hardest thing for…
…places in our cultural canon like quantum physics and chaos mathematics, places which are very like early Greek Philosophy I mean Heraclitus speaks for chaos and I suppose Parmenides or Thales speaks for some of these other points of view quantum physics,…
…and this is the message of the time wave and this is the message of your life and my life it's that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it pantedrea: all flows. Nothing lasts, you know, not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night not…
…is something very very weirdly childlike about it in a very unchildish way. Some of you may know the third the 52nd fragment of Heraclitus where he says the aeon is a child at play with colored balls the aeon is the child that you encounter in the elf…
…of initial conditions. That means you can go back to the start and run the experiment again. This is saying, as Heraclitus said, you never step into the same river twice. And consequently the idea of repetitive experiment is shown to be intellectually…
…life and vegetables and travel and books can be summed up in two Greek words. It's the central message of the philosopher Heraclitus, and he was always my favorite philosopher but whenever I would read about him he was called the crying philosopher. And I…
…about him he was called the crying philosopher. And I had to live to be 44 years old to understand the poignancy of Heraclitus message. He said in a nutshell: pante Rea all flows, all flows. Nothing lasts, nothing is permanent and this is the hardest…
…it was worthwhile to talk to you about this tonight because we have been through such a difficult ten months. And it was also Heraclitus, the all flows guy who said all is war, all is war and what he meant was: everything occurs in the presence of its…
…personality because what this simple truth says things come into being, they achieve their inflorescence and they fade away is as Heraclitus put it, pantithereia: all flows, nothing lasts, nothing is saved and this is you know our glory and our agony that…
…obtain, the magical object, the talking stick, the jeweled, self-revealing basketballs of the DMT state. You know, in the 53rd fragment of Heraclitus, he says, the Aeon is a child at play with colored balls in eternity. And, you know, this makes no sense…
…fears, not your hopes not even yourself. Nothing lasts. I mean this has been said often but felt rarely. You know Heraclitus said all flows. And the lie of western psychology is that something is stable, god's nature, the equinoctial points something lasts.…
…feel like a child. You feel that you have come out somewhere in eternity and it always reminds me of the 53rd fragment of Heraclitus which is the aeon is a child at play with colored balls and you not only become the aeon at play with colored balls…
…dominator personality, because what this simple truth says things come into being, they achieve their inflorescence and they fade away is as Heraclitus put it: all flows, nothing lasts, nothing is saved and this is you know our glory and our agony that you…
…the world at that time were romans, educated by greeks who were epicurean atomists not platonists not followers of Heraclitus or Pythagoras or any of the flashy folks we're into they were democracy anatomists, rationalists materialists would have been…
…there are hints, but it by no means has the support of a broad river of tradition. For instance the 56th fragment of Heraclitus. Who's a great guy I mean Heraclitus was one of us he'd be comfortable with this situation I'm sure. The 56th fragment of…
…means has the support of a broad river of tradition. For instance the 56th fragment of Heraclitus. Who's a great guy I mean Heraclitus was one of us he'd be comfortable with this situation I'm sure. The 56th fragment of Heraclitus says the aeon is a…
…Who's a great guy I mean Heraclitus was one of us he'd be comfortable with this situation I'm sure. The 56th fragment of Heraclitus says the aeon is a child at play with colored balls. This saying is 2 600 years old. What is it talking about?…
…which I don't know if you are like me but my experience of these things is basically literary I read Plotinus I read Heraclitus I read all this stuff and I try to integrate it intellectually but it is a plane of experience that is directly accessible…
…this thing once again. I mean the logos can be unleashed once again and the voice that spoke to Plato and Parmenides and Heraclitus, that voice can speak again in the minds of modern people and when it does, the alienation will be ended. Because we will…
…If some of you are classicists or students of the literature of the pre socratic philosophers, you might recall the 52nd fragment of Heraclitus which says: the aeon is a child at play with colored balls. The aeon is a child at play with colored balls…