c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…whole life has been. My whole public life has been about communication, and ultimately what I perceive. Well, to quote Herman Melville from the same chapter, but a part I didn't read, reality outruns apprehension. Reality outruns apprehension. It means it's…
…and I give complete credit to Cannabis for that. I remember the second time that I smoked Cannabis. I was a great fan of Herman Melville at that time and my friend and I smoked some Cannabis and then called on some young women at a dormitory that we…
…for an hour in a pseudo melvillian style I created on the spot, without hesitation, a short story in the style of Herman Melville that was dazzling, apparently to my hearers. Well this is verbal facility of an extraordinary sort. The other area where I…
…keep going back to this thing of can it be done? Because I want to convince you because I'm so certain I love Herman Melville and his rhetoric and friends of the whale, bear with me. For Herman Melville the whale was not the endangered creature it is…
…convince you because I'm so certain I love Herman Melville and his rhetoric and friends of the whale, bear with me. For Herman Melville the whale was not the endangered creature it is today it was the dark cosmic god of Christianity that haunts us and…