c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…matter of conjecture or faith or it exists. This is very close to the religious ecstasis of mother Teresa or Hildegard Von Bingen or meister Eckhart or Thomas Trehearne or any of those folks, except that they were apparently exceptional personalities who…
…mild book very limited in its claims. I mean he talks about staring at the folds of his trousers and thinking about Hildegard Von Bingen and it's basically presented as a thought thing and most of you look like you're probably not old enough to remember…
…forth and so on and I started reading the primary sources: Teresa of Avila, Thomas Traherne, Jakob Burma What's the singing? Hildegard Von Bingen, all of these people and I got the idea that there was this experience, but I couldn't find it. I couldn't…
…that the experience of spirit for which most of us rely upon the testimony of meister Eckhart and Juan De La Cruz and Hildegard Von Bingen is in fact a birthright of each and every one of us. But the bias of the scientific mentality, which is the bias…
…compute. They say it's all of human history in the computer world. All we typed in Fran, Sure, we, we, from Hildegard Von Bingen to Judy Chicago, It's all okay. Cyrus Ii of Persia defeats aeneid. The Persian Empire oh he establishes the Persian Empire,…
…greening of god this new greening of god process that's going on it's theologians who've revived the whole tradition of Hildegard Von Bingen and the greening process and this whole hidden strand of the judeo Christian Tradition, which may never have been a…
…physical pain accompanies these things and people have extracted information from this state, used it. The 13th century mystic Hildegard Von Bingen is known for a series of prayers and paintings, very odd paintings that it now has been pretty conclusively…
…science fiction aspect to them. This is what the art historians left out this is what you don't get in Hildegard Von Bingen. You don't get the machines, the deep iridescent, highly polished surfaces that are clearly made somewhere manufactured. You don't…
…the common man are these relationships to these magical vegetables. I mean it's not satisfying to just read meister Eckhart and Hildegard Von Bingen and all these people because what their testimony is saying is that it is a birthright of us all. I mean…