Terence McKenna
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The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…I mean, he assumes basically that the people he's talking to have read everything and have understood it. I mean, from Homer to Rabelais to Chaucer to Man magazine, he assumes you have a complete knowledge of modern film and popular print journalism…
…it's insufficient, because everybody is bound within an illusion of language. The entire enterprise culture is this illusion of language. Homer was as sick with it as Heidegger. So there's no going back or getting, you know, no classic recension. What…
…I mean, he assumes basically, that the people he's talking to have read everything and have understood it. I mean, from Homer to Rabelais to Chaucer to Man magazine, he assumes you have a complete knowledge of modern film and popular print journalism…
…is a mountain to set your sights on climbing. The great pyramid is right down here. We are here. Okay what's here homer? Homer is at the top of history's fractal mountain, in other words, 1100 BC. Okay what was the primary turning point there? What…
…preserved out of Africa at catalhoyuk falls to mycenaean pirates. This is the age of agamemnon. This is the age when homer sang his song. Homer sings his song at the top of this crest and I had a professor of history at Cal who said, if you want to…
…it's insufficient because everybody is bound within an illusion of language. The entire enterprise of culture is this illusion of language. Homer was as sick with it as Heidegger. So there's no going back or getting you know no classic recension. What we…
…theory that this thing which we call the ego is so recent in human beings that it actually didn't exist at the time of Homer. And he goes into Homer and he shows that the God always breaks through in situations of crisis and danger. And he felt that…
…we call the ego is so recent in human beings that it actually didn't exist at the time of Homer. And he goes into Homer and he shows that the God always breaks through in situations of crisis and danger. And he felt that before Homeric times, people…
…started to talk philosophy it all went wrong. Well I don't know if it went wrong it certainly went in a different direction. Homer sings his song and it begins an almost unbroken cascade into modernity. I want to talk about this one for a minute because…