c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…of and it sort of came in late. Psychedelic, which is a fairly maligned word but was coined by the psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond means simply mind manifesting, and I like that because it's phenomenologically neutral. Now some people have tried to push the…
…No INDs for human administration of hallucinogens have been granted in 20 years. No LSD research is going forward, even though Humphrey Osmond was reporting 54% cure of chronic alcoholism in the late 1950s. Data is there. Well, that aspect of it, perhaps…
…of and it sort of came in late. Psychedelic, which is a fairly maligned word but was coined by the psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond, means simply mind manifesting, and I like that because it's phenomenologically neutral. Now some people have tried to push the…
…at the end of history is it the mushroom of Fermi and Oppenheimer and Teller or is it the mushroom of Wasson and Hoffman and Humphrey Osmond, you know I think the latter is safer. Well it may not only be safer, it may open the way to escape from the…
…the end of history? Is it the mushroom of Fermi and Oppenheimer and Teller or is it the mushroom of Wasson and Hoffman and Humphrey Osmond? Somehow I think the latter is safer. Well it may not only be safer, it may open the way to escape from the…
…on the altar of in the name of repressing psychedelic drugs I mean there was work going on at Saskatoon in Canada with Humphrey Osmond and in other places they were curing serious lifelong alcoholism with one a single dose of 500 gamma of LSD in the…
…and allow a restructuring of habit. Before LSD was made legal back in the 60s, very respectable psychologists such as Humphrey Osmond and Hoffer were obtaining 40 cure rate of chronic alcoholism with one high dose exposure. Well now understand this doesn't…