c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…which had always been excluded previously. I mean, reason dictated that action at a distance was a kind of superstition. Then James Clerk Maxwell demonstrated that these fields really existed. So in each of these areas, a total revolution took place. Now,…
…less than 50 years. I mean, it's eerie to read his examples of contemporaneously because there's stuff like Marilyn Monroe, Perry Como, James Dean. I mean, he's writing from another era, and yet, from his point of view, he's firmly embedded in a kind of…
…shaping culture. And aside from one piddling mention of mescaline, you would never know that there are plants which cause hallucination. But James wanted to say that until very recently, the mental life of human beings was very different than it is for us.…
…once free swimming bacteria 300, 400 million years ago, and they became embedded and entangled in a larger cellular matrix. So James is trying to say that this godlike ego became incorporated as an ordinary psychic function. What caused this to happen was…
…the triumph of secularism and so called modern science, post newtonian science, pushed the dream somewhat into the background. After James Clerk Maxwell and Helmholtz and those people discovered the electromagnetic fields in the 1870s. I mean, we are totally…
…theory, I think the part that colors immediate experience is the resonances because it's sort of hard to explain. But for instance, in James Joyce's Ulysses, the way he organizes it is on one level this is a book about a guy trying to buy some kidneys…
…which had always been excluded previously. I mean, reason dictated that action at a distance was a kind of superstition. Then James Clerk Maxwell demonstrated that these fields really exist. So in each of these areas, a total revolution took place. Now, the…
…beyond the train of mortal care, there is this super space where apparently, everything is made out of mind. And so, in James Joyce's wonderful phrase, you know, if you want to be phoenixed, come and be parked up nient prospector. You sprout all your…
…invocation of some sort. I mean, there is that amazing passage in one of the gospels where the three Marys, Mary the mother of James, Mary Magdalene and the other one go to the tomb and Christ is standing outside the tomb and one of the women starts…
…mechanical realms by becoming the eensy beansy option. Maybe we're going to invent an engine the equivalent of the spindizzy in James Blish's novel cities in flight. If we could invent a spindizzy engine, we could build a starship and just leave the…
…occurred in less than 50 years. It's eerie to read his examples of contemporaneity, because there's stuff like Marilyn Monroe, Perry Como, James Dean. I mean, he's writing from another era, and yet, from his point of view, he's firmly embedded in a kind…
…spirit, or guardian angel. The important concept in all of this being that they experienced it as separate from themselves. And then James goes on to suggest that it was traders who were people who passed from one society to another for the purpose of…
…were told to do. Okay, I mention this because I think that something similar is happening in the present, and that, unwittingly, James may have provided a metaphor for understanding this. We talked a bit last time about the flying saucer and how it was…
…themselves a new emperor in this case Frederick prince palatine of Heidelberg, who had recently married Elizabeth, the daughter of James of England. Frederick the elector assumed that the King of England giving his daughter's hand hand in in marriage signaled…
…familiar were you with I Ching at the time? Good, question. It was sort of a paradox I had read the I Ching in the James Legg translation when I was about 13 and then I bought when I was 16, the Wilhelm Bain's Translation, the bollingen one which is…
…and the painting styles and the colors and the techniques are very clearly the same. Read Mary Setgast, Plato Prehistorian or James Mallart's book catalhoyuk, a neolithic town in anatolia, and you see that even a kind of burnished ware called Sudanese 3b…
…think that because it's heart, heart, heart heart heart heart it doesn't take heart to Face the extraterrestrials. You become captain James Kirk of the enterprise and you move toward this diplomatic rendezvous but the idea that it might be your dead family…
…truth and it's a tremendous allegory. I mean Melville was no fool and he was perfectly aware of the osirian religion that James Frazier was sketching out and of the comparative mythology movement and he used language to layer resonance in the same way…
…the electromagnetic field which makes possible television and fm radio and all of this stuff was confounding to 19th century science when James Clerk Maxwell began to write the equations for these fields I mean they said: how can it be, how can it act…
…revolution. It isn't a text on political expediency, it's a text on calendrical reform. I use the Wilhelm Baines Translation and sometimes the James Legg. Do we wish to add a number of days no we don't how we need to specify the time span. Let's look…
…Theory requires is for someone to stride to the blackboard and write the field equations for the morphogenetic field the way James Clerk Maxwell was able to write the field equations for electromagnetism in the 1870s with Helmholtz's help. I will show you…
…new testament a great variety. Reflected of Christian Churches and some of them were very close to Judaism, Indistinguishable. The letter of James for instance in the new testament could be a Jewish document the name of jesus would never appear in it or…
…is that beyond the train of mortal care there is this super space where apparently everything is made out of mind. And so in James Joyce's Wonderful phrase you know if you want to be phoenixed, come and be parked up in the end prospector you sprout all…
…much like some strange kind of. There is that amazing passage in one of the gospels where the three marys Mary the mother of James, Mary Magdalene and the other one go to the tomb and Christ is standing outside the tomb and one of the women starts…
…Harner, Michael, the sound of rushing water natural history, July 1968. Huxley, Aldous: the doors of perception, Joyce James, Finnegan's wake, London 1939. Ulysses Ditto, slightly earlier, yonch, Eric, the self organizing universe, Jung, Carl Gustav, flying…
…their superhuman status. So let me talk a little bit about how I view shamanism generally and then in the context of hallucinogens, James One other thing: you want to talk more I hope you're going to talk more a little bit about the differences it seems…
…of slow historical transformation can become so familiar that they become indistinguishable from me and I then identify? So what James is saying about homeric man is that homeric man became homeric god and actually bootstrapped himself to his ideal. This…
…palatine of Heidelberg a Protestant who wedded the granddaughter of queen Elizabeth the first of England, Elizabeth Stewart the daughter of James the first of England. This was an arranged wedding they were both 16 years old at the time. Frederick went to…
…of leisure time so forth and so on. If any of you are interested, read çatalhöyük, a neolithic town in southern turkey by James Mallart. Fascinating stuff this is 7200 b c and in 6500 b c çatalhöyük is destroyed çatal levels 5a and 6 show evidence…
…any given individual in the cloud you find just a cartoon is what you actually find. You know if you read Ulysses James Joyce's Masterpiece a lot of what's going on in Leopold Bloom's head as he wanders around Dublin are crack brained understandings of…
…articles about it and they're practically hysterical those people, they haven't had a cat like this in the laboratory since James Clerk Maxwell articulated the electromagnetic field. Yeah over here, Terence I'm still curious as to what my Christmas will be…
…and involved in things. And on the same day he produced the silver key, he announced that this cock and hen were actually James and Nora Joyce and that somehow James Joyce, by having been able to write Finnegan's way, had at death been put in charge…
…enquirer as you may know is the house journal of psycop the debunking organisation, and the one that is most famous. For James Randi being among its activists and this was published. It was a paper by Francisco Varela who claimed to have refuted the…
…a new emperor, in this case Frederick prince palatine of Heidelberg, who had recently married Elizabeth, the daughter of James of England. Frederick the elector assumed that the King of England giving his daughter's hand in marriage signaled approval…
…can walk to a blackboard and write the equations for the morphogenetic field. Until that's done he's in the position that James Clerk Maxwell was in vis a vis the electromagnetic field until somebody then James Clerk Maxwell in this case figured out…
…Until that's done he's in the position that James Clerk Maxwell was in vis a vis the electromagnetic field until somebody then James Clerk Maxwell in this case figured out the inverse square law and what the constraints were and then wrote the equations…
…means and more than rabelaisian humor which have miraculously quickened the stupendous mass of material. One acknowledges at last that James Joyce's Overwhelming micro macrocosm could not have been fired to life in any sorcerer furnace less black, less heavy,…
…electronic culture has occurred in less than 50 years. I mean it's eerie to read his examples of contemporaneity. You know Perry Como, James Dean I mean he's writing from another era and yet from his point of view he's firmly embedded in a kind of super…
…skeptical enquirer, as you may know is the house journal of psycop the debunking organization and the one that's most famous for James Randi being among its activists, and this was published. It was a paper by Francisco Varela who claimed to have refuted…
…smaller components. Now this is somewhat hard to understand but rich enough to pursue. It's this idea, and now I'm going to use James Joyce's Classic example. Joyce wrote a book called Ulysses. Ulysses is a book about a man who rises on a morning, a…
…amazing passage in, I think it's luke it's the morning after the entombment of Christ and the three marys Mary the mother of James, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Christ go to the tomb and Christ is there standing beside the rolled away stone,…
…these breakthroughs to novelty so it's just not that they happen, it's that they happen faster and faster and whatever James Lovelock's affinity for something happening 65 million years ago, a few things of high interest have happened since, like everything…
…man with a white beard and a pointed cap. This image is really referent to Dee. Well, Elizabeth died in 1604, I believe, and James I became King of England and James was a peculiar character. The wags of the time liked to say: Elizabeth was King and…
…cap. This image is really referent to Dee. Well, Elizabeth died in 1604, I believe, and James I became King of England and James was a peculiar character. The wags of the time liked to say: Elizabeth was King and now James is queen. And not only…
…became King of England and James was a peculiar character. The wags of the time liked to say: Elizabeth was King and now James is queen. And not only that he hated occultism, he had no patience with the whole magical court that Elizabeth had assembled…
…and they steered him, by a series of political manipulations too complex to tell, toward a marriage with the daughter of James I of England who was named Elizabeth, Interestingly enough. So Frederick the elector made Elizabeth the son of James of England…
…daughter of James I of England who was named Elizabeth, Interestingly enough. So Frederick the elector made Elizabeth the son of James of England his wife. Now Frederick here made a serious miscalculation because he thought that if James would give the hand…
…beyond the train of mortal care, there is this super space where you, apparently everything is made out of mind and so, in James Joyce's Wonderful phrase you know if you want to be phoenixed come and be parked. Up in the yent prospector you sprout all…
…invocation of some sort. I mean there is that amazing passage in one of the gospels where the three marys Mary the mother of James, Mary Magdalene and the other one go to the tomb and Christ is standing outside the tomb and one of the women starts…
…attends freedom. By being liberated from ideology, we essentially are invited to be all we can be, but we are free, in James Joyce's Phrase to flop on the seamy side without Christianity, Without democracy, without these great inspiring. And so this is the…
…in less than 50 years. I mean it's eerie to read his examples of contemporaneity because there's stuff like Marilyn Monroe, Perry Como, James Dean I mean he's writing from another era and yet from his point of view he's firmly embedded in a kind of…
…they were told to do. Okay I mention this because I think that something similar is happening in the present and that unwittingly James may have provided a metaphor for understanding this. We talked a bit last time about the flying saucer and how it was…
…those that are actually living it? Well I'm sure this will be rolled over and dealt with. Yeah hi my name is James and I have a background in psychology, psychobiology, holistic health, yoga and I'm a computer professional. I have been following both…
…kundalini yoga works very much on the heart center. It's not strenuous, I guarantee it will be fun. We have a very good teacher, James who will be teaching this and the idea is that with these exercises we can help to open up our heart center. So that…
…worry we've done this before. We've never lost one. Which brings me to a question that's been burning and in fact my friend James asked me about this earlier which has to do with the anthropocentric role in the eschaton. Are we going to be booting the…
…something that's more on a global level? Want to take it away? Paul Sure, this is Paul Godwin friend confidant et Cetera. I've asked James to do the yoga this morning. James is a yoga teacher so he's going to help us to stretch out a little before we…
…level? Want to take it away? Paul Sure, this is Paul Godwin friend confidant et Cetera. I've asked James to do the yoga this morning. James is a yoga teacher so he's going to help us to stretch out a little before we do any vocal. Just go to the…
…like what we're seeing and there are a number of highly idiosyncratic artists scattered through the history of art: Gustave Moreau, James Ensor, we mentioned Hieronymus Bosch you know well Mati Klarwein, but I'm trying to think of older ones but these seem…
…for our consciousness. Yeah well the great enlightenment of 19th century physics occurred around the issue of fields, because until James Clerk Maxwell and Lorentz and these people wrote the equations for the electromagnetic field, it was denied that such a…
…prince palatine of Heidelberg, a Protestant who wedded the granddaughter of queen Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James I of England. This was an arranged wedding they were both 16 years old at the time. Frederick went to England,…
…talk about the rosicrucians and show how they work into all this. D died an old and broken hearted man, under the reign of James I in 1608, many years after the events of the Sale of the vonage manuscript occurred. Why was he broken hearted? Well he…
…he had been the court astronomer of Elizabeth and the friend of sir Philip Sidney and the most educated man in England when James came to power James had a total horror of the whole magical side of the Elizabethan court and he just dismissed this guy…
…court astronomer of Elizabeth and the friend of sir Philip Sidney and the most educated man in England when James came to power James had a total horror of the whole magical side of the Elizabethan court and he just dismissed this guy as a crank. He…
…Alchemical prince could hope to be young, brilliant, scheming, totally in charge of his lords. He weds Elizabeth, the daughter of James I of England, and he takes the King's Decision to give him his daughter's hand in marriage as tacit approval for…
…marriage as tacit approval for his plan to establish an alchemical kingdom a Protestant Alchemical kingdom in Central Europe. Actually, James, being the conservative that he was, had a far more machiavellian purpose in wedding his daughter to Frederick the…
…revival. I won't go into the details, but a young prince of the northern leagues and his queen, who was the daughter of James of England and was named Elizabeth after her grandmother had managed to gain control of the empire, had been elected in fact he…
…Bernadette and cosmos are hers. Ruth powers, Mary Alice Appelman, pat Shepard, Mary Jane Warren, Julie and Steve Schwartzander a new member. James and Carol Bowman, a new member in an IBM match and jeff Heiberg Another new member. Our pledge number is 471…
…of flight say far more about the nature of the human soul than they do about technology. This is again this idea of James Joyce's that man would become dirigible. I haven't mentioned the flying saucer here this morning but this is one of the things that…
…a lot. Well, this question, though of the role of hallucinogens in Taoist practice is not well understood. If you know James Ware's book the number, the attention given to fungi is out of all proportion. I mean their pharmacopoeia was largely fungal.…
…truth so it's a little puzzling as to why. But definitely that's right. That's right. Also, I have something to do with what James calls the cognitive imperative that things happen because we believe that's right. So a lot of the use of all these things…
…mechanical realms by becoming the teensy beensy option. Maybe we're going to invent an engine the equivalent of the spin dizzy in James Blish's Novel cities in flight. If it could invent a spin dizzy engine we could build a starship and just leave the…
…the good. And the true and some beauty is. I mean I'm a fan of extreme forms of beauty, Hieronymus Bosch and redon and James Ensor I mean the beautiful can be grotesque. Of course this then opens up a whole aesthetic can of worms that maybe we don't…
…we took ayahuasca on a Wednesday, We'd be having a simultaneous experience, quite so if we really did, we'd be loaded. James, how would you compare the nature of reality or perceived reality under ayahuasca and under mushrooms? Well, the thing about…
…19th century going on in the field of the study of magnetism and electricity. People like Faraday and Helmholtz and James Clerk Maxwell were discovering. Well, fields are extremely umm, sort of metaphysical phenomena. I mean they are invisible, they pervade…
…Elizabeth the son of James of England his wife. Now Frederick here made a serious miscalculation because he thought that if James would give the hand of his daughter in marriage, that this was his way of blessing this alchemical conspiracy. Actually what…
…from the habsburgs. And the winter of 16 18 they ruled there and began to lay the groundwork for the faithlessness and duplicity of James I of England. He did not support them in spite of the fact that the fate of his daughter hung in the balance and…