c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…psychedelic thing can be seen as when it's done with plants is a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine. James Joyce talks about what he calls the mama matrix most mysterious. That's what you're seeing, those lights against darkness, all that stuff.…
…much distance as we traversed from the Big Bang to this afternoon in terms of how quickly things are going to unfold. James Joyce said, man will be dirigible. It's a wonderful thing to hope for. One thing that I've been fascinated with the time ladies…
…which the book brings into any society. In addition to the split within the individual of that society. The work of James Joyce exhibits a complex clairvoyance in these matters. His Leopold Bloom of Ulysses, a man of many ideas and many devices, is…
…reef of extruded psychic objects. And the tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three dimensional space. It's as James Joyce said, it's the problem of how man may be dirigible, right? And how man may be dirigible is basically by turning…
…which the book brings into any society, in addition to the split within the individual of the that society. The work of James Joyce exhibits a complex clairvoyance in these matters. His Leopold Bloom of Ulysses, a man of many ideas and many devices, is a…
…and we can erect the kind of civilization that we want to erect. And this vision was anticipated by no less a sphere than James Joyce who said: if you want to be Phoenix, come and be parched up me hence, prospector, here in moycayne we flop on the…
…we manage to get out of the galaxy, then you know. He's talking in a genius form of way it's like a shot between James Joyce and I don't know. He's drawing these images which are so clever I couldn't write it down and I could never reproduce it. I…
…reef of extruded psychic objects and the tool is the flying saucer or the soul exteriorized in three dimensional space. It's as James Joyce said: it's the problem of how man may be dirigible. And how man may be dirigible is basically by turning himself…
…and his campaign in Britain to control the picts. I mean don't ask me what, but it has something to do with it. James Joyce was the person who understood this. He understood that a guy trying to buy some kidneys to fry for his breakfast was actually…
…of resonances and interference patterns that have to do with other times. The person who has used this most effectively, I think, is James Joyce, who wrote a book some of you may know called Ulysses, and on one level Ulysses is the story of a guy named…
…the transcendental object that in a way this is it in the sense that this is like a map of it because this has, as James Joyce said, all space in a nutshell, it has all of space and time bound into it. Now this morning has been pretty tough sledding…
…the dark ages in the resonance. A lot of this is for the production of humor. I hope you realize, if you're fans of James Joyce and understand how Ulysses is constructed what's going on in Ulysses is a man is trying to buy some kidneys to take back…
…and in that sense it's a little hard for me to talk about because what the psychedelic experience reveals is what James Joyce called the plurabilities, in other words multiplicity. It says the universe doesn't have 10 high 16 objects in it it has…
…Hamburger joint this has something to do with the emperor Hadrian and his campaigns in Britain. In other words it's the James Joyce Perception that a man attempting to buy kidneys for his breakfast in 1905 in Dublin is somehow repeating the peregrinations…
…such a hen? Only the one who could have fashioned the peculiar world that we had fallen into and that one is James Joyce. Over the next few minutes he proceeded to make his case that Finnegan's wake represented the most complete understanding of the…
…time and language is the most etherealized and present form of time. The trick is to realize that in the way that James Joyce must have realized it because he understood that speech makes mountains which is essentially what I'm saying and I think this is…
…psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants is a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine. James Joyce talks about what he calls the mama matrix. Most mysterious. That's what you're seeing those lights against darkness, all that stuff…
…is the most etherealized and present form of time. And you know the trick is to realize that in the way that James Joyce must have realized it because he understood you know that speech makes mountains, which is essentially what I'm saying and I think…
…psychedelic and cybernetic in his magic. Mel seales got his PhD at Oxford University in England studying the linguistics of James Joyce in the English Language one of the great pioneers of psychedelic brain exploration is the great celtic Bard James Joyce.…
…of James Joyce in the English Language one of the great pioneers of psychedelic brain exploration is the great celtic Bard James Joyce. And now, in the last decades of the 20th century, professor mel seales at Penn state university is pioneering, I think…
…with a bang because the first cycle began with a bang. So what we have here are a series of god love him. As James Joyce said, we have a series of viconian thunders here, and the atom bomb bursting over Hiroshima is literally a resonant echo of the…
…the universe. This is a theory of history that sees it as a field of resonances. This is why I'm so keen on James Joyce because he was also discovered right about that time he was LSD. Oh LSD, right. Yeah, yeah, pardon me that your theory concept…
…which is an interlocking set of homeostatic regulations that create and maintain equilibrium on the planet. It's the nurturing what James Joyce called the mama matrix most mysterious and that's what we've lost touch with and it's made our historical journey…
…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 of at least la terrera. And the funny…
…I think that the creativity that can be called upon once the old institutional structures begin to dissolve is going to create, as James Joyce said man will be dirigible. A quaint term, a quaint way of putting it. But have you been to palenque? Oh yeah…
Finnegan's wake is the last and most ambitious and most puzzling work of the British writer James Joyce who of course wrote dubliners and Ulysses. And if Ulysses is the algebra of literature, then Finnegan's wake is the partial differential equation. Most…
…the reason why I think of it as eschatological and apocalyptic, is because he really you know it's hard to tell we don't have James Joyce around to ask how much of this material he took seriously and how much of it was grist for his literary mill but…
…easy to make original discoveries. It's easy to see and understand things which probably have not been seen or understood since James Joyce put it there, because he had this kind of all inclusive intelligence. Maybe I didn't make clear enough why that, to…
…in fact a backsliding masturbator and a monster and so forth and so on as one always is, if one is trapped in a James Joyce Novel, then this puzzling list in the second paragraph is simply a list of things which haven't happened yet. Now this is this…
…an actual act of apprehension, of understanding, and that this act of apprehension involves everything. This is why the alchemic, before James Joyce and this kind of literature, the only place where you got these kinds of constructs was in alchemy and magic…
…the stuff generated out of the alembic of history is this transdimensional cyber electric literalization of the imagination. You know James Joyce said man will be dirigible. What he meant was that the raw stuff of the unconscious will be downloaded into…
…forth and so on, when those values are dissolved, what is waiting there is this incredibly poignant experience of matrix what James Joyce called the mama matrix most mysterious, nothing more than our bodies and the earth out of which our bodies came.…
…have fallen into a peculiar place, and yet there is still the intimation of a transcendent possibility. You know in Finnegan's wake James Joyce, speaking of the red light District of Dublin which is called moy cane, said: here in moy cane we flop on the…
…they have, and rock and roll generally is an extremely powerful form of shamanic performance when I look over the 20th century, James Joyce, for what he did for language, the permission he gave to make language a living object. Jackson Pollock is a great…
…planet itself this is the moment of empowering, this is what all the shamanism of the past built toward this final magical invocation. James Joyce said man will be dirigible. That's simply a way of saying that we will find a way to make our dreams and…
…that act and the emperor Hadrian's Campaigns in Britain before the fall of the roman empire. This is the amazing thing which James Joyce used and understood in the construction of his literary works that a man leaving his home in Dublin on a day in…
…the biosphere, the invalidation of intelligence as an adaptation of biology, and our extinction, or we are going to become as James Joyce dreamed we could: man made dirigible is how he put it in other words the exteriorization of the soul, the…
…muted as massive parallel processing and neural nets and stuff like this. So I don't know where all this rests. You know James Joyce said man will be dirigible, which is like the flying saucer faith. I would like to think that the philosopher's stone is…
…in fact passing through the Hadrian Analogic moment. Now I think the only person who has really understood this to bedrock is probably James Joyce, who realized that a walk to the store is the trojan war. It is the trojan war. You cannot pass through a…
…recourse to the metaphors of alchemy, alchemy and modern science. These are anticipations of taking control of energy, of binding, as James Joyce says all space in a nutshell. It's where what the concrescence is is the flowing together of everything in a…
…pardon me, yes but that's not exactly that's a thanatos, not a metamorphosis. But I think you know this is a creatosis. James Joyce said man will be dirigible. Man will be dirigible. I agree, I mean dirigible I don't know dirigible. You mean dirigible no…
…my god I don't know what it was but I hope it doesn't come back. That human history has that quality. I mean James Joyce should be mentioned here saying: history is the nightmare from which I'm trying to awaken, and the whole structure of his novels,…
…and we can erect the kind of civilization that we want to erect. And this vision was anticipated by no less a seer than James Joyce who said: if you want to be phoenixed come and be parked up in the yent prospector. Here in moy cane we flop on…
…which the book brings into any society, in addition to the Split Within the individual of that society. The work of James Joyce exhibits a complex clairvoyance in these matters. His Leopold Bloom of Ulysses, a man of many ideas and many devices, is…
…soul to become visible, we want the body to become an idea freely commanded in the imagination. And then at that point as James Joyce said, man will be dirigible. That was as close as he could get in 1939 to saying: you'll turn into a flying saucer.…
…structures that has such an enormous forward momentum that the only place where it can Express itself without destroying itself is, as James Joyce says, up in the ant so long, long ago in the faraway galaxy. Star wars style may be in our future. Well…
…fury that signifies nothing. So it's as though the meaning itself is in our hands. What shall we make of this? Is it just as James Joyce said, atoms and ifs or is there a plan, a process, a plot and a role for us that will give us some dignity in…
…then immediately after dying you're just a dead person. But then you begin to unfold and test the boundaries and you know, as James Joyce says in Finnegan's wake up in the end prospector you sprout all your worth and woof your wings and that's just in…
…in. It's the thing that we hate most of all. We fear it we really get agitated when death is raised as an issue. James Joyce called it the grim reaper, a blessing in disguise: if you want to be phoenixed come and be parked meaning, you know you have…
…I maintain that this is actually somehow a Universal Attractor represent a concrescence of complexity that is truly transcendental. You know James Joyce said if you want to be phoenixed you've got to be parked up in the yen prospector you sprout all your…
…structures that has such an enormous forward momentum that the only place where it can Express itself without destroying itself is, as James Joyce says, up in the end, so long, long ago in the faraway galaxy. Star wars style may be in our future. Well…
…perceived and understood without ambiguity and beauty is the stuff that lies under the skin of our individual existences. You know, James Joyce said in Pennington's wake he said we sprout on the sunny side here in moy cane, meaning in the red light…
…planet. So what we need is to figure out how to get a spigot into that and get this stuff out. And then, as James Joyce said, man will be dirigible. Well, we said, I think, that when you take psychedelics, you go up a dimension. And so this world…
…I see what the I Ching is, but I don't see the relationship. Well, here it is in a nutshell, or a not-shell, as James Joyce said. I was not a sinologist. I was not a scholar of Confucian or Han dynasty occultism. The good news is the part of…
…that this is actually somehow a Universal Attractor and we represent a concrescence of complexity that is truly transcendental. You know James Joyce said if you want to be Phoenix, You've got to be parked up in the end. Prospector, you sprout all your…
…at that point you will discover the alchemical paraclete will be given unto you the alchemical dispensation will be given and as James Joyce said, man will be dirigible. What did he mean? He meant that we will lose the limitations of physical and three…
…for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom and this is why people like James Joyce, though arcane and difficult to pierce seem to me central to understanding this because they're saying something about the…
…where we're going to live in the future, that's what we were born for that's where we are at our best in 3d. Well as James Joyce says in Finnegan's wake, here in moy cane we flop on the seamy side, moy cane being the red light District of Dublin but…
…as much distance as we've traversed from the big bang to this afternoon in terms of how quickly things are going to unfold. James Joyce said man will be dirigible. It's a wonderful thing to hope for. Do you have any one thing that I mean? I've been…
…eye and begins to dissolve it you know and the linear, you know the columns and lines that's how narrative was until James Joyce and Henry James and people like that showed that narrative could be broken up. Modernism is a form of primitivism. Strangely…
…words what would we do if we could do anything? Would our transcendent impulses drive us to a kind of angel hood? Or as James Joyce says would we flop on the scenic side? And the answer normally given is: some would do one and some the other? Yes,…
…the shamanizing person into another dimension, literally another dimension. And in that other dimension all of time and space is beheld, as James Joyce said in a nutshell. And in the nutshell of time and space, everything is seen to be a part and an…
…done and proposed. But after the DMT experience I realized that there is unclaimed stuff out in those dimensions. You know James Joyce says in Finnegan's wake upneant prospector, you sprout all your worth and woof your wings. Well, the key word is…
…the duration. Do you see how the idea of the resonance works? It works in a very literary fashion, somewhat in the way that James Joyce wrote Ulysses. You know Ulysses is the story of a man who seeks to buy kidneys for his breakfast in Dublin, but in…
…Terrence turned me on most is his incredible ability with the English Language. If you can imagine a combination of Plotinus, James Joyce, Lord Buckley, Ice t and charlie parker, that would give you some idea of Terrence's Abilities. Anyway so let's bring…
…reef of extruded psychic objects, and the tool is the flying saucer or the soul exteriorized in three dimensional space. As James Joyce said it's the problem of how man may be dirigible. And how man may be dirigible is basically by turning himself…
…any century people could have had this commerce with the end of time with the far future with the place where, as James Joyce said man becomes dirigible the place where, you know we have bootstrapped ourselves to the point where we leave the planet,…
…of gaian mind. For paleolithic human beings it was the great goddess. Once you sever from this matrix of meaning what James Joyce called the mama matrix most mysterious, once you sever yourself from that, then you have nothing but rationalism, ego and male…
…of it it's not simply that we are estates, literatures and that here in the twilight of the gods we should sit around reading James Joyce. That isn't the point. The point is that this is the distillation of our experience of what it is to be human and…
…competition, yes yes the final affirmation yes. Sam Beckett, Nobel prize winner, genius in his own right but secretary to James Joyce for many, many years and passionately in love with Joyce's Tragically schizophrenic daughter, you want an unhappy story, the…
…dichotomy which the book brings into any society in addition to the Split Within the individual of that society. The work of James Joyce exhibits a complex clairvoyance in these matters. His Leopold Bloom of Ulysses a man of many ideas and many devices is…