Terence McKenna
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…to both sets of parties and I think I was a fairly dark person as an adolescent. I mean my heroes were William Burroughs, Jean Genet and that crowd. And then I smoked DMT I had taken LSD before and I got the idea that there was something mighty…
…Norman Rockwell, rock of ages, silent night, Rosemary Clooney and you know and I said no no Jackson Pollock, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Carl Yaspers, Martin Heidegger I didn't know what these things meant I just knew they were mantras that kept straight…
…person to ever carry this message into Society I was raised Catholic. I rejected it at age 14. Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Genet, Friedrich Nietzsche, these were my gods and I felt you know that moral responsibility, existential honesty demands that we put…
…a brac of late roman thinking, what you have is a thoroughgoing existentialism completely compatible with jean Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and the kind of intellectual despair that characterized the post world war Ii Generation in Europe. Heidegger is…