c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…trip because I was such a case going into it. I mean, if you had known me when I was 19 years old, I was into Jean Paul Sartre, Alfred Camus, Marxism, Freud. I was a jerk and I came down from it and I said, I can't believe it. That was all I…
…living in cities or something like that, that nature becomes silent on the question of the transcendental. You know, Jean Paul Sartre, when he formulated his philosophy in the fifties, said, nature is muted, therefore, man can only look within himself…
…in my life. Yeah that's my story exactly. I mean I was raised Catholic, escaped through that to Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, Merleau Ponty, Husserl, Heidegger, Positivism, phenomenology and then came DMT and I just realized that the entire enterprise of…
…am the last 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…
…of us may not. We are all strongly influenced by the notion of fate, of our powerlessness in an existential world. Jean Paul Sartre said: nature is mute and we, embedded in the media dense message dense programming dense matrix of these hyper societies…