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.
…Essentially, the American dream perfected itself in my generation. I came out of the University, I had read Plato, Hobbes, Schopenhauer, Jeremy Bent the whole bit. I knew it backwards and forwards. And what did we do we people who had all this…
…mind out of non mind is an event practically on top of us. Now let's start it up and we'll get really down to the Jeremy. Did the progression of time change anything? Well yes in a sense because you see what happens is when you it's a built in…
…it in a box. And this is just the first thing that we thought of. And I don't know if I told you or not, but when Jeremy and I went to Washington D c to take part in this basically like a disclosure conference of sorts we usually go to kind of do…
…sorts we usually go to kind of do our little interviews and talk to different people in the field. And at the end of this Jeremy stood up in front of all the panels were laid out and the whole crowd and he said: you know I'm just curious, you know…
…that. Yeah well we've had that conversation enough on this show I mean it's been and we've covered the gambit before. I think Jeremy and I talking last night were saying that you know, there's a monetary value to sticking to your guns and defending your…
…uncredible if they just abandon their theory that they've been married to for 35 years. Yep, and I'm always the one that, and Jeremy as well, we're the guys saying: you know, why isn't Jacques Vallée? You know he's certainly a well known figure but why…
…they're afraid basically, that it doesn't fit into any paradigm that they can wrap their heads around. And so people like you and Jeremy coming at it from one direction and people like me coming at it from you know this other direction I mean we're just…
…over the course of years and people that I've spoken with it seems to be a constant as far as the experiencer syndrome that Jeremy and I are a part of, is that the more attention, the more focus or borderline obsession on the subject and not just…
…wife what an amazing conversation I had with Dr McKenna and we talked for about two and a half hours and then I called Jeremy and I was telling Jeremy about this and again going from that standpoint of the more attention that's paid to this or the…
…I had with Dr McKenna and we talked for about two and a half hours and then I called Jeremy and I was telling Jeremy about this and again going from that standpoint of the more attention that's paid to this or the focus that's going and of course…
…think a lot of what I've read that your brother has written, a lot of what you and I have talked about a lot of what Jeremy and I have talked about about my fear regarding this stuff, and I said you know I might as well stop with that and just…
…to wake up anyway. Because that kind of thing seems to be rather common with my experiences at least and I was talking to Jeremy about this the next day after work and it's very hard to explain this and it's hard to actually know if I'm saying it…
…way to know and that's to do it. Yeah, I guess we're exactly. So if you audience members would like to hear me and Jeremy take a trip on mushrooms live on the show, send your emails to there's nothing like handling this with the utmost degree of…
…know anything about it? Let me tell you what I think you'll hear when you ask that go ahead, you don't know shit Jeremy, Umm that's right which is why I'm asking: asshole, right, and I will have a heart attack mysteriously, you'll wonder what happened,…