c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…to teach people history whether it's true or not because they get a relative scale. They learn that Lincoln is as far from John Kennedy as you know cicero was from Hadrian or something like that. You get a kind of relative picture of time and you learn…
…on a one month scale and this very obvious recurrent pattern. Was he an assassin? No he was looking at John Kennedy, Wallenstein and a number of political assassinations in. Was there a rise in the curve after Kennedy's Assassination? The novelty…
…that the bn and all that change went on. Would the assassination show up on the personal chart or whatever graph of John Kennedy? Well now that's an interesting question. I've never looked at that. There's a lot of work, obviously that can be done with…
…after 1945 return to normalcy and so forth. But then there are these little stumbles along the way called sputnik, assassination of John F Kennedy, so forth and so on and then as you come across the top, right here the great turning point 1967 68 you've…
…when you get into the historical data field because the historical data field can vary over a 24 hour period I mean John F Kennedy Dead, John F Kennedy Alive the difference is 10 minutes, so it can be very highly quantified, specific yeah okay enter…
…historical data field because the historical data field can vary over a 24 hour period I mean John F Kennedy Dead, John F Kennedy Alive the difference is 10 minutes, so it can be very highly quantified, specific yeah okay enter that's 2 million, roughly…
…lower my box the first American Satellite was launched right around there, explorer 1, give me the date. Okay there's the assassination of John Kennedy. As close as I can get it at this resolution, if I go back one, I'm before it. So you see it's right…
…teeth and run with it and he sent me a bunch of assassination printouts on a scale of 30 days: the assassination of John F Kennedy, Wallenstein, Himmler, a bunch of people and there you know it's tantalizing I mean I don't know what to make of this.…