c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…example rather than by the imparting of information that you can take away. And then whenever this question is asked, unlike my acquaintance John Lilly, I always feel like I have to say to people, if you're going to take a new drug you should go to the…
…not have an ideological agenda or anything like that whatsoever. My question to you is: you're familiar with the writings of John Lilly? Sure, in my neighborhood there's actually an isolation tank center and I regularly go down there with mushrooms and I'll…
…your affinity group. It's preposterous demeaning and unhealthy to focus on one person you know the Terence McKenna, the Tim Leary the John Lilly I mean hell yes we're great people but so are you and this is your affinity group. Someone in this room has…
…down and then you're into the other phase behind you. There was another question yeah I was going to say that John Lilly has an interesting kind of speculation about the future possibilities of solid state entities in his autobiography the scientist. But I…
…into marine biology just to spend time with these things. They're quite amazing and they have very large brain capacity. I think John Lilly was all mixed up to look for mind in the water that it was mammalian chauvinism that drove them to dolphins and…
…are you comfortable? Well you shouldn't be the planet's going to shit in a handbag. No, I mean that's just my John Lilly Imitation. It's not me at all. I'll circulate these now if you're interested in an intensive rainforest ethno psychobotany intensive at…
…everyone? And are you comfortable? Well you shouldn't be the planet's going to shit in a handbag. No I'm, I'm that's just my John Lilly Imitation. It's not me at all. In order to make sure we all understand the domain we're operating from here I would…
…example rather than by the imparting of information that you can take away. And then whenever this question is asked, unlike my acquaintance John Lilly, I always feel like I have to say to people: if you're going to take a new drug, you should go to…
…any other view which is either a sign that I'm slowly losing my mind or I'm slowly just eventually I'll just be like John Lilly I just want to give a shit really say what I think but I really believe that authentic shamanism is psychedelic shamanism.…
…get a new look. At the human enterprise than by availing yourself of the tools and the compounds which men like John Lilly, Albert Hoffman, Richard Schultes, Gordon Wasson, Oscar Janager have placed before us. Don't let anyone tell you that we're not…
…quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyper dimensional and extremely alien. The god that John Lilly talks to, that they play these games with about moral values and setting the constraints of the universe is not…
…out a strategy, chemical or otherwise, to work on a problem like that. Oh people like frank Barr, Sasha Shulgin, my brother, John Lilly, if he would behave himself all these great people you know would have a great interest in this. This is the question…