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The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.

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Jonathan Swift

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5:53

…about the circumstances of the time forced him to set it entirely in the 1760s and write it in the language of Jonathan Swift. So you know it's not in the ordinary sense contemporary it isn't about scarified people with dilemmas. It's about people who…

37:55

…a very obscure reference that there is a great incest and sister theme in Finnegan's wake and the twin the mistresses of Jonathan Swift become carriers of a huge amount of energy in here as do the mistresses of Thomas Stern, because it's better to be…

2:48:55

…get this? However there are odd examples of what appear to be unbelievably unlikely coincidences or good guesses. For example, Jonathan Swift wrote gulliver's travels and he describes in there the presence of two moons around mars and their relative size and…

22:02

…a small scale through models. They study animals and plants they try to develop a Universal Language. This was satirized by Jonathan Swift in the third book of gulliver's travels, the voyage to laputa, where there's this kind of mad academy with all these…

22:54

…of stuff he can hardly move around with it. Anyway there's a satire of this kind of scientific utopianism written by Jonathan Swift in the first half of the 18th century. That scientific utopianism got built into the ideal of progress, of technological and…