c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…can entertain the idea that all of us will die and that in fact, somehow this is what it's for. The argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges had this idea that a species is not free until the last member of the species dies. And that's, you know, fairly…
…is the main vein of the peculiar I always talk about, and I might as well. Again, what the hell? That short story by Jorge Luis Borges in labyrinths called the sect of the phoenix. Do you know that story? It's a page and a half long, and it talks…
…vaporize nine minutes later and all life would die instantly. Interesting concept. Die instantly. You know, the argentine surrealist writer Jorge Luis Borges has a story. I can't remember what it's called, but the idea of this story is that a species cannot…
…a hint, just a touch. It's very hard to get. I have an almost mystical attitude toward it. Some of you may know Jorge Luis Borges book labyrinths. Well in labyrinths there's a story called the sect of the Phoenix and if you go back and read the sect…
…dark about what is going on and how many people do know. Some of you may know a story by the argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges, a story called the cult of the Phoenix and he says: there there is a cult. Its practitioners have suffered in every pogrom…
…keep my mouth shut. It's a very suggestive short story. I'm sure many of you know and love the argentine surrealist writer Jorge Luis Borges. Well Borges has a book, I believe it's called labyrinth, and in labyrinth there is a short story called the sex…
…shut. It's a very suggestive short story. I'm sure many of you know and love the argentine surrealist writer Jorge Luis Borges. Well Borges has a book, I believe it's called labyrinth, and in labyrinth there is a short story called the sex of the Phoenix…
…to keep my mouth shut. A very suggestive short story I'm sure many of you know and love the argentine surrealist writer Jorge Luis Borges. Well, Borges has a book, I believe it's called labyrinths, and in labyrinths there is a short story called the sect…
…shut. A very suggestive short story I'm sure many of you know and love the argentine surrealist writer Jorge Luis Borges. Well, Borges has a book, I believe it's called labyrinths, and in labyrinths there is a short story called the sect of the Phoenix…
…we are has become trapped in a lower dimensional matrix and our greatest delusion is to cling to this most tenaciously. Jorge Luis Borges in one of his stories has this idea that the species, any species is somehow not completed in eternity until the…
…it's who don't quite make the extinct of the moment. Well the structure well you know here's the idea of the Jorge Luis Borges the argentine surrealist he had an interesting idea. He felt that a species could not enter hyperspace, whatever that means,…
…since aboriginal times. We used to, years and years ago, call it the secret. And in a way, it really is the secret. Jorge Luis Borges has a story called The Cult of the Phoenix. And he talks about a secret that seems profound and yet preposterous to…
…it's who don't quite make the extinct of the moment. Well the instruction, well you know here's the idea of the Jorge Luis Borges, the argentine surrealist. He had an interesting idea. He felt that a species could not enter hyperspace, whatever that means,…
…there in the funerary art of Egypt. It is umm well I mean there are certain. There's a story a very interesting story by Jorge Luis Borges called umm the sect of the Phoenix. Do any of you know that story? It takes a page and a half and he starts…