c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…of mental illness unless it's true, and you don't find out until it's too late. So, yes, my question is, are you. Familiar with Jose Arglia's work? Sure. This model that you just talked about sort of fit into that at all? Well, he is another person who…
…an end date, which is the 22 December 2012 AD, the same date that the mayan calendar has chosen for its end date. Well, Jose also picked up that end date. What's interesting to me about this is I chose the date without knowing that the Mayans had…
…why, you know, when the tv cameras arrive in the ecuadoranian village and they boot the medicine man out of his thing, say, well, Jose, what do you think of the fact that the forest is being cleared? The usual reply is, you know, Barry. Blake, as you…
…year and talk about this kind of stuff. This is what I'm going to talk about. Where will it be held? It's in San Jose and NASA Ames. One day. He was over at our neighbor's room. He lives behind Steve. This guy said comedy was busy generating money.…
…expedition and we descended the putumayo river, which is the border between Colombia and Ecuador and Peru, to a place called San Jose Del encanto on the Rio Igaraparanal which flows into the putumayo there and at that point it's a 120 kilometer overland…
…my question had hit a sore point. Nevertheless, we were offered a ride to a point up river near a trail inland to San Jose Del encanto. Yes Dr Guzman is doubtless there. He passed through on his way to return to his language studies only three weeks…
…to traverse. We anticipated the need for quarters to help carry our equipment. Padre Miguel said that we would get some help in San Jose but that now was the time of hunting and men would be reluctant to leave the hunt to hire into an expedition going…
…someone dancing before a fire. Thoughts of ufos left me and I recalled instead the ominous incidents preceding our departure from San Jose Del encanto. Was this a shaman dancing around a small fire? Was it something to do with us? No understanding was…
…71, only a little more than 24 hours after our arrival at la charrera, following the four day walk through the jungle from San Jose Del encanto on the Rio Caraparaná. That entry makes it clear that I was spellbound. It was the last thing that I could…
…now living a pendulum life going between the striving contentious world of the university in Bogota and the tiny village of San Jose Del encanto. Her husband's addiction to chewing coca was much on her mind. Like the males of the tribe, he was a…
…Betty books, Betty White and her thing, you had the first UFO Sightings and the rosicrucians were establishing themselves in San Jose, California and it seemed to grow steadily through the late 40s and the 50s generally in Southern California and even back…
…I went down to see him in Amazon. Did you know that? No no it wasn't quite like that. No when we got to San Jose Del encanto at the mouth of the caraparana, we were told that there was an anthropologist with the huitoto and that he would possibly…
…could hear the siren song but not succumb to it. Maybe some of you remember Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Novel sin años de Soledad Jose Arcadia buendia ties himself to a tree to take detour. And so it does have a tradition, at least in Latin American…
…Joseph's day, which seemed terribly significant at the time because our father's name was Joseph and the priest at la terrera was Jose Maria, and there was all this kind of thing I think it's called delusion of reference. It's where everything is about…
…calls in a single day asking what did I think of the article about me in the San Francisco Examiner or the chronicle or the San Jose Mercury and so on. After all the embers in the fire left by gq had flamed up again in the pen of a journalist, a…
…to learn from these kind of things. I don't agree. Oh that's great to hear. Well I am a consultant for the San Jose Children's discovery museum and we are building something like this for that Museum, I gather. Well it's surrounded by gangs. Well that's…
…it's a proper role for a hermit book collector. So Terrence, You're saying then if I hear you correctly, that we have to, as Jose is saying, we have to get away from this gerorian calendar, this linear view of time that marches on and more of a wave…
…was brought into existence: to help us with a celestial speed up. Well, I mean I think most of these syncretic insights from Jose to a course in miracles, to the seventh day adventists to the fundamentalists in Iran, all of these people are saying what…
…by you, thank you. Maybe we should have psychedelic yellow pages, thank you. I'm about halfway through reading the maya factor by Jose Aguiles and keep reading on because I think maybe if I read one more page I'll understand what the heck he's talking…
…wave. And these things for a long time I called them passages and I called them necks and I called them different things Jose calls them harmonic convergence, something like that and I saw them as places where novelty rushed into the world at a much…
…to find yourself on the other side. But I'm not talking about a historical transformation in quite the same way that I think Jose and perhaps Peter were indicating. I'm talking about a change in physics, not a change in the human heart or the human…
…illness. I'm Barbara Smith and I'm a performing artist and a ceremonialist as well. Lloydine arguelles, co precipitator with Jose. I'm Jose Arguelles, I'm a harmonic convergenist. I'm Ralph Abraham, I'm a precipitate. I'm a regenerate precipitate. My name…
…which this occurs and maybe that is the creation of shamanic time I don't know perhaps in that bottleneck there this may be what Jose and I feel that we're on about is that there's some way of extending that moment to make a bridge. Is that clear? I…
…there's a Meta level about language, system building and meaning. But if we had our hands on that we just said: well of course Jose is right, I'm right everybody's right it's all right but it's all on a level which is not the highest level, and the…
…in a big one or are we not? And the world wide web is just part of the evidence, along with the atomic bomb that Jose Arguello says that was the beginning of the atomic age and everybody has a different theory. Or is it that the millennium is a…
…you know when the TV Cameras arrive in the Ecuadorian Village and they boot the medicine man out of his thing and say: well Jose, what do you think of the fact that the forest is being cleared? The usual reply is: eh, you know very, Christianity or I…
…partnership relationships is that the bonding in one is really coercion. I mean well it used to be. You know the story of don Jose killing carmen. I mean if you dare leave this guy for somebody else he'll kill you so that's a pretty good motivation not…
…very different relationship. So yes I would agree I would say what you're talking about as you characterized it is something that Jose once called Neo Shamanism. That is that we look at a range of cultural and psychological and social behaviors that are…
…the end of this song when the silence fell, she had been just staring at the floor and she looked across the room at don Jose and gave him a look of pure loathing and I saw these red things, these red triangular shaped things come out of her eyes…
…and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects. Thus began priesthood. No way, Jose, choosing forms of worship from poetic tales and at length they pronounced that the gods had ordered such things. Thus…
…we both gave our talks but the real stars were the traditional healers from North America, South America from Asia. One of them, don Jose Rios, also known as matsua, a huichol shaman who at that time was 107 years of age and who was still going strong,…
…Europe for this trip and we were all worried about how he would take that transatlantic crossing. And at the airport we're saying: don Jose how did you feel at your age were you able to make that crossing? He said well I just took a little peyote…
…we would all get together and take ayahuasca, about 30 of us older shamans, our guy, people from the neighborhood and this Sobrino, Don Jose. So I don't know what the real history of it was because I had just arrived on the scene, but these old guys…
…expedition and we descended the putumayo river which is the border between Colombia and Ecuador and Peru, to a place called San Jose Del encanto on the Rio Igaraparanal which flows into the putumayo there and at that point it's a 120 kilometer overland…
…was spent checking our equipment after the rigors of the overland walk and generally relaxing in the casita to which father Jose Maria, the cappuccino in charge had kindly shown us. We gathered more mushrooms that afternoon and dried them near the cooking…
…to sweep me toward unimaginably titanic emotions. Our new wetoto acquaintances were very kind, a different sort from the wetoto of San Jose Del encanto. We were shown their cultivated yahé plants and given cuttings and a bundle of the vines so that we…
…stories, it was John Brown who returned to London with casement to give evidence to the royal high commission investigation. Jose Estacion Rivera, a Colombian historian has told the story differently and implicates brown in the murders, thus providing the…
…looking for Guzman. Is an anthropologist working with the huitoto upriver from San Rafael at a tiny village charmingly called San Jose Del encanto. This village is situated at the beginning of a 110 kilometer trail through the jungle to la charrera. Not…
…and that's it things go perfectly and the courage and love to conceive. That's right. I wanted to throw a question out maybe to Jose because I sense that, well I don't know I mean Terence is talking about now this process of leading up to leaving the…
…and I see all of these things as just completely one thing. And as I said this morning, I think the difference between Jose and I one difference is that he is interested in creating a planetary consciousness out of the surrender of the ego of…