c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…of the role of hallucinogens in European History is the Ellison Ian Mysteries and probably you're familiar with. Albert Hoffman Karl Ruck and Gordon Watson wrote a book called the road to elusives in which they argue very very convincingly that the…
…understanding of the role of hallucinogens in European History is the eleusinian mysteries and probably you're familiar with Albert Hoffman Karl Ruck and Gordon Watson wrote a book called the road to elusives in which they argue very very convincingly that…
…of the past couple of millennia and return to a world where the logos was a realized phenomena and we heard from Karl Ruck last night about the hallucinian mysteries. This was not a minor phenomenon. Over a period of 2 000 years, everyone who was…
…who was anyone in the ancient world made the pilgrimage to Eleusis and had this experience, which Gordon Wasson and Karl Ruck have argued very convincingly was a hallucinogenic intoxication on ergot. But of course as soon as the church solidified its…
…ahead. But as a matter of fact he is a thinker of extreme breadth and depth. It was he working with Karl Ruck and Gordon Watson, who proposed that it was actually psychoactive ergot alkaloids that lay behind the eleusinian mysteries and thereby rubbed…
…who was anyone in the ancient world made the pilgrimage to Eleusis and had this experience, which Gordon Wasson and Karl Ruck have argued very convincingly was a hallucinogenic intoxication on ergot. But of course as soon as the church solidified its…
…work in all of this he's in Germany. I think that hallucinogens are basic to humanness and always have been. You know Karl Ruck and Wasson wrote a very convincing book to show that the hallucinian mysteries were an ergot, a cult of ergot intoxication. I…
…that featured a number of established and emerging luminaries, including Albert Hoffman, Sasha Shulgin, Andrew Weil, Ralph Metzner, Karl Ruck, Walter Houston Clark and others. Terence's Edgy talk was titled hallucinogens monkeys discover a hyperspace, AKA return…