c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…it. We slowed down after that. It was an extremely complex event, this thing which happened. I mean, what was happening, which Kat describes as my cheeky interview with the thing, was, in the first pass of hallucinations, it had presented this notion, a…
…in the middle of the Amazon jungle. And it said, you know, so this is going back and forth. And about that time, Kat says, I'm feeling hot. So then we go outside, and I didn't see anything. But she was clearly slipping into unconsciousness. And. And…
…suppose, and that it communicates through shedding hallucinogenic molecules into the natural environment? But one thing that occurred to me while Kat was talking about invoking and how it could be anything you wanted it to be and how it could meet you…
…think about it. We think of the 20th century as the most rapidly evolving century that there has ever been. A few years ago, Kat and I took the children to Mexico to wander around looking at the mayan ruins. We were in San Cristobal de las Casas,…
…of that. We bought land in Hawaii, incorporated it as a 501, bought more land and our hobby. And by we, I mean my wife Kat and I, she really runs this on a day to day basis. We try to save plants with a history of medical importance in tribal…
…think about it. We think of the 20th century as the most rapidly evolving century that there has ever been. A few years ago, Kat and I took the children to Mexico to wander around looking at the mayan ruins. We were in San Cristobal de las Casas,…
…the dissolving of boundaries into the world, the discovery, then, of the transcendental Presence. You know, the scholastics had a notion which Kat and I used when we named our little company. The reason we named it lux Natura. What that means is the light…
…an internal state, a private musing of somebody else. And when the two things come together, the coincidence of it is absolutely excruciating. Kat had an experience. She's not here to tell it, but she went to Mexico when she was 19 and traveled all over…
…that were connected with psychedelics, but the main function of the psychedelic was to get me to be still for a long time. Kat had a wonderful experience on a mexican pyramid. She was exploring it. She took lsd or something and fell asleep. And when she…
…is all part of this thing. I had a very satisfying experience. Experience recently, a guy, a publisher and editor, came to see Kat and I from Australia, and we talked about all this stuff. And he was a fellow psychedelico, and he said, nobody had ever…
…intimation that we might see some continuation of the cloud related phenomena that had been a part of the experience at la charrera. Kat complained of being very hot and agreed we should go outdoors. We were very unsteady on our feet and though kat said…
…that going outdoors would be sufficient to cool her off. Outside we stood unsteadily in the front yard. The night was overcast. Kat seemed to be lapsing in and out of consciousness. It was becoming harder and harder to rouse her. She kept saying that…
…conveyed by the mushroom but a force inside the continuum that the mushroom makes available, a force that is seemingly morally ambiguous. Kat was having a UFO Close contact experience while I was seeing nothing. It was a contact fraught with danger and the…
…thank Clea McKenna for being very smart and funny. Thank the mushroom. Terrence is his own voice. Dennis plays himself. Kat remembers herself. Bertrand Davies is Guzman and plays piano. Witotos speak witoto. Phillip porter plays sitar and electric guitar. Roy…
…here now saving people from the grief of p e is, I think a major way to heal the culture. When we were living in Hawaii, Kat asked our son how did he think of himself and he said he thought of himself as an artist and an athlete. And I thought…
…high starch, low protein, high sugar, very few green vegetables kind of diet, may predispose these people to accessing ayahuasca more easily. Kat had no trouble getting off when we were being dosed down there. I had more trouble and I think it was simply…
…an internal state, a private musing of somebody else and when the two things come together the coincidence of it is absolutely excruciating. Kat had an experience she's not here to tell it, but she went to Mexico when she was 19 and traveled all over…