c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…public relations move and force an evaluation of where we've been and where do we want to go. Well, let's see. 954, King Canute unites England and invades Norway. We started there. We end. Now. George Bush invades Iraq. It looks like we haven't come very…
…the calendar as a club saying: do you want to enter the third millennium armament like barbarians do you want to be just like King Canute? He was who was in charge at the turn of the last millennium he wanted to hold two knotheads or do you want to…
…get squeezed together like they could all have dinner together. But you know, Plotinus is as far from Plato as we are from King Canute. So you have to bear in mind the scale of history. But so 900 to a thousand years after Plato a byzantine school…
…What do you imagine will be left standing that you call home? What will cast your mind back a thousand years? King Canute was taking charge of things across northern Northumbria, and the Anglo-Saxons were making forays along the coast of Norway, and, you…
…the slow-moving. part of the process. We're going to move in the next 10 years further than we've moved since the time of King Canute to this morning. it seems to me the most unlikely future scenario is one which assumes things will stay more or less…