c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…for I don't know how long is that right I had to keep him in a hotel room and watch him for 12 hours. Who did Kumi and Terence and mike mike's biggest hotel room gee what nice friends to keep after a while keep him together sure they had to watch…
…it was this loose. We went down there my brother was to join us he was the impetus for the expedition Sarah Michael Kumi Dennis me and Sia. What we were looking for was we were very interested in tryptamine narcotics and it seemed from our experience…
…Lasky who is like right a gay meditator that was his role a pottery and embroider blue jeans a happy flower child right Kumi Dennis my brother who had never been to a foreign country 25 years ago who's the botanist right and about him you'll hear…
…they had kindly said we could have their apartment. So in the week or two weeks where we were getting together equipment why Kumi and I evolved a relationship. Or the beginning of a relationship which a bum Sarah Hartley Outrageous school so there was a…
…and come with us to the Amazon basin. So we pile on this air force airplane and we land in Florencia right Michael Sarah Dennis Kumi and I her dog and tons of equipment which is to be ported down the Amazon see is at the airport waiting thinking that…
…because the dead and dying littered the field. So this guy came and he said: yahe, a day up the river, this and that so Kumi and I said we'll go because she speaks Spanish None of the REST of them did, and so we'll go. We went and we stayed…
…exposed and there seemed to be a kind of distance developing which was dividing us into two groups Sarah and Michael Lasky and Dennis Kumi and I were the two opposing groups so we spent this night in this small house and it was very very leaky leaky…
…we would take a big trip we were experimenting with the dosage so the next time we'll take a big trip. We took 25 apiece Kumi, Dennis and I took 25 apiece Michael and Sarah were supposed to come up to our house about 3 in the afternoon to get…
…a building in Nepal. So my brother became very agitated and he said it was all about you've heard the sound I don't know Kumi very well now I'm hearing the sound. We have to get an objective observer in here because it's just too strange what's going…
…candle burned over on its side and it was like it seemed to violate gravity and it wasn't getting any shorter. And Dennis and Kumi were. I was just I was just frantic that they were going to tip over the yahé because they were getting clumsier and…
…and other people could see these rainbows. In other words, we didn't get anything absolutely empirical out of this at this point but Kumi can vouch that it was pretty peculiar and on the 16th day or the 14th day or something in the afternoon I walked…
…rocks and I looked across the river in the southeast again and I saw again the spectrogrammatic diffraction in the sky and I said to Kumi: do you see a rainbow across the river? And she looked and she said no and by this time I had stopped forcing my…
…get in there and then hit the panic button and fly out by emergency plane and it just stung my pride. So we went back Kumi and I. Well we lived there six months in ecstasy and I wrote much of this book then. And you take mushrooms there weren't so…