Terence McKenna
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The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…but no doubt we are being visited now? Well I certainly believe it's possible to travel in the forward direction. I think Kurt Gödel, as early as 1949, pretty well nailed that down. Cultures create our mental confinement in time. This goes back to the…
…bring you up to speed on the many, many approaches to time travel. It's been known since 1948 there was a paper by Kurt Gödel with a scheme for time travel that would work. It simply requires that you spin a cylinder half the size of the solar…
…travel there are many notions about how time travel could be done and actually we should have been paying attention because Kurt Gödel in 1948 wrote a paper that advanced a scheme for time travel that was within the realm of possibility, possibility I'm…
…just a bunch of competitive farty European Characters publishing and hassling and anything of any substance is totally unsecured. You know Kurt Gödel in 1948 showed that enough people I mean I'm going over time and raving here I'll leave it at this but…
…itself like toilet paper on a roll, and as you traveled up the transverse dimension you would find yourself traveling in time. Kurt Gödel showed this in 1949 and that paper has been lying around. Well obviously that's it's a tough way to do it, but…
…kind of society we're living in because to my mind, more important than Einstein or Schrodinger or any of those people was Kurt Gödel, German Mathematician and he began by studying the calculus and he had a very funny method. What he did was he would…
…every operation in a partial differential equation and these numbers are called gödel numbers g o u m l a t e l, Kurt Gödel, and what he showed and I think this is maybe the most important intellectual step taken in the 20th century he showed that…
…you say on the end of pointing out that it's truth is a very difficult thing to assess. You didn't mention Kurt Gödel, but certainly his proof that no formal system produces all true statements, shows that even ordinary arithmetic is subject to debate…
…but no doubt we are being visited now. Well I certainly believe it's possible to travel in the forward direction. I think Kurt Gödel as early as 1949 pretty well nailed that down: the mind is, cultures create our mental confinement in time. This goes…
…is. There is no truth that is different from opinion. Nothing is secure I mean even mathematics. If you understand Kurt Gödel and people like this, even mathematics is an uncertain enterprise even common arithmetic is an uncertain enterprise. So what are…
…at the beginning and four more epochs or five or ten in a cycle of epochs which might be never ending. There's the Kurt Gödel model, in which time goes forward and closes on itself without reflection by going around a torus and coming back. Many ancient…