c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…are some axioms. I don't know it's hard to go into this just, but there are some axioms. One of them is taken from Leibniz, who was a very creative man who didn't really get his just desserts. Leibniz talked about monads, monadic space he told me he…
…are some axioms. One of them is taken from Leibniz, who was a very creative man who didn't really get his just desserts. Leibniz talked about monads, monadic space he told me he was crazy in cooking school he told you Leibniz was crazy yeah they said…
…really get his just desserts. Leibniz talked about monads, monadic space he told me he was crazy in cooking school he told you Leibniz was crazy yeah they said he wasn't too smart I mean well not that he wasn't smart but he was correct. Except that…
…time newton was great he was just you know all I got is reduced through the instructor and instructor and a low opinion of Leibniz was 400 years ahead of newton. He was a scientist so I really am not qualified or I don't even have any scientific…
…this is based on the binary system of the two principles, yin and yang, and I can't pronounce his name, but the philosopher Leibniz. Leibniz Leibniz, Yeah he was amazed when he finally discovered it. But of course it would mean that one half would be…
…is based on the binary system of the two principles, yin and yang, and I can't pronounce his name, but the philosopher Leibniz. Leibniz Leibniz, Yeah he was amazed when he finally discovered it. But of course it would mean that one half would be the yin…
…based on the binary system of the two principles, yin and yang, and I can't pronounce his name, but the philosopher Leibniz. Leibniz Leibniz, Yeah he was amazed when he finally discovered it. But of course it would mean that one half would be the yin…
…the interesting thing about the King Wen sequence is that it is not in a logical sequence on the Face of it when Leibniz, the European philosopher got his hands on the I Ching, his jesuit friends shipped him a copy in the 17th century he immediately…
…which are in interrelationship: the space time continuum. This idea does have axioms. A major one is taken from Leibniz. Leibniz talked about monads, monadic space. He envisioned the monads as being like tiny particles which were infinitely reduplicated…
…are in interrelationship: the space time continuum. This idea does have axioms. A major one is taken from Leibniz. Leibniz talked about monads, monadic space. He envisioned the monads as being like tiny particles which were infinitely reduplicated everywhere…
…Jung, Carl Gustav, flying saucers, a modern myth of things seen in the sky and mysterium functionis, New York 1963. Leibniz, Wolfgang Von Monadology in the philosophical works of Leibniz by Duncan G martin translator, new haven, Tuttle Morehouse and taylor…
…things seen in the sky and mysterium functionis, New York 1963. Leibniz, Wolfgang Von Monadology in the philosophical works of Leibniz by Duncan G martin translator, new haven, Tuttle Morehouse and taylor 1890, lewis Wyndham, the human age, ludlow, fritz…
…know, a Chinese Oracle of great antiquity and one of the things that has struck various people who've become involved with it Leibniz, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Jung that it seems to work like psychedelics it seems to be an exception to the general rule…
…on the other hand, the birth of modern science is entirely linked to the establishment of the Universal Postal union, because suddenly Leibniz could send letters to newton and you know all these people could communicate with each other on a scale of weeks…
…moral judgment or my moral understanding is wrong. The world as revealed by quantum physics, as revealed by electronic experience, is what Leibniz called a plenum it's all one thing it's all connected, it's all of a part. So then I also wanted to point…
…your particular take. But it's an angle of regarding transcendental object everybody has their own unique perspective. This is what Leibniz said about the monads, remember he said they're all exactly alike, but each one has its own unique perspective, and…
…see understanding as primarily a mathematical function who was both a platonist and a mathematician. The word apperception, I think, comes from Leibniz during his period when he was writing in French, and so we have to think of him also proposing monads as…
…have? We had the cube, the perfect circle, the dodecahedron, so forth and so on and then through the genius of newton and Leibniz and that crowd, the infinite set of ellipses that we could extract from the section cone that allowed us to do calculus,…
…leaps of new species and stuff like that. And there is of course in historiography a continuity theory that goes back to Leibniz if not before. We are under the influence in our so called modern age of a continuous theory of history, whereas before…
…Leibniz if not before. We are under the influence in our so called modern age of a continuous theory of history, whereas before Leibniz a couple hundred years ago there was more of a feeling of quantum leaps in evolution as far as world cultural history…
…a space in which all points are cotangent. The first philosopher in the west to stumble onto the necessity of this concept was Leibniz, and he had this idea of what he called the monad. Leibniz was accused of inventing the smallest form of god because…
…to stumble onto the necessity of this concept was Leibniz, and he had this idea of what he called the monad. Leibniz was accused of inventing the smallest form of god because his monads were perfect hologrammatic fractal reflections of the entire cosmos.…
…England people like John Locke and Hume and Thomas Hobbes began to work out the social implications of all this, while newton and Leibniz and other people on the continent by the nazi and so forth worked out the implications of the law part of it and…
…you can do and science has a faustian dynamic it dreams of a kind of ultimate resolution they're even talking in here about Leibniz said: in the least of substances, eyes as piercing as those of god could read the whole course of the universe. That's…