Terence McKenna
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…I try to think about what I'm doing and how the rap is evolving and the world and the tension between these things, you know, Leo came to see what's new. This is a question that I ask myself about. This rap is what's new? And then there's always a…
…Marie Kwon. I'm Marie Kwon and I'm an artist who uses the dark and much else. My name is Hugh and I'm a friend of Leo. You know Leo, rocks are rocks. I'm Sia. The work I do is involving helping people to explore the use of the sex economy without…
…I'm Marie Kwon and I'm an artist who uses the dark and much else. My name is Hugh and I'm a friend of Leo. You know Leo, rocks are rocks. I'm Sia. The work I do is involving helping people to explore the use of the sex economy without the use of…
…connections, so institutional right, it will be more appropriate for our life. Right, like social objects, absolutely. Do you know franco de Leo? No, this is Victor Rupo. Franco did a lot of, in fact the only research allowed on LSD in the United States…
…the possibility of that I said: why Waffle? What is worth holding on to that's worth waffling about. Well I once said to Leo I'm sure you knew Leo I said to him in that meeting I said Leo, You're you're finished you're completed, you're you're baked…
…I said: why Waffle? What is worth holding on to that's worth waffling about. Well I once said to Leo I'm sure you knew Leo I said to him in that meeting I said Leo, You're you're finished you're completed, you're you're baked me I'm half baked and I…
…to that's worth waffling about. Well I once said to Leo I'm sure you knew Leo I said to him in that meeting I said Leo, You're you're finished you're completed, you're you're baked me I'm half baked and I hope that the REST of my life will finish the…
…essentially failed. Now very recently, a gentleman on the east coast named Dr Leo Levitov and this is the answer to the question Leo Levitov wrote a book called the solution to the Voynich Manuscript and he has, he believes, figured out what it is. And…
…to do with some type of alien intelligence? No I think the vonage manuscript is a solved problem and that this guy Leo Levertov's Translation is correct. What we found was you know it was a catharite manual for the dying. That's much more exciting…
…have it totally take me out of control, to have it be totally in charge. And then you just have to take the plunge and I always, Leo used to have a prayer which I can't do the prayer but I got the idea and the basic idea is here I am. I trusted…
…accountable for and the shakiness still about it the lack of project and vision and we are you know omega, we are pluto in Leo, we were the ones that wanted self growth and self development for everybody, and now we have pluto in sag and we have to…
…water and you would die in that state. You did not die a natural death and this was called the consolamentum. Well what Leo Levitoff is claiming is that the vonage manuscript is a description, a manual for the perfect eye of the catharite sect, telling…
I'm Terence McKenna. I knew Leo for the last five years of his life. I feel deeply honored to be asked to speak at this occasion. There are many people here I'm sure, who knew Leo Longer and on more intimate terms than I myself did. I felt when I…
…many people here I'm sure, who knew Leo Longer and on more intimate terms than I myself did. I felt when I stood near Leo that I stood near a giant, and what the experience of standing near a giant was was the experience of the wisest, kindest,…
…was was the experience of the wisest, kindest, gentlest, funniest man that I have ever had the privilege to know. When I first met Leo I was so impressed by his vitality. After the public meeting at which we met, I cornered him in private and I said:…
…met Leo I was so impressed by his vitality. After the public meeting at which we met, I cornered him in private and I said: Leo I want to ride in your canoe. I don't care where you're going, I just want to be in your canoe. And he said: you're…
…that his saying that to me inducted me into a group of people that I think of as Leo's Tribe. Leo's people, and for Leo's Tribe. Leo was our chief. He was the secret chief. He had no theory to push. He had no axe to grind in his chosen field, which…
…that kat and I founded, and Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Messner and Ralph Abraham and umm old Leo Zemp some of you may know Leo. He died recently he was on our board and what we do is we preserve plants with a history of human usage, especially…
…to its own rules. You stand present, you stand ready and then you do as little as possible, and everyone who has ever had Leo sit for them knows that that was exactly how he worked. One of the goals of Leo's life was the search for the perfect…
…that he has found that perfect tie. There was a passage in Renier Maria Rilke's Letters to a young poet that was very important to Leo. He read it to me twice in the space of six months making sure that I understood every word of it, and I'll read…
…so unconcernedly still and wide. I learn it daily, learn it with pain, to which I am grateful. Patience is everything. Sometimes when Leo would sit with people, they would come out of their reveries and want to talk with him about what they were learning…
…sit with people, they would come out of their reveries and want to talk with him about what they were learning and seeing, and Leo would listen for a few minutes. But he then would always say: that's fine, that's good, now return to the music. And I…
…a few minutes. But he then would always say: that's fine, that's good, now return to the music. And I like to think that Leo has now returned to the music, and someday so shall we, and to whatever degree we follow his example, life here and the…
…so shall we, and to whatever degree we follow his example, life here and the passage to whatever lies beyond will be made much easier. Leo showed the way because Leo knew the way, and I salute him for that. I say for all of us who were his tribe:…
…degree we follow his example, life here and the passage to whatever lies beyond will be made much easier. Leo showed the way because Leo knew the way, and I salute him for that. I say for all of us who were his tribe: goodbye to the secret chief,…