c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…astonishing places on the graph. How's this crowd all alive at one time? Thales, Anaximander, Lao Tzu, Cyrus the Great, Buddha, Mahavira, the prophet of the Jain religion, Confucius, Heraclitus, And then I'm leaving out the lesser life. What a dinner party…
…What a dinner party these people could have had. The great thing about, now let's see, Buddha was 38. We're not sure about Mahavira. Confucius was 26. They could have gone drinking and taken Heraclitus along. He was only 15 at the time. And if they'd…
…rear view mirror. And that's sort of what we do. But then each one of us, you see, we are like Christ and Buddha and Mahavira. We also have a perspective on the transcendental object at the end of time, on the divine. And we work it out in our life,…
…causality operating and what Wordsworth called intimations of immortality, haunt time like a ghost and so if you're a buddha, a Mahavira, a Christ a Mohammed, you get essentially again it's a geometric theory you are simply geometrically positioned vis a vis…
…and some distort it horribly. A Hitler a David Koresh and some distort it. Maybe we like to think less a buddha, a Mahavira, but the point is they all distort it. Marshall McLuhan said you know our mistake is that we're driving the vehicle of culture…
…rear view mirror, and that's sort of what we do. But then each one of us you see, we are like Christ and buddha and Mahavira we also have a perspective on the transcendental object at the end of time, on the divine, and we work it out in our life,…
…causality operating and what Wordsworth called intimations of immortality haunt time like a ghost. And so if you're a buddha, a Mahavira, a Christ a Mohammed, you get essentially again it's a geometric theory you are simply geometrically positioned vis a vis…
…and some distort it horribly a Hitler, a David Koresh, and some distort it. Maybe we like to think less a buddha, a Mahavira but the point is they all distort it. Marshall McLuhan said: you know our mistake is that we're driving the vehicle of culture…
…rear view mirror, and that's sort of what we do. But then each one of us you see we are like Christ and buddha and Mahavira. We also have a perspective on the transcendental object at the end of time on the divine, and we work it out in our life…
…have a geometric theory of messiahhood and just say, if you were in the big league, the buddha, Christ Muhammad, Mani, Mahavira League then you just caught a very bright reflection from the distant spinning eschaton and then you embodied it and became…
…have a geometric theory of messiahhood and just say, if you were in the big league, the buddha, Christ Mohammed, Mani, Mahavira League then you just caught a very bright reflection from the distant spinning eschaton, and then you embodied it and became…