c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…healers that we were with, many of them were women We did not see any. There's a famous woman healer in southern Peru called Maria Juana Gonzalez Obihe. And as a girl of 18, she had lost her toes and fingers to leprosy. When she finally found, I…
…How this is possible, who knows? But apparently he did this, and she went on to be a renowned ayahuasca in the Tingo tinga Maria area. Did you see the people that came to be healed? Did they. Were they healed of whatever was they went there for? Did…
…the partnership paradise model of life around 6500 bc. Wheeled chariot people, probably part of the kurgan wave phenomenon hypothesized by Maria Gambutus, come down from north of the Caspian Sea in the Zagros mountains. Level six and six b of chatal is…
…not drums or stringed instruments, just chanting. And then the shaman goes into trance and speaks. And if any of you know Maria Sabina's mushroom phala that Gordon Wasson published, she speaks in a kind of sing song poetry, you know, woman of affairs am…
…13th century 12th century, no no thousands of years thousands yes 6 000 years old wow no we're talking deep prehistory here. Maria gebouzes, yes yes yes. So where are you going after Prague? Maybe going to Berlin, maybe to Carlsbad, I don't know yet.…
…say little known plants and a typical entry reads something like this: let me see what genus we're in here: 2510 Maria Beringo, Panama, Gilbert White, collection number 71, 1938. Called sigella, claimed to be poisonous. All we know about this plant, its…
…be poisonous. All we know about this plant, its folk name, its scientific name claimed to be poisonous. Next Entry: 2511 Maria Sessiflora Honduras collected by junker Dawson youse, collection number 5554, 1936 fruit reported edible when ripe, all we know and…
…of putting it. They are very adept at choosing patients who make miraculous recoveries. Some of you may know the tape recordings of Maria Sabina's Mushroom vallada made by Wasson where an 11 year old child is brought to her and she says that she won't…
…spent checking our equipment after the rigors of the overland walk and generally relaxing in the casita to which father Jose Maria, the cappuccino in charge had kindly shown us. We gathered more mushrooms that afternoon and dried them near the cooking fire…
…extraterrestrial communication, Boston 1974. The works of yiprigoshin Pynchon, Thomas, Gravity's rainbow, New York 1974. Rilke, Rainier, Maria the duino illogies, Schultes, Richard Evans, Varola as an orally administered hallucinogen. Botanical museum. Leaflets of…
…it's undergoing change in different directions. You know there's a lot of syncretic religious foment in Brazil, Elements of Santa Maria and Caribbean Religions and catholicism and psychic healing and European Occultism is all in ferment there and so is the…
…they say little known plants and a typical entry reads something like this: let me see what genus we're in here. 2510 Maria Baringo, Panama, Gilbert White collection number 71, 1938, called sigella claimed to be poisonous. All we know about this plant, its…
…poisonous. All we know about this plant, its folk name, its scientific name: claimed to be poisonous. Next Entry: 2511, Maria Sessiflora, Honduras, collected by junker, Dawson and youse, collection number 5554, 1936, fruit reported edible when ripe. All we…
…day, which seemed terribly significant at the time because our father's name was Joseph and the priest at la terrera was Jose Maria, and there was all this kind of thing I think it's called delusion of reference. It's where everything is about you,…
…13th century 12th century no no thousands of years thousands yes 6 000 years old wow now we're talking deep prehistory here. Maria Gimbusi, yes yes yes. So where are you going after Prague? I'm maybe going to Berlin, maybe to Carlsbad, I don't know…
…to the underbelly of western civilization was through Jung. Well, to my mind and now I'll theme this in to today's theme I think Maria mentioned that Jung did not have a lot to say about shamanism. He came to it late in his life and he had already…
…by taking five dried grams of strofericubensis in silent darkness you can go up to the great simulacra of human explorers, hypathea, Maria Newton, da Vinci. You can take that ride. I have the feeling that when we go into those psychedelic spaces, we not…
…strange strange speech habit. And then I read in Watson that the word sin occurs at the end of these speech utterances of Maria Sabina's and that it is the mazatec word for says. So it's just like you know the mushroom is uncanny drugs. Models of…
…of putting it. They are very adept at choosing patients who make miraculous recoveries. Some of you may know the tape recordings of Maria Sabina's Mushroom vallada made by Wasson where an 11 year old child is brought to her and she says that she won't…
…coincidental? Well let me answer that question by giving you some information. The evidence now is again a UCLA Archaeologist, Maria Gimbutas well she hasn't discovered it some of these were vinca tablets which were thought to be classical Greek Colonies.…
…time, more people, longer period of time than this other more new one so that when I discovered that when I learned this from Maria Gunbuta's writings and talks, it did a change in my world view, in my paradigms that was as profound as the change that…
…you know I love nature sort of romantic ideal you're likely to get clobbered you're likely to get killed because nature, as Maria Gunbuta has called out the old goddess is not really a mother goddess. That's the limitation of that mother metaphor for…
…he inspired many of us to follow in his footsteps. I trust 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…
…da da says it ended each line with the word says. So I thought interesting. Then I went back and listened to Maria Sabina's Mushroom valada, where she's singing in Foxville, which is a mountain Indian Language of Central Mexico. She's singing in foxville…
…and they appear out of nowhere. Well anybody who studied them has wanted to connect them to the culture of old Europe that Maria Genbutis talks about simply based on the fact that they were so culturally advanced that the bias of all these scholars is…
…is proto hermetic. Some of it shows traces of Indian Philosophies, transmigration of souls, yogic practices. Some of it reads almost like Maria Sabina's Mushroom chants. There's one text called the voice of the thunder that has a meter and a rhythm that is…
…to the underbelly of western civilization was through Jung. Well to my mind, and now I'll theme this in to today's theme, I think Maria mentioned that Jung did not have a lot to say about shamanism. He came to it late in his life and he had already…