c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…or so after sundown in a hut. The shaman, or shamaness, certainly the most famous mushroom shaman of all is the shamaness Maria Sabina, who died a few years ago, who was the person who turned Gordon Wasson on. And everyone, not everyone takes the…
…tobacco smoke is blown over the patient and Kopal is burned, and that's about it. In the mushroom Valada that was recorded, Maria Sabina basically gives up on the patient. She says it's an eleven year old boy, and she says during the session that he's…
…He gave some of it to Wassen, and Wasson took it back to Huatla in the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca and gave it to Maria Sabina. And Maria Sabina said, the spirit of the mushroom is in the little pill. And this story has been repeated over and over…
…of it to Wassen, and Wasson took it back to Huatla in the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca and gave it to Maria Sabina. And Maria Sabina said, the spirit of the mushroom is in the little pill. And this story has been repeated over and over again. Well, my…
…mushroom is in the little pill. And this story has been repeated over and over again. Well, my assumption simply is, you know, Maria Sabina was a wily old lady. I mean, it's not writ anywhere that shamans have to always tell you the truth. And I very…
…herders from way back. Shepherds, people who follow cattle, probably were into all of this stuff very early. You know, Maria Sabina, the great mushroom shamanist of Watla, always claimed that she really had never been taught about the mushrooms that she…
…he gave some of it to Wasson and Wasson took it back to watla in the sierra mazateca of Oaxaca and gave it to Maria Sabina and Maria Sabina said the spirit of the mushroom is in the little pill and this story has been repeated over and over again.…
…of it to Wasson and Wasson took it back to watla in the sierra mazateca of Oaxaca and gave it to Maria Sabina and Maria Sabina said the spirit of the mushroom is in the little pill and this story has been repeated over and over again. Well my…
…the mushroom is in the little pill and this story has been repeated over and over again. Well my assumption simply is: you know Maria Sabina was a wily old lady. I mean it's not writ anywhere that shamans have to always tell you the truth and I very…
…example, they've become forgotten, like the mushrooms the sacred mushroom was completely forgotten for 400 years until Wassim and Maria Sabina rediscovered it. The mysteries of the lucis were completely forgotten. What was the really inherent, the sacred potion…
…and cowgirls because they're the people who follow the cows and most people have encountered this thing in the past. You know Maria Sabina, the mushroom shamanists of Oaxaca claimed not to have been initiated. She claimed that as a child left to watch the…
…historical evidence of shamanism prior to that for that individual to start engaging in explorations? Yeah I think so. You know Maria Sabina claimed that she was never initiated into shamanism. She claimed that as a girl herding the cattle, she ate the…
…central rings under the big top that's the dome, and in the central ring there's light and color and clowns. Remember that Maria Sabina called the mushrooms the little clowns and these clowns. The circus is for children and when you take DMT one of the…
…cowgirls, because they're the people who follow the cows. And most people have encountered this thing in the past. You know Maria Sabina, the mushroom shamaness of Oaxaca, claims not to have been initiated. She claimed that as a child left to watch the…
…myth, I mean a fairy tale in other words a non true story, a fantasy. And until the 50s until Wasson rediscovered Maria Sabina Up in the mountains of Oaxaca brewing and doing the mushroom velada that was the belief. Or another way they become…
…years ago Walter Houston Clark who is with us tonight and I and some other people went to Mexico for an interview with Maria Sabina in the last years of her life and saw firsthand the setting in which some of the early explorers like Wasson and Hoffman…
…know weird but what do you expect of a talking vegetable what's weird and what isn't so then I heard Wasson's Publication called Maria Sabina and her mushroom vallada. It's a set of six tapes of a mushroom session that Maria Sabina did in 1956. Here is…
…so then I heard Wasson's Publication called Maria Sabina and her mushroom vallada. It's a set of six tapes of a mushroom session that Maria Sabina did in 1956. Here is Maria Sabina Raving in mazatec and it's going along like this: da da da da da da da…
…called Maria Sabina and her mushroom vallada. It's a set of six tapes of a mushroom session that Maria Sabina did in 1956. Here is Maria Sabina Raving in mazatec and it's going along like this: da da da da da da da da da suh, da da da da da da…
…I wanted to ask you about novelty and psychedelics and the language that changes through the use of them. I remember reading Maria Sabina saying that the emotions spoke a different language to her after people like Watson came down and began to use them.…
…to prove the isolation, he manufactured some and then he and Wasson took it back with them to watla and they gave it to Maria Sabina and she said: the spirit of the mushroom is in the little pill. But let's Face it, Maria Sabina was a sly old woman…
…watla and they gave it to Maria Sabina and she said: the spirit of the mushroom is in the little pill. But let's Face it, Maria Sabina was a sly old woman who really knew how to play on the gringo's harp and I don't think it's the last word that…
…Mushroom chants. There's one text called the voice of the thunder that has a meter and a rhythm that is precisely Maria Sabina. So gnosticism is the general banner under which all of this stuff can be placed. Gnostics believe the central tenant of…
…herders from way back. Shepherds, people who follow cattle, probably were into all of this stuff very early. You know Maria Sabina, the great mushroom shamaness of watlow always claimed that she really had never been taught about the mushrooms that she…