c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…on our way somewhere and each generation should take a step down the road. These kinds of metaphors of movement. And then Marsiliad talked about, and we could adopt his terminology, he talked about profane and sacral time. And he said, history is profane.…
…All the secrets are being told, all the veils are being lifted, all the doors are being opened. It's that deathbed delirium that Marsiliad was talking about. So that's all I wanted to say about that. The part you needed to hear is that nature conserves…
…transcending. It doesn't take place in time. It takes place in the, in this phase space called in ilio tempore. Marsiliad talks about this. It takes place paradigmatically outside of the forward flow of ordinary casuistry. History is the ordinary forward…
…just you know the horror that it is I'd like to redeem that. I'm like Stephan Daedalus, I'd like to awaken from the nightmare. Marsiliad once made a wonderful statement. He said he was comparing our culture to a dying person and he said in the same way…