c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…is this, the word that I use to describe my feeling about the DMT space is it's zany. It's like a coyote cartoon or a Marx Brothers film. It's a land of explosions and falling anvils, and yet it's all for fun. But you have the feeling that these guys…
…we look at the 20th century, where are the ideas that the psychedelic community can lay clear claim to? Was Einstein loaded? Was Marx? Was Freud? Were the people who fractionated DNA the first time? Were the people who went to the moon? Were the people…
…type, to me, is what I would categorize the dialectical developmental evolutionary type. science. This goes back to Hegel, comes through Marx and Engels, and it gets into Piaget. Anybody that's working with this time dimension in there gets into all the…
…emotion running around. It's like, I don't know did you ever see the film hells a poppin? It was a 30s deal or Marx Brothers cartoon, Marx Brothers routine or a max Sennett Comedy it's sort of like a bugs bunny cartoon run backwards at high supersonic…
…It's like, I don't know did you ever see the film hells a poppin? It was a 30s deal or Marx Brothers cartoon, Marx Brothers routine or a max Sennett Comedy it's sort of like a bugs bunny cartoon run backwards at high supersonic speed. There's all…
…return ticket in sight. And that's actually what happened in the dreams of 19th century rationalism, the utopian schemes of Bellamy and Marx and all these people ran smack into the world of the unconscious, the world of the shaman, the world of the…
…of negatives. Do not believe ideology has poisoned this planet. Ideology is bankrupt. It's a skin game, it's a shale game. It's only for Marx and Marx. It is beneath your dignity as a body to get mixed up in ideology. I mean after all where is it writ…
…Do not believe ideology has poisoned this planet. Ideology is bankrupt. It's a skin game, it's a shale game. It's only for Marx and Marx. It is beneath your dignity as a body to get mixed up in ideology. I mean after all where is it writ large that…