Terence McKenna
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…things that happened in Mexico. Before I went to Mexico, I had been getting email from a person in England, a mathematician named Matthew Watkins, and he allowed us how he would be at Palenque when I was there. Not part of this group, but just passing…
…nobody has ever done anything about it except allow us how it was astonishing, and I was a genius. Well, now comes Watkins with a different opinion, with, in fact, the Watkins objection, which holds that this is flimsy at best, delusional at worst. And…
…allow us how it was astonishing, and I was a genius. Well, now comes Watkins with a different opinion, with, in fact, the Watkins objection, which holds that this is flimsy at best, delusional at worst. And we went over it from a number of angles, and…
…and Klaus Schraff at Tubingen in Germany, who duplicated the algorithm, and Ralph Abraham. And now we are fully engaged. I'm alarmed. Watkins scents blood. The whole thing is much more interesting than it was before. And coming as it does on the brink of…
…we agreed that we would meet in palenque two years ago and he came to see me and it was a well his name is Matthew Watkins and if you go to my website you will see that there is a button there called the Watkins Objection. We met to discuss this…
…his name is Matthew Watkins and if you go to my website you will see that there is a button there called the Watkins Objection. We met to discuss this search for primes but as our mathematical discussions unfolded it began to become clear that we had…
…primes but as our mathematical discussions unfolded it began to become clear that we had a problem. And the problem was that Watkins felt that he had discovered an error in the mathematical formulation of the wave and it centered around a very arcane…
…to do with the King Wen sequence I had made a blunder. I knew what the logos wanted but I had made an error with Watkins position. And it was a difficult experience for me, not only because I didn't know how I was going to feed myself if this thing…
…know how I was going to feed myself if this thing went up in smoke, but it was very hard for me to understand Watkins. And any of you who are professional mathematicians who try to talk to me about this will discover that I'm an idiot savant. You…
…escape. On the rare occasions when someone did rise up to question the tenets of the faith as the mathematician Matthew Watkins did with Terence and the time wave in 1996, rather than stimulate a thoughtful productive intellectual exchange that might have…
…Einstein said: I can't do anything about it I cannot understand the man's objection. And so this was the position I found myself in. Watkins was terrifying. I never had the guts to ask him how old he was my guess would be 19, something like that. I…
…pages of mathematical notation and several nasty paragraphs and I sat with it for months and then I said I can't really understand Watkins, but I do understand what I intended. And so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to answer his objection by…
…internet and then let the chips fall where they may and some third party will have to resolve all this. So I did that and Watkins took a leave of absence and I understand he was last seen somewhere in the west of Ireland with a donkey and a harp,…
…in the stars, and on and on. But I really felt shaky about the whole thing and I talked about it at esalen but Watkins never dealt with the fact that the wave did describe time. He wasn't interested in that he just said you made a mistake and…
…somewhere in the American Southwest. His mathematical credentials are impeccable. And he said: I want to go to bedrock with this Watkins thing and I'm going to do a complete vector analysis of the wave and break it down at every level, formalize…
…wave. We call this the time wave. Tw. We're calling the new one the ctw the corrected time wave. My mistake was as Watkins defined it, but he never carried through. Something about his way of thinking was, once he discovered I'd made a mistake. For him…
…say I'm grateful to all of the people who participated in this. I've never feared the knife, including the young mathematician yes Watkins first and foremost because he put his finger on the error and then it all proceeded from there and the whole thing…