c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…civilization chose in Central America in 900 AD. And the answer seems to be, the only thing I have in common with the ancient Maya is that we both took mushrooms. Well, so then, is the plan so specific that it actually is an intervention from an over…
…the bomb, because it is global, because of high speed communication. We can't reach back to ancient Egypt or the Anastasi or the Maya. It has to be something further back. It actually has to be something outside of history. And this is what sets the…
…within three weeks of that session. But there isn't elaborate ceremony and there isn't, at this stage, elaborate mythology. The Maya, we assume, used mushrooms, but only because the mushrooms were there. We don't have good evidence that they used mushrooms.…
…not only warfare, but with the capture and torment of hostages, doesn't seem particularly appealing. As decipherment proceeds. The Maya, who we used to think of as these enlightened, stargazing people living in balance with their ecology, that's pretty…
…skeletons of the classic climax show nutritional deficit. There was, something was going wrong. And I think that the real message of the Maya may be not that they are spiritually to be emulated, but that they are in fact a cautionary example of what can…
…forth and so on. And the intelligentsia were killed, and the people went back into the forest. People ask, where did the Maya go? They didn't go anywhere. 15 million people speak a dialect of Maya as their first language. It's the largest aboriginal…
…into the forest. People ask, where did the Maya go? They didn't go anywhere. 15 million people speak a dialect of Maya as their first language. It's the largest aboriginal language group in the Americas. They didn't go anywhere. They're there selling you…
…And it's very much what I discern on another level, in the world view, mathematics, mythology and psychology of the classic Maya. So what is becoming apparent more and more, and through the work of people like, on one level, Ralph Abraham's…
The Maya established their own civilization in a not very interesting part of their own calendar. Not at the beginning, but sort of two thirds of the way through. So it looks as though they counted forward to an end date rather than just had an…
…a real question, because the galactic center as a concept was not defined for western science until the early 1960s. So how could the Maya have locked in on a concept so abstruse as it means you would have to know there is a galaxy and so forth and…
…is a drug which allows you to see at the far infrared end of the spectrum. So that instead of hypothesizing that the Maya had a super advanced mathematics and a radio telescope and all this fancy equipment, maybe it was simply that they had a drug…
…chops and actually become a synthetic chemist. Yeah, there's a new book. I see it's in the bookstore here. The Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, John Jenkins' book about Maya, archaeoastrology, astronomy. If you're interested in all that, his book pretty much put,…
…chemist. Yeah, there's a new book. I see it's in the bookstore here. The Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, John Jenkins' book about Maya, archaeoastrology, astronomy. If you're interested in all that, his book pretty much put, you know, lays it out in greater detail…
…more scholarly fashion than anybody else has done, because there is a lot of loose-headedness around when it comes to talking about the Maya. But this guy is a very good scholar and is, as always the case, the real truth is more astonishing than any…
…calendar. Now that is weird, folks. The only thing I have in common with the Mayan calendar is that we both, I and the Maya, took psychedelic mushrooms. Well, is it so woo-woo that it's actually as though there's a barcode in there? And if you get deep…
…revealed this axis point of time. Whether you are doing it a thousand years ago or two thousand years ago, even as the Maya did it, or whether you're doing it 38 years in advance of the moment. But this is the message, the mathematical, astronomical,…
…on a dial. But then you can say to it: Surprise me in baroque, not ampere, not dynastic Egypt, not North American Indian, Maya or Fujiwara Japanese but something never seen on this planet but equally coherent as those other styles. And I always think you…
…to go to depth with anything. You know, I study Roman history for a year. I study German for a year. I study the Maya for a year. But I never could get that professional mania that leads you into becoming, you know, a real academic in a specialized…