c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…for you, and it is that I interview a lot of near death experiencers. I interview a lot of people like Gordon Michael Stallion, who have had some sort of physical trauma to their selves and inevitably, near death experiences. Physical trauma followed by…
…listen, this is the beauty of this movement. It really doesn't need the Jerry Browns or the Naomi Klein's or really the Michael Moore's. In fact, I've spent the last 20 years making movies about corporate America and Wall street. I've occupied it before…
…and there's no spokesperson. All spokespeople. Anybody here can speak at the General assembly. Right? You're ready for the apartment. Wow. Michael Moore was singing the time today. What's happened to him? Oh, thank you so much. Just sit here. Go with the…
…Michael Moore was singing the time today. What's happened to him? Oh, thank you so much. Just sit here. Go with the flow, Michael. I wore sweatshirt today because I figured I was in San Francisco. There's only, like, five warm days out of the year here.…
…by identifying that as what is going on, can accelerate much faster. Anything else? I was just picking up on a conversation with Michael this morning. Maybe you could talk more about the other. Oh, the other. Well, I'm not sure exactly what he meant by…
…mouths but you can't do it by will. They've been taking mushrooms for a long time. Dennis described it to me. He said Michael, no, Terrence described it to me. He said Dennis has totally broken through and made a sound and I said, Terrence I don't…
…you know, with this bluish haze around his Face and his eyes were so wide open like this looking right into me and saying: Michael I know you'll make the sound, but will Sarah make the sound? He was very concerned that Sarah might not make the sound.…
…nothing, good old day I think. Do you have all have had all of these things too? I probably kind of liked it when Michael had that. No I didn't have that many because we chickened out. Sarah and I chickened out, we were not part of the experiment.…
…a backpack, a pair of shirt pants, a string of beads and a shirt, and everyone else just kind of got eaten. I have a shirt, Michael Tyson, no why did that guy leave that out? He's got more to do. Yeah I did. I came back with a couple more things…
…He's in Colorado. He went back to school. He wrote me a letter after this incredible situation. And he wrote me a letter in address to Michael Lamski, l a m s k I which is a pretty good name and he said: gee, I hear him weird in la chimera. I…
…it is first time caller on the line you're on the air with Terrence McKenna. Hello is this me that's you? Hey this is Michael calling from Oregon long time listener hi Michael, I just want to say first, art Bell I think you're a god. I love you.…
…line you're on the air with Terrence McKenna. Hello is this me that's you? Hey this is Michael calling from Oregon long time listener hi Michael, I just want to say first, art Bell I think you're a god. I love you. No I'm not a god I'm not a god.…
…here on the air. Anyway onward, let's see wild card line. You're on the air with Terrence McKenna. Good morning. Hi my name's Michael and I'm in California. Hi Michael, Terrence 30 years ago this month I was sitting in a coffee Shack below hohenau now…
…see wild card line. You're on the air with Terrence McKenna. Good morning. Hi my name's Michael and I'm in California. Hi Michael, Terrence 30 years ago this month I was sitting in a coffee Shack below hohenau now making a loincloth getting ready to…
…of several pages written by Michael Crichton and I know you know who he is with reference to the internet. It is Michael Crichton's Contention that the internet which one might consider to be novelty exemplified, is going to result not in more novelty but…
…of explain how those two things tie in. And in doing so I'd like to ask you if you've read the holographic universe by Michael Talbot. I have read the holographic universe. He was a friend of mine he unfortunately died a few years ago. Resonance is the…
…own head it was this loose. We went down there my brother was to join us he was the impetus for the expedition Sarah Michael Kumi Dennis me and Sia. What we were looking for was we were very interested in tryptamine narcotics and it seemed from our…
…us in Florencia and come with us to the Amazon basin. So we pile on this air force airplane and we land in Florencia right Michael Sarah Dennis Kumi and I her dog and tons of equipment which is to be ported down the Amazon see is at the airport…
…is about to forge the weld and this other person appears and it's not going well at all and Dennis was just doing his trip Michael was worrying about food he was a chronic worrier. He was in you know a New York game meditator he had no business being…
…only in association with manure from white cebu cattle and they had a herd of about 50 of these white cebu cattle there. Michael Askey went out the morning after we got there into the pasture and the pasture was full of these mushrooms I mean there…
…it was great we were all and that was that night was that that night or the next that was the first trip right. So Michael Dennis said after we all got high. He said: well now here we are, we're in the Amazon jungle, we're here to encounter something…
…of the indo European Language family believes mushrooms are slimy. This is why the word mucus can be traced back to the word Michael Mushroom my konos my Sonia in fact means the land of the mushrooms and so the role of mushrooms in generating the…
…I make gold medal rings and I move from here to there. I'm tom Brady I'm an astrologer. I'd like to begin here you. I'm Michael Michael Mullen. I just moved here half a year ago. I came here to visit some friends in the states and I have a little…
…make gold medal rings and I move from here to there. I'm tom Brady I'm an astrologer. I'd like to begin here you. I'm Michael Michael Mullen. I just moved here half a year ago. I came here to visit some friends in the states and I have a little son.…
…Graves, Robert, the white goddess, New York 1948. Hortenberg, w e the putumayo, the devil's Paradise, London 1912. Harner, Michael, the sound of rushing water natural history, July 1968. Huxley, Aldous: the doors of perception, Joyce James, Finnegan's wake,…
…martin translator, new haven, Tuttle Morehouse and taylor 1890, lewis Wyndham, the human age, ludlow, fritz Hugh, the hashisheter, Meier, Michael Atalanta, fugiennes, Novikov, Vladimir, Pale fire, New York 1963. Oss O t and onirik o n psilocybin, the magic…
…in the peace which passeth understanding. So is there any questions? Let me explain what's happening the REST of the day. This afternoon Michael and Cynthia Together or apart I'm not sure, will present all kinds of that they know best and it will be very…
…history of the southern putumayo and all of this I don't think you can read a better nor more challenging book than Michael Taussig's book shamanism, colonialism and the wild man. It really will astonish you what that book covers and the tones it sounds.…
…are just a few of several dozen good books on halicinogens. Who's the author of the most renowned shamanism? Michael Harner. Michael Harner's the editor, Oxford University press. These books are all freely available. The thing about Ott's book other than the…
…some of the other big honchos of edgy science. And Dennett, who wrote consciousness explained was his name Dennis Dennett or Michael Dennett? Anyway he was there. Rupert said at one point his book should have been called consciousness explained away but as…
…chief on kfi am640 for simulating talk radio. This is the chief and we're back. It's also your chance to talk to Michael McKenna our guest here Terrence McKenna He's Terrence McKenna I was thinking about Michael Clark in the newsroom and by golly Terrence…
…Certainly in the Amazon We're going to get back to that we're going to get back to that but right now, Michael Clark, Michael, you have not been chewing on mushrooms, not today. Okay you can see. Clearly what's happening in our news every word Michael…
…Angus before it's over with yes over here I'm curious why you don't mention Noam Chomsky. It seems like he's amongst other people, Michael Pereni, who continued the attack on the media. Chris Chomsky is more of a political: how the media is used to pass…
…1970, came across a reference to this in some piece of literature. I confess that I have occasionally cited it as Michael Harner's Article the sound of rushing water which appeared in natural history magazine in 1967, just to confirm Marlene's Opinion. If…
…the DMT flash. You behold the logos in the initiation of the experience. You don't behold it you hear it it sounds in Michael Harner's Wonderful phrase, like the sound of rushing water or like the sound of tinkling bells and it's very far away and then…
…time and effort has been expended to establish the medical concept that there are healing images. You know Stan's work, some of Michael Murphy's work, some of the continuum work healing images are an article of faith around here. I believe it but has…
…up here that sets it going again: that wave at may 8th the earthquake is predicted for may 8th. Oh is it Gordon Michael Scallion's wave well that's a major symmetry break in the wave. It sends the novelty level deeper than it's ever been before. That…
…a book called cross cultural perspectives on hallucinogens. Probably one of the books that I recommend most to people is Michael Harner's Anthology, shamanism and hallucinogens, where he gathered a bunch of very good articles together there. Hoffer and Osman's…
…out special places and it's probably the case. They also try to align sacred places to create these systems. One is the st Michael line going from the Western island right through to gilos and through to Carmel in Israel or Lebanon, Wherever it is it…
…matter and I think that this catalysis of the imagination is what makes these psychoactive compounds so interesting. You'll recall, Michael that in the 60s psychoactive drugs were called consciousness expanding. Well if we take that notion seriously for a…
…of several pages, written by Michael Crichton I know you know who he is with reference to the internet. It is Michael Crichton's Contention that the internet which one might consider to be novelty exemplified, is going to result not in more novelty…
…and the further retreat into cities more massive than any that had ever been built before. Did you want to say something, Michael? I was going to add that the question was about healing and I think there's a tremendous difference between the Indian and…
…com it's the best political writing on magazine dot com sorry. Yeah, salon salon magazine. The cognizant team, salon salon. Yeah, I'm Michael and I'm on a novelty kick. I've been a computer programmer for 15 years and I've stopped that and I wondered what…
…misunderstanding, which creates horrible social realities. I was just in the middle of reading a book called holographic universe, Michael Talbot's book. He was talking about visual experiences being about 50 based on meaning and addition internally to what's…
…learned from bats and mushrooms that wildly varied concentrations of psilocybin? Well there hasn't been a lot of work on this. Michael Bukley at evergreen college years ago grew stropharycubensis by the method that's described in my book the book I wrote…
…when they're phase locked like that then they bind this information into a whole. And I'm reminded of the research of Michael Persinger up at laurentian university in Canada, who has been focusing on the electromagnetic field of the earth and its effect…
…might have gotten further like I believe that the reason Leary decided to use LSD in the Harvard experiments was because Michael Hollingshead made the case to him that they could manufacture so much of it Leary's Original inspiration was psilocybin but…
…images and they're all associated with chaos and basically they're okay. Suddenly we have st George killing the dragon we have st Michael with his foot on the dragon's throat we have all this energy given to killing the dragons in celtic mythology in…
…shamanic journeyings, ritual practices like an annual liturgical year where like still today September the 29th is the festival of st Michael and all angels liturgies and masses for the angels, said all throughout the Christian world, a day of invocation and…
…be like to live in a society that had fantastic spiritual integrity, and particularly the studies of the ley lines and the st Michael and st Mary's lines that go up and down in the country. There were places like Avebury and glastonbury belong to this…
…Maybe it is first time caller on the line you're on the air with Terrence McKenna. Hello is this me that's you? Hey this is Michael calling from Oregon long time listener hi Michael, I just want to say first, art Bell I think you're a god. No I'm not…
…line you're on the air with Terrence McKenna. Hello is this me that's you? Hey this is Michael calling from Oregon long time listener hi Michael, I just want to say first, art Bell I think you're a god. No I'm not a god I'm not a god. Well I mean…
…here on the air. Anyway onward, let's see wildcard line. You're on the air with Terrence McKenna good morning hi my name is Michael and I'm in California. Hi Michael, Terrence 30 years ago this month I was sitting in a coffee Shack below hohenau now…
…let's see wildcard line. You're on the air with Terrence McKenna good morning hi my name is Michael and I'm in California. Hi Michael, Terrence 30 years ago this month I was sitting in a coffee Shack below hohenau now making a wine club getting ready to…
…festival in Christmas We've got the spring festival in Easter. The next great festival is September the 29th the feast of saint Michael and all angels, the angel festival. So there are a whole traditional set of seasonal festivals which I think connect us…
…of the abbey of Mont Saint Michel and, say, the cathedral of the shark. Mont Saint Michel was built for the glorification of st Michael who was the most powerful of all the angels and one of the fruits of st Michael's head was a very masculine thing.…
…How do we begin to even assume a kind of cosmic consciousness or awareness of what might be alive beyond this planet? Well Michael imagine if there were a force in the water or in the air or in the advertising that was causing a certain significant…
…cartesian thought I think time and space therefore, time and space exists something like that absolutely the world is made of language, Michael. That's the insight of psychedelics. What we expect to see, we see, what we say is there, is there, and this is…
…the substances over and over again the substances work. Yes, lee is our first caller from pine grove good morning good morning Michael. I'd like to ask Mr McKenna if he can direct me to references in the botanical literature regarding Salvia divinorum. I…
…want to go to the yawning grave without having been exposed to. Troy is our next caller from Pacific Grove good morning, good morning Michael thank you very much for this. This has been one of the best in a long time and I'd like to get my fingers…
…individually and gradually to get proficient. Two things: the first is in describing your brother's experience. It reminds me of Michael Hunter's description of his ayahuasca experience and he said after I guess going through a kind of death like experience,…
…to its struggle and dream. Yeah, one of the most interesting things to me is the landscape. In the end and I'll just correct you Michael so that you can correct us at the end of the month I'll talk about what it's going to look like. I think there…
…interesting UFO Theory a few years ago that I thought was kind of cute I didn't exactly believe it but these people Michael Persinger and some lafrenier they wrote a really amusing book called spacetime transience and unusual events and one of the things…
…ayahuasca. The most recent interesting book about ayahuasca, other than Eduardo's Commentaries on the paintings of Pablo Amaringo is probably Michael Taussig's book shamanism, colonialism and the wild man, which is just a wonderful book, even if you don't give…
…the DMT flash. You behold the logos in the initiation of the experience you don't behold it you hear it it sounds, in Michael Harner's Wonderful phrase, like the sound of rushing water or like the sound of tinkling bells and it's very far away and then…
…to contact something which isn't rational we should attempt we should choose the most skeptical person and the most suggestible person Dennis and Michael. No didn't he decide it would be me and he and I and Michael and I and we should send them out into…
…most skeptical person and the most suggestible person Dennis and Michael. No didn't he decide it would be me and he and I and Michael and I and we should send them out into the pasture. It's pitch dark, it's the middle of the night to send them out…
…the valley you could see it studded with glowing peyote. So I said, sure it doesn't matter, let's go charging out to the pasture. So Michael and I went out to the pasture and it was you know the fog was drifting and it was misty and just very and…
…kind of suicide, and found some mushrooms. Nothing was glowing, wandering around the Drizzle on my glasses, this and that and then Michael says there's a light, there's a light and I looked across through the drifting stuff and there was in fact a kind…
…experimenting with the dosage so the next time we'll take a big trip. We took 25 apiece Kumi, Dennis and I took 25 apiece Michael and Sarah were supposed to come up to our house about 3 in the afternoon to get stoned. That's on with kirk he hasn't…
…and we would move into this thing now at the same time there was a little bit of friction developing between Sarah and Michael because they were frightened. I mean they just said, you know wow I thought we were going to collect plants and Dennis was…
…on I just want to go back to New York and make pottery please. So it was decided that they would not be present, that Michael and Sarah Wouldn't be there that they would go back to the river house and act as a control. So you know we had cleared…
…is it? I don't know I can't understand what it means and I walked it to the to the river and I got Sarah and Michael and I said and by this time well I had done some experiments with it like I had said: Terrence first experiment, Terrence was very…
…were standing around realizing that it's a completely and that it wasn't a day like any other day. And so I got Sarah and Michael and as we closed distance with the pad with the house in the jungle I kept coming upon Dennis's clothing more and more…