c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…is culturally slipping beyond this. How will aspects of our culture look? How long will it be interpreted? Something like Michael Jackson, for example. How long will this remain coherent to historians of culture? They may just finally say these people were…
I'm a writer and a lecturer from the enferreinigtenstaaten, the good people who brought you hydrogen bombs and Michael Jackson. And now my own small contribution. I'm down here on a tour around Eastern Australia, Basically meeting with tech heads…
…you would be able to log on and see me. I wouldn't see you I wouldn't even know you were there. If I were Michael Jackson. Millions of people could watch you all the time, but you wouldn't know they were there and they would be fully satisfied as far…
…happen. It may not happen for me, I may not be able to afford the budget on that project, but you know first Michael Jackson, then every man how do you account? For the sort of ascension of novelty as a sort of manifestation of the human creation,…
…in the ecstasis of hallucinogenic visions that unfolds around you, a situation that to us, with all our sophistication Husserl, Heidegger, Michael Jackson the whole thing, we are as in awe of that as those proto human beings must have been. So there it…
…the mayan millennial moment of December 21st 2012. So, and here's history's fractal mountain you know from the great pyramid to Michael Jackson right here history's fractal mountain yes, I'll explode it and talk about it. So the question was if the great…
…and then it became about the Menendez Brothers, and then it became about o j, the bobbitts they were in there too thank you, Michael Jackson we all talk about all this, but do you know what this is a substitute for? It's a substitute for having a life…
…of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or bill Clinton or somebody else then you are disempowered. You're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained…
…in the ecstasis of hallucinogenic visions that unfolds around you, a situation that, to us with all our sophistication Husserl, Heidegger, Michael Jackson the whole thing we are as in awe of that as those proto human beings must have been so there it…
…and say: well they must have been so limited by their worldview because they didn't know about quantum physics and ketamine and Michael Jackson and cable TV and all of these things. But the fact of the matter is that unless we push through culture to…