c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…this descent beginning with the proto Renaissance, the fra Angelico and all of that and then coming down through Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Titian, Raphael the whole bit and the whole thing reaches culmination right down here at the bottom…
…has produced in 15 000 years. Well now if that's true, what in the world is going on that Joe blow can outdo Michelangelo and everybody else rolled into one and that it's only five grams away what is human history then anyway that we've taken all…
…is on that gradient. You know the early guys up here: fra Angelico and like that, Donatello, Caravaggio, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli the whole bit. And while all this art is being made don't forget all kinds of invention is taking place…
…has produced in 15 000 years. Well now if that's true, what in the world is going on that Joe blow can outdo Michelangelo and everybody else rolled into one and that it's only five grams away what is human history then anyway that we've taken all…
…the way our hair would be standing on end because we would realize we are not inventing this, we are discovering it. You know Michelangelo said the form is in the block of marble. What I do is I take away the part that is unnecessary and reveal the…
…you, Joe, Anybody, sally, somebody can break through on your own an ordinary person, to a place that verrucchio never saw Michelangelo Didn't anticipate it yates didn't know, Blake Hadn't a clue, Melville Wasn't briefed. And yet there it is. You know and…
…is never discussed sufficiently. We are asked to believe that somewhere between the death of Giotto and the death of Michelangelo, European Human beings suddenly understood that things got smaller the further away from you they were and therefore created the…