c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…kind of animal who just went a little further than the next guy. But to get out of that, Shakespeare and Milton is a pretty amazing accomplishment, hardly, to speak of the mathematical languages that we generate. So something happened, some people think,…
…couple of days ago, I think, I'm not sure we're talking here about the God who hung the stars like lamps in heaven, as Milton said. More I think we're talking about the bursting of a guy, an egg. But because my theory predicts the future, I am…
…don't go that far, it's not to my mind. We're not talking about the God who hung the stars like lamps in heaven, as Milton said. We're talking about the secret agenda of bios on the planet. That it is complete hubris to believe that you can escape…
…of view. Obviously, the earth has achieved great things outside the human realm, but within the human realm. Mozart and Bach and Milton and Rumi, all of this stuff has been achieved. And it represents an epigenetic accomplishment. It is not part of the…
…and you have natural selection and you have traits and these traits extend themselves. But it's a great step, you know to Milton, to the space shuttle to an integrated global economy I mean, are these the products of animal existence? The darwinist says…
…evolutionary paradigm of human perfection. But if you've ever watched these guys chew and spit on the mound you wonder then: why Milton, why newton, why all the REST of it? It seems like an incredible embarrassment of riches simply to hit a woolly mammoth…
…in the Face and yet the enterprise of intelligence is without precedent in the organic world. I mean where are you going to get Milton? Where are you going to get Einstein? Where are you going to get bach and Duccio and all the REST of the gang out…
…in the sense that I don't think we're dealing with the god who hung the stars like lamps in heaven you know what Milton said, that's some whole other scale but what we're dealing with is something like the god of biology, that there is something on…
…one says, what was it that caused this blindness the question you raise there's something that happened around the 17th century that Milton described so well in Paradise Lost. There is a consciousness of the spirit of satan, which is what Paradise Lost is…
…civilization may be under the possession of such a spirit, worshipped through money and other mammon? The spirit of mammon as Milton Describes him in Paradise Lost he says even in heaven his looks and thoughts were always downward bent, admiring more…
…mother nature's treasures better hid. So here's the description of a demon which actually is the spirit of our whole civilization, by Milton in Paradise Lost, as an actual entity now in that case it's a kind of poetic entity, but it's also a Biblical…
…some kind of animal who just went a little further than the next guy but to get out of that Shakespeare and Milton is a pretty amazing accomplishment. Hardly to think of the mathematical languages that we can make. So something happens. Some people think…
…some kind of animal who just went a little further than the next guy but to get out of that Shakespeare and Milton is a pretty amazing accomplishment hardly to speak of the mathematical languages that we generate. So something happened some people think…
…if we're talking about god. I don't know if we're talking about the god who hung the stars like lamps in heaven, as Milton says, that seems a tall order. Maybe what we're talking about is the god of biology. Umm something has happened to this planet.…
…it is a miracle. I don't give a hoot what the dolphins and the honeybees are out there in the woods doing it ain't like Milton, it ain't even like bob Dylan, it ain't even as good as this I'm willing to say no. Human communication is what we are and…
…xers here is that you're not literary, you're not a literary culture, and it's true don't deny it none of you can quote Milton. But I also think it's a temporary thing. Your children will not be like you. Your children will be fully visually literate.…
…the psychedelic experience is a new object for western languages. It will be very interesting to see what English the language of Milton Chaucer and Shakespeare will be able to do with the psychedelic experience. I mean my god in William Blake you get the…
…and you have natural selection and you have traits, and these traits extend themselves. But it's a great step you know to Milton, to the space shuttle to an integrated global economy I mean are these the products of animal existence? The darwinist says…
…of human description of it except the 20th in which we have enough knowledge about the ecosystem to say, well maybe it's not, as Milton said, the god who hung the stars like lamps in heaven it isn't that god but it's the god of the oceans and the…
…leap to the defense of dolphins, magpies and honeybees, good luck, because it ain't King Lear. That's the point, you see it isn't Milton It's something, but it isn't. I mean language has a force and a dynamic of its own. Perhaps it is a virus from…