c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…out and took the barber's glass and looked in saying: I testify that there is no god but the god, and I testify that Muhammad is the messenger of god. Then he considered his beard and seeing that the white hairs in it covered the black, he thought…
…loud lullaloons and cries of joy. The midwife delivered her with difficulty by pronouncing over the boy at his birth the names of Muhammad and Ali and said: Allah is most great and she called in his ear the call to prayer. Then she wrapped him up…
…This one back here this first low point it's not too low but it's pretty low. Is the birth, career and death of Muhammad falls entirely at the bottom of this trough. But Muhammad's message was a mixed bag. It was a religious message of tremendous…
…to what's happening right now that's 10th century Islam. This one which precedes it over here is the foundation moment of Islam. Muhammad is born in 570 and died in 630. That whole thing occurs along this descent. Islam is very important. I have to…
…dark ages then you get this extremely steep descent, one of the steepest on the graph. It falls coincident to the life of Muhammad, which is interesting to me because I was surprised that Muhammad got such a steep fall. One of the great events of human…
…the steepest on the graph. It falls coincident to the life of Muhammad, which is interesting to me because I was surprised that Muhammad got such a steep fall. One of the great events of human history Christ is nothing like this. Then my New York Editor…
…about who the 100 most important people in human history were. He said: you'll love this look at number one. I turned it: Muhammad Number one in the opinion of not myself but someone who made a very careful study of this matter and published a book…
…class I'm sure you could get argument on this. You know one of the great puzzles of Islamic Theology is the fact that when Muhammad ascended into heaven, he did it on horseback and the status of this horse, his beloved horse, who he loved very much. It…
…than any of us actually might wish to be congealed. It is first of all it becomes poetry, you know and for instance Muhammad spoke in poetry and this is a symptom of election, of shamanic election the ability to speak in poetry. But what can happen…
…73, that's when Kohoutek was first detected. This is Saddam invades Kuwait, which is an absolute resonance to the birth of Muhammad. Really, wow. Here's the ground war, here's the soviet coup d etat, here's bill Clinton winning the election, right there.…
…can talk about how the third Reich is a resonance of ancient Egypt we can talk about Saddam Hussein as a resonance of Muhammad, because when we look at the way these things are lined up historically, we see that directly above Saddam Hussein and in a…
…though the future event is throwing off great sparks that are themselves faceted contradictory epitomizations of this mystery. This is what Muhammad and Christ and buddha are they are human personalities that were situated in time in such a way that they…
…though the future event is throwing off great sparks that are themselves faceted contradictory epitomizations of this mystery. This is what Muhammad and Christ and buddha are they are human personalities that were situated in time in such a way that they…
…could almost have a geometric theory of messiahhood and just say, if you were in the big league, the buddha, Christ Muhammad, Mani, Mahavira League then you just caught a very bright reflection from the distant spinning eschaton and then you embodied it…