c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…So we found that we could bring plants there and propagate them and they would survive, and this is what we've been doing. Nicole was someone that I met in let's see 1980 when I was down there on a joint Harvard University of British Columbia Expedition…
…you call it curing, you call it folk psychiatry or weather prediction. Shamans have been involved in all of these things. But as Nicole was made so eloquently the point last night to these deep forest people it is ordinary. It is ordinary. They live in…
…very fast. What we need to do is merely keep our spirits high and learn to sing the song. That's just something or other. Nicole would you like very daunting? Well don't be daunted here let me give you that. Would you like the little one? Well but…
…konibos their language is almost the same that I am kairuzna I'm immediately accepted as one of them, whereas if I say I'm Nicole, I'm an outsider. The name has power. Now part of that power is something that is very important when you're dealing with,…
…the bottom of the ocean until your contact lenses fall out. So there are techniques and there are moods, something you said, Nicole about the plants being aware of the approach of the match. I had an experience this summer which brought all this home…
…an objective lesson that some of these things that we say about plants are true. Well then all you have to do is the thing that Nicole says I do best which is pull back to the cosmic perspective and say: if a plant in a Hawaiian forest, a vine in a…
…our cultural forms and the vitality of the cultural forms that we see in these so called primitive I call them pre literate people. As Nicole pointed out, they have nothing but what they seem to have that we cannot seem to get a grip on is a kind of…
…by empowering the presence of experience. The main thing that you get with these so called primitive, preliterate people and with people like Nicole who have spent time in this situation is they are in the moment, they know how to have fun, they know how…
…an impact upon us as a global population. This weekend will be different because we will be hewing close to the source. Nicole is a priceless repository of information, more even than she knows. If I could declare her a national treasure, I would. Who…
…You call it curing, you call it folk psychiatry or weather prediction. Shamans have been involved in all of these things but as Nicole made so eloquently the point last night, to these heap forest people, it is ordinary. It is ordinary. They live in a…
…set ourselves up as the crusaders for permanence but that means softening to the fact of the flow and of the impermanence. Nicole has made the point very eloquently that these people in the Amazon have nothing. The wonderful thing about the Amazon is that…
…to have us just move on so that the rainforest, chipmunks, glaciers and schooling salmon could go back to doing what they do best. Nicole, I wanted to talk about the eggs and I have that kind of standing on budget idea and see what you think of it…
…our cultural forms and the vitality of the cultural forms that we see in these so called primitive I call them pre literate people. As Nicole pointed out, they have nothing, but what they seem to have that we cannot seem to get a grip on is a kind of…
…by empowering the presence of experience. The main thing that you get with these so called primitive, preliterate people and with people like Nicole, who have spent time in this situation is they are in the moment, they know how to have fun they know how…
…an impact upon us as a global population. This weekend will be different because we will be hewing close to the source. Nicole is a priceless repository of information, more even than she knows. If I could declare her a national treasure, I would. Who…
…you call it curing. You call it folk psychiatry or weather prediction. Shamans have been involved in all of these things. But as Nicole made so eloquently the point last night, to these deep forest people it is ordinary. It is ordinary. They live in a…
…set ourselves up as the crusaders for permanence, but that means softening to the fact of the flow and of the impermanence. Nicole has made the point very eloquently that these people in the Amazon have nothing. The wonderful thing about the Amazon is…