c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…morning by the street. We have a way to go before we get to those places. But still, maybe it's because of Freud and Nietzsche and all the bad boys of the 19th century or something. But we really have pried open a fairly toxic aspect of ourselves and…
…dimensions which exceed the descriptive machinery that you're applying to it. And I don't know who it was, George Bernard Shaw or Nietzsche or some other 19th century bad boy, but it has been said that the essence of intellectual maturity is being able to…
…of course yes and I think there's a lot of western artists and philosophers who are crazy wisdom masters, of course, Nietzsche and the dadaists, Hieronymus Bosch Hieronymus Bosch, Mark Twain you know mark twain's dark writings, so called dark writings are a…
…as I said I was raised Catholic. I spent a huge amount of time desacralizing myself reading Camus and Sartre and Nietzsche and Husserl and Merleau Ponty and positivists, and dabbled in marxism and was a hardcore materialist. But life lived honestly, meaning…
…by the street sweepers. We have a way to go before we get to those places but still, maybe it's because of Freud and Nietzsche and all the bad boys of the 19th century or something but we really have pried open a fairly toxic aspect of ourselves and…
…yet we don't have a full picture. I mean I would like to know what would jean Paul Sartre have said, what would Nietzsche have said, what would Wittgenstein have made of this? I mean all these people based their lives and their professions on the datum…
…family. And we can argue about this. Just recently I saw a wonderful quote. Now who was it? It was either Goethe or Nietzsche, I can't remember but the quote was: thinking is better than knowing, but seeing is best of all, and I thought that was…
…of order. But what it really means is that we are in the process of birthing some kind of strange companion. You know Nietzsche a hundred years ago said that strangest of all guests now stands at the door. He was speaking of nihilism and certainly the…
…of course yes and I think there's a lot of western artists and philosophers who are crazy wisdom masters, of course Nietzsche and the dadaists. Hieronymus Bosch Hieronymus Bosch, Mark Twain you know mark twain's dark writings, so called dark writings, are…
…selection, adaptability, extinction and expansion of populations all occur very much as in the domain of biology. Well, you know it was Nietzsche who said I believe in speaking of nihilism, that this strangest of all guests is now at the door. Well I go…
…nihilism, that this strangest of all guests is now at the door. Well I go to even weirder dinner parties than Frederick Nietzsche. Nihilism hardly shakes us up at all. There are yet weirder guests seeking admission to the dinner party of the evolving…
…just the thing that would heal, but we did it so that the church could have power over. Well I think it was Frederick Nietzsche who said there was only one Christian and they crucified him. It's such a good line. It comes now. Have you been waiting…
…my first trip and I was trying to figure it out. Shopping in the supermarket of ideas of the time, reading Camus, reading Nietzsche, reading Sartre, and all these people are a huge downer as any of you know who've read them. The entire tone of modernity…
…it the human situation would move beyond all hope of redemption. In the biologic fascistic ideologies, where decline, decadence of Nietzsche has reached its final stage where a counter movement must set in. All of these instances show that the triadic…
…out loud, yeah so how would you describe that character? What's the character of our dissolution? I don't know. I guess it was Nietzsche who pushed the myth of the eternal return right so it's some kind of it's like a closed cycle of hegelian dynamic…
…rite, but alienated, hostile and subjugated nature again celebrates her reconciliation with her prodigal son, this man, chopin's Nietzsche. The dionysian cult was closely connected with the liturgies of Eleusis, the most important liturgies of the antique…
…has dimensions which exceed the descriptive machinery that you're applying to it. I don't know who it was George Bernard Shaw or Nietzsche or some other 19th century bad boy but it has been said that the essence of intellectual maturity is being able to…
…muted. Everything is flattened by the banality of modernity. This is the heritage of all the bad little boys of the 19th century: Nietzsche and Darwin and Hegel and Schopenhauer. These clowns were on a bad trip and they were loud about it. And what they…