c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…that we all have inherited? Well I think it has to begin in psychology. That the psychologists you know it was Robert Oppenheimer, and perhaps it was apocryphal but I don't think so who said the physicists, whatever may be said, know guilt? They know…
…at times asked of my audiences what mushroom is it that blooms at the end of history is it the mushroom of Teller and Oppenheimer and Fermi or is it this shamanic sacrament that was the basis of the high cultures of mesoamerica? I hope that it's the…
…we have. I mean what we have done is you know if there is a sin then we have sinned. You know, Robert Oppenheimer said, beyond all rational argument, the physicists have known sin and it's because they reached into the heart of matter without reverence…
…made the point asking you know what mushroom is it that grows at the end of history is it the mushroom of Fermi and Oppenheimer and Teller or is it the mushroom of Wasson and Hoffman and Humphrey Osmond, you know I think the latter is safer. Well it…
…think about these things. When the first atomic weapon was built by the Manhattan project in the desert of New Mexico, Fermi and Oppenheimer and all these people got together the night before the test at trinity and Fermi had a pad like this on which he…
…made the point, asking: you know what mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it the mushroom of Fermi and Oppenheimer and Teller or is it the mushroom of Wasson and Hoffman and Humphrey Osmond? Somehow I think the latter is safer. Well it…