c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…that he announced the end of the world. He said, you know, hey, this, this stuff is so good. And opium was popularized by Paracelsus. In fact, Paracelsus invented chemical medicine. If you want to look for a kind of a bad guy, or at least a black hat…
…the end of the world. He said, you know, hey, this, this stuff is so good. And opium was popularized by Paracelsus. In fact, Paracelsus invented chemical medicine. If you want to look for a kind of a bad guy, or at least a black hat figure. It was…
…invented chemical medicine. If you want to look for a kind of a bad guy, or at least a black hat figure. It was Paracelsus who said, we shouldn't use herbs, we should use purified extractions, make pills. We should get rid of all this midwifery and all…
…be done. Even MDMA was discovered in 1914 in Germany. The germans are analytical chemists it's that alchemical strain. You know Paracelsus the great alchemist is also the person who invented the idea of purified drugs, of taking plants and by washing and…
…was he was in that great tradition of literary alchemy whose earlier practitioners were people like Robert flood, Athanasius Kirscher, Paracelsus these are not familiar names but in the late flowering of alchemy, when the birth of modern science could already…
…longevity, fertility, virility, immortality and I think that the flying saucer is an airborne philosopher's stone, the sophic hydrolith of Paracelsus haunting the skies of modern America with a promise of mandalic cohesion for the future that science has not…
…that it was pharmacologically driven. Only when you get to the very last adumbrations of the alchemical impulse in someone like Paracelsus do you get the use of opium. But it is interesting that the great drugs of modern society were accidentally discovered…
…a dozen. Carl Jung wrote about the visions of brother Klaus. Carl Jung was another swisser with a deep love of country. Paracelsus, the great 16th century alchemist was born in Switzerland. So this tiny country with a tradition of human freedom and a…
…spiritual transformation has given us in the 20th century, in the late 20th century, the heir to Carl Jung, the heir to Paracelsus, the heir to brother Klaus Albert Hoffman, Alchemist, philosopher, chemist, human being, a man of whom it might be said as…
…must be maintained unto death. So in the thirty years after Dee there was a great hermeticist and alchemical thinker named Paracelsus who arose on the European Continent. Paracelsus is an interesting guy he's essentially the inventor of drugs because he was…
…the thirty years after Dee there was a great hermeticist and alchemical thinker named Paracelsus who arose on the European Continent. Paracelsus is an interesting guy he's essentially the inventor of drugs because he was the first person to extract herbs and…
…must be maintained unto death. So in the 30 years after Dee there was a great hermeticist and alchemical thinker named Paracelsus who arose on the European Continent. Paracelsus is an interesting guy. He's essentially the inventor of drugs because he was…
…the 30 years after Dee there was a great hermeticist and alchemical thinker named Paracelsus who arose on the European Continent. Paracelsus is an interesting guy. He's essentially the inventor of drugs because he was the first person to extract herbs and…