c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…I've been reading this. This is just a hoot, this book. Time machines, time travel in physics, metaphysics and science fiction by Paul Nahin. And it's published by the American Institute of Physics. So, you know, you need not hang your head on the subway.…
…it looked like we were all going to become french intellectuals, existential, atheistic, marxist, just this flat, flat, empty thing. Jean Paul Sartre's statement on nature is, nature is mute. Nature has nothing to say to Mandy. Well, this is, to my mind,…
…might be interested in talking about and he and I sort of cooked it up together and the guiding notion this evening. Oh, here's Paul. Hey, haven't seen you around. Did you just get back I thought. You asked for them last night. Last night? Yeah, like a…
…You asked for them last night. Last night? Yeah, like a lot of other people. It was a wild night. Thank you. Oh, great. Paul, lock the front door so people. Won'T be coming in and out. Okay. This door, don't walk through it. You think you want to…
…may be considerably less in evidence because I don't see myself as it is. I've given every one of these wraps 60 times and Paul has archived it. And I would like to go off to some jungle or island somewhere and get back into stretching the envelope…
…the enochian tables and that sort of thing, is going to transform itself to the point where it will no longer be science. Paul Feyre, who lives in Berkeley, I don't know if he still teaches, has written a couple of books, one called against method, and…
…Chandra Sarang. Harry Ely played hammer dulcimer. Other voices and musicians were Peyton Bray, Morgan Russell and Bertram Davies, with contributions by Roy Tuckman John Zeitz and Paul and Steve Gaskin. And please browse our website at sound photosynthesis com.
…what has been lost since Eden. We'll meet here at four. Thank you, applause. Okay, is it working for you Paul? Well this morning I made sort of a three dimensional rational argument from anthropological and archaeological and pharmacological data toward…
…destroyed on the cross or you say in time it was cut off and precisely at that point it opened. Up into beyond time and as Paul puts it, his life is hidden in god and our life will be hidden in god, according to Paul. So we are now in this other…
…it opened. Up into beyond time and as Paul puts it, his life is hidden in god and our life will be hidden in god, according to Paul. So we are now in this other realm in this now that's the realm of god I am here his realm, and so jesus life is…
…now threatened with upheaval, mass extinction, toxification, because of our maladaption to being. We don't know how to behave. Yes Paul I just want to question another longer term scenario here. There's some evidence that humans consistently wiped out. For…
…trip because I was such a case going into it. I mean if you had known me when I was 19 years old I was into jean Paul Sartre, Alfred Camus, Marxism, Freud. I was a jerk and I came down from it and I said I can't believe it that was all I could…
…may be considerably less in evidence because I don't see myself as it is I've given every one of these raps 60 times and Paul has archived it and I would like to go off to some jungler island somewhere and get back into stretching the envelope with…
…being a psychedelic advocate is that the psychedelics can speak for themselves. They don't need Terence McKenna to act as the apostle Paul and interpret it. So to my mind the wonderful thing about psychedelics is that they are democratic, that you know you…
…to largest, here's some interesting new publishing relevant to this field. First of all this book is just out in England by Paul Devereaux, the long trip, a prehistory of psychedelica, and it just arrived in Paul's Mailbox a couple of days ago and he…
…of days ago and he loaned it to me. It looks to me like basically a history of psychedelic use worldwide before the 1960s. Paul Devereaux is better known for writing on earth energies, ley lines and that sort of thing but this seems like a pretty good…
…it looked like we were all going to become French Intellectuals, existential, atheistic, marxist, just this flat, flat, empty thing. Jean Paul Sartre's Statement on nature is: nature is mute, nature has nothing to say to man. Well this is to my mind…
…Berkeley, once during a riot people dropped a banner off a third floor dorm balcony that said it was a quote from jean Paul Sartre. We cannot transcend marxism until we transcend the conditions that have created it and in a way we cannot transcend the…
…was denied and it reaches its ultimate culmination, just as an example, in the kind of statement such as was made by jean Paul Sartre, the French Existentialist who said: nature is mute. You understand what I mean. Nature gives no clue he tells you. Man…
…and a religion will be in place about this great teacher who arose and fell in the mid 20th century. And Carlos Castaneda is the Paul to don Juan the Christ, but I don't believe it's to be read as literal truth. I mean I can't buy that. I mean in…
…you always have to come back to, this is what you have to measure everything against. Do you want to open the door, Paul? So this idea we're talking about the felt presence of experience, the idea being that philosophy can push you one way, religious…
…people have mapped or been to 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…
…proclaimed this was a bridge between science and magic and so forth and so on. Well but now let's go beneath the surface and tell as Paul Harvey says the real story. The REST of it the REST of it to page two. It turns out that back in the 20s when…
…thousands of thoughts but it takes rather a lot of LSD to push you over into outright, overt visual hallucination. I mean, oh, hi Paul I thought it was god. It's just James B Warner as god, you managed to throw me clear off the trail, dude, anybody…
…one I just laid out for you. And the way I think of psychedelic shamanism is it is you know that wonderful painting by Paul Klee called Sinbad the sailor. Where Sinbad is standing in a boat holding a spear in the sea is a checkerboard of clay like…
…if you can't get that edition, why? A good book search service can probably come up with the first edition, which is Rutledge Keegan Paul. I wouldn't hold a weekend like this simply to go over a body of ancient literature if I didn't think it had some…
…the colorful bric a brac of late roman thinking, what you have is a thoroughgoing existentialism completely compatible with jean Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and the kind of intellectual despair that characterized the post world war Ii Generation in Europe.…
…why, for me, psychedelics broke over that intellectual world like a tidal wave of revelation. I quoted to you last night jean Paul Sartre's Statement that nature is mute. Now I see this as an obscenity almost as an intellectual crime against reason and…
…may be considerably less in evidence because I don't see myself as it is I've given every one of these raps 60 times and Paul has archived it and I would like to go off to some jungle or island somewhere and get back into stretching the envelope with…
…to lost PET stories, how much went to toxic waste stories, how much went to the circuses in town stories and I said: well Paul what is the deal with violence and what's going on? And he said whoa it's very simple we've seen it thousands and thousands…
…it is so interesting to see how you work on record. So you're familiar with his stuff on Ismaili and Mazda's. Yeah very good, Paul why don't you introduce yourself? Paul's the guy who gave me a career. He found me in a bar in New Jersey years ago.…
…years ago. People will pay to listen to that. That isn't quite how it happened but something like that. Ok Let's come forward. Yeah, I'm Paul. Also I have a lesson. I grew up in that bar in New Jersey. I am chiefly a composer of music and with that…
…a big problem. And so one of the things we'll be doing probably in the evening on Saturday is doing something we call voce, which Paul and I have been working on we call it world song or voce which is a singing or toning technique and it can produce…
…of them and so I immediately dreamed up a name. I decided it was world song because that was literally what it was representing, and Paul and I set to work on it. The technologies we've tried so far have not been up to the task because we haven't had…
…to the task because we haven't had the tens of millions of dollars that it would take to create something that I think Paul and I would be satisfied with but as experiments in the direction, I think everyone involved has been very pleased with the…
…as this the entire edifice of science rests okay well that's really all I want to say about the scientific view of reality. Yeah, Paul I just wanted to say that I don't see science that way and I think maybe one has to switch from science to physics,…
…is that for the first time in this article by frank Tipler called the omega point as eschaton, he seems and this is why Paul is here and I couldn't really get into it because it's crazy to repeat what you can't understand but by an analysis and…
…is a way, without invoking god almighty where physics seems to lay into our hands metaphors for the anticipation of the eschaton. Paul do you want to say something at this point? It's fascinating how you're playing with physics. You know everything has to…
…of biomolecules in a cell is about 100 billion. And it seems like this coincidence keeps coming up and maybe it's related to Paul Dirac's idea of a large number. Well I think it is true that emergent properties come out of large aggregations. Always the…
…it at each full moon but I was not mathematically inclined and when you reading the philosophy of science and people like Paul Feirob and Imre Lakatosh and and reading the history of science and Thomas Kuhn and all of those people trying to understand…
…was denied and it reaches its ultimate culmination just as an example in the kind of statement such as was made by jean Paul Sartre, the French Existentialist who said: nature is mute. You understand what I mean. Nature gives no clue, he tells you. Man…
…a hree? Omaha, Omaha, Yes it is or an Omaha, perhaps the mantra of North America. Do you have the sound you want, Paul? Yes very good. This particular trilogue is titled saving the world, and I thought it would be interesting to discuss this theme first…
…model, which takes the you'd have the death of the universe. The universe would reach a culmination in the words of st Paul: the whole creation groaneth in travail. The idea was that the whole creation, the entire universe, was groaning in travail for a…
…or is he talking of the transformation of the entire universe? And you have the same ambiguity in the new testament when st Paul writes: the whole creation groaneth in travail and the idea of the whole universe groaning in travel for the coming of a new…
…who was at San Diego, had claimed decipherment of certain of the labels of the illustrations of the vonage manuscript. And when Paul Lee formed a working group to look into the vonage manuscript, Dr Strong was one of the people they wanted to interview.…
…the streets of Berkeley and someone had left a banner down over the front of a building. It was a quote from jean Paul Sartre. It said: socialism will not be transcended until we transcend the conditions which created it. True history even more true and…
…or is he talking of the transformation of the entire universe? And you have the same ambiguity in the new testament when st Paul writes: the whole creation groaneth in travail, the idea of the whole universe groaning in travail for the coming of a new…
…let this gentleman slip through your fingers. There's a book that's available. I'm trying to think of the guy's name anything with Paul Seamus. Yes the title of it is the mushroom cultivator by Paul Seamus. But even at that there's no substitute for…
…available. I'm trying to think of the guy's name anything with Paul Seamus. Yes the title of it is the mushroom cultivator by Paul Seamus. But even at that there's no substitute for somebody at your elbow showing you how to do it. Thank you for twisting…
…now threatened with upheaval, mass extinction, toxification, because of our maladaption to being. We don't know how to behave. Yeah Paul I just want to question another long term scenario here there's some evidence that humans have consistently wiped out. For…
…trip because I was such a case going into it. I mean if you had known me when I was 19 years old I was into jean Paul Sartre, Alfred Camus, Marxism, Freud I was a jerk. And I came down from it and I said I can't believe it. That was all I could…
…by the assumption that nature is utterly without soul and this philosophy persisted well into the 1950s. The essence of jean Paul Sartre's Existentialism was can be summed up in the statement: nature is mute that was Sartre's position on nature. How many…
…and then grew out of that into atheism, into agnosticism and by the time I got to College I was reading jean Paul Sartre and Husserl and these people and pretty much the main had followed my intellectual ontogeny had followed historical phylogeny and I…
…by twelve habits. The symmetry principles, yes although I don't know if I want to get off into this, but since you're here, Paul It's a good time are you following all this stuff about how uncertainty is really taking a beating and people are saying…
…through living in cities or something like that that nature becomes silent. On the question of the transcendental, you know jean Paul Sartre, when he formulated his philosophy in the 50s, said: nature is mute. Therefore man can only look within himself for…
…his final appearance there another one of the esalen residents, Paul Herbert, recorded every one of Terrence's talks and workshop there. Before Paul died he gifted those tapes to bill Herr who was in our workshop, and bill has loaned those tapes to me…
…archive as possible to honor not just Terrence McKenna but also the late Paul Herbert as well, and you'll be hearing more about Paul as I begin playing the tapes from his collection. So to the young man who recently wrote to say that the salon already…
…on a local level, why not try to extend that franchise to something that's more on a global level? Want to take it away? Paul Sure, this is Paul Godwin friend confidant et Cetera. I've asked James to do the yoga this morning. James is a yoga teacher…
…why not try to extend that franchise to something that's more on a global level? Want to take it away? Paul Sure, this is Paul Godwin friend confidant et Cetera. I've asked James to do the yoga this morning. James is a yoga teacher so he's going to…
…bandwidth isn't there yet the really simple tools aren't there yet the public doesn't know even the net using public and if I can, Paul I think that the seduction of creation is there but not at the level that it will be, and it's going to be…