c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…all of magical humanity is awaiting us and cheering us on, lending their weight. They're all out there, you know, Proclus and Plotinus and Plato and hypatia and Henry Cornelius Agrippa and John Dee and Robert Flood and Eliaphus Levy, they're all out there…
…of monotheism is the form of. Well, I guess it's a form of neoplatonism. I had digested all that, you know, Porphyry, Proclus Plotinus. I do feel the power of the argument that when all boundaries are dissolved, there will only be the plenum, the one,…
…fields of information, which. I don't know if you're like me, but my experience of these things is basically literary. I read Plotinus, I read Heraclitus, I read all this stuff, and I try to integrate it intellectually, but it is a plane of experience…
…these fields of information which I don't know if you're like me, but my experience of these things is basically literary. I read Plotinus, I read all this stuff and I try to integrate it intellectually. But it is a plane of experience that is directly…
…we saw glimpses of it, but the real meat of this path is alone in silent darkness, on five grams or something. Plotinus, the great neoplatonist philosopher of the byzantine empire and a great mystic, spoke of the mystical apotheosis as the flight of the…
…of being and we can do it through cultural values, through interpersonal values or through this plunge into the depths of the self that Plotinus called the flight of the alone to the alone, and it's as much a part of who we are as our childhood, our…
…the state of being dissolved in the absolute, or being one with god this one without a second. Causes me to think of Plotinus. One of his definitions of the mystical experience was he called it the flight of the alone to the alone, which mathematically…
…want to follow, if you just can't tear yourself away from the concept of following, then how about Plato, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plotinus, Proclus you know dead guys they're much safer. They're not going to try and climb into your wallet or some delicate…
…about, this is the going to meet the stranger, this is the flight of the alone to the alone that is the driving force of Plotinus Mysticism. Well that's really all I have to say about that. So let me see what time how am I doing? Question and answer…
…17th century, have been progressively replaced by newer concepts of fields which take on most of the same jobs. The world soul, as Plotinus and platonists usually understood it I think was not so much to do with the earth as to do with the whole cosmos.…
…8 grams. I mean it might be good for you but I'm not advocating it because it might not be good for you. But eventually Plotinus called the flight of the alone to the alone and there is something about that. The last dance you do, you do alone and…
…Plato we have to remember in our minds all these people get squeezed together like they could all have dinner together. But you know, Plotinus is as far from Plato as we are from King Canute. So you have to bear in mind the scale of history. But so…
…the scale of history. But so 900 to a thousand years after Plato a byzantine school of philosophy arose around porphyry, Plotinus and Proclus as the major exponents, and they worked with the late Plato and elaborated a beautiful mystical cosmology. This is…
…comfortable with the neoplatonists than with this. This material tends to be emotional, evocative, poetic, and while there's great poetry in Plotinus There's also very tight thinking that goes along with it and there are other traditions I mean I'm making it…
…but eventually there's no road and you have to park the vehicle and get out and walk I think and that's the journey. Plotinus, the great neoplatonist has this wonderful phrase he calls the mystical experience the flight of the alone to the alone. And I…
…is moving a form of monotheism? Well, I guess it's a form of neoplatonism. I have digested all that you know porphyry Proclus, Plotinus. I do feel the power of the argument that when all boundaries are dissolved, there will only be the plenum, the one.…
…it sliced thin, I think. And that makes sense platonically and from this neoplatonic thing and by neoplatonic I mean Proclus and Plotinus and those people who came about 500 years late after Christ. Yeah, have you been to Ravenna? That's where they have…
…produce phenomena and I mean well all those people came out around the end of the sixth or early seventh century. It was Plotinus, Proclus, Porphyry. Yeah Plotinus, he had the right idea and you know it was late gnosticism. So all the star magic and…
…mean well all those people came out around the end of the sixth or early seventh century. It was Plotinus, Proclus, Porphyry. Yeah Plotinus, he had the right idea and you know it was late gnosticism. So all the star magic and really wild theories of…
…all of magical humanity is awaiting us and cheering us on lending their weight. They're all out there you know Proclus and Plotinus and Plato and Hypatia and Henry Cornelius Agrippa and John Dee and Robert flood and eliaphus levy they're all out there…
…the moving image of eternity is another one of these aphorisms that the psychedelic state confirms, and certainly neoplatonism. Plotinus and porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied…
…psychedelics with people you love and respect and children and loved ones and parents and all that but the deep, deep work, you know Plotinus called it the flight of the alone to the alone the deep, deep work has to be done alone because, dig it the…
…dross is burned away from the precious metal in the alchemical furnace. It takes courage and commitment and a willingness to make what Plotinus called the flight of the alone to the alone. This is what shamanism is about. We do have a good time with…
…way coincident with what you're talking about? Yeah, I think it is. This one without a second caused me to think of Plotinus. One of his definitions of the mystical experience was he called it the flight of the alone to the alone, which mathematically…
…speculation is pointing. If within this vision of the developing world field giving rise to fields within it, very similar to Plotinus idea of the world soul giving rise to all the souls of nature within it, if the evolutionary process is ongoing,…
…between all this and the traditional doctrine of the world's soul is that in the traditional doctrine of the world's soul of Plotinus and of Plato they had a three fold system where there was the intellect with the intelligence which was really the realm…
…is substantially different from verbal description as a strategy for making models. I mean certainly, if you talk about Plotinus, for example, you described a geometric, a visualizable model for the all and everything, including within it the world,…
…the moving image of eternity is another one of these aphorisms that the psychedelic state confirms, and certainly neoplatonism. Plotinus and porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied…
…into the dark ages. I mean you have neoplatonism, which is a group of philosophers in the 3rd and 4th century who Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus and that crowd, and they took Plato, the late Plato, and contorted that into a mystical doctrine of emanation.…
…you described the octopus type thing where you're communicating not with words or dictionary? Well it's hard to say. You know Plotinus, who was a neoplatonic philosopher. He described the mystical experience of as the flight of the alone to the alone and…
…this neurotic and infantile creature that can't Face it alone and that this going it alone thing is very important. You know Plotinus, the great neoplatonic philosopher he spoke of the mystical experience as the flight of the alone to the alone. And in…
…survived into the dark ages. I mean you have neoplatonism which is a group of philosophers in the 3rd and 4th century Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus and that crowd and they took Plato, the late Plato, and contorted that into a mystical doctrine of emanation.…
…think Terrence turned me on most is his incredible ability with the English Language. If you can imagine a combination of Plotinus, James Joyce, Lord Buckley, Ice t and charlie parker, that would give you some idea of Terrence's Abilities. Anyway so let's…
…fields of information which I don't know if you are like me but my experience of these things is basically literary I read Plotinus I read Heraclitus I read all this stuff and I try to integrate it intellectually but it is a plane of experience that…