c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…A form 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…
…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 really wild theories…
…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. They…
…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. They…