c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…I think 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…
…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…
…form of monotheism is the form of well I guess it's a form of neoplatonism. I have digested all that you know: porphyry Proclus, Platonus. I do feel the power of the argument that when all boundaries are dissolved, there will only be the plenum, the one…
…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…
…think all of magical humanity is awaiting us and cheering us on lending their weight. They're all out there you know: Proclus, Epitonius, Plato, Octavius, Henry Cornelius, Eurydice, John Dee, Robert flood and Elias levy they're all out there pulling for us…
…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 what 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…
…finally get 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…
…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 really wild…
…I think 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…
…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 were…
…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 were…