c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…now if you strike the chord and then kill it you can hear these harmonic overtones vibrating down the string this fascinated Pythagoras of whom we will hear more later. But anyway, Dennis said: well now another phenomenon that's known is you can use sound…
…you burst into the DMT space you don't arrive as the tabula Rasa of the newborn infant you arrive with your Husserl and your Pythagoras and all the REST of it fully intact in your hip pocket if you need to use it. Well so long before written culture,…
…was part of a kind of lost science that existed in antiquity. This would be a point of view that would see Pythagoras not as the founder and discoverer of music and proportion and number but would rather see Pythagoras as rather a late manifestation…
…view that would see Pythagoras not as the founder and discoverer of music and proportion and number but would rather see Pythagoras as rather a late manifestation of a way of knowing that involved sound and resonance and proportion and using interference…
…harmonic overtones. If you strike the chord and then quench it, you can hear the harmonic overtones. It was something which had fascinated Pythagoras. Dennis pointed out to me that one can use two sounds to cancel a sound if they are exactly the same in…
…which our own scientific method has achieved a very poor second. This is really an old idea. The siren song of Pythagoras that the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator more sensitive than the most powerful radio or optical…
…an eternity in which the species was a living reality. The presence of our dead mother, or Carl Jung, Newton and Bruno, Pythagoras and Heraclitus was an overwhelming and all inclusive intuition that we shared and could not ignore. There seemed to be an…
…of the Ganges river two or three thousand years ago. It certainly popped up in four or five or six hundred b c with Pythagoras of Greece and with the buddha in Northern India and the Lao Tzu and the taoists in china, all coming to the same conclusion…
…what about the eternal laws of nature which scientists have taken for granted for so many centuries? Concepts going right back to Pythagoras and the ancient greeks? Were all the laws of nature there before the big bang? Well if they were there before the…
…emergence of form from a field of chaos. We don't know what else to call it. It's not a mathematical law that was known to Pythagoras and I don't know if it was always there since the beginning of time, long before the big bang, or if it just emerged…
…Well it turns out it's about 460 b c. Well when you look into that date, you discover Mencius, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Ezekiel, Pythagoras all of these people were alive at a single moment in time, that moment, the moment which it indicates as this tremendous…
…of status, deuteronomy is being worth five thirty nine it's the fall of the babylonian empire here at five thirty two Pythagoras flourishes according to Apollonius, and in that same period all these other things were happening. C is the continued function…
…date. It prints in reverse the nearest date and then prints all the other stuff around. Now it's scrolling up more. Ok, Pythagoras, Persian Conquest of Egypt Birth of Aeschylus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Ezekiel will scroll up next and so forth. So it is or…
…what about the eternal laws of nature which scientists have taken for granted for so many centuries? Concepts going right back to Pythagoras and the ancient greeks? Were all the laws of nature there before the big bang? Well if they were there before the…
…Very interesting, very interesting. Why don't you just say a tiny bit more about what constitutes evil music? Well, since orpheus, Pythagoras and so on, there has been a permanent tradition of sacred music and we have recorded sacred music is still played…
…the bottom of that trough, there was a moment when you could have had a dinner party when Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, Pythagoras and Ezekiel could have all gotten drunk together had they been able to find each other right back there in the immediately…
…ninety ninth I have no idea what that means. Let's answer first umm 526 b c. Oh it's the Greek Renaissance, It's Plato, Pythagoras, Ezekiel Confucius, Lao Tzu. Hey I think it's time to knock off. You should quit when you're ahead you know, yes most of…
…get the dionysian religion back on track as it were with psychedelics and away from the booze. And it happened again with Pythagoras and again with buddha well and it happened with Dionysius turning into bacchus into bacchus it was the vine, it was wine.…
…a mathematical process. Well, I guess I somehow have limited my model building to the use of self similar fractals just like Pythagoras. This is so terrible. I'm not sure if we allowed the self similarity in the eschaton if that would still establish…
…emergence of form from a field of chaos. We don't know what else to call it. It's not a mathematical law that was known to Pythagoras, and I don't know if it was always there since the beginning of time long before the big bang, or if it just emerged…
…I mean? It played in the highest class of competition of all, which is in the realm of formal mathematical theory, as did Pythagoras. as did some of Plato's work. If you're interested in this kind of thing, read the 10th book of the Republic, the myth…
…theologians that followed Christ who canonized the Christian Religion. And he placed Hermes Trismegistus as older than moses, older than Pythagoras, Older than Plato. And then it wasn't until Marie Cassebon corrected that problem. See we forget how the really…
…at that time were romans, educated by greeks who were epicurean atomists not platonists not followers of Heraclitus or Pythagoras or any of the flashy folks we're into they were democracy anatomists, rationalists materialists would have been very comfortable…
…theologians that followed Christ who canonized the Christian Religion and he placed Hermes Trismegistus as older than moses, older than Pythagoras, Older than Plato. And then it wasn't until Marie Casabon corrected that problem. See we forget how the really…
…be natural relationship called an octave will also vibrate in harmony. This is the key concept here: harmony. People saw this and Pythagoras or apocryphally what Pythagoras did was he filled glass tubes with water and when he had two glass tubes tuned so…
…an octave will also vibrate in harmony. This is the key concept here: harmony. People saw this and Pythagoras or apocryphally what Pythagoras did was he filled glass tubes with water and when he had two glass tubes tuned so that they were an octave…