…is for characters, and I've collected them. In all times and places, my charm bracelet has such peculiar specimens as Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, Nina Wise, Joan Halifax, unique types. I mean, they threw the mold away before they made these people.…

…down the primrose path. Nevertheless, it seems to me what we need is a 12-gauge shotgun. No, I'm kidding. My friend Ralph Abraham is a proponent of this school of mathematics called chaotic attractors or dynamics. and this is the notion that many processes…

…the Visual Mathematics Project, founding member of the General Evolution Research Group, and a well-known New Age raconteur. Please welcome Ralph Abraham. He knows how the boar ate the cabbage. Here's his master of the art of introduction. Well, we'll start…

…a molecule, a nation, anything that takes form in space and time. I find, I'm into chaos theory now, and Prigogine, and Ralph Abraham, who's going to be here later this week. And it's what Prigogine is getting at with the concepts of autocatalysis and…

…No. He was a great buddy of mine, but he died. It's been now nine years or so. But these are these group of people, Ralph Abraham is one of them, all of whom have created new models for how change and process occur in the world. There is, as been…

…Meyer, Peter has been, you know, until you've written a piece of software with somebody, you don't really know them. And Ralph Abraham and David Loy, And all the people who are not here who contributed to this. Eric Jansch gave these ideas encouragement…

…say that the mushroom speaks to you, but I don't understand how this can be. What do you mean it speaks to you? And Ralph Abraham was there, too. And I, in my sincere way, said, well, it's like the part Steiger played in the pawnbroker. It just. And…

…terms is a higher dimensional perspective. A perspective from which which the closed doors of this world are open doors. And Ralph Abraham, who some of you may know, has suggested that one way to model the psychedelic experience is to take seriously the…

…were the primary programmers of the original thing, and Klaus Schraff at Tubingen in Germany, who duplicated the algorithm, and Ralph Abraham. And now we are fully engaged. I'm alarmed. Watkins scents blood. The whole thing is much more interesting than it…

…can slaughter empty video and you can come up with a. I mean, if they could make a light show out of that. Well, Ralph Abraham, when he was studying dynamical systems, built a device, which he called a macroscope. And what it was was it was two sheets…

…and issues, personal, general, psychedelic and otherwise on, is the dichotomy between the historical mindset and what I've heard my friend Ralph Abraham call Eros. In other words, Eros and history is a kind of dichotomy. These things are like oil and water.…

…speakened medium out of which perturbations to higher states of order can spontaneously emerge. This is what Ilya Prigozhin and Ralph Abraham and all these people are talking about. I want to ask you something, Terrence. I interviewed a scientist who now…

…not sure there's one in this story too I was in malibu with all these fancy film people and we went out to dinner Ralph Abraham was there too and there was this French woman there a film producer, and she was seated next to me at dinner and before…

…to Shake hands with everybody and slap a few backs and then he just drifts off into the recesses of this restaurant. And Ralph Abraham, who was sitting across the table from me watching this whole thing and had heard what I said to this woman reached…

…on it and so forth and so on. And finally and people were just avoiding me more and more consistently, and finally, Ralph Abraham, my friend and the chaos mathematician at Santa Cruz he gave me very good advice and he said: this thing that you've…

…energy and perplexity that had my friends meeting to plan what is to be done. Hope this never happens to you. And finally Ralph Abraham God love him said it's an occult thing I mean it's just this occult thing only you understand it and it's not even…

…are perceived as opposites: chaos and cosmos. Cosmos means order, chaos means disorder. However, taking a page from my friend Ralph Abraham, I sort of propose that we think of this as a meeting of the Henri Poincaré anarchist international brigade and…

…not metaphorically. This is what has to be understood that you literally are seeing a higher dimension to reality. And Ralph Abraham was here yesterday suggesting that because the world is such a complex system, it has many, many variables. Dimension, which…

…eight months it will be 50 visual and within a year that's what it will be. People are building their realities right now. Ralph Abraham came down and told me that he bought a storefront on the net and there he sells his books on dynamics and chaos…

…not sure. Just recently in the last 10 days I mean this work was done 10 years ago but in the last 10 days Ralph Abraham called me all excited some very heavy hasidic rabbis have published a book called I think it's called the secret code of genesis…

…usually in a field, however large and actually these fields aren't large the top people know each other. You know Ralph Abraham astonished me by saying recently that he estimated that there were probably only about 3 000 full time research mathematicians…

…meetings. You know which it's always a bad sign when your friends hold meetings to decide what should be done. And finally Ralph Abraham, Who's a great friend and mathematician, he said to me he said you know what you have is an occult object. Nobody…

…boring to me. And so then it was sort of left like that. But I got good support from my mathematical friends and Ralph Abraham was wonderful and he said: you know he told all kinds of stories from the history of mathematics about people who had made…

…you see that the mushroom speaks to you but I don't understand how this can be what do you mean it speaks to you and Ralph Abraham was there too and I in my sincere way said well it's like the part Steiger played in the pawnbroker, it just and at…

…exactly. So hanging out with Rupert Sheldrake and the other author of trilogues at the edge of the West who is Ralph Abraham, a brilliant mathematician, research mathematician it seems to me that the best model of what psychedelics do is they actually…

…You know I was on Mount Sinai and here's what the burning bush said and most people just turned away aghast. But my friend Ralph Abraham said to me he said: you know this thing is just an occult diagram only you can interpret it it means nothing to…

…on the market. Rupert and I Rupert Childrake was here a few weeks ago helping launch a new book that we wrote with Ralph Abraham and we were talking about this and he said what we need to do is establish an ideological consumer report where you would…

…not sure there's one in this story too. I was in malibu with all these fancy film people and we went out to dinner Ralph Abraham was there too and there was this French woman there a film producer, and she was seated next to me at dinner and before…

…to Shake hands with everybody and slap a few backs and then he just drifts off into the recesses of this restaurant and Ralph Abraham who was sitting across the table from me watching this whole thing and had heard what I said to this woman, reached…

…and the physical plants which it addresses. So in response to this, kat and I and Ralph Metzner and Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham and Dennis McKenna and I think that's about it have formed a non profit tax exempt corporation to create a botanical…

…on. And that's where the whole thing seemed to come to an end. And as I say I was a concern to my friends and Ralph Abraham, bless him, gave me very good advice and he came to me and he said: no one can understand your wave except you. It requires…

…them as having a varying relationship to the visual rather than the audio sense. We had a discussion a couple of nights ago with Ralph Abraham about when you are asked to conjure the idea of an orange, what is this idea made out of when you close your…

…three dimensions. But as you add dimensions to any system the number of these potential catastrophes increases and Ralph Abraham has described a number of the hyperdimensional catastrophe states. Perhaps they could eventually, it could eventually be recognized…

…development of all this technology, chaos theory, non equilibrium thermodynamics, the work of Eric Yonge, Emilia Purgosian and Ralph Abraham and Stuart Kaufman, all these people who worked in complexity theory and perturbation of large scale dissipative…

…remind me of a passage I read in on the edge by Edward St aubin page where are we 150? It's what Ralph Abraham calls the sunset effect, said Kenneth. While there's a beautiful sunset, even if the optical effects are produced by pollution, people won't…

…last true hallucinations: invisible landscape invisible landscape food of the gods. I did one with the British Biologist Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham Trilogues at the edge of the west, which is a threefer, you we would have a dialogue and then the…

…the thumbprint of deity on this planet, it surely must REST in us. We are the anomaly, we are the self transcending. Ralph Abraham calls it a chaos trophy. It's not quite a catastrophe, but it certainly scratches the belly of catastrophe as it goes by.…

…friends. Can you talk a little about your association with Rupert Sheldrake? Rupert is a good friend of mine he and Ralph Abraham and I are writing a book together. He's the morphogenetic field man, and this is an alternative hypothesis to the scientific…

…Harvard University to the plains of the Punjab, has transformed himself into a spokesman for humanities ignored and downtrodden. And Ralph Abraham was sitting across the table watching me have this conversation and when Dr Steiger left, Ralph leaned over to…

…first of all that this fractal principle be more clearly enunciated and understood. Everybody is talking about fractals but it took Ralph Abraham to get it down to a bumper sticker for me and it is: nature is self similar across scales. Companies explode…

…future and hopefully it has some general application. I formulated it this way just ten days ago because both Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham who are my co authors on one book and co conspirators in more plots than can be told, visited me, and Ralph…

…time. I mean we're still being propelled outward from the blast of that one encounter which is there on the other side. Ralph Abraham is the designated remote user for the mppi machine at Goddard Space flight. That's the machine that can do what I'm…

…let me point out. T-E-R-E-N-C-E. I do have a new book out with the British biologist Rupert Sheldrake and the mathematician Ralph Abraham. a book called The Evolutionary Mind, and they can order that from their local bookstore. They will find when they…

…revival and food of the gods, the search for the original tree of knowledge and trilogues with Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham. Terrence McKenna is a scholar and brilliant interdimensional adventurer with an understanding of nature from the depths of the…

…the experience. So in the past few years, and probably because I have been associating with the mathematicians and people like Ralph Abraham and Rupert Sheldrake a bit, I've come to what I call the geometric model of the psychedelic experience and I…

…Rudy Rucker not to be playing soon at a theater near you, and I just had released a video called metamorphosis in which Ralph Abraham and Rupert Sheldrake and I kid around for a while and that was lots of fun. These days what I'm really interested in…

…and a ceremonialist as well. Lloydine arguelles, co precipitator with Jose. I'm Jose Arguelles, I'm a harmonic convergenist. I'm Ralph Abraham, I'm a precipitate. I'm a regenerate precipitate. My name is kat I'm Terrence's Partner and mother of our children…

…nothing too finely sculpted was intended and I think you know what's happening with the monitoring of brain states. Ralph Abraham, who was here this morning is the director of the visual mathematics project at Santa Cruz. Glossolalia, language, drugs,…

…a field or a meadow somewhere, the carpaphore what we call the mushroom, is an appurtenance to the sexual process. As Ralph Abraham said one time it's for sex thrills and sunbathing, and that's all it's for. Mushroom is perfectly able to propagate itself…

And now the omega institute is proud to introduce Terence McKenna in the red tights and Ralph Abraham in the faded denims. And the rules of the game are simple indeed: one of us will talk for a bit, then the other will talk for a bit it's called…

…ice in a blender might crack the case. And mathematician compares DMT experience with LSD experience, which is about our old friend Ralph Abraham of whom there are almost 50 podcasts here in the salon. And before I go I'd like to remind you once again…

…in the Amazon. Much has already been lost. So cat and I and Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard and Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, Ralph Metzner, Frank Barr, a number of people have gathered together and formed a non profit foundation whose showcase project…

…of reality that are not artificial but that are fields of data not ordinarily coordinated by ordinary perception. You know Ralph Abraham, Who's a favorite around here has talked about how mathematics, which has been a high priesthood of arcane formulae and…

…so Rupert and I have been close friends for years, and even longer I've been tight with a mathematician in Santa Cruz named Ralph Abraham Who's a chaos dynamicist and Ralph and Rupert and I did a book together called trilogues at the edge of the west…

…and then there are sub closures, six on one level, two on another and the final one on this one. And finally my friend Ralph Abraham took pity on me and he said the problem with this thing is that it's an occult dogma. Nobody can understand this thing…

…them as having a varying relationship to the visual rather than the audio sense. We had a discussion a couple of nights ago with Ralph Abraham about when you are asked to conjure the idea of an orange, what is this idea made out of when you close your…

…three dimensions. But as you add dimensions to any system, the number of these potential catastrophes increases and Ralph Abraham has described a number of the hyperdimensional catastrophe states. Perhaps they could eventually, it could eventually be recognized…

…one r let me point out. I do have a new book out with the British Biologist Rupert Sheldrake and the mathematician Ralph Abraham, a book called the evolutionary mind, and they can order that from their local bookstore. They will find when they look into…

…group to look into the vonage manuscript, Dr Strong was one of the people they wanted to interview. And my friend Ralph Abraham, Who's a mathematician at Santa Cruz, had photostats of certain folios of. The vonage manuscript and he sent very detailed…

…keeping scripts that were current in Europe Throughout the middle ages, and none of them look particularly like vonage script. Ralph Abraham made the suggestion that vonage script had some relation to early brahmanic number systems. He thought perhaps it was…

…Terence McKenna about a whole range of things including changing philosophy his newest book actually trilogues with Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham is called the evolutionary mind. It's a feast of all kinds of stuff on visual math and factals and psychic…

…moving very fast. What we need to do is merely keep our spirits high and learn to sing the song. My friend Ralph Abraham is a proponent of this school of mathematics called chaotic attractors or dynamics, and this is the notion that many processes are…

…believe that the shaman actually attains a kind of hyper-dimensional perception. And also teaching here this weekend is my old buddy Ralph Abraham, who's one of the world's leading exponents of chaos dynamics. And he has told me many times that... the DMT…

…rely on an intellectual method 2 000 years old almost precludes our understanding anything interesting. That's why people like Ralph Abraham with his theory of dynamics and Ilya Prigozhin with his non equilibrium thermodynamics and Manfred Aydin with his…

…really about. Anybody, anything hit me yeah, you mean my views on the web. Where did I learn my views? Well Ralph Abraham, you should visit his website. It's http://hypathea ucsc Edu Org. Well it's basically it's just a URL: Url://hypathea ucsc Edu Org.…

…we have here today for Sale. The archaic revival is one of his most recent books and trial logs with Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham Co authored and food of the gods, the search for the original tree of knowledge, also we have here as well as…

…of these psychedelic states is that they are actually higher dimensional states of consciousness. And I put this to Ralph Abraham, the mathematician who is no mathematical slouch and no psychedelic slouch either and we talked of this in relationship…

…believe that the shaman actually attains a kind of hyper dimensional perception. Also teaching here this weekend is my old buddy Ralph Abraham Who's One of the world's leading exponents of chaos dynamics and he has told me many times that the DMT flash…

…moving very fast. What we need to do is merely keep our spirits high and learn to sing the song. My friend Ralph Abraham, is a proponent of this school of mathematics, called chaotic attractors or dynamics. And this is the notion that many processes are…

…sense, for botanical dimensions. Botanical dimensions is the non profit that kat and I and Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Metzner, Ralph Abraham, Frank Barr a number of people have organized to carry out plant rescue operations for medicinal plants and plants…

…it because it's an art movement, not a science but I would number the compressionists that come to mind to be Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, Frank Barr and myself bringing up the rear and we all four of us have a slice on it each different but each…

…strange things about reality should be measurable and discernible. So morphic resonance, my novelty waves, the dynamic attractors of Ralph Abraham and the fractal hierarchies of frank Barr are all embryonic efforts. There's a feeling in the air, a sense…

…proposed to you last night the term compressionist for this school of thought that myself and sheldrake and frank Barr and Ralph Abraham represent, because we all are talking about the dense nesting of concrescent systems and ultimately, in my own point of…

…it because it's an art movement, not a science but I would number the compressionists that come to mind to be Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, Frank Barr and myself bringing up the rear, and we all four of us have a slice on it each different but each…

…botanical dimensions benefit botanical dimensions is a non profit corporation that kat and I founded, and Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Messner and Ralph Abraham and umm old Leo Zemp some of you may know Leo. He died recently he was on our board and what we…

…table to be introduced to everybody and I so then we all shook hands with rod Steiger he went back to his table and Ralph Abraham, who had been sitting across from this French woman and I watching this whole thing, leaned over and said to me: you see,…

…it a premature burst of complexity and brilliance. And rianne Eisler uses dynamic theory borrowed from modern mathematics, borrowed from Ralph Abraham, who I'm sure many of you know, to make cultural models, and so there's been a lot of excitement about…

…at a not terribly fancy restaurant but a neighborhood restaurant in malibu with a bunch of people, among them my friend Ralph Abraham, and also among them a woman a French Movie producer, and we had been earlier at someone's house talking about…