c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…And then I do it sometimes when I'm stoned. And it's very, very satisfying. And I don't understand why it's satisfying. Ralph Metzner and I once had this fantasy that we would hold a weekend where every english utterance had to be followed by…
…do with their voice and a certain sound that they make. The only honky I've ever met who came even close to this was Ralph Metzner has a curious speech habit which is this: it's a kind of a purr at the back of your throat but these ayahuasqueros do…
…fluctuating brain states of some sort. And then the question is what sort? And I've kicked this around with friends of mine Ralph Metzner is of the opinion that what this conveys is my ambient emotional state that actually there are two possible kinds of…
…designed to convince you or impress you or drag you into my vision of things. It was simply that's who I was at that moment. Ralph Metzner and I once had a notion of giving a workshop or a weekend in which half of all utterance would have to be in…
…the least of which is my brother Dennis, and I've developed the idea in conversations with Rupert Sheldrake and kat and Ralph Metzner and other people over the years is basically an extension of orthodox evolutionary theory as it applies to the question of…
…preserve this folkloric medical information 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…
…the least of which is my brother Dennis, and I've developed the idea in conversations with Rupert Sheldrake and kat and Ralph Metzner and other people over the years is basically an extension of orthodox evolutionary theory as it applies to the question of…
…we're talking about. I mean if I woke up and I could do it on the match my first phone call would be to my friend Ralph Metzner, Who's a shrink and I said, Ralph We've got a problem here. I this is, but if I may, and again I'm a guest here I…
…do with their voice and a certain sound that they make. The only honky I've ever met who came even close to this was Ralph Metzner has that curious speech habit which is this: it's a kind of a purr at the back of your throat, but these ayahuascaras…
…you I don't like you I'm uncomfortable, I really feel weird. I mean this is just like you know, petroglyphs about emotion. Ralph Metzner and I have been playing with the idea that there is a and certainly Robert Graves and other people have preceded us…
…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 is a…
…information. Thank you, sure. Oh here this guy. In a recent article, the same magazine that Ralph mentioned, the mushroom article Ralph Metzner wrote an article along with another person whose name I don't recall MDMA, and my sense was that you, Ralph,…
…shall have the same fate as they had with the, and the people who had the good sense to advocate this, people like Ralph Metzner, will be hailed as forward looking visionaries. The only thing I would add to that analogy I think, of the telescope is…
…designed to convince you or impress you or drag you into my vision of things it was simply that's who I was at that moment. Ralph Metzner and I once had a notion of giving a workshop or a weekend in which half of all utterance would have to be in…
…a larger 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…
…receiving area it's somebody very strange. It's their idea of what would make a human being feel comfortable and reassured. I saw Ralph Metzner on Thursday Night and he and Kathy have a wonderful new child, Sophia and so there was Sophia lying in her…
…may 1983 that featured a number of established and emerging luminaries, including Albert Hoffman, Sasha Shulgin, Andrew Weil, Ralph Metzner, Karl Ruck, Walter Houston Clark and others. Terence's Edgy talk was titled hallucinogens monkeys discover a hyperspace,…