c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…the drug you're talking about rather than just run around with this kind of chicken little attitude toward what is going on. Yeah, Robert, this. I don't know whether you want to get into this issue sometime later on, but it's related to the question of…
…you grow your own, then it's really alchemy, you know, I mean, this, the white stuff is the seed, and you take rye a la Robert flood, you take rye and you inoculate it with this white stuff. And then, lo and behold, over a period of days, and with…
…causes one to think of discussions of primary poetic languages such as the one that goes on in the white goddess by Robert Grace where he wants to suggest that there is a proto language and or sprock that transcends conventionalized dictionaries a language…
…All right, Terrence, Wild card line, you're on the air with Terrence McKenna where are you please? Good morning Mr Bell. This is Robert in San Joaquin valley in California. Yes sir, good morning. I have two questions, but Mr Bell I'd like to say first I…
…notion of the archaic revival that there are many many impulses in society from house music to what you're doing to what Robert Bly's doing to world that are often appear at cross purposes but resolve themselves down into impulses toward a recovery of the…
…values that we all have inherited? Well I think it has to begin in psychology. That the psychologists you know it was Robert Oppenheimer, and perhaps it was apocryphal but I don't think so who said the physicists, whatever may be said, know guilt? They…
…of Shakespeare and the court the rudolphine court in Prague this is the age of archimboldo and John Dee and Robert flood and that incredibly complex psychedelic, manneristic mishmash that those late Renaissance people put together. But there's a certain…
…than just the UFO Mentality of the yellow press, you'll reach conclusions similar to the conclusions reached by the astrophysicist Robert Bracewell. Bracewell said: no matter what kind of intelligence you are no matter what kind of technology you have, if…
…far out on a limb with your personal being. But when you start talking to somebody about, you know what is that poem is it by Robert browning how do I love thee? Let me count the ways to say to someone: how do I love thee let me count the ways and…
…of the connections between what we were doing and classical alchemy move by vast intuitive leaps to implicate Gerhard Dorn, Robert flood and count Michael Mayer. The 36th emblem of Mayer's Atalanta fugiens is a wonderful visual pun that connects the…
…arundo donax grominae phytochemical and pharmacological evaluation in the journal of medical chemistry volume 12, 1969, page 480. Graves, Robert, the white goddess, New York 1948. Hortenberg, w e the putumayo, the devil's Paradise, London 1912. Harner, Michael,…
…Herbert George the time machine, whitham, colonel Henry, Explorations of the Upper Amazon Whitehead, Alfred North, process and reality, Wilson, Robert Anton, Illuminatus and I might add, valais by Philip K dick. Any similarity to persons living or dead is…
…is chewing itself up here and wired is going mad English publishing seems to be getting some traction. The post human condition by Robert Pepperell: this is sort of a parallel track to some of my thinking. If you cruise the net you encounter people who…
…you show me? And I, as an 11 to 14 year old practiced ceremonial magic to no great avail, I might add. I had stories by Robert Bloch and h p Lovecraft to make me hope I might get somewhere, but all I ever did was incinerate a lot of rosemary and…
…century because they had the Superior Technology of the astrolabe. That was what gave them the edge up. This is Robert Anton Wilson. Robert you want to make a statement? Bob hi hi, say hi to Dennis. Hi Dennis, Another age of navigation we're going to…
…psychedelic experience. I mean people should read books look at works of art you know, have sexual experiences, travel, spend time you know Robert frost said the secret of life is learning to enjoy people you don't approve of and all of this, all of this…
…notion of the archaic revival that there are many, many impulses in society from house music to what you're doing, to what Robert Bly is doing that often appear at cross purposes but resolve themselves down into impulses toward a recovery of the archaic…
…some of the great psychedelic women. This is very important to discuss. Some of you may have read odd John by Robert Bly where he makes a tremendous case that fathers should provide initiatory experiences for their children. We're not talking an overnight…
…Joyce was trying to do was he was in that great tradition of literary alchemy whose earlier practitioners were people like Robert flood, Athanasius Kirscher, Paracelsus these are not familiar names but in the late flowering of alchemy, when the birth of…
…is not my idea by the way. I mean this is what alchemy turned into and in the 16th century people like Gerhard Dorn and Robert flood and John Dee and Michelson De vorghese and all of these people were on the trail of what they called the lapis or…
…some form? I'm just curious what you make of that. I guess I have an archetypal interpretation I recall from some book of Robert Anton Wilson's where he suggests he says you should pray to the blessed virgin Mary Every day and make offerings to her and…
…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 and every shaman and shamanist every magician practitioner,…
…that we have. I mean what we have done is you know if there is a sin then we have sinned. You know, Robert Oppenheimer said, beyond all rational argument, the physicists have known sin and it's because they reached into the heart of matter without…
…scholars of rosicrucianism know that one of the things that was always said about rosicrucians was that they were invisible. This was how Robert flood proved to people that he wasn't a rosicrucian. Say: you're looking at me so how can I be one? And so…
…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 there pulling for us and every shaman and shamaness every magician practitioner as far…
…the universe. If we were to gain the power to design ourselves, I think after a whole bunch of you know madonna and Robert Redford clones, we would probably move on to becoming something very much like a mushroom. It's you know, mild, it's non invasive,…
…more aware than most of my critics of where the weaknesses lie in the competition as well. The whole thing is pretty provisional, Robert did you ever get to say what you wanted? There you are. When you were talking about the holy other, you were talking…
…and they acknowledge each other and hezer says: jump in the river. So shall I continue? Yes, so he jumps in the river. Robert Bly taught us that when the storyteller stops, then you're supposed to encourage him to go on otherwise he doesn't know it…
…everyone who has done psychedelic research, research on consciousness in America, has stood on the shoulders of giants. People like Robert Gordon Watson, the discoverer of the magic mushrooms in Mexico, the man who propounded and founded the field of…
…and who we are you may not know, but if you're hip enough you'll be contacted and asked to join. And people like Robert flood, who was essentially the heir of the d tradition in English Occultism and science, basically put out advertisements saying: if I…
…far. The vonage manuscript had claimed its first victim. The next person to advance a decipherment of the vonage manuscript was Robert S brumbaugh also of Yale University and his decipherment is in some ways almost as puzzling as the encryption he would…
…liquid liquid Asian Italian Syrian Salt liquid sicilian Italian Plus sicilian plus salt, et Cetera Et Cetera. Who was that again Robert S brumbaugh of Yale. However when his method was examined by other people attempting to reproduce the same plain text…
…who asked the other question. He's well informed. This obscure plant is certainly getting a high profile here this evening. And since Robert brought up the notion of interacting so elegantly I would be willing to have a salon if someone is interested. And…
…on how to respond back to it. I finally figured out that whoever had programmed the darn thing was somehow connected through the Robert and all that kind of stuff, and so I knew some of the avoidance techniques but still it was very convincing, very…
…Neo Lutheran attitude toward each other. I mean don't people understand that the essence of sophistication is tolerance, tolerance, that's all. Robert frost once said the secret of happiness is learning to enjoy people you don't approve of and I would add…
…the UFO Involvement in that civilization is still very active today. I know someone who I believe you met last night, Robert Stanley from Munich's Magazine who takes people on these expeditions in decker canyon. He took somebody at the beginning of the…
…far out on a limb with your personal being. But when you start talking to somebody about you know what is that poem is it by Robert browning how do I love thee let me count the ways. To say to someone: how do I love thee let me count the ways and…
…there must be more at work in the Universal mix than we have perceived. Well, I think I'll do one more question, Robert. Well, we are so accustomed to allowing these eastern forms of thought to remain largely formally undefined that we never ask obvious…
…flower, so there must be more at work in the Universal mix than we have perceived. Well I think I'll do one more question, Robert. Why are you in this drawing? Is this like a historical time graph of who you are? Yes that's exactly what it is. It's…
…human being is the struggle to give up having it actually make any sense ultimately, where I think it was of all people Robert frost who said the secret of a happy life is learning to enjoy people you don't approve of. Well, you know there's something.…