…was to be able to slow it down, to be able to do it, to be able to show it to people. And I read Robert Graves, the white goddess, and had the notion in there, you know, he talks about a primary poetic language that he thinks existed before history,…

…the DMT is some kind of synesthesia where ordinary speech or speech or sound is perceived visually, it seems to suggest. And Robert Graves wrote about this in an amazing book, which, if you want a mind bending, read the White Goddess by Robert Graves. I…

…to suggest. And Robert Graves wrote about this in an amazing book, which, if you want a mind bending, read the White Goddess by Robert Graves. I mean, this is truly a puzzling book. And after you've read it, give me a call and tell me what it's all…

…so on. If you're interested in the more trippy aspects of it all, I suppose, certainly you should read the white goddess by Robert Graves, which is a very complex and challenging book. In fact, once you've read it, you can explain to me what it's about.…

…in the history of psychedelics. Just as an example, the reason Gordon Wasson and his wife Valentina went to Mexico was because Robert Graves told them that they should do that, that there was something in Mexico having to do with mushrooms that they would…

…they would find very interesting. Many people know this part of the story, but very few people know that the person who told Robert Graves was, of all people, Idris Shaw. And why Idris Shaw knew, this is not clear. But at wasens death, all of his…

…we're supposed to condense machines out of the air in front of us? How does this relate to the persistent idea promulgated by Robert Graves and other people, that there is a primal language of poetry. That poetry as we know it is a pale, pale thing.…

…opium diadems and opium poppies being used as ornaments by various goddesses. So it was understood that it was psychoactive? Yeah. Robert Graves makes mention in one of his books that he suggests that Ambrosia, the ambrosia of the greek gods, were actually…

…strain grew on the eleusinian plain that was made into a kind of beer that was then this hallucinogenic intoxicant. But Robert Graves, who didn't have the kind of public relations machinery that was, had a different notion. And he claimed that the…

…first letter of the items of a list spells out a secret meaning. And it was a favorite trick of irish bardic poets, which Graves was very much into that. But I entail. Now, here is a great project for somebody. We need someone to prove that you can…

…ancient. Peyote use in the Southwest appears to be less than 500 years old before that. What we find in Indian Graves of the tarahumara and so forth are the seeds of sephora secundifolia. Sephora secundifolia is a highly poisonous legume that contains…

…a strain grew on the eleusinian plain that was made into a kind of beer that was then this hallucinogenic intoxicant. But Robert Graves, who didn't have the kind of public relations machinery that Watson had, had a different notion and he claimed that the…

…that's a key question. Roland Fisher, who was a great psychedelic researcher with psilocybin and later retired to Majorca to be Robert Graves next door neighbor, coined the phrase state bounded. This means you can't bring it back, and I'm sure you all have…

…the DMT is some kind of synesthesia where ordinary speech or speech or sound is perceived visually. It seems to suggest and Robert Graves wrote about this in an amazing book which if you want a mind bending read read the white goddess by Robert Graves.…

…suggest and Robert Graves wrote about this in an amazing book which if you want a mind bending read read the white goddess by Robert Graves. This is truly a puzzling book and after you've read it give me a call and tell me what it's all about. But…

…when I was in the Amazon. There's a celtic saying that poetry is made at the edge of running water. I think Robert Graves discusses this in the white goddess, which if you've never read the white goddess that's basic reading. For psychedelics. He talks…

…miss the mark? He talks about it but they never got down to the acid test. They never brewed it up and did it. Now Robert Graves, who was the guy who turned the wassons on to the idea of going to Mexico to look for mushrooms he had an entirely…

…of your personal immortality is just you know, hair raising. And as someone pointed out, hair raising is the quality that Robert Graves associates with the near approach of lukathia. Lukathia is the white goddess. The white goddess is the goddess of death.…

…about theatrical lighting effects and yak yak, yak the truth being nobody knew. Well then Wasson came along and actually before him, Robert Graves and graves said: it has to be a mushroom, it must be a mushroom and he wrote a very interesting article…

…related to this, the sliminess of mushroom it's all connected in there. So then Gordon Wasson, who was a personal friend of Robert Graves, took up this clue and got with Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD, and they said: no mushroom quite fits the…

…we're supposed to condense machines out of the air in front of us? How does this relate to the persistent idea promulgated by Robert Graves and other people that there is a primal language of poetry, that poetry as we know it is a pale pale thing and…

…water seemed to bring more rhyme and rhythm into my thoughts. From nowhere I seemed to remember an old celtic saying that Robert Graves discusses, which says that poetry is made at the edge of running water. It had something to do with that I believed,…

…it's like a mantric language not a dictionary language. The meaning is locked into the sound and I think people like Robert Graves and other people have suggested that before history there may have been a primary poetic language that was a language of…

…was to be able to slow it down, to be able to do it to be able to show it to people. And I read Robert Graves the white goddess, and had the notion in there you know he talks about a primary poetic language that he thinks existed before history…

…the DMT is some kind of synesthesia, where ordinary speech or speech or sound is perceived visually. It seems to suggest and Robert Graves wrote about this in an amazing book which if you want a mind bending read, read the white goddess by Robert Graves.…

…suggest and Robert Graves wrote about this in an amazing book which if you want a mind bending read, read the white goddess by Robert Graves. I mean this is truly a puzzling book and after you've read it, give me a call and tell me what it's all…

…then I thought back to that incident when we had this incident with the screaming laughter in the woods I went to my Robert Graves Greek Mythology and I looked up pan. Pan plays the pipes, of course, but pan has a special form of laughter which causes…

…ancient. Peyote used in the Southwest appears to be less than 500 years old. Before that what we find in Indian Graves of the tarahumara and so forth are the seeds of sephora secundifolia. Sephora secundifolia is a highly poisonous legume that contains…

…diadems and opium poppies being used as ornaments by various goddesses. So it was understood that it was psychoactive. Yeah, Robert Graves makes mention in one of his books that he suggests that the ambrosia of the Greek Gods were actually phyllophyllum…

…a strain grew on the eleusinian plain that was made into a kind of beer that was then this hallucinogenic intoxicant. But Robert Graves, who didn't have the kind of public relations machinery that Wasson had had a different notion and he claimed that the…

…that's a key question. Roland Fisher who was a great psychedelic researcher with psilocybin and later retired to Majorca to be Robert Graves next door neighbor, coined the phrase state bounded. This means you can't bring it back and I'm sure you all have…

…However, he doesn't mention the strongest competitor in terms of an interpretation of the eleusinian mystery which is that Robert Graves showed that the recipes for the eleusinian ambrosia always contained words which could be arranged in such a way…

…breaking through to the worldly flesh, where do you see the function of the poets? Well, you know, people have talked Robert Graves and others about what he called an ursprach an original speech, and celtic poetics somewhat assumes this. I think this…

…one to think of discussions of primary poetic languages such as the one that goes on in the white goddess by Robert Graves where he wants to suggest that there is a proto language, an ursprach that transcends conventionalized dictionaries, a language which…

…However, he doesn't mention the strongest competitor in terms of an interpretation of the eleusinian mystery, which is that Robert Graves showed that the recipes for the eleusinian ambrosia always contained words which could be arranged in such a way…

…one to think of discussions of primary poetic languages such as the one that goes on in the white goddess by Robert Graves where he wants to suggest that there is a proto language, an ursprach that transcends conventionalized dictionaries, a language which…

…received was more in the character of an unraveling of a mystery somewhat analogous if any of you are familiar with Robert Graves book the white goddess, wherein a series of continuing revelations he gained great insight into early celtic and godelic poetic…

…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 in this but that there is hardwired into the human brain a kind of ur language…

…this is a fictionalized retelling of that incident, intercut with a modern cast of characters very clearly modeled on the poet Robert Graves. So if you like to absorb your information in a fictionalized form, this is a wonderful book. John Borman, the…

…even require a gene shift where then we would see what we each mean. You know there's this persistent idea promulgated by Robert Graves in the white goddess among other people that there was once what he calls an urshba, a primal language so emotionally…

…whatever was drunk at Eleusis may not have been ergotized beer it could have been a mushroom of some sort. This is what Robert Graves thought that it was a mushroom. Do you think we're back in print yet the road to Eleusis? Probably not, because Wasson…

…only told in Pausanias and alluded to in Herodotus. So it is not a story that even classicists are too familiar with. Robert Graves, in his four volume study of Greek Mythology, gives it only passing reference. You may recall that King Minos was the King…

…hope for psilocybin that this can become an experience for people, a kind of urschbach. I think you may be aware of Robert Graves book the white goddess where he talks about a perfect poetic language that predates history, a language of poetry so intense…

…the scholars without their knives, and all kinds of theories have been brought forward. Some of you may know that the scholar Robert Graves discusses this in the white goddess and his theory, which I think deserves to be more looked at than it has, his…

…ingredient that I can't remember those four words can be arranged to spell out the word Miko, which means mushroom. So Robert Graves was convinced that a psilocybin mushroom lay behind the eleusinian mysteries. This is a pretty good. This is not entirely…

…simply a brain state which allows either the assembly language which lies behind language, or a primal language of the sort that Robert Graves was talking about in the white goddess or a kabbalistic language of the sort that is described in the zohar, a…

…these modules are manipulated to entertain people. And you know it's a cliché that there are only five stories and I think Robert Graves in the white goddess argued there's only one story and we keep telling variants of this story over and over again.…

…we're supposed to condense machines out of the air in front of us? How does this relate to the persistent idea promulgated by Robert Graves and other people that there is a primal language of poetry, that poetry as we know it is a pale pale thing and…

…beer. A small voice in opposition to this theory of Wass and Hoffman and rook was the English poet and bon Vivant Robert Graves. He believed that it was simply mushrooms, that it was simply mushrooms, and his argument for this was: he took the list…

…I mean you can literally peel it off the ceiling and set it dancing in your presence. If any of you have read Robert Graves book the white goddess, he talks in there about what he calls an ursprach, a visibly beheld language of primal poetry and he…