Terence McKenna
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The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…He had books we have a partial catalogue of his library. He had books that do not exist now. He had Roger Bacon manuscripts because you see, when Henry Viii kicked the Catholic Church out of England, the northumbrian monasteries were looted by the…
…by the earl of Northumberland and basically Dee was allowed to pick over the loot from these monasteries and there were Roger Bacon manuscripts which perished when Dee's Library was burned by an angry mob while he was on the continent because he was…
…computers, has a curious relationship to 16th century English. But when Dee and Kelly traveled to Europe they were talking up Roger Bacon, who was a 14th century English Monk who had dabbled in alchemy, and they claimed to have bacon manuscripts, and…
…make this thing say anything you wanted it to. Brumbaugh supported Dee's claim he claimed that it deciphered out into a Roger Bacon manuscript that described a series of riots between the students and the blackfriars at Christmas time in 1385 at Oxford but…
…that kind of money for it. Accompanying the manuscript is a letter which states that it is a manuscript of the englishman Roger Bacon who flourished in the 13th century and who was a noted pre copernican astronomer. Now at that time in Prague which was…
…copernican astronomer. Now at that time in Prague which was where the court of the emperor was being held, the reputation of Roger Bacon was at a great height the court was a hotbed of alchemy and among all these alchemists the reputation of the English…
…at a great height the court was a hotbed of alchemy and among all these alchemists the reputation of the English Monk Roger Bacon was held very high. This is because two years previously, the Sale of the vonage manuscript to the emperor being dated to…
…who was sold the vonage manuscript, and they were the people who were responsible for telling everyone what a great alchemist Roger Bacon the English Monk had been. They laid the public relations groundwork for turning this manuscript at a high premium I…
…of the manuscript. The manuscript, which would have had to have been written in the 13th century if it were by Roger Bacon, definitely shows all the physical signs of being a 16th century manuscript. I estimate it was done sometime around 1540 and…
…was that the tomb of Christian Rosencrantz, who had lived in the 14th century again it's like this harking back to Roger Bacon, but instead harking back to a mythical person aged two centuries previously that the tomb of Christian Rosencrantz a great…
…what must have happened is that in this period when Dee and Kelly were regaling Rudolf with tales of the alchemical prowess of Roger Bacon, that they ponied up this manuscript. Either they wrote it at that time or they had it with them. If they had it…
…you have the problem of things like the vonage manuscript. Bacon visited dean we're now talking about Francis Bacon, who was who claimed actually Roger Bacon as a as one of his, as one of his yes he did oh yes I didn't hear that oh yes that's great…
…had been lost for 600 years. And he produced astonishing decipherments in which he definitely thought that it was a Roger Bacon manuscript. He decoded passages that dealt with student uprisings at Oxford at christmastime 1292, when the riot between the…