c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…the historical situation the jerks want to be in the Bible. In other words, every petty potentate from Frederick Barbarossa to Ronald Reagan has secretly believed that they were living in the time of the antichrist and would participate in the scenario of…
…it was I got very excited because we were approaching simultaneously the end of the Reagan Era and I thought you know Ronald Reagan and Augustulus Romulus and the two seemed to map very well over each other. I didn't notice that my favorite politician…
…out there in left field, Mikhail Gorbachev, was moving into a position to fulfill the prophecy far more spectacularly than Ronald Reagan ever could and did. I mean what happened in this country was sandbox pissant politics. What's happening in the soviet…
…that was the analogy to the fall of Rome and it didn't fulfill my political agenda. I would have much rather had the humiliation of Ronald Reagan as the fulfillment of the fall of Rome but it was not to be so. You've got to be very close with it and…
…the historical situation. The jerks want to be in the Bible in other words, every petty potentate from Frederick Barbarossa to Ronald Reagan has secretly believed that they were living in the time of the antichrist and would participate in the scenario of…
…have we got? Okay I'll show you what we've got. First of all, George bush is elected right here which means that Ronald Reagan leaves office right here. This is the absolute resonance for the fall of the roman empire, and Ronald Reagan Clearly is the…
…which means that Ronald Reagan leaves office right here. This is the absolute resonance for the fall of the roman empire, and Ronald Reagan Clearly is the carrier of that energy. You know the imperial style well the whole tone of the thing was roman. Now…
…feel optimistic sometimes, but it's almost like an obligation and I think there's enough evidence around to support it. If Ronald Reagan is going to begin the process of the dismantling of strategic nuclear stockpiles, then what would a civilized and humane…
…reserves unto itself. The proof of that in the present historical moment has got to be that a bloodthirsty nudnik like Ronald Reagan will sign an IMF Agreement. If it is in the interests of people like that to support disarmament and disengagement and…
…issue is even more frightening than communism even more insidious. Mccarthy told America that communism was under the bed he was wrong. Ronald Reagan and George bush tell America that drugs are in the living room and they're right it is here it is real…
…martin Luther King and everybody else and then flooded the ghetto with junk. The cocaine thing is a direct replay. You know Ronald Reagan is tiptoeing around whether or not he should be friends with Mikhail Gorbachev when look who he is friends with the…
…It probably wraps about the same. It just makes me ask what are the historical antecedents of Reagan and bush oh well Ronald Reagan, his historical antecedents were the last six roman emperors before the fall of Rome in 475, and bush's antecedent is no I…
…you can't understand why it works. And it is morally neutral. This is the other thing I mean Goebbels you can forget Ronald Reagan this is a piker and a buffoon. Joseph Goebbels was the man who understood the power of information and communication, and…