c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
Well thank you very much, Roy. It's a pleasure to be here. It actually is a pleasure to be here in the sense that a prophet in his own country is not nearly so welcome as he is in Southern California, Apparently. Anyway when I think of California I…
…worry about the quality of our wine and our cheese, and you people in a very roman style, easily rule the world. I want to thank Roy and Diane and pam and everyone who helped make this into the kind of event that it is. I think they all did a great…
…who helped make this into the kind of event that it is. I think they all did a great job. Not only this event but Roy has certainly been an amazing booster. I was going over the figures for lux natura last week and I noticed the bodhi tree bookstore…
…noticed the bodhi tree bookstore has sold 135 copies of the invisible landscape this year which is far more than anyone ever sold until Roy took up the banner. Is it a banner? I imagine that since you all paid so much money to be here that you…
…transformed human being. But that person, the person who chops wood and hauls water on cold mountain, is by people like me and Roy and probably most of the people in this room, glimpsed through the fog and you say oh my goodness is he still alive…
…I'm very proud and yet humble to introduce our favorite mushroom eater and shamanologist, Terence McKenna. Terence McKenna well, thank you very much, Roy. It's a pleasure to be here. It actually is a pleasure to be here in the sense that a prophet in his…
…worry about the quality of our wine and our cheese and you people in a very roman style, easily rule the world. I want to thank Roy and Diane and pam and everyone who helped make this into the kind of event that it is. I think they all did a great…
…who helped make this into the kind of event that it is. I think they all did a great job. Not only this event but Roy has certainly been an amazing booster. I was going over the figures for lux natura last week and I noticed the bodhi tree bookstore…
…noticed the bodhi tree bookstore has sold 135 copies of the invisible landscape this year, which is far more than anyone ever sold until Roy took up the banner. Is it a banner? I imagine that since you all paid so much money to be here that you…
…transformed human being. But that person, the person who chops wood and hauls water on cold mountain, is by people like me and Roy and probably most of the people in this room, glimpsed through the fog and you say oh my goodness is he still alive…
…I wanted to underscore what Andy said a very special event: two weeks from now at the Carnegie Museum Roy Tuchman, Roy of Hollywood, Bon Vivant, Counter cultural figure, informational ferret of our time, will be recast as an experimental composer of great…
…of our time, will be recast as an experimental composer of great energy and imagination. And I hope you'll all turn out for Roy. He's been a wonderful force in my life and I think in the cultural life of Southern California. Both Roy and Diane have…
…turn out for Roy. He's been a wonderful force in my life and I think in the cultural life of Southern California. Both Roy and Diane have done a wonderful job in raising the quality of public dialogue in Southern California, which I think is a…
…which I think is a precondition for any kind of clear thinking about our future or our political situation. So here's to Roy and Diane, Okay. Well the theme that unites these lectures is creativity and the techniques by which the artist can refine his…
…to take which I think would blow the lid off of things so we're really getting close to. I mean I'm in total agreement that Roy and Jung discovered this icon just about 100 years ago, but they discovered it and I'm under charge of the spy gas as you…
…are not made, because it seems to me clear that a small miracle is taking place it is that and I was saying this to Roy today it is that our point of view is actually gaining ground, the thing which we least expected to happen. I think that all this…
…about taking drugs etc. But let's take another call from a listener listen Terrence a couple of years ago I talked to you on the Roy Science fiction I'd never read it and you were very nice enough to give me the name of William Gibson and a guy named…
…Crowley hang on. Now the other thing is: and then I'll hang up and kind of get your answer off the air. I called up Roy One night and I said: where is Terrence? Because you used to come on rather regularly and it was terrific I mean two or three…
…matter of following gurus or immersing oneself in mastering excruciatingly difficult physiological techniques. It has more to do with what Roy was talking about which is courage, the courage to commit oneself to full experience, whatever that means. To my…
…Tonight's program will be heard tomorrow night at midnight on the most intellectually far reaching and deep voice in the media Roy of Hollywood's show what's happening on kpfk? Roy and Diane are here tonight. There they are another example of modest, self…
…at midnight on the most intellectually far reaching and deep voice in the media Roy of Hollywood's show what's happening on kpfk? Roy and Diane are here tonight. There they are another example of modest, self effacing people who know how to get things…
…of energy into this event to make it go. Steve Marshank promoted and organized this. He's been at it for months and months. Roy Roy Tuckman, Roy of Hollywood and Diane they have supported me and given generously of hundreds and hundreds of hours of their…
…this event to make it go. Steve Marshank promoted and organized this. He's been at it for months and months. Roy Roy Tuckman, Roy of Hollywood and Diane they have supported me and given generously of hundreds and hundreds of hours of their time to put…
…me you hang your ass out to dry when you take this position. Tim mentioned courage. Nobody has had the kind of courage that Roy and Diane have had to push that message into this town. So we salute them. And Eric Ali did the wonderful poster he's done…
…in the boondocks and it's like we need something besides every two years a shot in the arm type of thing or just listening to Roy which he was Great, I mean I thank god for him but some interaction, I think with the people. Well yeah no you make a…
…in the back, okay. Ah that's much better, isn't it? Is it better in the back, good good. Well I would like to join with Roy in thanking all of the people who made this possible. Mary Fowler worked long and hard to make this happen. Eric Ali did the…
…Eric Ali did the wonderful graphics for the poster. Pam here has controlled and managed traffic flow here this evening. Diane and Roy are incomparable treasures in the l a community. I was talking to someone today who said they had listened to kpfk very…
…in the l a community. I was talking to someone today who said they had listened to kpfk very carefully in the month that Roy and Diane were away and it just ain't the same thing. It's terrifying to think that two human beings in a city of what…
…think that two human beings in a city of what 11 million are what's holding up the hip, the hip end of things. As Roy said, this is a benefit for kpfk and, in a larger sense, for botanical dimensions. Botanical dimensions is the non profit that kat…
…work that we're doing there. Yes against the wall yes Terrence, thank you. A few days ago you were on kpfk with Roy and you mentioned briefly San Pedro, that's what you said. You were talking about the slaughtered plant, the san pedro cactus, I…
…this is the kind of preservation of work that we're there yes against yes Karen, a few days ago you were on kpfk with Roy and you mentioned briefly San Pedro that's what you said right you were talking about the plant san pedro cactus. Can you just…