c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…participated in one of the most important bifurcations in the history of western thought. A little background may be necessary. The emperor Rudolf Ii was chosen by the electors of the northern league, and at his death they chose from among themselves a new…
…its modern culmination is here in the city of Prague, where in the 16th century, under the patronage of the emperor Rudolf, the great alchemists of Europe gathered and pursued their art including Kepler, including Kepler. Alchemy is more than a technique…
…of science is part of the key to getting the world back on track. So by returning to bohemia, where this was by first Rudolf Ii and later by the winter King and queen brought to some kind of perfection, it seems like a fitting place to have another…
…novelty has to be assimilated, and this is like the age of the marvelous this is the age of the cult of the Court of Rudolf in Prague. This is a period of time which stretches from 1492 to 1619. The entirety of the 16th century is along the bottom…
…affect mutation rates and they're different. And if you do experiments where people have tried to do some of the Rudolf Steiner people did experiments where they crystallized standard solutions they crystallized them on different days the same conditions and…
…participated in one of the most important bifurcations in the history of western thought. A little background may be necessary. The emperor Rudolf Ii was chosen by the electors of the northern league and at his death they chose from among themselves a new…
…its modern culmination is here in the city of Prague, where in the 16th century under the patronage of the emperor Rudolf the great alchemists of Europe gathered and pursued their art, including Kepler. Including Kepler: Alchemy is more than a technique for…
…ordinarily invisible and making them visible. I was inspired by Hans Jehne, an amateur scientist in Switzerland a follower of Rudolf Steiner, who had built an ingenious gadget for rendering these transparent fluids visible. About this time we discovered in…
…to go to lunch and we might take one more is that okay? Sure, just possibly two applications I think there's a waldorf Rudolf Steiner Teacher in the class here and I know they have a process called rhythmic and maybe she's here she could explain and…
…affect mutation rates and they're different. And if you do experiments where people have tried to do some of the Rudolf Steiner people did experiments where they crystallized standard solutions they crystallized them on different days the same conditions, and…
…Well then he was able to get out of bohemia and he went back to England. Kelly who had made much more extravagant claims, Rudolf kept at work on the alchemical opus and Kelly became more and more desperate to escape and one night in 1587 he crept out…
…He was not giving the green light to an alchemical revolution at all, but it was assumed so. Well then in 16 17 18, Rudolf remember Rudolf the emperor he finally dies at a very ripe old age and at that time the Protestant League which was made up…
…not giving the green light to an alchemical revolution at all, but it was assumed so. Well then in 16 17 18, Rudolf remember Rudolf the emperor he finally dies at a very ripe old age and at that time the Protestant League which was made up of these…
…this stuff is captioned and there are even tables of contents which again you would think would yield to decipherment. And so when Rudolf died because of the botanical material in this book it passed to the court botanist a man named marici, and he got…
…and exists for anybody to browse through and I think esoterica has gotten the greatest shot in the arm since the reign of Rudolf of bohemia and it's it spawned. It has a dark side because it spawns squirrely conspiracy theories, because now there are so…
…this later. First of all, the known facts of the manuscript are few. They are that it appears in 1586 at the Court of Rudolf Ii of Bavaria, who was one of the most eccentric European Monarchs of that or any other period. This is the same Frederick who…
…And Friedrich Friedrich is the same one is that the winter summer queen, King and queen is that Friedrich? No, we're talking about Rudolf Ii. He was succeeded by this guy Friedrich the elector palatine of bohemia, who was also in this mold of a patron…
…it and could make nothing out of it. And it, and along with a great deal of other weird collections and material that Rudolf had gathered together from all over the world, was passed to various people at his death and this book, because it contained…
…were theological in nature, many were political and came to them as they traveled about Europe including visiting the Court of Rudolf Ii of Bavaria our man who was sold the vonage manuscript, and they were the people who were responsible for telling…
…was killed and Elizabeth fled. She lived in the Hague for many years and so see in that confusion the botanist of Rudolf held in his house somewhere in the suburbs of Prague the vonage manuscript and the thirty years war comes. Modern times overtake…
…the most puzzling incidents in the whole history of science. What Dee was doing was eventually he came to REST at the Court of Rudolf Ii, Rudolf I of bohemia who ruled from Prague. Now you have to understand is that a hand up? Yeah is there evidence…
…puzzling incidents in the whole history of science. What Dee was doing was eventually he came to REST at the Court of Rudolf Ii, Rudolf I of bohemia who ruled from Prague. Now you have to understand is that a hand up? Yeah is there evidence of of drug…
…attitude. Prague is further west than Vienna. It's the real center of old Europe and of course because of the Court of Rudolf Ii and it was the court of all this alchemical Protestant Alchemical political plotting and lots of intrigue that's why we're…
…most puzzling incidents in the whole history of science. What Dee was doing was eventually he came to REST at the Court of Rudolf Ii, Rudolf I of bohemia, who ruled from Prague. Now you have to understand: is that a handout? Yeah is there evidence of…
…incidents in the whole history of science. What Dee was doing was eventually he came to REST at the Court of Rudolf Ii, Rudolf I of bohemia, who ruled from Prague. Now you have to understand: is that a handout? Yeah is there evidence of drug use…
…from its roots. But my reconstruction of 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…