c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…of the permission for Earth day ecological sensitivity. Now the great philosopher of the psychedelic community to my mind, is Rupert Sheldrake, and Rupert is a botanist, a natural scientist, a man in the tradition of Darwin and WaLlACE we're trying to…
…of the permission for Earth day ecological sensitivity. Now the great philosopher of the psychedelic community to my mind is Rupert Sheldrake and Rupert is a botanist, a natural scientist, a man in the tradition of Darwin and WaLlACe we're trying to…
…it also, and a more interesting and kind of more philosophical case can be made if you accept the theory of Rupert Sheldrake of morphogenetic fields, because you have to realize then that the morphogenetic field of a drug like psilocybin, which has been…
…that you could know that you were going to have an ecstatic trip. Well, that is an intuitive understanding of what exactly Sheldrake was saying. The reason I've been thinking about this recently was because I was at a conference recently on psychedelics, a…
…could eventually argue you to the point where you just couldn't defend it because they seemed to be the same. But with Sheldrake, the notion of Sheldrake, that the morphogenetic field attends the compound and the absence mainly of human data. I mean, we…
…to the point where you just couldn't defend it because they seemed to be the same. But with Sheldrake, the notion of Sheldrake, that the morphogenetic field attends the compound and the absence mainly of human data. I mean, we went through a ketamine…
…report? That's my conclusion. Yeah I think that is very reasonable to get and I first heard that notion put forth from a Rupert Sheldrake and I think he he called it and that profit check uh a drug which simulates the symptoms of near death it…
…and we've never located, though we believe they are in the brain. We've never proven or demonstrated that. My friend Rupert Sheldrake, the British Physicist he believes everything has a kind of memory objects, organs, ideologies and that these things surround…
…of all this ground up seed material there is enough meo and DMT that something like a DMT experience occurs. I think probably and Rupert Sheldrake sort of has worked with this idea that at death there is a release of DMT in the human body that this is…
…line, exhibit a I should say what the opposite of novelty is. We had a lot of debates about this and finally, actually Rupert Sheldrake made the suggestion. He said the opposite of novelty is habit. So you see this is a cosmogonic myth where reality is…
…novelty is increasing. When the wave moves upward toward the top of the screen, the counterflow to novelty, which Rupert Sheldrake suggested to me I call habit habit is increasing or entropy, or disconnectedness, or recidivist or conservative tendencies. So…
…go to these mayan sites and take psychedelics it just opens up one of the ideas that's interesting to me about psychedelics. Rupert Sheldrake, Who's, I guess been here many times and is a familiar figure at the open center, is a very good personal friend…
…molecular arrangement, a star system. These things are held together. They're what Eric Jansch called metastable, or what Rupert Sheldrake calls their morphogenetic field. Their appetite for coherency perpetuates them through time. Okay well so that's the…
…Have you got any feedback in terms of experiences at the sites under influence? Well, as you may or may not know, Rupert Sheldrake is the great developer and purveyor of the theory of morphogenetic fields and that's the idea that the past actually has a…
…of consciousness. What consciousness is in and of and for itself is very hard to say exactly. So hanging out with Rupert Sheldrake and the other author of trilogues at the edge of the West who is Ralph Abraham, a brilliant mathematician, research…
…as a kind of dynamic tension between two forces, which I've adapted from Whitehead and then following a suggestion of Rupert Sheldrake, I've called these two forces habit and novelty. And habit and novelty are locked in eternal dynamic tension. Every time…
…thought on the subject, not the least of which is my brother Dennis, and I've developed the idea in conversations with Rupert Sheldrake and kat and Ralph Metzner and other people over the years is basically an extension of orthodox evolutionary theory as…
…medical information and the physical plants which it addresses. So in response to this, kat and I and Ralph Metzner and Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham and Dennis McKenna and I think that's about it have formed a non profit tax exempt corporation to…
…it, but the man who invented it is here with us he can lead us to a deeper understanding of it. Please welcome Rupert Sheldrake, the greatest biologist of the age. Well you see it's a paradoxical situation it's a difficult act to follow and yet I've…
We're going to be talking with Rupert Sheldrake, one of Britain's most controversial natural scientists. Sheldrake is the proponent of a theory called morphic resonance. He believes that the presence of the past actually impinges on processes in the present…
We're going to be talking with Rupert Sheldrake, one of Britain's most controversial natural scientists. Sheldrake is the proponent of a theory called morphic resonance. He believes that the presence of the past actually impinges on processes in the present…
…is the last true hallucinations: invisible landscape invisible landscape food of the gods. I did one with the British Biologist Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham Trilogues at the edge of the west, which is a threefer, you we would have a dialogue…
…Here's a question not terribly relevant but I like talking about my friends. Can you talk a little about your association with Rupert Sheldrake? Rupert is a good friend of mine he and Ralph Abraham and I are writing a book together. He's the morphogenetic…
…of reality is made of language. How much I'm not sure, but my hope is that a great deal is made of language. Rupert Sheldrake, Who's a good friend of mine and we sort of think along the same lines he believes that. There are not inexorable physical…
…points to the future and hopefully it has some general application. I formulated it this way just ten days ago because both Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham who are my co authors on one book and co conspirators in more plots than can be told, visited…
…it but the man who invented it is here with us he can lead us to a deeper understanding of it. Please welcome Rupert Sheldrake. The greatest. Well you see it's a paradoxical situation it's a difficult act to follow and yet I've somehow got to try after…
…I'll hand them all around and you can get addresses off of them if you want. This is Rupert's new book. Rupert is Rupert Sheldrake it's just begun to be distributed. He is going to make a revolution in thinking about resonance and form and it has an…
…name. Terrence has one R, let me point out. T-E-R-E-N-C-E. I do have a new book out with the British biologist Rupert Sheldrake and the mathematician Ralph Abraham. a book called The Evolutionary Mind, and they can order that from their local bookstore.…
…as a sort of a very gentle separating and it's become more and more clear to me that and I guess I rely on Rupert Sheldrake to give me a basis for saying this drugs which come out of the laboratory have no history. They do not vibrate with millennia…
…thought on the subject, not the least of which is my brother Dennis, and I've developed the idea in conversations with Rupert Sheldrake and kat and Ralph Metzner and other people over the years is basically an extension of orthodox evolutionary theory as…
…now make it clear that we cannot exclude the notion of spirit from the scientific enterprise. People like Rupert Sheldrake knew disciplines such as chaos dynamics, fractal mathematics. These theories and approaches hint that reason is ultimately insufficient…
…recent archaic revival and food of the gods, the search for the original tree of knowledge and trilogues with Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham. Terrence McKenna is a scholar and brilliant interdimensional adventurer with an understanding of nature from the…
…in the past few years, and probably because I have been associating with the mathematicians and people like Ralph Abraham and Rupert Sheldrake a bit, I've come to what I call the geometric model of the psychedelic experience and I certainly don't represent…
…of conversations. Maybe that's enough to say I should introduce my two co presenters. Most of you know them already of course. Rupert Sheldrake is the author of a new science of life and the presence of the past, books which stirred more controversy in…
…and got the British Journal nature to call his first book a candidate for burning, which suddenly turned the thought of Rupert Sheldrake into a civil liberties issue because that's pretty strong talk. Rupert's idea which he will, I'm sure, unfold for you…
…whole new way of linking systems together, thinking about solutions, thinking about the past and ourselves in the world. Right well I'm Rupert Sheldrake, as you've all gathered. I'm here with my wife jo. Oh, there she is. I just said I was here with you…
…was in Terence's Living room. The phone rang, Terence answered and he says we have to go to the bus station to pick up Rupert Sheldrake that sounds vaguely familiar who's that? So in the car on the way to the bus station, Terence gave me, as only he…
…to be playing soon at a theater near you, and I just had released a video called metamorphosis in which Ralph Abraham and Rupert Sheldrake and I kid around for a while and that was lots of fun. These days what I'm really interested in is maintaining a…
…of some sort. There is no openness to the power of bios, to the fact of a living cosmos. This is what Rupert Sheldrake is always trying to say. The reinvestiture of spirit into matter, the rebirth of the world soul is a necessary concomitant to…
…the 1920s with embryologists like dreesch and his school and mechanical biology has been at great pains to suppress that. That's why Rupert Sheldrake is such a breath of fresh air because he can be seen as a person carrying the vitalist message back into…
…seeing this in the Amazon. Much has already been lost. So cat and I and Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard and Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, Ralph Metzner, Frank Barr, a number of people have gathered together and formed a non profit foundation whose…
…is pretty good that this is going on. The fact that DMT is a naturally occurring neurotransmitter is very suggestive. Rupert Sheldrake has made the suggestion that dying is a unique chemical experience and he calls DMT a necrotic hallucinogen that you…
…searching my name. Terence has one r let me point out. I do have a new book out with the British Biologist Rupert Sheldrake and the mathematician Ralph Abraham, a book called the evolutionary mind, and they can order that from their local bookstore. They…
…overload of creativity. Well that's the thing, Ralph I mean Ruth You've been edited out a lot. If someone's interested in Rupert Sheldrake, their only choice now is to approach you through your critics who have published widely. If they could simply enter…
…people report? That's mike and Hugh. Yeah I think that's a very reasonable suggestion. I first heard that notion put forth from Rupert Sheldrake and I think he called it a necrophagin, a drug which simulates the symptoms of near death. It certainly is the…
…diamonds, gold, sapphires actually grew in the earth because for this alchemical point of view, everything was alive. And my friend Rupert Sheldrake is leading the charge to create a new birth of that perception inside science: the idea that nature, all of…
…now I'm here. Would you like to howl like a wolf? How about for a second 84 or 85? Okay there, I just read some Rupert Sheldrake recently. He's like the art I try to do it's resonant systems he's talking about all the way. A friend came to me and…
…century. Talking to Terence McKenna about a whole range of things including changing philosophy his newest book actually trilogues with Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham is called the evolutionary mind. It's a feast of all kinds of stuff on visual math and…
…wow my mind is spinning. Hi Terrence, I was at the conference at esalen where you and Mr Abraham and Leonard Pardon me, Rupert Sheldrake I think first developed some of these ideas. Is this the book that's come out of that? Well there were two of those…
…popular view. If it's not true it probably will be in time. Some people have nominated DMT for that role, my friend Rupert Sheldrake. He calls it a thanatoptogen. He says when you really die, when you are beyond any returning, DMT floods the dying brain…
…morphogenetic fields. For those of you who don't recognize the term this is an idea which has been developed by Rupert Sheldrake. Who's a theoretical biologist in England. It's a very simple idea with very revolutionary implications. The idea can be simply…
…And it also a more interesting and kind of more um philosophical case can be made if you accept the theory of Rupert Sheldrake of morphogenetic fields. Because you have to realize then that the morphogenetic field of a drug like psilocybin, which has been…
…three of which we have here today for Sale. The archaic revival is one of his most recent books and trial logs with Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham Co authored and food of the gods, the search for the original tree of knowledge, also we have here as…
…Certainly, hippies in the 1960s and people since have made very good use of argyria as a visionary vehicle. Rupert and I, Rupert Sheldrake and I have talked a lot about this, about the morphogenetic field of a shamanic plant without a history of shamanic…
…for kpfk and, in a larger sense, for botanical dimensions. Botanical dimensions is the non profit that kat and I and Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Metzner, Ralph Abraham, Frank Barr a number of people have organized to carry out plant rescue operations for…
…idea? Well, one of the best people one of the very, very best people that I've found in the so called new age is Rupert Sheldrake. I mean he and I are tight and we've spent a lot of time just pushing these ideas around. Ultimately I think probably…
…I like it because it's an art movement, not a science but I would number the compressionists that come to mind to be Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, Frank Barr and myself bringing up the rear and we all four of us have a slice on it each different…
…one of the best people, one of the very, very best people that I've found in the so called new age is Rupert Rupert Sheldrake. He and I are tight and we've spent a lot of time just pushing these ideas around. Ultimately, I think probably he's very…
…I like it because it's an art movement, not a science but I would number the compressionists that come to mind to be Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, Frank Barr and myself bringing up the rear, and we all four of us have a slice on it each different…
…I'll remind you this is a botanical dimensions benefit botanical dimensions is a non profit corporation that kat and I founded, and Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Messner and Ralph Abraham and umm old Leo Zemp some of you may know Leo. He died recently he…
…to be what biology is doing there. Well I know prygosian only slightly informally. My great intellectual comrade in arms is Rupert Sheldrake, and Rupert, this is his bailiwick as well, because what he is saying in a slightly different voice, is that nature…
…get a look over the great divide, I have no idea. I think about these things constantly my life is mostly questions. My friend Rupert Sheldrake who some of you may know his books he and I have talked about it he thinks that there is a chemistry of…
…airy fairy of my metaphors on this issue is that I think I really, especially in this area, give great credit to Rupert Sheldrake and his idea of the morphogenetic field. I really think that let's contrast two drugs: a synthetic drug like ketamine, a…
…000 years of rational scientific philosophy and they just say, yes that's right but we make great fighter planes. So I see Rupert Sheldrake as very important in the process of building a new scientific myth because what he is saying is, on one level,…
…would live in an ocean of invisible vibrational energy carrying messages over thousands of miles they would not have believed it. Sheldrake is simply saying that the part of reality that science has hitherto been unable to account for is going to have…