Terence McKenna
c/terence-mckenna
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.
…and so on. And then beginning in 1953, that would be the year zero of the second Strafariad. That when the Abraham and Sarah of the new order, Gordon and Valentina Wason discover the mushrooms in the mountains of Mexico. And then, of course, in the…
…and his eyes were so wide open like this looking right into me and saying: Michael I know you'll make the sound, but will Sarah make the sound? He was very concerned that Sarah might not make the sound. This is probably sweet, by the way say, Sarah I…
…looking right into me and saying: Michael I know you'll make the sound, but will Sarah make the sound? He was very concerned that Sarah might not make the sound. This is probably sweet, by the way say, Sarah I love the story you're right, thank you. It…
…will Sarah make the sound? He was very concerned that Sarah might not make the sound. This is probably sweet, by the way say, Sarah I love the story you're right, thank you. It isn't even a question of believing it. It's a question of believing it the…
…not? Yeah, check it out along the way oh what happened after that? This was the important part that I forgot. I think I forgot Sarah says let's go down to the chore I want to photograph the chore and I said: great you know I'll help you carry your…
…¿quién es usted and the old man goes: ¿muy bonjour? And he shakes his head and he has a big smile on his Face and then Sarah turns to me and whispers: it's almost like a jewel for him to trade. It's true, it's true we just need to figure out how.…
…these things too? I probably kind of liked it when Michael had that. No I didn't have that many because we chickened out. Sarah and I chickened out, we were not part of the experiment. As soon as we moved into the policeman's house. We were chickened…
…going through and brought it back to the house and I actually what happened was while we were photographing, while Sarah was photographing, right after I discovered the psychosis, psychotrophobia. I noticed that there was this caterpillar stuck to the broom…
…I don't know. He's drawing these images which are so clever I couldn't write it down and I could never reproduce it. I think Sarah, in the subsequent stage of his madness was able to capture a lot of it. She said her journal was incredible and she…
…capture a lot of it. She said her journal was incredible and she would loan it to me at any time. I haven't contacted her Sarah where is she? I don't know that's why I haven't gotten it. Oh that's why I'll find her. What happened was he just was…
…for the final condensation. We had to. It was so intense you know Terrence, I was walking across the field with Terrence and Sarah and we were walking across the field and some lion nuts hanging we were just like little soldiers, you know. Cows were all…
…day when that came, we said yeah we can get the 300 together. And when that happened I guess Kool aid put up half and Sarah put up half we were seeing through all this. Oh he's here later. Back right he's in the hospital. And uh fourth of July,…
…Spanish. I don't remember what it was Italian, Yeah, other than English. He howled and got out of the plane. He was radiant, radiant. Sarah said he got healthier I mean his sores got better but his mind just rained on him, she said. When he came back…
…his own head it was this loose. We went down there my brother was to join us he was the impetus for the expedition Sarah Michael Kumi Dennis me and Sia. What we were looking for was we were very interested in tryptamine narcotics and it seemed from…
…in Florencia and come with us to the Amazon basin. So we pile on this air force airplane and we land in Florencia right Michael Sarah Dennis Kumi and I her dog and tons of equipment which is to be ported down the Amazon see is at the airport waiting…
…and brown water and the absolutely impenetrable right and by this time everyone hates everyone else's guts for some reason or another and Sarah and Sia who had about as much in common as Hitler and Stalin, are our buddy buddy because you know I've missed…
…another and Sarah and Sia who had about as much in common as Hitler and Stalin, are our buddy buddy because you know I've missed Sarah because it turns out Diane was right and there was a lot of hanky panky going on in Canada and now Sarah is about…
…know I've missed Sarah because it turns out Diane was right and there was a lot of hanky panky going on in Canada and now Sarah is about to forge the weld and this other person appears and it's not going well at all and Dennis was just doing his…
…and so on and then, beginning in 1953 that would be the year zero of the second strophariad that when the Abraham and Sarah of the new order, Gordon and Valentina Wasson, discover the mushrooms in the mountains of Mexico and then of course in the 70s,…
…and so on and then, beginning in 1953 that would be the year zero of the second strophariad that when the Abraham and Sarah of the new order, Gordon and Valentina Wasson, discover the mushrooms in the mountains of Mexico and then of course in the 70s,…
…in other words I just pitched the shit into the fan and we were going to punch each other out right there and Sarah was yelling and shouting and then we Toto Bearers were standing around open mouth at this freaky confrontation. He decided to turn back…
…out of, and so we took it and we were all sitting around waiting to get stoned and it was a lot of nitpicking between Sarah and Dennis who Dennis had not come forward as a personality at all in this situation. So finally, you know he just came and…
…said you know you're pretty weird and I'm going to tell you why and I was sort of delighted because he was doing my opinion of Sarah and I there was no karma involved for me at all somebody else was just wrapping it down to her where she was out of…
…they gave us which was very exposed and there seemed to be a kind of distance developing which was dividing us into two groups Sarah and Michael Lasky and Dennis Kumi and I were the two opposing groups so we spent this night in this small house and it…
…with the dosage so the next time we'll take a big trip. We took 25 apiece Kumi, Dennis and I took 25 apiece Michael and Sarah were supposed to come up to our house about 3 in the afternoon to get stoned. That's on with kirk he hasn't missed anything.…
…hearing the sound. We have to get an objective observer in here because it's just too strange what's going on. And he said: where is Sarah? And he just got deeply into wanting her to come and he would go to the front of the hut it was pouring rain,…
…was very excited we all crawled back in our hammocks and waited till morning. We went tearing down to the other house and Dennis got Sarah, shook her out of her hammock and said: we took a lot of mushrooms last night and I was able to make some kind…
…the evening and we would move into this thing now at the same time there was a little bit of friction developing between Sarah and Michael because they were frightened. I mean they just said, you know wow I thought we were going to collect plants and…
…just rend space apart like a rotten handkerchief. So we moved to the house right and he brought in all this stuff. Well that night Sarah fell. When you go into the house it was just a log cut with notches in it and she fell and she sprained her…
…just want to go back to New York and make pottery please. So it was decided that they would not be present, that Michael and Sarah Wouldn't be there that they would go back to the river house and act as a control. So you know we had cleared we had…
…right what is it? I don't know I can't understand what it means and I walked it to the to the river and I got Sarah and Michael and I said and by this time well I had done some experiments with it like I had said: Terrence first experiment, Terrence…
…and people were standing around realizing that it's a completely and that it wasn't a day like any other day. And so I got Sarah and Michael and as we closed distance with the pad with the house in the jungle I kept coming upon Dennis's clothing more…
…after the experiment this started impinging on me something that I have to figure out and we were in the Amazon 14 days. Sarah organized an emergency rescue operation that cost us hundreds of dollars airplanes flying and to get my brother and I had just…
…effort to say all that could possibly be said clearly about the bit I see. Well tell me was this scene in the jungle um Sarah Collin in the airplane was that what caused you falling out pretty much? Yeah, oh it was just a matter of pride. The people…
…the wall but but it was good we've accomplished what we set out to do. We got the okuhei. It was a success in every way. Sarah is just uh not accustomed to roughing it out I mean I guess it was rough in the gibson desert and on these digs but it's…