c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…He's a great guy he's definitely the best dressed person in science. Go ahead. I just wanted to say that I think Schopenhauer came along and made the observation that this concept of time, space and causality being the a priori forms of sensibility was…
…I don't know when did he live? Sometime in the early 18th century, I think middle 18th century German Idealism. He preceded Schopenhauer and came after Hegel. Is that right? In the absence of knowing whether that's right or not I offer the factoid that…
…civilization. Essentially, the American dream perfected itself in my generation. I came out of the University, I had read Plato, Hobbes, Schopenhauer, Jeremy Bent the whole bit. I knew it backwards and forwards. And what did we do we people who had all…
…the banality of modernity. This is the heritage of all the bad little boys of the 19th century: Nietzsche and Darwin and Hegel and Schopenhauer. These clowns were on a bad trip and they were loud about it. And what they give us is a universe devoid of…