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The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…its greenness. You know, it was an unending thing of green. Later, when I went back with people getting their PhDs under Schultes in the botany department at Harvard and lived cheek by jowl for weeks with these guys, I quickly learned plant families,…
…lead you on to another. A perfect example of this is actually in the chemical literature. Melvin Bristol was a student of Schultes in the late sixties, and he specialized in the Brugmansias, the arboreal Daturas. And he went to the valley of the sibundoy,…
…a pill and it lasts a couple of hours. This was the wrath right and the wrath came from the hallucinogen and written by Schultes Who's the man who's the new world or the expert on a new world narcotic plants. He had never seen this drug which was…
…he really looked at it as this exotic foreign kind of thing these guys were cautious, this first generation Hoffman, Wasson, Schultes these guys are not stoners by any means I mean their approach is cautious and the psychedelic experiences can be counted…
…was amazed when carrying out analytical work for Gordon Wasson on magic morning glory seeds that had been sent to Wasson from Schultes, he discovered the same compounds or very. I'm going to slightly jump around here now and say that in India there are…
…mention a couple so that you can educate yourself on the details. The botany and chemistry of halicinogens by Richard Evan Schultes is the dictionary, the encyclopedia of the hallucinogenic plants of this planet and it has a huge bibliography and can lead…
…in their hammocks and they would speak to the little man and so we said this has got to be it. And dick Schultes, Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard had already published on the chemistry of ukuhay and it was definitely contained DMT. So we said okay…
…here to go with us. Also we are here with a special purpose. I refer to the varroa hallucinogens that you reported to Schultes. I am telescoping my account. Of course it all took longer and moved less directly toward revealing its meaning. We talked for…
…1974. The works of yiprigoshin Pynchon, Thomas, Gravity's rainbow, New York 1974. Rilke, Rainier, Maria the duino illogies, Schultes, Richard Evans, Varola as an orally administered hallucinogen. Botanical museum. Leaflets of Harvard University vol 22 no 6.…
…lot of speed bumps this morning. Frankly I don't give a shit, but I'm trying to make it pleasant for you. So Wasson and Schultes were and then further back in time and I think it's obvious from what I've said Aldous Huxley. And Aldous Huxley is a very…
…of every psychedelic head around. What's his last name? Ott O t t Jonathan those of you who are interested in the Amazon Schultes book, medicinal plants of the northwest Amazon is the distillation of a 40 year career in amazonian botany. Who was that by?…
…of the northwest Amazon is the distillation of a 40 year career in amazonian botany. Who was that by? Again, by Schultes, Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard and the title medicinal plants of the northwest Amazon. Eduardo Luna's book about the painter Pablo…
…that the spirits tell them. Uh the only anthropological evidence along these lines was a famous anecdote a graduate student of Schultes named malvin Bristol who studied detoura these are bore arborescent detouras that I've told you about in the valley of…
…He really looked at it as this exotic, foreign kind of thing. These guys were cautious this first generation Hoffman, Wasson, Schultes these guys are not stoners by any means, their approach is cautious and the psychedelic experiences can be counted on the…
…amazed when carrying out analytical work for Gordon Wasson on magic morning glory seeds that had been sent to Wasson from Schultes. He discovered the same compounds or very closely related compounds, as he had. I'm going to slightly jump around here now…
…de Colombia had an orally active DMT that they called ukuje, that they made from the resin of various varola trees and Schultes Specifically reported they use the ukuje to speak with little men and I felt that was cross cultural confirmation of this…
…Hussein invades Kuwait. This is the only original idea that I have ever come up with. The REST is just telling you what Schultes and Hoffman and everybody knows and what you could find out by spending time in a good medical library. This is original and…
…recorded into a documented form. But it always puzzles me I mean I think Hoffman and Wasson and certainly to some degree Schultes, to some degree you everybody says, well I'm just a humble botanist or I'm just a hardworking workbench chemist. Nobody wants…
…cultivation techniques and the propagation of ethnographic literature and the work of people like Metzner and Hoffman and Wasson and Schultes, shoved directly in the path of the careening cultural juggernaut of western civilization. This is why I have called…
…options available and put in place archaic options which will restore this balance. And to the good credit of people like dick Schultes and Gordon Watson and Albert Hoffman we have in this century taken into our hands the tools the information and the…
…would reside. That's not my understanding actually. I just remember a picture of a woman doing that in a book like by Schultes or something like that. Well maybe the caption got mislabeled or something because the way they do it where I've seen it…
…The ergot was as the vision inducing beverage that was the heart of the eleusinian mysteries, if Lawson and Hoffman and Schultes are correct in their theory about this and there have been newspaper reports from England of pharmacologists and doctors claiming…
…The ergot was as the vision inducing beverage that was the heart of the eleusinian mysteries if Wasson and Hoffman and Schultes are correct in their theory about this. And there have been newspaper reports from England of pharmacologists and doctors claiming…
…in their hammocks and they would speak to the little man. And so we said this has got to be it and dick Schultes, Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard had already published on the chemistry of ukuhe and it was definitely contained DMT. So we said, okay…
…in several different forms this is the botany and chemistry of hallucinogens by Richard Evans Schultes and Alfred Hoffman. Schultes was the Harvard Botanist who basically single handedly created the field of ethnopharmacology and early on Schultes Understood…
…Alfred Hoffman. Schultes was the Harvard Botanist who basically single handedly created the field of ethnopharmacology and early on Schultes Understood that what native peoples were saying about disease and plants was very touched with folklore and culture and…