c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…strontium in the environment. I don't need extraction of petroleum products and tons of junk in orbit. order to foster what Shakespeare there hasn't been a Shakespeare for 500 years these clowns aren't producing anything H bombs don't make it in the Guyon…
…I don't need extraction of petroleum products and tons of junk in orbit. order to foster what Shakespeare there hasn't been a Shakespeare for 500 years these clowns aren't producing anything H bombs don't make it in the Guyon scale of values so the point…
…there's wars. King lists and wars, yeah. So that's sort of looking at history through a filter, right? Or if you ask Shakespeare for his version of history, then you have these love affairs. You have people imitating other people and and jokes. So that's…
…doing? Can I ask you a real layman's question? Surely. If you are a layman and you're trying to understand the language, like Shakespeare or the Bible or something like that, how do you... help yourself to get at the simple truth of some of these…
…out, and it can tell you. It sounds easy, but it's not. Well, for instance, I've heard of programs where, assuming that Shakespeare wrote all of Shakespeare's plays, you give a computer Hamlet And that's its database. And then you submit 20 lines from…
…20 lines from somewhere to it. And it can tell you that these 20 lines are not from Hamlet, but are definitely by Shakespeare. The idea being that there is a fractal quality of Shakespeare which is somehow recognizable. Oh, style is a fractal. Style is…
…that these 20 lines are not from Hamlet, but are definitely by Shakespeare. The idea being that there is a fractal quality of Shakespeare which is somehow recognizable. Oh, style is a fractal. Style is a fractal. Oh, that's a good concept. As a matter of…
…evolutionary development. And then say, once we've done that we have so much brain capacity left over that the plays of Shakespeare and modern mathematics were no problem. Well this seems I say this is hokum and that obviously they've done these experiments…
…alive. Organisms are completely outside the realm of physical explanation at this point for science. So what is it for spencer and Shakespeare Quantum theory and the paintings at altamira? Who are we? What is history and what does it push toward? Now we…