c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…aspect of following the path. And this was classic before the rise of the forms of reductionist thought that characterized modern thinking. Socrates had a demon he mentions it many times. It told him what to say, helped him with what he should think. And…
…religion that people of spiritual accomplishments sought to cultivate. It was a psychic component that spoke to people and stabilized them. Socrates had his demon. This is like a spin off from the logos but Philo Judeus, the 2nd century alexandrine polymath…
…that the pyramid building phase of Egypt represented a technical and intellectual achievement not surpassed until, let's say the birth of Socrates, Something like that. Let's now start in. Does the wave seem to be blind to any phenomena that we would…
…over there hey Plato, He's at the bar there. This is what you wanted isn't it? Yeah, of course Plato was nothing without Socrates. It's all the by play the wonderful thing of Socrates and Plato, of barlow and me and McKenna and seaholts we only exist…
…is what you wanted isn't it? Yeah, of course Plato was nothing without Socrates. It's all the by play the wonderful thing of Socrates and Plato, of barlow and me and McKenna and seaholts we only exist when we're in an interaction with sending our minds…
…most of you know the logos was an informing voice, a voice in the head, which was the sine qua non of alexandrian spirituality. Socrates had it Plato had it the logos. So Philo Judeus asks what would be the more perfect logos and then he answers his…
…get the voice and hold it and to have all the physiological effects fade away but keep the connection in the way that Socrates said he had a daemon, a teaching voice which he could refer to anytime. Julian Jayne's book on the origin of consciousness and…
…aspect of following the path and this was classic before the rise of the forms of reductionist thought that characterized modern thinking. Socrates had a demon. He mentions it many times. It told him what to say, it helped him with what he should think,…
…school and the trade union. There would be maybe some spiritual elite, some professors of moral philosophy we would have Plato and Socrates would be leading a workshop, something like that then I could see that it fits in this mode, but somehow whoever is…
…It appears that our development, our history our histories have always been created at the promptings of invisible voices. I mean Socrates, who is at the very center of what's called thinking by western civilizations. Socrates had a demon d e a m…
…been created at the promptings of invisible voices. I mean Socrates, who is at the very center of what's called thinking by western civilizations. Socrates had a demon d e a m o n it was a little voice, it was his crap detector. It told him the…
…and religious and cosmogonic theories of his day so he's a major source of hellenistic data for us. How would you relate to Socrates view of the world? Well I think that it's hard not to be a platonist but it's something perhaps we should struggle…
…and religious and cosmogonic theories of his day so he's a major source of hellenistic data for us. How would you relate to Socrates view of the world? Well I think that it's hard not to be a platonist but it's something perhaps we should struggle…
…logos in the hellenistic period and the logos was an informing voice. And all the great thinkers of hellenistic Times Plato, Socrates, Xenophon, Thucydides, all of these people were in contact with the logos. It was the sine qua non of hellenistic religion…
…most of you know the logos was an informing voice a voice in the head, which was the sine qua non of alexandrian spirituality. Socrates had it Plato had it: the logos. So Philo Judeus asks what would be the more perfect logos? And then he answers his…