c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…you reach the hidden all father. And in a kind of sexist trope he said that the lowest archon, the 36th archon was called Sophia Wisdom, and she looked up through the stairwell of the archons toward the higher hidden all father, and she saw that he had…
…and her fetal abortion, ildaboa, was made lord over this universe. And this is where we are trapped inside the abortion of the Sophia, and we have to reject everything material. And you know, in gnosticism it took a funny form. There were two kinds of…
…Alexandrian gnostic of the second century, and his doctrine that the material world was the condensed emotion of the errant Sophia, who had selfishly created a universe without undergoing any union but with herself, the condensation of emotion into matter the…
…space in the form of this what Teilhard De Chardin called the noosphere, but which is more correctly identified as Sophia, the emanation of wisdom as a feminine spirit as purusha, as electricity which completely girdles the planet and transforms it…
…space in the form of this what Teilhard De Chardin called the new sphere, but which is more correctly identified as Sophia, the emanation of wisdom as a feminine spirit, as parousia, as electricity which completely girdles the planet and transforms it into…
…at any point in the theological myth. The god of western civilization has nothing to do with women and the presence of the Sophia and the presence of the Mata Dolorosa and all of these things have only been tolerated as heresies in the western tradition…
…wanted to sit it out reminded me since we were talking about the Valentinian System this morning my favorite archon aside from Sophia Who's so interesting because of the little story about how she made the universe but the twelfth archon in the gnostic…
…greatest ones are dedicated to our lady, who was seen in various forms, particularly the form of our lady of wisdom and Sophia in the middle ages, and they have in their Windows Geometrical designs and they have three fold mandalas, four fold mandalas…
…that's why there is an overwhelming male preference for it in its early form because that's where that was needed. But it is Sophia, it is wisdom, it is the penetrating archetypal female logos of the world soul and leading us away from what was very…
…a visible proof or identity that this neurospheric entity exists and in fact is working very seductively it's the seduction of Sophia to in fact bring us into its unity. Now let's talk about simulation. Simulation has a relatively long history. That's what…
…human being feel comfortable and reassured. I saw Ralph Metzner on Thursday Night and he and Kathy have a wonderful new child, Sophia and so there was Sophia lying in her bassinet and suspended above her head were these shiny plastic objects in bright…
…reassured. I saw Ralph Metzner on Thursday Night and he and Kathy have a wonderful new child, Sophia and so there was Sophia lying in her bassinet and suspended above her head were these shiny plastic objects in bright primary colors which a series of…
…power that interpose themselves between man and a true vision of god and the last of the archons, the 36th archon was Sophia and the only of the archons that was female. There's a tremendous sexual ambivalence in gnosticism which we can talk about which…
…sexual ambivalence in gnosticism which we can talk about which is resolved in different ways but anyway, the 36th archon is Sophia. She looked upward toward the higher god and saw him bring forth creation, of which she was the final manifestation, and…
…through a whole bunch of emotions very quickly: horror, guilt, rage, fear, agony like that and these emotions of the errant Sophia condensed as the material world over which ildaboth was then made lord. So the entire material universe is seen as the…