c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…tightening gyre around a transformative principle that lies ahead of us in the future. Now, strangely enough, when you deconstruct St. Augustine and tell her de Chardin and oh, Stuart Kaufman and other people, they're all saying something like this. But what…
…felt that the evolution of sensory ratios within historical time had been very, very rapid. That, for example, he talks about how St. Augustine was a person of great piety and learning, and people doubting this would show him an open page of scripture or…
…must be fixed, that when it is fixed, then there will be this sense of satisfaction. But until then, somehow we are flawed. St. Augustine said, o Felix Culpa, o happy flaw, because he saw that flaw as permitting the drama of redemption. I would offer a…
…that the evolution of sensory ratios within historical time had been very, very rapid. That, for example, he talks about how St. Augustine was a person of great piety, learning, and people doubting this would show him an open page of scripture or…
…impressive book but apparently to his specialist colleagues it was sloppy thinking and a travesty and reason to deny tenure. St Augustine was a manichean before he converted to Christianity and he mentions that manicheans forbade the use of mushrooms the…
…democracy where women lost their votes did you know, I have to tell you this I have to tell you this, I just have to. St Augustine tells a story which is a wonderful clue. He says that the way that Athens got its name was that there was this contest…