c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
Well, he didn't. Joyce put these words into the mouth of Stephen Dedalus, who said, history is the nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, showing that Joyce could write because he didn't put the participle where it would dangle. But this was in…
…is without precedent. It's so enormous that to call it good or bad is pointless. All you can, you know. What is it that Stephen Vincent Binet says at the end of John Brown's body? He says, some will worship and some adore, some will flee in horror. It…
…1960s LSD literature that has not been edited or amended since. If you want to look at this, take a look at Stephen Gaskin's book, amazing Dope Tales. The book was published in 1969. So it's completely uncontaminated by the shifts in consciousness of the.…
…at my other hand and the same thing was happening and I was going: my god I'm feeling this crucifixion thing and the st Stephen and my name was still in the martyrdom and all this martyrdom shit I've subjected on and on. I could talk for another 30…
…term changes on the dendritic processes of the nerve. My brother is a research pharmacologist. He did much of that work in Stephen Perutka's lab at Stanford. So as far as what ecstasy does, the subjective effects on the subject, it's fine I'm all for…
…going to do that, does that make you happy? Before I talk about that why don't you introduce yourself? Oh hi, my name is Stephen and I met you at Ralph's wedding, right I remember. And we have a mutual friend, Dr Marsden, who told me about some of…
…the same thing was happening and I was going: my god this is, I'm feeling this this crucifixion, you know thing and the st Stephen and my name is Dina Martinoff and all this martyrdom shit I've subjected. You know on and on I mean you could I could…
…which might amplify these ideas about conscious evolution. The first ideas that I want to talk about are put forward in a book by Stephen Mithen. M I t h e n called the prehistory of the mind. He's a British Archaeologist but in this book he's brought…
…can see this is dancing around an intellectual black hole or something. Here we have the question is posed, as I gather of Stephen Mythun, that in the evolution of consciousness or culture I'm not sure which that there was a bifurcation 50 000 years ago…
…in this audience but it's one that has to be counted, do you ask for are there any other? What did he suggest actually, Stephen Mythun? He doesn't give a very clear explanation as to why this might have happened. Well he's a youngish man I suppose he…
…this as a chicken and egg kind of thing, it's like the physiological change there was a physiological change, was there not? Didn't Stephen Mythen mention that? Well you can't from skulls all you've got are skulls oh you can no no you can. That's the…
…political agendas all of these things, the economies of nature are going to set the guiding images. It's very interesting I read Stephen Jay Gould's book biophilia, in which he describes his work with ants in Suriname and how there are ants which grow…
…mean there are a lot of books, there's a flood of books and then none of them except one I can think of by that, Stephen Jay golden dawn has anything to do with the year 2000 it's just this is a time of big change with technology, with world…
…verbal bill on your economic question. It's been troubling me for the last about 18 months and I'm going to ask mark Owen and Stephen Anyone that's been in the vermal community to dance around it a little and correct me. But I'll just for the REST of…
…graph. So it could be something like that, or it could be something somewhat of a metaphysical type. I mean, here's the Stephen King Version of what it could be. Imagine if on the day of concrescence the sun exploded. Well now that would certainly…
…from it especially something like quantum electrodynamics. You have a really good one you know mathematical physicists such as Stephen Hawking's going on record in several of his books saying that theoretical physics is done, everything we can figure…
…philosophical argument compared to the certainty of your own finality. And I've been thinking of it the question is out of Stephen Hawking's book about parallel worlds and black holes and stuff how can these physical oddities or anomalies be related to what…
…but especially hallucinogens which have this intellectual content. Okay that's the best explanation of a case for organic psychedelics that I've heard. Stephen said a long time ago when we were on the caravan 12 years ago I guess, that we should stop using…
…got on to LSD well ahead of everybody else and the first notion was and if you're interested in this you can read j Stephen or no the other one, acid dreams, that book, Martin lee's book, and Schlein was the co author the CIA's first assumption about…
…stiff competition from bob Harris he wrote a book called growing magic mushrooms or something. Jonathan Ott wrote a book Gary Mencer Stephen Pollock. Spore companies sprang up. It's very hard to imagine how many people are doing this for the delight of my…
…1960s LSD literature that has not been edited or amended since. If you want to look at this take a look at Stephen Gaskin's book amazing dope tales. The book was published in 1969 so it's completely uncontaminated by the shifts in consciousness of the…