c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…I hadn't really made this connection before. The one that I mentioned in invention is a counterexample of a conjecture of Smale in 1966 I think called the omega stability conjecture. And here's what happened. I was introduced to marijuana by some students…
…So being a you know compulsive good boy, I ran and took my key opened the door and picked up the phone. It was Steve Smale calling from Berkeley. He said: I have this new idea about omega stability and I wanted to check it out with you and see…
…but it's something that there's hardly anyone in the world who could visualize unless they were. Well here's the guy who could do it Steve Smale my god you're right he said, oh shit. So then that was a short telephone call I went home, I went to bed…