Terence McKenna
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…morning people said we heard you singing last night we didn't know you spoke mazatecan, you sing beautifully. And the botanist Theodor Koch Gruenberg the famous story about him when he was on the upper putumayo moving along the boat in a river and the…
…ayahuasca was discovered by Richard spruce in 1853, and then in the early years of the 20th century, the German Ethnographer Theodor Koch Gruenberg brought a lot of it back to Berlin and Louis Lewin and his group characterized an alkaloid which they named…
…for the first 30 years of the 20th century the active principle was actually called telepathy and these German Chemists and Theodor Koch Gruenberg and people like that were very interested in this and then it was realized that it was actually harming a…