…I assumed growing up I was raised Catholic and inculcated into a 2000 year old utterly dead religion where, you know, maybe Thomas Merton was getting off but I wasn't getting off. And the rational faith was scientific realism back up by pragmatism and…

…and I think that, you know, if you want to read an eye opening book, if you haven't read it, read Thomas Tunes book, the structure of scientific revolution. Because what you'll learn there, to your amazement, is that these great intellectual breakthroughs…

…show me attitude. I don't believe in faith. I don't believe in belief. My favorite gospel story is the story of the apostle Thomas, who was not present when Christ came the first time after the resurrection to the upper room. And then later Thomas came…

…the apostle Thomas, who was not present when Christ came the first time after the resurrection to the upper room. And then later Thomas came to the apostles, and they said, the master has been here. And he said, you guys have been smoking too much of…

…you guys have been smoking too much of that red lead. And then Christ came again. But in this conversation with the apostles, Thomas said, unless I put my hand into the wound, I will not believe it. And then time passed, and then Christ came again…

…hand into the wound, I will not believe it. And then time passed, and then Christ came again to the upper room, and he said, Thomas, come forward. Put your hand into the wound. And he did. And then he said, Lord, I am not worthy. So forth and so on.…

…story is that alone among all humanity, in all times and places, only one person ever touched the incorporeal body of God. Thomas the doubter touched because he doubted it was not necessary that the believers should be vouchsafed to such a boon. But the…

…were these things relating to you to some degree? And I think that that's different for each person, you know, and maybe some, Thomas can expand on that. But, for example, if you ask a question, one of my experiences was, for example, I asked a specific…

…to. And I don't think most modern people realize this about evolution. In the 19th century, these guys like Darwin and Thomas, Henry Huxley and Charles Lyell, they were waging war against Christianity. They were the great warriors of atheism. And the way…

…the dialogue with the other is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is, in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughan put it, the body is the placenta of the soul. And this fact has not yet been assimilated because it runs…

…believe other things. Favorite story this shows you how I am. My favorite story in the Gospels is the story of the apostle Thomas, because you will recall that after the crucifixion, this is a good place to end. This is an alchemical story. After the…

…is an alchemical story. After the crucifixion, Christ appeared to the apostles in the upper room in Jerusalem 40 days after. And Thomas was not there. I don't know where he was, somewhere. They sent him out for sandwiches or something. Anyway, he came…

…I put my hand into the wound, I will not believe it. So then time passed, and then Christ came again to the apostles, and Thomas was among them on this second get go. And Christ walked in and kicked off his overshoes and looked around the room and he…

…them on this second get go. And Christ walked in and kicked off his overshoes and looked around the room and he said, Thomas, come forward, put your hand into the wound. Which he did. Which he did. Now people have different interpretations of this story.…

…in all of human history, only one person was ever so privileged as to be allowed to touch the resurrection body. It was Thomas the doubter who was allowed to touch the resurrection body because he didn't believe. And so if you want to touch the…

…the dialogue with the other is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact well as Thomas Vaughan put it, the body is the placenta of the soul, and this fact has not yet been assimilated because it runs…

…they do not relate to the nature of space time matter and energy period no those things are let me see how did saint Thomas put it something about that which can be understood can be understood rationally and so must it not be that the mind of man…

…This idea was basically came to me as a revelation in the classic way that revelations come. If any of you have read Thomas Kuhn's book on scientific revelations sorry, you know that the guys they always clean it up afterward and say that they just…

…ended with kicking open the nuclear doorway. Anybody who doesn't think world war Ii was a surreal extravaganza, I recommend Thomas Pynchon's Novel gravity's rainbow, which is an incredible thing to read, an incredible work of literature, and you'll never see…

…exists. This is very close to the religious ecstasis of mother Teresa or Hildegard Von Bingen or meister Eckhart or Thomas Trehearne or any of those folks, except that they were apparently exceptional personalities who achieved this after tremendous self…

…from the supreme court. You can't get near it. I mean you're just a monster of vice and yet a clown like clarence Thomas. I hope you all read the rolling stone encounter between clarence Thomas and hunter s Thompson Oh it's classic. It's classic. The…

…just a monster of vice and yet a clown like clarence Thomas. I hope you all read the rolling stone encounter between clarence Thomas and hunter s Thompson Oh it's classic. It's classic. The guy was such a beast that he frightened hunter Thompson with his…

…their days in the London Scene, we discovered that we had mutual friends in India, that we all loved the novels of Thomas Hardy we became fast friends. It was a pleasant time. During this time my personally evolved method for probing the shamanic…

…Berkeley 1975. Ponampurama and Cameron Scientific perspectives on extraterrestrial communication, Boston 1974. The works of yiprigoshin Pynchon, Thomas, Gravity's rainbow, New York 1974. Rilke, Rainier, Maria the duino illogies, Schultes, Richard Evans, Varola as…

…very careful thinkers that never make leaps they always just move one step beyond what is known. Read a book like Thomas Kuhn's book the structure of scientific revolutions, and what you discover there is that the great breakthroughs in science are always…

…greatest pleasure to recommend to you a book actually unambiguously worth buying, reading and recommending, is mason Dixon, which is Thomas Pynchon's Latest novel, certainly probably the best novel written in America in the past 50 years. I mean Pynchon is…

…and trying to link it back to the spiritual and successfully. In my opinion probably the most dramatic of these books was Thomas Kuhn's book probably most of you have read it the structure of scientific revolutions where he offers for the time startling…

…although I hate that phrase and the crowd it implies. It was an insight and if any of you have read Thomas Kuhn's book the structure of scientific revolutions, you know that this is how breakthroughs occur: suddenly and unexpectedly and often to…

…somebody was applying a certain form of rational or logical analysis and that that led to their breakthrough. If you've read Thomas Kuhn's book on the structure of scientific revolution, you know this is all lies and propaganda. The real story of science…

…what, if you are a decent person you would otherwise never say and never do. It turns each one of us into a clarence Thomas. This is not what's needed. Boo, yes no who knows who is clarence Thomas? And time and time again in human history these kinds…

…do. It turns each one of us into a clarence Thomas. This is not what's needed. Boo, yes no who knows who is clarence Thomas? And time and time again in human history these kinds of synergies have been enacted. Well I want to say more about it. That…

…and the twin the mistresses of Jonathan Swift become carriers of a huge amount of energy in here as do the mistresses of Thomas Stern, because it's better to be Swift Than stern or something like that. And then the last of these things which hadn't…

…all higher architect tip of flopical, with a burning bush a bob off its bobble top and with Lorenzo Tuller's clittering up and Thomas Abaketh's cluttering down. Now what this paragraph says is he was a great builder and I think if you think back through…

…in order. Real mysteries operate and you get to touch. I always like my favorite story in the gospel is the story of Thomas the doubter because remember, he wasn't present when Christ came to the upper room the first time after the crucifixion. And so…

…the doubter because remember, he wasn't present when Christ came to the upper room the first time after the crucifixion. And so then Thomas came a couple of days later and the apostles said to him they said the master was here. He was here and he…

…too much of these little brown cigarettes from Lebanon. We saw him crucified he wasn't here. Well so then Christ came a second time and Thomas was present and he had said he said unless I put my hand into the wound I will not believe it. And so then…

…unless I put my hand into the wound I will not believe it. And so then Christ came the second time and he said to Thomas he said Thomas, come forward. He said put your hand into the wound. And then he did and my interpretation of that gospel story…

…my hand into the wound I will not believe it. And so then Christ came the second time and he said to Thomas he said Thomas, come forward. He said put your hand into the wound. And then he did and my interpretation of that gospel story is that alone…

…show me attitude. I don't believe in faith, I don't believe in belief. My favorite gospel story is the story of the apostle Thomas, who was not present when Christ came the first time after the resurrection to the upper room and then later Thomas came…

…of the apostle Thomas, who was not present when Christ came the first time after the resurrection to the upper room and then later Thomas came to the apostles and they said: the master has been here. And he said: you guys have been smoking too much of…

…said: you guys have been smoking too much of that red lead. And then Christ came again. But in this conversation with the apostles Thomas said: unless I put my hand into the wound I will not believe it. And then time passed and then Christ came again…

…my hand into the wound I will not believe it. And then time passed and then Christ came again to the upper room and he said: Thomas come forward, put your hand into the wound. And he did and then he said: lord I am not worthy. So forth and so on.…

…story is that alone among all humanity in all times and places, only one person ever touched the incorporeal body of god. Thomas the doubter touched because he doubted it was not necessary that the believers should be vouchsafed such a boon, but the…

…a main theme a chief characteristic theme of the European mind. And that day was the day of publication of a book called utopia by Thomas more m o r e in 1516. And this word utopia in the title is a translation into Latin of the Greek Utopos, meaning…

…as the holy trinity: the father, the son and the holy spirit. He said that this particular trinitarian utopian model was presented long before Thomas more in 1516 in the works of Joachim De Fiore in the 12th century. So let me just read a few words of…

…interested that you start your description of the imagination from the cosmic attractor, which sounds to me like a combination of Plato, Thomas Taylor and Teilhard De Chardin. It's the idea of the omega point and Teilhard De Chardin is the attractor of the…

…show me attitude. I don't believe in faith, I don't believe in belief. My favorite gospel story is the story of the apostle Thomas, who was not present when Christ came the first time after the resurrection to the upper room. And then later Thomas came…

…of the apostle Thomas, who was not present when Christ came the first time after the resurrection to the upper room. And then later Thomas came to the apostles and they said: the master has been here. And he said: you guys have been smoking too much of…

…said: you guys have been smoking too much of that red lab. And then Christ came again. But in this conversation with the apostles Thomas said: unless I put my hand into the wound I will not believe it. And then time passed and then Christ came again…

…my hand into the wound I will not believe it. And then time passed and then Christ came again to the upper room and he said: Thomas, come forward, put your hand into the wound and he did and then he said: lord I am not worthy so forth and so on.…

…story is that alone, among all humanity in all times and places, only one person ever touched the incorporeal body of god. Thomas the doubter touched because he doubted it was not necessary that the believers should be vouchsafed such a boon but the…

…dumbing everything down is at the convenience of the producer, not the consumer. You know if you well I recently read Thomas Pynchon's Novel mason and Dixon, which pictures America in the 1760s right before the revolution, the level of erudition evidenced…

…would have turned the corner. If cautionary data flowing back to ruling institutions could do the trick, then sometime after Thomas Malthus, people would have begun to hit the brakes. Nothing seems to work. We're sick. We need pharmacological intervention.…

…philosophy it's really something that comes from outside the context of the paradigm. Yes well some of you have probably read Thomas Kuhn's book, the structure of scientific revolutions, where he shows you know that it's never the way they tell it…

…there was a huge literature which was just tossed out as being too weird. I mean read the gospel of Philip, the gospel of Thomas. Have you all looked at the nag Hammadi Library? Do you know what this is? The nag Hammadi Library is 42 texts which were…

…because he's short and ugly, you know that's not allowed that's a below the belt move. So and then I read books like Thomas Kern's the structure of scientific revolutions and it says: you know this is how it happens, some guy, marginal, not at the…

…before they made him. No I love to tease him I love to watch him. The obi wan kenobi of psychedelic research, John C Lilly, Thomas Bobistum e t misa s go the mass is over. My psychedelic experience started about age seven and I had visions of god on…

…to take it. So I came to California, had two trips and then got Sidney Cohen to give me some and I went to st Thomas in the virgin islands and floated in an isolation tank there it was an eight foot cube of seawater. I was scared stiff, absolutely…

…Christ is said to have appeared to the apostles in the upper room, 40 days after the crucifixion, I believe. But the apostle Thomas was not present. And so then Thomas comes after this incident and the apostles gather around him and they say: the master…

…the apostles in the upper room, 40 days after the crucifixion, I believe. But the apostle Thomas was not present. And so then Thomas comes after this incident and the apostles gather around him and they say: the master was with us he came in the flesh.…

…after this incident and the apostles gather around him and they say: the master was with us he came in the flesh. And Thomas says: the equivalent of you guys have been smoking too much of this red Lebanese that you've been getting. And then Christ comes…

…have been smoking too much of this red Lebanese that you've been getting. And then Christ comes again. And he says: in that incident, Thomas says unless I put my hand into the wound I will not believe it. And so then Christ comes again to the upper…

…will not believe it. And so then Christ comes again to the upper room and he looks over the assembly and he gestures Thomas forward and he says: Thomas put your hand into the wound, and so he does. Now, different people have different interpretations of…

…miracle and it's always been my motivation publicly to speak about that for that reason. Well we've been speaking with that walking miracle himself, Thomas McKenna, always delighted to have you and to engage with you. Thank you so much for being with us.

…Missouri, you know show me and I'll believe it. This is why I always my favorite person in the new testament is uh is Thomas the doubter because if you will recall, uh Christ Uh returned to the apostles were gathered in the upper room and Christ came…

…Christ Uh returned to the apostles were gathered in the upper room and Christ came to them I think on the fortieth day but Thomas was not there. So then, later, and then Christ went away and so then Thomas came and they said the master was with us.…

…came to them I think on the fortieth day but Thomas was not there. So then, later, and then Christ went away and so then Thomas came and they said the master was with us. And he said: you know you guys have been smoking too many of those little…

…master has gone from the plane. Unless I put my hand into the wound, I will not believe it. So then a few days later Thomas was with them and Christ came again and he said to him: Thomas, put your hand into the wound that you might believe and he…

…wound, I will not believe it. So then a few days later Thomas was with them and Christ came again and he said to him: Thomas, put your hand into the wound that you might believe and he did and he believed okay so what what conclusion do we draw from…

…hallucination and I think you know if you want to read an eye opening book if you haven't read it read Thomas Kuhn's book the structure of scientific revolution, because what you'll learn there to your amazement is that these great intellectual…

…been showing how to do these things very efficiently for a very long time. Yeah, are you familiar with um rick Thomas and rob putting together on the whole archetypal psychology that's in specific relation with planets and how doing people's transients or…

…My favorite story and this shows you how proud I am my favorite story in the gospels is the story of the apostle Thomas, because you will recall that after the crucifixion, this is a good place to end this is an alchemical story. After the crucifixion,…

…is an alchemical story. After the crucifixion, Christ appeared to the apostles in the upper room in Jerusalem 40 days after, and Thomas was not there. I don't know where he was somewhere they sent him out for sandwiches or something. Anyway, he came back…

…I put my hand into the wound I will not believe it. So then time passed and then Christ came again to the apostles, and Thomas was among them on this second get go. And Christ walked in and kicked off his overshoes and looked around the room and he…

…on this second get go. And Christ walked in and kicked off his overshoes and looked around the room and he said: Thomas, come forward, put your hand into the wound, which he did, which he did. Now, people have different interpretations of this story.…

…in all of human history, only one person was ever so privileged as to be allowed to touch the resurrection body. It was Thomas the doubter who was allowed to touch the resurrection body because he didn't believe. And so if you want to touch the…

…been trading with individual geniuses through dream, through insight through imagination. I mean many of you know if you've read Thomas Kuhn's book the structure of scientific revolutions, you know that even in as constipated and self conscious an enterprise…

…just a monster of vice and yet a clown like Clarence Thomas I hope you all read the rolling stone encounter between clarence Thomas and hunter s Thompson. Oh it's classic. It's classic the guy was such a beast that he frightened hunter Thompson with his…

…the gospels. Christ appeared several times in the upper room after the crucifixion to the apostles. The first time he appeared the apostle Thomas was not there. And so then Thomas came after the visitation and he came to the upper room and he was there…

…in the upper room after the crucifixion to the apostles. The first time he appeared the apostle Thomas was not there. And so then Thomas came after the visitation and he came to the upper room and he was there and they said: the master was here, he…

…after the visitation and he came to the upper room and he was there and they said: the master was here, he was with us. And Thomas said oh shit. And they said no no he was here and he said: unless I put my hand into the wound, I will not believe…

…believe it. So time passed and Christ came again to the upper room and he was there among the other apostles. And Christ said Thomas come forward, put your hand into the wound. And he did, and he did. Now the conclusion that I draw from this story is:…

…did, and he did. Now the conclusion that I draw from this story is: alone of all human beings in human history, Thomas the doubter touched the incorporeal resurrected body of Christ. Only the doubter was allowed that privilege for everybody else you know…

…the dialogue with the other is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright that death is in fact well as Thomas Vaughan put it the body is the placenta of the soul and this fact has not yet been assimilated because it runs counter…

…that scientists will be swept away by the revelation of the flying saucer. They have always been the ones to be like the apostle Thomas and want to put their hand into the wound and if the wound is offered, meaning if the saucer comes and is seen by…

…they appear in three dimensional space. I have this hang up so I don't put it down. I always think of the apostle Thomas, because you'll recall Thomas was not present when Christ returned. When he rose from the grave, he appeared to the apostles in the…

…dimensional space. I have this hang up so I don't put it down. I always think of the apostle Thomas, because you'll recall Thomas was not present when Christ returned. When he rose from the grave, he appeared to the apostles in the upper room and Thomas…

…Thomas was not present when Christ returned. When he rose from the grave, he appeared to the apostles in the upper room and Thomas was not present. Then later he was there and the apostle said: listen the master was here and it was wonderful and he…

…people have been smoking too many little brown cigarettes that's preposterous. And at that point Christ walked in and he said: he said Thomas come put your hand into the wound so that you'll believe. And so he did and so then he believed. Well the moral…

…so that you'll believe. And so he did and so then he believed. Well the moral of the story as I read it is, Thomas was the doubter. Consequently, Thomas was the only one who was allowed to actually touch the resurrection body. It was because he doubted…