c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…as what you visually see represented in the Milky Way itself, and that is in one of its most popular representations, Tiamat, the goddess of chaos, from Enuma Elish, the creation poem, the greatest epic poem of Babylonian literature, discovered in the…
…of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. Recent discovery. There was this story of the origin of the gods and the creation of the world by Tiamat and Apsu, the god and goddess of chaos who lived in the water, one more sweet water and the other salt water. And…
…taking place in the form of a social transformation, a transformation represented in the mythological by the demotion of Apsu and Tiamat from the pantheon of Babylon, the city Babylon. And the replacement by Marduk eventually became the god, Mr. Big of…
…the ellipse, fantastic transformation, punctual catastrophe in the history of consciousness. In short... According to this epic, Enuma Elish, Tiamat was killed in the most violent way, ripped to pieces, creating the world, creating a new order by our…
…by order, scientists most especially hate it, and so on. The fact that scientists, of all people, in the temple of science, that Tiamat has to be accepted as a friend and replaced upon her throne, this is big news. I believe that the importance of the…
…of the same thing. Chaos is chaos. It lives primarily in the sky. It's observed in the sky. The original word for chaos was Tiamat. It means the Milky Way. And then Gaia is, you know, Gaia. And Eros, as you know, Eros. So that's the tradition, the…