c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…They're virtual, but nevertheless, you treat them the same way you treat non virtual objects as they're coming Well, you know, Tim Leary said years ago, LSD is a substance which can cause psychotic reactions in people who don't take it. And, you know,…
…a grander plan that's being acted through us. And that's where the theme of leaving the planet comes around again and again. Like Tim Leary talks about gene, the plan of the gene is to. To fill up niches with new species and then generate. And then the…
…Saturday night simply because you've eaten a mushroom, you know, but they're more fragile than we thought, apparently. I heard Tim Leary recently say, all natural laws are simply local ordinance. There's truth to that. The problem is, I think Einstein beat…
…This is why in the sixties, when LSD first began to appear, people had such violent reactions to it. You know, Tim Leary said, LSD is. A psychedelic drug which causes psychotic behavior in people who haven't taken it. This is absolutely true. Well,…
…that drug is LSD 25. And this is a very fortunate thing because people in the 1960s got into the habit. I remember Tim Leary said, when in doubt, double the dose. Completely reasonable advice for LSD. The problem is, LSD is the only drug with such a…
…that only some people can access these things. I think the great power of psychedelics is that they're democratic. You know, Tim Leary used to say, when in doubt, double the dose and that'll eradicate any of these genetic predisposition arguments in a…
…the motif of magical flight has been taken up by the technological society as the idea of space flight, and I'm sure if Tim Leary were here he could speak to this more eloquently than I can. Space flight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for…
Terrence McKenna is what is Terrence? He's a philosopher. I guess he's probably the man who inherited the mantle from Tim Leary, Dr Leary, He's in Hawaii and I'm going to let you tell him let him tell you, rather the way what has happened to him lately…
…wing of vacaville in the 60s that was basically a CIA Laboratory for experimenting on controlling and programming people with drugs. What Tim Leary had to do with it I'm not a historian of his life, I couldn't say. I do think that Sirhan Sirhan passed…
…and then this quote: LSD is a drug that occasionally causes psychotic behavior in persons that have not taken it. Terrence McKenna quoting Tim Leary in los angeles in 1991: accurate. Well I tried to give that quote to Tim and he swore to me he'd never…
…are told: don't make demands on him, don't criticize him, elect him and when he's elected you'll find out that he's really Tim Leary, Marshall McLuhan and Mikhail Gorbachev all rolled into one. I don't believe it. I don't believe it so I think that we…
…are doing at this moment is incredibly unnecessary and archaic and we do it because it's how we've always done it. But you know Tim Leary had a wonderful saying back in the 60s. He said: find the others, find the others. Well if you go on to the net,…
…am I going to do that well I think it's because they sense that this is where the action is. You know Tim Leary years ago said a wonderful thing about LSD. He said LSD is a psychoactive substance which occasionally triggers psychotic behavior in people…
…certain lack of ego, I don't know I don't think they let you stay out of jail because you have a certain lack of ego. Tim Leary, that whole approach, you see, I mean Tim Leary on a single day spoke to more people than I have spoken to in my entire…
…they let you stay out of jail because you have a certain lack of ego. Tim Leary, that whole approach, you see, I mean Tim Leary on a single day spoke to more people than I have spoken to in my entire life you don't threaten the establishment with the…
…into time I think where this all you know I mean it's fun to try and find various break points. I mean was it Tim Leary, was it Alfred Jarry, was it l entremont, was it the French Symbolists, or? I've been thinking about this a lot recently. I think…
…very gentle and in all things a great humanist. So those three people really, for me shape the field. People ask about my relationship to Tim Leary. I knew Tim as an icon when I was a kid but I followed all that we followed but we doubted is I guess…
…both. Well what I actually meant to say was and you discover the babble of mad people for about five years ago with Tim Leary One raucous evening maybe some of you managed to catch that event this is a little more thoughtful and reflective. I'm not…
…with a specialized interest or predilection now need feel alone. There is no aloneness. You can find your people one of the things Tim Leary said in the 60s that I always remembered but I never heard anybody talk about or ever really heard him quote. It…
…should find honest work. And let me make this point about the four of us. It's all very well to attend a Tim Leary Event a Terence McKenna Event but I'll tell you there's a hell of a difference between talking about psychedelics and taking psychedelics.…
…can't really tell freaks from everybody else. But when the community self selects to come here, someone like myself or Andy Wilde or Tim Leary or whatever, you should look around and see who's here because these are the people that can be the basis of a…
…are not going to harm you and I've always felt that people know whether they're at risk from these things. I always believed Tim Leary made this statement but when I tried to give him credit for it he expressed amazement and said he'd never said such a…
…recently people have been telling me I just didn't do enough and that if you will but persist or double the dose, you know Tim Leary used to say, when in doubt, double the dose but I wasn't in any doubt that I was having a psychedelic experience it…
…versus drug culture wins hands down, and I don't think anyone can really accurately argue against that. Let's go back to Tim Leary for a minute. He said something wonderful, which I think sheds light on the whole discussion we've had here this afternoon.…
…I guess and into the 90s, of the horrible oppression of people who use drugs, illegal drugs in the country. You know Tim Leary said there's no bad dogs there's no bad drugs. But certainly, you know you just made a distinction between hallucinogens and…
…learns to defend itself. So what is called for is this sideways attack through hyperspace? God forbid. I think it was Tim Leary who said we should become ecological secret agents. Is that what I'm concluding? Maybe? Anyway the transformation of language is…
…a cockamamie notion. They should be pleading for an exemption from the obligation to take psychedelics and be connected into the gaian mind. Tim Leary said an amazing thing years ago or at least I say he said it once I tried to give him credit for it…
…Responsible for the ambient background, if there is one, and dean chamberlain, who took the amazing photographs of Albert Hoffman and Tim Leary and myself other people be sure and check out his photographs the guy is a major talent. Okay, so much for…
…think and most of you have heard me say this, but when we get off on this subject I always think about the wonderful thing Tim Leary said years ago. He said it so many years ago that when I told him how much I admired him for saying it he didn't…
…Well because the local language is so disempowering you know the local language has made us terrified of our own unconscious. Tim Leary, God bless him said once said: LSD is a psychedelic drug that occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have…
…moment. This is your affinity group. It's preposterous demeaning and unhealthy to focus on one person you know the Terence McKenna, the Tim Leary the John Lilly I mean hell yes we're great people but so are you and this is your affinity group. Someone in…
…to step away from their leader role or they transmuted it into some lesser thing. So now Allen Ginsberg is poet laureate. Tim Leary is, you know, keeps the club scene in los angeles interesting, yes, but you in a sense never back down, never retooled.…
…where humans are connecting with each other more than ever. I mean is that better? No I absolutely agree. One of the things that Tim Leary used to say was he used to say: find the others, find the others. Well with the net you can find the others. I…
…the western mind is a house of cards and the people who built that house of cards know that and they are terrified of madness. Tim Leary once said or I gave him credit for saying he later told me he never said it but whoever said it this was a…
…the accumulation of ever larger nuclear arsenals and the promotion of all kinds of primate game playing of the sort that Tim Leary is well versed in denouncing. What needs to be done is that fundamental ontological conceptions about reality have to be…
…people who are preserving mandaean liturgy, and at the University of Heidelberg There's a guy who can read the books. You know Tim Leary said a wonderful thing years and years ago. He said: find the others, find the others. And the computer is the tool…
…fear self toxicity. This is why in the 60s, when LSD first began to appear, people had such violent reactions to it. Tim Leary said LSD is a psychedelic drug which causes psychotic behavior in people who haven't taken it. This is absolutely true. Why…
…a very different situation. I came up through the 60s I was just there I was a nobody but I recall being at rallies where Tim Leary spoke to 100 000 people. Well, I've never spoken to more than 2 000 or 3 000 people. The other thing is the war gave…
…into time, I think where this all you know I mean it's fun to try and find various break points. I mean was it Tim Leary, was it Alfred Jarry? Was it l entrement? Was it the French Symbolists? Or? I've been thinking about this a lot recently. I think…
…evil is banal what is not? This is a kind of pulling of energy out of the felt moment. So Marshall McLuhan saw it, Tim Leary saw it Bucky saw it probably everybody and their dogs saw it coming. What is happening is a kind of meltdown of print created…
…the motif of magical flight has been taken up by the technological society as the idea of space flight, and I'm sure if Tim Leary were here he could speak to this more eloquently than I can. Space flight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for…
…possibility, which is probably too naive, but in the interest, again of exhaustive thoroughness, maybe they just haven't noticed yet. You know Tim Leary, Who's a friend of mine, would address 25 000 people at a throw. My crowds are, you know a couple of…
…I've at times come out of those places and said this stuff is illegal, you know it breaks cosmic law, of course. Then Tim Leary told me that cosmic laws are only local ordinances anyway, so it didn't really matter. Okay, well good question yes it's the…
…out? Well you know, the president's consort urges us to simply say no and I can't remember whether who it was I think it was Tim Leary the other night was wearing a t shirt which said: just say no, k n o w. Then you know you have to make very…
…goes to the whole heart of the matter, to the fact that we are living now in a kind of hysteria about drugs. Tim Leary said LSD was a compound capable of causing psychotic behavior in people who hadn't taken it. This can now be generalized. We see…
…You knock some brain cells out. Well the president's consort urges us to simply say no. I can't remember who it was I think it was Tim Leary the other night was wearing a t shirt which said just say no, k n o w see how close to the surface it is…
…goes to the whole heart of the matter, to the fact that we are living now in a kind of hysteria about drugs. Tim Leary said LSD was a compound capable of causing psychotic behavior in people who hadn't taken it, that this can now be generalized. We…
…learns to defend itself. So what is called for is this sideways attack through hyperspace, god forbid. I think it was Tim Leary who said we should become ecological secret agents. Is that what I'm concluding, maybe? Anyway the transformation of language is,…
For about five years ago with Tim Leary, One raucous evening maybe some of you managed to catch that event. This is a little more thoughtful and reflective. I'm not here to talk or to speak or to promote my books as I have been in the past. This is…
…interest or predilection now need feel alone. There is no aloneness. You can find your people. You know one of the things Tim Leary said in the 60s that I always remembered but I never heard anybody talk about or ever really heard him quote. It…
…wing of vacaville in the 60s that was basically a CIA Laboratory for experimenting on controlling and programming people with drugs. What Tim Leary had to do with it I'm not a historian of his life I couldn't say. I do think that Sirhan Sirhan passed…
…is then to be done? What is to be done? We have to support each other, we have to build community. You know Tim Leary said: find the others. Find the others. And psychedelics are only half of the equation. The other tool in our evolutionary toolbox, I…
…message back. If you push those 100 alpha males into those regions, they go nuts, they are nuts, they are nuts. I mean Tim Leary. Actually Tim Leary denied ever saying this once when I gave him credit for it. But someone very wise once said: LSD is…
…you push those 100 alpha males into those regions, they go nuts, they are nuts, they are nuts. I mean Tim Leary. Actually Tim Leary denied ever saying this once when I gave him credit for it. But someone very wise once said: LSD is a psychedelic drug…
…want to thank him that was a wonderful introduction. I'm sure I wouldn't I know I wouldn't be here tonight if it weren't for Tim Leary. He was the pathfinder. He cut the way through the woods he gave us all permission to be very much the people that…
…why are they so afraid to give it a chance? Well I think I can answer my own question, quoting a wonderful thing Tim Leary said years ago. He said LSD occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have not taken it right. That is the problem I…
…by hallucinogens and with, some might say good reason do we really know, in other words the overall effects? Well Tim Leary once said he said LSD is a psychoactive compound that occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who haven't taken it…
…be ravaged by these drugs? Yes well my public image, I think is as a kind of wild man halfway between William Burroughs and Tim Leary but that's not who you are. No it's not who I am at all. I'm a somewhat stodgy, logical Irish Scholar. Yes, drug…
…are not going to harm you and I've always felt that people know whether they're at risk from these things. I always believed Tim Leary made this statement but when I tried to give him credit for it he expressed amazement and said he never said such a…
…larger agenda. The internet basically means you can now be as free as you are motivated to be, as free as you dare to be. Tim Leary years ago, it was something he used to say that never got quoted as much as turn on, tune in drop out. But it seemed…
…I can go on to the net and access these various databases. So the thing that is so empowering about the net, I think, is Tim Leary had a slogan back in the 60s he used to tell his audiences: find the others, find the others. Well how do you find…
…that only some people can access these things. I think the great power of psychedelics is that they're democratic. You know Tim Leary used to say: when in doubt, double the dose, and that'll eradicate any of these genetic predisposition arguments in a…
Terence McKenna is: huh what is Terence? He's a philosopher. I guess he's umm, probably the man who inherited the mantle from Tim Leary, Dr Leary. He's in Hawaii and I'm going to let you tell him. Let him tell you, rather the way what has what has…
…that this was operating. They're not more florid or less florid than the descriptions of LSD that we get from Aldous Huxley and Tim Leary in the early 1960s I mean this stuff was taking them away. I don't advise you to eat hashish or charas for a…
…the art as we could make it. It has brought freedom, prosperity and enlightenment to tens of thousands. We have not to be outdone by Tim Leary we have a piece of software. So if you own a 2e 2c or 2gs machine from Apple, you can run this time wave…
…art as we could make it it has brought freedom, prosperity and enlightenment to tens of thousands. We have not to be outdone by Tim Leary we have a piece of software. So if you own a 2e, 2c or 2gs machine from Apple well you can run this timewave…
…One is reality is for people who can't handle drugs. The best version of that I ever heard was something which I thought Tim Leary had said but I asked him recently and he couldn't remember what he was saying. Of course he's a brain dimmer. Tim once…
…just no cure for it. Are there questions? Yes so the question is about the sexuality and the relationship of sex to drugs. Tim Leary, he made a great case for sex and psychedelics. Every time they would say that LSD breaks chromosomes he would say that…
…why these things should be illegal. It was basically a moment of general social panic brought on by LSD hysteria. You know it's Tim Leary I give him credit for this although he always tells me he can't remember saying it. But I believe that Tim Leary…
…it's Tim Leary I give him credit for this although he always tells me he can't remember saying it. But I believe that Tim Leary once said LSD is a drug capable of causing psychotic behavior in people who have not taken it. And this is what happened…