c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…walk down Haight street on a hot day in August of 1967 ecological sensitivity would not be highly visible on the surface. Timothy Leary said get out of the city. Everybody should start their own, you know, grow their own food. And that that consciousness…
…happens when people start looking in that mirror? How do you plan to avoid, I guess what you could call the Timothy Leary syndrome, wherein you allow something good and just a few people in the know to become trivialized vein and totally commercialized.…
…had my children and my marriage and all that in uh California lived thirty five years in Northern California, Uh, you, you knew Timothy Leary Yes uh I knew him we appeared in public mostly in Europe Uh together a few times and he certainly with the…
…Illinois Hi Larry, this is really very interesting because I just recently read some of the excerpts from the psychedelic experience by Timothy Leary, which is his take on the Tibetan book of the dead. I missed the first part of the show so I'm sorry…
…My brain is activated and flashing and illuminating at a million miles an hour. She doesn't want to be bothered with you know Timothy Leary games or words she doesn't want to wander around the streets of cities made of plastic. She wants to be out in…
…was thinking he was in Heidelberg but now nobody knows where he was. I don't know in 30 years you might think you saw Timothy Leary in Mannheim but are you sure it's really him? Werner Weber, you want to take a rib, Terence? Come on. Well listening to…
…The human being can operate the robot as if he were there himself but much safer, and cyberspace has its prophets, Timothy Leary, the seducer of the youth as he was called. Psychedelic means mind expanding. Psychedelic he says only means development and…
…drivers was even dreamed of. And I just... I don't know. Mr. Brennan, do you believe that the work of Dr. Timothy Leary should be diminished or abolished? I don't believe any work or reading should be diminished. I think he's somewhat demented. His…
…for a person to evaluate something that is altering their powers of evaluation. It's a contradiction. So, you know, who knows what Timothy Leary or anybody else in hallucinogenics is enduring. But as far as the issue of you call me Reaganite and then you…
…get right back to that because it is exceedingly interesting. I'd like to make a little bit of a comparison going back to the Timothy Leary days. He was saying: many of the same things back in the 60s about LSD and some of the other drugs. I'm going…
…know why we were going to talk about some of the same things. I heard back in the 60s a guy by the name of Timothy Leary. He was kind of a pied piper leading college kids down the path of: hey, take these drugs LSD in particular was his big thing…
…come to this place I mean I fought my way free of the Catholic Church and it's clearly not necessary. I'm fascinated by Timothy Leary. He's a personal friend of mine. There is not an iota of spiritual sensitivity in the man. I mean he will tell you…
…a computer column for the San Francisco. Examiner had received in her mailbox a copy of this article in gq in which Timothy Leary is quoted as saying: the Japanese go to Burma for teak and they go to California for novelty and creativity. Everybody knows…
…me as the supplier of a scientific Renaissance in the 1960s. And this columnist didn't believe what was asserted by Timothy Leary and others in the gq article, that the computer revolution and the computer graphic innovations of California had been built…
…So to start out, I'll introduce the speakers very briefly for those of you who weren't here this morning this afternoon. Timothy Leary, Who's I'm sure known to all of you and needs no introduction. Mark Wyman, Who's a professor of criminal justice and…
…connection between psychedelics and the computer revolution, this was new. The article in gq begins with an excellent quote from Timothy Leary who says there are various natural resources in the world. Creativity is one of them and, understanding this the…
…on the big island of Hawaii named Terence McKenna. Who is Terence McKenna? Well among other things umm he's probably the successor to Timothy Leary. That may not be the focus or it may turn into the focus of the interview I don't know and I don't care.…
…work when we're working in the world and with technology in the world. Isn't he a great guy, thank you if I had the Timothy Leary Laurels with me I'd hand them on. The bad penny could pass. Well I love listening to mark rap this stuff and he really…
…unlike anybody you're ever going to have the pleasure of listening to and meeting. Terrence McKenna really has picked up the gauntlet from Timothy Leary, and you may reject what he has to say, but at the very least if you claim to have an open mind,…
…and they're doing duplications of this talk on site. He's an old friend of all of ours so I'd like you all to welcome Timothy Leary. I for one am overjoyed to be here. This is one of those special, special evenings that we will all treasure. You know…
…of being able to understand what we're doing to our minds and to our bodies. Umm and what you were talking about with Timothy Leary Okay, I remember reading one of his books that he said that LSD leaves your system in 20 minutes or with your first…
…He didn't want to be the wise man guru telling people what to think he wanted people to think for themselves like Timothy Leary. That was the whole thrust of his message he was human while others wanted him to be a bodhisattva. Terence's Pivotal…
…of what they might present him was too terrifying. Yet there he was in the public position of being the New Timothy Leary, the explorer psychonaut who was supposedly plunging down the rabbit hole every weekend. Even now many of Terence's Fans assume that…
…super intelligent force for light and this is the 15 round slug out leading to whether or not that happens or not. Now Timothy Leary maintains similar positions from a different but right, he talks a lot about the DNA I'm not. Well it's the DNA on one…