c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…imagine. Yeah, that's one notion of it. Or wittgenstein's unspeakable. Or. You know, I always. I'm fond of quoting this poem by Trumbull Stickney where he says, I lean over your meaning's edge and feel the dizziness of the things you have not said. That's…
…cannot be taken, because that's my style. But the unsaid part, the dizziness of the things unsaid. Remember the poem by Trumbull Stickney? I lean over your meaning's edge, and I feel the dizziness of the things you have not said. And the dizziness…
…is difficult to triangulate, but the edge of mind always accompanies the phenomenon of being. I think you know that poem by Trumbull Stickney, one of those poets who died in the first world war, one of the young men of the trenches, that whole…
…world war, one of the young men of the trenches, that whole generation, Sacha Bell Sidwell and so forth and so on. But Trumbull Stickney said: I do not understand you. It is because I lean over your meaning's edge and feel the dizziness of the things…
…that I love to quote this poem by this obscure poet who died in the trenches of France in the first world war, Trumbull Stickney. And he wrote a poem called meaning's edge, and the punchline goes like this: meaning's edge I look over meaning's edge and…
…is not traditionally how it's done. Well, it divides the seamlessness of reality into the articulated and the unarticulated. You know Trumbull Stickney, Who's not exactly a household name, was one of those poets who died in the trenches of world war I, the…
…boundaries cannot be taken because that's my style. But the unsaid part, the dizziness of the things unsaid remember the poem by Trumbull Stickney I lean over your meaning's edge and I feel the dizziness of the things you have not said. And the dizziness…