Terence McKenna
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…that would be the year zero of the second strophariad that when the Abraham and Sarah of the new order, Gordon and Valentina Wasson, discover the mushrooms in the mountains of Mexico and then of course in the 70s, the brothers McKenna propagate the method…
…a barbarian he was a barbarian but he was a Christian Barbarian he was not some pagan. Jonathan mentioned last night that Valentina Wasson was the first to suggest that psychedelics be given to dying people. Great idea. Who Isn't dying, who isn't dying?
…spokesman for psilocybin. For the mushrooms the mushrooms that I am so stoked on were discovered in 1953 by Gordon and Valentina Wasson in watla discovered in 1953, made absolutely schedule I illegal in 1966. Thirteen years was the window in which western…
…ultimate fantasies of the neurotic judeo Christian Tradition a world to plunder ends very oddly with Gordon Wasson and Valentina Wasson in 1953 penetrating into the jungle highlands of Mexico and finding there something more astonishing than a flying saucer…
…that would be the year zero of the second strophariad that when the Abraham and Sarah of the new order, Gordon and Valentina Wasson, discover the mushrooms in the mountains of Mexico and then of course in the 70s, the brothers McKenna propagate the method…
…hand who was a brilliant amateur and the discoverer of the psilocybin cults in Mexico, Along with his partner and wife Valentina Wasson, took just the opposite position and said: no use of plants to transform consciousness is the primary method where there…
…most interesting hallucinogen and shamanic hallucinogen complexes, which is, of course the Central Mexican Mushroom complex discovered by Gordon and Valentina Wasson in the early 50s. Now these are not mushrooms that grow in the dung of cows or any other…
…aesthetic of the 20th century over the first half of it we'll say: and then in 1953, because that's when Gordon and Valentina Wasson discovered the mushroom, or earlier if you want to date it to Hoffman's Discoveries in Switzerland or the German work in…
…in the world where living mushroom cults with ancient roots still exist. The mushrooms were discovered in 1953 by Gordon and Valentina Wasson because they went to these villages and uncovered this thing. People thought it had been wiped out with the Spanish…