c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…gnostic speculations, and then we can move off of this, I think is the one adumbrated by valentinius, the so called Valentinian Speculation, and he said that there were 36 he called them decans that lay, they were like higher and higher hypostatizations…
…the triumphal chariot of antinomy. I had read the book but could remember virtually nothing about it. I thought too of Valentinian, Alexandrian gnostic of the second century, and his doctrine that the material world was the condensed emotion of the errant…
…it but perhaps the wholly other transcends the archetypes. This may explain to some degree Jung's interest in gnosticism, especially the Valentinian School of gnosticism which holds you know that there is a higher and hidden father, all god who is outside…
…The gentleman here who had nothing to comment or wanted to sit it out reminded me since we were talking about the Valentinian System this morning my favorite archon aside from Sophia Who's so interesting because of the little story about how she made the…
…the gnostic system is a unique entity I don't know of another religious system that has this notion. The twelfth archon in the Valentinian System is called the watcher and that's all he does. He does not input into the system at all but is the witness…
…it but perhaps the wholly other transcends the archetypes. This may explain to some degree Jung's interest in gnosticism, especially the Valentinian School of gnosticism which holds you know that there is a higher and hidden father, all god who is outside…