c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…the nature of truth and delusion and evidence and feedback and so forth and so on. Well, so suppose then that the Watson objection is sustained, and we all agree that he found this enormous hole. Well, then the disconfirmation of the theory has arrived,…
…history, spores have drifted down and become part of things. And this is not a radical theory at all. Crick of crick and Watson, holds the same view and believes that probably the galaxy is a biome, the galaxy is a biological unit, and we are just…
…crisis which we call the 20th century, the hallucinogens, the entheogens have emerged in western culture. It is no accident that Watson made his trip to Central Mexico and contacted the mushrooms. What he discovered in the mountains of Mexico was nothing…
…the candidates are not very promising. So this is an area that needs to be looked at. It was all regarded as settled and that Watson had figured it out but now we know that there was a lot of evidence that's come to light since he did his work that…
…would just sit and listen to him do this this rave and just go away. I just don't know, I've never beat anything parker or Watson or anyone who'd ever dished up. But so we decided we would do it on the 4th of March and there's a riddle connected…
…in 3d it's all over now it's just all over and that you would see and I could see people I immediately reached out for Watson and Diana and all these people and I could just reach them and say: you know, right, we're in the Amazon Oh you've heard…
…it's probably a polyhydric alcohol or an isoquinone or something like that. It's not an indole. Yeah I was curious. Watson talks about entheogens versus hallucinogens and he's really against the word hallucinogen. Yeah he's the one who proposed entheogen,…
…the center of it something was drunk and something happened and there's been great argument about what was it and what happened and Watson and Hoffman and ruck who's a classicist at Cornell all wanted to argue that it was an ergotized beer in other words…
…of beer that was then this hallucinogenic intoxicant. But Robert Graves, who didn't have the kind of public relations machinery that Watson had, had a different notion and he claimed that the surviving recipes of the sacrament at Eleusis and there were I…
…on its way to turning into ordinary priestcraft and religion. And in my experience this is true. I mean I agree with Watson for the following reason: there is nothing intrinsically to be valued, I think in suffering. I'm Buddhist enough to believe that…
…it's probably a polyhydric alcohol or an isoquinone or something like that. It's not an indole. Yeah I'm curious. Watson talks about entheans versus hallucinogens and he's really against the word hallucinogen. Yeah he's the one who proposed entheogen,…
…people who have not been brought up in the tradition of Arctic Shamanism to actually get a good connection with it. Nevertheless, Watson wanted to suggest that it was indo Aryan people coming out of the Caspian sea area and into mesopotamia, carrying with…
…intellectually or emotionally what kind of ecstatic experience you might have with it, it's not something that ecstasy is not telling like Watson said, your very soul is seized and shaken until it can't be. That's right. And if you like I notice in…
…people who have not been brought up in the tradition of Arctic Shamanism to actually get a good connection with it. Nevertheless, Watson wanted to suggest that it was indo Aryan people coming out of the Caspian sea area and into mesopotamia carrying with…
…very use of the word narcotics betrays such a botanical naivete that you know you're not going to be happy with what follows. Watson on the other hand said a shamanism that does not resort to hallucinogenic plants is a shamanism that has lost its roots.…
…it would say: says says, blah, blah, blah blah says. And again and I thought strange strange speech habit. And then I read in Watson that the word sin occurs at the end of these speech utterances of Maria Sabina's and that it is the mazatec word for…
…the candidates are not very promising. So this is an area that needs to be looked at. It was all regarded as settled and that Watson had figured it out but now we know that there was a lot of evidence that's come to light since he did his work. That…
…the use of them. I remember reading Maria Sabina saying that the emotions spoke a different language to her after people like Watson came down and began to use them. They went from Spanish to English, from Catholic mushrooms to, I don't know, Harvard…
…new forms of it coming along down the tubes. Brett Fortunately, has collected from two different families different strains. There's the Watson strain that has been around for a while. There's what we call the palatable strain. It's not very bitter. It…
…narrowly defined conditions this thing must be tremendously effective. But what those conditions are we don't know. Yeah, I think it was Watson that wrote about I guess it's the right name maybe I'm talking about drinking the piss of shiva and soma and…
…the earth's history spores have drifted and become part of things and this is not a radical theory at all. Crick of Crick and Watson holds the same view and believes that probably the galaxy is a biome, the galaxy is a biological unit and we are just…
…and I want my ideas, my values the books and the ideas about plants to stand the test. And Larry did a good job and Watson and we all are in the same canoe here. I could almost claim a fortunate position because I know now and that gives me time…