c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…things ever got. Psilocybin was characterized by Hoffman in 55, I believe by 67 it was illegal. DMT was discovered by the Czech Chemist Zara in 56. By 66 it was illegal and the amount of human studies that had been done in that time were very brief.…
…the DMT flash. So I think it's an interesting question. DMT was characterized and purified only in 1956 by a Czech Chemist named Zara, and it may be then that only since 1956 have people been able to access that tremendous flash. I have at times given…
…Switzerland or the German work in the 20s or later if you want to date it to the discovery in 1956 of DMT by Zara. But at any rate at some point the third triad is introduced, which is the hallucinogenic or psychedelic experience and all three of…
…and then it's around you and it's, you know like that's like well, it's like a bugs bunny cartoon directed by Tristan Zara or something like that. I mean it's quite zany, unpredictable. The thing that always impressed me about psychedelics was the way in…