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45b24ea78675-14 | ….You have a three step process, driven by nothing more than hunger and curiosity, that leads remote primate ancestors to a confrontation with, what Rudolf Otto called the Holy Other, The Holy, The Numinous, The Transcendental. And aah, aah, you know this is on slightly less firm ground but in my own personal experienc... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-15 | human beings, and what I think is going on is that probably language was, aah, entertainment long before it was meaning, that is a kind of tuneless singing, and that having discovered that we could make an almost endless repertoire of small mouth noises, we did this, for each other, for amusement, for, to, aah, pass th... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-16 | believe that, sometime in the last fifty thousand years before twelve thousand years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which man and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land, aah, all were in dynamic balance, and not in any primitive sense at all. Aah, l... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-17 | Aah, and it was great, well if it was so great, what happened, well, ahh, the very forces which created this situation, and you all recall what it was, it was the drying of the African continent forcing us out of the trees, forcing us to change our diet, forcing us to accept a dung growing mushroom, ahh, and there were... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-18 | of a special class of people called shamans, who were like the, the designated hitters for dealing with the hyperspace of the mythos. Ahh, and in other words, over millennia, the, the, the, connection went from available to everyone all the time, to ever more tenuous, ever more tenuous, finally faded out entirely. It’s... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-19 | [Transcript by
Lobo Noble
[00:30:00]
Terence: …. would have, as they saw this happening, make attempts to preserve the mushroom, and in a world without refrigeration, the only effective way to do this is preservation in honey. You can dry mushrooms, but in a world without hermetically sealed peanut butter jars, dryi... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-20 | But now I want to backtrack for a minute, I will return to this thing about the loss of the mushroom, but there’s something that I wanna go over with you that’s really important in all this, to me, and that is: this isn’t simply the story of how an intoxicant promoted consciousness and then we fell into history but los... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-21 | [00:34:00]
was interrupted, medicated out of existence, if you like, vaccinated against, if you like, by the presence of psilocybin in the diet. And, uh, this, oversec—this, this overemphasizing or chemical accentuation of sexuality occasioned by the arousal of psilocybin, was sufficient to dissolve
[00:34:30]
the o... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-22 | of the group.
[Transcript by Frank Bronson]
….And under the aegis of this group, this polymorphis.. (polymorphic), sexual style, group -uh- childcare, and -uh- and extended family rearing, we produced everything that we think of as human; that we value. Our art, our music, our philosophy, our sense of each other’s wo... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-23 | [38:00]
A sense that people are, you know, no damn good and getting worse. A sense that, you know, ‘Why can’t we be as we once were?’ ‘Where is our sense of each other?’ ‘Where is our ability to care for each other?,’ so forth and so on. I wrote a book called -uhm- ‘Food of the Gods’, in which I tell this story in the... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-24 | [40:04]
Well i’m not that keen on all this psychologizing, but I do think that we could apply this model to ourselves on a grand scale. We were essentially torn from the giain womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern scie... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-25 | [Transcript by Nigel Millegan]
[42:00]
We don’t have a theory for the evolution of consciousness of any consequence, and yet, you know, the factors I’ve laid out for you - increased visual acuity, a-, impact on sexual and social behaviours, uh, triggering of glossolalia-like phenomena in the presence of a boundary di... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-26 | Uhh, the western mind is particularly phobic of this, uhh, of this subject, I mean, we have bent our laws so that people can jump out of airplanes in the pursuit of thrills, so they bungee-cord off major highway bridges and freeway overpasses; be-, so concerned are we to fulfill society’s need for thrills, uh, but this... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-27 | Now, the reason this provokes a lot of social anxiety is because all societies are about the maintenance of boundaries. It doesn’t matter whether you’re, you know, a stockbroker in New York, a zen monk in Kyoto, a hasid in Jerusalem, your society is held together by boundaries, and definitions, and anything which disso... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-28 | But in fact, the ego is appropriate only to a certain point. I mean, yes, we need egos, so that you take someone to dinner at a reasonable restaurant, you place food in your mouth, not their mouth. [*audience laughs*] This is-, this is what the ego is for. It tells you who pays. [*audience laughs*] [*clears throat*] Uh... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-29 | And that’s why my theory of evolution is not simply a dry [0:49:30] footnote on uh an issue that involves anthropologists, primatologists and biologists, but it turns into a political issue because our unhappy, addicted, ego-driven condition has become not simply the source of our own unhappiness, that was bad enough b... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-30 | We’re going to have to [0:52:00] turn that way in other words each consciously participate in a choice to brutalize the human enterprise or we’re going to have to uhh seriously talk about very major restructuring of our society and i don’t really know how we do that.
I was living in northern california a couple years ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-31 | [Transcript by Jonathan Laliberte]
Are we going to go gently into that good night of planetary chaos, extreme distortion of class structure, defence of what we have at any cost against those who have nothing? There doesn’t seem to be any other plan on the horizon. | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-32 | Arthur Koestler - who probably never thought he would be quoted by Terence McKenna, [*audience laughs*] a very conservative character, you’ll recall he was a marxist who turned on marxism and led a very interesting intellectual life - he wrote a book thirty years ago called “The Ghost in the Machine”, and he made a cas... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-33 | intervention on aggressive behavior; you all remember “Brave new world”, where every time anybody raised their voice, they were given a, a gram of soma, and told a “gram is better than a dam”(?). And so, nobody ever had the thought in their head. Well, that’s a terrible drug, let’s not introduce that. O-oh, the bad new... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-34 | would-, we would do something about it. [*clears throat*] | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-35 | So, my, uh, you know, I don’t ha-, I can’t propose a grand solution, but I do think that it is, uhh, uh, pregnant with implication that here at the end of the 20th century, with all of this problems hammering down on us, the news comes from the rain forests, and the deserts, that these aboriginal people - while we made... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-36 | you come down, and that’s it? And the answer is: no. What is mysterious here - and I mentioned this in the early part of my talk - what is mysterious here, is this thing we call the psychedelic experience. Those people nailed to the ground around the campfires fifty thousand years ago, they didn’t know what it was. And... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-37 | uh, a connection into a larger modality of organisation on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying, it connects you up to the mind of Nature herself. The planet is not, uh, uh, just a hodgepodge of competing species, that’s the old evolutionary model. That’s been obsolete for decades. The new evolutionary model is, ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-38 | [1:00:00]
[Transcript by Adnan Zahirovic]
But a large percentage of them by asexual and vegetative propagation. And still others by more exotic -uh- methods of propagation such as [what] go on in the fungi and the bacteria. Uh, the world is a gene swarm, and people like Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock have been sugg... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-39 | Uh, we uh, we need to realize that there is a hegemony of life on the planet, not necessarily a hegemony of intelligence. Intelligence is not a licence to trample. Th- the proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver, and uh, uh, maintainer of balance. Well.. so where do we go and h... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-40 | [1:04:00]
We are told, you know, ‘oh well if you want beauty you have to own a lexus.’ Or -uh- you know, if you want a sense of satisfaction then you need a triple car garage. [And] on and on. Th- this is absolutely -uh- not true. These are substitute addictions that will never satisfy for the genuine article, and the... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-41 | ….technique has a connotation that it doesn’t have in english. It means both a way to do things, and it means technology. Later, the french sociologist Jacques Ellul wrote a book called ‘Propaganda’ and the little banner under which his book flew which is printed right on the front of his piece, is he says, ‘there are ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-42 | know why they issued you a brain, they could have just given you the catechism. *laughs* Uhhm. Technology as the counterpoint to, uhh, ideology is a very different animal. Now right now we’re going through a technophobic phase because people think technology means exploding nuclear power plants and uhh irradiated food ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-43 | The computers of the future will be much more like drugs. And I think what we have to recognize is that we are in a very brief and low energy technical phase in technology, basically we’re at the tail end of the petro-chemical steam era and where we are headed is toward the solid state, fiber optic, global community of... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-44 | that this was descent of the holy ghost as a convert to christ- to catholicism, he sort of went the opposite direction as me. As a convert to catholicism, he decided that the descent of the third person of the trinity and the worldwide spread of electricity were the same event. So I think that uh what we have to do is ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-45 | justice, tolerance, and community, and the, the choice is to be made on an individual level by each and every one of us. I don’t advocate a mass outbreak of psychedelic use, I think these things are a private matter. They are, the only thing comparable to them in our human experience is our sexuality, and that’s a priv... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-46 | [Transcript by Christian Haas]
[1:12:00]
How we define it, how we express it, how we act it out, who we do it with, what we think about it and what we choose to say in public about it is all, uh, in our hands. I do not think that, uh, the government, under the guise of some phony alarmist pseudo-scientific rhetoric, ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-47 | Nature, originally through the plants and shamanism, provided the tools for us to access this incredible natural database through the vicissitudes of history, previous generations lost the key in western society. Since the 1960s the key has been re-found. It's a matter of great social controversy, it's a matter of… of-... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-48 | will be the first to be swept away, so it's- it’s very, very important that people take back their minds and that people analyse our dilemma in the context of the entire human story. From the descent onto the grassland to our potential destiny as citizens of the galaxy and the universe, we are at a critical turning poi... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-49 | come back and do questions. Thank you very much for your attention! [Applause] | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-50 | [Dis]...aster and that in fact what we're involved with here at the end of the 20-th century is some kind of, uh, accelerated forward escape into transformation. And I- when I lecture that subject I more or less imply that it's inevitable. In other words, that it's not that we have to to X, Y or Z, that it's on track. ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-51 | (1:19:00)
It’s a birthing. It’s complicated. Uhm, if you had never seen a human birth, and you came around the corner of a building in your daily round, and it was happening - it vibrates medical emergency. I mean, blood is being shed, tissues stretched. It doesn’t - you really have to have your chops together to step... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-52 | (1:21:00)
called The Sacred Mushroom And The Cross. He was a very respected Dead Sea scholar ‘til he wrote that book, [audience laughs] uh, and that basically finished his career as a classicist. He says some incredibly provocative things in that book. To judge whether he’s right or wrong you would have to be, uh, an ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-53 | (1:23:00)
to celebrate the greater mysteries, which were celebrated in September. Interesting approach to psychedelics there - you could only legitimately participate in the mystery at Eleusis once in your life.
So, imagine if you had a single, high-dose, psychedelic experience under ideal conditions. In other words,... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-54 | Terence: “Uh huh. Oh, Girdle's little incommensurability thing?”
Audience member: “Maybe a little on that?”
Terence: “‘A little Girdle please?’ *laughs with audience* ‘in 2/4 time?’ *audience laughs* Well, uuuuhhhh, I don’t have a particularly strong opinion one way or another on A.I.. I certainly think computers wi.... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-55 | Terence: “Tipler, thank you. I said help me out with a memory lapse. You didn’t have to read my mind, for God’s sake! *audience laughs* *Terence laughs* Yes! *laughs* Thanks you Creon. *chuckles* Tip...Tipler’s book is, uh uh, the end of all speculation where artificial intelligence, uh, is concerned. Uh, I think machi... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-56 | on certain days. Uh, a lot of design work of circuitry, engineers will simply tell the machine what the circuit should do and leave the actual architecture of the circuitry to machine decision. Uh, this means, you know, lar..m-more and more parts of the human world are being over...given over to machines to design, but... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-57 | know, enormous computational and data-accessing abilities that may be accessed through implants. Uh, we’re going to have to decide, you know, how much of the monkey we want to take with us into the future. We don’t want to take the homicidal killer, we don’t want to take, uh, the male dominator, but we...it would proba... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-58 | [Transcript by Jaska Isola]
T: Yeah, in the back….
Q: Ahh, two questions on ecstasy. Aah. What’s your take on MDMA? And ahh, what’s the optimum grams to take ahh to achieve ahh sexual ecstasy?
T: Sexual ecstasy on XTC? (*laughs, *audience laughs)
A. On mushrooms. | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-59 | T: Oh, on mushrooms! Oh I see. “W- well” first about MDMA… w-well there is no doubt, that from here to the end of time, whether it be eighteen years or a thousand years away, science is going to produce more and more psychoactive drugs. There a psychoactive drugs on the shelve now, waiting for human testing and governm... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-60 | way on to the, ahh, the alternative scene has first built itself as a love drug.That’s an unfailing market ploy. (*audience laughs)To get a drug to the forefront of public attention. Cannabis was sold to us as a love drug. Ahh, LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine. MDMA, ahh, is no different. (“MD- MDMA does promote a certain kin... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-61 | sit down and then finally you just want to lay down, and ahh, (*audience laughs). Then you’re into the other fase. | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-62 | Behind you there was another question.
Q: Yeah, I was gonna say that John
Nully?
Has an interesting kinda speculation about the future possibilities of solid state (unintelligible) on an autobiography of a scientist. But I was really curious what, if you have anything to say or, you know, about the credibility of th... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-63 | T: Well this is slightly off the track or might be seen by some people to be slightly off the track. Ahh, I don’t know William Coopers book., I regard that, ahh, whole flying saucer thing as a civil war in a leper colony. Ahh, (*audience laughs) but I do think, I do think, having been, like probably most of you, very i... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-64 | just that (“the- the ticket through the front door is”), ahh, you know, ‘would you believe this’? ‘Would you believe this’? (*audience laughs) Ahh, I think probably what happened, historically speaking, you know, in 1947 the first UFO’s were seen, “they- it was a weird world.” The explosion of the atom bomb, the work t... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-65 | beings. Well, what they did, the CIA had just been founded in ‘48 and so forth and so. What they did, they put a lot of time and effort into infiltrating all these groups that claimed knowledge of what was going on. And as a survivor.. | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-66 | [Transcript by
Melvin Goudbeek
[Terence Mckenna] : ....of the new left I can tell you when the government gets interested in infiltrating, I mean I, ...there wu eh, [fff], two out of every three members of SDS was a government informant [audience laughter] at the height of its membership! So, I believe that what happ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-67 | So, I really felt I was among severely damaged people [audience laughter] , uh, and it wa-it wasn’t their fault it’s that they-they had become part of something, that had become part of something, that had become part of something, and they never really had a fighting chance. Do strange lights haunt the skies of Earth?... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-68 | TM: No, I think it would go the other way that we’re moving toward a time when our technology is indistinguishable from us. In other words, I don’t want us to all turn into, uh, 7100 ADAV, that doesn’t seem like a good idea. Uh, but on the other hand I could, imagine, as a hopeful scenario a future world of let’s say 5... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-69 | You see really what computers are doing is they’re making what we call the collective unconcious, concious! All data, all images, uh, are potentially accessible through, uh, the network. And, uh, ya know, I’m still getting used to the idea of the network myself. Like I keep thinking, “Oh, I have this timeline, I could ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-70 | Wesley LaVassaur
[Starting at 01:42:00]
... than its language evolves and it cannot be anymore glued together than the bandwidth that its languages will tolerate, and so what this technology that is putting in place is going to mean is.. the way in which it will dissolve boundaries is by making us transparent to each... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-71 | A- Well, first of all let me say this, there are several mushrooms which contain psilocybin [01:44:00] which grow in cow dung. What I urge people to do, if you are serious about this, is to grow your own. Uhh… this is moderately self serving because I wrote a book about how to grow your own mushrooms *audience laughter... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-72 | they believe that [01:45:00] something in the mushroom is giving them gastric distress. It really isn’t, it’s more like a case of butterflies on an empty stomach because you should take mushrooms on an empty stomach. Ah… you can try a suppository, you can try another drug if you want. But there is in this psychedelic b... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-73 | sweating or something like that. That’s more an indication of an allergy. If you are going to get into psychedelics, one of the things that you have to do is learn your way around. Psychedelic sophistication doesn’t mean you took everything there is in combination with everything there el- else there is, at high doses,... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-74 | Q- I recently came by David Hudson’s work on Orbitally Rearranged Monoatomic Elements and found that these monoatomic heavy metals [01:47:00] conduct- act as superconductors- conduct lightforce through our nervous system. Are you familiar with this work at all?
A- No you- you have stumped the star *audience laughter*.... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-75 | ™: Well, I mean, this is, you’ve... this is sort of where I’m at. I mean, as you were asking the question I was... my tendency would be to say none. That none of our reality is based on inexorable physical law. But, I only want that to be true. I’m not sure it is true. Whitehead used to sa- he had this thing about what... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-76 | would think of the speed of light as a very old habbit. Uh, these physical constants may be changing. We don’t know, I mean take the speed of light, we’ve measured it on one planet since 1906, and cheerfully extrapolate it to every corner of the known universe with no sense that there might be a problem there at all. Y... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-77 | In other words it’s not that we’re getting measurements which cluster around a value, it’s that we’re getting measurements which are going out this way toward faster. Uh, I think language is the key to making reality. I think our language is a, is a very weak language computer languages may be more powerful. Uh, you kn... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-78 | again. Over here (points to audience) uh, the documentation, um, well there wouldn’t be anything written, of course, it’s earlier than that, but the documentation, it is well known that the Sahara was wetter in the past, even as recently as Roman times, Pliny called it the breadbasket of Rome. And we know that human po... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-79 | now. Now to the first part of your question, why was it human beings who ate the mushroom? Uh, well, we, you had to, to use the mushrooms as a doorway to higher intelligence, you would have had to already come a certain distance down the path of higher animal organization. We were bipedal, we had a pack signaling reper... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-80 | [Transcript by Suzanne Tracey]
[Start 1:54:07]
There has been talk among evolutionary biologists about if there were no primates on this planet, what order of animals might occupy the conscious niche or be able to come in there. And interestingly raccoons are candidates. Raccoons have, bah, have well positioned eyes.... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-81 | Yeah *points at new questioner*
inaudible* I want to have your comments on the numerous dangers of the ufo phenomena with regard to *inaudible* and the role of this phenomena which I think you referred to as the other earlier in your talk has been the transformation you have us going through in the future. | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-82 | Yeah, yes Jaque Belay was a UFO and the book that was mentioned, passport to Magonia was one of his earliest books on the subject. He’s gone through a lot of changes about it. Um, the numinous, I think whats going on is that in a sense there is leakage from the future. This is a broad subject and it late in the evening... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-83 | century as the extraterrestrial because out of the unconscious comes this image of the other as the extraterrestrial . I think we are in the presence of the transcendental object at the end of time and that religions call it the messiah, or the maitreya, secularists call it utopia, millenarians call it something else, ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
45b24ea78675-84 | their relationship to little people and an invisible world this is a generally held belief that they are exemplifying that is world wide which is that the dead are somehow co-present in the space of the living, but invisibly so. Except to those who have the gift of second sight or are magically empowered or shamanicall... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Evolving+Times |
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Riding the Range with Marshall McLuhan
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Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California
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Surfing on Finnegans Wake
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The Books at the Wake, James S. Atherton points out,... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Surfing+on+Finnegans+Wake |
1ef1a407ac28-1 | McLuhan. "Guten Morg with his cromagnon charter" expounds by mythic gloss the fact that that writing meant the emergence of the caveman or sacral man from the audible world of simultaneous resonance into the profane world of daylight. The reference to the masons is to the world of the bricklayer as a type of speech its... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Surfing+on+Finnegans+Wake |
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Psychedelic Skepticism
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Whole Life Expo, Austin, TX
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Luc Sala 'on Drugs' Interview
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Entheobotany Seminar, Palenque, Mexico
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The Evolutionary Importance of Technology
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A Better World (Toward The End Of History)
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Poets and Prophesiers
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9 May 1996
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4724f4bc21c7-1 | Uh, that's actually not my bailiwick. I have been keeping track of, of weird and novel events over the past 60, 70 days, and uh, just some highlights off the top of my head, uh 40, 40 billion new galaxies discovered, uh, three extra s- uh, solar planets discovered, that means planets around other stars, uh, the complet... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Poets+and+Prophesiers |
4724f4bc21c7-2 | PB: Now you're on this tour around the United States and I did get one of your brochures. I want you to tell the audience about what you're hoping to um, be able to bring people to on this all- um, 2-day weekend. Sounds like it could be kind of an intense time.
TM: Well I'm very concerned to communicate these mathemat... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Poets+and+Prophesiers |
4724f4bc21c7-3 | PB: Wadsworth.
TM: Wadsworth auditorium ordered UCLA which leases this building from the VA to cancel the event uh, just for, just Monday morning. So this has suddenly raised a whole bunch of free speech and advocacy issues. Uh, the VA's only reason for canceling Wadsworth Auditorium was my record on advocating uh, dr... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Poets+and+Prophesiers |
4724f4bc21c7-4 | TM: Yes, the weekend event is not affected by this, but the large uh, the, the chance to talk to the public at less than uh, a fair chunk of money is definitely being squeezed by someone at the VA who is being protected by the uh, events department at UCLA. They refuse to identify this person uh, so we've gone several ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Poets+and+Prophesiers |
4724f4bc21c7-5 | http://www.levity
L-E-V-I-T-Y . C-O-M slash eschaton, E-S-C-H-A-T-O-N slash. And that's really my fantasy, to live out in Hawaii with high technology in the rainforest and uh, build a kind of cigar store indian version of myself and my ideas that people can relate to and wander around in and leave comments and we're ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Poets+and+Prophesiers |
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Live at St. John the Divine's Cathedral, Synod Hall
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Poolside Interview
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Interviewer: Do you think, from your experience with Ayahuasca... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Poolside+Interview |
989731ab824e-1 | I: Mmm. Mushrooms have this kind of
I: ..effect, too.
I: It's a kind of psychosomatic effect.
I: Psychosomatic. Have you perceived in the effect of them, uh, some kind of therapeutical properties in some event, some, some effective systematically...
I: What?
I: Yeah, yeah.
I: What do you think about the paranorma... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/Poolside+Interview |
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The Winter King (aka Shamanism, Alchemy, and the 20th Century)
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Mannheim, Germany
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I was here about five years ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Winter+King+%28aka+Shamanism%2C+Alchemy%2C+and+the+20th+Century%29 |
5a9af72b8884-1 | What I’m in Europe to do is to be part of a film-making effort and I want to describe the project to you a little bit simply because it’s what’s on my mind, naturally, and to discuss the politics behind the making of this kind of a film. It’s not a film about rave culture. It’s not a film about Albert Hoffmann. It’s no... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Winter+King+%28aka+Shamanism%2C+Alchemy%2C+and+the+20th+Century%29 |
5a9af72b8884-2 | So just to lay in the background of those who are not familiar with the historical incident that we’re here to recreate, here and later in Prague, has to do with Prince Palatine of Heidelberg. A protestant who wedded the granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth the 1st of England, Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James the 1s... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Winter+King+%28aka+Shamanism%2C+Alchemy%2C+and+the+20th+Century%29 |
5a9af72b8884-3 | The ending of the story is not a happy ending, or perhaps it is, and we can talk about that. On a superficial level, this alchemical dream, this Rosicrucian Enlightenment, ended badly because the Habsburgs back in Madrid quickly got wind of what was going on and got an army together and sent it to Prague, laid siege to... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Winter+King+%28aka+Shamanism%2C+Alchemy%2C+and+the+20th+Century%29 |
5a9af72b8884-4 | It’s the tradition that Nature is a great distillery of complexity: alchemical gold, novelty, and connection, whatever you want to call it. In our own time, through integrative sciences, like ecology, animal behavior and psychology, we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reductionist centuries of modern sc... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Winter+King+%28aka+Shamanism%2C+Alchemy%2C+and+the+20th+Century%29 |
5a9af72b8884-5 | All being is pregnant with language. All reality wants to include the human side of nature in its ongoing intent. The problem lies not with nature, but with ourselves. We believe that we are somehow paralyzed, disempowered, doubting, or cut from the meat of the thing.
Well, so, I’m a great believer in propaganda, obvi... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Winter+King+%28aka+Shamanism%2C+Alchemy%2C+and+the+20th+Century%29 |
5a9af72b8884-6 | To merely gaze upon the images of alchemy is to, in a sense, enter into a kind of psychoanalytical process because what alchemy was, and I should stress this or the rap makes no sense at all - alchemy was not the vulgar pursuit of the transmutation of lesser metals into gold or silver. That was the charlatan’s game pla... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Winter+King+%28aka+Shamanism%2C+Alchemy%2C+and+the+20th+Century%29 |
5a9af72b8884-7 | It is not chemistry and it is not myth building per se, as we inherit from the Greeks. It is a very complicated amalgamation, a good alchemical word, of psyche and matter. The reason, I think, it is so resonant with our own times is because our generation and generations of people confined with twentieth century, have ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Winter+King+%28aka+Shamanism%2C+Alchemy%2C+and+the+20th+Century%29 |
5a9af72b8884-8 | The Jivaro shaman, the Cubeo shaman, does not use a glass retort with cycling sulfur and mercury inside it. The shamans of the Amazon have obtained a sufficient sophistication to explicitly understand that the vessel of alchemical transformation is the body and the head of the experient. This is the alchemical vessel! ... | https://www.asktmk.com//talks/The+Winter+King+%28aka+Shamanism%2C+Alchemy%2C+and+the+20th+Century%29 |
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