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...discuss them like sculpture and painting. And they say to the Shaman “i like the part [2:48:00] with the gray bars and the blue speckling. But whe...

... me want to take hold of that energy. Somebody else it might've... ...i like really clear hallucinations, that are somewhat distant from me. What ...

...other words, the- after the shaman stop singing, you hear people say “i liked the part with the orange spots, but I thought the olive drab magenta...

...l, where is this coming from? And what is happening? And this is what i like to discuss with people such as yourselves who have wide experience in...

...ermetically. There is present in the world at the moment, or at least i like to think so, an impulse which I have named the Archaic Revival. What ...

...nge your life forever? You bet, you'll never be the same. The analogy i like to make is to sexuality because the idea of someone going from birth ...

...the term compressionism. I've just sort of begun to think about this. i like it because i like impressionism, abstract realism, i like it because ...

...the psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, means simply “mind-manifesting,” and i like that because it is phenomenologically neutral. Some people have tried...

...re malleable and plastic thing. (Commentary) “In astrology, something i like is that the symbol for Pisces is a symbol with 2 lines and a line goi...

..., but I’m telling you I think this is what’s going on. Uh, the reason i like this story is because uh, it’s not a story about processes out of con...

...ow for most people to commute. One of the dilemmas of my own life is, i like being a player in the culture and i like having people read my books ...

...e:Can you hear? Audience:Yes. Terence:Everybody can hear? Good. Well, i like to lead with good news, so, uh, let me assure that at no point this e...

..., well this whole thing is my theory, but here is the part of it that i like the best: All primates, all primates, have what are called dominance ...

...e, you know, it's a free enough field. You can say anything you want. i like the idea that the brain is an antenna; not a storage device and that ...

...r eyes or sitting up and closing your eyes a lot, I do that a lot and i like it. But I-I would never confuse it with the psychedelic enterprise. Q...

...ant for Islam and capitalism. It’s all in the past but very dramatic. i like talking about my chaotic notion of time because it seems to me that t...

... that I think is best about the thing I do, or one of the things that i like best about what I do is provide an excuse for the psychedelic communi...

... floor of the room. The transcendental object at the end of time, and i like that image because, uh, alchemists- alchemists used to talk about wha...

...hat good is it?" Um, so here's a fantasy scenario which, for a while, i liked very much. It’s that quantum physics and nanotechnology, and all thi...

...arly interested in that because I'm afraid of it I'm uh I'm a watcher i like to look i like to get very close to it and watch it but I'm not into ...

... zero date. And then you search the best fit. And the way I use it is i like to go to the scale where there is 19 years on the screen or I mean 3 ...

...me, it'll be years before it's cooled down enough to do it there. And i like the idea of doing in Hawaii. It, the Amazon is so difficult an enviro...

...c sects. All of these people, all of these viewpoints were repressed. i like to think that the end of that repression came in a very odd way when ...

...ts, uh, all of these people, all of these viewpoints, were repressed. i like to think that, uh, the end of that repression came in a very odd way ...

...he cultural functions that shamans performed in preliterate cultures. i like the plant hallucinogens. I think that a true symbiosis is happening t...

..., uh, uh, silenced in the Western mind for at least a thousand years. i like to think that, uh, when these Franciscans and Dominicans arrived in M...

...o I think it's more of a hopeful direction. My, my... The happy story i like to tell myself about the internet is someone in some tiny village up ...

...e black hole at the center of the galaxy. Maybe we want these things. i like the idea of the human family, whatever its individual expressions and...

.... And in those intervals, you hear people say things like, you know, “i liked the violet and yellow part, but I thought the olive drab with the si...

...e. uh, I think of this uh course as plants and mind" and, uh, the way i like to teach is to just begin to lay out the basic pieces of what is a ve...

...c abuse your parents laid on you, so forth and so on. The model which i like is a geometric model and says simply that since the rise of the Greek...

...decipherable] Well, I don’t know. I mean, I think that love…the thing i like about this three-one thing is that it’s inherently kind of unstable. ...

...ifts of perspective and people have vehemently argued, uh, both ways. i like the idea of taking the body with you into cyberspace and creating a v...

... So it was exactly the same pattern before drugs appeared in my life. i like to do things by myself, a lot. Cannabis for me was really a turning p...

...And I don't see history entirely as a pathology. I see it - the story i like, which seems to me to illuminate the situation, is the story of the p...

...r: Oh, oh yes? [To Terence] You like bohemian mushroom soup? Terence: i like mushroom. Waiter: Let me sprinkle, liberally, some water on your chal...

... when someone would sing a song and then, uh, everyone would say well i like the part with the blue stripes and the yellow dots but I didn't like ...

... the stars. It’s a wonderful stuff, electricity. You know, for, uh, I-i like to talk about it, because for thousands of years, electricity was thi...

...ctive unconscious. But in a way, though I’m more sympathetic to Jung, i like the phrase superego because the phrase "collective unconscious" is a ...

...blematic, because I'm in favor of taking psychedelics into adulthood. i like the drugs, but there's something about the way in which you argue for...

...h suggested the future is already, is pulling us towards it. I l- and i like that [TM: Right.] , and you talked about 12-12 as a step over point. ...

...ess at the base of the rest of it and say that it’s the seat. TM: But i like to think of it not so much as a diffuse field but actually more along...

...on Wasson went, in the 1950s and found it there. And, I--the metaphor i like, uh, for that, another metaphor; you see, you balance these explanati...