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...rds, it’s very clear from an evolutionary point of view that our, our body and our sensory preceptors are organized in such a way as to protect ...

...isappointing or unhelpful but usually then I can point you toward somebody else or some source. The first thing this afternoon is that I’ll brin...

...delic get-togethers, uh, however marginal and contrived, is that everybody gets to see who else is in the community. Most of the time we’re fair...

... the history of magic. For example, and I hope this doesn’t bring somebody rising out of their chair in an air-clawing rave: Rosicrucianism rest...

...an being; and these technologies are all rushing upon us. I mean, the body is being dissolved as much by advanced medical technology as it is by...

...ou can see wonderful things if you look carefully and don’t bother anybody else that might be under there. Um, the question I’ve been asking of ...

...tion that mass psychology seems to be taking. And since I assume everybody here is a shaper of this mass psychology in the extremely powerful me...

...ay it was not ever anchored in anything. It was never explained to anybody by anybody how it fit into the historical context of what had precede...

...e. In other words, monoamine oxidase, uh, is the enzyme system in the body which degrades monoamines, which would be serotonin, but also any int...

...d all times and places, only one person every touched the incorporeal body of God. Thomas the doubter touched because he doubted. It was not nec...

...s is when the deep REM dreaming is going on. When you give DMT to somebody – as an index of how loaded they are – what you look at is, with them...

...here the hard bodied, sharp fanged males – young males – arrange everybody else to suit themselves; the elderly, the sexually available females,...

...he idea that there are occult or hyperdimensional organs of the human body, specifically the human mind. The human mind is like a fourth-dimensi...

...& Kegan Paul. I wouldn’t hold a weekend like this simply to go over a body of ancient literature if I didn’t think it had some efficacy or impor...

... of the millennium, which we will experience according to nearly everybody -- or at least everybody who keeps or cares about the Western calenda...

...tion Sheet [0:00:00] Terence:Can you hear? Audience:Yes. Terence:Everybody can hear? Good. Well, I like to lead with good news, so, uh, let me a...

...run" and then I think it was Whitehead who said, "yes, but within the body they blindly run according to the body's plan". You see, what, what I...

...because, otherwise, you get a cycle started that’s going to shove somebody over the cliff and that somebody, in the present, case is either ours...

...uld have called it is Eros and the Eschaton, What Science Forgot. Somebody asked me recently is there any permission to hope? More specifically,...

...to me, or suspect - let’s put it that way. I don’t want to trod on anybody’s arrangement. [Audience laughs] So then -- here then is where I was ...

... is a tremendously naïve position, because what it says is the animal body that you inhabit, the eyes you look through, the fingers you feel thr...

...in clare mont addressing the jung society before we get into the main body of all this i will personally introduce myself to some of those who m...

... would be able to look at the painting, folklore and sculpture of somebody on this planet and find a trace, and it seemed as though this defeate...

... for language. They are, as it were, an enzyme operating in the human body politic propelling us to what's called 'stretch the envelope', stretc...

...mysticism. And then I would read about what John of the Cross, or somebody else had got hold of, and then I would try for it, and I don't recall...

...rds the archaic, toward the primitive. Everything from Freudianism to body piercing, from quantum physics to abstract expressionism, from Dada t...

...ll, but what’s actually happening, is that, for the first time in somebody’s life or experience, they are meeting the resident meaning in realit...

...er thing, it’s very important to the what I understand that, um, everybody else understands, there is nothing special about it, or me. In other ...

..., that death is in fact, uh-- well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, uh, 'the body is the placenta of the soul', and this fact has not yet been assimila...

... you all for turning out on a rainy night. Before I get into the main body of tonight's entertainment, I want to call your attention to the prop...

...out something. I mean, so what is this book about? Well, as far as anybody can tell, it appears to be about someone named, uh – well they have h...

...derstand what’s said, at least you have the satisfaction of knowing nobody talked down to you, right? [audience laughter] Okay, it’s very hard t...

...ies of various sorts and that kind of thing, prosthesis for the human body. I’m very keen on the sort of under the table effects of these things...

...stence. That it’s working. Just don’t drop the ball. Don’t jinx it. Nobody say too much. But it’s turning. I can feel it. It’s like turning a ba...

...o a kind of, uh, Frankenstein’s monster at best. A toxic force in the body of the Gaian world soul at worst. And I believe that our origin and o...

...ct to mutagenic influence because testing in the diet is bringing the body in contact with all kinds of toxic compounds—tumor producing compound...

...vered in felt and keeps the lights very low. He collects Redon when nobody had ever heard of Redon. He buys turtles and has jewels affixed to th...

... kind of technical evolution would be, uh, the interiorization of the body - the human body, the individual body - and the exteriorization of th...

...9 and the bulletin of astrophysics on the 12th broke the news to everybody who wasn't following it on email or something and they called it a on...

...en it will be over, and then I’ll go down to the bookstore, and if anybody needs to speak to me or--or have a book signed, please, uh, please co...

...I think that the, the missing link in evolution is probably food. Somebody once accused me of trying to recover the lost history of mankind and ...

... they do not generate huge uh criminal syndicates. They don't make anybody very much money. But they certainly attract a great deal of media att...

... it seems very clear that business as usual is no longer an option. Nobody’s talking about that. So, we’re either in some kind of final fatal me...

... to this and that I have sort of, I guess, insisted upon more than anybody else, is that it triggers phenomena having to do with the language ce...

...gia for the archaic, nostalgia for the paleolithic, and that gives us body piercing, abstract expressionism, surrealism, jazz, rock-n-roll and c...

...-- and it would be a tragedy because it is a horse race. Don’t let anybody kid you. It’s not that the good guys are miles and miles behind and s...

...f how something was taken from us. Something was lost and, uh, it’s nobody’s fault exactly. I mean, it really has to do with the processes of th...

...d by the gross uh, attributes that are being reflected upon it by the body. And uh, the notion was that they were actually observing a fact in n...

...ptian, and so on, one finds repeatedly the idea that there is a light body, an entelechy that is somehow mixed up with the body during life and ...

...an is that rather than the rippling of plumage or the rubbing of hard body parts against each other, since we don't have any hard body parts to ...

... act of taking that idea to ourselves, we give everything away to somebody else and to something else. So the rebirth of the sense of the stone ...

...an be ordered. That's all. That feel like a good introduction to everybody? TM: Yeah, that sounds fine. EG: Ok, here we go. TM: Ok. Q: Maybe I'l...

... [audience laughter] pawing the ground to talk to you, as usual. Everybody has their own [???] Uh, I guess the title of tonight’s talk is Linear...

...ion. A painter like Alex Grey creates a permission to image the human body simultaneously as a biological system, an energy system, a system of ...

...letters, which had been published, which I did. It was Gnosis, or somebody. Anyway, it brought back to me, he was a convert to Catholicism and a...

...ywhere, and in spite of the tiny lip service we give to shamanism and body painting, the truth of the matter is Amazon cultures are not really, ...

...portant that I claim that it's an extraterrestrial, what we need is a body of people claiming this, or a body of people denying it, because what...

... indulged in in the tropical rainforest, at high temperatures, why anybody lived to tell the tale with a medical practice like that is a miracle...

...nfirmed it to some degree with other people, but I was talking to somebody the other day, somebody who had just done it, and I said, "what did y...

...l drug experience. But did you know that yours is different from everybody else's, and these things range from, you know, mild tingling in the f...

...a and, uh, it’s very, very lively. It has a huge letter section. Everybody you know seems to write one letter per issue in and, uh, for instance...

...amounts of, uh, radiation of various sorts that are conveyed into the body by the senses are restricted. And, instead we see interior images, in...

...s, they needn’t have worried, because, and I don’t want to step on anybody’s toes, but look, I’m paid to be controversial, you understand? They ...

... would be important to come out of any evening like this is that everybody take a good look at the people next to them and realize that somebody...

...e taken apart and shown to be something else, many other things and nobody is saying this. I mean these physicists are just as sober as can be a...

...e arrival of a money economy is taking place, yet these people have a body of medical data that has served them very well over thousands of year...

...e say something about mathematics. The very word elicits fear in everybody. For more than thirty years now I've had consultations with people wh...

... hard to say too much about it. So, tonight, to indulge myself and anybody else who has a particular interest in this aspect of it, I want to sa...

...ing in The Invisible Landscape was that there are powers in the human body or avenues of understanding that have not been followed because of ep...

...culture. It’s not a film about Albert Hoffmann. It’s not a film about body piercing or any of these things that great films need to be done abou...

...p. Ram: but I'm telling you about someone like a Romano Maharishi somebody like that Terence: oh, these people? Ram: you know? I mean there are ...

...an mindset is completely tip-saving [sp?] on overseas traveling, everybody works like a dog, ten or eleven months of the year, and then they go ...

...acterize this union of opposites is to say it is that realm where the body is finally interiorized, the mind is finally exteriorized. The way I ...

...our bodies--this is the cultural metaphor that the self is inside the body--they experienced as outside the body and exterior from the ego and, ...

...t two or three dimensional, it is multi-dimensional, it is inside the body, it is outside the body. I came to see that nature, as experienced – ...

...ly, I think of it as the wisdom of biology. That which is in your own body, and in the environment, and in the much larger global environment. S...

...e are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together. This is true as a matter of fact, and ...

...shamanic heroes. They control a force, which is, uh, bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together, and this is true, as a matter of fact....

...untains of Mexico was nothing less than Eros, sleeping but alive, the body of Osiris preserved over an entire astrological age, metaphorically s...

...e moment a hexagram appropriate to that moment and then to refer to a body of interpretation that illuminates that. PO: Terence, you’re the one ...

...he abyss the abyss of living language that pours from the pscyhedelic body the psychedelic body is the earth turned inside out it's river's rama...

...i diet, diet is uh an input of potentially mutigenic factors into the body that can have eormous consiquences on the health of the individual......

...old and reveal and conceal very, uh, rapidly different parts of their body. So they're capable of a visual dance of communication that is an ext...

... environment introduces a vast number of mutagenic compounds into the body- into the bodies of these animals. Not only psychoactive compounds bu...

...- vivors of that challenge. BD: When you go jogging and suddenly your body runs out of oxygen, the cells in your muscles switch back to the old ...

...delics do is they bring one to focus on the union of the mind and the body. They do not give philosophical closure. They in fact present you wit...