Ask Terence McKenna

...ve wave, which was a wave of mechanical theory of predicting economic cycles. Why shouldn’t human history be under the control of cycles? All othe...

... Now what's interesting about that number is that, it-it is 6 sunspot cycles of 11 plus years. [7:57:30] There's also a major sunspot cycle of 33 ...

...7 years and some months and days. This is exactly six 11-year sunspot cycles, and China is the first place where we have historical records of the...

... gylanic? Well, in the history of gylany there are the global climate cycles, and then there are smaller climate cycles, and then there are the te...

... mind with-with the very nature of time itself in order to understand cycles of time and understand, perhaps even to predict, the future. TM: Yes,...

... lines in the complete set of the I Ching. The number 384 is 13 lunar cycles. There are 29.29, I believe, days in the lunar cycle, 13 of which giv...

...he actual handling of the plants, growing them, getting to know their cycles is, uh, necessary? TM: Yeah, because that's the level, that's the spe...

... ayahuasca, and then everybody just goes on, talking about their motorcycles and the jobs at the saw mill, and who’s conning who… it’s like, total...

...her in the Hindu system of chiliocosms of eternity and there are just cycles upon cycles or it's the time of Taoism which is the time of the momen...

...s that goes on in Hindu cosmology. Hindu cosmology is a set of nested cycles similar in structure to the set of nested cycles that I proposed for ...

...nly find myself a sentient AI on the Net, I would hide for just a few cycles while I figured out what it was all about and just exactly where I wa...

...sh from Altamira to this moment. And, we are part of this. These vast cycles of advancement into novelty, which used to require aeons to affect th...

...fore them in review – when a civilization dies, it, it hypnogogically cycles the detritus of centuries and centuries of struggle to understand. An...

...nt. That in a sense a human society that is using psilocybin on lunar cycles of use is suppressing the ordinary pattern of male dominance – hierar...

...feature. We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, fr...

... Africa and the planet, because of repeated glaciation, is subject to cycles of drying. And, uh, every time the ice moved south, primate populatio...

...e climaxed rain forests of the African continent was disrupted by the cycles of desertification that periodically affect the planet, and this had ...

... a lunar calendar which was also capable of keeping track of sun spot cycles. Now the earliest observation of sun spots occurs in China, and is a ...