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...nce. By this time I was in southern California going to school, and a friend of mine and I would go out into the Mojave desert and grind up low do...

... as the moment of human emergence; and since i feel pretty much among friends and fringy here.[audience laughter]..I.. it doesn’t trouble me to co...

... dot the I’s and cross the T’s according to the way one's critics and friends think it should be done. And so what this means is somehow the imagi...

...nge in this venue, but perhaps not: the idea that ideology is not our friend. It is not a matter of choosing from a smorgasbord of ideologies and ...

...he crumpling of a plastic bread wrapper, or the crackling of flame. A friend of mine says ‘this is the radio entelechy of your soul exiting throug...

...eology, beliefs, and then in the broader context, culture, is not our friend, culture is not your friend, ideology is not your friend, uh, an open...

...hat straight you can go back to getting high, staying tight with your friends, making love, growing your garden and appreciating the felt presence...

... way of saying "ideology is bankrupt" -- [it] is, Culture Is Not Your friend. Culture is not your friend, no matter what your culture is. And this...

...eless, the spirit of the thing can be worked out between you and your friends in any of a number of ways, and all of these arrangements which brea...

...ed, Kratom, Kra-tom, and uh, it said it was illegal in Thailand. Well friends, Thailand is the source of one third of the world's heroin. It is, u...

...good fortune of spending a few days with Terence McKenna, and his girlfriend Christie Silness, in their jungle home on the island of Hawai'i in No...

...ogical progress we have somehow created tech- nologies which are very friendly to our social values in that these technologies can be bought, sold...

...l people in remote parts of the world, the cosmic giggle becomes your friend. But in fact, ordinary people’s lives, everyone’s lives are touched b...

...hinking human beings… Yeah, Julian Haines, it didn’t win him too many friends, but he wrote a big book and had this theory that this thing which w...

... as a plot run by a closely knit group of insiders, yourself and your friends of course. I mean, if you don’t believe that you have a loser’s scen...

... language issue on psychedelics about 22 years ago when one evening a friend of mine stopped by and he had a little vial of an orange substance an...

...y it overwhelms you. This isn’t like that. This is like: you and your friends are somewhere, there’s talk about this drug, the pipe gets filled, y...

...[Introduction of Timothy Leary]: He's an old friend of all of ours, so, I'd like you all to welcome, uh, Timothy Leary [audience applause and chee...

... of coming upon jung very young i was about 15 when a very precotious friend of mine brought psychology and alchemy in the karuahbane translation ...

...these trips raises all of the issues. I first took DMT in 1965, and a friend of mind came to me with this substance--how many of you have smoked D...

... same kind of message. This gets to the teacher part. The, the, um- a friend of ours, Eduardo Luna, interviewed a number of shamans in the uh, jun...

...and artifactria, and especially in the form of ideologies, is not the friend of the life-prolonged, postmodern individual. Culture is not your fri...

...hnology, propaganda experiment, and so forth and so on, because their friends and relatives had already written them off [audience laughter] as co...

...described those experiments to me, he said, “and so you see, my young friend, here we have a case where the use of drugs actually introduces us to...

... of bread wrapper or cellophane being scrunched up and thrown away. A friend of mine says this is radio-entelechy leaving the anterior fontanelle ...

... culture. Pulp literature, uh, cults, uh, un-sanctioned gatherings of friends, Rock & Roll - all of these areas where the emotional content of the...

...erally, pulled to pieces, beyond the point of reconstructing. I had a friend, I'm not sure that this is germane, but I had a friend back in the 60...

...n get this right, but I was quoting last night John Stewart Mill to a friend of mine. John Stewart Mill said, “Not all conservative people are stu...

...e office of the Holy Roman Empire. They would do this with an Emperor friendly to magic and alchemy, and who was the inheritor of a generation old...

...awyer is a reference to Tom Sawyer because Tom Sawyer was Huck Finn’s friend. Huck Finn is Finn in America. There is a huge amount of Mark Twain t...

...ll if you've got 5 minutes to invest in this proposition, my cheerful friend? Because if you do, have I got news for you! It also seems to me, you...

..., sir. You are not the famous Terence mushroom McKenna that is you my friend TM: It is… Ram: That's him Waiter: oh, how wonderful! Yes, uh, please...

...y very concerned about your mental condition, and if you aren’t, your friends are, because what you’re saying at this point is, the rivers talk to...

...ng in the time that we've been at this. But today we have my old, old friend and dear colleague, Professor Ralph Abraham of the University of Cali...

...rient our own healthcare delivery systems to be more effective. Uh, a friend of ours, an anthropologist who lives in Finland, uh Luis Luna, who sh...

... had never heard of this until about a year and a half ago, and uh, a friend of mine, Ralph Abraham, who's a mathematician at Santa Cruz, began pu...

... think about these things constantly. My life is mostly questions. My friend Rupert Sheldrake, who some of you know his books, he and I have talke...

...t it would bring and making it a general utility of mankind. I have a friend who claims that the summoning of the Holy Spirit into matter can be s...

...ion I come away with from all of this is that culture, uh, is not our friend. Culture is a provisional form of infantilism, in the same way that y...

...oticed and my attention was called to it by philip devoshalay whose a friend of mine.... cows have very little interest in the habits of chip munk...

...T. It was sort of a benchmark you might say, and I remember that this friend of mine that always got there first visited me with this little glass...

...bout South America? TM: Oh, yes. I accept all ordinary dates. I am no friend of Atlantis. Q: Unlike Thor Heyerdahl? TM: What I've done here this e...

...isn't strange and it doesn't mean that people don't become alarmed. A friend of mine recently thought he was having a heart attack, and, uh, after...

...ná is, uh, contains DMT and is blown up the nostrils by a cooperative friend and induces an intense state of hallucinogenesis. Yes, that was, I th...

...r us to be? TM: Let me see, well, I think that this object that--as a friend of mine said, uh, "history is the shockwave of eschatology." In other...