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103 total mentions.
37 talks with query:
"goddess"
(0.20 seconds)


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Psychedelics and the Chaos Revolution

..., and by a certain religion which covered the entire planet. It was a goddess religion; sometimes the triple-headed goddess, the goddess trinity; s...

1989 13
The Rites Of Spring

...ions, that they would have to explore the mind of the vegetable plant goddess who was the only force contending with them for control of the planet...

1986 9
Search For The Original Tree Of Knowledge

...s is what all the hooflah about the Gaian mind and the rebirth of the goddess and all that is about. It's not a metaphor [42:30] folks, it's a head...

1992 8
aka The Psychedelic Option

...tyle, the shamanic style of the nomadic hunter-gatherer is a style of goddess worship and, uh, psychedelic shamanism and orgiastic religion. There ...

1990 7
aka Psychedelics and the Feminine

...tion of cattle became a major concern of human beings. Uh, this great goddess, uh, religion that was worldwide in prehistory is inevitably, uh, a c...

1989 7
aka The Psychedelic 'Religious' Agenda

...tanding armies, urban concentrations, canonized law, suppression of a goddess religion in favor of a religion of male warrior figures, the age of G...

1993 4
Mind & Time, Spirit & Matter

...g about returning to the era of Isis, Assarte [sp?], the great horned goddess of the high Paleolithic. In other words, this program of material civ...

1991 4
Ethnobotany and Shamanism - Psychedelics Before and After History

...s agenda in the last, uh, 15 years or so. But this enthusiasm for the goddess, this enthusiasm for the seamless web of life, has not yet clarified ...

1988 4
Evolving Times

..., we were breeders and, and caretakers of katle, we worshiped a great goddess, we followed a yearly round in a vast grassland cut by crystal stream...

1995 3
Conversations on the Edge of Magic

... us to have to compromise our sensuality, our connection to the Gaian goddess, our polymorphic sexuality. All of these things have been poured into...

1994 3
Camden Centre Talk

... great lunar orgiastic ceremonies that accompanied the worship of the goddess -- that all was suppressed and we marched off into history, a nightma...

1992 3
Hallucinogens & Culture

...-awareness. This may lie behind the very early coincidence of cattle, goddesses, and mushrooms in the apparent obsessions of early man as reflected...

1988 3
Ethnobotany of Shamanism

...ws opium diadems and opium poppies being used as ornaments by various goddesses, so it was understood that it was psychoactive. Audience: Robert Gr...

1988 3
Lectures on Alchemy

...e place and it seems to be well in hand in the form of the revival of goddess worship and shamanism and partnership, but notice that these things a...

1998 2
Rap Dancing Into the Third Millenium

.... This is where we belong. This is what ‘at play in the fields of the goddess’ must mean. And somehow history has made us dysfunctional, buried the...

1994 2
Mushrooms, Evolution and the Millenium

...d 1000 B.C. just at the time when the last mother religions, the last goddess religions were dying out. And, uh, on the Greek mainland, Mycenian[?]...

1991 2
Vision Plants - The Transpersonal Challenge

...forcing cycle of consciousness, language arose, religion arose of the goddess oriented variety, and the connection of the cow to the goddess is the...

1988 2
Aliens and Archetypes

...orce -- almost as though the UFO is a manifestation of Gaia as mother goddess. Science, as the proudest -- pardon the word -- erection of the ratio...

1988 2
aka Suggested Reading List

...wing by Kat on the cover and an article by me about mushrooms and the goddess. An article-it will be a psychedelic issue. Everything in it will be ...

1987 2
The Invisible Landscape (Peer Review)

...alogous if any of you are familiar with Robert Graves book “The White goddess” wherein a series of continuing revelation he grains, gains great ins...

1985 2
The Voynich Manuscript

...tion that Catharism is a religion of Isis, is a religion of the great goddess. Apparently he is alone in his belief, although A. E. Waite says in h...

1983 2
Posthumous Glory

... of art that can draw towards healing, and these images of the mother goddess as Madonna, and so forth and so on… I mean, these are very powerful c...

1999 1
Appreciating Imagination

...that there are only 5 stories. And I think Robert Grayes in the white goddess argued that there’s only one story, and we keep telling variants of t...

1997 1
A Better World (Toward The End Of History)

...un idea to play with, it sort of explains our nostalgia for a time of goddess worship, orgy, nomadism, all children and whatever minimal property t...

1996 1
Plants, Consciousness, and Transformation

...ay tyhat meat and milk and menuer were output of the cattle, a mother goddess religion a reli9gion,... conflict soforth and so on and. somehow then...

1995 1
Surfing on Finnegans Wake

...arnations because Anna Livia Plurabelle is the personification of the goddess river. The river runs past Eve and Adam’s and there is a church there...

1995 1
Mushrooms, Sex and Society

...re recent times, they were obviously institutionalized into a kind of goddess worshiping, cattle worshiping, orgiastic religion. PHF: Are you sugge...

1993 1
Alien Dreamtime

...ca 15,000 years ago rocked in the cradle of the Great Horned Mushroom goddess before history, before standing armies, before slavery and property, ...

1993 1
Taxonomy of Illusion

... social systems that we have ever lived under: the archaic, shamanic, goddess-worshipping world of the dawn-time, and history is a fall away from t...

1993 1
Imagination in the Light of Nature

...ic mushrooms, virtual reality, U.F.O.s, evolution, the rebirth of the goddess and the end of history. His numerous books include the recent Archaic...

1992 1
Address to the Jung Society

...nk of emephastising the pain of the death of this last outpost of the goddess religion because thats what it was it was a cultural inachronism whil...

1991 1
Touched by The Tremendum

...n Africa some 5,000 years before had created the opportunity for this goddess/mushroom/cattle kind of psychology to evolve. Now, these people were ...

1990 1
Terence McKenna Live in Maryland

...chaos we should know that this mere anarchy is the incarnation of our goddess, Discordia, who is going to pull down [audience cheering] the [??] st...

1990 1
The Gnostic Astronaut

...f primary poetic languages such as the one that goes on in 'The White goddess' by...by, uh, Robert Graves, where he wants to suggest that there is,...

1984 1
Shamanology

... of ursprache. You may be aware of, uh, Robert Graves' book The White goddess, where he talks about a perfect, poetic language that pre-dates histo...

1984 1
New Maps of Hyperspace

...thought to be writ in adamantine are actually merely the moods of the goddess, whose reflection we happen to be. The whole meaning of human history...

1984 1
Tryptamine Hallucinogens and Consciousness

...anguage of the sort that Robert Graves was talking about in The White goddess, or a Kabbalistic language of the sort that is described in the Zohar...

1982 1