Ask Terence McKenna

...t point had been dismissed as a naive effort to turn base metals into gold — this is the first fiction that you have to absolutely purge from yo...

...his partnership, society.. Ahh.. but it would still..I think the real golden age of mushroom use was probably from about thirty thousand (30,000...

... discovered fire for the second time. The imagination is the, uh, the golden pathway to everywhere, and when we cease to try and cross to the st...

...vered with trackless jungles and temperate forests and people clad in gold practicing strange religions and enormous trading. It was an alien ci...

...s is actually being hardwired as an artifact. We're pouring glass and gold and silicon down the micro-tubules of the racial imagination and as i...

...t done, then the experiment fails. Blake talks about falling from the golden spire into eternal death. This is a real possibility. This is the r...

..., was one of those poets who died in the trenches of World War I, the golden generation, and uh he wrote a poem called “Meaning's Edge”. And he ...

...y murky. DNA was decoded in 1950. The molecular geneticist promised a golden age shortly to follow and it’s 40 years later, and they still don’t...

...obsession of unbalanced minds interested in changing base metals into gold; lead into the stuff of commerce. This is the beknighted reputation t...

...actically speaking, are almost never meddled with? The world price of gold, the rate of petroleum extraction and other base natural resources: h...

...ef about alchemists, that they were concerned with changing lead into gold — of course that wasn’t what it was about, but there were plenty of c...

...tradition that Nature is a great distillery of complexity: alchemical gold, novelty, and connection, whatever you want to call it. In our own ti...

... redemption of mankind was that there were four ages – I can remember gold, silver, iron and clay, I think – and so this idea of the recirculati...

... and it ends as, you know, structural engineering on the scale of the golden Gate Bridge or something like that. Language. Language, then, sets ...

...equivalent of, uh, fourteen thousand dollars, thirteen- three hundred gold ducats, which is an enormous amount of money to pay for something lik...

...ctually almost do anything. And so you know, you wanna change lead to gold, you want to create life, you wanna store information in crystals, al...

...story, and out of this misfortune, out of this experience we can come gold. If we return to the fold of the ancestors, if we can, somehow, take ...

...an beings. This technology that they possess of these objects made of gold and emerald and chalcedny [?? -INSERT TIME] and agate that are morphi...

...m was in control of the Congo and exporting huge amounts of ivory and gold out of Africa, entrepreneurs seized upon this plant, Tabernanthe ibog...

...s in art, fashion, and literature, have been living in this kind of a goldfish bowl ever since. I mean, really, it's astonishing the degree to w...

... sense — they all went off and became very weird together, with their golden Mercedes and their Picasso ceramics and all that. The freaks all we...

...ndid palace, and imagine the common utensils of your everyday life as golden vessels, vessels of beaten gold encrusted with jewels. Imagine your...

...t noticed that these machines are made of the Earth? They are made of gold and silver and arsenic and copper and iridium. They are the stuff of ...

...at are these machines made of? Well, glass, crystal, arsenic, copper, gold all these things, and they’re being hooked together exactly on the mo...

...there are no cities like this, but the lesser lights -- to gather the gold. But, I have this sense now of palpable acceleration, and it has, uh,...

...hut, and it’s pouring rain, and I had scored this kilo of Santa Marta gold for the expedition, and we had smoked nothing of this – for Colombia,...

...is already under uh computer control. For instance the world price of gold in London computers look at the economic performance around the world...

... as worker in that laboratory to find a way, to reflux the alchemical gold. The only experience which counts is your own experience. Everything ...

...rticularly because this is the city of, uh, the graven images, not in gold and stone, but in film and light. This is the meme engine of the west...

...ch as you and I are made out of, there were no atoms such as lead and gold and water are made out of. There was only a pure plasma of electrons....

...o ring the air in front of you like a wash cloth and get out chemical gold to drip out of the air and to begin to condense in front of you well ...

...ated circuits, chips and, uh, electronic components which are made of gold, platinum, arsenic, silver, copper, silicon. These are all the materi...

... felt like this in the Crawford Market in Bombay when I had a kilo of gold in my pocket and I was trying to trade it for hashish, and I was surr...

..., uh, seeing language? Well, this is to my mind, you know, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow of the psychedelic experience. These experi...

... you know, you’re at the church at Santa Maggiore and seeing all this gold work and all this stuff. And then you can say, "Surprise me." So, wha...

...rake's morphogenetic field theory. Machines are made of metal, glass, gold, silicon, plastic;they are made of what the earth is made of. Now wou...

...t going to be a friendly, elfin little feller with a beating heart of gold. It isn't even going to be some of the more extravagantly grotesque c...

..., uh, that's where the mystery, the transcendental object, the pot of gold at the end of rainbow is waiting and I think that’s the job of each o...

...ems. The first thing to notice is that we could pave the streets with gold if we would just eliminate defense spending. In other words, our limi...