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... cagey, and he- he was funny in fact, he said “Well you see it’s very interesting. Apparently here we have data which, uhm, argues significantly that w...

...es were totally inactive, in that hour of watching I did observe some interesting false positives that would come and go for a few minutes. Then a few ...

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...ly confirmed that this is precisely what's happening. And it's a very interesting comment on ethnomedicine, because unlike peyote or amanita muscaria o...

...wer. Well, a little bit of history about this Hermetic ideal. It’s an interesting story in the light of our discussion of time yesterday. Western civil...

...restaurants, national parks and museums that we visited, but far more interesting conversation could take place if I do psilocybin and you do mescaline...

...onscious, all rappelling around in these little swiss towns. and it's interesting to imagine conversations or meetings that might have taken place when...

...s, today Africa is noticeably poor in hallucinogenic plants. The most interesting hallucinogen in the African situation is Tabernanthe iboga. Tabernant...

...My hope for these kinds of retreats is that it will quickly become so interesting to everyone that the, uh, presentational form will transform itself i...

...lls to hold your ground with this stuff here. ED: That must have been interesting in the sense, that you were propagating the, the philosopher's stone ...

...drum was that, “God knows. man thinks.” Now this, I thought, was very interesting, because it seems to imply a relationship between the limited project...

...te for science. It’s too late for hortatory politics. Well, it’s very interesting, every ancient literature has its apok ́alupsis and in the Hermetic l...

...bin, and on DMT, but strangely on nothing else, that, uh, I find very interesting, is the whole problem of, uh, interiorized voices, relationships with...

...w or never tried. It's the unusual, the statistically improbable, the interesting. I maintain that Nature herself is a kind of distillery of novelty, t...

...piter, uh, in the third week of July of this year are extraordinarily interesting from all kinds of points of view. Are you all aware of what I'm talki...

...that's where we've concentrated. Well, usually questions are the most interesting, uh, how is this to be done? Are you going to have a microphone? Will...

...hese things or not. So then I was very pleased with that, well that’s interesting. So what happens if you take 67 years 104.25 days and multiply it by ...

...ble, therefore there’s something wrong with you.” Yes… So – Now, it’s interesting, and this is one of the points that’s dear to me – I mean, they arriv...

...m Blake said. He said, ‘attend the minute particulars.’ That’s what’s interesting, I think. The details of the distinction among things. That’s why I w...

...h, neurophysiological organization of these primates. One of the most interesting effects of psilocybin is that it seems to stimulate the language form...

...d never particularly been obsessed with, and I noticed something very interesting about it, which is: the King Wen sequence, which is the oldest sequen...

...gain today. Today we are again, if I may say so, going to have a very interesting show. Today we have Terence McKenna on with us and we’re very pleased...

...McKenna, in town for an event that sounds like it's going to be truly interesting. And, uh, lots to talk about with you, Terence, especially because yo...

...’s now a set piece, all of it. When I listen to Rock & Roll now, it’s interesting to me but it has the completeness of, uh, polyphony. You know, it’s a...

...ically unexpected twists and turns in all this. I recently met a very interesting person. He’s going to be my coauthor on this evolution book - Philipp...

...perior cerebral architecture to any other organism in nature. And the interesting thing about that architecture is that it sprang into being in the bli...

...Would you do away with marriage? How would you do it? Well, that’s an interesting question. Uh, certainly because -- I mean, in my own life, I’ve gone ...

...and on the front lawn of Buckingham Palace tomorrow, it would be less interesting than your next DMT trip -- to you -- because the DMT trip happens to ...

...ans in the basin. It is a combinatory drug, which makes it especially interesting to pharmacologists, because its two principal ingredients are themsel...

...ys a pleasure to speak for the Whole Life Expo, because they turn out interesting people, my own special brand of freaks, and then those who wander the...

... so totally through the cracks as McLuhan. The Gutenberg Galaxy, very interesting, I’m going to read from some of it tonight. It’s organized around cha...

...was common or do you have any theories about what happened? That’s an interesting question. It relates to some of the properties of DMT. I mentioned DM...

...rld, monogamy was traded in for an orgiastic social style. And what's interesting about orgy -- besides that -- is that in an orgiastic situation, men ...

...olve these kinds of communication are vast. So I think that it's very interesting then that the tryptamines, psilocybin and DMT, at the 15 milligram le...

..., you’ll recall he was a marxist who turned on marxism and led a very interesting intellectual life - he wrote a book thirty years ago called “The Ghos...

...I would talk a little bit and then I think these things are much more interesting for me if they’re interactive. And people bring all kinds of agendas ...

...d I called the lecture the taxonomy of illusion, because I think it's interesting to, uh, to attempt to classify and relate the various kinds of illusi...

... if I’ve got some notes here. I think I’ve covered everything. What’s interesting about this is, for the first time… In this article by Frank Tipler ca...

...hese kinds of communication are vast. So, I think, uh, that it's very interesting then that the tryptamines, psilocybin and DMT, at ,uh, the 15 milligr...

...f a screwball fringe when it's in this form, I think it represents an interesting developing folkway that we can learn from. So uh, what about it? It’s...

...locybin – it’s wonderful. Henry Munn. Then, harder to get but equally interesting, is a doctoral study that a guy named Horace Beach did at CIIS, and i...

...ed, uh, a number of conclusions about this, and I thought it would be interesting tonight- I guess because of my recent birthday or something, to sort ...

...pable of sustaining a space program. The time travel question is more interesting. Possibly the world is experiencing a compression of technological no...

...round what I'm saying a little bit, I recently ran across, uh, a very interesting, uh, analogy or metaphor that seemed useful to me, which was- it was ...

... wonder how many of these things there are. I mean breakdancing is an interesting example, albeit somewhat trivial, but it shows that after five, six, ...

...appened. So I should keep at this. Uh, uh, and I recently read a very interesting book called “A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History” by Michael [Manue...

...e that he’d been taking a lot of datura. And I said, “Oh, well that’s interesting. I took it. I don’t think I’ll be taking it again.” And as the conver...

... although I don't know that I'm promoting your promoting it. But it's interesting to hear what you have to say about it. I would like to know more spec...

...ely accelerating leaps the word has made its way into the world. It’s interesting that straight linguists and paleo-linguists believe human language is...

...rown in vats, and had very free sex and so forth and so on, it was an interesting book but then I started reading the author, Aldous Huxley, and I read...

... years without war, epidemic disease or forced migration. Now this is interesting. I don't advocate it. I simply think it's interesting that such a sim...

...y may have already done what they were to do. Terence: Really? That's interesting, I've never heard anyone say that. Ram: I think what is done is so mu...

...e person across the street who you like to watch won’t seem nearly so interesting anymore so be forewarned, you may not want to read this stuff and to ...

...th mentation, psychoactive compounds in the food chain. And it's very interesting that as human beings transform themselves into omnivorous, pack-hunti...

...inogens it's good to stick to the natural ones. And it also- and more interesting and kind of more, humm, philosophical case can be made if you accept ...

... of the cutting edge of the evolution of consciousness, and it's very interesting. A voice has been silent, and a voice that guided and revealed has be...

...elicit hallucination. But, what makes this tryptamine family of drugs interesting is the intensity of the hallucination and the concentration in the vi...

... can call, without defining, the other, the other. I read recently an interesting paper called 'the felt presence of the other in unusual environments'...

...r is that it’s all and everything. This question about the AI is very interesting to me, and if it’s interesting to you, you should read Hans Moravec a...

...t a culture at the edge of its technologies. And, to my mind the most interesting technologies of the Twentieth Century have all been communication tec...

...crum of itself. One of the first consequences of that, which is quite interesting, is that a funny thing happens to time. As we sit here talking, we’re...

...n use alchemical symbolism to guide this process, and that’s all very interesting but so what? What’s so great about it? Well - One of the most famous ...

... and tomorrow to try and address what seems to me one of the sensibly interesting questions to be asked of this world and that is, what is human consci...

...o on? Uh, every woman should bear only one natural child”. This is an interesting idea, whether you take it seriously as program or not. If every woman...

...ell are familiar with this metaphor of the hero's journey. And what's interesting is we have actually made that hero's journey. We are, all of us tonig...

...l and talking about it gets pretty technical. Uh, the thing that’s so interesting about psilocybin and DMT is that they’re so closely related to ordina...

... outbursts of creative brilliance on the cultural level. This is very interesting to me because this is, uh, the stuff called "novelty" that we talked ...

...ve it." Doubt in the face of the assertion, you see. But, there' s an interesting thing about intuition that I don’t think many people understand or ha...

...t have here to show you, I want to show you some of the newer or more interesting stuff in the field. This is a book that has not been widely distribut...

...dily falling away from it, then it’s not active any more and it’s not interesting. RA: Well, the incarnation of the spirit in a body or the association...

...e to talk with Terence McKenna. He has chosen a subject that has been interesting to him for quite a while, and, um, the title of this tape is "The Voy...

...and, uh, what is being said is that our alienation --and this word is interesting, 'alienation'-- our alienation from ourselves has caused us to set up...

...d machine environments that we have to operate in. And, uh, it’s very interesting how the reanimation of the world has been accomplished without ever u...

...ink the Jovian system is going to be where the action is. TM: So many interesting satellites and so much incredible electrodynamics and magnetodynamics...

... complaints with great interest. So the thing that I thought would be interesting to unpack a little this evening is what I call “the balkanization of ...

...e imagination. I find it very promising and very challenging and very interesting. I think that somehow the way back to the archaic, to the world of ec...

...arkness at the speed of light.’ It can be, it can be. So this is very interesting that apparently the way the universe works is upon a platform of prev...

...nds of pressures on them that will force them to outbreed the dull, uninteresting folks who don’t use mushrooms at this point. [audience laughs] Well, ...

... non-ordinary, or what I call visible language. And, uh, this is very interesting to me. This is where technology, uh, virtual reality, cybernetics, hu...

...nto. One of the -- this is sort of an aside on that -- but one of the interesting things about psychedelics and I now speak of the compounds themselves...

... basis in ancient Greece, but after the onset of Christianity, a very interesting bifurcation took place. There were a few centuries of a kind of gylan...

...wer over the next twenty-five years. MISHLOVE: You know, I think it's interesting that you mention Erich Jantsch. He wrote a book, I believe it was cal...

...f genetic material. Q [Same]: I'd never heard that and I find it very interesting! [Laughter] TM: Well, it turns out, when you start...I- I don't want ...

...ge of a common flashlight battery. This is, after all, where the most interesting phenomena go on in nature. Thought is that kind of phenomenon; metabo...

... the founder of the line of in the work or guardian angel. It is very interesting this, this, this question.. TM: The idea that it's the biology of the...

...ecipe mongers. For the benefit of those not initiated into this, it’s interesting. Aboriginal human beings have searched the world for psychedelic sour...

... this rich history that was in fact the world's oldest religion. It's interesting you know to me, the uh, press of the sixties, even the underground pr...

... the part of human beings, and the mystery of the flying saucer. It's interesting, you see, that if you take the broad world of the so-called 'Mysterie...

...g purely quantitative and something qualitative. TM: Well, that’s the interesting thing, you see. The Chinese understood that these temporal elements w...

...ext? It’s more important to know the content? TM: The content is very interesting, yes. Because even if we were to somehow to verify that Bell’s non-lo...

...erate disordering of the senses worked for Rimbaud. I think it’s very interesting to use shamanic techniques and then analyze the data…rational, rather...