Ask Terence McKenna

...Nature is full of affection and intentionality toward humankind. But, intuition must be given prominence in the -- in the rearrangement of our relati...

...ur local language is insufficient then you abide in a, in a domain of intuition and I would- that’s what I would call animal consciousness. It’s a do...

...llusion. This is the idea [Terence coughs] that by a direct appeal to intuition we can somehow gain, um, a foothold on truth. I think this is as spec...

... believe anything they cannot confirm for themselves through thought, intuition, or feeling. And a non-psychedelic person joins up with the quantum [...

...ervous about sounding dualistic or Manichaeian, but I have the strong intuition that we are not monkeys but we are in monkeys. What we’re asking is "...

...e intuit about time, and what astrology and all forms of prophecy and intuition and clairvoyance and all these things are are the idea that we can kn...

... a very creative type of activity. Above the reason is what they call intuition or intellect or nous and that’s put in as the fifth. Reason is a crea...

...e where it can be understood, I thought, you know, what it’s about is intuition. intuition in the presence of the desire to verify, not intuition pur...

...h the human potential movement, spiritual development, the rebirth of intuition, all of these things to make a place in the plan for the role of Natu...

...we have to open a dialogue, and no longer, you know, all these words: intuition, artistic vision, trance, uh, memes like poetry, these are all ways o...

...ink's behind it? TM: Well, you know the basic concept is that somehow intuition and nature are reflective of each other. Until that hypothesis fails,...

...intermittent, it was thin, it was a groping, it was uh, an undigested intuition, a perception slipping away from the minds eye. Because of media rein...

... sounds very technical, but the rate of collapse of this toward sheer intuition, so that essentially the tools that allow you to model and animate be...

...'s vocabulary, but there is, you know, a very exciting convergence of intuition theory that seem really to hold the possibility of a whole new way of...

...the way it is to be done, it’s somehow…I don’t know. I don’t know! My intuition is very strong that with people with sufficient intelligence and suff...

... 89, and 90. And you can then ask yourself “Does this line fulfill MY intuition of how a novelty curve descriptive of the French Revolution should lo...

...e, uh, religious or theological constructs about history are actually intuitions about language undergoing this transformation. Now, several things a...

...t if you’re build- ing a reputation as a physician, you must hone the intuitional ability to choose patients who won’t die. So this is what shamans a...

...hat there are good ideologies and bad ideologies, and by a mixture of intuition, logic, education, master of the tools of the culture, we make choice...

... share with magpies and packrats, uh, is, uh, a a kind of a spiritual intuition, that glitter is the path to follow. You know Plato and it’s said of ...

...ard the future. The problem with this is that it does not fulfill out intuitions about reality. We can see that evolution, biological evolution, has ...

...nd have plumbed these depths as individuals. Still, I always have the intuition that there is a historical impact of some sort, and I think this is i...

...mmunicating is very old, by glance, by gesture, by dance, by meme, by intuition. But speech is very recent. It’s a technological innovation as fresh ...

...y of ourselves is the particulate, finite and dissolving body and the intuition of the unseen wave like infinite spirit, the indwelling entelechy tha...

...plored. It can’t be known. The other thing is, the persistence of the intuition of non-material worlds inhabited by self-organizing entelechies of on...

...th the nature of [stutters] nested cycles. TM: Well, we have a strong intuition [ JM: Mmhm] of free will [ JM: Yes], and this is why I think quantum ...

...uh, uh, grandeur, so forth and so on. Nevertheless, it’s a persistent intuition of most religious ontologies. Perhaps not the Buddhist, but the Hindu...

...her people’s attention to it because, uh, I have, we have a very deep intuition of its importance for the cultural predicament for mankind generally....

...-narcotic shamanism in Indonesia and in Nepal, was that, uh, Wasson's intuition was very correct. There is a grasping-after, and I see that grasping-...

... the felt presence of experience. That’s what the Tao is, that’s what intuition is, that’s what the I Ching can help us toward, is an experience of o...