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... world through magic. How is this to be done? Well, the philosopher’s stone is a complex of ideas that, no matter how you divide it, no matter ho...

... a placebo of course, could detect this deformation long before the unstoned subjects were able to do so. And [Fisher?] who was a totally [0:19:0...

...fidence, a kind of joy that was completely running counter to the brimstone and damnation point of view of Christianity. Here’s, to me, a psyched...

...m the pre-Buddhist shamanism of Tibet, which has been there since the stone Age. Buddhism only entered Tibet in the 7th century with Padmasambhav...

...do have our act together. Look at this Gothic cathedral, look at this stone Henge or look at this wonderful human sacrifice we just put on here. ...

...nutshell is what we’re searching for here. A, a kind of philosopher’s stone of literary associations from which the entire universe can be made t...

...want to talk to you about tonight and how it relates to unfolding the stone is the notion of alchemy of all things. Alchemy as I’m sure many of y...

...ence, this spinning marble is uh, the holy grail, or the philosophers stone. The philosophers stone is an object which is made out of mind. It ha...

...d not present, and as soon as you begin to code that information into stone, or magnetic medium or whatever, in a sense time has stopped. You are...

...rows of outrageous fortune. You know, the dark oxen that turn the millstones of the world. But I’m here to tell you that it is real – there is a ...

... here, they’ve always said art was the canary in the mine; well, so a stoned artist is I supposed a stoned canary in the mine [audience laughs], ...

...erge eggs or exquisitely-tooled machines made of ivory, glass, and gemstone that were themselves undergoing some kind of transformation, emitting...

... the first time, bone and antler technology takes its place alongside stone technology. Musical instruments appear over a wide area. And, cave pa...

...ust simply cannot -m- there is not more blood to be squeezed from the stone of science. There may be further discoveries, but further growth and ...

...esting in the sense, that you were propagating the, the philosopher's stone to the, to brethren. TM: And it was going many other places. ED: Yeah...

...höyük was a virtual reality, but done in stucco and fired ceramic and stone. And that when the medium is so intractable as stone the epistemic as...

...ains, the oldest books, the strangest people, there you will find the stone." And this idea that there is something to be found, first of all, th...

...of the future that could be. That we are hurling ourselves into a new stone age, where the fruits of the prodigal wandering, that I discussed in ...

... well I said after I made my error of dosage, I never hope to be more stoned than..[laughter]... So, uh, that's, uh, what I offer to you as inter...

...s like the 16th century mind's relationship to the, uh, philosopher's stone, which was said to be highly unlikely but not impossible, and so all ...

... virtual realities were at Ur and C ̧ atalh ̈oyu ̈k and Jericho. Yes, stone and adobe is an intractable material compared to photons moving on a ...

...hat’s organising gestural intent. And it’s like going from carving in stone to colour TV: your listener immediately transfers loyalty to this muc...

... is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone, but has found the stone! These shamans, Jivaro, Witoto, Cubeo, notic...

...igious wars of the 16th Century. The heavy and unwieldy media such as stone, are time-binders, used for writing, they are very cool indeed, and s...

...nd of paganism that was old 5,000 years before Eleusis laid its cornerstone. I wrote a book called The Archaic Revival, in which I try to say tha...

... what do we think about these things as we sit here now, relatively unstoned and, uh, ah, your question raises all kinds of issues. I said I didn...

... a, a lunge across 15,000 or 20,000 years of time from the primitive, stone-chipping primate to that creature which will walk into a trans-dimens...

...research can tell us, for a thousand years nobody got laid who wasn't stone drunk because everyone was such a paragon of social rectitude. Well, ...

...Suddenly the mush of brain is replaced by the durability of wood, and stone, and clay. And these things then become the medium upon which the pri...

...ey happen periodically, cyclically, but unscheduled as a state of the stone addresses or an opportunity for the community to come together and ev...

...the flying saucer phase. I would like to think that the philosopher's stone is a suitable goal for human evolution, that we are actually download...

...h, the 16th century anticipated this in the form of the philosopher’s stone, you know – the alchemical quintessence, the lapis. It’s a zone of sp...

...y 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 western world....

...te of culture in the south american jungle that they represent a real stone age culture where when you go into indonesia it may look primitive to...

...a new possibility, a new evolutionary option, a kind of philosopher's stone, a kind of panacea at the end of time. And this is to me what the com...

...on’t know what they’re talking about! Q: Do we have a sort of Rosetta stone you know about? Terence: We have a primitive grammar, but, uh, it’s o...

... time, there was, uh, bone and antler technology. In other words, the stone Age is ending and there’s a bone and antler technology and there’s th...

.... That means that if you pick the mushroom and lay it in the sun on a stone, and you come back in an hour or two and it’s turned to slime, it was...

...lity. And I think that the flying saucer is an airborne philosopher's stone -- the sophic hydrolith of Paracelsus haunting the skies of modern Am...

...verything is flowing together. The "autopoetic lapis," the alchemical stone at the end of time, coalesces when everything flows together. When th...

... in the late phase, fifteenth century forward, were talking about the stone -- the sophic hydrolith -- some kind of thing which was matter but be...

...is flowing together. And, in fact, the man-made lapis, the alchemical stone at the end of time, occurs when everything flows together, when the l...