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... particularly mean the American empire, I mean the empire of European thinking created in the wake of the Protestant Reformation and the rise of mod...

...t appears that this is what it always looked like: fuzzy and confused thinking. And that, uh, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, or rather the He...

...take these mushrooms and they, probably at the new and full moon, the thinking is that ritual was originally lunar time. And then they would, we’re ...

...work of a higher animal, including a human being. We’re accustomed to thinking that an extraterrestrial would bear the imprint of the evolutionary s...

...erms of the available cultural pigeonholes. Is it to subvert academic thinking? Is it to ignore all that constipated bourgeois dominator malarkey an...

... Well, if you’re naïve, then you think you’re going to hear everybody thinking. No: you’re going to see everyone thinking. You know, you’re going to...

... epistemology: it’s sort of like, if you believed in economic theory, thinking that it would be a good idea if everybody printed their own money. An...

...nt to talk about this, this is a good... Kat Mckenna: Um, yeah. I was thinking uh, last night and this morning about plants particularly [clears thr...

... and print culture, because the uniformity of print permitted ways of thinking that manuscript made impossible. Ideas like the democratic citizen, t...

...r the weekend, so if you get a taste of Terence’s antics and uh, wild thinking, you will be able to find out when Terence will be back in town for t...

...you know, self worth fads. Yeah? [Audience Indecipherable] Well I was thinking of this earlier today for some reason. I was thinking that - I don’t ...

... personalities, to erase boundaries, and to fuse people into a single thinking organism. This is what the nomadic tribalism of the past was all abou...

...by philosophy? By philosophy I mean, uh, the enterprise of discursive thinking. Trying to understand what the world is and who’s asking the question...

... and the familiar… all of these categorical divisions allow a kind of thinking that is completely cockamamie. After all, reality is in fact a seamle...

...t, implicit is that this is somehow in a- a limited undertaking, this thinking of man. And some of you may recall the famous comment of Pascal that,...

... at pictures and seeing the escheat in the folds of your trousers and thinking about how that relates to Meister Eckhart and – all this Huxleyan typ...

...hese principals of hierarchical ordering that are inimical to Chinese thinking. I will now using the same periodicities apply the thing to time and ...

...ve read at least one of my books? A lot of people. Well, so, what I’m thinking is, I have some things on my mind and I’ll run through that but I’d l...

...ars to secure this position against all attacks by orthodox religious thinking, and yet, there is...after it’s all said and done, the sense that if ...

... sense the culmination of the holy grail of a certain branch of human thinking that out of numbers and their relationships which are after all objec...

...stive search of the objects of common experience, uh, diligent, clear thinking, seekers after understanding; people who are practicing, uh, who took...

...iliarization with the soul, and the soul has been banned from Western thinking about the self for nigh on 400 years, at least in leading circles. Uh...

...n you were still... TM: Quite young. ED: Right. But so you were still thinking in a Catholic mode. TM: Yeah. Because it was all religious mysticism....

...ith strange bedfellows, right? A little of that, anyway. Uh, so I was thinking today about how to spin this yet again, but slightly differently, as ...

...eror or pharaoh, uh. It’s like a trip and the great technique – I was thinking about this as I was thinking about this lecture – the great technique...

...feedback into that, but, um, I don’t know. Kathleen? [Audience] - I’m thinking of the Tantric practice where that energy, that regenerative energy i...

...stinging pressure to a warhorse of the lecture circuit. I started out thinking I would never repeat myself and sometimes wonder if I'll ever have a ...

...Giambattista Vico in La Scienza Nuova laid the basis for this kind of thinking, it’s called “classicism” in the Re- naissance context — so once they...

...nce applause]. So- sort of a good moment to do some summing up. So in thinking about this talk, and knowing as I did who would be here, I thought th...

...Now, there is a problem with this which some of you, I’m sure of, are thinking. I hope, anyway. Uh, it’s what is called, "the grandfather paradox," ...

...tological division between mind and matter that is built into western thinking now did not exist that comes with renae decart with the invention of ...

...ough and through. No less a bastion of conservative and establishment thinking than Arthur Koestler in his book, The Ghost In the Machine, finally c...

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...he most intellectually challenging position to take vis-a-vis Western thinking to claim that we have to reopen the question of life after death in a...

...aughter] Which is what is supposed to be going on, you know. Well, so thinking about this comment, that "people are asleep," I see several implicati...

...wonder through looking at the cosmogony that we produce as art. I was thinking about this, this morning, I was thinking about what am I going to say...

...to that place with all your groceries. You’re there, and you’re there thinking ‘Jesus H fucking Christ, what is this? What is it?’ And you’re thinki...

...nature; this acceleration was built in. What poses a problem to us as thinking individuals is that the speed of involution toward concrescence is no...

...codes. We can foment rapid change. Until recently, it was a truism of thinking about society that all change had to be gradual. This myth has now be...

... it is the most concentrated ecosystem for hallucinogenic plants? The thinking is that the tropics are the tropics. Who can imagine a set of evoluti...

...ed of as looking into your own mind and hearing what someone else was thinking. But, the notion that telepathy might be someone speaking and produci...

...[...] and you're still trying to perform the eidetic reduction, still thinking about Husserl and Heidegger, and realizing that you, you're, your men...

...k, it’s a little book. It was one of the most influential books on my thinking because I saw there a whole different way of talking about spiritual ...

...f? Well, obviously, it would take a total revolution. Uh, the current thinking is that the big revolutions in the world have to do with the internal...

...ook a certain way. They are not musical compositions as we're used to thinking of them.They are pictorial art that is caused by audio signals. DJB: ...

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...converging; feminism, the exploration of space, the perfection of the thinking machine, or of the human-machine interface and the mysterium tremendu...

...erstanding of exactly what Sheldrake was saying. The reason I've been thinking about this recently was because I s- was at a conference recently on ...

...of psychedelic drugs [audience laughter]. I don't know what were they thinking [audience laughter]. What I think a psychedelic society, what that no...

...ject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space. One way of thinking of this is to suppose that the waking world and the world of the drea...

...people who see these things, that right before they saw it, they were thinking something very odd and unusual which they didn't normally think about...

... or least tragic. So, the whole notion of Taoism, and later Confucian thinking too, is this kind of sensing into the moment to know what is appropri...

... suppose, since I got that deep into it, I might as well say what I"m thinking, which is that the drug issue now looms as an obvious new horror. I m...

...po, uh, indicates I’ve been folded into the community of paradigmatic thinking; uh, but, I have received some encouragement in the last, uh, in the ...

...A today we were looking at this Russian avante-garde stuff, and I was thinking, "It seems so far away." They seem almost like messages as distant as...

...in to form, thoughts that you recognize as not your normal pattern of thinking and observing. At still higher doses when you close your eyes, the no...

... generation. So there, right there, you see schizophrenia involved in thinking about drugs. Apparently, there are ‘good’ drugs, sanctioned by scienc...

...xus of actual occasions". Well I just find his vocabulary, his way of thinking about things, and his mathematical rigor to be tremendously appealing...

...n to arborial life was interrupted by this process. uh, and key to ym thinking about all this, and those of you who aer gonna have careers in all th...

...re were only people. And rulers very rarely bothered to pass on their thinking to anybody other than their closest associates, and then only for uti...

...psychedelic experience and that's been the major influence on my, uh, thinking. When I first began experimenting with these shamanic plants, I assum...

...ysfunctional as a society. Violence, sexism, racism, classism, linear thinking, reductionism, denial of the spirit, all this messes with our heads a...

...tion, I felt that we had to leave the narrow confines of 20th century thinking and we had to reach back into the byways of human thought that have b...

...alifornia, which I think is a precondition for any kind of, uh, clear thinking about our future or our political situation. So, [applause] here's to...

...re were ever a time to be heard and be counted and try and c- clarify thinking on these issues, you know, it would be now because, uh, you know ther...

...ow have become inviolate. It now seems to me that, um, this thread in thinking about the sh- impact of shamanic, and specifically, visionary shamani...

...ic, you know, there will be colonies on Alpha Centauri, there will be thinking machines, there will be trans-dimensional vehicles and, uh, out-of-bo...

...he rise of the forms of reductionist thought that characterize modern thinking. Socrates had a daemon. He mentions it many times. It told him what t...

... sort of rituals or ceremonies would be required to align everybody’s thinking to agree on specific elements of the invisible landscape to the point...

...rint which McLuhan called the Gutenberg galaxy. If you’re not used to thinking in McLuhanist terms it may not seem immediately obvious to you that p...

...s what has been stolen from you by capitalism, by religion, by linear thinking, by strategizing. We're always about to be happy or we're always abou...

... simply taken on a life of its own. I’ve long thought that one way of thinking about what’s going on on this planet is that information is bootstrap...

...t just- it does seem like they are so far into neanderthal, you know, thinking because of the corporations and the profit the corporations would sta...

...vanced animal, to being in fact a conscious, self-reflecting, caring, thinking, dreaming, striving human being. And here is my answer to this riddle...

...that is what we inherit from the Western/European past. That style of thinking about life and human relations has essentially toxified the planet an...

...bal situation? [Ram closes his eyes and pauses for a good 10 seconds, thinking] Ram: Uh, I can conceive that it could be, yeah. You ask do I think? ...

... the world’s five or six most innocuous drugs because that’s a way of thinking about how your body handles a drug. My God, if it can return you to t...

...id the other night, leaves no trail. And most of us are accustomed to thinking of intuition as something feminine, mysterious, unexplainable and, uh...

...sm. The pre-Buddhist shamanism of Tibet is called Bonpo. I went there thinking that their art could not possibly be what it is unless they had acces...

...Here are the three dimensions. That's kind of the mathematical way of thinking. So as far as what we see around us, if nothing were moving, we have ...

...t’s just begun to be distributed. He is going to make a revolution in thinking about, uh, resonance and form and it has an aspect in it that is very...

...involved with, uh, human culture and the domestication of plants. I'm thinking, uh, of the ergotized rye which figures in the hallucenium mysteries....

... dredge material out of the unconscious. RA: And that’s what you were thinking of as the old maps? Freud and Jung...? TM: Exactly. And more recent d...

... mind. And once that realization is placed in the center of someone’s thinking about the world, the importance of these drugs will be seen to be par...