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...sibilities. If A, or B, or more. And, uh, this ability to contemplate worlds which are only in potentia is the basis of imagination. And I would ...

...developed the non western societies to navigate to and from invisible worlds. And now, recorded live in Boulder, Colorado. In Search of the Origi...

...I think any reasonable person can conclude that the redemption of the world, if it’s to be achieved, can only be achieved through magic. It’s too...

...ears from now, people who had actually figured out the context of the world they were living in and tried to come to terms with it. And, uh, this...

...r this from my own intellectual journey when I was 14, 15 and 16, the world looked very bleak. So I read Camus, Sartre and the lesser lights of t...

... level. This lead me to The Doors of Perception. I had read Brave New world, which is an anti-drug dystopia, a nightmarish world of plastic never...

... occasionally support collecting in Africa. And, uh, this is our real-world political work, beyond the communicating and the publishing and that ...

...Well, um, 'The world and Its Double' is how we styled this. Uh, this is simply uh-a high-visibility, flashy way of reminding people whose eyes fa...

...have as individuals relates to the global future that we can feel the world being swept toward and how this relates to our planetary paths. I thi...

... chemically complex plants, techniques and traditions for accessing a world invisible to the rest of us a world of forces and information that is...

...mal consciousness, big cats, but it’s a consciousness of the exterior world. Psilocybin forced us beyond that, into consciousness of the imaginal...

...keley. And he left in the middle of things to go on a tour around the world for seven years that ended in, uh, the, the deepest Amazon Basin wher...

...y position in the cosmic drama. We are doing penance as we speak, the world is a vale of tears, the lot of human beings is to till hard land and ...

... about. And writing a book, which aspires to be the seed for a living world is about the union of spirit and matter as well. And the, the, um, Ch...

...lem that we grapple with in our own lives and when we look out at the world. You’ve heard me say many times, we have the vision, we have the mone...

...Like for instance the, one of the densest psilocybin ecologies in the world is Oregon and western Washington. Well one of the main industries of ...

...e here tonight who needs something that you have. It's no news that a worldwide movement of trance, dance, consciousness, psychedelics and archai...

...orest finds itself. Very large conservation organizations such as the world Wildlife Fund are working very hard to preserve large tracts of the A...

...ent scientific breakthroughs. He is a shamanologist who traverses the worlds of the psyche and the spirit, bringing back startling visions of the...

...use of hallucinogens is associated with shamanism. If you look at the worldwide distribution of hallucinogens you immediately notice that there a...

...this is that McLuhan did his journeyman work before he burst onto the world stage as this mysterious savant of media, he did his work as a Joyce ...

...ideas. It’s a very mysterious business, the revelation of mind to the world. Since the last time I talked to any audience I finally understood an...

...estion because I live in an aura of hope because I live in a twilight world of my own self-generated, cannabinated fantasy. I forget that not eve...

...d give meaning to the experience that is coming, is sweeping over the world. Now, to my mind uh, the Freudian breakthrough, what the surrealists ...

...velty. We can understand, first of all, that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world that we all experience as beings, is that nove...

...y own experience with hallucinogens and how I extrapolate it into the world based on.. its own being and other peoples' psychedelic experiences t...

...ment has failed. And so then, where do go from here? What kind of new world can we create? And what kind of guidelines are there that we can foll...

... Mutant Ninja Turtles [audience laughs] – stuff like that? How in the world do you get from utter emptiness to that kind of thing? The richness, ...

...nly my faith, but my, uh, experience – has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That t...

...h is a good example of this where the Platonic dema urgus of the underworld ensnared Persephone. Oh, and another example that should be mentioned...

...tury, and before to some degree, has permitted all kinds of imaginary worlds to be entertained in the popular imagination, because most of the ex...

...aped in 1997 to be included on a CD-ROM that at the time featured the world’s first interactive I Ching software, a product I called the Oracle o...

...dible role that psychedelics have played since the Fifties in the art world – in the world of painting, music composition, performance, dance, so...

...ort of a broad topic, it's, here we are at the end of history all the world's cultures are melting together, more powerful technologies than we'v...

...ng at all is happening to that this is in fact another species with a world around another star that is getting in touch with us. I think it's so...

...l of 1993, which was right when the Internet was going public and the worldwide web was coming into being, and all that was happening. The plunge...

...just say a little bit about that. As you know, the rainforests of the world are being cleared at a v-very frightening rate, and, uh, perhaps, uh....

...ng of reality, and I discovered, to my delight and amazement that the world is quite a complex place, quite a large percentage of it goes on outs...

..., and it is um......it's almost as though there is a sensorium of the world, which, in order to be reconstructed in the interior horizon of trans...

...philosophies that rose and fell centuries ago in obscure parts of the world, my theory of life’s exploration is to run edges. And I’ve mellowed o...

...hanist, and I really believe that the strengths and weaknesses of the world we’ve inherited are strengths and weaknesses put there by print and b...

...wanted to steal it from me!): the idea that there is a quality in the world that has been overlooked by Science, and overlooked by Western religi...

...'s a kind of secret faith, uh-uh, having to do with perception of the world, I think. I mean, I feel that I was psychedelic long before I knew an...

...gher-order spatial dimension. In sleep, one is released into the real world, of which the world of waking is only the surface in a very literal g...

...o take the Protestant Reformation an enormous leap forward into a new world of spiritual freedom, and to my mind, a very sort of psychedelic worl...

.... It’s no longer an abstraction. Even the straight people who own the world with their, uh, long-term and short-term projections; looking at popu...

...e machine, so that then on the morning of December 22nd, 2012, at the world Time Institute in the Amazon, the first time journey is about to be t...

...em, you seem to acquire the ability to, uh, eh, inhabit more than one world at once, as though superimposed over reality there was, uh, a super-r...

...alize. The strongest example in our own history was when the medieval world broke apart and didn’t make any sense anymore. The new middle class w...

... and hang them, then that’s not gradual and suddenly you’ve got a new world. This had been done in several places with excellent success recently...

...oncern of human beings. Uh, this great goddess, uh, religion that was worldwide in prehistory is inevitably, uh, a cattle religion. And, uh, she ...

...rce Conservation and Shamanism, he traveled through the Asian and New world Tropics and became specialized in the shamanism and ethno-medicine of...

...tand what I'm saying? [audience laughs], okay, and no one else in the world is, uh, doing this at the moment. The world Wildlife Foundation and E...

...sychedelic drugs and the increased availability of information in the world have actually made possible the evolution of new alien information st...

...1996 [Musical intro] Mitchell Jay Rabin: Welcome to the show A Better world. This is your host Mitchell Jay Rabin, and we’re very glad that you’r...

...ll about is the incredible variety of morphological expression in the world. Now I suppose a Buddhist would recognize this as a serious samsaric ...

...he feminine, tribal values and an deanem[sp?] emphasis on the natural world and a deemphasis on consumerism, thing worship, sexism and generalize...

...ome a kind of overarching metaphor for not only personal being in the world, but the historical adventure, the being of the species in the world....

...led the “rupture of plane” that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power beyond, behind profane appearances. And in my ow...

...s here last May. Mostly it seemed like a tour of the English-speaking world. I went to South Africa, to Australia, to England, back and forth to ...

...purely. But intuition that is self-correcting based on input from the world of reason, evidence, induction, deduction, and so forth and so on. An...

... enzymologist ‐ a logical move.[audience chuckles] Haldane said, “The world is not only stranger that we suppose; it is stranger than we can supp...

...erving hallucinogenic plants as used by native peoples throughout the world. Welcome, Terence. Terence McKenna: It’s a pleasure to be here. JM: I...

...rms, seed expression, morphology, you see. Nature's expression in the world of form is called its morphology. Morphology is the science of form. ...

...ls, their songs, can cure. And, you know, until you’re truly ill in a world without real medicine, you don’t realise what a power this is – even ...

...an by that, in the context of everything else that’s happening in the world. In other words, the psychedelic experience, uh, the entheogenic expe...

... some thirty thousand years ago, you could not calculate forward to a world such as we have today, a world of enormous cities globally dispersed,...

...ng at all is happening to that this is in fact another species with a world around another star that is getting in touch with us. I think it's so...

...s to me one of the sensibly interesting questions to be asked of this world and that is, what is human consciousness. where did it come from, and...

...rankenstein’s monster at best. A toxic force in the body of the Gaian world soul at worst. And I believe that our origin and our future culminati...

...d studying psychoactive plants used by native cultures throughout the world, and he is also the developer of a computer software package called T...

...minance hierarchies. This goes right back clear to Lemurs and the old world monkeys- yes, well the new world monkeys which are more primitive. Al...

...ou to remember your dreams. That, alone, might throw open a whole new world of possibility. Kathleen? [Audience Indecipherable] Yes, so, if you c...

...from tree to tree; we are devoted to a physical representation of the world with a limited amount of dynamic in it. We do not have to understand ...

...nce of time and compression of historical development going on in the world right now that you can, uh, you can hardly, uh, pick up a journal in ...

...saving botanical plants used in shamanistic traditions throughout the world. Welcome Terence. Terence McKenna: It's a pleasure to be here. JM: It...

...behind, what continues to go on on the planet? There’s a whole planet world going on still and there are dolphins evolving towards this kind of e...

...izarre, extraordinarily difficult, I believe, to assimilate into your world view, and this is whether you’re a Bora youth undergoing initiation, ...

...o be in Manhattan; Manhattan is my second-most favorite island in the world -- only because I live on Hawaii. I feel more affinity to this island...

...tion, was a non-stop two week intensive education in humanness, third world colonial politics, Dutch Afrikaner history, a whole bunch of things I...

...s, uh, judging by this book, an extremely knowledgeable person with a worldwide education in herbs and a special stress on, uh, on folk usage. So...

...ion shift ratios in the mass psyche in the way that it relates to the world. And, he, uh, was famous for partic- predicting what he called electr...

...ne in the phenomenology of religious experience, religious traditions worldwide and, uh, primitive people against a background of tropical nature...

... means by which it is going to happen. Meanwhile, people all over the world - psychics, shaman, mystics, schizophrenics - are--their heads are fi...

... of the universe, or humans from some extraordinarily advanced future world where human beings are now made of language and are only two and a ha...

...very restless in its relationship with biology as it explores the new world of silicon into which it seeks to transform itself. Technology has be...

... life and they get married and they form this ‘you and me against the world’, us back to back, this basically paranoid unit and they set off then...

...tactical nature of reality. That the real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is ma...

...inner richness of organism. That, you know, the richness of the human world is not in owning stuff. The richness of the human world is, uh, lies ...

...t because it's important for people. Um, there's only one drug in the world which is safe, strangely enough. In other words, there's only one dru...

..., 600 foot waves. TM: It’s like Solaris, Titan, it’s a really strange world. BD: And yet our moon is way out of proportion, it’s way too big. Tha...

...slovakia and I'm Terence McKenna. We're here to meet with some of the world's most outstanding thinkers to discuss science, spirituality and the ...

...50... "Now, as a culture we must come to grips with the fact that the world is not simple, in the same way that a nine year-old must come to grip...

...u" - nothing happens to it. You're just like you were before, but the world has been radically replaced - 100% - it's all gone, and you're sittin...

...tter’ and you say, you know, apparently the major commodity moving on world markets is ambiguity.The voices which whisper to us from crystals, he...

...n strange rites and growing in unusual plants in distant parts of the world. Uh, this kind of thinking – because it’s naïve – leads of course to ...

... think of as massive novelty. China did not invade Taiwan and trigger world War II and you know, there were some similar other opportunities for ...

...erving hallucinogenic plants as used by native peoples throughout the world, and he's also the author of Timewave Zero, a computer software packa...

..., uh, the uh, really peculiar and now nearly incomprehensible sort of world view that these people had. And it would be very interesting to know ...

... his poem "the center does not hold." Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, but as fans of chaos we should know that this mere anarchy is the in...