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197-McKenna: "McNature"
Terence McKenna gave this talk the title of "Nature is ...
Terence McKenna gave this talk the title of "Nature is the Center of the Mandala", but the cassette it was on had the title of McNature written on it. In any event, here is the Bard McKenna holding forth on the importance of keeping Nature as a focus in o
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196-Leary: "Timothy Leary vs. Notre Dame"
In this 1968 lecture at the University of Notre Dame, ...
In this 1968 lecture at the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Timothy Leary gives the then all-male student body a lesson in alternative thought. Basically, he told them that almost everything they are being taught is tainted with illogic. However, he also sa
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195-Leary: "The Future of Higher Intelligence" Part 2
Today we continue listening to a panel discussion from a ...
Today we continue listening to a panel discussion from a Psychedelic Conference held at UCSB in 1981. We hear from Robert Anton Wilson and Dr. John Lilly and then we'll hear a clip from a talk that Timothy Leary gave about Dr. Lilly sometime later. Finall
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194-Leary: "The Future of Higher Intelligence" Part 1
Today's podcast has a full cast of characters. Recorded early ...
Today's podcast has a full cast of characters. Recorded early in the 1980s at a Psychedelic Conference held at UCSB, we hear a panel consisting of Frank Baron, Andrew Weil, Walter Clark, Robert Anton Wilson, and Paul Krasner that is moderated by Dr. Timot
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193-Watts: "The Houseboat Summit - 1967"
In today's podcast we join Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Allen ...
In today's podcast we join Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder for an hour-and-a-half of a conversation held on Watts' houseboat in February of 1967, just a few weeks after the first Human Be-In. While there are any number of intere
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192-Leary: "Live at the Stone - 1987"
Think back to the Summer of 1987. Did you own ...
Think back to the Summer of 1987. Did you own a personal computer then? If so, you were in rare company. And in today's podcast we get to hear Dr. Timothy Leary explain why this new technology was going to revolutionize the world. But he doesn't confine h
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191-McKenna: "The Ethnobotany of Shamanism" Part 5
This brings to a conclusion the series of recordings from ...
This brings to a conclusion the series of recordings from a Terence McKenna workshop that he led over the weekend of November 5-7, 1988 at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). One of the more fascinating questions that he answers is, "How
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190-McKenna: "The Ethnobotany of Shamanism" Part 4
This week we pick up with Terence fielding questions about ...
This week we pick up with Terence fielding questions about the visions he sees on various substances and where he thinks they come from. One of his more controversial comments this week may be: "The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual
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189-McKenna: "The Ethnobotany of Shamanism" Part 3
We continue with a Terence McKenna workshop recorded on the ...
We continue with a Terence McKenna workshop recorded on the first weekend of November in 1988. The workshop was conducted at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. One of the more interesting segments of this talk is that it is one
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188-McKenna: "The Ethnobotany of Shamanism" Part 2
In today's podcast we pick up where we left off ...
In today's podcast we pick up where we left off last week with Terence McKenna conducting a workshop in November of 1988. Among other topics, Terence begins his "World Tour of Psychedelic Plants". One of my favorite McKenna quotes from this talk is, "We n