Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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05:40 Terence McKenna: “Going back to this thing about language,
you get this same peculiar emphasis on language and letters in the esoteric doctrine that surrounds the chakras.”

06:57 Terence:
“Linearity in print conferred upon language an inability to deal with the invisible world in any meaningful way, and so it just became pathology, but now it’s returning, and people such as ourselves who have one foot in each world have a real obligation to cognize this and move it forward.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 070 – “Entities” (Part 2)”

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02:24 Terence McKenna: “When you start looking at the question of
these disincarnate entities, the first thing that strikes you is their persistence in human experience and folklore. This is not something unusual or statistically rare.”

07:57 Terence:
“The eradication of spirit from the visible world has been a project prosecuted with great zeal concomitant with the rise of modern science.”

10:01 Terence:
“If we examine the history of early modern science, we discover that some of the major movers and shakers were in fact being guided and directed in the formulation of early science by disincarnate entities.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 069 – “Entities” (Part 1)”

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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05:38 Ralph Abraham: “It does seem very attractive to think of
the electromagnetic field as some kind of favored intermediary among all the physical fields.”

07:41 Rupert Sheldrake: “There’s this mystery of light. I still
think Maxwell’s electromagnetic formulations of light are much too simple.”

10:56 Ralph:
“I think that we ought to think about the possibility that this effect [the paranormal] will not be confirmed in laboratories.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 068 – “Light and Vision” (Part 2)”

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04:52 Rupert Sheldrake begins a discussion about light.

10:55 Rupert
“What kind of influence could be moving outward through the eyes as part of the image-forming perceptive process, and in this outward projection in some sense project the image we see, the image we see is part of this outward flux.”

14:17 Terence McKenna begins his commentary on Rupert’s ideas about light, expanding them into the realm of imagination.

21:08 Ralph Abraham challenges Terence and Rupert on some of their points.

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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02:29 Terence McKenna:
“The ego is essentially paranoia institutionalized.”

03:53 Ralph Abraham:
Considers the possibility that ego became strengthened when psychedelic usage became less frequent.

05:29 Terence:
Talks about a “psychedelic rebirth.” » Continue reading “Podcast 066 – “Chaos and Imagination” (Part 2)”

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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02:29 Ralph Abraham: “So I should like now to speak about the chaos
of ordinary life and the relationship of this chaos to the imagination.”

05:41 Ralph:
“Chaos, Gaia, and Eros are the gods, or concepts, of the primitive types.”

13:56 Ralph:
“People have a resistance to their own creative imagination, and I’m suggesting that this resistance has a mythological base.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 065 – “Chaos and Imagination” (Part 1)”

Guest speaker: Sheldon Norberg
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02:40 News of a Mexican informant for the DEA who committed murder while wearing a wire for the U.S.

05:30 Reminiscences of (and synchronicities at) Burning Man 2006

08:15 Discussion about Sheldon’s book, Confessions of a Dope Dealer

10:44 How Sheldon got into the dope dealing business
» Continue reading “Podcast 064 – “Confessions of a Dope Dealer””

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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02:14 Ralph Abraham: Takes issue with McKenna’s and Sheldrake’s interpretation of chaotic attractors. . . . To a mathematician, the word ‘attractor’ does not necessarily imply attraction.

07:23 Rupert Sheldrake:
“But Newtonian physics and the triumph of the mechanistic system, in my opinion, only works because what it was seeking to deny was introduced into it by a kind of subterfuge and pretended that this was a mechanical principle whereas it was something else.”

09:37 Ralph:
“The idea of two dimensional time could aid us here.” . . . The problem with the teleological approach is that the cause is in the future. » Continue reading “Podcast 063 – “Creativity and Chaos” (Part 2)”

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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01:23 Ralph Abraham: A short primer on chaos theory. . . . The emergence of form from a field of chaos.

08:57 Rupert Sheldrake:
“The problem I have with chaos theory . . . ” The issue of indeterminacy in the real world. . . . The illusion of total predictability. . . . Indeterminacy may exist not just at the quantum level but at all levels of natural organization. . . . How form arises from chaos. . . . In some sense, energy may be seen as an agent of change.
» Continue reading “Podcast 062 – “Creativity and Chaos” (Part 1)”

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01:34 Rupert Sheldrake:
“It’s like the creative process is like the welling up of new forms.” . . . “I think in our own case the one model for this is dreams.” . . . “It seems almost impossible to have an expected dream.” . . . “Our imagination is also released through psychedelics, in its extreme form.” . . . “Is there a kind of Gaian dreaming taking place on the night side of the planet?”

05:03 Terence McKenna: “I think a Gaian dream would be human history.” . . . “It [the psychedelic experience] seems rather to be an ontological reality of its own that the human being has simply been privileged to briefly observe.” . . . “To my mind, the imagination is the source of all creativity.” » Continue reading “Podcast 061 – “Creativity and Imagination” (Part 2)”