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Terence McKenna on Alchemy and Hermeticism
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the_Architect
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Yeah... one of my favourites. I like when he talks about mercury.
This tape is one of the reasons I went deeper into gnosticism.
This tape is one of the reasons I went deeper into gnosticism.
donfoolio
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There was a transcription of this material right here:
It primary is based on Frances Yates books "Giordano Bruno and the hermetic tradition" and "The rosicrucian enlightment" - but they are right, the thoughts of McKenna on alchemical influences in modern times.
I am interested in comparing alll of this with actual new age methods - I think we are still in the same dilemma since Renaissance-times. Nobody is listening to each others, nor the scientists or the esoterists
It primary is based on Frances Yates books "Giordano Bruno and the hermetic tradition" and "The rosicrucian enlightment" - but they are right, the thoughts of McKenna on alchemical influences in modern times.
I am interested in comparing alll of this with actual new age methods - I think we are still in the same dilemma since Renaissance-times. Nobody is listening to each others, nor the scientists or the esoterists
Yeah the practicetwitchy said:
Its philosophy and should be discussed
donfoolio
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I only recently became aware of how deeply involved the classical hermetic tradition
is to modern science (the Royal Society was founded on a rosicrucian background) and
psychedelic research in particular.
The impulses given by a John Dee, Giordano Bruno, Robert Fludd or Michael Maier leaded
directly to the first masonic and rosicrucian lodges, to be modernized by Aleister Crowley,
Jack Parsons and others, who were in the forefront of psychedelic experimentation and
were the uppermost inspirations for Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and others.
There is even some (conspiracy) theory that says, referring on some statements apparently
made by Al Hubbard and Willis Harman that the invention of LSD follows direclty a lineage
who goes back to Eleusis by Nietzsche, Steiner, Goethe, the whole band of Basel through
medieval magicians and alchemists.
Even, if this speculations is, lets say, a little bit freaked out, I like the idea
of an old order of spiritual psychedelism to safe the world.
is to modern science (the Royal Society was founded on a rosicrucian background) and
psychedelic research in particular.
The impulses given by a John Dee, Giordano Bruno, Robert Fludd or Michael Maier leaded
directly to the first masonic and rosicrucian lodges, to be modernized by Aleister Crowley,
Jack Parsons and others, who were in the forefront of psychedelic experimentation and
were the uppermost inspirations for Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and others.
There is even some (conspiracy) theory that says, referring on some statements apparently
made by Al Hubbard and Willis Harman that the invention of LSD follows direclty a lineage
who goes back to Eleusis by Nietzsche, Steiner, Goethe, the whole band of Basel through
medieval magicians and alchemists.
Even, if this speculations is, lets say, a little bit freaked out, I like the idea
of an old order of spiritual psychedelism to safe the world.