Episode 11- Need help with a reference.

[WakingSleep]

Greetings!

Over the past few years, I have come to find the musings of Terence McKenna to be a tremendous source of inspiration for my own thoughts and hopes and well- direction of my own life. The McKenna talks presented to me by the Psychedelic Salon have been my primary source for all things McKenna.

That being said, I have started on a project- I'm not sure how far it will go, but for now- to introduce Terence to some of my friends who would rather read than listen. So... I have transcribed the talk given in episode 11 (one of my favorites.) However, I am looking for some help... there is one reference that Terence gives in this talk that I simply have not been able to pin down exactly to whom he is referring, so I was hoping someone here might know, so I can transcribe it properly.

About 30 minutes 15 seconds into Episode 11, Terence says "Why should that be necessary? Why should someone have to resort to what Rombough called an “artificial perturbation of the senses” to achieve this?" Who is Rombough- if I am even spelling that right, which I doubt, because a search on them Internets didn't turn up anything concrete for me.

Can anyone help?

[teapothead]

McKenna is referring to the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rimbaud). Rimbaud wrote of his method for attaining poetical transcendence or visionary power through a "long, intimidating, immense and rational derangement of all the senses" (Les lettres du Voyant ["The Letters of the Seer"]). Rimbaud also used hashish, which, I think, qualifies as a "natural" perturbation of the senses! Another hashish-using French symbolist poet was Baudelaire, who not only influenced Rimbaud, but who belonged to the Club des Hashischins, a literary group that met to explore the potential of Hashish.

all the best,
mr. teapothead

[WakingSleep]

Ah! Thank you so much!

Rock on, brother Teapothead!!

I believe I now have another poet whose works I must explore....

[Lorenzo]

McKenna is referring to the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rimbaud). Rimbaud wrote of his method for attaining poetical transcendence or visionary power through a "long, intimidating, immense and rational derangement of all the senses"

. . . and I thank you for that reference too, teapothead . . . . I didn't know that either.