Greetings friends, it's me Duncan, your noble podcast host, and this is the

Dukka Trussell Family Art Podcast. Most of you probably know I'm a huge fan of

Terrence McKenna. For those of you who might not be aware of who that is, just check

him out. There's probably seven trillion hours of his brilliant lectures on

psychedelics, mushrooms, shamanism, and just about everything else on YouTube. He

has the most incredible way of articulating the psychedelic experience to the

point that sometimes in the past when I was reading his books, I felt like I was

high as a kite. So you can probably imagine how excited I am to discover. The

Terrence McKenna has more than one brother. You all know about Dennis McKenna.

He's a genius and hopefully one day will appear on this podcast, but I was

completely shocked to discover that Terrence McKenna has another brother, Matt

McKenna, and many of his lectures are available if you dig around YouTube, but

save you some time. I recorded one of them and I present it to you now.

The mushroom speaks to you in the whispering voice of an eternal being. The

harmonic buzz of a mycelial larynx made whole by its symbiosis with your

synaptic cleft. It whispers in your ear and says, let's go to a strip club. Let's

order lap dances and delight in the erotic outflow of optical pleasure

originating in the exotic dancers. Thong and its luminous fangles, jingle,

jangling against the golden pole. Here the pole is not just a mechanism upon

which the exotic dancer acts out the primordial right of instantiating

souls into the material reality via the mechanism of human reproduction, but

becomes a serpentine phallus. As you watch spellbound, the mushroom invites

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