Podcast 383 – “A Psychedelic Point of View”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

Science, Philosophy, Natural Sciences, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2013

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Guest speakers: Terence McKenna & Edward Snowden PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Everything flows. Nothing lasts.” “Language is like an informational creature of some sort.” “This problem of language is central, I think, to understanding the psychedelic experience.” “Language is something unfinished in us. It is something that was catalyzed out of animal organization by hallucinogenic activation of brain states, and it is something that is in the act of perfecting itself.” “When you go into a culture, you're going to make a choice. And all cultures represent narrowing of choices.” “We're about to have a chance to create a global culture, to essentially clean our basement and decide what we're going to save and what we're going to keep.” “It's the monotheistic religions that have to take a real knock for the present situation.” “Monotheism, as a philosophical reflex, is understandable but simple minded. It's what an eight year old would get to.” “Taking a psychedelic is an experiment. It's not an act of religious devotion.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

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0:00.0	Greetings from
0:06.0	Musical
0:07.0	Linguistic art chips
0:10.0	Healthy
0:11.0	Greetings from Cyberdelic Space
0:16.0	This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.
0:24.3	And I am pleased to begin by thanking Bruce W., Christoph, Paul M., Neil M., Francios Y,
0:34.4	David J, Martin M, Orion.
0:38.4	And I'd also like to thank the three new anonymous Bitcoin donors.
0:43.3	Thanks to all of you, we covered our expenses for this month, and we are continuing to grow as new fellow slawners join us each week.
0:51.8	And we're now joined by fellow slawers from, I guess, almost 150 countries.
0:57.2	Of course, maybe we're all just in one country and using Tor. Sorry for the geek joke.
1:05.1	Anyway, while you may think that you're near the end of the line when it comes to finding
1:09.9	some others in the psychedelic community, the simple fact is that you're near the end of the line when it comes to finding some others in the psychedelic
1:11.3	community. The simple fact is that you most likely already know some of the others, but
1:17.1	they're being as careful as you are about coming out of the psychedelic closet. However, I am
1:23.5	happy to announce that over the last few weeks, I've received several messages from fellow
1:28.3	salonters who have begun family discussions about psychedelic medicines with great success
1:34.4	and no arguments. At least no arguments were reported, I should say. So now let's get back
1:41.7	to the Terrence McKenna workshop that we've been listening to, but I should let you know that beginning with my next podcast, I'm going to be alternating between Terence recordings and the 2013 Palenque Norte lectures, which have now come into my hands for podcasting.
1:59.3	And while I haven't had a chance yet to listen to the one I'm planning on playing for you,
2:04.2	my guess is that it's going to be something that we all find quite interesting.
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