Podcast 387 – “February 1994 Workshop Introduction”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2014

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Psychedelics, by metling assumptions, by destroying the expectations of rigid educations creates a fluidity of possibility that may allow answers to emerge. And it's the only thing that I've seen that operates on a time scale sufficiently short to have an impact.” “Language is a strategy for binding time.” “The other thing is that biology works. It's very successful. It's been around more than a billion years. Civilization doesn't work. It's been around 10,000 years, and it's on the brink of meltdown.” “We fabricate ideas out of matter. No other creature does that.” “One of the unique things that is happening on the planet is that the fate of all life is becoming hinged to the decisions made by a single species.” “If there's not free will, then thinking is meaningless.” “But all we have to do is hit one speed bump, and democratic values are down the drain.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

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0:00.0	Greetings from Cyberdelings
0:04.3	Greetings from Cyberdelic Spaces
0:20.0	This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:24.1	And our fellow saloners who have made recent donations to help offset some of our monthly expenses here in the salon,
0:31.0	well, those people are Floris M, Shane N., Alex B., Michael W., Sean V., and Benjamin P.
0:40.8	So I thank you one and all for your continued support of these podcasts.
0:44.8	I really couldn't do it without your help.
0:48.0	Now, today we're going to get to compare last week's podcast,
0:52.5	which was from the final session of a weekend workshop that
0:56.1	Terrence McKenna led in May of 1990. Well, we're going to compare that with today's talk,
1:01.8	which features the opening session of a weekend workshop that took place four years later,
1:06.8	about four years later, February of 1994. Now, while I'm going to play the entire opening session,
1:14.2	where Terrence would go around the room and let everyone introduce themselves
1:18.2	and perhaps ask a question or make a statement,
1:21.8	however, I feel that in the interest of the privacy of the participants,
1:26.2	many of whom gave their full names, that, well,
1:29.2	I shouldn't include many of their comments, which were difficult to hear in any event.
1:34.8	But Terrence's comments to some of the statements that were made, well, I think they're
1:39.5	worth hearing. So I've edited out the participants for the most part and left in Mr. T.
1:46.7	One more thing now before I play this talk, and that is in just a few minutes,
1:51.1	you're going to hear Terence talk about what he calls the defining dose.
1:56.3	Now, I may be losing my memory earlier than I planned on,
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