Podcast 396 – “A Freely Evolving Topology of Light & Sound”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2014

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “It is not that culture is evolving. The evolution of culture is an epiphenomena attendant upon the evolution of language. Language is the part of man that is evolving. Culture carries along.” "I think people have a greater sensitivity to the mysteries of human interaction simply because so much LSD was taken in the Sixties." “The world is not nearly as chaotic and random as we suppose. We are actually trapped inside a giant organism. And it is not Gaia. That's a much larger organism. We are trapped inside a large organism which is the human collectivity, and that's why we are such different monkeys.” “But really the psychedelic experience is like an intimation of immortality. And at varying distances in time from the point you occupy it shows you ever more vague intimations of the future, but they are there nevertheless.” “What the psychedelics really do, I think, is release us from cultural machinery.” “There is a potential for immortality, but it isn't assured. It is something which comes to the courageous.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

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0:00.0	Greetings from
0:02.0	Greetings from Cyberdelic Spaces
0:06.0	Musical
0:09.0	Selfish
0:10.0	Greetings
0:19.6	Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.
0:23.1	This is Lorenzo, and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.
0:23.2	And today we're... Greetings from Cyberdelic Space. This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:30.6	And today we're going to get to hear a Terence McKenna talk that took place in June of 1984.
0:38.7	And while I heard some familiar ideas discussed here, I also found it interesting to hear how he discussed some of what became his favorite topics, but way back at what was, well, it was the earlier part of
0:45.0	his more public career. If I'm correct, this talk was given less than one year after his
0:51.2	first major public appearance, which you can also listen to in my podcast
0:55.6	number 100.
0:57.3	Also, this is one of his earliest takes that I've heard on his idea that the psychedelic community
1:03.6	is actually a community of mutants who will one day soon discover that they have an evolutionary
1:10.5	advantage and take over.
1:13.4	Personally, I'm not in favor of that just yet.
1:17.8	From my point of view, although I do consider myself to be a voluntary member of the global
1:23.9	psychedelic community, I still concede that while it is my favorite group of people
1:29.0	to be involved in, nonetheless, we've got just as many internal social problems as most other
1:34.9	cultures. You know, face it, we've still got a long way to go to become more human than our
1:40.3	base animal instincts prepare us for. We all have a shadow side and, well, most of us
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