Podcast 398 – “Where Does Reality Begin & End”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2014

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Occam's Razor is fine in the formation of physical theory, but it doesn't take us far in understanding human motivation.” “What the psychedelics seem to me to argue for is that reality is not reality. There may be no reality, but certainly this is not it. This is some kind of highly provisional, culturally sanctioned, hallucination that we are all participating in.” “Reality, whatever it is, is temporary and yields to non-existence.” “Thought can't go where the roads of language have not been built.” “Culture is a kind of environment that we have learned how to interpose between ourselves and whatever is really out there.” “I just don't think that a monkey species had the wherewithal to evade the mechanisms of control and constraint that guide and direct everything on the planet. There is a purpose to history.” “What is to be done? You can't begin to answer that question until you have some notion of what reality is.” “But all it takes [when two people are sitting together in silence] is somebody breaking that silence and stating the contents of their mind for the assumption of our shared reality to completely collapse upon us.” “I think great relationships are built in silence, because then nobody ever finds out what's really going on.” “Reality is a naive concept and should probably be abandoned as quickly as possible.” “What we call reality is, in fact, nothing more than a culturally-sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination of some sort.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

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0:00.0	Greetings from
0:05.5	Musical
0:06.8	Linguistic art chips
0:09.2	Healthy
0:11.1	Greetings from Cyberdelic Space. This is Lorenzo, and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:24.0	And before we get started, I've got one quick announcement for our friends who made donations during our pledge drive.
0:30.4	As I gradually get a personal email out to all of our donors, I've discovered that hotmail is bouncing all email from our matrixmasters.com server.
0:40.1	Eventually, I'll get another mail address, email address, and resend those at mounts.
0:44.6	But if you're using Hotmail or some other Microsoft-owned email address, maybe you could ask them to
0:50.3	take us off their blacklist. I can't understand why we're on their bad side, but maybe it was because back when I was a public spokesperson for Verizon many years ago,
1:01.8	I was quoted in the trade press as saying that the Windows operating system was the biggest computer virus ever created.
1:09.7	I don't think they ever forgave me for that.
1:12.6	And one other announcement, which is really more of a report now that I think about it,
1:17.9	but for those of our fellow saloners who have been asking about two of our elders,
1:22.5	well, I've been told that the annual Easter Open House hosted by Anne and Sasha Shulgin
1:27.4	was a great success again this
1:29.1	year. And I understand that Sasha, very graciously, greeted guests for almost six hours. And for much
1:36.6	of that time, our dear friend Nick Sand was also at his side. So it was another great gathering of
1:42.4	the Klan at the Shulans again this year.
1:45.9	Now, after my little screw up last week, I thought that I should play it safe with another Terrence McKenna podcast before I catch the train for Tucson.
1:54.9	As I've mentioned, I'm on my way to the Arizona Wild Wild West Festival that is being held this coming weekend.
2:02.1	And that's the weekend of April 25th through the 27th of 2014 for you time travelers who are just now joining us.
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