Podcast 407 – “The Evolutionary Importance of Technology”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2014

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.” “It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.” “Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.” “In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.” “The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.” “The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.” “The human brain is the god of technological innovation.” 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 Space
0:06.0	This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.
0:23.8	And to begin with today, I want to let you know about the memorial that will be held to honor the life and work of Sasha Shulgin.
0:31.8	As you know, Sasha left this planet on the 2nd of June this year, and what is being billed as the Shogun Memorial will be held on August 2nd, which is, I guess, about two weeks from now.
0:44.9	And I'll put a link to the event in the program notes for this podcast, which, as you know, you can reach via psychedelic salon.us.
0:52.8	The memorial is going to take place in Berkeley, California,
0:56.1	from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Berkeley Community Theater,
1:00.5	and it's going to include a potluck dinner for everybody who attends.
1:04.8	So if you're in or near the Bay Area and would like to find a few more of the others,
1:10.2	as the saying goes, well, you should be able to find a very large number of the others at this event. And if you are planning on attending, please be sure to go to the website that I link to and there you can RSVP. There's going to be plenty of room, but the organizers would like to get as close a head
1:29.5	count as possible.
1:31.0	And also, driving and potluck directions are on that website as well.
1:37.4	I'm not going to be able to make it myself, but I am looking forward to hearing about it
1:41.8	from our fellow slauners who will be attending.
1:44.2	I'm sure there's going to be many of you there.
1:47.2	Okay, so let's get on with today's show.
1:50.8	In case you're wondering, no, I haven't played all of the 2013 Palenque Norte lectures yet,
1:56.3	but I thought that in the interest of reaching the most people with the announcement I just made about the Shulgin Memorial,
2:03.1	well, Terrence McKenna Talk is always going to get the most listeners.
2:06.9	And see, it worked. Here you are.
2:11.1	So, anyhow, I'm going to play part of a workshop that took place in August of 1989, which was almost 25 years ago.
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