Podcast 408 – “What Do You Make Of This?”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2014

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.” “The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.” “Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.” “What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.” “For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Book mentioned in this podcast The Movement of the Free Spirit By Raoul Vaneigem

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0:00.0	Greetings from Cyberdelian Space.
0:07.0	...leguistic artchids.
0:10.0	Now...
0:11.0	...meachines.
0:12.0	Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.
0:19.0	This is Lorenzo, and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.
0:23.8	Now, first, a quick mention about the USB thumb drives that I've now shipped to almost everybody who made a donation of $45 or more during our pledge drive.
0:33.6	The last three are going to go out on Monday, at least the last three that I still have addresses for,
0:39.0	because I'm still waiting for a few more addresses.
0:41.8	So if you think that you should have had your drive by now, but it hasn't arrived,
0:45.6	well, please send me your address to donations at matrixmasters, all one word, matrixmasters.com.
0:53.4	And on that thumb drive, of course, our 128 little sound bites of Terrence plus the 400, first 400 podcast.
1:01.9	And I'll have a little bit more to say about the Terrence McKenna sound bites in a future podcast.
1:07.1	Now, before I introduce the talk today, I need to let you know that I was mistaken in my previous
1:13.0	podcast when I said that this series of talks was given in 1989.
1:17.9	I don't, well, I really don't know what I was thinking when I said that, because the talk in my
1:23.0	previous podcast, and the one we are about to listen to right now, were actually recorded in August of 1996,
1:30.0	which means that it was only 18 years ago and not 25, as I mistakenly said last week.
1:36.4	Sorry about that.
1:38.3	So, if you've been with me here for a while, you've heard me say that I was never really taken, very much taken,
1:45.2	with Terrence McKenna's time wave theory. Of course, that's really easy to say now that 2012 has
1:50.6	come and gone. I realize that. But in any event, in the past I've elected to not play some of his
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