Podcast 411 – “Our Involvement With Matter”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: At the end of this talk Terence takes off on an interesting riff wherein he speculates that our life here on Earth may have something to do with us learning how to interact with matter as a preparation for some future existence in dimensions yet unknown. If, he postulates, we are the only intelligent species in the universe, then, he asks, don't we have an obligation to announce ourselves to destinations that exist beyond the limits of our solar system. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Being itself is some kind of opportunity.” “Outlandish things are going on inside the psychedelic experience. It seems to imply the thing we had hardly dared hope, which is that the world is whatever you say it is, if you know how to say it right.” “We have never taken the self-management of culture seriously.” “I'm amazed at what thin soup is dished out as spiritual food.” “It's hard to take psychedelics. It's not hard to sweep up around the ashram, but it's hard to take psychedelics.” 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
0:07.0	Greetings
0:08.0	Here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:23.8	And since so many of my friends are about to make the trek to the playa and begin building Black Rock City,
0:30.6	I thought that I would send this Terrence McKenna talk to them to listen to as they head to the burn.
0:36.0	I realize that until someone has the good fortune to attend one of the Burning Man gatherings,
0:41.3	it isn't really possible to completely grok the spirit of the playa.
0:46.1	However, at the end of this talk, Karen speaks about the delicate place in which we now find
0:51.0	our species, and the spirit he invokes brings Burning Man and the Plankanearte
0:56.0	lectures to my mind.
0:58.1	Now, before I play today's talk for you, I first want to remind you that I also post information
1:03.3	that relates to the issues we talk about, and I post them in my flipboard magazine of the same
1:08.3	name, the psychedelic salon.
1:11.2	One of the articles that I posted discussed a recent world survey of cannabis smokers
1:16.3	and ranked each country by their per capita amount of marijuana use.
1:21.0	And who came out on top, do you think?
1:23.7	Not Holland, not Spain, not the U.S.
1:26.9	The number one country in per capita pot use is, drum roll here, Iceland.
1:35.9	There are a lot of other interesting articles in the magazine as well,
1:39.4	but I thought that particular item deserves mentioning.
1:42.6	Way to go, Iceland.
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