Podcast 412 – “Permitting Smart People To Hope”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2014

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “What's happening is that the computer is allowing us to go beyond the mathematical objects of Greek philosophy.” “The unconscious of the species is actually being hard wired as an artifact. We're pouring glass, and gold, and silicon down the microtubials of the racial imagination. And as it were, making a kind of casting of the state of the human imagination at the close of the millennium.” “Technology is facilitating the drive toward community, at this incredibly accelerated rate..” “The Earth is on the brink of the greatest change since the end of the mesozoic, but people don't like to think about that because all they can think about is the possibility of personal extinction.” “No one can run or program these vast networks except guys with ponytails.” “My intuition was always that the psychedelic experience was a fractal anticipation of human history.” 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 Cyberdial,
0:07.5	linguistic
0:08.2	art chips.
0:10.7	Help me as soon.
0:17.1	Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.
0:19.4	This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.
0:23.8	And the man burns in a few hours.
0:28.3	That's how a burner, that is someone who has been to Burning Man, that's how they keep track of time.
0:33.6	Not by the day, week, or even year.
0:35.5	It's just how many days or right now, how many hours until the man burns.
0:40.3	It's just one repeating cycle of burning the man and then counting down until the next time the man burns.
0:47.3	But sadly, a young woman from Wyoming, who was one of the participants at Burning Man, died after she fell under a large vehicle.
0:55.3	And to put to rest the rumors that started spreading immediately after this tragic event,
1:00.7	an accidental death at Burning Man is really quite rare.
1:04.4	Yesterday, I saw someone on Twitter claim that there was more than one accidental death every year.
1:09.8	Not so.
1:11.2	If I'm not mistaken, this is only the second accidental death in over 10 years.
1:17.2	Of course, you know, there have been several heart attack deaths and at least one suicide I know of.
1:22.5	But the low number of such incidents is quite astounding when you realize that we're talking about a city of over
1:28.9	60,000 people, I guess closer to 70,000 now. Name one other city with over 60,000 people that has such a
1:36.2	low accidental death rate. And on top of that, what really surprises me the most is that hundreds
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