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Psychedelic Salon

Podcast 416 – “McKenna: Psychedelics Are The Way Out”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8567 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2014

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Culture is the sanctioned virtual reality.” “They try to tell you that you're in a social contract, but when you ask to see your signature on the document they tell you that you were born into this contract. Well what the hell kind of contract is that? It means that you were born into a kind of enslavement to a linguistically powered paradigm, a virtual reality within which you will walk around your entire life.” “The clue that something weird is going on on this planet is ourselves. Obviously! I mean, we are like a fart at the opera.” “History is no longer rationally apprehendable by the systems which created it.” “We're taking bone marrow from the children of the future in order to keep a corpse alive.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

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0:00.0

Greetings from

0:05.0

Musical

0:07.0

Linguistic artchins

0:10.0

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space

0:19.0

This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.

0:24.1

And while I was originally planning to play another of the Palenque Norte talks for you today,

0:29.8

I'm sorry to say that, well, apparently integration back into the default world

0:34.8

must still be taking place among our intrepid burners because, well,

0:39.8

alas, they haven't passed another the talks along to me yet.

0:43.8

But having been to Burning Man several times myself, I completely understand.

0:48.9

Coming back to the default world can be, well, overwhelming sometimes.

0:53.6

In fact, I'm not sure that I've ever

0:55.6

completely recovered myself now that I think about it. So, I've gone to plan B and dug up

1:01.5

another Terrence McKenna talk. Again, I think that it's one that I haven't played here yet, but

1:06.5

if you've been following the comments after some of the McKenna program notes,

1:11.4

you may have noticed the discussion about whether a recent talk was a repeat.

1:15.8

Ultimately, I think it was decided that the talk was new, even though some of the stories weren't.

1:20.9

You see, when people send me these tapes, they sometimes have titles on them,

1:25.1

and other times they just have a date or a place or event noted on it.

1:30.0

And if I was a serious historian or something like that, I guess I'd most definitely do a better job of cataloging these talks for you.

1:38.2

But I'm not anything like that.

1:40.6

And this is just my hobby.

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