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Psychedelic Salon

Podcast 423 – “Is There Hope In All Of This?”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8567 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2014

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.” “[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.” “You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.” “Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants” “Capitalism is a gun pointed at the head of global civilization.” “The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.” “We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.” “Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.” 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 from Cyberdelic Space. And I'mzo, and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.

0:23.8

And while I was tempted to play another of the Plankay Norte lectures today,

0:28.1

I thought that it would probably be best to wrap up this little Terrence McKenna workshop

0:32.7

that I started playing back in podcast number 416.

0:36.4

As you'll recall, this workshop took place in February

0:39.4

of 1992, and it began on a Friday evening. Well, we've now heard the Friday night talk, as well

0:46.5

as everything on Saturday, up to where he began a four-hour walkthrough of his time wave

0:51.5

software. And if you've been with us for a while, you already know that, except for the rare case,

0:57.0

I think that we've probably heard enough about that faded theory.

1:00.8

But I should also warn you that early on in this talk, Terence tells us that in La Chirera,

1:06.5

he became what he called a kind of alien ambassador for the mushroom or perhaps for the other itself.

1:13.9

He really wasn't too clear.

1:15.8

But this is precisely the same story, even though it's much abbreviated from an earlier telling that I played.

1:22.0

But it's the same story, nonetheless, that some of our fellow slauners have taken to be a form of code that Terrence was using to let us know that he had actually become an agent of the CIA.

1:33.3

Well, I guess if you eat enough mushrooms that you can maybe get that meaning out of what he says, but you'll have to be the judge of that for yourself.

1:42.6

But wait, there's more.

1:44.5

I most certainly don't want any lovers of conspiracy theories, both real and imagined, to be let down.

1:51.5

Personally, I think it's kind of fun to come up with a new cockamamie theory once in a while,

1:56.1

just to see how far along we can string somebody before they figure out we're pulling their leg.

2:02.2

So there's a new conspiracy theory that I'd like to say that I invented on my own, but in truth, I've actually

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