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Psychedelic Salon

Podcast 426 – “Alien Footprints”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8567 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2014

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Once you encounter [the psychedelic experience] you see that this is an aspect or an activity as informing of what it means to be human as something as inimical to our nature as sexuality.” “What we lack is the will to change our minds.” “WE are the anomalous factor in the natural world.” “I think part of what being psychedelic is about, the real shock of psychedelics comes from the realization of the relativity of cultural positions.” “Dissolution of boundary is somehow the precondition for understanding reality.” “The truth about reality is that nowhere is it writ large that monkeys should be able to elicit the final understanding of it.” “No theory of consciousness is going to be worth anything that doesn't come to terms with the perturbation of consciousness by drugs.” “This is how I think of mind, that put through the crucible of the psychedelic experience, and I use this kind of alchemical terminology deliberately, put through the crucible of the psychedelic experience the mind becomes fluid and then is recast in a higher dimensional manifold.” “Culture is about to go hyperdimensional. That's what's creating the crisis at the end of history.” “If consciousness doesn't loom large in the human future then it is not a human future.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

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0:00.0

Greetings from

0:03.0

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

0:24.5

And guess what?

0:26.1

The boys and girls who are helping me source these new speakers are all really busy right now.

0:32.2

Either that or they've stopped talking to me.

0:35.1

So that means that I'm going to have to play another Terrence McKenna talk for you today,

0:39.4

and hopefully it's a new one. I say that because a few weeks back I apparently played a talk of

0:45.9

his that I had previously played a couple of years earlier. And I think that's the second time that I did

0:51.9

something like that. You see, I get these tapes from various people, and some have good information about when and where they were recorded, and others just say Terence McKenna talk, or something equally cryptic.

1:04.1

Anyway, I don't remember hearing the one that I'm about to play for you today, so we'll give it a try.

1:09.7

And like usual, when there isn't a written title on the tapes label, I make one up.

1:14.5

As you see, for today, I've settled on alien footprints.

1:18.5

But I tried out several other ideas along the way, and my other possibilities were, a coming-out

1:24.5

party, a curious category of human experience,

1:28.7

extraterrestrial pharmacology, and a psychedelic cosmology.

1:34.0

My guess is that as you listen to this talk,

1:36.7

you'll probably come up with a couple other suggestions as well.

1:40.3

Now, as we begin, you'll hear what was one of Terrence's standard openings to a weekend workshop,

1:46.3

where he says that there is probably someone in the room who has what you want.

1:50.6

I can still remember the first time that I attended one of his sessions,

1:54.3

and I'd already spent several years trying to find a source for DMT, but to no avail.

2:00.2

So when Terrence just came out in the open and said that there were people there who had

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