Podcast 440 – “The Tao of the Ancestors”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2015

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “The present is this hairline division between the past and the future, and the past exists in memory largely for the coordination of some agenda in the future. And that's history!” “We have thought of history as something that we do. History is something that is done to us, and therefore we are not responsible. This is the first thing to understand. History is a process. It's like waves in the ocean, and you are a cork.” “That's what the psychedelic experience is. It opens the inner eye, and what the inner eye sees is time.” “A human being is a kind of a plant/animal combination when they are at perfection. That's why shamanism is such a high ideal, because what shamanism really is is a symbiosis with the plant world.” “Western civilization is the bundled group of civilizations that have been most distant from plant hallucinogens for the longest time.” “Without doubt, in my mind, the most unique feature of psilocybin is that it speaks. It speaks in your native tongue.” “All other spiritual disciplines drive with the accelerator to the floor. That's how you do it. When you come to psychedelics suddenly there arises a great interest in locating the brakes.” “Technology is biology pursued by other means.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Recent Reddit AMAs with Lorenzo The Psychonaut sub Reddit The MDMA Therapy subReddit

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0:00.0	Greetings from
0:05.5	musical
0:06.9	linguistic art chips
0:09.2	and Greetings. Greetings from Cyberdelic Space. This is Lorenzo, and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:24.2	And yes, I really did think that I'd get this podcast out a couple of days sooner, but to tell
0:29.8	the truth, I just didn't feel like spending so much time at the computer this past couple of days.
0:34.8	So I did something that I haven't done in a while and simply read. But some of
0:41.7	our fellow sliners didn't take the week off, and so my first report about our annual fun drive is a good
0:47.4	one. In the first seven days of our drive, 42 people have made contributions, and they add up to enough to take us to this coming
0:56.9	June 10th, which will be the 10th anniversary of podcasts from the psychedelic salon.
1:01.8	So I can now rest easy knowing that for sure I'll be able to complete 10 years of podcasting
1:07.0	in just a couple of months. Now it's up to our fellow saloners to determine how many months beyond June we'll keep going.
1:14.6	And I'm hopeful that the next three weeks of the Fund Drive will be successful enough to keep us going until next March,
1:21.1	and we'll have to go through this exercise once again.
1:24.8	Also, I'd like to thank Kevin Jay and Raymond R, both of whom wrote a recent review for the revised paperback edition of my novel, The Genesis Generation. And I want to thank the four people who purchased a copy of it on Amazon. They don't send me any information about who purchased a copy, but whomever bought the copy on March 3rd is the owner of copy number one, and the purchase on March 4th was copy number two.
1:51.3	Now, if you want to know more about this year's Fund Drive and the gift that comes with every donation, then you can listen to podcast 438, which is very short and gives all the details.
2:02.9	Now let's get on with the show.
2:05.2	If you recall, in the podcast just before this one, we left Terence just as he had put forth the conventional view about how we humans wound up with such big brains.
2:16.3	And so this session picks up with Terrence telling his ape and the mushroom story.
2:21.0	And I have to admit my first impulse was to cut that part out,
2:25.2	as it's something that most of us have heard before.
2:28.0	But I couldn't find a good place to pick up without his lead-in.
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