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Psychedelic Salon

Podcast 441 – “The Technology of Spirituality”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8567 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “The absolute victory of habit is death itself.” “Life is apparently a phenomenon in this universe considerably more tenacious than stars.” “When the democratic crunch hits, democratic values will go down the drain long before they turn off the lights and stop delivering the food.” “The Net is a tremendous permission for eccentricity.” “Freakery is the wave of the future.” “If you've never read Moby Dick you certainly should. It's a crash course in psychedelic metaphysics.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Hopkins Psychedelic Survey Please Participate

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0:00.0

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.

0:07.0

...leguistic artchins.

0:10.0

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.

0:20.0

This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

0:24.6

And as of today, our fun drive is one-half over, but we've only brought in enough to cover about four months more of podcasting.

0:32.6

And so far there have been, I guess, about 80 donors who have donated enough to pay for three months,

0:38.0

and two of our wonderful saloners have gone over the top, and between the two of them,

0:42.8

they also contributed enough for another month.

0:45.8

So I'll see what happens during the rest of this month before making any decisions about the future of these podcasts.

0:52.0

And in case you aren't aware of the Fun Drive, you can listen to podcast number 438,

0:56.8

which is very short, and it'll give you all of the details.

1:00.9

But for now, let's get on with today's program.

1:04.7

Now, some of our fellow slaughters may wonder why I left in the part of the talk

1:09.2

that we're about to listen to,

1:10.5

where Terence was going on about all of the talk that we're about to listen to where Terence was

1:11.8

going on about all of the great things on the internet. Duh, you say? Well, this talk was given in

1:19.4

June of 1994, and for us old geeks, well, it's fun to remember just how far we've actually

1:26.2

come in the past 20 years.

1:28.2

So I hope that it doesn't bore you, but keep in mind that when he does give the number of people who went to the second largest site on the net,

1:36.1

well, that's a smaller number of people than who listen to these podcasts.

1:41.1

So let's now join Terrence McKenna and a few friends on a June day in 1994, almost 21 years ago,

1:48.8

as he talks about the technology of spirituality and repeats one of my favorite McKenonisms

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