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

And today we're going to rejoin Terrence McKenna and listen to a bit more of his June 1994 workshop,

which also includes his take on the state of the world back then, and, well, to me, it sounds almost as if it was given

last night. Actually, I'd kind of forgotten how prophetic and, well, almost religious Terrence

could get when he was deep in the thrall of his visions of 2012. And since I didn't come into

contact with Terrence and his work myself until, well, about five years after this talk was given,

my remembrance of him doesn't include such wild speculations as we're going to hear in this talk.

In other words, and this is only my personal impression, but some of the scholarship that's currently underway might confirm or deny this,

but it's my impression that as the

2012 date became closer, Terence began to temper some of his more wild speculations, like

the ones that we're about to hear today. But his payoff really comes when he challenges us

with the question, why do I believe this?

And when you hear him say that in a few minutes, you may agree with me that the only reason

I can see that any of us really believe those wild 2012 speculations that he was coming

out with back in the 90s was because we wanted to believe them.

Which, if you think about it, well, it actually comes kind of close to a religious belief.

Now, when he gets to the point where he says that what is accelerating right now is our technology,

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