Podcast 635 – “The Birth of a New Humanity” – Part 4

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

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🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: October 2, 1992. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]> "The horrible thing about UFO-people who claim contact is that the aliens they present to us are so incredible mundane. [They are] so much more mundane than what you would encounter on a DMT flash. They're just like the neighbors next door." "With alien intelligence the trick is not to find it but to to recognize it when it's in front of you." "Intelligence is a very slippery concept. Sometimes we can't even identify it in the person sitting next to us on the bus." "I think the world is a lot stranger than we can suppose without invoking benevolent aliens who prefer vegetarian diets and who come from the stars. Why do they so fit our preconception of what they would be?" "I think the best protection against unpleasant experiences on psychedelics is to do it with care and attention in environments that are safe and low on sensory input. In other words, you don't take it and go to a crowded singles bar, or even a rock 'n roll concert. If you have to combine psychedelics with rock 'n roll, do it with low doses." "I am terrified of psychedelics. I never take them without a sense of sickening dread." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

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0:00.0	Good.
0:02.0	Greetings from
0:06.0	musical
0:07.0	linguistic objects.
0:10.0	Helvetles
0:12.0	Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.
0:16.0	This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:24.6	I'd like to begin today by thanking our frequent donors, Samuel G. and Ian W.
0:30.9	As well as my 418 Patreon supporters for helping to keep these podcasts coming your way.
0:37.4	And also I want to give a very special
0:39.6	thank you to John G., whose large recent donation allowed me to buy the reading chair that I've
0:45.5	been wanting for a long time. You know, it's the first time in over 20 years that I've had a
0:51.8	comfortable chair with a good light to read in. And, you know, for somebody
0:55.9	like me, it's like being at a county fair and allowed to eat all the cotton candy you want.
1:00.7	There's a big smile on my face if you can't tell. So thank you one and all for your support this
1:06.5	year. It's really been gratifying to have you behind me. Now, in just a moment, I'm going to play today's somewhat brief talk by Terrence McKenna.
1:16.4	While there were still a couple of questions left in this recording from an October 1992 workshop,
1:23.1	I decided that they weren't interesting enough to end this podcast on after what I consider to be a
1:29.8	really great rap about drug safety by Terrence McKenna. And that's what I'm going to end on. So I'm
1:35.7	going to make a few brief comments right now and then let Terrence end this talk without any more
1:40.3	comments from me. But there are two things that I'd like to put some Memphis on and
1:45.6	to prod you to think about for a little while. In fact, next year in the live Monday night salons,
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