Greetings from Cyberdelian Space.

...leguistic artchids.

...and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.

And I want to begin today by apologizing for the misleading title of this podcast. Now it is true that you will be hearing from Terence McKenna in this podcast today.

For example, even though this talk

was given over 25 years ago, he nonetheless does have a few things to say in this talk that are,

well, they're still kind of pertinent right now. For example, he says,

You know, our idea of nature is that it's all tooth and claw. Surv survival of the fittest and the devil take the hindmost.

The new version of evolution is entirely different.

It says the way you attain survival is by making yourself indispensable to everybody else.

So it's not by triumphing over the ecosystem, but by integrating

yourself so thoroughly into it that it can't function without you. Then you're on your way

to being a dominant species, not by crushing the opposition. But Terence won't be talking about social distancing in this podcast.

I'm going to talk about that.

Of course, even that is kind of misleading because I'm going to talk about the opposite of

social distancing, which today means forming digital communities and getting together on lines.

And in my world, it's in ways other than through Facebook.

Now, the reason I want to add my comments at the beginning of a Terrence McKenna talk

is that if I put my comments in a standalone podcast, well, not nearly as many people will download it.

That's just the truth. But I think that you will want this information because I'm now hosting four live salons every week, and you

and your friends are invited to join us. On top of that, with some help from other saloners,

we now have a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week chat room open just for the

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