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Greetings from Cyberdelic Space. This is Lorenzo and and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.

And today we're going to listen to another talk by the late-great Terrence McKenna.

Some of the thoughts that he'll be passing on to you today include, and I quote,

you could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination, end quote.

And he also says, what is the human enterprise?

What is happening? What is happening on this planet? What the hell is going on here?

If you didn't know better, you would think that he probably said this just yesterday,

and yet two days from now will mark the 24th anniversary of his death.

But in the year that he made those statements, here are some of the what the hell was going on items.

That year, Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan after almost a decade.

Pan Am 103 blew up over Lockerbee. The U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian airliner by mistake

and had over 200 passengers on it. An uprising in Myanmar was suppressed by the military, and the Winter

Olympics were held in Calgary. I don't think that I need to remind you of everything else

that has taken place since 1990, but my guess is that Terrence would still be saying,

what the hell is going on?

And rather than try to answer that,

I'll save that question for tonight's live salon.

But right now, let's hear what was going on in Terence McKenna's mind one day over 35 years ago.

What I sort of want to talk about,

and I can be led away from it if you have other considerations, is I want to...

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