Podcast 707 – After the Escaton
Psychedelic Salon
Lorenzo Hagerty
4.8 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Three-dimensional transforming musical linguistic objects. |
| 0:07.0 | Helvetians. |
| 0:14.0 | Greetings from Cyberdelic Space. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon. |
| 0:24.0 | And today, once again, we delve into the visionary mind of Terrence McKenna, |
| 0:29.7 | who was not only a pioneering and theobotanist. |
| 0:32.6 | He was also a mystic and philosopher. |
| 0:35.4 | Now, this interesting talk brings to an end, a workshop where Terence was exploring what |
| 0:40.3 | may happen at the end of the time wave. |
| 0:43.0 | As he notes, his idea predicts every moment up until December 21st, 2012. |
| 0:48.8 | And now, finally, he tackles the intriguing question of what happens after this date. |
| 0:55.2 | And in doing so, he presents several scenarios, ranging from the plausible to the profoundly weird. |
| 1:02.7 | Actually, this is a good example of Terrence's imaginative vision of a future, where he humorously contemplates a world where everyone begins to behave appropriately, |
| 1:13.0 | which to his mind includes taking off all of our clothes and going out into nature, which |
| 1:18.6 | sounds good unless nature is extremely cold or hot at the time, or any of the other things |
| 1:23.7 | it does to encourage us to wear clothing. |
| 1:26.5 | But anyhow, that was his idea, and |
| 1:29.2 | this is as good as any, I guess. Now, this is the last session of this October 1995 workshop at the |
| 1:36.2 | Eselin Institute at Big Sur, California. And hopefully you'll find one or two new ideas here that |
| 1:42.5 | hadn't crossed your mind before. |
| 1:45.0 | Now, here's Terrence. |
| 1:47.0 | The funny thing is, here I have this wave. |
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