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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 642 – “Shamans and Their Plants”
Description: RIP QueerNinja
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"And what was this profession [of shamanism] precisely about? Well, it was about exploring the envelop of cognition, pushing against the linguistic membrane of what it was possible to say, symbolize, conceive, and communicate."
"I prefer the organic hallucinogens and recommend them to other people because I think their long history of shamanic usage is the first seal of approval that you must look for. I mean, if these things have been u...