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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 625 – “Nature Loves Complexity”
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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PROGRAM NOTES:
Date this lecture was recorded: July 17, 1998.
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"You really can't understand the future without the psychedelic experience. History seems to be becoming more and more psychedelic."
"We have all made too many sacrifices in the name of fitting ourselves into the culture we find around us through the circumstances of our destiny."
"[Culture is a] toxic environment that one needs to negotiate with great care."
"Domestication and civilization are curiously intertwined concepts."
"A society has to be...