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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 591 – “Understanding Chaos at History’s End” – Part 3
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
Minoan Crete
PROGRAM NOTES:
Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989.
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"Addiction to natural substances, with the exception of tobacco, is something you really have to work at."
"There is something really insidious about synthetic drugs, about concentrating what is a vegetable essence, and very diffuse. Opium was no problem until morphine came along."
"One of the things I think we have to disabuse ourselves of is that science knows anything about these things. The human studies were never done."
"You may have the notion...