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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 573 – “Countdown Into Complexity” – Part 1
Description: Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
The Baths at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA
PROGRAM NOTES:
Date this lecture was recorded: March 1996
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"My techniques are all shamanic and involve perturbing the senses and dissolving ordinary states of mind through psychedelics. So my techniques are shamanic, but my method is rational and analytical. So I use shamanic techniques to go into shamanic places and then attempt to study them scientifically using reason."
"To me, the New Age is typified by an incredible credulity and an utter immunity to cognitive dissonance."
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