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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 533 – “The Social Virus of Political Correctness”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
Date this lecture was recorded: August 4, 1998
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"A certain portion of my audience is flakier than I am comfortable with."
"The whole point with psychedelics was to cut through the programming and the cant, and the propaganda of culture to true truth, real reality, not to just initiate an era of intellectual permissiveness where everything in the spiritual marketplace was placed on the same pedestal as Euclidean geometry."
"It offends me that psychedelic people are susceptible to this [New Age thinking], because it seems to me that we're...