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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 524 โ โHistory Ends In Greenโ โ Part 1
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
โI cannot conceive of mature human beings going from the cradle to the grave without ever finding out about [the psychedelic experience]. It's like not finding out about sex or something. It's just too weird. It's a part of our birthright. It's not a cultural artifact. . . . This is, as far as I can tell, the dimension in which we most fully experience ourselves as ourselves.โ
โWe have to be very careful about the corrosive effects of culture.โ
โThere was almost a kind of symbiotic relationship between early human bein...