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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 515 – “Our Cyberspiritual Future” Part 1
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“What psychedelics are about is deconditioning all of these culturally induced, sensory biases and idealogical biases, basically it reshuffles the intellectual and sensory deck. And it's a wonderful, salutary thing to come along for Western culture at this moment because we're basically running out of intellectual steam. Technology is moving ahead lickety split without looking over its shoulder, but our social systems, our religious ontologies, our theories of polity, city planning, community, resource sharing, all of this is 19th Century at best. And so, really whether we li...