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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 505 – “Ayahuasca Stories From 1989”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
Today we pick up on the third section of a Terence McKenna workshop that was held in December of 1989. An interesting feature of this session is a report that Terence asked one of his friends to give about the state of ayahuasca use in Amazonian Peru. As one of the earliest accounts of what a Westerner will encounter when searching for an ayahuasca experience, we get to hear what it was like in the jungle before the plague of ayahuasca tourism took hold. One of the interesting ways in which he describes an ayahuasca...