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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 504 – “We Are Descendent’s of Stoned Apes”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“I tend to think that there is a kind of unconscious racism in the suppression of the idea that the origin of not high culture but of humanism itself is in Africa.”
“[The psychedelic experience] is about what is real, not what is culturally sanctioned.”
“The ego lives by constraint. It draws lines, and this drawing of lines is a denial of the primary truth of the world, which is that it is seamless and one. Once you start drawing distinctions you're off into dualism, and it's no joke to...