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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 491 – “McKenna, Alchemy, & the World Today”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“A child playing with mercury is an alchemist hard at work, no doubt about it.”
“Buddhism would have gotten nowhere in America had not psychedelics created a context for Buddhist language to take root.”
“Modernity has fixed our minds in the categories of Cartesian rationalism.”
“The imagination is central to the alchemical opus, because it is literally a process which goes on in the realm of the imagination taken to be a physical dimension.”
“We cannot understand the history that lies ahead of us unless we think in terms of a jour...