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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 440 – “The Tao of the Ancestors”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“The present is this hairline division between the past and the future, and the past exists in memory largely for the coordination of some agenda in the future. And that's history!”
“We have thought of history as something that we do. History is something that is done to us, and therefore we are not responsible. This is the first thing to understand. History is a process. It's like waves in the ocean, and you are a cork.”
“That's what the psychedelic experience is. It opens the inner eye, and w...