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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 439 – “A Resolute Optimist of a Complicated Sort”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“Now all that stands between us and some kind of angelic completion of some sort is the dark side of ourselves and the unpaid bills of the historical process.”
“I am a resolute optimist of a very complicated sort.”
“If you have the psychedelic experience in your inventory of experiences, you are able to make a different model of reality than if you lack it.”
“I don't think that what the shaman is doing is something metaphorical, or analogical, or allegorical. What the shaman is doing is something real...