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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 418 – “Death By Astonishment”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“Every drug problem can usually be traced to a previous drug problem.”
“I think drugs are much safer than gurus.”
“I've never been absolutely certain that psychedelics have anything whatsoever to do with the spiritual quest.”
“Academic culture runs very heavily on alcohol.”
“It's hard to live a life where you don't eventually get your mind altered.”
“Anything which changes your mind can be abused as a drug.”
“People who have taken 50 gamma of LSD, or 100 gamma of LSD, or two grams of mushrooms or something like that, they are not qualifi...