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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 407 – “The Evolutionary Importance of Technology”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.”
“It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.”
“Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.”
“In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and s...