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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 372 – “The Intentionality of Meaning”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.”
“Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.”
“Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.”
“Once they pledge allegiance to a given model of reality, then that absolves all necessity for further thought.”
“Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electron...