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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 364 – “Communicating with the Mushroom”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.”
“What you call man is time.” [Quoting the mushroom.]
“It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.”
“What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the Mandela, DMT is like being str...