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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 358 – “This Psychedelic Thing”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“I think if we ever tease apart this psychedelic thing, what we'll discover is it's an inter-species communication system.”
“I'm at war with the keepers of the secrets.”
“One of the motivations for my career is to get other people to check [DMT] out, because here is truly confounding data that you don't have to make an expedition to the heart of the Amazon, or battle your way through hours of waves of nausea and dark spaces, chanting your mantra obsessively. I mean, when you smoke DMT, 30 seconds la...