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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 351 – “What Is Truth?”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.”
“The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.”
“If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.”
“So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics...