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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 345 – “Transhuman Encounters”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.”
“By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.”
“The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' ” And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imp...