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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 308 – “In Praise of Psychedelics” Part 1
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
This is the first part of an evening lecture given by Terence McKenna in early February, 1994 on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
“Our [Western] civilization touches everyone on this planet. We are involved in a species-wide crisis, and it's a crisis of adaptation and intelligence. If we can meet the crisis, if we can re-design the cultural machinery so that it can glide in to the new value systems that a limited Earth, and an electronically activated population demands, then we can use the crisis as a st...