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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 267 – “Exploring the Abyss”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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PROGRAM NOTES:
This lecture was recorded in November 1982. A more complete version of this talk may be found in Podcast 317.]
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“My assumption whenever I am confronted with opposites is to try to unify them, to create a coincidentia oppositorum as was done in alchemy, to not force the system to closure but to try and leave the system open enough so that the differences can resonate and become complimentary rather than antithetical.”
“Shamanism, on the other hand [as...