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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 251 – “The Magic of Plants (Rites of Spring)” Part 4
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"This connection between the cow, and the mother goddess, and the mushroom is some kind of a key to understanding the evolution of religious sensitivity in early man in that part of the Middle East."
"This notion that it was the presence of the mushroom on the African veldt at a critical bifurcation of primate evolution that created the feedback loop which eventually developed into self-reflecting consciousness."
"But it isn't a missing link, I think, it's a missing factor. And the factor which accelerated the forward evolution...