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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 242 – “Philosophical Gadfly” Part 3
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"McLuhan should be looked at more carefully. I think McLuhan was never correctly centered visa vie the psychedelic phenomena the way he should have been. People thought he was talking about the impact of television and print and this sort of thing. What he was really talking about is how cultural inputs to sensory modalities change self-definition, and the drugs have done that to a great extent."
"The notion of certainty is a culturally naive and unexamined notion."
"The fact that we rely on an intellectual method...