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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 240 – “Philosophical Gadfly” Part 1
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"There are several unexplained anomalies. Why is it that fully 80% of the world's known plant hallucinogens are concentrated in the Amazon basin, even though the flora of the Old World jungles of Indonesia is equally rich?"
"The curing scenario of the ayahuascero is easily identified to the curing scenario of shamans world wide."
"I think the word 'psychedelic' is maybe too broad, because it includes things which are very different from each other. It can include things as different as ketamine and mescaline."
"The icaros, the magical...