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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 226 – McKenna: “Hermeticism and Alchemy” Part 4
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"Newton himself was a man with a foot in two worlds. He was a thorough-going occultist. His alchemical experiments and notebooks were voluminous. And yet he was one of the founding members of the Royal Society."
"History itself is a kind of alchemical process. ... History is the catalyst of nature."
"If we could raise to consciousness our alchemical heritage, and our heritage in the shamanism of the archaic, then we could actually see that the purpose of technology is to liberate, not to enslave, and somehow we've...