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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 224 – McKenna: “Hermeticism and Alchemy” Part 2
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"I think, when it's all sorted out, it ALL happened in Africa. I mean, language, religion, symbolic activity, theater, all of this stuff was in place in Africa from, say, 20,000 B.C. up until around 9,000 B.C."
"The African 'Cradle of Civilization', I don't even regard that as a theory. Anybody who doesn't believe that is going to have to do some fast talking."
"They [16th century alchemists] were angelic magicians, is what they were."
"DMT is this very short-acting hallucinogen that you smoke, but it's a...