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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 223 – McKenna: “Hermeticism and Alchemy” Part 1
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic."
"In a Christian context magic is heresy because it implies that man can command god to act. In other words that in some strange way the magician compels nature to behave as the magician desires."
"The Hermetica actually refers to humanity as the brother of god. So it's a completely different attitude toward being human. It's an empowering attitude."
"In the hermetical, magical view human beings are not tainted...