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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 221 – McKenna: “Evolving Times”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing."
"Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence, a situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land, all were in dynamic balance. And not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed. Poetry may have been at its climax. Dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy, there's no...