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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 202 – “Appreciating Imagination” – Part 2
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"What we have been calling human consciousness is the only consciousness there is. It’s something you tap into, not something you evolve out of yourselves."
"If your local language is insufficient then you abide in a domain of intuition, and that’s what I would call animal consciousness. It’s a domain of intuition of being. Animals intuit being. But given a more advanced nervous system and a more advanced cultural tool kit the intuition changes into a direct perception, and you begin to make poetry and exp...