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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 191 – “The Ethnobotany of Shamanism” Part 5
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable."
"This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human."
"It’s a relationship [ingesting mushrooms] like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you can...