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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 185 – “Shamanism and the Archaic Revival”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotes below are by Terence McKenna.]
"People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting."
"The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis."
"And I don’t mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature."
"… of what is essentially a pathological personality pattern. The pattern of the omniscient, omnipresent, all-knowing, wrath...