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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 177 – “Surfing Finnegans Wake” Part 2
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.]
"McLuhan was synonymous with incomprehensibility in the Sixties."
"In McLuhan there is a very deep strain of nostalgia for the essence of the Medieval world of what he called ‘manuscript culture’."
"Joyce is, in ‘The Wake’, making his own alchemeric cave drawings of the entire history of the human mind in terms of its basic gestures and postures during all phases of human culture and technology."
"Nothing is now unconscious if your data-search commands are powerful enough."
"So really, like for Joyce, for McLuhan the book is the ce...