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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 146 – “The Importance of Human Beings”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.]
"What I’ve observed, and I think it’s fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I’ve observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity."
"This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine."
"If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterpr...