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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 141 – “Contemplating a Visual Psychedelic Language”
Description: Guest speakers: Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna, and Rupert Sheldrake
PROGRAM NOTES:
"I think that any models [of the psychedelic experience] that we can build, verbal, visual, or mathematical are really, really feeble compared to the experience itself." –Ralph Abraham
"It’s the Logos-world that we’ve lost the connection with." –Terence McKenna
"I think the difference between a representation of the [psychedelic] state and being in the state itself is the sense of meaning, engagement, and intensity." –Rupert Sheldrake
"When language became something acoustically processed it became so bloodless that it became then the willing servant of abstraction, which before had been a...