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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 123 – “Opening the Doors of Creativity”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotes below are by Terence McKenna.]
"Nature is the great visible engine of creativity against which all other creative efforts are measured."
"The precondition for creativity is, I think, is disequilibrium, what mathematicians now call chaos."
"The prototypic figure for the artist, as well as for the scientist, is the shaman."
"This really is the bridge back to the archaic, shamanic function of the artist, permission to explore the irrational."
"And this pulling into matter of the ideas of human beings, first in the forms of beadwork and chipped stone and carved...