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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 117 – “The Importance of Psychedelics”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotes are by Terence McKenna]
"Culture denies experience."
"We live at the end of a thousand year binge on the philosophical position known as materialism, in its many guises. And the basic message of materialism is that world is what it appears to be, a thing composed of matter, and pretty much confined to its surface."
"We’re literally at the end of our rope. Reason, and science, and the practice of unbridled capitalism have not delivered us into an angelic realm."
"We’re in, essentially, a tragic situation. A tragic situation is a...