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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 091 – “The Balkanization of Epistemology” (Part 2)
Description: Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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05:25 Rupert Sheldrake describes how one could go about creating a "consumer’s report" for odd-ball theories.
06:23Terence McKenna:"Ninety-five percent of the scientists who have rejected astrology cannot cast a natal horoscope, and that the ability to actually cast a horoscope never seemed to be required of these high-toned scientific critics of astrology. It was something they felt perfectly free to dismiss without understanding."
07:26 Ralph Abraham: "Well, the hypothesis of causative formation, of course, favors deeper fluff. . . . The thing about astrology is that people say it...