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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 090 – “The Balkanization of Epistemology” (Part 1)
Description: Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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02:09 Terence McKenna: "Somehow as a part of the agenda of political correctness it has become not entirely acceptable to criticize, or demand substantial evidence, or expect people, when advancing their speculations, to make, what used to be called, old fashioned sense."
04:10 Terence: "These phenomenon, which we know exist, and which we find rich in implication, would simply not be allowed as objects of discourse, they would be ruled out of order. So there’s something wrong on one level with what’s called empiricism, skepticism, posi...