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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 031 – “In the Valley of Novelty” (Part 5)
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna
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2:10 "Civilization has made us uncomfortable with our human-ness because these various technologies and phonetic alphabets and things like that have rearranged our sensory ratios from what they were in Paleolithic times. In a sense, [psychedelics] hit your reset button, they address the animal body, they address a deeper level than cultural conditioning, and so you feel and experience these atavistic images and feelings that civilization has repressed or transmuted in you."
3:53 "Cubism is created when Picasso brings African masks to Paris… Freud ann...