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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 030 – “In the Valley of Novelty” (Part 4)
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[All quotations are by Terence McKenna]
3:05 "Basically, for me, the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked—on someone who thought nothing would work."
4:06 "What I like to talk about [at these gatherings]—and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about—is the content of the psychedelic experience, which is very difficult to ‘English’, or to bring into any other language."
4:39 "…that was sort of my core specialty, if you will: the ethno-pharmacology of consciousness and the phenomenology of the states there derived. But, after 2...