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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 028 – “In the Valley of Novelty” (Part 2)
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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1:50 "Whether meditation and psychedelics are the same thing I think depends on your meditation and your psychedelics. Different meditations strive for different things. Much meditation is about emptying the mind of phenomena. This would certainly not be a description of the psychedelic state."
4:14 "Ultimately, the meditation path and the psychedelic path must somehow lead to the same kinds of data if the claims of both are to be respected, which is that they give deeper knowledge about reality."
6:03 "The chemistry of DMT suggests that, in deep REM sleep, it’s po...