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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 011 – “Culture and Ideology are not your friends”
Description: Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
A talk by Terence McKenna in Denver – April 1999
TRANSCRIPT OF THIS TALK . . . (PDF Version)
"This is a struggle between novelty and habit." . . . "[Your culture] is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency." . . . Cultures are virtual realities made of language."
One of the things Terence covers in this talk is his take on virtual reality, VR. On February 25th, about two months before this talk, Terence participated in an experiment in avatar-based random in 3D virtual worlds on the Internet.
"We were operating live from Terence’s jungle retreat on the Big I...