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Podcast 626 – “The Birth of a New Humanity” – Part 1
Psychedelic Salon
English - October 07, 2019 19:41 - 1 hour - 95 MB - ★★★★★ - 496 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Science Natural Sciences interview health entrepreneurship business politics news comedy leadership science entrepreneur Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
Photo by Kyle Nieber on Unsplash
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
"Often in what I say there is, if not the fact of contradiction, then the appearance of contradiction. This is because, to my mind, life is complicated enough to admit of contradiction."
"The great thing about the rational program of science is, pushed far enough, it reveals the irrational foundations of nature. And that's really what the crisis in science now is."
"The human imagination, married to technology, has become a force too powerful to be unleashed within the fragile ecosystem of this planet. So we must either carry ourselves elsewhere, or the planet's homeostatic drive to preserve ordinary biology will eliminate us."
"The notion of intoxication is an incredibly culture-bound idea."
"What 'psychedelic' means to me is, in structural terms, a very small number of compounds all based on indoles. The indole hallucinogens are the true psychedelics."
"I prefer to believe that [mind is] coming from the outside. That mind is a field into which we dip the dipstick of observation, but it's not being generated in the neurons of the brain."
"We're living in a fool's paradise, trapped inside the assumptions of linear materialism and rationalism."
"I think that the greatest disservice that science has done to humankind is the marginalizing of our own importance."
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