Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna (Minutes : Seconds into program) 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 […]
Category Archives: Evolution
Podcast 030 – “In the Valley of Novelty” (Part 4)
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) [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 […]
Podcast 016 – “A Short History of the Human Species”
Guest speaker: Fraser Clark PROGRAM NOTES: A story about reversing the Big Lie . . . The true story of Monkey’s Marvelous Trip from theAfrican Jungle toInner and Outer Space by Fraser Clark. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Podcast 011 – “Culture and Ideology are not your friends”
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 […]
Podcast 003 – “Beyond Belief: The Cults of Burning Man”
Guest speaker: Erik Davis PROGRAM NOTES: A talk by Erik Davis at Burning Man 2003. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Podcast 002 – “Linear Societies and Nonlinear Drugs”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: A talk by Terence McKenna at the Palenque Entheobotany Conference in 1999. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Podcast 001 – “Psychedelic Thinking and the Dawn of Homo Cyber”
Guest speaker: Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: A talk by Lorenzo presented at the Mind States II conference in Berkeley, California in May of 2001. Full text of Lorenzo’s talk Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option