McKenna: Evolving Times
Psychedelic Salon
Jonathan
May 3, 2026
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�What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It�s a kind of tuneless singing.� �Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence, a situation�
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Lorenzo introduces a Terrence McKenna talk centered on psilocybin, evolution, and consciousness. McKenna argues psychedelics shaped human language, sociality, and spirituality, and that modern society should rethink technology, ideology, and ecology in light of a planetary, Gaia-like intelligence.
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