Linear Societies and Nonlinear Drugs
Psychedelic Salon
Jonathan
May 2, 20261999Palenque, Mexico
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Terence McKenna's 1999 Palenque talk on psychedelics as philosophical tools, the cosmological constant, and the partnership between biology and machines. Recorded poolside at the Chan-Kah Hotel near the Mayan ruins, presented by Lorenzo Hagerty as Episode 002 of the Psychedelic Salon.
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Lorenzo introduces a Terrence McKenna talk on psychedelics, science, and the future of consciousness. McKenna argues that psychedelics are philosophical tools, that reality is increasingly shaped by code, machines, and planetary intelligence, and that human evolution may involve symbiosis with technology and the Earth.
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