Politics And Ethos (Two Parts)
Terence McKenna
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Aug 7, 2026August 1992Esalen Institute, California 1, Big Sur, CA, USA
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Two-part Esalen lecture from August 1992. Nominally on politics and ethos, it ranges over psychedelic ontologies, modernity, language, reason, religion and freedom in part one, then shamanism, synesthesia, paranormal phenomena, climatology, astronomy, Renaissance humanism and telepathy in part two. Released from Esalen's own archive.
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Terence McKenna explores psychedelics as a gateway to altered perception, shamanic knowledge, and a deeper structure of consciousness. He links these experiences to language, culture, history, and science, arguing that reality is stranger and more dynamic than conventional models allow.
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