Prophetic Painting
Psychedelic Salon
Jonathan
May 3, 2026August 1993Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California
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Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Date this lecture was recorded: August 1993 Today’s podcast features the last talk that Terence McKenna gave during his August of 1993 Scholar-in-Residence program at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. His topic for the evening was the way in which artists like Bosch…
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The transcript is a lecture-style meditation on Hieronymus Bosch, W.B. Yeats, and apocalyptic imagination. It links medieval symbolism, psychedelic experience, and modern technological transformation to argue that art can reveal how cultures picture end times, paradise, and historical transition.
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