McKenna: Hermeticism and Alchemy Part 4
Psychedelic Salon
Jonathan
May 3, 2026
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�Newton himself was a man with a foot in two worlds. He was a thorough-going occultist. His alchemical experiments and notebooks were voluminous. And yet he was one of the founding members of the Royal Society.� �History itself is a kind of�
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A psychedelic salon host introduces the final hour of Terrence McKenna’s 1992 workshop on hermeticism and alchemy, then McKenna ranges across Newton, Descartes, Rosicrucian history, and the idea that history itself is an alchemical process. He argues for psychedelic consciousness, population reduction, educational reform, and personal empowerment as responses to modern political, ecological, and cultural crises.
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