
Plants and Mind (Part 1)
Psychedelic SalonJonathan
May 3, 2026April 1993
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Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Date this lecture was recorded: April 1993 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “I think the great overlooked factor in any model of human evolution, and indeed of evolutionary models of many other species, is we have not given enough emphases to diet.” “What…
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Lorenzo introduces a podcast series featuring Terence McKenna’s 1993 lecture on the stoned ape hypothesis. McKenna argues that psilocybin and changing African ecologies shaped human consciousness, social hierarchy, shamanism, and the rise of agriculture and civilization.
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