Our planetary birth process
Psychedelic Salon
Jonathan
May 3, 2026
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"Language is the software without which we wouldn't be people." "Culture is a strategy for intensifying the dimensionality of an animal species." "Somehow, the psychedelic experience is related to this bootstrapping process of climbing, organizationally, from one dimension to another, deeper and deeper into […
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Terrence McKenna discusses psychedelics as tools for ego dissolution, insight, and shamanic transformation, linking them to language, time, consciousness, and cultural evolution. The episode also includes the host’s personal reflections on weather, refugees, Cuba, and recent books by fellow writers and artists.
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