Jonathan
May 3, 2026
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“I think reason can take us only a certain distance, and then we have to go with the divine imagination.” “There have been many episodes in the history of science where great hope gave way to paranoia.” “The [UFO] hysteria has become…
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Lorenzo introduces a Terence McKenna talk from a UFO convention, then McKenna argues that UFO encounters, psychedelics, and shamanism may reflect the same underlying reality. He uses DMT, psilocybin, and mushroom biology to propose that alien contact is mediated through altered states, language, and human evolution.
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