Understanding Chaos at Historys End – Part 2
Psychedelic Salon
Jonathan
May 3, 202624 June 1989Esalen Institute
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Today we continue with a workshop that Terence McKenna led at the Esalen Institute in June of 1989. Although he begins with an exploration of ideas surrounding the use of sound during psychedelic experiences, he also tells…
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Lorenzo introduces podcast updates and promotes films about veterans, PTSD, and psychedelics before replaying Terence McKenna’s 1989 workshop. McKenna argues that sound, language, psychedelics, and plant-based symbiosis shaped human evolution, culture, and the rise of civilization, ending with a contrast between partnership societies and later dominator cultures.
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