entertaining talk, Terence McKenna shares a mind-bending theory about the universe, combining astronomy, ancient civilizations, and quantum physics. He suggests that a catastrophic event 32,000 years ago at the galactic core could have triggered the development of human language. His discussion [̷

�What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It�s a kind of tuneless singing.� �Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence, a situation�