Originally aired as Salon #577 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "We asked for it, but we never knew we would get it in such spades. Last week was the 25th anniversary of the experiment at La Chorrera." Part 5 of Terence McKenna's Countdown Into Complexity series.

Originally aired as Salon #442 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "One of the reasons I'm so fond of psychedelics is because they transcend rhetoric." "Meditation and all these other things I take to be co-options organized by beastly hordes of priests."

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Date this lecture was recorded: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “We asked for it, but we never knew we would get it in such spades. Last week was the 25th anniversary of the experiment at La Chorrera, and basically it’s a trip that…

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"One of the reasons I'm so fond of psychedelics is because they transcend rhetoric." "Meditation and all these other things I take to be co-options organized by beastly hoards of priests." "One of the most uncool things you can say to another…