Originally aired as Salon #389 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "The 20th century is a great gathering for a leap, and the 19th century was the century of the gentleman." "Whether we can actually make a new world is not clear because the momentum of the past is very great."

Rupert Sheldrake 03:15 Rupert Sheldrake: “The present educational system mimics the initiation process and indeed is a kind of initiation process.” 07:18 Rupert: “And indeed it is the scientific priesthood envisaged by Bacon in the scientific world, the academic model and […]

Rupert Sheldrake 05:40 Terence McKenna: “Going back to this thing about language, you get this same peculiar emphasis on language and letters in the esoteric doctrine that surrounds the chakras.” 06:57 Terence: “Linearity in print conferred upon language an inability to […]