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Terence McKenna

The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.

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Psychedelic Salon

Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.

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Discovering Ketamine with Dr. Edward Domino

PodcastThe Hamilton Morris Podcast30 June 2026Hamilton MorrisHost#ethics #pharmacology #psychedelic

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Politics And Ethos (Two Parts)

LectureLive EventEsalen Institute (Voices of Esalen)August 1992Esalen Institute, California 1, Big Sur, CA, USATerence McKennaSpeaker#consciousness #psychedelics #shamanism

Two-part Esalen lecture from August 1992. Nominally on politics and ethos, it ranges over psychedelic ontologies, modernity, language, reason, religion and freedom in part one, then shamanism, synesthesia, paranormal phenomena, climatology, astronomy, Renaissance humanism and telepathy in part two. Released from Esalen's own archive.

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The Stoned Ape Hypothesis

LectureLive EventEsalen Institute (Voices of Esalen)/ Excerpt22 August 1992Esalen Institute, California 1, Big Sur, CA, USATerence McKennaSpeaker#consciousness #shamanism #psilocybin

McKenna lays out the Stoned Ape hypothesis -- that psilocybin ingestion shaped early human evolution by suppressing dominance hierarchies, strengthening communal bonds and sharpening hunting -- and describes Food of the Gods as a Trojan horse left on the doorstep of anthropology. Released from Esalen's archive as an EXCERPT of a longer August 1992 Esalen talk.

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