Podcast 625 - "Nature Loves Complexity"

Today's podcast features a July 1998 a wide-ranging talk given by Terence McKenna. Here are a few sample sound bites: "You really can't understand the future without the psychedelic experience. History seems to be becoming more and more psychedelic." and "A society has to be incredibly confident of its first premises to allow its citizens to habitually and regularly explore altered states of consciousness." and "The entire Internet- computer-revolution rides on the backs of people who were taking LSD in the Sixties. People have expressed horror at this idea and then taken opinion polls at various professional gatherings, such as Sigraph and Comdex, and gatherings like that, and have this insight confirmed overwhelmingly. The entire post-1950s edifice of information transfer and replication technology was created by psychedelic people, and it's serving them very well, as well as the corporate elite."