Today we begin listening to the beginning of a week-long workshop that Terence McKenna gave in June of 1994. Early on, when describing his personal view of the world, he called himself “a resolute optimist of a complicated sort,” which seems to cover a lot of ground. Some of his more interesting thoughts from this talk include: “Consciousness seeks the shape of its vessel. It's like water.” . . . “I will attempt to convert you in the course of these meetings to all kinds of things that I don't believe.” . . . “At the center of the archaic impulse is the shaman. At the center of the shaman's understanding of the world is the boundary-dissolving experience of psychedelics.”
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