In this podcast, Terence McKenna's speculations about the sort of intelligence that seems to reach out to us during psilocybin intoxication are quite interesting, including the thought that perhaps it is actually a form of human consciousness that is reaching out to us from the future. You don't get much more McKennaesque that that, although he comes close several more times in this talk. His starting point for these speculations is: “After you fiddle with psilocybin for a while the question of whether or not there is an alien intelligence becomes moot.” There is some vintage McKenna here, including his statement that “I cannot imagine America legalizing cannabis.” The date of this talk was May 1993. Following Terence McKenna's talk, Lorenzo continues with a story about how an almost insignificant act changed our world.
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