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Lorenzo: I was originally planning to play another of the Planké Norté talks for you today, but apparently integration back into the default world must still be taking place among our intrepid burners. So I've gone to Plan B and dug up another Terence McKenna talk. This talk took place in February of 1992, which was a year of major events in the life of Terence McKenna. One of those events was the publication of a new book, his first one after the publication of the Mushroom Growers Guide that he wrote with his brother Dennis.

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Culture is the sanctioned virtual reality.” “They try to tell you that you're in a social contract, but when you ask to see your signature on the document they tell you that you were born into this contract. Well what the hell kind of contract is that? It means that you were born into a kind of enslavement to a linguistically powered paradigm, a virtual reality within which you will walk around your entire life.” “The clue that something weird is going on on this planet is ourselves. Obviously! I mean, we are like a fart at the opera.” “History is no longer rationally apprehendable by the systems which created it.” “We're taking bone marrow from the children of the future in order to keep a corpse alive.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option