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#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics

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The DMT Experience of Terence McKenna

Many people describe the psychedelic experience in sort of near-death experience terms. The encountering of all this visual imagery tends to be something that is often described as more real than real. So how does Terence McKenna talk about this? He sits down with his friends Ralph Abraham and Rupert Sheldrake at Esslyn, and they're trying to figure out the meaning of these discarded entities or non-human intelligences. And he says that number one, they're either semi-physical, but kind of elusive. Beings that exist somewhere between mythology and zoology.

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