Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and cultural models of behavior and information processing. They open up the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
— Terence McKenna Contemporary

Psychedelic philosopher

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Lecture: 'Alchemy and the Imagination'

Date / Period

1993

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Controversial

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k3V8vI-g6I

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