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Terence McKenna: Mushrooms, Mind, and the Limits of Revelation
This episode uses AI-generated voices for both hosts, Virtual Bob and Jane River.
How can a thinker remain valuable when major claims fail?
Virtual Bob and Jane River examine McKenna’s ideas about fungi, language, culture and human evolution. They follow the La Chorrera story, the Logos and the archaic revival, then ask what evidence would support the stoned-ape proposal and what to learn from Timewave’s failed prediction.
The conversation separates experience, interpretation and evidence. It gives Kathleen Harrison’s ethnobotanical work its own place in the story and ends with a listening…
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