Psychedelic Salon 231
Bruce Damer in conversation with Terence McKenna during the Virtual AllChemical Powwow, Hawaii, February 1999

PROGRAM NOTES:

In this podcast we have a two-part program that begins with a reminiscence by Bruce Damer about how he came to know Terence McKenna. I then follow that with a recording of one of the last conversations Bruce and Terence had at Terenceâs house on the Big Island of Hawaii just a few weeks before Terence was laid low by a tumor in his brain.

One of the reasons I think it might be interesting for you to hear this conversation is to get a feel for what it was like to hang around with the bard McKenna. While you might think that he did most of the talking, you will find that the opposite is true, and much like Aldous Huxley, Terence did a lot of questioning and listening. It wasnât only from books that they acquired their particular views of the world.

See Also:
A Gigantic Unplanned Experiment ⦠on You by Bruce Damer

Terence McKennaâs comments on NPR about his time with Bruce
âI spent last week withBruce Damer, who is one of the great mavens of interactive, virtual worlds, and we were dressing in avatars, meeting people in cyberspace ⦠and then opening several virtual worlds at once on your screen. So you actually have the experience of being in more than one place at one time. After a couple of hours of that you leave the keyboard, and you can practically feel the McLuhanesque reprogramming of your communications-based categories based on this bizarre informational environment that youâve been spending time in.â

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