Music - Hooray
This is a short recording of Terence McKenna describing various auditory sensations and the discovery of new modes of expression through altered perception. His reflection moves from concrete sound imagery - crackling, tones - to a moment of celebration or cheering, capturing a meditative instant focused on consciousness and sound. A brief but vivid interlude.
transcriptmachine-transcribed, unedited
Let's assume a third toque, long and slow, you vaporize, and you take it in, and in, and in,
and there is a sound, like the crumpling of a plastic bread wrapper, or the crackling,
or the flame, and a tone, a tone, a, there is this, and there is this, there is a cheer,
have learned a new way to say who.
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