Originally aired as Salon #449 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna shares his speculations about what 2012 would bring — a synthesis of his timewave-zero theory and broader cultural projections from the late 1990s.

At the 'Shamanic Plant Conference' (January 19th 1999 in Palenque, Mexico) the writer, philosopher and shamanism expert Terence McKenna held two lectures entitled "Linear Societies and Non-linear Drugs".