Originally aired as Salon #699 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna on evolutionary adaptation, novelty, and the long arc of human consciousness.

Originally aired as Salon #698 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Near the end Terence McKenna talks about his daily cannabis use and how he and Kat (Harrison) got together — a personal candid moment in his teaching style.

Originally aired as Salon #382 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Now the task changes. It's a completely different kind of spiritual universe that you live in after you found the answer, because the task becomes facing the answer. Facing it!" "What we call history is the fall out of a dynamic…"

Originally aired as Salon #357 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path." "The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is."

Originally aired as Salon #189 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god. This is probably a memory of a relationship to…"