Originally aired as Salon #463 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "I describe myself as a tall man with a cheap watch." "If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before." "In a sense, the Italian Renaissance is the medieval lead turned to the…"

Originally aired as Salon #317 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Topics covered include two types of shamanism (narcotic and non-narcotic), UFOs and aliens, the end of history (the eschaton), the psychedelic experience, psilocybin as dialogue with the Other, death and afterlife, and dreams.

Originally aired as Salon #226 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Newton himself was a man with a foot in two worlds. He was a thorough-going occultist. His alchemical experiments and notebooks were voluminous. And yet he was one of the founding members of the Royal Society." "History itself is a kind of…"