In the Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) of Harman and his colleagues, the human subject is redefined according to the pressures of a “flat ontology” that treats all objects equally. In opposition to OOO, Žižek upholds the pivotal role of the subject as theorized in the tradition of the German philosophers Immanuel Kant, G.W. Hegel and F.W.J.

Originally aired as Salon #700 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. A question-and-answer format that leads Terence McKenna into telling some of the old stories from his early talks — many of which were dropped from his later workshops.

Originally aired as Salon #387 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Psychedelics, by melting assumptions, by destroying the expectations of rigid educations creates a fluidity of possibility that may allow answers to emerge. And it's the only thing that I've seen that operates on a time scale sufficiently short to have an impact."

Originally aired as Salon #359 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "History has been the pursuit of a false god, the god of stability, the god of permanence, the god of the unchanging, and we've become just neurotic on this subject." "What's being said here is reclaim experience."