Originally aired as Salon #560 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna waxes eloquent about the writing of Marshall McLuhan, whose 1960s work was considered a revolutionary break with traditional ways of thinking about media. Recorded August 1993 at the Esalen Institute.

Originally aired as Salon #440 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "The present is this hairline division between the past and the future, and the past exists in memory largely for the coordination of some agenda in the future. And that's history!" "We have thought of history as something that we do."

Originally aired as Salon #177 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "McLuhan was synonymous with incomprehensibility in the Sixties." "In McLuhan there is a very deep strain of nostalgia for the essence of the Medieval world of what he called 'manuscript culture'." "Joyce is, in The Wake, making his own alchemical cave drawings."