McKenna lays out the Stoned Ape hypothesis -- that psilocybin ingestion shaped early human evolution by suppressing dominance hierarchies, strengthening communal bonds and sharpening hunting -- and describes Food of the Gods as a Trojan horse left on the doorstep of anthropology. Released from Esalen's archive as an EXCERPT of a longer August 1992 Esalen talk.

A lecture in Boulder, Colorado in 1983 with a small group of people with Q & A. Topics range from consciousness to emerging technologies (part 2).

A lecture in Boulder, Colorado in 1983 with a small group of people with Q & A. Topics range from LSD to Drug War.

Originally aired as Salon #484 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "I don't think you are going to spend very long involved with these things at a deep level without scaring your socks off eventually. One of the great things about these psychedelic teachers is that they are so gentle with beginners."

Guest speakers: Shonagh Home & Diana Reed Slattery Today's podcast features a conversation between Shonagh Home and Diana Reed Slattery who is a practicing xenolinguist and psychonaut. She has been investigating linguistic phenomena in the psychedelic sphere for over 15 years. Her website, Psychedelics & Language, details this research. Her science fiction novel, [R