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 #483 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "The great emphasis for the fall into history is this broken connection with this Mind in nature." "We can move no faster than the envelope of language which we generate to describe our journey."

Originally aired as Salon #439 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Now all that stands between us and some kind of angelic completion of some sort is the dark side of ourselves and the unpaid bills of the historical process." "I am a resolute optimist of a very complicated sort."

Originally aired as Salon #370 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition." "Clearly, what is happening is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order." "The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman."

Rupert Sheldrake 03:48 Ralph Abraham: “So eventually the 60s happened, and probably my first experience that I would now identify as a real religious experience was the experience of LSD.” 07:17 Ralph: “What’s gone wrong in the world now is a loss […]