Complete twelve-tape participant recording of Terence McKenna's multi-day Esalen workshop on the I Ching, the Tao and the Timewave -- roughly fifteen hours of unedited sessions. Circulated as a participant tape set; the source upload dates it to November 1988 while the Terence McKenna Archives bibliography lists a 1991 Esalen workshop under the title "The Time Wave, the Tao, and Novelty".

Originally aired as Salon #418 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Every drug problem can usually be traced to a previous drug problem." "I think drugs are much safer than gurus." "I've never been absolutely certain that psychedelics have anything whatsoever to do with the spiritual quest."

"One of the reasons I'm so fond of psychedelics is because they transcend rhetoric." "Meditation and all these other things I take to be co-options organized by beastly hoards of priests." "One of the most uncool things you can say to another…