Originally aired as Salon #288 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "It's impossible to stop the forward march of information." "This is the chaos at the end of history." "Because our culture crisis is so much deeper than during the Renaissance, we are casting back to 20,000 or 30,000 years back into the…"

Roughly one hour of video from the 1989 weekend Terence McKenna shared with Amazon explorer and medicinal-plant researcher Nicole Maxwell. This is an EXCERPT: Sound Photosynthesis catalogued the complete event as a seven-and-a-half-hour set (5 audio cassettes #A478-89 / 4 video cassettes #V192-89). For the fuller record see "Amazonian Shamanism (Complete Weekend) [ft. Nicole Maxwell]" in this collection, which holds 6 hours 24 minutes of audio from the same weekend -- the two do not overlap, so they are complementary rather than duplicate.