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."

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there's a limited pool there that we're all after." "Because I believe psychedelics […]

"These psychedelics, which in the Sixties and Fifties were simply called consciousness expanding drugs, a good old phenomenological description, if there is an iota of possibility that they expand consciousness then we must put out attention on this area. Because it is…