Six-and-a-half hours of the 1989 weekend Terence McKenna shared with Amazon explorer and medicinal-plant researcher Nicole Maxwell. Sound Photosynthesis sold the full event as a seven-and-a-half-hour set (5 audio cassettes #A478-89 / 4 video cassettes #V192-89) under the title "Shamanology of the Amazon"; this collection previously held only a one-hour video excerpt of it. McKenna opens by noting "last year I was here with Riane Eisler", which places this at the Ojai Foundation the year after that 1988 weekend. Maxwell is audible throughout, trading Amazonian pharmacopoeia -- contraceptives, abortifacients, plant taxonomy -- against McKenna's overview of shamanism and the ecological crisis.

Anarchist anthropologist and lecturer at Goldsmiths University, David Graeber discusses his new book 'Debt; the first 5000 years' at THBTP salon. He discusses the relevance of debt to understanding our world today, the direct relationship of debt to morals, three modes of interaction (of which debt,

Part 1 of “Discord Under Heaven: A Masterclass with Slavoj Zizek” Birkbeck, University of London

Originally aired as Salon #505 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna asks one of his friends to report on the state of ayahuasca use in Amazonian Peru — a window into late-1980s ethnobotany and shamanic tourism.

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."