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."

Originally aired as Salon #357 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path." "The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is."