A long-form Terence McKenna talk on matter, magic and the alchemical imagination, running just over four hours.

Originally aired as Salon #504 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "I tend to think that there is a kind of unconscious racism in the suppression of the idea that the origin of not high culture but of humanism itself is in Africa." "The psychedelic experience is about what is real."

Originally aired as Salon #440 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "The present is this hairline division between the past and the future, and the past exists in memory largely for the coordination of some agenda in the future. And that's history!" "We have thought of history as something that we do."

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "A nature trip is an eyes wide open trip." "I think LSD is abrasively psychoanalytic." "I don't see an intellect outside of space and time guiding things, and certainly not watching with baited breath the machinations of the human monkeys. I mean, […]

Rupert Sheldrake 03:08 Terence McKenna: “Another way of thinking of it (the Knot of Eternity) is it’s the nexus of connectivity. It’s a place where everything is cotangent, as the mathematicians say. Everything is connected, and I think that’s the place we […]