Originally aired as Salon #558 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. The last talk that Terence McKenna gave during his August 1993 Scholar-in-Residence program at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, on the way artists like Bosch served as prophetic painters.

Originally aired as Salon #389 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "The 20th century is a great gathering for a leap, and the 19th century was the century of the gentleman." "Whether we can actually make a new world is not clear because the momentum of the past is very great."

Originally aired as Salon #249 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "What would you have if you could have anything?" "I think that life proceeds through time. It's an effort by organism to map one dimension larger than itself. So it takes a whole life to do it."

"Trust your perceptions. Trust your intuition. And then accept the consequences, because this is what existential validity must be." "Must it not be that humanity is the yeast of of the Gaian alchemical rarefaction, and that human history is the process of..."