Originally aired as Salon #699 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna on evolutionary adaptation, novelty, and the long arc of human consciousness.

Originally aired as Salon #486 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna covers stories about the machine-elves and DMT, evolution, the imagination, virtual reality, shamanism, and falling in love.

Originally aired as Salon #439 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Now all that stands between us and some kind of angelic completion of some sort is the dark side of ourselves and the unpaid bills of the historical process." "I am a resolute optimist of a very complicated sort."

Originally aired as Salon #382 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Now the task changes. It's a completely different kind of spiritual universe that you live in after you found the answer, because the task becomes facing the answer. Facing it!" "What we call history is the fall out of a dynamic…"

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."