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.

At the 'Shamanic Plant Conference' (January 19th 1999 in Palenque, Mexico) the writer, philosopher and shamanism expert Terence McKenna held two lectures entitled "Linear Societies and Non-linear Drugs".