Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake Terence McKenna: “In the absence of cannabis the dream life seems to become much richer. This causes me to sort of form a theory, just for my own edification, that cannabis must in some sense thin the boundary between the conscious and unconscious mind. … […]

Five-and-a-half-hour Esalen workshop from December 1994. Catalogued by the Terence McKenna Archives bibliography under two titles -- "Eros, Chaos, and Meaning's Edge" and "Hot Concepts and Melting Edges" -- and previously held here under the fan-assigned names "This Counts, Somehow it Matters" and "A Higher Dimensional Section of Reality". Identified by audio cross-correlation against two independent copies of the same recording.