Two-part Esalen lecture from August 1992. Nominally on politics and ethos, it ranges over psychedelic ontologies, modernity, language, reason, religion and freedom in part one, then shamanism, synesthesia, paranormal phenomena, climatology, astronomy, Renaissance humanism and telepathy in part two. Released from Esalen's own archive.

I talk with ethnomycologist Cullen Clark about his work describing two new Psilocybe species in Southern Africa and becoming the first outsider to observe and describe the use of Psilocybe species in African traditional medicine. Clark also provides an extended analysis of African cave art depicting mushroom use.HamiltonMorris.comLimited Stock in Exclusive Hamilton Morris Podcast MerchandiseKykeon Analytics A fully anonymous mail-in drug checking lab service. CannaclearGet 15% off with the co...

Originally aired as Salon #446 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna tells stories about how Gordon Wasson was first led to investigating the mushrooms of Mexico, and discusses possible use of magic mushrooms by the Sufis.

Originally aired as Salon #189 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god. This is probably a memory of a relationship to…"

Originally aired as Salon #374 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. From the next-to-last talk in a Terence McKenna workshop held in the summer of 1989: "Ego is the absolute impediment to Tao." "We live in a domain of triviality that we have created." "Do we embody the radiant correctness of what we say we are pursuing." "I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright."