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.

NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Addiction to natural substances, with the exception of tobacco, is something you really have to work at.” “There is something really insidious about synthetic drugs, about concentrating what is a…