“These are the two things we don’t have: As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As human beings, as individuals, it’s very hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.” “We have not, in this culture, awakened to…

Roughly one hour of video from the 1989 weekend Terence McKenna shared with Amazon explorer and medicinal-plant researcher Nicole Maxwell. This is an EXCERPT: Sound Photosynthesis catalogued the complete event as a seven-and-a-half-hour set (5 audio cassettes #A478-89 / 4 video cassettes #V192-89). For the fuller record see "Amazonian Shamanism (Complete Weekend) [ft. Nicole Maxwell]" in this collection, which holds 6 hours 24 minutes of audio from the same weekend -- the two do not overlap, so they are complementary rather than duplicate.