Originally aired as Salon #469 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "We don't produce enough serotonin for living above 20 degrees latitude." "I'm not a big advocate of mixing drugs. If you really want to get out into unknown territory, where there is the potential for danger, then start pouring these things…"

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.

"This is where I think the psychedelics come in, because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse"

"[The wide variety of psychedelic plants] are the way in which the Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to"