From the "Esoteric, Metaphysical" collection. Recorded at the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles.

Originally aired as Salon #483 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "The great emphasis for the fall into history is this broken connection with this Mind in nature." "We can move no faster than the envelope of language which we generate to describe our journey."

Originally aired as Salon #317 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Topics covered include two types of shamanism (narcotic and non-narcotic), UFOs and aliens, the end of history (the eschaton), the psychedelic experience, psilocybin as dialogue with the Other, death and afterlife, and dreams.

"I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally." "Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a"