Originally aired as Salon #562 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Psychedelics are like any other social phenomenon. There are a lot of wannabes. There are a lot of people who are along for the ride." "I want to talk about what to my mind is the quintessential hallucinogen…"

Originally aired as Salon #449 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna shares his speculations about what 2012 would bring — a synthesis of his timewave-zero theory and broader cultural projections from the late 1990s.

Originally aired as Salon #226 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Newton himself was a man with a foot in two worlds. He was a thorough-going occultist. His alchemical experiments and notebooks were voluminous. And yet he was one of the founding members of the Royal Society." "History itself is a kind of…"