McKenna lays out the Stoned Ape hypothesis -- that psilocybin ingestion shaped early human evolution by suppressing dominance hierarchies, strengthening communal bonds and sharpening hunting -- and describes Food of the Gods as a Trojan horse left on the doorstep of anthropology. Released from Esalen's archive as an EXCERPT of a longer August 1992 Esalen talk.

Originally aired as Salon #440 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "The present is this hairline division between the past and the future, and the past exists in memory largely for the coordination of some agenda in the future. And that's history!" "We have thought of history as something that we do."

” “We live at the end of a thousand year binge on the philosophical position known as materialism, in its many guises. And the basic message of materialism is that world is what it appears to be, a thing composed of…

"One of the reasons I'm so fond of psychedelics is because they transcend rhetoric." "Meditation and all these other things I take to be co-options organized by beastly hoards of priests." "One of the most uncool things you can say to another…