Lecture and Q&A by Robert Anton Wilson at Sonoma State University, November 12, 1989. Topics range across the Bush–Quayle administration, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rajneeshpuram, the apotheosis of power, the history of intoxication, the Pooka, the John Hull / Contra-cocaine affair, and a long extended Q&A.

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…"

Friday evening opening lecture of the Santa Fe weekend organised by Carmen Blue of Blue Moon Vintage Books & Video, 1990. Terence opens by thanking Carmen Blue and Blue Moon Books and notes it is the first time he has spoken in Santa Fe. Previously mislabelled here as Esalen; corrected on the authority of the Terence McKenna Archives, who hold the physical tapes, and confirmed from the recording itself. Sound Photosynthesis catalogued the full weekend as "Mind & Time, Spirit & Matter: The Complete Weekend in Santa Fe" (#A444-90).