Originally aired as Salon #698 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Near the end Terence McKenna talks about his daily cannabis use and how he and Kat (Harrison) got together — a personal candid moment in his teaching style.

Originally aired as Salon #567 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Recorded April 1995. "I take psychedelics to be the catalysis of language." "This great period of creativity that we're living through now in the sciences, in the arts, in the implementation of exotic technology…"

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 #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 #439 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Now all that stands between us and some kind of angelic completion of some sort is the dark side of ourselves and the unpaid bills of the historical process." "I am a resolute optimist of a very complicated sort."