Originally aired as Salon #248 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "The dawning paradigm of post-modern consciousness seems to be the growing awareness that we don't know what is happening at all, that all of the models we have worked out over the past five hundred years or so have now become…"

Originally aired as Salon #177 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "McLuhan was synonymous with incomprehensibility in the Sixties." "In McLuhan there is a very deep strain of nostalgia for the essence of the Medieval world of what he called 'manuscript culture'." "Joyce is, in The Wake, making his own alchemical cave drawings."

friends In this follow-up session after Bruce Damer's "Deep Dive into the Mind of McKenna", Lorenzo leads the discussion of the participants in a workshop held at the Esalen Institute in June of 2012. Topics of the conversation include: – Consciousness, not drugs were the focus of McKenna's work […]

Kat Harrison [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "I think our entire culture is headed for being enveloped in a cognitive hallucination where our real wishes will be fulfilled. And that's why it's so important to find out what our real wishes are." "A delusion of grandeur […]

Terence McKenna [NOTE: The following quotations are by Dr. John C. Lilly.] "There is no such thing as drugs. There's no such thing as illegal drugs. They're only chemicals. They can change the molecular configurations within the brain itself and hence change who you […]