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 #704 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna on the intersection of psychedelics, computer culture, and the technological frontier.

Originally aired as Salon #699 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna on evolutionary adaptation, novelty, and the long arc of human consciousness.

Originally aired as Salon #442 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "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 hordes of priests."

Originally aired as Salon #365 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it." "We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution."