Two-part Esalen lecture from August 1992. Nominally on politics and ethos, it ranges over psychedelic ontologies, modernity, language, reason, religion and freedom in part one, then shamanism, synesthesia, paranormal phenomena, climatology, astronomy, Renaissance humanism and telepathy in part two. Released from Esalen's own archive.

Terence McKenna speaking in Sydney during his 1997 Australian tour.

Originally aired as Salon #389 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "The 20th century is a great gathering for a leap, and the 19th century was the century of the gentleman." "Whether we can actually make a new world is not clear because the momentum of the past is very great."

Terence McKenna Rupert Sheldrake: “Especially in Brittan, this declining confidence in science, and this declining funding of science has let to a reduction of scientific morale. Fewer and fewer people want to study science in schools or go into it as graduate students. . . . […]