Originally aired as Salon #486 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna covers stories about the machine-elves and DMT, evolution, the imagination, virtual reality, shamanism, and falling in love.

Originally aired as Salon #226 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Newton himself was a man with a foot in two worlds. He was a thorough-going occultist. His alchemical experiments and notebooks were voluminous. And yet he was one of the founding members of the Royal Society." "History itself is a kind of…"

"What we would call manic depression, despair, and that chaotic, near psychotic state of unbounded hopelessness is the precondition then for the alchemical work." "An angel chartered modern science. It's the alchemical angel, which will not die. It returns again and again..."

In addition to more stories about the machine-elves and DMT, Terence covers evolution, the imagination, virtual reality, shamanism, and falling in love.

"I know that I wouldn't be here if it weren't for Tim Leary. He was the pathfinder. He cut the way through the woods. He gave us all permission to be very much the people that we are tonight."…