Complete twelve-tape participant recording of Terence McKenna's multi-day Esalen workshop on the I Ching, the Tao and the Timewave -- roughly fifteen hours of unedited sessions. Circulated as a participant tape set; the source upload dates it to November 1988 while the Terence McKenna Archives bibliography lists a 1991 Esalen workshop under the title "The Time Wave, the Tao, and Novelty".

Rupert Sheldrake 02:29 Terence McKenna: “The ego is essentially paranoia institutionalized.” 03:53 Ralph Abraham: Considers the possibility that ego became strengthened when psychedelic usage became less frequent. 05:29 Terence: Talks about a “psychedelic rebirth.” 08:15 Tere

Terence McKenna "We have the concept of the ideal city in the ancient world, most especially the ideal city of Plato's Republic. So casually we might call that Utopian fantasy. Although Plato did try to actually realize it in the political organization of a particular city. […]

"History is, in fact, the quenching and the withdrawal of this relationship of symbiosis to the rest of nature." "Hedonists are people who don't take hallucinogens, to my mind, because it largely is very hard work. I mean it isn't always hard..."