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 #476 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna's overview of habit and novelty, moving into a discussion of time, with poetic language that provides several interesting mental footholds.

"Your inherited allotment of drug synapses is unique, and this is why some people are sensitive to drugs, some people insensitive, some people extremely sensitive. And one of the things about exploring consciousness with substances is you have to sort of learn what…

Some of the topics covered in this talk: Repression of psychedelic drugs Element of risk in taking psychedelics The imagination Interiorization of the body/exterization of the soul Death The importance of psychedelics Bell's Theorem [NOTE: All quotations are by