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Originally aired as Salon #700 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. A question-and-answer format that leads Terence McKenna into telling some of the old stories from his early talks — many of which were dropped from his later workshops.
Originally aired as Salon #500 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. A milestone retrospective episode featuring clips from talks by Timothy Leary, Myron Stolaroff, Gary Fisher, Fraser Clark, Terence McKenna, and others.
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 #359 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "History has been the pursuit of a false god, the god of stability, the god of permanence, the god of the unchanging, and we've become just neurotic on this subject." "What's being said here is reclaim experience."
Originally aired as Salon #374 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. From the next-to-last talk in a Terence McKenna workshop held in the summer of 1989: "Ego is the absolute impediment to Tao." "We live in a domain of triviality that we have created." "Do we embody the radiant correctness of what we say we are pursuing." "I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright."