Originally aired as Salon #562 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Psychedelics are like any other social phenomenon. There are a lot of wannabes. There are a lot of people who are along for the ride." "I want to talk about what to my mind is the quintessential hallucinogen…"

Originally aired as Salon #546 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast — Terence McKenna riffing on culture, novelty, and the borderlands of mental experience.

Originally aired as Salon #391 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "I have been underwhelmed by the accomplishments of Indian spirituality, personally; overwhelmed by the accomplishments of Amazonian spirituality." "I'm also very suspicious of secrets. I mean, if you tell me one it's finished."

Originally aired as Salon #382 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Now the task changes. It's a completely different kind of spiritual universe that you live in after you found the answer, because the task becomes facing the answer. Facing it!" "What we call history is the fall out of a dynamic…"

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…"