Two-part Esalen lecture from August 1992. Nominally on politics and ethos, it ranges over psychedelic ontologies, modernity, language, reason, religion and freedom in part one, then shamanism, synesthesia, paranormal phenomena, climatology, astronomy, Renaissance humanism and telepathy in part two. Released from Esalen's own archive.

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".

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.

Originally aired as Salon #204 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "An ideology is a simplification of reality where the vast, messy, baroqueness of being is put through some kind of rasher of language and comes out grossly simplified. … Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity."