Originally aired as Salon #560 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. Terence McKenna waxes eloquent about the writing of Marshall McLuhan, whose 1960s work was considered a revolutionary break with traditional ways of thinking about media. Recorded August 1993 at the Esalen Institute.

Originally aired as Salon #177 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "McLuhan was synonymous with incomprehensibility in the Sixties." "In McLuhan there is a very deep strain of nostalgia for the essence of the Medieval world of what he called 'manuscript culture'." "Joyce is, in The Wake, making his own alchemical cave drawings."