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 #484 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "I don't think you are going to spend very long involved with these things at a deep level without scaring your socks off eventually. One of the great things about these psychedelic teachers is that they are so gentle with beginners."

"I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally." "Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a"