Today's podcast features a talk by Terence McKenna that he wrote ahead of time, unlike his normal method of sculpting his presentations according to questions asked by his audiences. However he does return to two thoughts that we have heard before: "The s

Today's podcast features three raps by Terence McKenna. Although I've titled today's podcast "McKenna's Psychedelic Rhapsody," this is actually an audio recording of Terence McKenna's live performances at two raves that were documented in Ken Adams' brill

Today's podcast features an interview with Glenn Irving who is a volunteer with the project known as #ThankYouPlantMedicine. As the project's title tells you, this is an effort to spread the word about ways in which the plants have come to our aid. The fi

Today's podcast features one of the true heroes of the counterculture, Paul Krassner. In addition to leading the creation of our underground press, Paul was friends with important free-speech advocates such as Lenny Bruce and Abbie Hoffman. If you were al

Today’s podcast features a conversation that took place in the Live Salon a few weeks ago with Sohpia Rokhlin. Sophia is an author, speaker and nonprofit organizer from New York City. Through engaged botany and ecology, she bridges the worlds of indigenou

Today's podcast features a talk by Ram Dass in which he tells the story of his path from psychedelic researcher at Harvard University, through India, and to life in a temple. There he completed his journey from being Richard Alpert, a high-flying universi

Our guest today is Robert Anton Wilson, and he begins by suggesting that everyone mail a urine sample to Nancy Reagan in the White House, since she is the one who came up with the idea of drug-testing all adults who want a job. After several more humorous

In today's conclusion to a weekend workshop that Terence McKenna gave in early October of 1992, he gives the reasons that lead him to not believe that extraterrestrial, self-aware life forms have visited the Earth. Even after describing the vision he enco

Today's podcast features the third installment of an October 1992 presentation by Terence McKenna. Like many of his talks that were directed by questions from the attendees, a wide variety of topics was covered. Basically, this talk reflected the interest

Today's podcast features a conversation from last Monday's Live Salon with Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D., who is a professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University. Tom not only began teaching the world's first university catalog-listed psychedelics course i