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and today we get to Greetings from Cyberdelic Space. This is Lorenzo, and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

And today we get to listen in on a conversation between Shona Home, who you already know if you've been with us here for a while, and Diana Slattery.

In a moment, you're going to learn more about Diana, but if you've been with us since the very early days of the salon,

then you should probably recognize her name.

I can't remember exactly when it was, but after I'd done a couple of dozen podcasts, oh, maybe even 50, I don't really remember when it was,

but I had almost run out of new material to play.

Then one day, a man delivered a big box to me, and in that box were dozens and dozens of

audio tapes of Terrence McKenna talks. As you'll hear in a few moments, when Diana was

working on her Ph.D., she conducted what must still be the most in-depth study of how Terrence

used language. And having finished her work with those tapes, well, she sent them all to me to play

here in the salon. And while I've said it here before, and I also got to tell her in person when we

were at Esselin together a couple years ago, Without those tapes, the salon would have died on the

vine. The fact that I'm still doing these podcasts has a great deal to do with Diana's early

support and encouragement. And so I am more than pleased that we now have an opportunity

here in the salon to get to know her a little better. So let's join Shona and Diana now.

This is Shana Home, and I am about to have a conversation with a very amazing woman who have

great admiration for Diana Reed Slattery.

And first of all, Diana, welcome.

Thank you.

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