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Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.

This is Lorenzo, and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.

And I want to thank you ever so much for sticking with us during this time of computer problems.

In case you missed it, which I hope you did, our site was down for over 40 hours after the hosting company's tech support made some kind of a mistake

and seriously crashed the site.

As you know, I've been working on a new version of the Salon's Program Notes blog and

the RSS feed with the intention of having a new site up by the end of the year.

Well, I put that on hold for a moment as I make plans to transition all of my

websites to a new hosting company. Hopefully there won't be another major crash, but just hold on

with us for a bit more, and before you know it, all of these computer crashes will be a distant

memory, as are most nightmares, I should add.

Now, in about 20 minutes, you're going to hear Terence McKenna ask you several questions, like,

what do you think is going on?

What do you think this is all about?

And when you hear him say that, I suggest that you pause your MP3 player and take a little time to actually think about these questions that he's asking.

They seem to me to be among the most important questions that any of us can ever ask ourselves.

And yet, most often, when they come up in a podcast like this, well, we listen to the rest of the talk and then promptly forget about them until the next time somebody brings them up.

As Terence says, it's a matter of personal responsibility, personal responsibility,

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