Three-dimensional transforming, musical, linguistic objects.

Hello.

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space. This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

And today I'm going to play the third recording that I have from an August 1985 Terrence McKenna workshop

that was held at the Esselin Institute near Big Sur, California.

And when I first tried to listen to this tape, I realized why I'd never heard it before.

This is how it sounded for the first part of the tape.

Is this going to be done or any people that are here for the first time? No. Is this going to see my phone? And it was even worse in some later spots. As you'll see from the picture of the cassette that I'm posting in the program notes, it's the number six unedited tape from the workshop. And I've already podcast number two and seven tapes,

which are the only other ones that I have from this workshop at Essela.

Now, the truth is that I never would have spent the time to edit it to a point where,

well, we can at least make out most of the words.

And I wouldn't have done that except for Graham St. John.

Later this year, MIT Press is going to be publishing in biography of Terrence that

Graham is now putting the final touches on, and the working title is Terrence McKenna,

the Strange Attractor. Now, when I told Graham about these yet unheard recordings, he asked me to do what I could to

make them more listenable just because there may be some interesting historical background in him.

And after he listened to the first one that I cleaned up, he was able to tell me that

among the small group of people in this workshop whose voices we hear is Terrence's then wife, Kat Harrison.

Now, my guess is that this may be one of the very first recordings of Terence that was made at Eslin.

And as you listen to this conversation, please keep in mind that it was made over 38 years ago,

and we've all learned a lot more about psychedelics and sin.

Rather than tell you what you're about to hear, why don't I just play the recording

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