Three-dimensional transforming musical linguistic objects.

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

And today I'm going to do something that I've, well, I've only done it once before as far as I know.

The first time was by accident, but this time is intentional.

I'm going to replay a recording from an earlier podcast.

There's a long explanation as to why I'm doing this, but I'll spare you the details.

However, after re-editing it for this podcast, I discovered that this one is now seven minutes longer than the earlier version,

but that's because I've become better at recovering voices that were too faint to hear in the original recording.

Now, this may be the earliest recording of a Terrence McKenna workshop at Esselaun, and it is from June of 1984.

For me, I think this may be Terrence's best and most detailed description of the psychedelic experience,

which is why I'm repodcasting it now, rather than referring you to a podcast that I first

published in April of 2014, which is almost 10 years ago.

Graham St. John tells me that this wasn't Terrence's first appearance at Esselin, however.

He said that Joan Halifax told him that Terrence first appeared as a speaker at Esclan in

1972 or 73 as a part of a shamanism seminar that Joan and her then-husband Stan Groff organized.

Apparently that event wasn't recorded.

Of course, it's no wonder that it wasn't recorded because in 1972, the recorders were pretty pricey back then. The purchase price of a

cassette recorder in 1972 was around $200, which is the equivalent to about $1,250 today.

When I was previewing this recording, it struck me that even from the earliest recordings of Terrence that I've listened to,

he was recommending a mushroom dose of five dried grams.

What I've never questioned before now is, where did this amount come from?

Did Terence and his friends do an underground study to find the best dose for a mushroom trip?

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