We hear a presentation from Terence Mckenna from December of 1982. Its titled Tryptamine Hallucinogens and Consciousness. This was in cassette format. I mentioned this tape in past shows because until I listened to it, I didn't know about Mckenna's work. It was in Florida 1994 and I was helping a friend move a large wooden cabinet that held nice dishware and glasses. Once I moved it away from the wall, there was a white cassette with some writing on it and I saw the word halluinogens and asked if I could listen to it. My friend said you can have it, I think its my Mom's. At the time I had a 4 hour freeform radio show on Fridays and it was perfect material to drop in as fragments throughout the show. A few years later I would hear Terence interviewed by Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM. Terence Mckenna had redefined the hero's journey. Very few could embark on daring psychedelic quests and return with in depth articulation describing these abstract fleeting experiences. In past shows, we've talked about how the shaman's role in a community has been eliminated in modern culture. The vacuum left in its place is often filled by a malevolent trickster such as the evil clown syndrome that occurred some years back. In another presentation Terence said that the shaman connects the scientist, the doctor, the engineer, these professional disciplines that when isolated from the shaman express their shadows onto their community.