Terrance McKenna shares his opinions on the true self. "When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche... It's from that position outside the cultural operating system that we can begin to ask real questions about, what does it mean to be human, what kind of circumstance are we caught in, and what kind of structures if any can we put in place to assuage the pain and accentuate the glory, and the wonder, that lurks waiting for us, in this very narrow slice of time between the birth canal and the yawning grave?" - Terrance McKenna

The following videos are from the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, Switzerland, March 21st - 24th 2008, where more than fifty experts from all over the world speak in regards to the multi-dimensional psychedelic experience and its potential for expanding consciousness and self-awareness.

The first video is (1) a compilation of the event, which is a four day seminar on the subject of empathogenic, entactogenic and entheogenic substances. (2) Jeremy Narby describes the fundamental differences in methodology of science and shamanism. (3) Daniel Pinchbeck recounts his psychedelic initiation with the Bwiti people in West Africa, where he consumed the root bark of an iboga tree. (4) Kathleen Harisson discusses her non-profit organization Botanical Dimensions. (5) Dennis McKenna talks about amanita muscaria, iboga and ayahuasca. (6) Allyson Grey converses on the subject of 'what do we tell the children?' And, (7) Thomas B. Roberts explains his understanding that psychedelics and other mind/body techniques can make us more adaptable and responsive to change.

In this radio-interview, Neil Kramer discusses his blog (the Cleaver), and his awakening to consciousness, self-actualization, spirituality and eschatology. Neil describes his interest in The Matrix (1999) and is asked to explain his knowledge of entheogens, reporting that, "the main event is to shift the frequency of consciousness from the 3D spectral realm to another one, thats what it's for."

In this video, researcher and author Terence McKenna is interview by Jeffrey MishLove on the show Inner Work. Terence discusses psychedelic substances like Psilocybin and DMT, and how they played a role in the psychology of humans past progression.

"When the hunting packs of early primates, followed along behind the cattle, they inevitably encountered the mushroom, ate it. Had there visual skill thereby increased, bread more readily therefore survived more easily then there non-mushroom eating cousins. So the eating of mushrooms and the development of higher aspects of consciousness, including self reflection, were thereby enforced. Leading the conclusion that it was actually a symbiotic relationship between early primates and these hallucinogenic plants. That laid the bases for what we call human beings." -Terence McKenna