Host Daniel Pinchbeck dives into the works of artists and thinkers who explored the visionary state, from the Renaissance to Postmodernism: Shakespeare, The Romantics. Also the encounters of anthropologists such as Richard Schultes, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Michael Harner with Amazonian shamanism. What can we learn from the psychedelic insights of Walter Benjamin, Antonin Artaud, Ernst Junger, Henri Michaux, Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, the Beat Generation (Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs), and so on? Rediscovery of psychedelics in the 1960s. Timothy Leary and John Lilly. Repression of psychedelics at the end of the 1960s. The post-60s psychedelic philosophy of Terence McKenna and Jose Arguelles. The evolution of modern psychedelic thought with Jeremy Narby, Tom Roberts, Rick Strassman, Kat Harrison, Wade Davis, and others. Discussion and sharing.