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Podcast 623 – “Timothy Leary Meets Jiminy Glick”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Timothy Leary PROGRAM NOTES: Dates when these interviews were recorded: 1973 and 1992. [NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.] "The best philosophers often end up in prison. ... Most of the men that I model myself after have been lucky if they just got away with being in prison for their ideas." "I have no more to do with drugs that Einstein has to do with the atomic bomb." "I based my entire life on Socrates. He's the guy that caused all the troubles in history. His motto was, 'The aim of human life is to know thyself.' And this is very subversive." "As soon as I studied books about Socrates, I realized that [philosophy] is a dangerous profession because you're teaching people to question authority. I realized that this job which I was going to undertake, the corrupting of the minds of youth, pays poorly, it gets you in serious difficulty with authorities." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Skip E. Lowe Obituary Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books
Podcast 622 – “Nirvana Is Where You Are”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Alan Watts Alan Watts PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Alan Watts.] "The Bodhisattva returns into the world, that means he has discovered that you don't have to go anywhere to find Nirvana. Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it." "But the main thing [about death] is the attitude that death is as positive as birth and should be a matter for rejoicing because death is the symbol of the liberation." "The ordinary world and the Nirvana world they are the same worlds. But what makes the difference is the point of view." "Everything you know is remembered." "Always surround death with joyous rites because this is an opportunity for the greatest of all experiences when you can finally let go because you know there's nothing else to do." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Imperfectionists Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books
Podcast 621 – “Insanity and Psychedelics”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "If you insist on, I don't want to use the word 'abusing' it, but if you insist on using psychedelics frequently, at high doses back-to-back, you will unlock your way into a set of assumptions, and perceptions, and feelings that not very many people can follow you into. And then the question is have you gone into a spiritual domain or have you just fallen off the track? And it's hard to tell, and maybe it can happen both ways." "What does it mean if it becomes harder and harder to take these things? Does it mean you're getting out of balance? Does it mean you're just getting older? Where should the blame be put, and what can you do about it." "Maybe [the psychedelic community is] a special slice. First of all, it is a monkey brain that we're operating with here. Nowhere is it writ large that it can actually encompass 'the truth'. Why should it? . . . So then, if you're into these consciousness-expanding techniques, whether it's just paying attention, or using psychedelic drugs, or something else, then you actually get to a place where there is an abyss of knowing." "Nowhere is it writ that the universe should be rationally apprehendable." "Abstract expressionism, all of these things, Freudianism, Jung, National Socialist, it's all anti-reasonable. From the point of view of the 19th Century we don't have to worry about madness, we are mad, every last one of us. We've so thoroughly imbibed the values of modernity that we are incomprehensible to our own past." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books
Podcast 620 – “Psilocybin and the Mycology of Consciousness”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Paul Stamets Lorenzo and Paul StametsOrcas IslandMarch 2019 PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 21, 2019. [NOTE: All quotations are by Paul Stamets.] "As we reach down and we find a mushroom, we have a Eureka moment that as we touch the mushroom we are touching a portal into an underground network of wisdom." "In a single cubic inch of soil there can be more than eight miles of mycelium." "Mushrooms had their form well before we had ours. These are ancestral organisms. These are not just miscellaneous little fungi growing on the ground. These are elders. These are ancient individuals. These are bastions of knowledge. Encyclopedic in their history of evolution." "[Consuming psilocybin mushrooms] would be a shared community experience. And it wouldn't happen one time. It wouldn't happen ten times. It would happen millions upon millions upon millions of times over millions of years. Circumstantially, you cannot deny the possibility that the constant ingestion of magic mushrooms would have an impact on the evolution of human consciousness." Books by Paul Stamets Fungi Perfecti Makers of Host Defense Mushrooms Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Mushroom Stones Paul Stamets' Mushroom Stones A young Paul Stamets Breitenbush Mushroom FestivalHalloween 1999 Lorenzo is on the bus! Microdosing Foumula
Podcast 619 – “RAW and the Information Age” – Part 2
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: December 1988. [NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.] "Anything that becomes a cliche eventually makes people stupid." "You've gotta deal with the future because that is where you are going to be spending the rest of your life." "Most of human history shows that we only do things the intelligent way only after we have tried every possible stupid way and found out that none of them worked." "I see interest disappearing, along with rent, in the next several years." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books
Podcast 618 – “Rick Strassman’s Groundbreaking Research”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Rick Strassman Joseph Levy Escapes Death PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 5, 2019. Today's podcast features a conversation with Dr. Rick Strassman, author of DMT The Spirit Molecule that took place last Monday evening in the Live Salon. During this wide-ranging interview Dr. Strassman discussed DMT, psilocybin, Gary Fisher, science, medicine, psychedelic research, mysticism, and the Bible. Joseph Levy Escapes Death by Rick Strassman Rick Strassman MD, author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule Interviewed by Graham Hancock Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books
Podcast 617 – “Science Fiction Meets Science”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Bruce Damer Lorenzo and Bruce, who is wearing his "spiritual flight suit". PROGRAM NOTES: Date this conversation was recorded: July 29, 2019. Today's podcast features a conversation with Dr. Bruce Damer that was held last week in our live salon. Although Bruce has made over 30 appearances on these podcasts, it has been a year and a half since he has been back to bring us up to speed on his latest activities, which include a recent presentation at the IONS conference, participation in the selection of the next Mars landing site, his origin of live research in the Outback, and the Shulgin Chip. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Bruce Damer's Patreon Page Bruce Damer's Home Page Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books
Podcast 616 – “High Weirdness”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Erik Davis PROGRAM NOTES: Date this conversation was recorded: July 22, 2019. In today's podcast we listen in on a live salon conversation with author Erik Davis, who is an author, podcaster, award-winning journalist, and popular speaker. Erik was also instrumental in establishing the Palenque Norte Lectures at Burning Man, which eventually led to these podcasts from the Psychedelic Salon. In 1999, Terence McKenna first brought Erik to my attention, and it has been a fascinating intellectual ride for me to follow his work since then. In this conversation, among several other topics, Erik talks about his new book, High Weirdness, which explores the work of Robert Anton Wilson, Phillip K. Dick, and Terence McKenna as they strode through the 60s, 70s, and into our future. Erik Davis' Techgnosis High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies by Erik Davis Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Paul Krassner Paul Krassner Obituary
Podcast 615 – “Exploring DMT Space”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Daniel McQueen Daniel McQueen PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: July 15, 2019. Today's podcast features a conversation from our live salon last week with Daniel McQueen. Several weeks ago we heard from Dr. Andrew Gallimore, who co-authored a paper with Dr. Rick Strassman regarding ways in which to extend an NN-DMT experience through an IV drip. Today we hear from Daniel McQueen, who is the founder of Medicinal Mindfulness and is a leader of the extended DMT research project that is based on the paper by Gallimore and Strassman. During our conversation, Daniel described the preparation and training that is now underway as a small group of psychonaughts prepare for a systematic exploration of the state of mind we experience while under the influence of DMT. DMTx Medical Mindfulness Psychotherapy & Psychedelic Consultation Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books
Podcast 614 – “Meditation and Psychedelics”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Mike Sapiro Dr. Mike Sapiro PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: July 8, 2019. Today's podcast features a conversation that I had with Dr. Mike Sapiro who is a clinical psychologist, meditation teacher and former Buddhist monk. He is the founder of Maitri House Yoga and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. His work integrates psychology, noetic sciences, nondual and Buddhist meditation, and social justice in the service of awakening. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Dr. Mike Sapiro's website Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books
Podcast 613 – “Iboga and Ibogaine”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Levi Barker and Gary Cook PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: July 1, 2019 Today's podcast features a recording from last week's live Monday night salon. Our guests were Levi Barker and Gary Cook who called in from the Iboga Wellness Center in Costa Rica. Levi Barker is a trained Iboga Provider in the Missoka Bwiti tradition and was trained to serve the medicine by Tenth Generation Bwiti Shaman Moughenda Mikala. The Iboga Wellness Center was founded by Gary Cook, and it is the longest-running shamanic Iboga retreat center in the Western Hemisphere. One of the topics we discuss concerns the different ways in which the plant iboga is used in healing compared with ways in which ibogaine, one of eleven active alkaloids in iboga, is used to heal opoid and other addictions. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Levi Barker website Iboga Retreat In Costa Rica Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books
Podcast 612 – “RAW and the Information Age” – Part 1
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson PROGRAM NOTES: This talk was recorded in December of 1988. Robert Anton Wilson's talks have always been a favorite of mine. How could I not like listening to someone who says things like, "Not even Kafka dreamed up the idea of a government inspecting the urine of its citizens." In today's podcast we hear his take, back in December of 1988, on the changes that have begun to enter our lives as a result of the proliferation of personal computers and the Internet. Since this talk was given four years before the introduction of the World Wide Web, it is surprising at how relevant it remains yet today. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Two new interviews with Lorenzo on other podcasts Charmers Podcast Episode 4: Lorenzo Hagerty From Notre Dame to Burning Man and Beyond Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books
Podcast 611 – “At Home With DMT”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Andrew Gallimore Andrew Gallimore PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 17, 2019. Today's podcast features an interview with Dr. Andrew Gallimore regarding his protocol for extending DMT experiences with a drip technology. This conversation was recorded during one of our weekly live salons. Dr. Gallimore joined us from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology where he based. Andrew is a neurobiologist, chemist, and pharmacologist who is interested in the relationship between psychedelic drugs, the brain, consciousness and the structure of reality. His current focus is on developing a methodology whereby a detailed study of the DMT experience can be made. Andrew Gallimore Website Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game A Model for the Application ofTarget-Controlled IntravenousInfusion for a Prolonged Immersive DMT Psychedelic Experience Dr. Andrew Gallimore - Talking with Aliens Pt 1 DMT Nexus STARMAKER Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books
Podcast 610 – “Beyond the Medical Model for Psychedelics”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Annie Oak and Ismail Ali Guest speakers: Annie Oak and Ismail Ali PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: February 26, 2019. Thanks to the new wave of research, psychedelics are poised to soon have legal medical use. MDMA- and psilocybin-assisted therapy are entering their final trials with “breakthrough therapy” designation by the FDA. But what’s beyond the medical model? Psychedelics have also long been used in personal, cultural, and sacramental contexts. Independently of any diagnosed disease, psychedelics can aid in the betterment of well people and support creative and spiritual growth. Regardless of whether psychedelics are legally sanctioned, there will always be “recreational” use in uncontrolled contexts. In a future society that recognizes these uses, what exactly do the systems look like that support risk reduction - and benefit maximization? In today's podcast, Annie Oak from the Women's Visionary Congress and Ismail Ali from MAPS discuss this issue. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books
Podcast 609 – “The Rose Garden – Introduction”
Guest speakers: William Leonard Pickard Kat & Alexa Lakey, discussing The Rose from Santa Cruz, and Cusco, Peru Julian Vayne & Nikki Wyrd, reading from Devon, England Brother David Steindl-Rast, reading from Gut Aich Priory in Salzburg, Austria Ben Sessa MD, reading from London, England Ralf Jeutter, reading from Germany Julie Holland MD, discussing The Rose from New York City Ryan Place, reading from Detroit, Michigan Mark Schunemann. reading from the University of Oxford Estia from University of Durham (UK), reading from Paris Jo from University of Durham, reading at Durham, England Nese Devenot PhD, reading from Case Western University School of Medicine Bruce Van Dyke, reading from Reno, Nevada Greg Sams, reading from London, England PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features an introduction to The Rose Of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments by Leonard Pickard. Rolling Stone once called Pickard "The Acid King", and his book is being called a modern masterpiece. It tells the story of an international clan of secret LSD chemists. And who better to tell this story than Leonard Pickard, who is now serving two life sentences in a maximum security prison in the United States, having been accused of manufacturing large quantities of acid, billions according to one ex-DEA agent. Over the next two years we will present a reading of this book, along with commentary, by friends of Leonard's. Today we feature an introduction of The Rose of Paracelsus with a series of readings from various chapters, followed by some commentary on the readings. In the months and years to come, we will be podcasting a reading of this entire book, chapter-by-chapter. EMAIL address to contact the producers: therose (at) psychedelicsalon (dot) com The Rose Of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments by Leonard Pickard "The Acid King," by Reilly Capps Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books
Podcast 608 – “Danny Nemu and the Neuro-Apocalypse”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Danny Nemu PROGRAM NOTES: Danny Nemu Today's podcast features a conversation that fellow saloner, Lex Pelger had with the Reverend Danny Nemu, author of 'Science Revealed' and 'Neuro-Apocalypse.' Their conversation covers how Danny found religion in Japan, looked for psychedelics in the Gospels, explored the world of legal highs, and how a tropical infection changed his life. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Danny Nemu's Website Danny Nemu's Vimeo Site Neuro-Apocalypse by Reverend Nemu Danny Nemu's Twitter Feed Getting high with the most high: Entheogens in the Old Testament Psychedelic Press Journal XXII with Danny's essay on racism and discrimination in ayahuasca-related anthropology Danny's Psychedelic Salon talk in Berlin on May 26 2019 A YouTube playlist of Danny Nemu's lectures and podcasts Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 607 – “Music, Psychedelics, and Magic”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Matthew Schultz PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 15, 2019. Today's podcast features a conversation between Michael Kokal and avant-garde musician and artist Matthew Schultz. He was a founding member of the dark ambient band Lab Report, which included such diverse musicians as Genesis P-Orridge, Lydia Lunch and Chris Connelly. Schultz also invented the A.T.G. or Anti Tank Guitar and utilized this instrument with the Lab Report and Pigface. In total, Schultz has appeared on over 29 cds with 9 solo productions and 2 feature film soundtracks. Matt has also spent time in Peru working at an Ayahuasca healing center as a facilitator. He has worked extensively with Lakota and Mayan Elders for over 15 years and is a water pourer for sweat lodges. He continues to be involved in indigenous medicine ceremonies of many varieties. More information about Matt's art More information about Matt's SweatLodge More information about Matt's music and Lab Report End of the Road Podcast with Michael Kokal Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 606 – “Michael Pollan Discusses Psychedelics”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Michael Pollan Now available in PAPERBACK! PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 6, 2018 Today's program features an interview with Michael Pollan by Michael Margolies from the Psychedelic Seminars project in San Francisco. Pollan is the author of seven previous books which were all New York Times bestsellers. In 2010, TIME magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In today's podcast, Michael turns his attention to the psychedelic renaissance and discusses his most recent book, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. The book not only documents the characters behind the recent boom in psychedelic science, but Michael also provides some very personal first-person accounts of his own psychedelic experiences. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World Paperback by Michael Pollan Joe Rogan Experience #1121 with Michael Pollan Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Mike Margolies Website Psychedelic Seminars Psychedelic Seminars PATREON Page Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 605 – “Microdosing: Benefits, Risks, Unknowns”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: James Fadiman and Ayelet Waldman Mike Margolies, Ayelet Waldman, and James Fadiman PROGRAM NOTES: Date this interview was recorded: October 22, 2018. Today's podcast centers around microdosing psychedelics, LSD in particular. Much of today's interest in microdosing psychedelics blossomed after the publication of The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide, which was written by Dr. James Fadiman, who has been featured here in the Salon in the past. And we are fortunate today to listen to a conversation between Jim Fadiman and Ayelet Waldman, author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life. Their conversation was moderated by Mike Margolies, who you already know from his work a year or so ago on the Blue Dot Tour, from which we heard many podcasts. This conversation is one of a series of live streamed events presented by Psychedelic Seminars, the San Francisco Psychedelic Society, and Simulation. "I think psychedelics are great for people who don't like meditation, and I think that for people who like meditation they're also very good." -James Fadiman Psychedelic Seminars Hosted by Mike Margolies James Fadiman's Website Ayelet Waldman's Website DanceSafe Psychedelic Seminars Microdosing: The Benefits, Risks, & Unknowns w/ Jim Fadiman & Ayelet Waldman Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 604 – “Healing With Sound”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Matt Pallamary and René Jenkins René Jenkins and Matt Pallamary PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 2019. Today's program features a conversation between frequent guest, writer, and musician Matt Pallamary and René Jenkins who among other things is a ceremonial sound practitioner. During their discussion you will learn about the work that they have been doing with music during medicine ceremonies. They also discuss their gratitude for the guidance and teaching they have been given by world musician Tito la Rosa. René Jenkins Ceremonial Sound Practitioner Matthew J. Pallamary Author, Editor, Shamanic Explorer Mystic Ink Publishing The Prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor Tito la Rosa "Ayni" with Tito la Rosa and René Jenkins Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 603 – “Treating Opioid Addiction with Ibogaine”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Andrew Tatarsky and Lakshmi Narayan PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 22, 2019 Today's podcast features a recording of a recent session of the Psychedelic Salon LIVE in which our guests were Dr. Andrew Tatarsky and Lakshmi Narayan. In an interactive conversation with several of our fellow saloners, Andrew and Lakshmi told of their work in beginning the process of rescheduling ibogaine in a medical category that will better facilitate the work of treating opioid addictions. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option AWAKE . NET IBOGA/IBOGAINE Directory of Services The Center for Optimal Living Personalized solutions for drug & alcohol problems We Need to Change Our Thinking About Addiction by Andrew Tatarsky Ph.D. An Ancient African Remedy Helped Me Kick My Opioid Addiction Overnight Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 602 – “RAW Theology”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: Sometime in 1987.] [NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.] There truly is no way to succinctly describe a talk by Robert Anton Wilson. This is one that you will want to listen to more than once. "The first time I tried [ketamine] I had an experience unique in my whole life. I was absolutely convinced I was god. I have had that suspicion on occasion, but this time I was absolutely convinced." "I'm really not about to set up as an exponent/proponent telling people to go around trying [ketamine]. It's a very interesting experience, but I think it's post-graduate work for those who have already been through the more elementary courses. I don't recommend it for beginners." "I think that the best way to achieve immortality is by not dying at all." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 601 – “The Secret of Psychedelics”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Alan Watts. Alan WattsPhoto from Archive.org PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Alan Watts.] "If you have a radio, you don't only need an antenna, you also need a ground. So what happens in the world of mysticism, of psychedelic visions and so on, needs to be grounded." "Any law of this nature, any law that tries to enforce by the power of the state its morals, or your own business in looking after your own nervous system, is in fact an unenforceable law. And all unenforceable laws lead to blackmail and public demoralization." "The rule for all terrors is to head straight into them." "LSD is one such chemical that produces the curious effect of making you aware of the polarity of things." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 600 – “Elders from the Sixties Discuss LSD”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Myron Stolaroff, Sidney Cohen, Al Hubbard, Timothy Leary, Oscar Janiger, and Humphry Osmond Left to Right: Myron Stolaroff, Sidney Cohen, Al Hubbard, Timothy Leary, Oscar Janiger, and Humphry OsmondPhoto credit: Erowid.org PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: February 16, 1979. Today's podcast features the audio track from the well-known last gathering of several of the men whose work was done in the very early days of what today is becoming known as the Psychedelic Renaissance. These men, who included Myron Stolaroff, Sidney Cohen, Al Hubbard, Timothy Leary, Oscar Janiger, and Humphry Osmond came together on a February day in 1979 and talked about some of their research, and some of their adventures, during the early days in which widespread use of psychedelics, particularly LSD, came into play. VIDEO of this conversation at Archive.org A Conversation on LSD on Erowid.org Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 599 – “The Psychedelic Hospice Movement”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Lorenzo Hagerty A view of Roasario Resort in the distance ... on Orcas Island, Washington PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 22, 2019 Today's podcast features the talk that Lorenzo delivered at the recent Imagine Convergence held on Orcas Island. The Imagine Convergence was a gathering of change-makers, intellectuals, innovators and cultural creatives who explored cross-disciplinary solutions to our current global complexities. Lorenzo's talk focused on end-of-life issues and what he calls The Psychedelic Hospice Movement. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option VIDEO of "The Psychedelic Hospice Movememt" by Lorenzo Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 598 – “A Conversation with Nick Sand”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Nick Sand Lorenzo at home with Usha and Nick Sand PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features an interview given by legendary chemist Nick Sand, the creator of Orange Sunshine LSD. In this interview, given a few years before Nick's untimely death, we hear him explain what led him to become a psychedelic chemist as well as the many trials and tribulations he suffered over many years of incarceration as a prisoner in the War on Drugs. Nick Sand's Underground Cannadian LSD Lab Podcast 037 “Imprisonment & Liberation Aspects of Consciousness” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 597 – “Terence McKenna on Art Bell” Part 2
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 19, 1998. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Repeated exposure to cannabis socializes it dramatically, and it becomes a much more manageable thing." "I can imagine the culture crisis getting so crazy that the people at the top will have to turn to their cohorts and say, "Call in McKenna and his friends." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 596 – “Terence McKenna on Art Bell” Part 1
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Art Bell PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features an interview that Terence McKenna did on the Art Bell radio program on March 19, 1998. This conversation begins with an interesting discussion of how Terence was living off the grid at the time, but it then proceeds to cover such topics as: Sandoz acid, technology, culture, artificial intelligence, aliens, UFOs, psychedelics, DMT, War on Drugs, television, coffee, politics. And this is only Part 1 of this interview. [NOTE: The following quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "If you could build a DMT virtual reality, they would come!" "I once heard politics in America described as a civil war in a leper colony." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 595 – “The Edge Runner” Part 2
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 1990. Today’s podcast features the second part of a talk that Terence McKenna gave in May of 1990. Rather than follow a script for this talk, Terence answers questions from the audience which feature such diverse topics as the family, education, ayahuasca, DMT, history, language, and psychedelics. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “For us, authentic meaning is beheld.” “History is the lower-dimensional language slice … among other things, of course.” “We have to educate people about drugs, and we have to tell them the truth. And the truth, unfortunately, is complex. So how do you tell a kid a complex truth?” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Entheo Medicine January 19, 2019 The Imperfectionists Don’t Get Owned Download a free copy of Lorenzo’s latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo – Volume 1
Podcast 594 – “The Edge Runner” Part 1
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 1990. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “The world that we are living in is not at all as the linguistic structures we have inherited would have us have it. We are actually living inside some kind of artificial construction which is potentially permeable by human understanding but to date has not been.” “The unspeakable is the ground of language.” “History is the story of the cancerous and unchecked growth of the ego.” “If our god is omnipotent, omniscient, never wrong always right, utterly unforgiving, this is a jerk! Who needs this? We don’t need this. Our image of deity is pathological. Our image of deity is the image of the cancerously untamed ego.” “Psychedelics are not an ideology. Psychedelics are an experience.” “What the shamans say is truer than anything we can say about them.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo’s latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo – Volume 1
Salon2 056 – “The Harvard Psychedelic Club”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Gunther Weil Gunther Weil PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast from our Psychedelic Salon 2.0 track features some epic stories from a psychonaut who’s seen it all. His name is Gunther Weil. Gunther escaped the Holocaust, worked with Tim Leary on the LSD Concord Prison Experiment, worked on Aerosmith’s first album, recieved a Ph.D. from Harvard, and hung out with Alan Watts, Alan Ginsberg, and Ram Dass. These are his tales of adventure, curiosity, betrayal, and triumph. Gunther Weil shares with us a life of stories and adventures from political uprisings, government drug experiments, and his first-hand view from the start of a cultural revolution. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 593 – “Understanding the Chaos at History’s End” – Part 5
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. Today we continue with the June 1989 Terence McKenna workshop session in which he sets out his ideas about history and time in his Timewave hypothesis. And while we now know that this idea of his will never actually become an actual theory, as it is sometimes said to be, nonetheless, he points out several instances in which history appears to be following a fractal pattern. As far as I know, this particular Timewave lecture hasn't been released on the Net before. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Videos of the Psycherence 2018 Conference in Estonia https://videolevels.com/psycherence Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 592 – “Understanding Chaos at History’s End” – Part 4
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Culture is a mirror of the mind." "What are we when we begin to take off our cultural clothing? What kind of world will be build in the pure imagination?" "History is a kind of psychedelic trip. That's what it is. It's the big trip." "This transcendental object probably is more like a being than an object. I just call it a transcendental object to keep those issues out of it when we try to think of it as an at tractor. No, it's a mind. It's an organizing entelechy. It is THE mind. It's probably the mind that you call your mind." "When you go into these high dose places you are seeing a local map of this thing toward which all creation moves, at least this is my take on it." "It's just cognitive activity. It's all that the psychedelic experience is. It's accelerated cognitive activity. ... I think that the glory of human beings is cognition." "What psychedelics lead to is appropriate activity. Appropriate activity is the way to be straight with the psychedelic vision." "I regard all organized religion as a plot against free thought." "The thing which pervades the psychedelic experience is this sense of weird, sense of closeness to a bizarre secret of some sort. I don't even claim that the psychedelic experience should be put on the spectrum of spiritual experience, somewhere between moral rectitude and Buddha." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Imagine Convergence on Oracs Island Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 591 – “Understanding Chaos at History’s End” – Part 3
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Minoan Crete PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Addiction to natural substances, with the exception of tobacco, is something you really have to work at." "There is something really insidious about synthetic drugs, about concentrating what is a vegetable essence, and very diffuse. Opium was no problem until morphine came along." "One of the things I think we have to disabuse ourselves of is that science knows anything about these things. The human studies were never done." "You may have the notion that we are a minority that feels this is important and there is a majority that feels that it's unimportant. That isn't the case. We are a minority who feels this is important, and there is a majority that knows nothing about it whatsoever, has no data, and no realization of what it is." "People such as ourselves, we are the cutting edge of neuro-psychopharmacology, because the content is the frontier, and these scientists know very little about it." "The official version of what can happen with these hallucinogens is very limited. There was never stress on content. The individual content of the psychedelic trip was treated like the ravings of a psychotic. In other words, it was never examined from the point of view that this person might be a reliable witness." "What does it mean that the most powerful of all hallucinogens occurs naturally in the human brain? What does it mean that the most powerful of all natural hallucinogens is the shortest acting?" Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Lands of the Saracen by Bayard Taylor https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10924 Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 590 – “Understanding Chaos at History’s End” – Part 2
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Mushroom ManLogo for the Palenque Norte LecturesPhoto by Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. Today we continue with a workshop that Terence McKenna led at the Esalen Institute in June of 1989. Although he begins with an exploration of ideas surrounding the use of sound during psychedelic experiences, he also tells some great stories, including one of my favorites. I'd only heard it once before, and for me it's the funniest story I've heard him tell, and this is a new version that you won't want to miss. Additionally, this may be one of the earliest talks in which Terence addressed the issue of global climate change. Also, for the first time I remember hearing it, Terence talks about his ideas concerning the concept of exo-pheromones. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Language is sound that stimulates ideas." "Interesting, the world wide reliance on sustained tone in spiritual exploration." "The ego is a neurotic response to separateness, and you cannot maintain your ego in the presence of strong hallucinogenic plant patterns of usage." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 589 – “Understanding Chaos at History’s End” – Part 1
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Finn and Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Today marks the official beginning of the 3.0 track of the Psychedelic Salon. The main difference between Salon 3.0 and the earlier podcasts from the salon is that this 3.0 track on Patreon.com will be where you will hear the programs three months before they appear on the "classic salon" feeds. So to mark this new beginning I am playing a recording of a Terence McKenna weekend workshop at the Esalen Institute that, as far as I know, has never been published before. Date this lecture was recorded: June 23, 1989. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "What is history? What is it that is acting on us to propel us, in such a short time, out of the matrix of organic nature and into a matrix of our own creation, the world of culture, and epigenetic coding systems, and the human imagination as created by the modality of language. What is it that is pushing us in this direction?" "We fell into history. We became neurotic. We are, in a sense, the children of a dysfunctional relationship that we have forgotten all about." "I've had to come to term with the fact that bad drugs have been a major part of the human story." "The psychedelics are not ancillary. They're not peripheral. They're not secondary. They are the way to propel ourselves into these higher dimensional phase spaces. Eventually we will drag our computers with us." "What we see in our visions is not hallucinations. What we see in our visions is the higher truth." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Salon2 055 – “Matt Pallamary Live in the Psychedelic Salon”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Matt Pallamary Matt Pallamary delivering his 2007 Palenque Norte Lecture PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: January 21, 2019 Today's podcast features a recording from a recent live session of the Psychedelic Salon in which writer and ayahuasca researcher Matt Pallamary regaled us with his tales of jungle adventures. Matt Pallamary's Website n0thing Gets Swatted Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Salon2 054 – “Lorenzo at Entheo Medicine”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: January 19, 2019 Today's podcast is part of a presentation that I made at a recent Entheo Medicine event in Santa Barbara, California. The title of my little talk was "Psychedelic Renaissance – Creating Your Own Community", and the program notes said that I would talk about how I came out of the "psychedelic closet" and began podcasting episodes of the Psychedelic Salon. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option About Entheo Medicine Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
PREVIEW of Podcast 597
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 19, 1998. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Repeated exposure to cannabis socializes it dramatically, and it becomes a much more manageable thing." "I can imagine the culture crisis getting so crazy that the people at the top will have to turn to their cohorts and say, "Call in McKenna and his friends." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
PREVIEW of Podcast 596
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Art Bell PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features an interview that Terence McKenna did on the Art Bell radio program on March 19, 1998. This conversation begins with an interesting discussion of how Terence was living off the grid at the time, but it then proceeds to cover such topics as: Sandoz acid, technology, culture, artificial intelligence, aliens, UFOs, psychedelics, DMT, War on Drugs, television, coffee, politics. And this is only Part 1 of this interview. [NOTE: The following quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "If you could build a DMT virtual reality, they would come!" "I once heard politics in America described as a civil war in a leper colony." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Salon2-053 – “Earth Medicine Women”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Shonagh Home Celtic goddess, Cerridwen holding the cauldron PROGRAM NOTES: Today's program features a talk given by Shonagh Home at the inaugural Viridis Genii Symposium that was held in July of 2015. In this talk Shonagh discusses the role of women through the ages who have worked with visionary plant medicines. She explains the role of the Oracle of Delphi and her relationship with sacred plants, as well as other classic healers who were assisted by the plant spirits. Shonagh also shares some of her personal experiences with the sacred mushroom and the incredible synchronicities that have occurred as a result. "When I think of the technique of religious ecstasy, I think of high trance states that bring you into direct contact with the divine, with the ancestors, with the spirit of the plant medicines that you are working with." -Shonagh Home Visionary Mushroom Practicum: A Medicine Woman’s Perspective on the Practical and Mystical Layers of Visionary Mushroom Medicine Shonagh Home is a shamanic therapist, teacher, writer and poet. Her specialized private sessions and retreats are probing and revelatory, assisting clients to break chronic, self-defeating patterns, and move into empowered personal sovereignty. Shonagh is an international public speaker on the subject of visionary shamanic-spirit medicine, a voice for stewardship of the honeybees, and a teacher on the subject of Traditional Foods. She is author of the books, ‘Ix Chel Wisdom: 7 Teachings from the Mayan Sacred Feminine,’ ‘Love and Spirit Medicine,’ ‘Poetic Whispers from the Green Realms,’ and ‘Honeybee Wisdom: A Modern Melissa Speaks.’ Website: www.shonaghhome.com Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Viridis Genii Symposium Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Salon2 052 – “Ibogaine Therapy”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Richie Ogulnick PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: December 17, 2018. Today's program was recorded during last Monday's live session of the Psychedelic Salon. It features a conversation/interview with Richie Ogulnick, who is a leading expert on the healing properties of ibogaine, particularly in ways it is being used to treat addictions of various kinds. In addition to telling the story of how this African medicine made its way to New York City and beyond, Richie also provides rich details about the various protocols used in ibogaine therapy. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Richie Ogulnick Website https://www.ibogainealliance.org/iboga/bwiti/ Psychedelics Today Podcast with Lex Pelger Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
PREVIEW of Podcast 595
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 1990. Today's podcast features the second part of a talk that Terence McKenna gave in May of 1990. Rather than follow a script for this talk, Terence answers questions from the audience which feature such diverse topics as the family, education, ayahuasca, DMT, history, language, and psychedelics. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "For us, authentic meaning is beheld." "History is the lower-dimensional language slice ... among other things, of course." "We have to educate people about drugs, and we have to tell them the truth. And the truth, unfortunately, is complex. So how do you tell a kid a complex truth?" Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Entheo Medicine January 19, 2019 The Imperfectionists Don't Get Owned Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
PREVIEW of Podcast 594
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 1990. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "The world that we are living in is not at all as the linguistic structures we have inherited would have us have it. We are actually living inside some kind of artificial construction which is potentially permeable by human understanding but to date has not been." "The unspeakable is the ground of language." "History is the story of the cancerous and unchecked growth of the ego." "If our god is omnipotent, omniscient, never wrong always right, utterly unforgiving, this is a jerk! Who needs this? We don't need this. Our image of deity is pathological. Our image of deity is the image of the cancerously untamed ego." "Psychedelics are not an ideology. Psychedelics are an experience." "What the shamans say is truer than anything we can say about them." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
PREVIEW of Podcast 593
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. Today we continue with the June 1989 Terence McKenna workshop session in which he sets out his ideas about history and time in his Timewave hypothesis. And while we now know that this idea of his will never actually become an actual theory, as it is sometimes said to be, nonetheless, he points out several instances in which history appears to be following a fractal pattern. As far as I know, this particular Timewave lecture hasn't been released on the Net before. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Imagine Convergence on Oracs Island Videos of the Psycherence 2018 Conference in Estonia Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
PREVIEW of Podcast 592
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Culture is a mirror of the mind." "What are we when we begin to take off our cultural clothing? What kind of world will be build in the pure imagination?" "History is a kind of psychedelic trip. That's what it is. It's the big trip." "This transcendental object probably is more like a being than an object. I just call it a transcendental object to keep those issues out of it when we try to think of it as an at tractor. No, it's a mind. It's an organizing entelechy. It is THE mind. It's probably the mind that you call your mind." "When you go into these high dose places you are seeing a local map of this thing toward which all creation moves, at least this is my take on it." "It's just cognitive activity. It's all that the psychedelic experience is. It's accelerated cognitive activity. ... I think that the glory of human beings is cognition." "What psychedelics lead to is appropriate activity. Appropriate activity is the way to be straight with the psychedelic vision." "I regard all organized religion as a plot against free thought." "The thing which pervades the psychedelic experience is this sense of weird, sense of closeness to a bizarre secret of some sort. I don't even claim that the psychedelic experience should be put on the spectrum of spiritual experience, somewhere between moral rectitude and Buddha." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Imagine Convergence on Oracs Island Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
PREVIEW of Podcast 591
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Minoan Crete PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Addiction to natural substances, with the exception of tobacco, is something you really have to work at." "There is something really insidious about synthetic drugs, about concentrating what is a vegetable essence, and very diffuse. Opium was no problem until morphine came along." "One of the things I think we have to disabuse ourselves of is that science knows anything about these things. The human studies were never done." "You may have the notion that we are a minority that feels this is important and there is a majority that feels that it's unimportant. That isn't the case. We are a minority who feels this is important, and there is a majority that knows nothing about it whatsoever, has no data, and no realization of what it is." "People such as ourselves, we are the cutting edge of neuro-psychopharmacology, because the content is the frontier, and these scientists know very little about it." "The official version of what can happen with these hallucinogens is very limited. There was never stress on content. The individual content of the psychedelic trip was treated like the ravings of a psychotic. In other words, it was never examined from the point of view that this person might be a reliable witness." "What does it mean that the most powerful of all hallucinogens occurs naturally in the human brain? What does it mean that the most powerful of all natural hallucinogens is the shortest acting?" Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Lands of the Saracen by Bayard Taylor Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
PREVIEW of Podcast 590
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Mushroom ManLogo for the Palenque Norte LecturesPhoto by Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. Today we continue with a workshop that Terence McKenna led at the Esalen Institute in June of 1989. Although he begins with an exploration of ideas surrounding the use of sound during psychedelic experiences, he also tells some great stories, including one of my favorites. I'd only heard it once before, and for me it's the funniest story I've heard him tell, and this is a new version that you won't want to miss. Additionally, this may be one of the earliest talks in which Terence addressed the issue of global climate change. Also, for the first time I remember hearing it, Terence talks about his ideas concerning the concept of exo-pheromones. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Language is sound that stimulates ideas." "Interesting, the world wide reliance on sustained tone in spiritual exploration." "The ego is a neurotic response to separateness, and you cannot maintain your ego in the presence of strong hallucinogenic plant patterns of usage." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
PREVIEW of Podcast 589
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Finn and Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Today marks the official beginning of the 3.0 track of the Psychedelic Salon. The main difference between Salon 3.0 and the earlier podcasts from the salon is that this 3.0 track on Patreon.com will be where you will hear the programs three months before they appear on the "classic salon" feeds. So to mark this new beginning I am playing a recording of a Terence McKenna weekend workshop at the Esalen Institute that, as far as I know, has never been published before. Date this lecture was recorded: June 23, 1989. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "What is history? What is it that is acting on us to propel us, in such a short time, out of the matrix of organic nature and into a matrix of our own creation, the world of culture, and epigenetic coding systems, and the human imagination as created by the modality of language. What is it that is pushing us in this direction?" "We fell into history. We became neurotic. We are, in a sense, the children of a dysfunctional relationship that we have forgotten all about." "I've had to come to term with the fact that bad drugs have been a major part of the human story." "The psychedelics are not ancillary. They're not peripheral. They're not secondary. They are the way to propel ourselves into these higher dimensional phase spaces. Eventually we will drag our computers with us." "What we see in our visions is not hallucinations. What we see in our visions is the higher truth." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
Podcast 588 – “Good News on the Psychedelic Front” – Pt. 2
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Rick Doblin PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 31, 2018.] Today we continue with the second part of the 2018 Palenque Norte Lecture given by Rick Doblin, the president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. In addition to learning some new information about the current state of MDMA research, Rick ends the Q&A session with some information about mescaline that I'd never heard before. As he says, "Mescaline is the most important psychedelic that isn't being researched." Also, there is an announcement about a screening of the film "From Shock To Awe" that was discussed here in the salon three years ago when the producers were first raising the funding for the project. It has now been completed and will be screened in select theaters on November 12, 2018. Full details are at the beginning of today's program. [NOTE: The following quotations are by Rick Doblin.] "We got an agreement letter on July 28th, and what it means is that the FDA is legally bound to approve MDMA if we get statistically significant evidence of efficacy from this design and no new safety problems come up." "Mescaline is the most important psychedelic that isn't being researched." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option From Shock To Awe Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1