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Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Rick Doblin The 2018 Palenque Norte Lecture Schedule PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 31, 2018. Today's podcast features the 2018 Palenque Norte Lecture given by Rick Doblin, the president of MAPS. In addition to a detailed description of the interaction between MAPS and the Veterans Administration, Rick also gives a detailed account of the now concluded Phase 2 study along with an explanation of how they believe MDMA works to relieve the symptoms of PTSD. As he says about the efficacy of the process he says, "What we found at twelve months is that people keep getting better. So at twelve months, two-thirds of the people no longer have PTSD. And of the one-third who still have PTSD, most of them have had a clinically significant reduction in symptoms, even though they still have PTSD." [NOTE: The following quotations are by Rick Doblin.] "I think we can look very carefully in our society and see that a lot of the people who are suffering but who might try to block what we're trying to do, if we really look deep into their suffering, a lot of them are really wanting us to succeed." "What we found at twelve months is that people keep getting better. So at twelve months, two-thirds of the people no longer have PTSD. And of the one-third who still have PTSD, most of them have had a clinically significant reduction in symptoms, even though they still have PTSD." 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

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: David Nickles PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: October 8, 2018 Today's podcast features David Nickles, whose work may be found at the DMT-Nexus Website. The program is actually a recording of last week's regularly scheduled live version of the Psychedelic Salon, which takes place every Monday evening from 6:30-8:00 pm (Pacific) via a Zoom conference available to all of Lorenzo's supporters on Patreon. In this conversation, David provides some alarming details about the intersection of politics, psychedelic research, and big money. The DMT-Nexus 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

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Will Siu PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 29, 2018.] Today's podcast features Dr. Will Siu, an MD and psychiatrist specializing, among other things, in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Dr. Siu is also one of the participating researchers in the MAPS MDMA study. In this 2018 Palenque Norte Lecture, he not only provides us with an inside look as some of the issues now arising as the possibility of psychedelic therapy morphs into a reality. For anyone considering a career in the vast field of psychedelic medicine, this thought-provoking talk is not to be missed. Will Siu MD, DPhil Capitalism on Psychedelics: The Mainstreaming of an Underground by Eric Davis 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

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Shonagh Home PIKAL and TIKAL Commemorative Editions PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 11, 2018 Today's podcast features a recent talk given by Shonagh Home at the New Moon Mycology Summit that was held in Wingdale, New York. As she speaks of humankind's loss of some of the powerful symbols that paganism once provided, Shonagh weaves in specific examples of ways in which her clients have leveraged the imagery experienced in mushroom trips to resolve issues in their everyday lives. Shonagh also tells the story of how she came to be a medicine woman. "Our state-run, Prussian education system, which is worldwide by the way, is designed to shut down imagination and creative genius to produce a predictable and compliant populace." --Shonagh Home Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Visionary Mushroom Practicum: A Medicine Woman's Perspective on the Practical and Mystical Layers of Visionary Mushroom Medicine Shonagh Home 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 The Mycelium Underground (TMU) are organizers devoted to bringing people together for the love of learning and embracing the world of fungi and all with which fungi intertwines. PIKAL and TIKAL Commemorative Editions Psychedelic Chemistry Cookbooks Reissued In Stunning Boxed Set Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Kim Hewitt PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: September 2018 Dr. Kim Hewitt talks about her research into the history of psychedelics and their current manifestations. Her most recent academic paper is on psychedelic feminism. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Empower an Indigenous Ayahuasca Initiative Kat Lakey's IndieGogo project The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: September 8, 2018 Today's podcast features a talk that Lorenzo gave at the recent Imagine Orcas Island Music and Arts festival. The title of this talk is "Psychedelics in the Age of AI", and it is followed by a question and answer session. At the end of the podcast Lorenzo plays a song from the newly emerging psychedelic/country/rock band The Burned. Lorenzo also talks about the festival as well as the Imagine Convergence that will take place on Orcas Island in March of 2019. Main Stage & LakefrontImagine Orcas Island Music & Arts Festival Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Burned Website The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival October 1 - 7, 2018 Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Graham Hancock Graham Hancock speaking at the 2016 Glastonbury Festival PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 2016 [NOTE: All quotations are by Graham Hancock.] "Our governments are so determined to impose these insane [War on Drugs] policies upon us that the whole credit worthiness of government in every way becomes suspect, if it was not suspect already." "I discovered that the most important aspect of ourselves is not our body. That's one of the lessons that ayahuasca teaches, that it's not our bodies that are important. It's our consciousness." "I have never regarded reality the same, since I began to work with ayahuasca." "Only a truly, psychopathically insane global human society would allow warfare to occur at all. The fact that war can snare us. The fact that we can be persuaded to go and kill other people in other lands should not be regarded as normal. This is deeply abnormal. It's the sign of a society that's gone terribly wrong." "Wherever I travel in the world I find that people are exactly the same. The same hopes, the same fears, the same dreams, the same capacity to love, we are, none of us, any different." 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

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: David Nutt Dr. David Nutt speaking at the 2016 Glastonbury Festival PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 2016 [NOTE: All quotations are by David Nutt "The drinks industry is keen to keep its monopoly over drugs. And it fought battles over the last 150 years to make sure that no other drug got into the market. When acceptable versions of drugs like opium and cannabis and cocaine became available to the public, systematically, the drinks industry created opposition to them, created fear about them, and eventually got them banned." "Most of the justification for keeping drugs illegal is because, supposedly, they are harmful. But as you know, and hopefully some of you have read some of my work over the years, know that most of the illegal drugs are less harmful than alcohol." "We know that probably the majority of politicians know that they are lying about drugs." 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

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Zoe Helene Zoe Helene PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 20, 2018 Today's podcast features a conversation between Zoe Helene and Lorenzo. After successful careers in the arts as well as in the corporate world, Zoe has transitioned herself into an advocate for the use of psychedelics, ayahuasca in particular, to help us all accept women as equals in our currently male-dominated societies. Zoe Helene's Website Cosmic Sister on Twitter Cosmic Sister on Pinterest Psychedelic Feminism 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

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Various PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 8, 2017 In this last episode of stories from the Blue Dot tour, you get to hear stories from the barn at my parents' place in Lancaster, PA. Tales from Tipper and friends as well as a contest to see if you can find my story in the back catalog. . . . I hope you enjoy this last round of stories. --Lex Pelger 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

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Myron Stolaroff Myron Stolaroff meditating in the morning PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: November 22, 1997 [NOTE: All quotations are by Myron Stolaroff "To me, one of the really great mysteries of our time is how we can have something as valuable as psychedelics and yet have our government, and the public-at-large, have such an absolutely twisted view of it." "As for myself, I'm on record as saying that LSD is the greatest discovery that man ever made." "I have a lot of friends who are always telling me about all kinds of nutrients. Gosh, there are things that are really, really helpful. But I want to tell you that the thing that helps more than anything is a good psychedelic experience." Are psychedelics useful in the practice of Buddhism? by Myron J, Stolaroff Journal of Humanistic Psychology Vol. 39 No. 1 Winter 1999 Pp. 60-80 Jon Hanna's Mind States YouTube Channel 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

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Aldous Huxley A gathering of friends at Laura Huxley's home PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features two recordings of Aldous Huxley. The first is an interview conducted by Mike Wallace, and the second part of today's program features a lecture of Huxley's that speculates about the possibilities of some sort of existence after the death of our bodies. Date the Mike Wallace interview was recorded: May 18, 1958 [NOTE: All quotations are by Aldous Huxley.]https://archive.org/download/578HuxleyFreedomAndMind/578-HuxleyFreedomAndMind.mp3 "We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology." "People with a vested interest in a certain kind of philosophy find it almost impossible to accept facts which go against that particular philosophy." 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

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Daniel Greig PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: 2018 Daniel Greig studies cognitive science and philosophy. His lectures on psychedelics incorporate magic and mysticism. He uses the language of psychology and neuroscience. It makes for a fascinating mix. In this episode we will be hearing about his unique views on how these drugs are illuminated by the mystical systems of the past. Daniel Greig 'The Psychedelic State' 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 Crawl Space Hardcover by Jesse Jacobs

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "We asked for it, but we never knew we would get it in such spades. Last week was the 25th anniversary of the experiment at La Chorrera, and basically it's a trip that still goes on. We never came down. Now I've given up on coming down. I'm just hoping that if nothing happens in 2012 I'll have a few good years of penitent meditation ahead of me." "I think that the leisure and the indulgence that is permitted us, the super rich of this world, and we all are in that class, the upper five percent of the Earth's population, you can't live with yourself unless you give something back. And the thing to give back is share your art, share your soul. The reason we are so controlled, and abused, and misused by our institutions is because we are divided from each other. They have divided us by race, by class, by sex, by political style, all of these ways." "I'll tell you straight out, I'm an anarchist. I am an absolute anarchist. I believe in people more than in abstractions of institutions. I will always rely on people." "You cannot be a public figure and a practicing alchemist." "The basic notion here, I think, is an idea of radical freedom. This is not a cult of Terence McKenna. It is not a drug cult. It's a cult of curiosity if it's a cult of anything. And what you're supposed to understand when you come out of here is that an open mind is a very precious thing, and it should never be given away, perhaps ever, but certainly never lightly." "Belief is toxic. All belief. Don't believe in anything. Live in the presence of the felt-fact of immediate experience. Everything beyond that is conjecture." "Explore the edges. Keep your logical razors sharp. Trust nothing that you haven't verified for yourself." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Techno Pagan Octopus Messiah by Ian Winn Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Various PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 2017 Thank you to the Philadelphia Psychedelic Society and to Psychedelic Seminars in Baltimore for two beautiful locations to hear these stories. As two of my favorite stops on the Blue-Dot tour, I'm glad to be sharing these stories about the power of psychedelics. -Lex Pelger The Philadelphia Psychedelic Society 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

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Timewave 1995 - 2012Source: Fractal-Timewave.com PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 1996 This podcast features Terence McKenna in a March 1996 workshop where he goes into great detail about his Timewave idea. Although I haven't been including his Timewave talks in recent podcasts, since this series hasn't been posted elsewhere on the Net I've decided to keep the entire weekend's workshop intact. Baring any unexpected new recordings to pop up, this will be the last time that I include a Timewave lecture in the salon. However, this is one of his more comprehensive explanations of what turned out to be a not-so-great idea and is worth listening to as a way to sharpen your own critical thinking skills. 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

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Leia Friedman PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 2018 Leia Friedman hosts "The Psychedologist" podcast, she cofounded the Boston Entheogenic Network, and is a writer and community organizer. She tells Lex about her work and her psychedelic journey. The Psychedologist Cosmic Sister Medicine Hunter Temple of the Way Of Light Psymposia Articles Eco-Feminism Psychedelics & Sexual Healing Social and Climate Justice Activism 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

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 1996 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "The way to get off on DMT is after you feel completely peculiar you have to do one more enormous hit. This is where courage comes in." "A meme has gotten loose on this planet that is the social equivalent of cancer in my opinion, and what it is is capitalism. Capitalism does not serve human beings. It serves itself in the same way that cancer does not serve a human being." "The reason people fetishize objects is because they have no accessible dimension of inner worth. They feel worthless." "I think the Internet probably will turn out to be very toxic for capitalism." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Psycherence 2018 Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Various PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 6, 2017 This week we go back to the very beginning of the Blue Dot Tour where Rick Doblin kicked off our event in Boston. Thanks to Northeastern's Student's for Sensible Drug Policy for making the event happen and to all the storytellers who came out to share. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Cora Venus Lunny Showreel Cora Venus Lunny Website Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 1996 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "Nature is the original Internet. Nature is some kind of interconnected, communicating, data routing, self-regulating, non-equilibrium system." "I think what nature teaches, and what life teaches, is that worry is preposterous. Worry is a form of ego mania, because in order to worry you have to assume you understand the situation. What are the odds that you actually do understand the situation? Very low, I would think." Terence McKenna's Website Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Techno Pagan Octopus Messiah Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Casey Paleos PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: 2018 Dr. Casey Paleos is one of the few psychiatrists to have worked with the Big Three: MDMA, ketamine and the psilocybin of magic mushrooms. In this interview, a day after his MDMA experience in Boulder, he shares what he's learned from his years of psychedelic research. Casey A. Paleos, MD "Ketamine: A Light in the Darkness" by Dr. Casey Paleos 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

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna The Baths at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 1996 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "My techniques are all shamanic and involve perturbing the senses and dissolving ordinary states of mind through psychedelics. So my techniques are shamanic, but my method is rational and analytical. So I use shamanic techniques to go into shamanic places and then attempt to study them scientifically using reason." "To me, the New Age is typified by an incredible credulity and an utter immunity to cognitive dissonance." "What I have done is I probe weirdness, but rationally. Most people who are attracted to weirdness want to convert, and believe it, and take it in, and exalt it. I don't. I don't want to believe anything. I hate ideology, all ideology. That's why I'm so casual about the possible crushing of my own, because ideologies are a lesser resolution of our dilemma than we are capable of." "The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does." "Culture is a flight from reality. ALL culture is a flight from reality." "Radical human freedom is what you were born for, and culture is a kind of placenta, which if you develop normally by around age twenty you have no need of it, and in fact you've recognized the toxic nature of it and are trying to put it behind you and get away from it." "All this computer revolution is is a shift to more lightweight building materials." "Enormous doses of fuzzy thought and ideology are usually known as religion. . . . And the claim that you can achieve, somehow, the paradox of being outside without ever leaving culture by using the cultural instrument of religion to make your way to the heart of the mystery. I reject this. I just think think it's bunk." "Spiritual thirst can't be culturally confirming, because it's a rejection of culture. Culture generates spiritual thirst." "In the underground, then, an enormous database has been built up. No one knows as much about psychedelics as people in the underground, because they're the people who have actually taken them, correlated that date, and kept track of it." "Psychedelics demand of us courage. Every single person who says they've done psychedelics several dozen times is a courageous person. You're standing in the presence of fearlessness, because otherwise people turn away from it." 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

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Various PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 23, 2017 From the May 23, 2017 stop on the Blue-Dot tour, a psychedelic storytelling session in Charleston, South Carolina that served as the launch event for our friends at the Society for the Exploration of Altered States. Society for the Exploration of Altered States https://www.meetup.com/connectwithSEAS/ Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Imperfectionists - San Francisco, California Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Larry Harvey Photo source: BurningMan.com PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Larry Harvey.] "Milton Friedman once said, 'Only a crisis, real or imagined, produces real change.' When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic mission: To develop alternatives, and keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable." "You can't base the core of a culture on sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. Only an adolescent will tell you that." "The fact of the matter in the Sixties, at least the Hippie part, were avid consumers. They were happy consumers. The only people who came up with a critique of it later on were the Punks. As unattractive as they were, they figured out what the essential problem was. They would not sell out. They would not be commodified." "You are not going to create community unless you struggle together with other people. You will not create community unless you face survival with other people. Community isn't about sentiment. It's not about Kumbaya. It's not about loving other people., per se. It's about struggling with them, because only when you struggle together for survival with other people do you begin to see their soul. That's how it's done." "The Sixties were America's great recess." "If you want a stage at Burning Man, build it yourself." "We're not hiding from the world, we're trying to change it." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Burning Man Official Site Burn on the Bayou Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Noah Potter PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 2018 A lawyer specializing in psychedelic law and a New Yorker who witnessed the heyday of Yippie activism in Sin City, Noah Potter shares his thoughts on the past and the future of the movement. New Amsterdam Psychedelic Law Noah Potter, Counsel Noah Potter on LinkedIn Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Psychedelic Salon Monday Night Zoom Conference May 7, 2018 at 6:30 pm Pacific Time Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/598427792 Meeting ID: 598 427 792 Or iPhone one-tap: US: +16468769923,,598427792# or +16699006833,,598427792# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833 International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=rl6IjnPedyZ-dzB0GyTfHxP3-t34FYcb East Forest Podcast with Lorenzo Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "One thing about psychedelics, you don't have to be predisposed. It doesn't work for those who believe it work. It works for those who think it doesn't work." "The problems which face us, put very simply, are going to demand sacrifice. And sacrifice is what the ego doesn't want to hear about." "Capitalism is as anti-human a philosophy as you can possibly conceive, because at this very moment we should be consuming less, manufacturing less, selling less, transporting less. And what's the battle cry? Free trade everywhere!" "The way a dream melts away is the way a DMT trip melts away, at the same speed." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Techno Pagan Octopus Messiah http://octopusmessiah.com/ Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Various PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 17, 2017 Today's Salon2 podcast features a few psychedelic stories from a wonderful hot night in Atlanta. Thanks to Moshe Jacobson for making the night happen. Psychedelic Atlanta's Meetup Group 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

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Pedaling toward expanded awareness! PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Nothing is unannounced." "[A psychedelic truth:] Nothing lasts." "The lie of Western psychology is that something is stable. . . . And because of this lie we are in a state of perpetual anxiety because the truth of our experience is nothing lasts." "The central truth of being is the felt presence of immediate reality. That's all you will ever have." "I think this ability to accept the inevitable passing and coming to be of phenomenon is what psychedelic wisdom is really about." "Community is the enemy of authoritarian organization." "They don't hand out rights around here. The only people who have any rights are people who demand them." "Don't people understand that the essence of sophistication is tolerance?" "I think Americans are paranoid of nature." "This is very important work. Whether we succeed or fail, it would be tragic to not make the effort, because I think we really align ourselves with the Gaian intent when we bring these things to the community and share 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

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Ingmar Gorman PROGRAM NOTES: Today's Salon2 podcast features an interview with Dr. Ingmar Gorman about his work at the intersection of MDMA and PTSD. Ingmar Gorman, Ph.D. The Psychedelic Education and Continuing Care Program Psychedelics 101 & 102 for Clinicians' courses Announcements Global Psychedelic Earth Day Cleanup on April 22, 2018 ICEERS survey of psychoactive use Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Lightning In A Bottle Learning and Culture Lineup Jon Hanna's video of Bruce Damer's 2007 Palenque Norte Lecture A short video clip the Lorenzo took at Bruce's lecture Matt Pallamary, Bruce Damer, Jon Hanna, Lorenzo at the 2007 Palenque Norte Lectures Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "Rational, and by that I mean statistically extractable expectations, seem to be superseded on these trips by a kind of magical connectedness. All kinds of strange things happen on trips that really happen! It's not hallucinations. These things really happen. The ordinary laws of causality are obviated, and you become a magnet for the strange, the peculiar." "In some sense, when you take a plant it takes you. . . . So essentially when you take psilocybin you are experiencing all the previous psilocybin trips that ever were." "I'm not of the school that says what we need is a drug we don't have. . . . I think that we have the substances we need. What we don't have are the techniques and the intelligence to know what to do with them." "Cannabis is the rudder on your ship." "In a sense, learning what drugs you should and shouldn't take is as big a task as deciding what kind of person you should or shouldn't go to bed with." "I think if you go through life taking vast amounts of drugs of all sorts then you didn't quite get it right. The idea is to find what works for you and then put the pedal to the medal. If it's LSD, or whatever it is, these things have personality. It's just like making a friendship, and some people are gonna want to be your friend, and some people are going to think you're a jerk. And you don't want to hang out with those people because they make you feel bad." "I don't believe everything the mushroom tells me. I just treat it like everybody else. You can't trust anybody one hundred percent." "I think one of the problems with education is that we are trying to use a print-created institution to educate electronically biased human beings. And it's created a kind of speed bump against illiteracy." "When media becomes bias-less media becomes reality." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Psychedelic Salon's Flipboard Magazine Psychedelic Salon Monday Night ZOOM.US CONVERSATION Please join us for an online conversation on the first Monday of each month. Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/598427792 Meeting ID: 598 427 792 Or iPhone one-tap: US: +16699006833,,598427792# or +19294362866,,598427792# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 929 436 2866 International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=rl6IjnPedyZ-dzB0GyTfHxP3-t34FYcb Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna "Cosmic Christ" by Alex GreyPhoto credit: Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "If a Buddhist could design their own genome they would become a fungus, because a fungus is a primary decomposer. It is the only karma-less place in the food chain. There is no karma for the fungi. They don't destroy any life whatsoever." "The trick is going to be to recognize the extraterrestrials." "I think probably the biota of the Earth is riddled with extraterrestrial genes, if not organisms, and possibly intelligences." "It's very clear to me that every abduction case around, except for a vanishingly small number that we can put in the classical category of stigmata, can be explained by one simple fact: People are losing the ability to distinguish dreams from memories." "Trust only yourself." "I think we're getting set, basically, to decamp into the imagination. That the imagination is as real a place as across the river is if you've just acquired eyes." "A shaman is a seer, is a prophet, is a higher dimensional mathematician. And they may not use tensor equations to express what they're doing, but mathematics before symbols is experience." "We have unleashed such novelty that I think we're in the terminal phase of decamping from three dimensional space. We are leaving the womb of Newtonian being for something else, the imagination. And the birth is tumultuous. The entire planet is at risk." "If this planet hadn't been wrecked sixty-five million years ago we wouldn't be here. Well then, what is our position on planetary catastrophe? We're in the process of making one. Is it so that sixty-five million years in the future an organism filled with love, and justice, and intelligence will look back at our skeletons in the shale and say, 'Well, they had a good thing going, but if it hadn't been for their extinction we wouldn't be here.' " Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option "Thinking Outside the Quantum Box" by Bernardo Kastrup Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast presents a powerful round of story telling that took place in a Columbus, Ohio bike hangar. The event was hosted by the wonderful community of Mind Manifest West. "Mind Manifest Midwest is a psychedelic society based in Columbus, Ohio. Since 2016 we have hosted speakers to talk about some factual aspect of psychedelia. Our in-person community meets to share stories, promote harm reduction education, and create models for responsible transformational psychedelic use." 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

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Dale Pendell delivering his "Horizon Anarchism" lecture at the 2006 Palenque Norte Lectures during the Burning Man Festival PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "I take psychedelics to be the catalysis of language." "This great period of creativity that we're living through now in the sciences, in the arts, in the implementation of exotic technology, I think this is the real legacy of the Sixties. The people who run these fancy computer companies, and the World Wide Web, and the Net, and CERN, and all that, they're all freaks. They're all people who came up through the Sixties and have somehow fitted themselves in to straight society. But the great bulk of creative work in society and those areas is being done by people who took psychedelics." "On psychedelics essentially you feel, or you see, the morphogenetic field that surrounds objects." "Clearly we have become a toxic drag on the rest of nature." "What the New World Order is is a Corporate Order." "The best substitute for psychedelics, which takes a lot more time, energy, and dedication, is penny-less travel in Asian countries." "If I had to say one thing that DMT is, it's alien beauty." "I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that at the peak of a psychedelic experience you see more art in a half an hour than the human race has produced in the last thousand years." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option He Spoke for the Plants Remembering Dale Pendell Obituary by Jon Hanna https://psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-055-horizon-anarchism/ Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book, The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Guest speaker: Julian Vayne PROGRAM NOTES: Today's Salon2 podcast features the return of Lex Pelger who interviews Julian Vayne, an author and oculist. They about the history of drugs and magick - especially in the underground London scene. Vayne also highlights some of the important ideas from his new book on creating psychedelic ceremonies. This episode is cross-posted from the Greener Grass podcast. Getting Higher by Julian Vayne Trailer for Getting Higher Julian Vayne's blog The psychedelic prisoner project Lex Pelger's cannabis graphic novels are now FREE online. http://www.lexpelger.com/nononsense Lex Pelger's new program: The Greener Grass podcast. http://greenergrass.libsyn.com/ Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1993 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "I think it's important to talk about and analyze your experience. There is no communication, even within the confines of your own mind, if you can't describe what's going on." "The crisis we're in, as a planetary society, is a culture of consciousness. There ain't enough of it. That's what happens when women are raped in Bosnia. That's a failure of consciousness. That's what happens when rivers are polluted with DDT. It's a failure of consciousness." "The idea that art should save humanity is very out of fashion in the cynical '90s." "When Fascism comes to America it will be called traditionalism. That seems to be how it's going to present itself." "Dancing your ass off in a noisy environment is a perfect strategy for clearing your system of a drug." "Your SELF is the instrument for the exploration of these dimensions." "Ideology is fairly absent in shamanism at a practical level. It's basically about experience, not about an ideological preconception." "What if there is actually something that survives bodily death, that actually continues to exist in a dimension which we would have to call mental, or trans-real. And what-if you could come and go from that dimension using shamanic techniques? That is what in fact shamanism has always claimed to anyone who would listen." "What is language? It's a strategy for escaping from the narrowness of the present moment." "I think that, well, frankly, I don't know what I think. It depends on how recently I smoked DMT." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Details of the Monday Night Conference Topic: Surviving in a Surveillance Society Time: Mar 5, 2018 6:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/326830671 Meeting ID: 326 830 671 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +19294362866,,326830671# or +16699006833,,326830671# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 929 436 2866 or +1 669 900 6833 International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=gd6Lbpidqa-Ks6hoGFbXcu2SJG8fB-he Salvador Roquet's bio on Erowid Eric Davis' Expanding Mind Podcast Goodbye Reality with Mark Pesce – 02.22.18 Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Guest speakers: Scott Olsen, The Lakey Family From: ‘The Mysteries of the Amazon’ exhibit at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, FL PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: January 14, 2018 On this, the very first episode of ‘Find the Others’, The Lakey Sisters head to Florida. And so we are happy to welcome the Psychedelic Salon’s newest anchors, Alexa and Kat, as they prepare to part ways for the next chapter of their adventures. This episode was recorded just before Kat traveled back to the Peruvian Amazon, where she is currently studying to be an ayahuasquera. She will be recording her portion of ‘Find the Others’ from there. While Kat worked her way across the globe, Alexa journeyed back to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she’ll be recording her part of the podcast. In this episode, they interview Dr. Scott Olsen - author of the international best seller, ‘The Golden Section: Nature’s Greatest Secret’ and owner of one of the largest collections of Amazonian visionary art in North America. The sisters visit with Scott on the last day of ‘The Mysteries of the Amazon’ exhibit at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, FL, featuring the work of Pablo Amaringo and his students from the Usko-Ayar School of Visionary Painting. They talk with him about ayahuasca culture learn more about the paintings in his collection. Following that, they be talk with their parents about their psychedelic experiences and how psilocybin can work as a therapeutic agent. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Email the Lakey Sisters: FindTheOthers42 (at) gmail (dot) com Links: Find the Others Website Intro music provided by Dashmesh ‘The Golden Section’ by Scott Olsen on Amazon ‘Wide Awake & Dreaming’ by The Lakey Sisters The Lakey Sisters on YouTube Mysteries of the Amazon Exhibit Photos (photos by Matt Pallamary)

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore, Cory Doctorow John Perry Barlow Photo source: EFF.org PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: November 17, 2006 Today we pay tribute to the late John Perry Barlow, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and an important leader in the struggle to keep the Internet free. In addition to John Perry's remarks, we will also hear John Gilmore, another of the co-founders of EFF.org. One of the most important essays written by Barlow is his Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, and at the end of this podcast you will hear John Perry Barlow reading that declaration himself. "If information is power, then the public needs to have more of it than the government, or the public will not be able to control the government." -John Gilmore "I think the city-state is going to have the biggest Renaissance since the Renaissance." -John Perry Barlow Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option John Perry Barlow Library A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow Electronic Frontier Foundation Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1 https://lorenzohagerty.com/freebooks/

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1993 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "And that's what we are now, semi-human. We're capable of enormous acts of kindness and appalling acts of brutality." "All of our institutions have been built up on the assumption of ego and dominance hierarchies, and deconstructing that is really what the future is all about." "I think the modern family is, first of all a very modern invention, and basically a cauldron for the production of neurosis." "Ego is like a cyst which will begin to grow in you, whether you are male or female, unless you take a psychedelic. The psychedelic will dissolve this cyst. The cyst is in your personality. It's a tumor. It shouldn't be there. We do need to have egos, little egos." "What is impressionism but LSD thirty minutes in?" "I don't think there's much chance of survival without a major effort to reestablish archaic styles and institutions." "Hallucinogens are intra-species pheromones of some sort. They carry information across species lines." "History is the consequence of an animal species losing its connection to the Gaian mind." "I don't think we can fix ourselves through rhetoric. If we could fix ourselves through rhetoric then Buddha and Christ would have done the job." "The private issue, certainly for me and probably for most of you, [is that] it's easy to take psychedelics the first time because you don't know what you're getting into. Ever after that you have to really have a little chat with yourself, and there are barriers to overcome." 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

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1993 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "I think the great overlooked factor in any model of human evolution, and indeed of evolutionary models of many other species, is we have not given enough emphases to diet." "What seems to me to be one of the most centrally interesting questions to be asked of this world, and that is: What is human consciousness? Where did it come from? And why does it exist at all?" "It still is a very challenging thing to dissolve your ordinary state of consciousness, and abandon yourself to the dynamic of the larger mind that we find ourselves embedded in." "I think this is a frightening thing to contemplate, but the earliest cities, I will argue, were pens for human beings. That's what a city is. They're a pen for human beings." "What is the plant hallucinogen experience in all times and all places for all people? I don't know if you can be that general, but it's important to try. What it is, is it's an experience of boundary dissolution. It's an experience of having categories obliterated, of having previously defined boundaries and differences eliminated." "History is a progressive de-humanizing of the human experience." 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.

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "Psychedelics are like any other social phenomenon. There are a lot of wannabes. There are a lot of people who are along for the ride." "I want to talk about what to my mind is the quintessential hallucinogen, and consequentially the quintessential spiritual and magical tool of this dimension. And that is DMT, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine." "A long, long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret. I won't keep it. I'm against secrets. I'm against hierarchies, lineages. All assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I am a true anarchist, first and foremost." "The psychedelic mantra: I've done it this time!" "And yet, the DMT thing, it's like and avalanche of orgasmic beauty, but a certain kind of beauty. The only words that I can find for the kind of beauty that it is are bizarre, alien, outlandish, freaky, and at the very edge of what the human mind seems to be able to hold." "What we are about to discover is probably the least likely thing any of us expected out of our dilemma. What we're about to discover is that death has no sting. That what you penetrate on DMT is an ecology of human souls in another dimension of some sort." "I never imagined that a through exploration of life's mysteries would lead to the conclusion that, in fact, this is but a prelude. We are in a very tiny womb of some sort. Our lives are gestations, and this is not where we are destined to unfold ourselves into what it means to be human. This is some kind of a metamorphic stage, like the pupa of a butterfly, and so this is deep water." "I think that the human body, the human mind, these are tools for the soul to use in the effort to unlock its meaning and its destiny." "A drug that you take and forty-eight hours later you're laying around in warm baths and refusing telephone calls is a drug you shouldn't have taken." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Burner Podcast Episode 74 Interview with Lorenzo Hagerty Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book, The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1.

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1999 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "The electronic media and the psychedelics work together in a peculiar way to accentuate archaic values, values which are counter to the print constellated world." "The shaman is like a designated traveler into higher dimensional space. The shaman has permission to unlock the cultural cul-de-sac of his or her people and go behind the stage machinery of cultural appearances. And has collective permission to manipulate that stage machinery for purposes of healing." "All culture is dissolving in the face of the drug-like nature of the future." "The Earth is involved in a kind of alchemical sublimation of itself into a higher state of morphogenetic order. And that these machines that we build are actually the means by which the Earth itself is growing conscious." "Human beings are the agents of a new order of being." 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. https://lorenzohagerty.com/freebooks/

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 1993 In today's podcast Terence McKenna waxes eloquent about the writing of Marshall McLuhan, whose work in the 1960 was considered a revolutionary break with traditional ways of thinking about media. As Wikipedia says about McLuhan, he "was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. His work is one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries. ... McLuhan is known for coining the expression "the medium is the message" and the term global village, and for predicting the World Wide Web almost 30 years before it was invented." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Listening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety by Rachel Harris Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1 https://lorenzohagerty.com/freebooks/

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 10, 1996 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "This synesthesia thing seems to be the direction in which language has to go in order to be universal. It has to be beheld, acoustical signals don't do it." "No matter how abstract the meaning may be it ultimately is a feeling of recognition." "If you can somehow realize that the purpose of your existence is to figure it out, and then figure it out, you will be in some sense liberated from it." "The reason we are so controlled and abused and misused by our institutions is because we are divided from each other." "You cannot be a public figure and a practicing alchemist." "So if I disappear off the grid until 2005, I'll be back for the last act, I'm sure, unless, of course fate drops the cosmic safe on my head. There's always that." "Our real glory is our imagination, and we seem to be the creature with this relationship to the imagination. It is an attractor for us into the future." "Virtual reality is a place where the creativity, the staggering creativity, of psychedelics can actually find a home." "What is the designing of a drug but the building of a nano-machine?" "Belief is toxic, all belief. Don't believe in anything. Live in the presence of the felt fact of immediate experience, everything beyond that is conjecture." "In contemporary society we're always in the past and in the future, but what is real are feelings. And feelings attain a nexus only in the moment, only in the moment. So explore the edges, keep your logical razors sharp, trust nothing that you haven't verified for yourself. My faith is that the universe will take you in and share with you its meaning, and its intent, and its conclusion." 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

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch Source: WikipediazClick to see larger image PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 1993 Today's podcast features the last talk that Terence McKenna gave during his August of 1993 Scholar-in-Residence program at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. His topic for the evening was the way in which artists like Bosch and poets like Yeats imagined a trans-historical future in their work. Along the way, Terence inserts his views about art history and appreciation, and tells us why he believes that their work remains important to us yet today. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: George Greer PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 31, 2017 Today's podcast features Dr. George Greer, one of the co-founders of the Hefter Research Institute. In this Palenque Norte Lecture that he delivered at the 2017 Burning Man Festival, Dr. Greer not only covers the current state of psychedelic research, he also provides several interesting anecdotes about ways in which research participants have had their lives significantly improved through the use of psychedelic medicines. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Hefter Research Institute Abstracts of papers by Greer and Tolbert “Subjective reports of the effects of MDMA in a clinical setting” “The Therapeutic Use of MDMA” “A method of conducting therapeutic sessions with MDMA”

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Grover Norquist Grover Norquist delivering his 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture at the Burning Man Festival PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 29, 2017 [NOTE: All quotations are by Grover Norquist "The best coalitions come from the hard right and hard left. Center coalitions don't get you anything except more of the same. Each of them are part of the status quo. So you're not going to get dramatic changes there." "What makes it enduring and work is that there's a level of trust between people who disagree, on many issues, but can agree on a series of principles." "The secret sauce of democracy is the rule of law." "There's a threat of violence behind any law, and if there's no threat of violence then the law will be ignored." "[Throughout] history more people have been murdered by their governments than by foreign invaders. So I kind of think fear of one's state is a rational fear in history." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: John Gilmore Electronic Self Defence Tools from EFF PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: September 1, 2017 [NOTE: All quotations are by John Gilmore] "The U.S. still has the world's largest prison population in absolute numbers and per capita. We imprison more people than the next ten countries put together. It's insane. It's a warped part of our culture." "[Some of the opposition to the Drug War] comes from people who are making money from the Drug War. I'm not talking about cartels and gangs. We haven't seen any opposition from cartels, which is interesting. What we see is opposition from police officers, police unions, police chiefs' associations, district attorneys, drug court judges, prison guards' unions, probation officers. All of these people are putting their kids through college on the swelled prison population of the Drug War. And they're afraid, if it goes away, we're not going to need to pay them any more, or they might have to focus on some harder and more dangerous crimes and more dangerous criminals. Most of the people who are selling pot are not going to slit your throat. And so, 99% of the resistance to legalization comes from cops and prison guards, basically." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Marijuana Policy Project MAPS.ORG Electronic Frontier Foundation Tools

Guest speakers: Daniel Pinchbeck and Michael Garfield Daniel Pinchbeck speaking at the first Palenque Norte Lectures during the 2003 Burning Man Festival.Photo by Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 30, 2017 Today's podcast features the author Daniel Pinchbeck and some friends at the 2017 Palenque Norte Lectures that were held during the Burning Man Festival. Besides discussing his books, ibogaine, and ecology, they also give us their thoughts about evolution and culture. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Entheogenesis Australis 2017 Outdoor Psychedelic Symposium http://www.entheogenesis.org/

Guest speaker: Bruce Damer Bruce Damer delivering his 2003 Palenque Norte Lecture PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 31, 2017 Today's podcast features the 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture by Dr. Bruce Damer. As he describes the life-long journey that has led him to search for the origin of life on Earth, you may be surprised at how forthcoming he is about the ways in which he thought about this problem. "Our common ancestor is a community, not an individual. . . . We did not come from competing individuals, we came from a collaborative network of simple things that were donating innovations and tools to a communal structure." -Bruce Damer Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 After a Veterans' Day story by Lorenzo, today's podcast features some stories from Nashville. Thanks to everyone at the Nashville Psychedelic Society for your help making a perfect last stop of the Blue Dot Tour. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option