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Guest speakers: Leonard Pickard, Ralf Jeutter, Nese Devenot, Julian Vayne, and Nikki Wyrd

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Today's podcast features a reading of Chapter 1 of The Rose of Paracelsus by the author, Leonard Pickard. Additionally, there is commentary by Ralf Jeutter, Nese Devenot, Julian Vayne, and Nikki Wyrd. This podcast was produced by the Lakey sisters, Kat and Alexa. Psychedelic Salon podcast number 609, "The Rose Garden Introduction", provides an overview of this project, which begins today with a reading of Chapter 1.

PROGRAM SECTION TIMES:
00:00 Kat and Alexa’s Intro
08:00 Title and Epigraphs
09:18 Author’s Note
10:53 An Invitation
12:12 Report to the Human Subjects Committee
15:20 Chapter 1 Part 1
01:04:07: Chapter Break and Commentary from Nese Devenot Part 1
01:17:32 Chapter 1 Part 2
01:51:42 Ralf Jeutter Commentary Part 1
02:01:20 Nese Devenot Commentary Part 2
02:11:11 Ralf Jeutter Commentary Part 2
02:23:17 Julian Vayne and Nikki Wyrd Commentary
02:29:50 Kat and Alexa’s Sign Off
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna 

 

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In this talk, which was given in October of 1995, Terence McKenna talks about his concept of thinking about various cultures in the same vein as computer operating systems, complete with viruses. He says, "Your operating system determines what world you are living in." -McKenna



He then goes on to equate a clash of cultures to a clash of operating systems. It sounds elementary, but it does seem to give me a better way to think about world affairs. Of course, I'm more of a geek than a historian. This metaphor may work for you as well.



Recommended ReadingThe Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemmaby Mustafa Suleyman (CEO of Microsoft AI, majority shareholder in OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT.



Podcast 702 – Hacking Reality


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Among other things, Terence McKenna talks here about several books that now seem to have been forgotten. And then there is his story about his brother's vision of bonding psychedelics with our DNA to launch a permanent trip "on the natch". The Timewave makes an appearance also. All-in-all, it's a fun ride from a young Terence McKenna.



Had you taken Terence's advice and picked up a remainder copy of the Codex Seraphinianus for $19, that would bring you about $600 today. Not bad advice, I'd say.



Codex seraphinianus Hardcover – January 1, 1983 ($650)



It may be hard to do, but if you take yourself back to 1988, where you didn't know what would happen in 2000 or 2012, you can see how appealing the idea of the Timewave was back then. …. he admits that he was "hearing voices" … but, nonetheless, when he goes into his poetic description of the Timewave it seems to me that there is still something about the nature of time that remains undiscovered.

Podcast 701 – Return of the Timewave


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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna 

 

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We return once again to the land of Terence McKenna's workshops.



As you will hear, his question and answer format leads him into telling some of the old stories we heard early on in Terence's talks but some of which were dropped later on. As far as I can remember, this is the only time he talked about taking psychedelic substances in his dreams.



Podcast 700 – Plants That Talk


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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna 

 

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In this talk, Terence approaches the topic of how little of what was considered to be established science 100 years ago has now been overturned.



One of the things he says in this talk may resonate with you is where he says, "You could almost describe psychedelics as enzimes for the activity of the imagination."



The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow



The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler



Podcast 699 – Kneading the Bread of Evolutionary Adaptation


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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna 

 

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Today begins our 20th year of podcasting from the Psychedelic Salon with a talk that Terence McKenna gave in the late 1980s. Near the end he talks about his daily cannabis use and how he and Kat got together. As far as I can remember, this is his only time that he got so personal.



Podcast 644 – “The Rose of Paracelsus” – Chapter 1

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