Psychedelic Salon

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Guest speaker: Matthew Schultz

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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.

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End of the Road Podcast with Michael Kokal

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Guest speaker: Michael Pollan

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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

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Mike Margolies Website

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Guest speakers: James Fadiman and Ayelet Waldman

Mike Margolies, Ayelet Waldman, and James Fadiman

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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

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Microdosing: The Benefits, Risks, & Unknowns w/ Jim Fadiman & Ayelet Waldman

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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

 

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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.

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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

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Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson

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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."

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Guest speaker: Alan Watts.

Alan WattsPhoto from Archive.org

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[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."

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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

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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

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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.

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VIDEO of "The Psychedelic Hospice Movememt"

by Lorenzo

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Guest speaker: Nick Sand

Lorenzo at home with Usha and Nick Sand

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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”

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