Psychedelic Salon

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Guest speaker: Matt Pallamary

Matt Pallamary delivering his 2007 Palenque Norte Lecture

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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.

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Guest speaker: Lorenzo

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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.

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

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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."

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

Art Bell

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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."

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Guest speaker: Shonagh Home

Celtic goddess, Cerridwen holding the cauldron

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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:

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on the Practical and Mystical Layers

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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

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The Viridis Genii Symposium

Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience

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Guest speaker: Richie Ogulnick

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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.

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

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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?"

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The Imperfectionists

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

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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."

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

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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.

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The Imagine Convergence on Oracs Island

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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."

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The Imagine Convergence on Oracs Island

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