Psychedelic Salon

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Guest speaker: Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock speaking at the 2016 Glastonbury Festival

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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."

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Guest speaker: David Nutt

Dr. David Nutt speaking at the 2016 Glastonbury Festival

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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."

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Guest speaker: Zoe Helene

Zoe Helene

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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

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Psychedelic Feminism

 

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Guest speaker: Various

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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

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Guest speaker: Myron Stolaroff

Myron Stolaroff meditating in the morning

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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

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Guest speaker: Aldous Huxley

A gathering of friends at Laura Huxley's home

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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."

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Guest speaker: Daniel Greig

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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'

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

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"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."

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The Techno Pagan Octopus Messiah by Ian Winn

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Guest speaker: Various

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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

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

Timewave 1995 - 2012Source: Fractal-Timewave.com

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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.

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