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Psychedelic Salon episodes

June 26, 2018 Salon2 046 – “The Psychedologist”
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Guest speaker: Leia Friedman
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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
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June 19, 2018 Podcast 575 – “Countdown Into Complexity” – Part 3
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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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."
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Psycherence 2018
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1 hr 27 min
June 12, 2018 Salon2 045 – “Rick Doblin and the Psychedelic Storytellers”
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Guest speakers: Various
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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.

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Cora Venus Lunny Showreel
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1 hr 12 min
June 05, 2018 Podcast 574 – “Countdown Into Complexity” – Part 2
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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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."
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The Techno Pagan Octopus Messiah
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1 hr 25 min
May 29, 2018 Salon2 044 – “The Big Three”
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Guest speaker: Casey Paleos
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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
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1 hr 26 min
May 21, 2018 Podcast 573 – “Countdown Into Complexity” – Part 1
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
The Baths at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA
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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."
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1 hr 22 min
May 16, 2018 Salon2 043 – “Psychedelic Charleston”
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Guest speaker: Various
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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/
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The Imperfectionists - San Francisco, California
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May 07, 2018 Podcast 572 – “A Tribute to Larry Harvey”
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Guest speaker: Larry Harvey
Photo source: BurningMan.com
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[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."
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Burn on the Bayou
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May 01, 2018 Salon2 042 – “Psychedelic Law”
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Guest speaker: Noah Potter
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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
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1 hr 9 min
April 23, 2018 Podcast 571 – “Terence #2”
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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"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."
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The Techno Pagan Octopus Messiah
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1 hr 34 min