Psychedelic Salon

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Date this lecture was recorded: May 17, 2017

Today's Salon2 podcast features a few psychedelic stories from a wonderful hot night in Atlanta. Thanks to Moshe Jacobson for making the night happen.

Psychedelic Atlanta's Meetup Group

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

Pedaling toward expanded awareness!

PROGRAM NOTES:

Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

"Nothing is unannounced."

"[A psychedelic truth:] Nothing lasts."

"The lie of Western psychology is that something is stable. . . . And because of this lie we are in a state of perpetual anxiety because the truth of our experience is nothing lasts."

"The central truth of being is the felt presence of immediate reality. That's all you will ever have."

"I think this ability to accept the inevitable passing and coming to be of phenomenon is what psychedelic wisdom is really about."

"Community is the enemy of authoritarian organization."

"They don't hand out rights around here. The only people who have any rights are people who demand them."

"Don't people understand that the essence of sophistication is tolerance?"

"I think Americans are paranoid of nature."

"This is very important work. Whether we succeed or fail, it would be tragic to not make the effort, because I think we really align ourselves with the Gaian intent when we bring these things to the community and share them."

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Guest speaker: Ingmar Gorman

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Today's Salon2 podcast features an interview with Dr. Ingmar Gorman about his work at the intersection of MDMA and PTSD.

 Ingmar Gorman, Ph.D.

The Psychedelic Education and Continuing Care Program

Psychedelics 101 & 102 for Clinicians' courses

Announcements

Global Psychedelic Earth Day Cleanup on April 22, 2018

ICEERS survey of psychoactive use

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Lightning In A Bottle

Learning and Culture Lineup

Jon Hanna's video of Bruce Damer's 2007 Palenque Norte Lecture

A short video clip the Lorenzo took at Bruce's lecture

 

Matt Pallamary, Bruce Damer, Jon Hanna, Lorenzo at the 2007 Palenque Norte Lectures

 

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

PROGRAM NOTES:

Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna

"Rational, and by that I mean statistically extractable expectations, seem to be superseded on these trips by a kind of magical connectedness. All kinds of strange things happen on trips that really happen! It's not hallucinations. These things really happen. The ordinary laws of causality are obviated, and you become a magnet for the strange, the peculiar."

"In some sense, when you take a plant it takes you. . . . So essentially when you take psilocybin you are experiencing all the previous psilocybin trips that ever were."

"I'm not of the school that says what we need is a drug we don't have. . . . I think that we have the substances we need. What we don't have are the techniques and the intelligence to know what to do with them."

"Cannabis is the rudder on your ship."

"In a sense, learning what drugs you should and shouldn't take is as big a task as deciding what kind of person you should or shouldn't go to bed with."

"I think if you go through life taking vast amounts of drugs of all sorts then you didn't quite get it right. The idea is to find what works for you and then put the pedal to the medal. If it's LSD, or whatever it is, these things have personality. It's just like making a friendship, and some people are gonna want to be your friend, and some people are going to think you're a jerk. And you don't want to hang out with those people because they make you feel bad."

"I don't believe everything the mushroom tells me. I just treat it like everybody else. You can't trust anybody one hundred percent."

"I think one of the problems with education is that we are trying to use a print-created institution to educate electronically biased human beings. And it's created a kind of speed bump against illiteracy."

"When media becomes bias-less media becomes reality."

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

"Cosmic Christ" by Alex GreyPhoto credit: Lorenzo

PROGRAM NOTES:

Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

"If a Buddhist could design their own genome they would become a fungus, because a fungus is a primary decomposer. It is the only karma-less place in the food chain. There is no karma for the fungi. They don't destroy any life whatsoever."

"The trick is going to be to recognize the extraterrestrials."

"I think probably the biota of the Earth is riddled with extraterrestrial genes, if not organisms, and possibly intelligences."

"It's very clear to me that every abduction case around, except for a vanishingly small number that we can put in the classical category of stigmata, can be explained by one simple fact: People are losing the ability to distinguish dreams from memories."

"Trust only yourself."

"I think we're getting set, basically, to decamp into the imagination. That the imagination is as real a place as across the river is if you've just acquired eyes."

"A shaman is a seer, is a prophet, is a higher dimensional mathematician. And they may not use tensor equations to express what they're doing, but mathematics before symbols is experience."

"We have unleashed such novelty that I think we're in the terminal phase of decamping from three dimensional space. We are leaving the womb of Newtonian being for something else, the imagination. And the birth is tumultuous. The entire planet is at risk."

"If this planet hadn't been wrecked sixty-five million years ago we wouldn't be here. Well then, what is our position on planetary catastrophe? We're in the process of making one. Is it so that sixty-five million years in the future an organism filled with love, and justice, and intelligence will look back at our skeletons in the shale and say, 'Well, they had a good thing going, but if it hadn't been for their extinction we wouldn't be here.' "

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"Thinking Outside the Quantum Box"

by Bernardo Kastrup

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Today's podcast presents a powerful round of story telling that took place in a Columbus, Ohio bike hangar. The event was hosted by the wonderful community of Mind Manifest West.

"Mind Manifest Midwest is a psychedelic society based in Columbus, Ohio. Since 2016 we have hosted speakers to talk about some factual aspect of psychedelia. Our in-person community meets to share stories, promote harm reduction education, and create models for responsible transformational psychedelic use."

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

Dale Pendell delivering his "Horizon Anarchism" lecture at the 2006 Palenque Norte Lectures during the Burning Man Festival

PROGRAM NOTES:

Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

"I take psychedelics to be the catalysis of language."

"This great period of creativity that we're living through now in the sciences, in the arts, in the implementation of exotic technology, I think this is the real legacy of the Sixties. The people who run these fancy computer companies, and the World Wide Web, and the Net, and CERN, and all that, they're all freaks. They're all people who came up through the Sixties and have somehow fitted themselves in to straight society. But the great bulk of creative work in society and those areas is being done by people who took psychedelics."

"On psychedelics essentially you feel, or you see, the morphogenetic field that surrounds objects."

"Clearly we have become a toxic drag on the rest of nature."

"What the New World Order is is a Corporate Order."

"The best substitute for psychedelics, which takes a lot more time, energy, and dedication, is penny-less travel in Asian countries."

"If I had to say one thing that DMT is, it's alien beauty."

"I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that at the peak of a psychedelic experience you see more art in a half an hour than the human race has produced in the last thousand years."

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He Spoke for the Plants

Remembering Dale Pendell

Obituary by Jon Hanna

 

https://psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-055-horizon-anarchism/

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Guest speaker: Julian Vayne

PROGRAM NOTES:

Today's Salon2 podcast features the return of Lex Pelger who interviews Julian Vayne, an author and oculist. They about the history of drugs and magick - especially in the underground London scene. Vayne also highlights some of the important ideas from his new book on creating psychedelic ceremonies.

This episode is cross-posted from the Greener Grass podcast.

Getting Higher by Julian Vayne

Trailer for Getting Higher

Julian Vayne's blog

The psychedelic prisoner project

Lex Pelger's cannabis graphic novels are now FREE online.

http://www.lexpelger.com/nononsense

Lex Pelger's new program: The Greener Grass podcast.

http://greenergrass.libsyn.com/

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

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Date this lecture was recorded: April 1993

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"I think it's important to talk about and analyze your experience. There is no communication, even within the confines of your own mind, if you can't describe what's going on."

"The crisis we're in, as a planetary society, is a culture of consciousness. There ain't enough of it. That's what happens when women are raped in Bosnia. That's a failure of consciousness. That's what happens when rivers are polluted with DDT. It's a failure of consciousness."

"The idea that art should save humanity is very out of fashion in the cynical '90s."

"When Fascism comes to America it will be called traditionalism. That seems to be how it's going to present itself."

"Dancing your ass off in a noisy environment is a perfect strategy for clearing your system of a drug."

"Your SELF is the instrument for the exploration of these dimensions."

"Ideology is fairly absent in shamanism at a practical level. It's basically about experience, not about an ideological preconception."

"What if there is actually something that survives bodily death, that actually continues to exist in a dimension which we would have to call mental, or trans-real. And what-if you could come and go from that dimension using shamanic techniques? That is what in fact shamanism has always claimed to anyone who would listen."

"What is language? It's a strategy for escaping from the narrowness of the present moment."

"I think that, well, frankly, I don't know what I think. It depends on how recently I smoked DMT."

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Details of the Monday Night Conference

Topic: Surviving in a Surveillance Society

Time: Mar 5, 2018 6:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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Salvador Roquet's bio on Erowid

Eric Davis' Expanding Mind Podcast

Goodbye Reality with Mark Pesce – 02.22.18

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Guest speakers: Scott Olsen, The Lakey Family

From: ‘The Mysteries of the Amazon’ exhibit at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, FL

PROGRAM NOTES:

Date this lecture was recorded: January 14, 2018

On this, the very first episode of ‘Find the Others’, The Lakey Sisters head to Florida. And so we are happy to welcome the Psychedelic Salon’s newest anchors, Alexa and Kat, as they prepare to part ways for the next chapter of their adventures.

This episode was recorded just before Kat traveled back to the Peruvian Amazon, where she is currently studying to be an ayahuasquera. She will be recording her portion of ‘Find the Others’ from there. While Kat worked her way across the globe, Alexa journeyed back to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she’ll be recording her part of the podcast.

In this episode, they interview Dr. Scott Olsen - author of the international best seller, ‘The Golden Section: Nature’s Greatest Secret’ and owner of one of the largest collections of Amazonian visionary art in North America.

The sisters visit with Scott on the last day of ‘The Mysteries of the Amazon’ exhibit at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, FL, featuring the work of Pablo Amaringo and his students from the Usko-Ayar School of Visionary Painting. They talk with him about ayahuasca culture learn more about the paintings in his collection.

Following that, they be talk with their parents about their psychedelic experiences and how psilocybin can work as a therapeutic agent.

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Intro music provided by Dashmesh

‘The Golden Section’ by Scott Olsen on Amazon

‘Wide Awake & Dreaming’ by The Lakey Sisters

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Mysteries of the Amazon Exhibit Photos

(photos by Matt Pallamary)