Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

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Date this lecture was recorded: August 27, 1992

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna

"What I'm always afraid of is that I'll be ostracized, except that it will be entirely deserved. . . . Disgraced! . . . Did you hear how this guy ended up?"

"Even as it is, I'm practically a 'Repent! The end is nigh!' person. . . . [The Timewave] is basically 'the end is nigh' rap of some sort."

"From the point of view of the 19th Century, we don't have to worry about madness. We are mad, every last one of us."

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Guest speaker: Mona Zhang

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Date this lecture was recorded: 2017

Mona Zhang writes an important newsletter about cannabis, where she gives us an update on news around the weed world and what she saw in the smoking scenes of Beijing, London & New York. You may sign up for her excellent newsletter at http://wordonthetree.com/

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Ascended Minds Podcast

(interview with Lorenzo)

Guest speakers: Bruce Eisner, David Nichols, Rick Doblin, Charles Grob, Richard Yensen, and Timothy Leary

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Date this lecture was recorded: February 3, 1991

Today's podcast features a panel discussion that took place at a psychedelic conference that was held at Stanford University in February of 1991, which is before the World Wide Web came into existence. At the time, conferences such as this were the primary means of communicating information about psychedelics to the public-at-large. Participants were: Bruce Eisner, David Nichols, Rick Doblin, Charles Grob, Richard Yensen, and Dr. Timothy Leary who, in addition to his own comments, also provided some amusing running commentary during several of the other talks. And we get to hear a young Rick Doblin give one of his most detailed descriptions about how he first came to become involved in psychedelic research.

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Guest speaker: Dr. Thomas B. Roberts

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Date this lecture was recorded: 2017

Dr. Thomas Roberts is one of the most forward thinking people in the field of psychedelics. This interview covers his experiences leading up to the idea of psycho-technologies. His book, "The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens Are Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Values" is a valuable addition to any explorer's bookshelf and his approach to psychedelic scholarship envisions the future of creative thinking fostered by these old tools.

Also see:

Home Page of Dr. Thomas B. Roberts

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Psychedelic Scholarship by Thomas B. Roberts, PhD

 

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Guest speakers: Mitchell Gomez, Lex Pelger, and Margie Weiss-Hoffman

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Date these talks were recorded: May 2017

For this entry in the Psychedelic History Project, here are three short lectures from the stage of the Tipper and Friends festival in Florida. Mitchell Gomez of DanceSafe starts with his work in festival harm reduction, Lex Pelger talks about psychoactive storytelling, and Margie Weiss-Hoffman. She became an activist about the use of confidential informants after her daughter was murdered in a police sting gone wrong. For more information on her work, see: The Rachel Morningstar Foundation.

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Guest speaker: Mitchell Gomez

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Date this lecture was recorded: 2017

Mitchell Gomez of DanceSafe walks us through what is happening with drugs in the wild and what his organization is doing to reduced harm at festivals, parties and other psychoactive gatherings of the tribe.

On the street today, MDMA is strong, ketamine is cut, and fentanyl is everywhere. Mitchell also explains more about DanceSafe's drug education, harm reduction and reagent testing services.

 

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Guest speaker: William Radacinski

The last great mushroom conference of the millennium - Breitenbush, OR 1999

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Date this lecture was recorded: June 2017

Wild Bill knows no bounds. A native of Queens and an explorer of psychedelic space, he is an old friend of Lorenzo who has some interesting experiences to share.

This is the first episode in our Psychedelic History Project featuring the voices of the people.

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Wild Bill, Lorenzo & granddaughter Haylee

Wild Bill, Marycie, Lorenzo

Nick Sand and Bill Radacinski

Guest speaker: Mark Haden

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Date this lecture was recorded: July 2017

It's rare to meet someone eager to tackle the law but in this interview with Mark Haden, the Executive Director of MAPS Canada, he wrestles with the thorniest problem of all: how to regulate these drugs.

You can see more about him and the work of MAPS Canada at:

http://www.mapscanada.org/whoweare/board/13-mark-haden

Mark's research and writing is at: http://www.markhaden.com/

Also, if anybody wants a first look at the Psychedelic History Project treasures, the first 500 items are scanned in. Reach out to help look them over, clean them up or add the metadata to these unique articles gathered from Timothy Leary's archive: https://www.instagram.com/thepsychedelichistoryproject/

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Guest speaker: Casey Hardison

 

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Date this lecture was recorded: July 4, 2017

This week we feature the underground chemist and cognitive liberty hero Casey Hardison. He served almost 10 years in the UK on drug charges, but now he's free and sharing his story from the Shulgin Farm on the Fourth of July.

 

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MAPS - Volume 10 Number 2 Summer 2000 - p. 11

An Amateur Qualitative Study of 48 2C-T-7 Subjective Bioassays

by Casey Hardison

Casey Hardison, a graduate student at the University of Idaho, conducted an informal survey of 2C-T-7 users at the Entheobotany conference in Palenque, Mexico in February 2000. Noticing that quite a few people were conducting bioassays of the material, Hardison seized the opportunity to perform some informal impromptu research. He designed a survey which was handed out to conference attendees, and received 48 responses. The results of this survey were published in the Summer 2000 issue of the MAPS Bulletin under the title "An Amateur Qualitative Study of 48 2C-T-7 Subjective Bioassays."

Guest speaker: Paul Stamets

The last great mushroom conference of the millennium - Breitenbush, OR 1999

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Date this lecture was recorded: August 2016

Today's podcast features the 2016 Palenque Norte lecture by Paul Stamets, who is one of the leading mycologists in the world. In this talk Paul covers a wide range of knowledge about mushrooms and mycelium that will blow your mind. For anyone interested in biology, this talk is not to be missed. As Paul says, "There's a recurring lessen here folks, when we're facing extinction events pairing with fungi has an evolutionary advantage. And we should make use of that."

[NOTE: The quotations below are by Paul Stamets]

"If Terence [McKenna] was sitting here right now I'd tell him the same thing, 'Terence, 95% of the stuff you say is total bullshit. But you say it so well."

"There's a recurring lessen here folks, when we're facing extinction events pairing with fungi has an evolutionary advantage. And we should make use of that."

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