Psychedelic Salon

Guest speaker: Android Jones

Android Jones delivering his 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture

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Date this lecture was recorded: August 2017

Today's podcast features the Palenque Norte Lecture given by visionary artist Android Jones at the 2017 Burning Man Festival. Rather than give a structured lecture, Jones answers questions from the audience about the process he uses, including the use of entheogens, to create the fantastical images that we have seen on album covers, festival posters, live performances, and online at YouTube and Vimeo. If you have ever wondered how a work of art, such as his intriguing video titled Samskara came about, this evening conversation on the playa with Android Jones will fascinate you.

[NOTE: The following quotations are by Android Jones

[When facing a blank canvas] "you've got all these possibilities, and every time you make a decision the infinite possibilities are collapsing. By making a piece of art we are actually collapsing infinity. Every yes is a no to every other thing that you do."

"I don't take psychedelics to try to understand some sort of like forth dimensional entities' agenda on Earth. I take psychedelics so I can understand the majesty of nature. I take psychedelics and I study the ways that trees grow. I take psychedelics and I look at the way that bees will start moving around the hives and the shapes they make. Psychedelics are not inspiring, but they help me gain a whole new level of insight into what is the most inspiring thing, which is just raw, beautiful nature that's around us all the time."

"I like making art more than sex. I like it more than any other thing that there is. . . . I'm a junkie for that deep creative flow space."

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Android Jones' Website

Android Jones on Vimeo

Samskara - An experience by Android Jones

Left to right:Phong, Chris Aimone, Bruce Damer, Andrew (Android) Jones, Samantha Sweetwater

Guest speaker: Ben Stewart

Ben Stewart

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Year this lecture was recorded: 2017

The filmmaker Ben Stewart sits down in Lex Pelger's living room to share his story about the journey that led him to making films and how the psychedelics helped shape his path.

You can learn more about his work on his website:

http://talismanicidols.net/

Watch Ben Stewart's videos at:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVtkjwwba5AyYyIkq-DSZkw

Follow Ben on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/KymaticaNamaste/

And see everything Gaia.com is up to at:

https://www.gaia.com

As always, this is a No Nonsense production. Any assistance is always appreciated. Join us on Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/NoNonsense

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Guest speaker: Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow delivering his Palenque Norte Lecture at the 2017 Burning Man Festival

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Date this lecture was recorded: August 2017

Today's podcast features the 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture by Cory Doctorow. In this talk, which was given during the Burning Man Festival, Cory walks us through some of the current issues having an impact on our ability to have our thoughts and words exchanged between ourselves without the threat of Big Brother listening in. As he explains, this isn't a case of winning or losing, it is about the ongoing efforts we all must make so as to keep the Internet free and not simply be the tool of big corporations and governments to spread their stories at the expense of We the People.

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Guest speaker: Neal Goldsmith

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Date this lecture was recorded: October 4, 2017

Today we hear from Neal Goldsmith about the speakers at the Horizons psychedelics conference this weekend:

http://www.horizonsnyc.org/

And then our old friend Brian talks about the Saturday night event with Duncan Trussel.

https://www.psymposia.com/events/microdosing-duncan-trussell/

If you can't make it, you can watch the show on their livestream.

And as always, if you'd like to have your events, gatherings and work promoted, shoot an email to Lex: pelger (at) gmail (dot) com

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Guest speaker: Sergey Baranov

Sergey Baranov

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Year this lecture was recorded: 2017

The path to peyote for a Russian seeker named Sergey Baranov. Throughout communities spanning the Americas, Sergey explored plant medicines and even faced a near-death experience before finally settling in Peru and founding the 'Cactus House' where he now leads ceremonies.

Sergey Baranov's Website:

http://shamansworld.org/

His Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/huachumawasi/

Path: Seeking Truth in a World of Lies by Sergey Baranov

https://www.amazon.com/Path-Sergey-Baranov/dp/1480040711/

"Mescaline: An Ancient Medicine for the Soul" by Sergey Baranov

https://wakeup-world.com/2017/05/06/mescaline-an-ancient-medicine-for-the-soul/

"Huachuma – The Visionary Cactus from the Peruvian Andes" by Sergey Baranov

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2017/06/19/huachuma-visionary-cactus-peruvian-andes/

Meetings with Sergey Baranov: Sacrifice Your Fears for Your Vision

http://astore.amazon.com/matrixmasterscom/detail/154421460X

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Altered Conference 2017 - BERLIN

3 - 4 November 2017

https://www.alteredconference.com/

Use the code

PSYCHEDELICSALON

at the checkout for a discounted ticket

TantraPunk Podcast 126 with Lorenzo

https://tantrapunk.com/decrypting-the-cyberdelic-revolution-with-lorenzo-hagerty-tpp126/

This Is Not A Drill Podcast 39 with Lorenzo

https://superorganism.space/

The War Nerd

Guest speaker: John Dolan

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Year this lecture was recorded: 2017

Today's podcast features an interview with John Dolan, who is well known as the "War Nerd". Additionally, he has another alter ego as the writer Gary Brecher. The War Nerd podcast covers a wild amount about the history along with speculations about the future of human warfare. In this interview, John explains the long history of drugs and war.

Follow John Dolan on Twitter,

https://twitter.com/TheWarNerd

And support John's work through Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd

For extended reading about this deep subject, there's

'Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War' by Lukasz Kamienski

Support the work of Lex Pelger

on the Psychedelic Salon 2.0 podcasts

(as well as all of his psychoactive advocacy)

at www.Patreon.com/NoNonsense

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Guest speakers: Michael and Annie Mithoefer

Annie & Michael Mithoefer

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Year this lecture was recorded: 2017

Michael and Annie Mithoefer have been working for years to bring MDMA into the forefront as a treatment for PTSD. As a couple who works together holding space for these sessions, they share about what they learned of the promise and pitfalls of this medicine.

Also see Psychedelic Salon Podcast 86, which was posted on April 4, 2007 for Michael Mithoefer's 2006 Palenque Norte Lecture.

 

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Guest speaker: Gore Vidal

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Today's podcast features a lecture by Gore Vidal about the true history of the U.S. presidency. Also included is a brief bit by George Carlin where he explains why America is always at war. And Lorenzo explains in detail why he believes that the USA is already a failed state.

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Year this lecture was recorded: 2017

Today's podcast features a great storytelling night from the Blue-Dot tour. Hosted by the Chicago Psychedelic Club, you can hear why we loved our stop in the Windy City.

You can join the Chicago Psychedelic Club

Also: check out 'The Journal of Humanistic Psychiatry'

For integration meetings in Chicago, there is the newly formed 'Psychedelic Safety, Support, and Integration' group.

 

 

To support our efforts, here in Salon2, at gathering stories, interviewing our elders and spreading the Good News, sign up to help at Patreon.com/NoNonsense

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Guest speaker: Bruce Damer

Dr. Bruce Damer at Burning Man 2017

PROGRAM NOTES:

Year this lecture was recorded: 2017

Some big announcements this week followed by a conversation with Dr. Bruce Damer who shares from his wealth of stories, science and psychedelic history.

You can learn much more about his many endeavors at his website: Damer.com

Dr. Damer's podcast is The Levity Zone

TEDx talk by Dr. Damer explaining his work

Open-access paper about Damer's findings including the graphic he scribbled down after working on the 'origin of life' problem in one of his 'endo-trips'.

Life on Earth Came from a Hot Volcanic Pool, Not the Sea, New Evidence Suggests

Scientific American August 2017

Thanks to Daniel Loew for contributing to our new Salon 2.0 intro music. Listen his tracks here.

Also on this episode, Lex added a shoutout to the Lakey sisters - Alexa & Kat -  and to Jaron West for helping with the Psychedelic History Project. The sisters produced this wonderful remix of Charlie Chaplin's speech in The Great Dictator.

They also have an Instagram of moving psychedelic art.

To support the Lex Pelger in the Salon 2.0, join him on Patreon.

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