Psychedelic Salon

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

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[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

“History is, in fact, the quenching and the withdrawal of this relationship of symbiosis to the rest of nature.”

“Hedonists are people who don't take hallucinogens, to my mind, because it largely is very hard work. I mean it isn't always hard work, but as a life, as a path, it's extremely hard work.”

“The issue of psychedelics, of plant transformation, of losing the ego, is the most closely held facet of reality in a dominator society.”

“There is no rational way to save the world. Our only hope is a miracle. And the only place a miracle is going to come, so far as I can tell, is from psychedelics. That's the only miracle in town.”

“I really think that the major political obligation upon all of us is to get more stoned. Take larger hits.”

“Most things in the world are hyped. Most things are over-sold and under-delivered, but in my experience sex, music, and psychedelics deliver. They are actually better than advertised.”

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Third Eye Drops podcast with Bruce Damer

Inner Vision with Greg Friedman

The Novelty Generators Podcast

Guest speaker: Neşe Devenot

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Psychedelic Humanities Research

PROGRAM NOTES:

Today's podcast features three short talks by Neşe Devenot who is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Puget Sound, where she teaches classes on psychedelics and literature. Nese received her PhD in 2015 in comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on the study of psychedelic philosophy and the literary history of chemical self-experimentation (what you and I call “trip reports”). She is a founder of the Psychedemia interdisciplinary psychedelics conference and is the former editor of “This Week in Psychedelics” (a Reality Sandwich column that reported on psychedelic news in the media between 2011 and 2013). And Nese is a founding member of the MAPS Graduate Student Association  . . . and as you will hear in the second short talk that I play, Nese has also earned her wings as a psychonaut as well.

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Neşe Devenot

Website: www.chemicalpoetics.com

Twitter: @NeseLSD

eMail: ndevenot (at) pugetsound (dot) edu

Online academic work:  https://ups.academia.edu/ndevenot

Psychedemia Conference Documentary

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#PsychedelicsBecause (video)

Psymposia

Psymposia, LLC is a group of collaborative social activism projects on psychedelics, plants, and policy, that includes live events productions, Psymposia Magazine, and the Palo Santo Project.

We’re an active network of entrepreneurs, students, activists, researchers, organizations, progressive businesses, artists, musicians, comedians, designers, and fresh voices.

We create projects that build community, have a positive social impact, and change perceptions of plants, psychedelics, and psychoactives.

Our live storytelling, Psychedelic Stories, could be described as “The Moth Radio Hour… On Acid,” and is hosted by drug writer Lex Pelger. People have the opportunity to share compelling experiences, peculiar underground exploring, or scientific research from The Academy.

We have organized social networking events, conferences, parties, fundraisers, and live streaming at lofts, universities, and venues in Amherst, Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Montreal, Florida, Vermont, and Oakland.

Simply, we work with people, organizations, and companies who do positive work, within and without the psychedelic community. (See Friends)

We are based on the East Coast, USA.

Psychedelic Mysticism: The Good Friday Experiment & Beyond

Shamanic Graffiti: 100,000 Years of Drugs, 100 Years of Prohibition

By Frank Ogden, Marcus Rummery

Guest speakers: Timothy Leary, Myron Stolaroff, Gary Fisher, Fraser Clark, Terence McKenna, & Sasha Shulgin

PROGRAM NOTES:

Today's podcast features a retrospective of some of the highlights of podcasts with several of the elders who are no longer with us. These clips include talks by Timothy Leary, Myron Stolaroff, Gary Fisher, Fraser Clark, Terence McKenna, and Sasha Shulgin. Interspersed with these clips Lorenzo tells a few stories of his own.

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Guest speaker: Neal Goldsmith

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[NOTE: All quotations are by Neal Goldsmith.]

“Personality is a strategy devised by a two year old.”

“Parenting is like that. You don't want to be directing your child. You want to be more like a forest ranger than a farmer, making sure that if lightening strikes and there's fires you go put it out. But other than than you let the bramble grow, beautifully, and wholly, and healthfully.”

“If you have a psychedelic experience, then your meditation practice is illuminated, and understood better, and aerated, if you will, conceptually aerated. You see it more clearly. It's not as musty, and the two go together, because mediation without psychedelics is kind of blind, but psychedelics without meditation is rootless.”

“Ritual instantiates what works.”

“Spirituality is not some big supernatural thing. It's just the advanced stage of normal human development.”

“Psychedelics and meditation go together.”

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Psychedelic Healing:

The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development

By Neal M. Goldsmith

Neal Goldsmith's WebSite

Neal Goldsmith's Contact Information

A recent, wide-ranging interview with Neal Goldsmith for the Comcastro podcast

A recent write-up/interview with Neal Goldsmith in Brooklyn Magazine

A recent interview with Neal Goldsmith in Bedford and Bowery magazine

An interview on "Psychedelics as a Healing Modality" with Neal Goldsmith for the Questions for People podcast

A six-minute video interview with Neal Goldsmith on psychedelic ecology called Fusion of Spirit and Science

An hour talk by Neal Goldsmith on Psychedelics, Psychotherapy, and Change from the MAPS Psychedelic Science conference

Guest speakers: Nathan Ehrlich & Terence McKenna

PROGRAM NOTES:

Today the first feature is a story by Nathan Ehrlich which first appeared on the Israel Story Podcast this past January. This is a story of healing, both physically and psychologically by two men from different countries who discovered the healing properties of psychedelic medicines. We then close with a short rap by Terence McKenna who explains what he believes to be the best method for smoking NN-DMT.

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Nathan Ehrlich, Multimedia Journalist

Shamanic Journeys in Peru with Sergey Baranov

Israel Story Podcasts on iTunes

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Terence Mckenna (HD) by Collective Awakening

 

This campaign aims to actively:

-Increase awareness around the benefits of psychedelics

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-Reverse decades of negative stigma surround psychedelic and psychoactive drugs

-Educate people about current scientific research

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-Help end arrests, incarceration, and criminalization associated with global drug prohibition

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In April, spread the message through your network encouraging everyone to use #psychedelicsbecause on social media

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Guest speaker: Bernardo Kastrup

PROGRAM NOTES:

Today's podcast features a lengthy reading by Bernardo Kastrup from his new book, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief. This reading comes from Part 3 of the book, which is a fictional account of a young scientist who participated in a research program that is investigating the nature of reality through the use of psychedelic medicines and brain scans during the experience. During the course of the experiments this fictional scientist uncovers the many layers of consciousness upon which our consensus reality is based. People who have had the good fortune to experience what Sasha Shulgin called a Plus 5 experience will most likely be amazed at how well Bernardo has captured the essence of such experiences.

More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

by Bernardo Kastrup

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Guest speaker: Bruce Damer

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Today's podcast features a series of raps by Bruce Damer who is backed up by the Faye Steen House Band led by: Joe Oppenheimer on loops, FX, and acoustic, with Darcy Davis on keys, and Aengus Donald on percussion. The recording was made in Melbourne, Australia in 2015. This is followed by Lorenzo giving a few of his thoughts about the state of the world today and a way in which alchemy may be applied to heal it.

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Alien Dreamtime

Directed by Ken Adams

Boss Drum

Shamen

An army of none: The U.S. military is more powerful, less accountable and more dangerous than ever before

A World War Has Begun - Break The Silence

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

“Trust your perceptions. Trust your intuition. And then accept the consequences, because this is what existential validity must be.”

“Must it not be that humanity is the yeast of of the Gaian alchemical rarefaction, and that human history is the process of catalyzing the alchemical condensation.”

“Speciation of a single plant can occupy fifty or sixty thousand years. It never happens more quickly than that, and the grinding down of glaciers from the poles, these are processes that take hundreds of thousands of years. With the advent of human beings an entirely new ontos of becoming, an entirely new category of becoming is introduced into the entire cosmos, as far as we know, because we cannot verify that there are other self-reflecting beings in the universe.”

“Memory is a time-binding function. It's a way of somehow taking the past and calling up its essential properties so that they are co-present with the given moment of experience.”

“Our bridges are burning behind us. We see no way back.”

“If you believe in something you have precluded the possibility of believing in its opposite, and you have hence limited your freedom.”

“Every belief has consequences.”

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More Terence McKenna and Hermeticism

Podcast 223 – McKenna: “Hermeticism and Alchemy” Part 1

Podcast 224 – McKenna: “Hermeticism and Alchemy” Part 2

Podcast 225 – McKenna: “Hermeticism and Alchemy” Part 3

Podcast 226 – McKenna: “Hermeticism and Alchemy” Part 4

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

“What we would call manic depression, despair, and that chaotic, near psychotic state of unbounded hopelessness is the precondition then for the alchemical work.”

“An angel chartered modern science. It's the alchemical angel, which will not die. It returns again and again to guide the destinies of nations and people toward an unimaginable conclusion.”

“The alchemical spirit lives on. It never really died. It's just that it has taken peculiar forms in our own day.”

Podcast 319 - "The Voynich Manuscript"

by Terence McKenna

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Guest speakers: Rose Kiseato & Shonagh Home

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Today's podcast features a conversation between Shonagh Home and Rose Kiseato Shepherd Davis, who is a Navajo-Hopi water woman of the Native American Church of North America. She is from the tobacco clan and is a 5th generation grandmother in her maternal line. Rose is an accomplished artisan bead-worker who teaches classes on this ancient craft. She is recognized both by her tribe and by the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, and many people consider her to be their spiritual mother and grandmother. She has been participating in the peyote ceremony for over 25 years, and she lives on the Navajo Reservation in Sanders, AZ.

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Cannabis Nurses Magazine

Shonagh Home is a teacher, shamanic practitioner, and the author of

‘Ix Chel Wisdom: 7 Teachings from the Mayan Sacred Feminine,’

‘Love and Spirit Medicine’

and the upcoming, ‘Honeybee Wisdom: A Modern Melissae Speaks.’

Website: www.shonaghhome.com

Contact: shonagh.home (at) comcast (dot) net