Psychedelic Salon

By Lorenzo HagertySociety & Culture Science Philosophy Personal Journals Natural Sciences

Psychedelic Salon episodes

October 13, 2015 Podcast 472 – “The Timewave & The Watkins Objection”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.”
“In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.”
“I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?”
“If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.”
“My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.”
“I think of the mainland as Blade Runner Land.”
“Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.”
“I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.”
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Hyperborea - Terence McKenna's Website
Autopsy for a Mathematical Hallucination? by Matthew Watkins Introduction by Terence McKenna
2012 and the "Watkins Objection" to Terence McKenna's "Timewave Theory" . . . by Matthew Watkins
Terence McKenna's Reading List
1 hr 27 min
October 05, 2015 Podcast 471 – “Healing For PTSD Is Available”
Guest speakers: Janine Sagert, Saj Razvi, Ryan LeCompte, & Shonagh Home
FROM SHOCK TO AWE (Indiegogo Campaign)
/*
Click image to see video
From Shock to Awe is a feature-length documentary that will chronicle the journeys of military veterans as they seek relief from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with the help of ayahuasca, MDMA (“Ecstasy”), and cannabis. It will be an intimate look at how these substances can be used to heal our wounded warriors—and, by extension, their loved ones.
Our intention with this film is to raise awareness of the healing properties of, and help change the laws regulating, ayahuasca, MDMA, and cannabis so that these substances can be legally available for responsible use in therapeutic, and spiritual, settings—especially for veterans with PTSD. Because we believe that all vets have the right to choose their own path to healing.
PROGRAM NOTES:
“What we're finding is that after three full dose MDMA sessions, with each session lasting about a day and spread three to four months apart, we're finding that 83% of chronic, treatment-resistant PTSD sufferers no longer qualify for the diagnosis.” -Saj Razvi
If you are (or know) a military veteran (or anyone else) who has PTSD, then you owe it to yourself to listen to the conversation featured in today's podcast. In this program Shonagh Home interviews Janine Sagert, the content producer of “From Shock to Awe”, Saj Razvi, who is an MDMA clinical therapist, and Ryan LeCompte, an ex marine who now runs an organization called Veterans for Entheogenic Therapy. Their discussion focuses on ways in which veterans and others suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorders can get relief, and in some cases even be cured, through the use of MDMA, ayahuasca, and cannabis.
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Veterans for Entheogenic Therapy

From Shock to Awe:
Healing PTSD with Ayahuasca, MDMA, and Cannabis
brand, web, and crowdfunding by awakemedia.com
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
/*
Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate (video)
1 hr 45 min
September 28, 2015 Podcast 470 – “Enter the Medicine Woman”
Guest speaker: Shonagh Home
PROGRAM NOTES:
Today we feature Shonagh Home from a talk that she gave at the recent Women & Entheogens Conference that was held in Cleveland, Ohio. The focus of Shonagh's presentation has to do with breaking the spell of our cultural constructs that are preventing us from living informed and satisfying lives. She begins with an excellent overview of how, over the centuries, the ruling elite have conditioned society in ways that keep most of us from being truly free to pursue our lives in ways that suit us. She then introduces the ancient concept of the medicine woman and suggests ways in which we can embrace their return.
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
BBC Documentary: The Century of the Self
John Taylor Gatto: The Pathological Methodology of Forced Schooling
Documentary: Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century
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
54 min
September 21, 2015 Podcast 469 – “Philosophy With The Gloves Off”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“We don’t produce enough seritonin for living above 20 degrees latitude.”
“I’m not a big advocate of mixing drugs, anyway. If you really want to get out into unknown territory, where there is the potential for danger, then start pouring these things together.”
“It’s a funny thing the way people relate to drugs. Many people take them in environments that couldn’t be better designed to suppress the effect of the drug. For instance, crowded singles bars, noisy social environments with everybody hitting on each other, and loud music, and lots of activity, and maybe lots of vigorous dancing. Well, this is an environment designed to suppress drug effects. . . . To really see what these things do, you need and atmosphere of quite, sensory deprived darkness.”
“My attitude is always if it’s legal it ain’t gonna work.”
“People have trouble saying a lot about many of these things. I think that’s a learned skill; narrative ability and to keep your wits about you in those places, and to try and bring back some kind of coherent metaphor.”
“The strange thing about opium is that it’s so endlessly fascinating while it’s happening, and there’s just nothing to be taken out of it. It apparently does not transcript into short term memories.”
“It’s as important to tell the trip as to have the trip.”
In answer to the question, “How do you regain yourself when having a difficult trip?” Terence answered, “I always have cannabis ready. It’s the rudder of the boat.”
“The key when you’re having a bad trip is to make your mind wander from the bummer.”
Legal status of Salvia divinorum
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
1 hr 37 min
September 14, 2015 Podcast 468 – “Investigating Life – Part 2”
Guest speaker: Peter Gorman
PROGRAM NOTES:
“I have never gone to bed in Peru without having learned something new that day.” -Peter Gorman
Today’s podcast features the second part of an interview with Peter Gorman, one of the larger-than-life figures to be found among our psychedelic elders. The program begins by picking up with a story about river pirates in the Amazon, migrates to tales of running a bar in the jungle town of Iquitos, Peru that was frequented by DEA agents, and continues with Peter talking about his interactions with luminaries such as Albert Hofmann, Alan Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, and Terence McKenna. Also, Peter talks about his new book “Sapo In My Soul”, which is the first book to be published about this interesting medicine. Of interest to our younger saloners will be his telling of how, as a young man himself, he financed his trips to the Amazon and the methods he used to search for medicinal plants in the jungle.
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Peter Gorman’s Web Site
Sapo In My Soul: The Matsés Frog Medicine
By Peter Gorman
Ayahuasca in My Blood: 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming
By Peter Gorman
1 hr 35 min
September 08, 2015 Podcast 467 – “Investigating Life – Part 1”
Guest speaker: Peter Gorman
PROGRAM NOTES:
Today’s podcast features an interview of Peter Groman by Tom Huckabee. The interview took place at Peter’s home in August 2015. In this, the first part of Peter’s story, we learn that Peter was one of the first American’s to take ayahuasca. At the time, Burroughs’ “Yage Letters” hadn’t yet made it around to him. He wrote a freelance story about the experience, which became a front page story in High Times Magazine. Many twists and turns later, Peter became the Editor in Chief of High Times and was instramental in entering the discussion of medical marijuana into the mainstream media. This is the first part of this interview, and it ends with Peter and his wife deep in the Amazon and being acosted by river pirates.
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Peter Gorman’s Website
Contact Peter Gorman
Sapo In My Soul: The Matsés Frog Medicine
Other talks featuring Peter Gorman
Podcast 280 – “Albert Hofmann is Interviewed by Peter Gorman”
Podcast 279 – “Peter Gorman Interviews the Elders”
Podcast 278 – “Oscar Janiger Interviewed by Peter Gorman”
Podcast 277 – “Peter Gorman Interviews Dennis McKenna” Part 2
Podcast 276 – “Peter Gorman Interviews Dennis McKenna” Part 1
Dr. Timothy Leary’s Cooper Union Speech
Podcast 127 – Leary: “The Cooper Union Speech”
1 hr 9 min
September 04, 2015 Podcast 466 – “This Is An Incredible Moment”
Guest speaker: Rick Doblin
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Rick Doblin.]
“When we take a psychedelic drug and material emerges from our unconscious . . . it’s not a psychedelic experience, it’s a human experience that psychedelics have catalyzed.”
“One of the most successful exports of the United States is the drug war.”
“Mescaline is the most important psychedelic drug that is not being researched.”
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
Why I am not going to Burning Man this yearby Daniel Pinchbeck
Podcast 432 featuring Rachel Hope
Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate
(Video interview with Lorenzo)
1 hr 6 min
August 18, 2015 Podcast 464 – “Temple of Light”
Guest speaker: Bruce Damer
PROGRAM NOTES:
Today's podcast features a talk given by Dr. Bruce Damer in May 2015 at the Lightening in a Bottle Festival. Building on a theme introduced by Lorenzo in a talk at Esalen, Bruce takes an in-depth look at the importance and essence of the Mysteries at Eleusis. In his concluding remarks, Lorenzo discusses the drawbacks of organized religion and suggests that minor children NOT be given religious instruction.
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Next:Space | Dr. Bruce Damer | TEDxSantaCruz
In the Beginning: The Origin & Purpose of Life | Dr. Bruce Damer | TEDxSantaCruz
Lightning in a Bottle Festival
The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries
By R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck
0 min
August 10, 2015 Podcast 463 – “Novelty is to be Cherished”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“I describe myself as a tall man with a cheap watch.”
“If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.”
“In a sense, the Italian Renaissance IS the medieval lead turned to the secular gold of reform and rebirth.”
“You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.”
“What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.”
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Do You Have Social Anxiety or Social Phobia?
We are seeking men and women on the autism spectrum with social anxiety who are at least 21 years old.
You must be in good physical health, with blood pressure that is normal.
We are conducting a research study of an experimental drug used in combination with therapy.
The study takes place in the Los Angeles area and requires about 15 visits to the study location over several months.
For more information, please call (310) 222-1664.
0 min
August 03, 2015 Podcast 462 – “Psychedelic Advocacy”
Guest speakers:
Ashley Booth and Amy Ralston Povah
Today's podcast features Ashley Booth, scientist and psychedelic advocate, and Amy Ralston Povah, a victim and hero of the War on Drugs. The talk by Ashley was given at the 2014 Palenque Norte Lectures at the Burning Man Festival, and the talk by Amy was given at a Venice, California salon hosted by Ashley in celebration of Bicycle Day 2014. Together these talks will give you a lot of things to talk about, both with friends who agree with you and the old Nancy Reagan just say no crowd. . . . As Ashley says, “By being a psychedelic advocate, I'm not saying that psychedelics are good for everyone, by any means. I would just like it to be an opportunity for people who would like to try it.”
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Ashley Booth's Website
Aware Project
Aware Project on Facebook
0 min