Psychedelic Salon

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Psychedelic Salon episodes

September 08, 2014 Podcast 413 – “Plant Medicines As Healing Agents”
Guest speaker: Shonagh Home & Neşe Devenot
PROGRAM NOTES:
We again join Shonagh Home and Neşe Devenot in a conversation centered on how plant and psychedelic medicines may used in ways that aid in healing and in improving self-awareness. Along the way we hear stories of some of the difficulties that they encountered not only as women in the psychedelic community, but also as young people coping with a rapidly changing world. And their discussion about ways in which some people use the power of psychedelics to manipulate (and in some cases even abuse) others is worth listening to more than once.
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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
Neşe Devenot
is a founder the Psychedemia psychedelics conference and a PhD Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies and teaches psychedelic philosophy and the literature of chemical self-experimentation.
Website: https://upenn.academia.edu/ndevenot
Contact: ndevenot (at) sas (dot) upenn (dot) edu
Women's Visionary Congress
Johns Hopkins "Bad Trip" Survey After Psilocybin Mushrooms 2014
1 hr 22 min
September 08, 2014 Podcast 413 – “Plant Medicines As Healing Agents”
Guest speaker: Shonagh Home & Neşe Devenot
PROGRAM NOTES:

We again join Shonagh Home and Neşe Devenot in a conversation centered on how plant and psychedelic medicines may used in ways that aid in healing and in improving self-awareness. Along the way we hear stories of some of the difficulties that they encountered not only as women in the psychedelic community, but also as young people coping with a rapidly changing world. And their discussion about ways in which some people use the power of psychedelics to manipulate (and in some cases even abuse) others is worth listening to more than once.
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
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
Neşe Devenot
is a founder the Psychedemia psychedelics conference and a PhD Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies and teaches psychedelic philosophy and the literature of chemical self-experimentation.
Website: https://upenn.academia.edu/ndevenot
Contact: ndevenot (at) sas (dot) upenn (dot) edu
Women’s Visionary Congress
Johns Hopkins “Bad Trip” Survey After Psilocybin Mushrooms 2014
1 hr 22 min
August 30, 2014 Podcast 412 – “Permitting Smart People To Hope”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“What's happening is that the computer is allowing us to go beyond the mathematical objects of Greek philosophy.”
“The unconscious of the species is actually being hard wired as an artifact. We're pouring glass, and gold, and silicon down the microtubials of the racial imagination. And as it were, making a kind of casting of the state of the human imagination at the close of the millennium.”
“Technology is facilitating the drive toward community, at this incredibly accelerated rate..”
“The Earth is on the brink of the greatest change since the end of the mesozoic, but people don't like to think about that because all they can think about is the possibility of personal extinction.”
“No one can run or program these vast networks except guys with ponytails.”
“My intuition was always that the psychedelic experience was a fractal anticipation of human history.”
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1 hr 36 min
August 30, 2014 Podcast 412 – “Permitting Smart People To Hope”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“What’s happening is that the computer is allowing us to go beyond the mathematical objects of Greek philosophy.”
“The unconscious of the species is actually being hard wired as an artifact. We’re pouring glass, and gold, and silicon down the microtubials of the racial imagination. And as it were, making a kind of casting of the state of the human imagination at the close of the millennium.”
“Technology is facilitating the drive toward community, at this incredibly accelerated rate..”
“The Earth is on the brink of the greatest change since the end of the mesozoic, but people don’t like to think about that because all they can think about is the possibility of personal extinction.”
“No one can run or program these vast networks except guys with ponytails.”
“My intuition was always that the psychedelic experience was a fractal anticipation of human history.”
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1 hr 36 min
August 19, 2014 Podcast 411 – “Our Involvement With Matter”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
At the end of this talk Terence takes off on an interesting riff wherein he speculates that our life here on Earth may have something to do with us learning how to interact with matter as a preparation for some future existence in dimensions yet unknown. If, he postulates, we are the only intelligent species in the universe, then, he asks, don't we have an obligation to announce ourselves to destinations that exist beyond the limits of our solar system.
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“Being itself is some kind of opportunity.”
“Outlandish things are going on inside the psychedelic experience. It seems to imply the thing we had hardly dared hope, which is that the world is whatever you say it is, if you know how to say it right.”
“We have never taken the self-management of culture seriously.”
“I'm amazed at what thin soup is dished out as spiritual food.”
“It's hard to take psychedelics. It's not hard to sweep up around the ashram, but it's hard to take psychedelics.”
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1 hr 4 min
August 19, 2014 Podcast 411 – “Our Involvement With Matter”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:

At the end of this talk Terence takes off on an interesting riff wherein he speculates that our life here on Earth may have something to do with us learning how to interact with matter as a preparation for some future existence in dimensions yet unknown. If, he postulates, we are the only intelligent species in the universe, then, he asks, don’t we have an obligation to announce ourselves to destinations that exist beyond the limits of our solar system.
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“Being itself is some kind of opportunity.”
“Outlandish things are going on inside the psychedelic experience. It seems to imply the thing we had hardly dared hope, which is that the world is whatever you say it is, if you know how to say it right.”
“We have never taken the self-management of culture seriously.”
“I’m amazed at what thin soup is dished out as spiritual food.”
“It’s hard to take psychedelics. It’s not hard to sweep up around the ashram, but it’s hard to take psychedelics.”
Download
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1 hr 4 min
August 14, 2014 Podcast 410 – “Women and Psychedelics, a Discussion”
Guest speakers: Shonagh Home & Nese Devnot
PROGRAM NOTES:
Today's podcast features a perspective of the psychedelic community that sometimes gets ignored, a woman's point of view. Shonagh Home is joined by Nese Devenot in a wide-ranging conversation about not only womens' roles in the community, but also how they are often perceived as second-class members of our community in many ways. While I am convinced that it is only the rare male psychonaught who is always a jerk, some of us have inadvertently slipped into jerkiness from time to time. This conversation may be just what us men need to hear.
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Shonagh Home
is an author, teacher, shamanic practitioner and doting beekeeper. Her offerings focus on the cultivation of our intuition, creativity and the essential awareness of our personal shadow. Her shamanic work with the sacred mushroom informs both her teaching and her private practice.
She is author of the books,
‘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
Neşe Devenot
is a founder the Psychedemia psychedelics conference and a PhD Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies and teaches psychedelic philosophy and the literature of chemical self-experimentation.
Website: https://upenn.academia.edu/ndevenot
Contact: ndevenot (at) sas (dot) upenn (dot) edu
1 hr 25 min
August 14, 2014 Podcast 410 – “Women and Psychedelics, a Discussion”
Guest speakers: Shonagh Home & Nese Devnot

PROGRAM NOTES:

Today’s podcast features a perspective of the psychedelic community that sometimes gets ignored, a woman’s point of view. Shonagh Home is joined by Nese Devenot in a wide-ranging conversation about not only womens’ roles in the community, but also how they are often perceived as second-class members of our community in many ways. While I am convinced that it is only the rare male psychonaught who is always a jerk, some of us have inadvertently slipped into jerkiness from time to time. This conversation may be just what us men need to hear.
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Shonagh Home
is an author, teacher, shamanic practitioner and doting beekeeper. Her offerings focus on the cultivation of our intuition, creativity and the essential awareness of our personal shadow. Her shamanic work with the sacred mushroom informs both her teaching and her private practice.
She is author of the books,
‘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
Neşe Devenot
is a founder the Psychedemia psychedelics conference and a PhD Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies and teaches psychedelic philosophy and the literature of chemical self-experimentation.
Website: https://upenn.academia.edu/ndevenot
Contact: ndevenot (at) sas (dot) upenn (dot) edu
1 hr 25 min
August 06, 2014 Podcast 409 – The Shulgin Memorial
Guest speaker: Friends of Ann & Sasha Shulgin
PROGRAM NOTES:
On August 2, 2014, a memorial was held for Sasha Shulgin. In addition to several of the talks that were presented that afternoon, Bruce Damer captured a few sound bites from those in attendance. At the end of the podcast you will also hear a short segment from one of the famous “Ask the Shulgins” conversations.
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Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
By Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin
Tihkal: The Continuation
By Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin
The Shulgin Memorial (video)
Shulgin on Alchemy, Basel, 2006
57 min
August 06, 2014 Podcast 409 – The Shulgin Memorial
Guest speaker: Friends of Ann & Sasha Shulgin
PROGRAM NOTES:

On August 2, 2014, a memorial was held for Sasha Shulgin. In addition to several of the talks that were presented that afternoon, Bruce Damer captured a few sound bites from those in attendance. At the end of the podcast you will also hear a short segment from one of the famous “Ask the Shulgins” conversations.
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
By Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin
Tihkal: The Continuation
By Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin
The Shulgin Memorial (video)
Shulgin on Alchemy, Basel, 2006
57 min