Psychedelic Salon

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Psychedelic Salon episodes

June 11, 2014 Podcast 403 – “Sasha Shulgin: In His Own Words”
Guest speaker: Sasha Shulgin
PROGRAM NOTES:
On June 2, 2014 Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin passed on to his next adventure. Although this podcast is a tribute to his life and work, I have decided to let it be told mainly in his own words. First you will hear the audio portion of a video tribute to Ann and Sasha Shulgin. Following that is a short interview of Sasha that was conducted by Terence McKenna. In closing I play the famous talk that Sasha gave at the 1983 Psychedelics and Spirituality Conference.
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A Tribute to the Shulgins
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58 min
June 11, 2014 Podcast 403 – “Sasha Shulgin: In His Own Words”
Guest speaker: Sasha Shulgin
PROGRAM NOTES:

On June 2, 2014 Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin passed on to his next adventure. Although this podcast is a tribute to his life and work, I have decided to let it be told mainly in his own words. First you will hear the audio portion of a video tribute to Ann and Sasha Shulgin. Following that is a short interview of Sasha that was conducted by Terence McKenna. In closing I play the famous talk that Sasha gave at the 1983 Psychedelics and Spirituality Conference.
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A Tribute to the Shulgins
58 min
June 03, 2014 Podcast 402 – “Global Psychedelic Research Update”
Guest speaker: Rick Doblin
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Rick Doblin.]
“Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.”
“The government has a monopoly on the supply of marijuana that you can use in FDA-approved research. So even though there are 20 states and the District of Columbia [that have legalized medical marijuana], and there's marijuana everywhere, we've spent seven years trying to get 10 grams of marijuana for vaporizer research. We're the only people in America that can't get 10 grams of marijuana.”
“We are all dying and we all have some anxiety about it. And so people are more scared of dying than they are of drugs. If we can show that people who are facing death can be assisted with psychedelics that's a powerful message.”
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MAPS Sponsored: MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Research
“The New Drug They Call 'Ecstasy' ”
(New York Magazine, May 20, 1985)
"Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate" (video)
"Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate" (podcast)
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June 03, 2014 Podcast 402 – “Global Psychedelic Research Update”
Guest speaker: Rick Doblin
PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Rick Doblin.]
“Once you’ve produced the scientific data that’s necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you’ve gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.”
“The government has a monopoly on the supply of marijuana that you can use in FDA-approved research. So even though there are 20 states and the District of Columbia [that have legalized medical marijuana], and there’s marijuana everywhere, we’ve spent seven years trying to get 10 grams of marijuana for vaporizer research. We’re the only people in America that can’t get 10 grams of marijuana.”
“We are all dying and we all have some anxiety about it. And so people are more scared of dying than they are of drugs. If we can show that people who are facing death can be assisted with psychedelics that’s a powerful message.”
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MAPS Sponsored: MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Research
“The New Drug They Call ‘Ecstasy’ ”
(New York Magazine, May 20, 1985)
“Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate” (video)
“Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate” (podcast)
1 hr
May 26, 2014 Podcast 401 – “Surveillance and Revolution”
Guest speakers: Glenn Greenwald and Stefan Molyneux
PROGRAM NOTES:
“What the NSA has done is essentially converted the Internet from this unprecedented zone of freedom into the most powerful means of surveillance ever known in human history.” -Glenn Greenwald
[NOTE: The following quotations are by Stefan Molyneux.]
“If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.”
“So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do.”
“Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.”
“To limit money is to limit political power.”
“If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to print money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get to print money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.”
“When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.”
“There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.”
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May 26, 2014 Podcast 401 – “Surveillance and Revolution”
Guest speakers: Glenn Greenwald and Stefan Molyneux
PROGRAM NOTES:

“What the NSA has done is essentially converted the Internet from this unprecedented zone of freedom into the most powerful means of surveillance ever known in human history.” -Glenn Greenwald
[NOTE: The following quotations are by Stefan Molyneux.]

“If we have a bitcoin universe, you don’t get to print money for war. You don’t get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don’t get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.”
“So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do.”
“Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.”
“To limit money is to limit political power.”
“If we have a bitcoin universe, you don’t get to print money for war. You don’t get to print money for a prison/industrial complex. You don’t get to print money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.”
“When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.”
“There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it’s about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.”
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1 hr 13 min
May 17, 2014 Podcast 400 – “Time Travel, Psychedelics, & Physics”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“We can step out of the assumption of a universal history in which we're trapped, and realizing this is the beginning of a kind of liberation.”
“Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.”
“When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.”
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1 hr 11 min
May 17, 2014 Podcast 400 – “Time Travel, Psychedelics, & Physics”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“We can step out of the assumption of a universal history in which we’re trapped, and realizing this is the beginning of a kind of liberation.”
“Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.”
“When we really understand time travel we may find out it’s as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.”
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1 hr 11 min
May 05, 2014 Podcast 399 – “We Are At The Cutting Edge”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“The moment is where we spend most of our time.”
“Reality is a term that if it's used at all it's used in philosophy, in ontology, in epistemology. It is not a concept that you hear very often on the lips of scientists.”
“The 'fallacy of misplaced concreteness' is the belief that there is something, somewhere which is real, which can be depended upon, which everything else can be referenced back to. And as long as you are victim of this fallacy you are philosophically naive and probably not at ease psychologically.”
“The ego is this strange transference of loyalty from the group to the self, the individual body.”
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1 hr 11 min
May 05, 2014 Podcast 399 – “We Are At The Cutting Edge”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“The moment is where we spend most of our time.”
“Reality is a term that if it’s used at all it’s used in philosophy, in ontology, in epistemology. It is not a concept that you hear very often on the lips of scientists.”
“The ‘fallacy of misplaced concreteness’ is the belief that there is something, somewhere which is real, which can be depended upon, which everything else can be referenced back to. And as long as you are victim of this fallacy you are philosophically naive and probably not at ease psychologically.”
“The ego is this strange transference of loyalty from the group to the self, the individual body.”
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1 hr 11 min