Psychedelic Salon

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Psychedelic Salon episodes

April 02, 2014 Podcast 393 – “A Serious Look At Our Planetary Future”
Guest speaker: Daniel Pinchbeck
PROGRAM NOTES:
“If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.” -Daniel Pinchbeck
Today we feature Daniel Pinchbeck's 2013 Palenque Norte Lecture. This talk/conversation took place late one night during the Burning Man Festival in the big tent at Camp Soft Landing, which hosted the annual lecture series. Prompted by questions from the audience, Daniel touches on a wide range of topics that included Rudolph Stiener, reincarnation, ecology, shamanism, mysticism, planetary crisis, morphagenic fields, and he even touches on Bitcoin.
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1 hr 30 min
April 02, 2014 Podcast 393 – “A Serious Look At Our Planetary Future”
Guest speaker: Daniel Pinchbeck
PROGRAM NOTES:

“If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.” -Daniel Pinchbeck
Today we feature Daniel Pinchbeck’s 2013 Palenque Norte Lecture. This talk/conversation took place late one night during the Burning Man Festival in the big tent at Camp Soft Landing, which hosted the annual lecture series. Prompted by questions from the audience, Daniel touches on a wide range of topics that included Rudolph Stiener, reincarnation, ecology, shamanism, mysticism, planetary crisis, morphagenic fields, and he even touches on Bitcoin.
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1 hr 30 min
March 18, 2014 Podcast 392 – “MDMA and Autistic Adults: A New Research Study”
Guest speakers: Alicia Danforth & Charlie Grob
PROGRAM NOTES:
Today's podcast features a 2013 Palenque Norte lecture given by Alicia Danforth in which she tells about her work with the autistic community and their use of MDMA. Following that is a recording of a conversation with Alicia and Dr. Charlie Grob, who have just begun a new study to investigate the potential of using MDMA to help ease the social anxiety that is sometimes experienced by our friends and fellow saloners in the autistic community.
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LINKS mentioned in this podcast:
Study Information: MDMA-assisted Therapy for Social Anxiety in Autistic Adults
“What Is Autism?” by Nick Walker
Exploring therapeutic effects of MDMA on post-traumatic stress
Podcast 380 – “Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate”
Podcast Archive for Gary Fisher
MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy
1 hr 37 min
March 18, 2014 Podcast 392 – “MDMA and Autistic Adults: A New Research Study”
Guest speakers: Alicia Danforth & Charlie Grob
PROGRAM NOTES:

Today’s podcast features a 2013 Palenque Norte lecture given by Alicia Danforth in which she tells about her work with the autistic community and their use of MDMA. Following that is a recording of a conversation with Alicia and Dr. Charlie Grob, who have just begun a new study to investigate the potential of using MDMA to help ease the social anxiety that is sometimes experienced by our friends and fellow saloners in the autistic community.
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LINKS mentioned in this podcast:
Study Information: MDMA-assisted Therapy for Social Anxiety in Autistic Adults
“What Is Autism?” by Nick Walker
Exploring therapeutic effects of MDMA on post-traumatic stress
Podcast 380 – “Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate”
Podcast Archive for Gary Fisher
MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy
1 hr 37 min
March 10, 2014 Podcast 391 – “Nothing Lasts”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“I have been underwhelmed by the accomplishments of Indian spirituality, personally; overwhelmed by the accomplishments of Amazonian spirituality.”
“I'm also very suspicious of secrets. I mean, if you tell me one it's finished. I took a pledge long ago to tell all secrets as quickly as possible. . . . Secrets are a way of controlling other people.”
“Post-historical existence would be non-linear. People would live in time the way now live in space.”
“That's how I think of psychedelics. When I say boundary dissolution, the real boundaries I'm talking about are the boundaries of dimensionality. The way a shaman is able to do what shamans do is by transcending Newtonian space and time.”
“Here's my model: The mind is like a crystal growing under pressure, and the pressure is the pressure of Newtonian space/time. And so the crystal grows and takes the shape of its confinement. But when you liquefy the crystal matrix with a psychedelic, it has another preferred geometry. And it unfolds into this second geometry. And the second and alternative geometry is more hyper-spacial. Culturally, our minds are confined by cultural pressure and cultural phase-space to reflect cultural concerns. . . . When you take a psychedelic and you dissolve the confinement . . . then it's like taking [the mind] out of its box, and it can configure itself in a more comfortable geometry, and it's free.”
“In a sense, chess is like good practice for shamanism, because good chess players see deeply into the future. That's how you win chess games.”
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Interview with Shonagh Home on Shamanic Freedom Radio
Podcast 360 with Shonagh Home – “Medicine Oracle & Spellbreaker”
1 hr 2 min
March 10, 2014 Podcast 391 – “Nothing Lasts”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“I have been underwhelmed by the accomplishments of Indian spirituality, personally; overwhelmed by the accomplishments of Amazonian spirituality.”
“I’m also very suspicious of secrets. I mean, if you tell me one it’s finished. I took a pledge long ago to tell all secrets as quickly as possible. . . . Secrets are a way of controlling other people.”
“Post-historical existence would be non-linear. People would live in time the way now live in space.”
“That’s how I think of psychedelics. When I say boundary dissolution, the real boundaries I’m talking about are the boundaries of dimensionality. The way a shaman is able to do what shamans do is by transcending Newtonian space and time.”
“Here’s my model: The mind is like a crystal growing under pressure, and the pressure is the pressure of Newtonian space/time. And so the crystal grows and takes the shape of its confinement. But when you liquefy the crystal matrix with a psychedelic, it has another preferred geometry. And it unfolds into this second geometry. And the second and alternative geometry is more hyper-spacial. Culturally, our minds are confined by cultural pressure and cultural phase-space to reflect cultural concerns. . . . When you take a psychedelic and you dissolve the confinement . . . then it’s like taking [the mind] out of its box, and it can configure itself in a more comfortable geometry, and it’s free.”
“In a sense, chess is like good practice for shamanism, because good chess players see deeply into the future. That’s how you win chess games.”
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Interview with Shonagh Home on Shamanic Freedom Radio
Podcast 360 with Shonagh Home – “Medicine Oracle & Spellbreaker”
1 hr 2 min
March 03, 2014 Podcast 390 – “Monogamy, Marriage, and Neurosis”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“This nuclear family thing is, I think, part of the root of our problem, that it is an engine for the production of neurotic, dysfunctional people.”
“If guys really got as much sex as they think they want they would probably hand over the machinery of civilization without a fight.”
“I'm interested in the moral consequences of taking psychedelics.”
“Everything that is, is an anticipation of what will be.”
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Podcast 380 – “Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate”
1 hr 14 min
March 03, 2014 Podcast 390 – “Monogamy, Marriage, and Neurosis”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“This nuclear family thing is, I think, part of the root of our problem, that it is an engine for the production of neurotic, dysfunctional people.”

“If guys really got as much sex as they think they want they would probably hand over the machinery of civilization without a fight.”
“I’m interested in the moral consequences of taking psychedelics.”
“Everything that is, is an anticipation of what will be.”
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Podcast 380 – “Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate”
1 hr 14 min
March 01, 2014 Podcast 389 – “Gathering Momentum for a Leap”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“The 20th century is a great gathering for a leap, and the 19th century was the century of the gentleman.”
“Whether we can actually make a new world is not clear because the momentum of the past is very great.”
“The bigger you build the bonfire of understanding the more darkness you reveal.”
“Belief is a curious reaction to the present at hand. It isn't to be believed. It's to be dealt with.”
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1 hr 7 min
March 01, 2014 Podcast 389 – “Gathering Momentum for a Leap”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“The 20th century is a great gathering for a leap, and the 19th century was the century of the gentleman.”
“Whether we can actually make a new world is not clear because the momentum of the past is very great.”
“The bigger you build the bonfire of understanding the more darkness you reveal.”
“Belief is a curious reaction to the present at hand. It isn’t to be believed. It’s to be dealt with.”
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1 hr 7 min