Psychedelic Salon

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Psychedelic Salon episodes

February 10, 2014 Podcast 388 – “Wherever You Are, Be There!”
Guest speaker: Dr. George Greer
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by George Greer.]
“Meaning: the final addiction!”
“Meaning is suffering.”
“How do you feel your experience would be different if you 'understood' the universe? How would your experience be different from right now?”
“My thought about MDMA is that it blocks the fear response to a perceived emotional threat.”
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GEORGE R. GREER, MD
Co-Founder, Medical Director, Secretary of the Heffter Research Institute
Spheres & Constellations by Farthest South
1 hr 6 min
February 10, 2014 Podcast 388 – “Wherever You Are, Be There!”
Guest speaker: Dr. George Greer

PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by George Greer.]
“Meaning: the final addiction!”
“Meaning is suffering.”
“How do you feel your experience would be different if you ‘understood’ the universe? How would your experience be different from right now?”
“My thought about MDMA is that it blocks the fear response to a perceived emotional threat.”
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GEORGE R. GREER, MD
Co-Founder, Medical Director, Secretary of the Heffter Research Institute

Spheres & Constellations by Farthest South
1 hr 6 min
January 31, 2014 Podcast 387 – “February 1994 Workshop Introduction”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“Psychedelics, by metling assumptions, by destroying the expectations of rigid educations creates a fluidity of possibility that may allow answers to emerge. And it's the only thing that I've seen that operates on a time scale sufficiently short to have an impact.”
“Language is a strategy for binding time.”
“The other thing is that biology works. It's very successful. It's been around more than a billion years. Civilization doesn't work. It's been around 10,000 years, and it's on the brink of meltdown.”
“We fabricate ideas out of matter. No other creature does that.”
“One of the unique things that is happening on the planet is that the fate of all life is becoming hinged to the decisions made by a single species.”
“If there's not free will, then thinking is meaningless.”
“But all we have to do is hit one speed bump, and democratic values are down the drain.”
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1 hr 20 min
January 31, 2014 Podcast 387 – “February 1994 Workshop Introduction”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“Psychedelics, by metling assumptions, by destroying the expectations of rigid educations creates a fluidity of possibility that may allow answers to emerge. And it’s the only thing that I’ve seen that operates on a time scale sufficiently short to have an impact.”
“Language is a strategy for binding time.”
“The other thing is that biology works. It’s very successful. It’s been around more than a billion years. Civilization doesn’t work. It’s been around 10,000 years, and it’s on the brink of meltdown.”
“We fabricate ideas out of matter. No other creature does that.”
“One of the unique things that is happening on the planet is that the fate of all life is becoming hinged to the decisions made by a single species.”
“If there’s not free will, then thinking is meaningless.”
“But all we have to do is hit one speed bump, and democratic values are down the drain.”
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1 hr 20 min
January 24, 2014 Podcast 386 – “Loose Ends Time”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“That's the key thing that the archaic world knew that we don't know: How do you live in equilibrium so that your children may live in equilibrium, because otherwise you get a cycle started that's going to shove somebody over the cliff. And that somebody in the present case is either ourselves, our children, or their children. It's no further away in time than that.”
“We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.”
“If you look at the fossil record, 95% of all the species that have ever lived on the Earth are extinct. From that point of view it looks as though biology is a process for producing extinction.”
“You talk about a well-kept secret that's only two tokes away? How do they keep the lid on this? That's the miracle to me. How do they keep the lid on this?” [smoked NN-DMT]
“These chemicals, these plant hallucinogens, are pheromones laden with messages for humanity, but you have to pick up the telephone.”
“I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.”
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Hallucinogens and Shamanism by Michael J. Harner
The Terence McKenna Experience by Ken Adams
Quasar shines a bright light on cosmic web
1 hr 28 min
January 24, 2014 Podcast 386 – “Loose Ends Time”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“That’s the key thing that the archaic world knew that we don’t know: How do you live in equilibrium so that your children may live in equilibrium, because otherwise you get a cycle started that’s going to shove somebody over the cliff. And that somebody in the present case is either ourselves, our children, or their children. It’s no further away in time than that.”
“We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it’s a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.”
“If you look at the fossil record, 95% of all the species that have ever lived on the Earth are extinct. From that point of view it looks as though biology is a process for producing extinction.”
“You talk about a well-kept secret that’s only two tokes away? How do they keep the lid on this? That’s the miracle to me. How do they keep the lid on this?” [smoked NN-DMT]
“These chemicals, these plant hallucinogens, are pheromones laden with messages for humanity, but you have to pick up the telephone.”
“I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I’m completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it’s like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.”
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Hallucinogens and Shamanism by Michael J. Harner
The Terence McKenna Experience by Ken Adams
Quasar shines a bright light on cosmic web
1 hr 28 min
January 16, 2014 Podcast 385 – “Current Psychedelic Research”
Guest speaker: Roland Griffiths
PROGRAM NOTES:
Today's podcast features a talk given by Roland Griffiths, who is a professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins Medicine. In addition to describing the current psychedelic studies being undertaken there, he also goes into detail about exactly what characteristics researchers consider when evaluating whether a person has actually had a spiritual experience. Among the research participant's comments that he read, one of the most common themes was the interconnectedness of all things and beings. Also, he spoke about their research into the character of one's personality in regards to how a psychedelic experience affected their openness to the experiences of life. Another interesting thing that his research group is investigating is the intersection of psilocybin and meditation, a discussion of which takes up a significant part of this talk.
“Psilocybin is a pharmacological tool that helps people recognize how it feels to embody the present moment. And that's exactly the same of meditation. It's about bringing yourself into the present moment.”
-Roland Griffiths
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Johns Hopkins University Psilocybin & Spirituality
Current Psilocybin Research Projects
Q&A with Roland Griffiths
1 hr 1 min
January 16, 2014 Podcast 385 – “Current Psychedelic Research”
Guest speaker: Roland Griffiths
PROGRAM NOTES:

Today’s podcast features a talk given by Roland Griffiths, who is a professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins Medicine. In addition to describing the current psychedelic studies being undertaken there, he also goes into detail about exactly what characteristics researchers consider when evaluating whether a person has actually had a spiritual experience. Among the research participant’s comments that he read, one of the most common themes was the interconnectedness of all things and beings. Also, he spoke about their research into the character of one’s personality in regards to how a psychedelic experience affected their openness to the experiences of life. Another interesting thing that his research group is investigating is the intersection of psilocybin and meditation, a discussion of which takes up a significant part of this talk.
“Psilocybin is a pharmacological tool that helps people recognize how it feels to embody the present moment. And that’s exactly the same of meditation. It’s about bringing yourself into the present moment.”
-Roland Griffiths
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Johns Hopkins University Psilocybin & Spirituality
Current Psilocybin Research Projects
Q&A with Roland Griffiths
1 hr 1 min
January 07, 2014 Podcast 384 – “Sex, Aging, and Psychedelics”
Guest speaker: Annie Oak
PROGRAM NOTES:
Today we feature a Palenque Norte Lecture given by Annie Oak at the 2013 Burning Man Festival. This ground breaking founder of the Woman's Visionary Congress continues to push the envelope of psychedelic discussion into two of the most important issues of all to humans, sexuality and aging. Additionally, Annie issues several challenges to us all as we continue to expand our own consciousnesses.
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Woman's Visionary Congress
Consciousness, Healing, and Social Justice
The Psychological Dark Side of Gmail
Google is using its popular Gmail service to build profiles on the hundreds of millions of people who use it.
Occupy Madison builds first house in planned eco-village for the homeless
Daily Psychedelic Video
1 hr 6 min
January 07, 2014 Podcast 384 – “Sex, Aging, and Psychedelics”
Guest speaker: Annie Oak
PROGRAM NOTES:

Today we feature a Palenque Norte Lecture given by Annie Oak at the 2013 Burning Man Festival. This ground breaking founder of the Woman’s Visionary Congress continues to push the envelope of psychedelic discussion into two of the most important issues of all to humans, sexuality and aging. Additionally, Annie issues several challenges to us all as we continue to expand our own consciousnesses.
Download
MP3
PCs – Right click, select option
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Woman’s Visionary Congress
Consciousness, Healing, and Social Justice

The Psychological Dark Side of Gmail
Google is using its popular Gmail service to build profiles on the hundreds of millions of people who use it.

Occupy Madison builds first house in planned eco-village for the homeless

Daily Psychedelic Video

1 hr 6 min