Psychedelic Salon

Guest speaker: Myron Stolaroff and Robert Forte

PROGRAM NOTES:

This is a recording from the spring of 2006, at Kathleen's Salon in Venice Beach, California, where Robert Forte and Myron Stolaroff came to tell their stories about the recent festivities in Basil, Switzerland celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD. After telling a little about the Hofmann event, Myron read part of the talk that he gave in Basil. From there, the conversation ranged widely, eventually ending with an argument about the Kennedy assassination.

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Guest speaker: Myron Stolaroff and Robert Forte

PROGRAM NOTES:

This is a recording from the spring of 2006, at Kathleen’s Salon in Venice Beach, California, where Robert Forte and Myron Stolaroff came to tell their stories about the recent festivities in Basil, Switzerland celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD. After telling a little about the Hofmann event, Myron read part of the talk that he gave in Basil. From there, the conversation ranged widely, eventually ending with an argument about the Kennedy assassination.

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Guest speaker: Timothy Leary

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Today's podcast features Dr. Timothy Leary reading a few selected chapters from his autobiography, Flashbacks. Interestingly, he begins this recording with Chapter 19, which details with his departure from Harvard.

[NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.]

“We agreed that as much as we loved and respected Harvard University, this finishing school for Fortune 500 executives was not the place for philosophic activists bent on changing practically everything.”

“The State of California should be run like a successful business enterprise. . . . Anyone smart enough to live in California should be paid a dividend.”

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Books by and about

Dr. Timothy Leary

Guest speaker: Timothy Leary

PROGRAM NOTES:

Today’s podcast features Dr. Timothy Leary reading a few selected chapters from his autobiography, Flashbacks. Interestingly, he begins this recording with Chapter 19, which details with his departure from Harvard.

[NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.]

“We agreed that as much as we loved and respected Harvard University, this finishing school for Fortune 500 executives was not the place for philosophic activists bent on changing practically everything.”

“The State of California should be run like a successful business enterprise. . . . Anyone smart enough to live in California should be paid a dividend.”

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Dr. Timothy Leary

Guest speaker: Lorenzo

RIP: Zoe7 & Dr. Andrew Sewell

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Today's podcasts is from the audio book edition of my novel, The Genesis Generation. It consists of a reading of Chapter 9, Catlin's Salon. This is a fictional account of what was once the most fashionable psychedelic salon on the West Coast. Once each month, for more than eight years, an amazing group of people would gather to discuss a mind-numbing array of topics. And while the story line in my novel is obviously fictional, the backdrop of the salon itself is described as best I can . . . and as best that I now remember, looking back after so many years that have passed since those wondrous meetings of the L.A. Chapter of the Albert Hofmann Society.

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Guest speaker: Lorenzo

RIP: Zoe7 & Dr. Andrew Sewell

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PROGRAM NOTES:

Today’s podcasts is from the audio book edition of my novel, The Genesis Generation. It consists of a reading of Chapter 9, Catlin’s Salon. This is a fictional account of what was once the most fashionable psychedelic salon on the West Coast. Once each month, for more than eight years, an amazing group of people would gather to discuss a mind-numbing array of topics. And while the story line in my novel is obviously fictional, the backdrop of the salon itself is described as best I can . . . and as best that I now remember, looking back after so many years that have passed since those wondrous meetings of the L.A. Chapter of the Albert Hofmann Society.

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Guest speaker: Shonagh Home

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[NOTE: All quotations are by Shonagh Home.]

“Plant medicines have long been the domain of women.”

“We are taught to escape in this culture, and so what these [psychedelic] medicines will do is they'll take you to the heart of the truth of who you are and what needs to be addressed.”

“I think of myself as a spiritual warrior, and a spiritual warrior seeks to know, they are on a quest to know.”

“We still have an Inquisition, it's a Pharmacratic Inquisition, it's still around.”

“. . . they say we are wanting you to see and understand what's going on, because when you see, you SEE, then it's game over, right? [Which is] another reason why these medicines are illegal, because if you use them enough, in the right set and setting, then you start to get what's going on, you start to really see.”

“We are here to remember the truth of what we are.”

“You are not the 'story' of what you think you are.”

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Interview with Shonagh Home on Shamanic Freedom Radio

Shonagh Home Web Site

Love and Spirit Medicine

By Shonagh Home

The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens Are Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Values

By Thomas B. Roberts

Guest speaker: Shonagh Home

PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Shonagh Home.]

“Plant medicines have long been the domain of women.”

“We are taught to escape in this culture, and so what these [psychedelic] medicines will do is they’ll take you to the heart of the truth of who you are and what needs to be addressed.”

“I think of myself as a spiritual warrior, and a spiritual warrior seeks to know, they are on a quest to know.”

“We still have an Inquisition, it’s a Pharmacratic Inquisition, it’s still around.”

“. . . they say we are wanting you to see and understand what’s going on, because when you see, you SEE, then it’s game over, right? [Which is] another reason why these medicines are illegal, because if you use them enough, in the right set and setting, then you start to get what’s going on, you start to really see.”

“We are here to remember the truth of what we are.”

“You are not the ‘story’ of what you think you are.”

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Interview with Shonagh Home on Shamanic Freedom Radio

Shonagh Home Web Site

Love and Spirit Medicine

By Shonagh Home

The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens Are Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Values

By Thomas B. Roberts

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

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[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

“History has been the pursuit of a false god, the god of stability, the god of permanence, the god of the unchanging, and we've become just neurotic on this subject.”

“What's being said here is re-claim experience. Do not dwell in the mistakes of the past. Do not lose yourself in the castles of the future, and do not give your authenticity away to experts, gurus, government commissions, bosses, wives, mates. Take back your mind and your body.”

“You're involved in a mysterious engagement where every living moment presents you with mystery, opportunity, and wonder.”

“The suppression of psychedelics has had the unfortunate effect of making it impossible for us to build a linguistically coherent community and have a shared body of experience, because you can't just say this stuff to everybody.”

“Coming out of the closet on psychedelics should be part of the political agenda.”

“The direct datum for metaphysical speculation should be ones own experience.”

“I believe that the boundary dissolving quality of these psychedelics makes them social dynamite.”

“The real message of psychedelics, I think, is to reclaim experience and to trust yourself. Your perceptions are primary. Your feelings are correct. Everything must constellate out and make sense and parse with what you know. If you don't start from that assumption then you are off center to begin with. And the psychedelics will dissolve the cultural programming that has potentially made you a mark and restore your authenticity.”

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Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth

By Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechen

Process and Reality

By Alfred North Whitehead

Childhood's End

By Arthur C. Clarke

When Prophecy Fails

By Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter

Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide: A Handbook for Psilocybin Enthusiasts

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

“History has been the pursuit of a false god, the god of stability, the god of permanence, the god of the unchanging, and we’ve become just neurotic on this subject.”

“What’s being said here is re-claim experience. Do not dwell in the mistakes of the past. Do not lose yourself in the castles of the future, and do not give your authenticity away to experts, gurus, government commissions, bosses, wives, mates. Take back your mind and your body.”

“You’re involved in a mysterious engagement where every living moment presents you with mystery, opportunity, and wonder.”

“The suppression of psychedelics has had the unfortunate effect of making it impossible for us to build a linguistically coherent community and have a shared body of experience, because you can’t just say this stuff to everybody.”

“Coming out of the closet on psychedelics should be part of the political agenda.”

“The direct datum for metaphysical speculation should be ones own experience.”

“I believe that the boundary dissolving quality of these psychedelics makes them social dynamite.”

“The real message of psychedelics, I think, is to reclaim experience and to trust yourself. Your perceptions are primary. Your feelings are correct. Everything must constellate out and make sense and parse with what you know. If you don’t start from that assumption then you are off center to begin with. And the psychedelics will dissolve the cultural programming that has potentially made you a mark and restore your authenticity.”

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Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth

By Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechen

Process and Reality

By Alfred North Whitehead

Childhood’s End

By Arthur C. Clarke

When Prophecy Fails

By Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter

Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide: A Handbook for Psilocybin Enthusiasts