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Psychedelic Salon episodes

July 04, 2013 Podcast 358 – “This Psychedelic Thing”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“I think if we ever tease apart this psychedelic thing, what we'll discover is it's an inter-species communication system.”
“I'm at war with the keepers of the secrets.”
“One of the motivations for my career is to get other people to check [DMT] out, because here is truly confounding data that you don't have to make an expedition to the heart of the Amazon, or battle your way through hours of waves of nausea and dark spaces, chanting your mantra obsessively. I mean, when you smoke DMT, 30 seconds later you're in the presence of the unspeakable, and the show is going full blast.”
“It really frustrates me when people have psychedelic experiences and don't talk about them, because to me, that's what they're for. They're to fertilize the enterprise of communication. It's to be talked about. And if it's not talked about it's sort of like seeds which fall on sterile ground.”
“I think that the world is held together by a misunderstanding.”
“The real trick with an extraterrestrial is to know when you're in the presence of one.”
“If you want the real thing, it's just five dried grams away. The REAL THING!”
“The New Age, generally I find, is somewhat obnoxious, because it's a flight from the psychedelic experience.”
“I love science. I just think it's incredibly pretentious and has claimed too much.”
“It's astonishing the cul de sacs into which the human mind has wandered.”
“The psychedelic thing speaks to freedom, and so you can shine that on a number of issues.”
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Contact in the Desert
"The Planet's Premier UFO Convention"
1 hr 19 min
July 04, 2013 Podcast 358 – “This Psychedelic Thing”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“I think if we ever tease apart this psychedelic thing, what we’ll discover is it’s an inter-species communication system.”
“I’m at war with the keepers of the secrets.”
“One of the motivations for my career is to get other people to check [DMT] out, because here is truly confounding data that you don’t have to make an expedition to the heart of the Amazon, or battle your way through hours of waves of nausea and dark spaces, chanting your mantra obsessively. I mean, when you smoke DMT, 30 seconds later you’re in the presence of the unspeakable, and the show is going full blast.”
“It really frustrates me when people have psychedelic experiences and don’t talk about them, because to me, that’s what they’re for. They’re to fertilize the enterprise of communication. It’s to be talked about. And if it’s not talked about it’s sort of like seeds which fall on sterile ground.”
“I think that the world is held together by a misunderstanding.”
“The real trick with an extraterrestrial is to know when you’re in the presence of one.”
“If you want the real thing, it’s just five dried grams away. The REAL THING!”
“The New Age, generally I find, is somewhat obnoxious, because it’s a flight from the psychedelic experience.”
“I love science. I just think it’s incredibly pretentious and has claimed too much.”
“It’s astonishing the cul de sacs into which the human mind has wandered.”
“The psychedelic thing speaks to freedom, and so you can shine that on a number of issues.”
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Contact in the Desert
“The Planet’s Premier UFO Convention”
1 hr 19 min
June 27, 2013 Podcast 357 – “Fungi Questions”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.”
“The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.”
“Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.”
“The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.”
“Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.”
“The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be
discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.”
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Dennis McKenna on the Dr. Future show
2 hr 11 min
June 27, 2013 Podcast 357 – “Fungi Questions”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.”
“The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It’s larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don’t know what to make of something like that. It’s the reverse of our expectations.”
“Psychedelic telepathy is you ‘see’ what I mean.”
“The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.”
“Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.”
“The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be

discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.”
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Complete Listing of Salon Podcasts at Archive.org
Dennis McKenna on the Dr. Future show
2 hr 11 min
June 19, 2013 Podcast 356 – “The Psychedelic ‘Religious’ Agenda”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“You discover that truth is philosophical coinage for the naïve. The 'banks' of philosophy do not trade federal truth certificates.”
“All knowing is incredibly provisional, and this is something which is hidden within the context of the culture, because cultures don't run around announcing how they haven't got their act together.”
“What the psychedelic thing is about, or at least for me, is it's a kind of sensual glorification of multiplicity.”
“We are, literally, a schizophrenic species. We are at war with our own nature. Civilization, whatever that means, is felt to be so fragile an enterprise that it's constantly refusing to come to terms with the context in which it finds itself, which is the animal body, sexuality, emotion, pain, desire, elation, ecstasy, and so we go outside of those things and create a generalized abstraction and reason backward.”
“The reason psychedelics, I think, are so frightening to the guardians of social order is because they represent a direct addressing of experience.”
“What the psychedelics show, that is a secret that some people don't want told, is that we can redesign our behavior. We can change very, very quickly.”
“The whole history of humanness is a history of unexpected adaptive response to unusual circumstances.”
“Whatever the imagination is, psychedelics catalyze it, psychedelics enhance it.”
“If we could feel the consequences of what we are doing we would stop doing it. . . . We're like someone half-awake inside a burning building.”
“Everywhere where reason has shown its light the greater darkness has been revealed.”
“The truth, for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't you should seek a deeper truth.”
“History is the necessary distortion of an animal species to lead it to the brink of an ontological transformation.”
“The magic, if that's the word, or the grandiosity, the power of ecstatic exultation that resides in the psychedelic is because it is literally a change of dimensional perspective.”
“The real test of your psychedelic authenticity is your ability to write a novel.”
“The quintessence of understanding is the ability to occupy other people's points of view.”
“Not reckless dose but committed dose. Not to see if it works. It works, other people have established that. You don't need to do research to confirm that it's psychoactive.”
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1 hr 25 min
June 19, 2013 Podcast 356 – “The Psychedelic ‘Religious’ Agenda”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]
“You discover that truth is philosophical coinage for the naïve. The ‘banks’ of philosophy do not trade federal truth certificates.”
“All knowing is incredibly provisional, and this is something which is hidden within the context of the culture, because cultures don’t run around announcing how they haven’t got their act together.”
“What the psychedelic thing is about, or at least for me, is it’s a kind of sensual glorification of multiplicity.”
“We are, literally, a schizophrenic species. We are at war with our own nature. Civilization, whatever that means, is felt to be so fragile an enterprise that it’s constantly refusing to come to terms with the context in which it finds itself, which is the animal body, sexuality, emotion, pain, desire, elation, ecstasy, and so we go outside of those things and create a generalized abstraction and reason backward.”
“The reason psychedelics, I think, are so frightening to the guardians of social order is because they represent a direct addressing of experience.”
“What the psychedelics show, that is a secret that some people don’t want told, is that we can redesign our behavior. We can change very, very quickly.”
“The whole history of humanness is a history of unexpected adaptive response to unusual circumstances.”
“Whatever the imagination is, psychedelics catalyze it, psychedelics enhance it.”
“If we could feel the consequences of what we are doing we would stop doing it. . . . We’re like someone half-awake inside a burning building.”
“Everywhere where reason has shown its light the greater darkness has been revealed.”
“The truth, for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn’t you should seek a deeper truth.”
“History is the necessary distortion of an animal species to lead it to the brink of an ontological transformation.”
“The magic, if that’s the word, or the grandiosity, the power of ecstatic exultation that resides in the psychedelic is because it is literally a change of dimensional perspective.”
“The real test of your psychedelic authenticity is your ability to write a novel.”
“The quintessence of understanding is the ability to occupy other people’s points of view.”
“Not reckless dose but committed dose. Not to see if it works. It works, other people have established that. You don’t need to do research to confirm that it’s psychoactive.”
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1 hr 25 min
June 13, 2013 Podcast 355 – “Building a Psychedelic Community”
Guest speakers: Annie Oak, Twilight, and Bruce Damer
PROGRAM NOTES:
Today's podcast features a panel discussion with Annie Oak, Twilight, and Bruce Damer that took place at the 2012 Palenque Norte Lectures held at that year's Burning Man Festival.
“Women tend to vote against drug law reforms in greater numbers than men, because they're worried about their kids. And without the full participation of women [in the movement to reform drug laws] we will not succeed in gaining our civil rights.” -Annie Oak
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The Women's Visionary Congress
Palenque Norte 2013 Speakers
The Tor Project
East Forest
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
By Gar Alperovitz
1 hr 2 min
June 13, 2013 Podcast 355 – “Building a Psychedelic Community”
Guest speakers: Annie Oak, Twilight, and Bruce Damer

PROGRAM NOTES:

Today’s podcast features a panel discussion with Annie Oak, Twilight, and Bruce Damer that took place at the 2012 Palenque Norte Lectures held at that year’s Burning Man Festival.
“Women tend to vote against drug law reforms in greater numbers than men, because they’re worried about their kids. And without the full participation of women [in the movement to reform drug laws] we will not succeed in gaining our civil rights.” -Annie Oak
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The Women’s Visionary Congress
Palenque Norte 2013 Speakers
The Tor Project
East Forest

What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution

By Gar Alperovitz
1 hr 2 min
June 06, 2013 Podcast 354 – “Pre-End of the World Special”
Guest speakers: Michael Garfield & Matt Pallamary
PROGRAM NOTES:
Today we only go back in time a short way, back to December 12, 2012 when Matt Pallmary and Michael Garfield took a break during their work on the stage production of Matt's novel, “Land Without Evil”, in Austin, Texas. In this wide ranging discussion between salon favorite, Matt Pallamary, and long time saloner, burner, artist, and musician, Michael Garfield, one of my favorite topics was Michael's very positive take on the long-term impact of the work of Terence McKenna, regardless of the fact that the Timewave theory had obviously been disproven. Michael is also a regular performer on the festival circuit, and his schedule may be found online at
Michael Garfield.net
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The Psychedelic Salon Magazine
Degenerate Art: The Art And Culture Of Glass Pipes
“Is Ecstasy the Key to Alleviating Autism Anxiety?”
Horizons 2012: CHARLES S. GROB, M.D - “Why Psychedelics Matter”
Videos from the Festival Circuit
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
1 hr 8 min
June 06, 2013 Podcast 354 – “Pre-End of the World Special”
Guest speakers: Michael Garfield & Matt Pallamary
PROGRAM NOTES:

Today we only go back in time a short way, back to December 12, 2012 when Matt Pallmary and Michael Garfield took a break during their work on the stage production of Matt’s novel, “Land Without Evil”, in Austin, Texas. In this wide ranging discussion between salon favorite, Matt Pallamary, and long time saloner, burner, artist, and musician, Michael Garfield, one of my favorite topics was Michael’s very positive take on the long-term impact of the work of Terence McKenna, regardless of the fact that the Timewave theory had obviously been disproven. Michael is also a regular performer on the festival circuit, and his schedule may be found online at
Michael Garfield.net
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The Psychedelic Salon Magazine

Degenerate Art: The Art And Culture Of Glass Pipes
“Is Ecstasy the Key to Alleviating Autism Anxiety?”
Horizons 2012: CHARLES S. GROB, M.D – “Why Psychedelics Matter”
Videos from the Festival Circuit
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
1 hr 8 min