Psychedelic Salon

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Psychedelic Salon episodes

August 21, 2012 Podcast 323 – “Searching for a New Paradise Myth”
Guest speaker: Lorenzo and Friends
PROGRAM NOTES:
This podcast features the final community discussions at the June 2012 Esalen workshop led by Lorenzo and Bruce Damer. Among the topics discussed were:
-Creating a new myth for our community
-The genesis of the Occupy Movement
-Are psychedelic “mutants” among us?
-Cultural Creatives
-Freeing our food supply from money
-Timebanks
-What the mushroom has to say about the future
-The Importance of myth
-Developing a “Medicine Circle” app
-Building new cultures through shared global experiences
-The 'superfood' revolution and our connection to the Earth
-Indra's Net
-The Temple at the Burning Man Festival
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FindTheOthers.net
1 hr 29 min
August 21, 2012 Podcast 323 – “Searching for a New Paradise Myth”
Guest speaker: Lorenzo and Friends
PROGRAM NOTES:

This podcast features the final community discussions at the June 2012 Esalen workshop led by Lorenzo and Bruce Damer. Among the topics discussed were:

-Creating a new myth for our community

-The genesis of the Occupy Movement

-Are psychedelic “mutants” among us?

-Cultural Creatives

-Freeing our food supply from money

-Timebanks

-What the mushroom has to say about the future

-The Importance of myth

-Developing a “Medicine Circle” app

-Building new cultures through shared global experiences

-The ‘superfood’ revolution and our connection to the Earth

-Indra’s Net

-The Temple at the Burning Man Festival
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1 hr 29 min
August 11, 2012 Podcast 322 – “The Evolution of Intelligence”
Guest speaker: Timothy Leary
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.]
“In my function as a [college] lecturer, it's my obligation, it's my task, it's my duty to instigate irreverence for authority, questioning of authority.”
“And that's one of the things that is kind of amazing today, the junk information that we're being inundated with, the cloud, the atmosphere, the smog of disinformation.”
“Reagan is a certifiable lunatic”
“The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”
“We're getting to one of those moments, one of those great moments in history, when evolution is going to happen.”
“At all costs avoid terminal adulthood.”
“You are as old as the last time you reprogrammed your brain or changed your mind.”
“You're as old as the people you hang out with.”
“There is no reason why any human being should work. Robots work, humans perform.”
“The sensible thing to do about drugs is this, get yourself a really good dealer.”
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Myron Stolaroff's Lone Pine Stories
The Discovery of Love: A Psychedelic Experience with LSD-25
by Malden Grange Bishop (Dodd, Mead & Company: New York, 1963)
Reviewed by Lorenzo Hagerty
Mavericks of the Mind - Elizabeth Gips (read online)
Thought Provoking Interviews on Consciousness by David Jay Brown
1 hr 16 min
August 11, 2012 Podcast 322 – “The Evolution of Intelligence”
Guest speaker: Timothy Leary
PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.]
“In my function as a [college] lecturer, it’s my obligation, it’s my task, it’s my duty to instigate irreverence for authority, questioning of authority.”
“And that’s one of the things that is kind of amazing today, the junk information that we’re being inundated with, the cloud, the atmosphere, the smog of disinformation.”
“Reagan is a certifiable lunatic”
“The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”
“We’re getting to one of those moments, one of those great moments in history, when evolution is going to happen.”
“At all costs avoid terminal adulthood.”
“You are as old as the last time you reprogrammed your brain or changed your mind.”
“You’re as old as the people you hang out with.”
“There is no reason why any human being should work. Robots work, humans perform.”
“The sensible thing to do about drugs is this, get yourself a really good dealer.”
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Myron Stolaroff’s Lone Pine Stories

The Discovery of Love: A Psychedelic Experience with LSD-25
by Malden Grange Bishop (Dodd, Mead & Company: New York, 1963)

Reviewed by Lorenzo Hagerty

Mavericks of the Mind – Elizabeth Gips (read online)
Thought Provoking Interviews on Consciousness by David Jay Brown

1 hr 16 min
August 07, 2012 Podcast 321 – “A Discussion About Psychedelics”
Guest speaker: Lorenzo and Friends
PROGRAM NOTES:
Today's podcast features the next installment of the workshop that Bruce Damer and Lorenzo led at the Esalen Institute in June of 2012. The majority of this program features comments by some of the workshop's participants who bring up topics that include:
-Heroic doses
-Body load with psychedelics
-Techniques for using psychedelics
-What exactly is the psychedelic state
-The perfect answer when a cop asks, “Were are you at, buddy?”
-The re-introduction of psychedelics to our species
-How do we tell the psychedelic story
-The Occupy Movement and the banking system
-The need for a parallel system of money
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51 min
August 07, 2012 Podcast 321 – “A Discussion About Psychedelics”
Guest speaker: Lorenzo and Friends
PROGRAM NOTES:

Today’s podcast features the next installment of the workshop that Bruce Damer and Lorenzo led at the Esalen Institute in June of 2012. The majority of this program features comments by some of the workshop’s participants who bring up topics that include:
-Heroic doses

-Body load with psychedelics

-Techniques for using psychedelics

-What exactly is the psychedelic state

-The perfect answer when a cop asks, “Were are you at, buddy?”

-The re-introduction of psychedelics to our species

-How do we tell the psychedelic story

-The Occupy Movement and the banking system

-The need for a parallel system of money
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51 min
July 28, 2012 Podcast 320 – “Occupy Yourself”
Guest speaker: Lorenzo and friends
PROGRAM NOTES:
In this follow-up session after Bruce Damer's “Deep Dive into the Mind of McKenna”, Lorenzo leads the discussion of the participants in a workshop held at the Esalen Institute in June of 2012. Topics of the conversation include:
- Consciousness, not drugs were the focus of McKenna's work
- Heroic doses are not as important as bringing back information
- The healing and love value of teaching plants
- We all contributed to making Terence McKenna a cultural icon
- Building a new civilization in the shell of the old
- The Eschaton as another step in human evolution
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59 min
July 28, 2012 Podcast 320 – “Occupy Yourself”
Guest speaker: Lorenzo and friends
PROGRAM NOTES:

In this follow-up session after Bruce Damer’s “Deep Dive into the Mind of McKenna”, Lorenzo leads the discussion of the participants in a workshop held at the Esalen Institute in June of 2012. Topics of the conversation include:

– Consciousness, not drugs were the focus of McKenna’s work

– Heroic doses are not as important as bringing back information

– The healing and love value of teaching plants

– We all contributed to making Terence McKenna a cultural icon

– Building a new civilization in the shell of the old

– The Eschaton as another step in human evolution
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59 min
July 21, 2012 Podcast 319 – “The Voynich Manuscript”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
“Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.” -Terence McKenna
According to Wikipedia, the Voynich Manuscript has been described as “the world's most mysterious manuscript”, and so far it's secret code has never been broken . . . including attempts by top U.S. Government cytologists. And this is the subject of today's talk by Terence McKenna from an April 1983 lecture.
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1 hr 14 min
July 21, 2012 Podcast 319 – “The Voynich Manuscript”
Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:

“Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the ‘limit text’ of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.” -Terence McKenna
According to Wikipedia, the Voynich Manuscript has been described as “the world’s most mysterious manuscript”, and so far it’s secret code has never been broken . . . including attempts by top U.S. Government cytologists. And this is the subject of today’s talk by Terence McKenna from an April 1983 lecture.
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1 hr 14 min