Psychedelic Salon

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Guest speaker: Android Joines

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This Palenque Norte Lecture was recorded at Burning Man in August 2019.

"Burning Man is like a handicap Olympics for art. Everybody gets a medal. There's no bar at all. The bar went away. Anything fits in. And we realize the handicap that all of us have in common is that we have the handicap of our trauma. Because it's our trauma, I believe, that is one of the unifying factors that brings us out here. Healthy people don't go out to the middle of the desert, to go do drugs, and get naked with other healthy people." --Android Jones

Android Jones Website

Samskara

An experience by Android Jones [ DMT Simulation ]

Dr. Bruce Damer performing

"Fire In The Sky" with DJ DISSOLV on music &

Android Jones live painting on two LED screens on the

Lucent Temple of Consciousness stage at Lightning in a Bottle, May 28, 2016

Shpongle - Android Jones Visuals

Shpongledroid Tour in New Orleans on 11-23-19 at Joy Theater

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Guest speaker: Corey Doctorow

Corey Doctorow

PROGRAM NOTES:

Date this lecture was recorded: August 2019

[NOTE: All quotations are by Corey Doctorow.]

"What like-buttons mainly do is collect data about you."

"If you know something about people, you can lie to them better"

"In a walled-garden that's what it's all about. It's not about spying on you. It's about locking you in and charging you extra."

"Amazon is basically pursuing a strategy to turn themselves into a part of the state, into an arm of law enforcement [by providing doorbell camera footage to the police]."

"We'll never be able to make Big Tech behave. The only way to make Big Tech behave is to make Big Tech small."

"Tech is the tool we use to fix the other problems."

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Podcast 565 – “John Perry Barlow Tribute”

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Guest speakers: Eric Cifani and Chris Grasso

The Morning After!Eric Cifani (right foreground)

PROGRAM NOTES:

Date this lecture was recorded: August 2019.

Today's podcast features a Palenque Norte Lecture that was presented at Burning Man last August. This presentation was given by long-time friend and supporter of the salon, Eric Cifani. With Eric is Chris Grasso, who also happens to be an attorney. Their presentation brings together the values that shaped shamanism and today's struggle for the freedom to explore our own consciousness without government interference. And I end the podcast with a few words of my own about the importance of shamanism in today's technical world.

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Guest speakers: Leonard Pickard, Ralf Jeutter, Nese Devenot, Julian Vayne, and Nikki Wyrd

PROGRAM NOTES:

Today's podcast features a reading of Chapter 1 of The Rose of Paracelsus by the author, Leonard Pickard. Additionally, there is commentary by Ralf Jeutter, Nese Devenot, Julian Vayne, and Nikki Wyrd. This podcast was produced by the Lakey sisters, Kat and Alexa. Psychedelic Salon podcast number 609, "The Rose Garden Introduction", provides an overview of this project, which begins today with a reading of Chapter 1.

PROGRAM SECTION TIMES:

00:00 Kat and Alexa’s Intro

08:00 Title and Epigraphs

09:18 Author’s Note

10:53 An Invitation

12:12 Report to the Human Subjects Committee

15:20 Chapter 1 Part 1

01:04:07: Chapter Break and Commentary from Nese Devenot Part 1

01:17:32 Chapter 1 Part 2

01:51:42 Ralf Jeutter Commentary Part 1

02:01:20 Nese Devenot Commentary Part 2

02:11:11 Ralf Jeutter Commentary Part 2

02:23:17 Julian Vayne and Nikki Wyrd Commentary

02:29:50 Kat and Alexa’s Sign Off

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Guest speaker: Rob Harper

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Date this live salon was recorded: February 3, 2020.

Today's podcast features a recording from last Monday's live salon where our guest was Rob Harper, the creator of a new documentary titled "Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness." The film features three men whose psychedelic journeys have had a profound impact on our world. These men are Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, and Aldous Huxley. After the interview with Rob, I play a short recording from earlier podcasts that featured these three men. Hopefully, this will give you a better idea of what pioneers they were and how relevant their ideas are yet today.

Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness

 

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

 

Sounds of World Wide Weed was heard on The Dopecast

PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

"And what was this profession [of shamanism] precisely about? Well, it was about exploring the envelop of cognition, pushing against the linguistic membrane of what it was possible to say, symbolize, conceive, and communicate."

"I prefer the organic hallucinogens and recommend them to other people because I think their long history of shamanic usage is the first seal of approval that you must look for. I mean, if these things have been used for thousands of years, then you can be fairly confident that they do not cause [medical problems]."

"The situation that we now reside in is not one of seeking the answer but facing the answer. The answer has been found. It just happens to lie on the wrong side of the fence of social toleration and legality."

"If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?"

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

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[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

"This is what the psychedelic experience means. It's a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board into eternity."

"What we need is a new myth. What we need is a new true story that tells us where we're going in the universe."

"Psychedelics return us to the inner work of the self, to the importance of the feeling of immediate experience."

"I think of going to the grave without a psychedelic experience is like going to the grave without ever having sex. It means that you never figured it out what it was all about."

"The three enemies of the people are hegemony, monogamy, and monotony."

Alien Dreamtime

Produced by Ken Adams

IMAGINATRIX - the Terence McKenna Experience

The Shamen - Re:Evolution (1992)

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Guest speaker: Glenn Irving

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon

PROGRAM NOTES:

Date this lecture was recorded: January 13, 2020.

Today's podcast features an interview with Glenn Irving who is a volunteer with the project known as #ThankYouPlantMedicine. As the project's title tells you, this is a world-wide effort to spread the word about ways in which the plants have come to our aid. The first mission of this project is to encourage 100,000 people to tell their psychedelic plant stories in public. You may be amused at the social media platform where Lorenzo plans to post his psychedelic story on February 20th.

Thank You Plant Medicine

Envision Festival

Feb 17-24, 2020 | Costa Rica

Drug Control: National Policies

Dr. A.C. Germann, Professor Emeritus

Department of Criminal Justice

California State University, Long Beach

If the ears of all the people in the nation who had ingested illicit substances in the past six months were to turn bright green for one whole week, the nation would be amazed, confused, astounded, and quickly taught something very important as they identified friends, relatives, neighbors, doctors, lawyers, accountants, priests, nuns, ministers, rabbis, soldiers, policemen, firemen, military personnel, businessmen, teachers, students, politicians, respected policy makers, administrators, supervisors, and workers from a variety of private and government institutions everywhere.

Psychedelic Storytelling

Veterans for Entheogenic Therapy

Salon2 011 – “Psychedelic Therapy for Veterans”

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Guest speaker: Paul Krassner

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Today's podcast features one of the true heroes of the counterculture, Paul Krassner. In addition to leading the creation of our underground press, Paul was friends with important free-speech advocates such as Lenny Bruce and Abbie Hoffman. If you were alive during the so-called Sixties, you most likely remember his magazine, The Realist, that featured items for sale like the "Fuck Communism" bumper sticker and the "Disneyland Memorial Orgy" poster.

 

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Paul Krassner's Website

The Realist Archive Project

The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon

October 21, 1967: Antiwar activists' satirical attempt to levitate the Pentagon

 

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Guest speaker: Sophia Rokhlin

PROGRAM NOTES:

Date this lecture was recorded: December 16, 2019.

Today's podcast features a conversation that took place in the Live Salon a few weeks ago with Sohpia Rokhlin. Sophia is an author, speaker and nonprofit organizer from New York City. Through engaged botany and ecology, she bridges the worlds of indigenous ecological knowledge and Western science.

She holds a BA in anthropology and religious studies from The New School and a M.Sc. in Ecological Economics from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). She is a Program Coordinator at the Chaikuni Institute and currently directs the sustainable ayahuasca cultivation program at the Temple of the Way of Light, a traditional plant medicine retreat center in the Peruvian Amazon. Sophia is also a co-author of When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance (Watkins, 2019) on the global spread of ayahuasca.

She has worked with several psychedelic harm-reduction programs such as KosmiCare, and serves as an advisor on the Ayahuasca Community Committee for the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. She is currently based in Peru.

Sophia Rokhlin Website

Temple of the Way of Light

Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines

Dates for upcoming Head Talks with Shane Mauss

A Comedian + Psychedelics + A Scientist = Head Talks

Shane Mauss Website

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