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299-Various: “Terence McKenna: Beyond 2012” Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Feb 9, 2012
In today's podcast we pick up with the next part of a workshop that was held on January 28, 2012 titled “Terence McKenna: Beyond 2012”. This section features Bruce Damer, who begins with his “Ode to Terence” and follows with a wide-ranging question and answer session. In the Occupy segment I begin with a recap of what went down in Washington, D.C. the day of the eviction from McPherson Square. The voice you'll hear is that of Nate, who streams a live video feed on Ustream.tv that is called OccupyAir, and this is his recap of the day's events. Also, I play a series of short audio clips. The first one is of a young man from San Diego who was speaking at the General Assembly that was held in the middle of K Street in Washington the evening after the McPhearson eviction. Following him is a bit about the Department of Homeland Security, which now includes a national secret police force, in case you missed that announcement, and we now learn that the DHS is now monitoring journalists and bloggers in a blatant attempt to keep the press away from the occupy actions. Next up is part of an interview with journalist Chris Hedges, who you've heard from on several occasions here in these podcasts already. In this clip Chris will be talking about some of the ideas he put forth in his book, “Empire of Illusion”. And while this segment also ends with a call to the barricades from Chris Hedges in different interview, between those two Hedges segments I play a three minute pep talk that Tony Benn gave to some of the occupiers in London the other day.
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298-Various: “Terence McKenna: Beyond 2012” Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Feb 3, 2012
This is the first in a series of three podcasts that will feature the presentations by Bruce Damer and Lorenzo at the January 28, 2012 workshop, which was held in the Los Angeles area. Today's segment includes Lorenzo's opening talk and comments from the attendees as well as a few remarks by Bruce. Following that part of the podcast is the Occupy Movement update, which features a conversation between Lawrence Lessig and Chris Hedges. During the course of their conversation they debate the relative merits of pushing for a Constitutional Convention verses non-violent civil disobedience. Also included is a sound bite from one of OccupyFreedomLA's live video feeds in which a speaker addresses the actions now being taken by those who are suffering from the foreclosure epidemic that is facing so many people in the U.S.
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297-Various: “Tribute to Robert Anton Wilson”
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Jan 26, 2012
The featured audio that I'm going to play in this podcast is part of a two-CD collection produced by Joe Matheny and given to the salon to podcast by the distributor, The Original Falcon Press, which you can find via originalfalcon.com. There isn't time to hear the entire collection, which is titled “Robert Anton Wilson Remembered”, but I've selected a representative sampling that I think gives a really well-rounded picture of this incredible mind as well as giving us a better idea of the wonderful person that his friends called Bob and the rest of us called RAW. The voices you will here are of:
Douglas Rushkoff
Antero Alli
Tiffany Lee Brown – don't know where she stands on OWS, but her talk sounds right out of the movement to me
Tiffany is followed by
David Jay Brown author of the “Mavericks of the Mind” and “Mavericks of Medicine” books
and the closing comments are by the producer and friend of the salon
Joseph Matheny
For the Occupy Segment, I first play a few minutes that I've taken from a three hour interview that Chris Hedges gave on CSPAN 2 on the first day of this year, and in it you will hear this Pulitzer Prize winning journalist explain how corporate personhood isn't just a threat to American Democracy, it is a threat to humanity itself. . . . Following that, I play a short speech for you that Senator Bernie Sanders gave on the Senate floor as he introduced an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will strip personhood from corporations. After those two kind of heavy duty pieces. I lighten it up with a two minute clip of country music star Willie Nelson and his wife reading a poem that he wrote about the Occupy Movement. Finally, I close with a song that was written and is sung by a young man from Salt Lake City named Noel. And this is from a YouTube video I found where Noel was singing on Day 1 of the Occupy Salt Lake City street theater
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296-McKenna: “The World and It's Double” Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jan 11, 2012
Today's podcast is a continuation of the lecture that I played in the podcast just previous to this one. And at one point in this talk, Terence McKenna says, “Let those who talk to the elves find each other and band together.” While that would be a great segue into another Occupy Movement podcast, I'm instead going to do just the opposite. Originally, I planned on splitting the talk I'm about to play into two more segments, each followed by another Occupy update. But after previewing it, I decided that it would be best to just play the remainder of this talk that Terence McKenna gave sometime in 1993, and I think he gave it on several occasions which most likely each differ slightly in content, but he called this series of lectures “The World and Its Double”. Here are a few Terence McKenna quotes from this lecture: “There are old psychedelicists and bold psychedelicists, but there are no old, bold psychedelicists.” … “[DMT] is a secret of such magnitude that it's inconceivable how it has ever been kept.” … and “We all want our children to be well-adjusted, unfortunately there is nothing to be well-adjusted too. So that's a real problem.”
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295-McKenna: “The World and It's Double” Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Jan 5, 2012
The first part of today's podcast features Part 1 of a Terence McKenna talk that may have been given sometime in 1993. Interestingly, he makes a few statements that almost sound as if he is speaking about the Occupy Movement where he says, “We're literally at the end of our rope. Reason and science and the practice of unbridled capitalism have not delivered us into an angelic realm,” and “Boundary dissolution is the most threatening activity that can go on in a society. People, meaning government institutions, become very nervous when people begin to talk to each other.” … In the second half of this podcast I play an audio collage of happenings from the Occupy Movement. They include, a message from my friend Queer Ninja who is with Occupy Scotland. Then I've included a bit by Noam Chomsky, remarks from various Occupiers talking about the youth involvement and leadership of this movement, and they are followed by some farmers who are also involved. Next is a clip dealing with the civil justice aspects of what is going on, followed by a clip from the Occupy Boston group. Then comes Tina Dupuy who is a columnist and commentator and who points out how the Occupy Movement is changing the shape of local news stories as well as some things about student debt that you maybe haven't thought about. And to close it out you'll be hearing about one of the successful OccupyOurHomes actions where the home of a disabled Iraq vet was saved by the Occupy Atlanta people, and that segment ends with some words by the Rev. Dr. Joseph Lawery, and he is followed by the poet Teresa B., who is the neighbor of another family whose home was also saved by members of the Occupy Movement in New York.
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294-Graeber: “The Genesis of Occupy Wall Street”
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Dec 16, 2011
Today's podcast takes a look back at some of the roots of the current Occupy Movement on the eve of the first anniversary of the death of Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation marked the beginning of the Arab Spring. Today is also the eve of the third anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, and so I have put together an audio collage that ranges from some early sounds of the movement to interviews with David Graeber and Tim Pool, as well as some comments by fellow saloner Jaret, and a couple of sound bites from Lawrence Lessig and Senator Bernie Sanders to round things out.
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293-Bey: “The Power of Art and the TAZ”
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Dec 9, 2011
When I previewed this recording of a talk by Hakim Bey, author of “The Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ)” a couple of days ago, I was struck at how timely these ideas are right now. Although this talk was recorded in 1993, when Bey speaks about the power of art and that we as the audience must now become our own artists, well, he could have been speaking at a recent GA somewhere near you last night. It seems that the sentiments of the Occupy Movement have been bubbling just under the radar of the Establishment for a long time now. … and wait until you hear him shout, “Democratic Shamanism or Nothing!” … not to mention the part where he said that even if you are in a quilting bee you should be prepared to run guns and stage orgies. … and then he goes on to urge us to become “pirate utopians for peace” “guerillas of harmony”. Also, I have included a brief 1997 recording of Robert Anton Wilson who seems to be predicting the Occupy Movement.
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292-Makana: “Interview of Makana with OWS”
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Nov 30, 2011
Although I missed the beginning of this online meeting, from watching and listening to it, what appears to have taken place is that someone set up a big screen television in a room somewhere near Zuccotti Park and invited some of the people who were the first Occupiers of the park to have a video Skype chat with Makana. And as you'll hear, most of them had not yet even had a chance to hear his powerful song, the one that I played a couple of podcasts ago. Basically, here were five or six people just in from the front lines, and they were meeting with Makana for the first time. Here are a couple of things that Makana had to say, “This whole war that we're fighting is a war of consciousness verses ignorance, of controlling human behavior by controlling people's thoughts, by directing their awareness.” … “The only way we can bring about a revolution of freedom is to bring about a revolution of perception.” … Also I have included the brief talk that Deepak Chopra gave at the Occupy Los Angeles site a few days before it was overrun by the mayor's storm troopers.
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291-Wilson: “The 'I' In The Triangle” Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Nov 21, 2011
Today's talk is part two of the Robert Anton Wilson lecture given in a Santa Cruz, California book store sometime in 1990. He begins with the legend of the statues of the Black Virgin and then goes into more detail about the
Priory of Sion, the Vatican Bank and several other fascinating topics including how the CIA and the Mafia first got into bed together. One of my favorite quotes from this talk seems as if it came right from an Occupy Wall Street discussion. He said, “The only prediction I'll make is that everything is going to happen faster than we expect it.” … And in my Occupy Wall Street segment I feature the work of a phenomenal journalist by the name of Tim Pool who has been bringing live video feeds and wonderful commentary since day one. Also, I've included sound bites from Captain Raw Lewis of the Philadelphia police department and who was arrested while demonstrating as part of Occupy Wall Street. One of the closing segments is a brief interview with 80 year old Daniel Ellsberg, who was planning on spending the night in a tent at the Occupy Berkeley demonstration.
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290-Wilson: “The 'I' In The Triangle” Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Nov 15, 2011
For today's program I play the first half of a Robert Anton Wilson talk that was given without notes at a book store in Santa Cruz in 1990. The appearance was organized and recorded by our latest salon benefactor, Joe Matheny who along with The Original Falcon Press, who you can find at OriginalFalcon.com, have given me permission to play these Bob Wilson recordings even though they are currently selling them online as well. And while there is talk of the Illuminati, he brings things more current when he says, “And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.” Following RAW's talk I continue with my regular commentary on the Occupy Movement, including sound bites from Occupy Oakland, Occupy Berkeley, and Occupy Portland. If you don't have time to listen to all of this podcast, be sure to at least not miss the last ten minutes of this podcast which features the amazing story of Makana the Mighty.
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289-Wilson: "The Lost Studio Session"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Nov 8, 2011
I'm not really sure how to introduce this talk, which actually is a series of eight short vignettes about a wide range of topics. For example, who but Bob Wilson would be able to combine the idea of remaking the King Kong movie but staring Rush Limbaugh as King Kong and Hillary Clinton in Fay Ray's part, to combine that with a very novel idea of how popes are really elected is, to me, a wonderful stroke of genius. Some of RAWs other topics include his “Jumping Jesus Phenomenon”, and a very unique conjecture about the way Popes get elected. All-in-all it's a wonderful view of the genius of Robert Anton Wilson.
In the second half of the podcast, I continue with my Occupy commentary as of Day 53 of OWS. And this segment includes interesting talks by Michael Ruppert and Bill Moyers.
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288-McKenna: “What's So Great About Mushrooms?” Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Nov 1, 2011
Today's podcast comes in two parts. First comes the question and answer session with Terence McKenna in which he not only makes statements such as, “Acid heads are in charge of designing the cutting edge of culture,” but also makes a statement about our responsibility to the future that sounds almost as if he was talking about Occupy Wall Street, which is the focus of the second part of this podcast. In addition to some of my own thoughts about the Occupy Movement, I also play several sound bites that I've recorded during the past week from various live video streams. The last clip that I play is the rousing talk given by Michael Moore at a recent Occupy San Francisco demonstration.
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287-McKenna: “What's So Great About Mushrooms?” Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Oct 27, 2011
Today I'm beginning a slightly different format, the change being that after the lecture or interview, instead of adding my own comments about the talk, I will be covering various aspects of the Occupy movements now taking place all around the planet. … So today the talk is once again by Terence McKenna and is from sometime in 1987 when he was still fine tuning some of his ideas about the monkey and the mushroom. And even though I feel as if I've heard the monkey and the mushroom story too many times already, once again this version adds even more scientific detail to the story than I remember hearing before. … After the lecture by McKenna I talk about what went down at Occupy Oakland recently, and I play an interview from the Occupy Wall Street location with Chris Hedges as well as an interview with a young homeless man at Occupy Atlanta. To end the program I play “Homeless Land 9” by one of our fellow saloners, John Tackett.
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286-Leary: “The Revolution Continues with Timothy Leary” Part 3
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Oct 17, 2011
This concludes the three part series of podcasts that include the entire Dr. Timothy Leary interview on KPFT in Houston, Texas on November 13, 1976, not long after Dr. Leary was released from prison. One of his many interesting comments in this part was, “There's perhaps less than ten percent of the population who should even consider, under the best circumstances of disciplined control, to take this drug, because LSD is not a hedonistic, laid-back, multi-orgasm drug. It really isn't. It's a neurological experience. It's a sixth circuit neuroelectric experience, and it's basically preparation for post-terrestrial life.” Also, Leary makes a very interesting point about President Kennedy attempting to turn the solution to a bad economy away from war and into space. Finally, I make my third comment about the Occupy demonstrations now taking place all over the world.
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285-Leary: “The Revolution Continues with Timothy Leary” Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Oct 10, 2011
Today we continue with Part 2 of the interview that Dr. Timothy Leary gave on KPFT radio in Houston, Texas on November 13, 1976, just a few months after he was released from prison. We resume the interview at the point where Dr. Leary was defending his own sanity, but soon they move on to a preliminary discussion of Leary's 8-Circuit theories. Two of my favorite quotes from this interview are: “By and large I'm very proud of what happened in the Sixties, every aspect of our culture was reformed and revised and reviewed and improved.” And “We have to be gentle with each other because we are going through a period of mutations.” … At the end of the program I add some personal comments about how I see the OccupyTogether movement as a sign that hope for a better future yet remains.
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284-Leary: "The Revolution Continues with Timothy Leary" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Oct 6, 2011
This is the first part of an interview that Dr. Timothy Leary gave a few months after his release from prison in 1976. The interview took place in Houston, Texas for the local Pacifica Station, KPFT. Unlike most radio interviews, instead of just one person asking the questions this one consisted of a panel of men who at times seemed more like a board of inquiry of some kind. However, it doesn't take long for Dr. Leary to be in full command of the situation. And for historians who are interested in whether or not Leary gave evidence against one of his attorneys, you'll be quite pleased when the questions trend in this direction. … Following the first part of the Timothy Leary interview I play a few sound bites from the LiveStream.com/globalrevolution Web feed of events from the #occupywallstreet demonstrations.
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283-Various: "Elves in the Machine"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Sep 28, 2011
Today we are taking a slightly different tack and heading into the cyber world of Artificial Life, which may sound like a contradiction or may sound like life in the hectic Western world these days. While this field may be controversial to old-line scientists, of late it has gained more traction and is proving to be the source of much new understanding about the way life has come to be. Our hosts for this conversation are Tom Barbalet and Bruce Damer, two leaders in the field of AL and who are the cornerstones of Biota.org, the Web's leading site for AL information. Surprisingly, their discussion quickly turns from things only true geeks can love to speculations about the work of Terence McKenna, psychedelics, and the possibility that all of us may be in the process of becoming machine elves.
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282-McKenna: "How Evolution Occurs"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Sep 19, 2011
This is another early Terence McKenna lecture that was given sometime in 1984. Particularly considering the year it was delivered, there is more talk about psychedelics and the psychedelic experience than could be found elsewhere. But McKenna doesn't confine himself to only talking about psychedelics. Other topics include some of his early thoughts about language, culture, and the fact that the psychedelic community may be some sort of mutant population that is just waiting for certain selective parameters to change and enable the mutants to steer our species in a new direction (or something like that). And while some of us may be tired of hearing his theories about glossolalia, this early talk of his gives not only a deeper insight to what intrigues him about this phenomenon, but also he carefully explains how he went about invoking it in a mushroom session. … Also, we hear a very clear explanation of how he views the possibility of immortality, and what he has to say may surprise you.
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281-Workman: "Sacred Economics"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Sep 9, 2011
In today's podcast Matt Pallamary interviews Eileen Workman, co-founder of the Universe Project and who spent sixteen years working in the financial services industry, most recently as a First Vice President of Investments with a major Wall Street investment firm.
Her new book, Sacred Economics: The Currency of Life has been praised by many, including Barbara Marx Hubbard, co-founder and chairperson of the board of The Foundation for Conscious Evolution who says of it:
"Occasionally in human history a clear voice of good sense and compassion rises from the multitudes caught in the memetic mud of obsolete ideas about current reality. Thomas Jefferson was such a voice when he stated: "All men are created equal" at a time when there was no equality, at all. So now Eileen Workman sends a clear and intelligent message: We can live beyond the current monetary economy better, longer, kinder and more joyfully, and here is how to begin. Even though it might seem impossible, as the system continues to breakdown and the inequalities grow, her voice increasingly serves us as a guide to the next stage of evolutionary economics. We should all read it and place our faith and actions in the good sense it offers us, guiding us toward the next era of economics in the coming age."
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280-Various: "Peter Gorman Interviews Albert Hofmann"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Sep 2, 2011
Today's program features what I consider to be the finest interview of Dr. Albert Hofmann that there is. It was conducted in 1993 via telephone by Peter Gorman, then the editor of “High Times” magazine. Thanks to Peter's excellent handling of this interview, we get to hear a relaxed Albert Hofmann, unscripted, and at the top of his form when it came to retelling the events of his first LSD trips. From his amusement at how the bicycle ride became so famous to a description of his work with R. Gordon Wasson in discovering psilocybin as the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, this interview is packed with stories that Dr. Hofmann seems to relish telling yet one more time again. And what was a new story for me was to hear Uncle Albert tell about smoking Salvia divinorum in Mexico with Wasson. … Furthermore, he explains why he was able to identify the active principle of magic mushrooms, psilocybin, when all the other labs failed … instead of using animals to test his extracts, he and his colleagues tested it on themselves. … And thanks to Peter's expert questioning, we get to hear what Dr. Hofmann thought about Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary. And it may surprise you to learn what he thought about the Hippies and their use of LSD … AND that he had tried MDMA!
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279-Various: "Peter Gorman Interviews the Elders"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Aug 24, 2011
As us Monty Python fans love to hear, “Now for something completely different.” Well, not really. But today's program is a little different in that instead of featuring just one speaker we have an audio collage that includes Allen Ginsberg, Ram Das, and Laura Huxley. A finer collection of psychedelic elders you would be hard-pressed to find.
First of all is a rare recording of a telephone interview of Allen Ginsberg by then “High Times” editor, Peter Gorman. When Gorman asked for a story about Timothy Leary, Ginsberg tells of the time that Leary came to his New York apartment to meet Jack Kerouac and they took psilocybin together Next is a brief conversation that Peter has with Ram Das during which we learn some more of the background of the early days at Millbrook and the interesting series of events that led up to going there. The last segment is another Peter Gorman interview, this time with Laura Huxley in which she tells of some of her own experiences with LSD. It's a short program but packed with interesting historical ancetdotes.
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278-Various: "Peter Gorman Interviews Oscar Janiger"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Aug 17, 2011
Today we get to hear a rare recording of Dr. Oscar Janiger, the Los Angeles psychiatrist who, from 1954 to 1962, gave LSD to almost 1,000 participants in his informal study. And is well known, some of the participants in this early psychedelic research included notable celebrities such as Cary Grant and Jack Nicholson. One of my favorite quotes from this podcast is when Dr. Janiger says, “[The Sixties was] a time when people began to see that what was laid down for them as obligatory reality was not obligatory.”
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277-Various: "Peter Gorman Interviews Dennis McKenna" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Aug 10, 2011
This is the second part of a 1994 telephone interview that Peter Gorman (author and former editor of High Times Magazine) conducted with Dennis McKenna. In this part we learn of the curious coincidences that led Dennis to the successful conclusion of his own Ph.D. work and ends with an honest evaluation of his brother Terence's work. For example, at one point Dennis says, “He [Terence McKenna] will never let a fact get in the way of making a provocative statement. He's a good story teller, but I think it's important to remember that they are stories, and that he often makes mistakes in his lectures.” Later on in the podcast, Dennis follows up by saying, “I'm sure that Terence views it as theater. I can't believe that he takes what he says seriously. I mean, I can tell you that he doesn't. Much of what he says he says it because it's going to get a rise out of somebody. He's always been that way.”
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276-Various: "Peter Gorman Interviews Dennis McKenna" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Aug 4, 2011
This is the first part of an interview that Peter Gorman did with Dennis McKenna in 1994. In addition to hearing some interesting boyhood stories about the brothers McKenna, we learn of some of the things that were major influences on their lives. Peter's interviewing expertise shines through in many of the stories he elicits from Dennis, along with comments such as, “I think that ayahuasca is actually much more controllable than mushrooms. . . . I think that it is quite an amazing tool for self-understanding and for exploration. I think that it's good for you, actually physically and psychologically good for you.” Later, Dennis goes on to say, “I think that Christianity linked with Calvinism has a hard time dealing with what you might call facts of biology, which in another phrase is sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. In some ways, life is about sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. Biology is about those things.”
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275-McKenna: "The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Jul 23, 2011
In this October 1983 talk given in Berkeley, California, Terence McKenna speaks about the unspeakable, the essence of various kinds of psychedelic experiences. In addition to hearing some of his early adaptations of his ideas about the importance of the evolution of language, we are treated to thoughts such as, "It seemed probable to me that this phenomenon encountered in deep psychedelic experiences with psilocybin actually has a potential historical impact. It is a kind of human ability, which is at present submerged in the psyche, contactable only by the shamanic means of journeying into historical hyperspace. In other words, of going into that place where the adumbrations of the future are intense enough that you can have an intimation, at least, of what is to come.”
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274-Shulgin: "Psychedelic Safety"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jul 15, 2011
Today I'm going to play two talks that I've wanted to get out to you for a while but just never seemed to get around to them. The first talk is a somewhat informal question and answer session that Ann Shulgin led just after one of Sasha's talks at the 2001 Entheobotany Conference in Palenque, Mexico. As you'll hear, the Palenque sessions were generally small, informal, and full of interesting information, much of which came from the audience.
The second talk was given by Dr. William Rowlandson, who is co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Myth at the University of Kent. And the talk he gave is titled: “Borges and McKenna – Iconoclasm, Boundary Dissolution, and Living Symbolically”.
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273-Harrison: "Indigenous Plant Wisdom"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Jun 28, 2011
Today we return to another of the presentations by Kathleen “Kat” Harrison at the 2001 Entheobotany Conference that was held near the ruins at Palenque, Mexico. If you have ever wondered what people are talking about when they tell of the wisdom of indigenous people in regards to ways in which this Earth is covered with interconnected life, this is a talk that will give you a deep understanding of how wise these people are. While their lives may seem simple on the outside, these fellow humans are living lives of great complexity, and with significantly deeper connections to the planet than most city-folk have.
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272-Leary: "On the Genetic Runway"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Jun 21, 2011
In this podcast we get to hear another recording from the Timothy Leary Archive. This talk was given sometime in the early 1980s in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota to an audience of about 200 people. Leary's main topic for the evening was evolution and ways in which he disagreed with the standard Darwinian approach to evolution. In his view, evolution is a hands-on project that we all are involved with. Along the way, Timothy delivers a few of the memorable gems that we've come to expect from him, such as, "I like the Pope. I think he's the finest mind of the 12th century,” and “I've always hated the Second Law of Thermodynamics.” But he also has his moments of seriousness like when he says, “One thing that drugs give you: Personal options to change your own mind, a way of rewarding yourself, of teaching yourself, of activating yourself, of changing yourself. And one thing that the power-holders do not want you to do as an individual is to change your own mind and learn how to reward yourself.”
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271-Harrison: "Weaving Modern Ritual from Traditional Roots"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jun 17, 2011
Today's program features a talk that Kat Harrison gave during the January 2001 Entheobotany Conference at Palenque, Mexico. In it she teaches some of the many ways to create modern rituals, along with the reasons why this is so important. Along the way, Kat tells what it was like to come of age during the period we now call The Sixties. She has practical advice as well, such as: “Why one [psychedelic medicine] may be your best friend's ally and not your ally is a mystery. And maybe you can solve that mystery and maybe not. But you should honor the fact that some things work for you and some things are not your medicine, even though everyone around you appears to be having a good time.” Another wise thought of hers is, “You don't lead with your head. You let your heart and your body tell you what to do in these [introspective psychedelic] moments. Then if you think it's time to get up and bolt out into the street, you let your head come in and tell you, 'Don't! Sit down. You're not going anywhere.' ”
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270-McKenna: "Tryptamine Consciousness"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jun 10, 2011
This marks the sixth anniversary of podcasts from the Psychedelic Salon, and it features yet another old Terence McKenna lecture. This one was given in December of 1982, which was in the early days of his public speaking career. McKenna's focus for the talk is an exploration of what happens once a person ingests a psychedelic substance in the tryptamine family. And while he tells some stories about using these substances that sound quite inviting, he also adds the caution that: “I think one of the interesting things about judging a drug is to see how eager people are to do it the second time. If they're eager to do it the second time it's probably not worth bothering about, because what is necessary to have validity in these experiences is the terror. The terror is a stamp of validity on the experience, because it means this is real.” And on a more positive note he adds: “The future is bound to be psychedelic because the future belongs to the mind.”
Also, in this podcast I announce the availability of my novel, “The Genesis Generation,” as an eBook that is available on Amazon and other online retailing Web sties.
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269-Ott: "Inebriating Potions from Agave"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Jun 6, 2011
Today we re-join Jonathan Ott at the 2004 Mind States conference in Oaxaca, Mexico. Here is what the conference program had to say about this talk:
Jonathan Ott will give a talk titled “From Octli/Pulque and Xochioctli to Mezcal and Vino de Mezcal Tequila”.
The ethnopharmacognosy of inebriating pre-Columbian potions based on octli or pulque, wine of various species of Agave, with special reference to numerous inebriating additives; traditional foods and beverages made from mezcal Agaves; and colonial development of distilled mezcal from fermented, cooked mezcal Agaves. Finally, more recent development of Vino de Mezcal Tequila or Tequila, a regional type of mezcal brandy, from cooked hearts of Agave tequillense or blue agave.
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268-Leary: "Leary vs. Liddy - 1990 Debate"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jun 3, 2011
This program is another selection from the Timothy Leary archive. It features an October 1990 debate at Penn State University between Dr. Leary and his arch-enemy, the scandalous G. Gordon Liddy. One of my favorite segments in this debate, which wasn't all that polite at times, is when Leary pointed out the fact that he had spent more time in the U.S. Military service than Liddy had, but that Liddy had spent more time in prison than Leary had. Another Leary gem is when he said, “As far as this election is concerned, I urge you, don't vote for either a Democrat or a Republican. It just encourages the bastards.”
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267-McKenna: "Exploring the Abyss"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, May 25, 2011
In this early (November 1982) Terence McKenna lecture we hear him describe what took place during what he calls “The Experiment at La Chorrera” as “very loose science or very tight magic”. We also hear some of his earliest formulations of what ultimately became his most-remembered lines of thought. One of my favorite quotes from this talk is: “This situation called 'history' is totally unique. It will only last for a moment. It began a moment ago. It will only last for a moment. But in that moment there is like this tremendous burst of static as the monkey goes to godhood.” And along the way he again presents solid arguments as to why the psychedelic experience is of such great importance to the future of our species. In particular, he singles out the process of dying as one that can benefit from what is learned through the intelligent use of psychedelics.
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266-McKenna: "Interview with Dennis McKenna"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, May 17, 2011
Dennis McKenna (in a wide-ranging interview with David Ellenbogen for WKCR 89.9 FM in New York City) gives us some of his views on the neurochemistry of the brain and where and how he sees consciousness fitting into the big picture of the cosmos. And his views on ayahuasca are worth hearing. For example, Dennis says, “Ayahuasca is now a global phenomenon, and this is part of the plants' reaching out, trying to reach out to larger groups of people and basically hit us upside the head with a two by four and say, 'Hey you monkeys wake up! You're fucking it up! You have to wake up.' ” As to how one goes about finding the vine experience, he wisely concludes, “I think ayahuasca is perfectly capable of finding the people it needs, and the people who need to find ayahuasca will find it. And there's no need for cults or movements or very much human intervention, although a lot of people will be convinced that we must do this.”
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265-Hart:: "Lawyers Lie"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, May 11, 2011
“Lawyers Lie” is the title of a book by attorney Eric Hart who is interviewed in this podcast by frequent contributor to the salon, Matt Pallamary. And Eric doesn't mince words when asked very direct questions, such as what do you do if stopped by the police when you have been smoking cannabis in your car. Eric's replay is: “[If you are in police custody] Never say a word. Don't ever talk to the cops under any circumstance. If you're a suspect, or you're being arrested, nothing can be gained from it. They will twist whatever you say. It can only be used against you, just like the famous Miranda advisement. You have a right to remain silent. So remain silent. Even if they're yelling and screaming at you to talk, refuse to talk. That's a basic right that you have. It's one of the only effective rights we have left from the Bill of Rights. So exercise that right, or else whatever you say will be twisted around, and it will end up leading to your conviction.”
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264-Leary: "The Search for AI"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, May 3, 2011
Today's podcast features a recording from the Timothy Leary archive. According to the label on the file, this is a recording of a television show that originated in Toronto, Canada. It was called Enterprise, or something like that, and this program took place sometime in 1983. The guest host that night was none other than Dr. Timothy Leary, and his topic for discussion that evening was Artificial Intelligence. … For me, one of the highlights was to hear a famous MIT professor predict that home computers would never catch on!
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263-McKenna: "The Last Interview" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Apr 26, 2011
In this final part of Erik Davis' interview with Terence McKenna, not long before his death, Terence talks about life and death and ways in which psychedelics have somewhat prepared him to face his own imminent death. Near the end of this interview he says, “Given how weird life has been, why rush to prejudge death. It's bound to be mighty strange, life was mighty strange, and I'm curious. … It's an interesting situation to be told that you have a very limited amount of life left, because it composes your mind for you, wonderfully.”
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262-McKenna: "The Last Interview" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Apr 25, 2011
This is Part 1 of the last interview given by Terence McKenna before his untimely death in April 2000. The interview was conducted by Erik Davis for later publication in Wired Magazine. This recording was made by Erik while at Terence's home in Hawaii at the end of October 1999. And as long ago as that, Terence was already making a plea to support Internet Neutrality, as can be heard in statements like this, “Now let's see if information can liberate. That's why I don't want to do something stupid like die and miss the whole unfoldment of this proposition that knowledge is power, information will liberate. And it will be settled in the next ten or fifteen years. Either they'll get a handle on it, whoever 'they' are, whatever a 'handle means. Or it will slip from their control, and it will be clear that some kind of dialogue is now going on between individual human beings and the sum total of human knowledge, and that nothing can stop it, that some kind of Renaissance, some kind of total new relationship to knowledge and possibility is put in place.”
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261-McKenna: "The Definitive UFO Tape"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Apr 13, 2011
This recording is from the box of cassette tapes that Dianna Slattery sent me a few months back. And I picked it for several reasons. The first one being that it is the oldest recording of Terence McKenna that I've come across so far. It's from December of 1982, and apparently was recorded in someone's living room.
Interestingly, it was in a case labeled “Psilocybin & The Sands of Time”. But then the tape inside the box was itself labeled “The Definitive UFO Tape Terence McKenna Dec. 1982” As you will hear, right off the bat, the first question to Terence refers to the “two” books he had written at that point. And he answers by saying that he kept most of his UFO ideas out of The Invisible Landscape. Then he refers to what he calls “the second work, titled, Psilocybin and the UFOs”. No matter what your opinion is about this topic, I think you will find something in this talk to support your hypothesis. It may well be the “definitive” discourse about this subject.
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260-Damer: "The Great Crescendo" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Apr 5, 2011
In the second part of Bruce Damer's interview with film maker Matt Anderson he expands on his concept of a Great Crescendo and among other thought-provoking ideas he says, “You're here not because something put you here and fabricated you and guided the evolution and created the whole planet. It's an emergent phenomenon and so are you. And you are an ongoing story, and the story is written in your genes, but it is also written in your mind. And you have responsibility for this amazing emergent phenomenon.” And even more provocatively he goes on to say, “You don't need religion for miracles. The fact that you exist in all this existence is stacked upon miracles, turtles all the way down. So if we grok that, we don't need religious stories any more.”
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259-Damer: "The Great Crescendo" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Mar 30, 2011
Today we once again join Bruce Damer who explains what he means by The Great Crescendo, which like it or not you are already involved in. This talk is actually part of an interview he did with Matt Anderson for his upcoming documentary film FallWinterMovie.com. As always, Bruce gets right to the heart of the matter when he says, “I think in a sense it's the dialogue, it is the control of the dialogue that is the problem here. It's the battle of the airwaves. It's the people we didn't nominate to talk back to us and tell us what our culture is and what our future is and what our politics are. That is the problem. That's the primary problem.”
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258-McKenna: "The Angel in the Monkey"
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Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Mar 22, 2011
Today we once again go back in time and join Terence McKenna as he talks about extraterrestrials, psychedelics, and the angel in the monkey. Among other little gems, he says: “This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.”
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257-Shulgin: "Sasha in Palenque 2001"
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Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Mar 17, 2011
Today we get to listen to a talk given by Sasha Shulgin in 2001 at the legendary Entheobotany Conference in Palenque, Mexico. In his lecture Sasha covers the ever-increasing restrictions on chemical research that are imposed by the U.S. Government as well as how he first became interested in psychedelic research. He also provides a few examples of his methodology in developing new compounds.
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256-Ott: "A Drug Enhancer Called Chocolate"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Mar 10, 2011
Today we get to hear a talk that Jonathan Ott gave in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2004. In it he not only provides a wealth of information about the many and varied uses of cacao throughout the centuries as well as an examination of many of the psychoactive ingredients that have been used with chocolate through the ages. There is a great deal of information here, particularly for the botanists, chemists, and shamans among us.
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254-McKenna: "Psilocybin and the Sands of Time"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Dec 21, 2010
Today's talk is part of a Terence McKenna workshop held at Esalen Institute in California sometime in December of 1982. And while his talk is primarily a call to those interested in exploring psychedelic realms, he also has this to say: "I think [taking psychedelic drugs] is very dangerous. I do not tell people that it's safe because I don't have the faith that it's safe. I know what the pharmacological literature says, and it says that it's safe. That at the doses where these effects occur there can't possibly be a problem, but this seems to me to be the naivete of materialists, and we shouldn't be in a hurry to believe them even though it might make us more comfortable to do so. In other words, it's saying the drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience."
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253-Leary: "Whatever Happened to Timothy Leary?"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Dec 07, 2010
Today's podcast is a collage of talks by Timothy Leary and Ram Das. We begin with a 1966 interview of Dr. Leary on KPFK radio in Berkeley. That is followed by a 1973 interview with Ram Das on the same station and in which Ram Das discusses the end of his involvement with Leary as well as his thoughts about why everything came apart at the seams. The last segment is part of a 1986 interview of Timothy Leary on the Larry King on his radio program. As expected, Leary ends with a call to think for yourself: "I love institutions. They're intelligence tests. Institutions are prisons that you have to escape from. . . . The only thing is don't get trapped in them. The most addictive, dangerous, mind-screwing thing in the world is conformity to an organization."
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252-Adams: "How Do Psychedelics Heal?"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Dec 1, 2010
This podcast could be called the "All England" edition, for both of the speakers you will hear from come to us from the UK. The main program is a talk given by Dr. Cameron Adams to the Student Psychedelic Society at the University of Kent. In his talk Dr. Adams explains some of the biochemistry involved in mystical and psychedelic experiences in a way that is very easy to follow. At the end of today’s program I also play a short segment from a recent podcast from Dopefiend.co.uk in which the Dopefiend perfectly echos my sentiments about the recent defeat of California's Proposition 19.
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251-McKenna: "The Magic of Plants (Rites of Spring)" Part 4
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Nov 12, 2010
This podcast brings us to the last part of the April 1986 workshop conducted by Kat Harrison and Terence McKenna under the Teaching Tree at the Ojai Foundation in California. I almost didn't play this part because I was afraid that it would just be a rehash of his "monkeys eating mushrooms" story. But then as I got further into it, I realized that this was one of his earliest public accounts of this hypothesis, which was first suggested to him by his brother Dennis. And since this was one of his earlier accounts he added a lot more detail than I've heard before, poetic details I guess you would say, but in any event, just like in the last podcast where he gave a more clear explanation of his Timewave idea, in this talk you will hear what I think is perhaps his best explanation of how he thought us humans first began to expand our consciousness beyond mere animal consciousness.
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250-McKenna: "The Magic of Plants (Rites of Spring)" Part 3
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Nov 08, 2010
Today we pick up with Terence McKenna in the middle of his "good shit" story, but we are then rewarded with his telling of the origin of the fable of the good shit, that it first originated in Java. From there the topics were determined by questions from the participants. One such question resulted in this answer, "The interesting thing about outer space, we are not going to go 'through' space to other worlds, that will be very incidental to going into space. Going into space means going into space, that space itself is a medium with unique properties for a species such as ourselves." ... About midway through this talk Terence gives one of the most beautiful descriptions of the psychedelic experience that I can ever remember hearing. And he ends with this rousing thought, "The culmination of man's god-making effort in time will be the perfection and the release of the human soul. And it's not that we are 'doing' it, you see. It's that a natural law that we were previously unaware of is inexorably unfolding."
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249-McKenna: "The Magic of Plants (Rites of Spring)" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Nov 02, 2010
In this second installment of a 1986 workshop at the Ojai Foundation in California, Terence McKenna and Kat Harrison continue expanding on their views of the world from a psychedelic perspective. As usual, Terence waxes eloquent on thoughts such as, "This is the anguish of the ancestors. This is the sacred trust that must not be betrayed. The pogroms, and the invasions, and the atrocities conducted across history can only be, somehow, redeemed if we, who are the living wavefront of this genetic experience do not fumble the ball. All our ancestors are watching to see how we will do." And then he ends with his famous "good shit" story that took place during the La Chorrera experiments.
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248-McKenna: "The Magic of Plants (Rites of Spring)" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Oct 22, 2010
This 1986 talk given by Terence McKenna at the Ojai Foundation in California features one of his greatest feats of poetic fancy as he describes his vision of a parallel Earth that bypassed Christianity and in which the ancient Greek alchemists joined with the Mayans to form a global psychedelic world that now is rejoining our through dreams, UFO experiences, and psychedelic voyages ... or something like that. But for sure it is classic Terence. Not to be missed if you love his flights of fancy.
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246-Damer: "Elves, Egos, and Avatars"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Oct 05, 2010
In today's podcast we join Bruce Damer for his 2010 talk at the Buddhafield Festival. He titled this talk "Elves, Egos, and Avatars" and integrated a couple of Terence McKenna sound bites into the mix, along with an exploration of some of Eckhart Tolle's ideas about ego. He ends with a question we all should be asking ourselves, "It's the strength of the survivors that's always going to get you through. So how do we create a critical mass of people ready for the next phase, ready to build that new Earth?" ... I end the podcast with a brief remembrance of my brother, Dr. Miguel Jose Hagerty-Fox.
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245-McKenna: "UFOs: Angels, Aliens, and Archetypes"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Sep 24, 2010
Having witnessed a UFO “at close range” himself, it is no wonder that Terence McKenna takes the phenomenon of unidentified astral objects quite seriously. However, that doesn't mean that he has any better idea what they are than you and I do. One of my favorite ideas of his from this podcast is when he says: “Are we being visited? Or is there another tenant in the building that we are unaware of?" ... Another interesting concept he plays with is: "I believe that that is the purpose of the UFO, to inject uncertainty into the male-dominated, paternalistic, rational, solar myth under which we are suffering." After his 40 minute UFO talk I also included a nine minute sound bite from a 1991 impromptu appearance in Mannheim where he says: "This is why psychedelics are illegal. They don't care whether people jump out of windows or any of that. They're not interested in public health. They do not want people to take back their minds."
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244-Leary: "From Mind to Supermind"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Sep 20, 2010
Once again we hear how wonderfully optimistic Dr. Timothy Leary was when we were just 15 years short of the millennium. Although we now can see how hopelessly naive he was at the time, I still find his still youth-filled, optimistic enthusiasm quite refreshing, especially for the times we are now it. And while there are a few messages and stories we have heard from the good doctor before, his re-telling of them is always fresh. By the end of his talk, which was given in Santa Barbara, California on the 28th of January in 1985, he gives us an insight as to how he was seeing the personal computer revolution right as it was just then beginning to take form.
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243-Ram Das & Leary: "Albert Hofmann Fund Raiser in 1988"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sun, Aug 29, 2010
This recording is from the second half of an event that was held on July 24, 1988 to raise money for the Albert Hofmann Foundation. The first half (which I haven't found a recording of yet) included talks by Paul Krassner, Laura Huxley, and Timothy Leary. However a few minutes of the Leary talk are included here. The main part of this recording is a scintillating talk by Ram Das in which he says things such as: "And it feels to me that as long as I live I will still be growing into what happened to me on the first psychedelic experience," and "What has happened is that the Sixties unleashed something extraordinarily powerful that is still reverberating and echoing in this culture, and actually in the world. And what that released was a recognition in people that they were free to change, institutions and themselves."
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242-McKenna: "Philosophical Gadfly" Part 3
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
In this final installment of a 1984 workshop, Terence McKenna begins by answering a question about how he sees the role of the I Chang in human life. From there he progresses to Marshall McLuhan and on to a consideration that "We cannot afford the unconscious anymore."
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241-McKenna: "Philosophical Gadfly" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Aug 06, 2010
In this continuation of a 1984 workshop in which he gave himself the title of Philosophical Gadfly, Terence McKenna takes us on a journey through the place he calls the invisible landscape. One of his raps is that "history is the departure of a species for the stars", which may give us a clue as to why he departed for the stars so early, paving our way, no doubt. His consideration of how we now control the biological evolution of our own species leads him to say, "We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time." ... And an interesting little factoid comes out that already in 1984, before the Web, Terence was already using the Internet with his Apple II and a $350 modem.
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240-McKenna: "Philosophical Gadfly" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Aug 04, 2010
In this recording of a small 1984 gathering in Northern California, Terence McKenna holds forth on ayahuasca, his research in the Amazon, and the amanita muscaria mushroom. As is often the case, this workshop was shaped mainly by questions from the participants, which brought about this interesting quotation: "You must be aware that I have other wrinkles, the extraterrestrial angle, the end of history angle, several different things, but all of these things were inspired by our belief that these Amazon peoples have a technology for exploring the modalities of the unconscious that is centuries ahead of us." And his 1984 take on death is also notable: "I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination."
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239-McKenna: "Shamanism, Alchemy, and the 20th Century"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jul 28, 2010
This may be one of Terence McKenna's finest and most important talks. It was recorded in 1996 in Mannheim, Germany and was recorded during the time he and Sheldon Rocklin were filming the documentary for Mystic Fire, which was originally titled 'Coincidencia Oppositorum: A Union of Opposites'. And while it has now been more than a decade since it was given, you will find that it remains as fresh as if it was delivered last night. The program notes for this podcast contain the most McKenna quotes of any talk we have yet heard here in the salon. Just one quote may give you the flavor of what you will hear: "In the 60's then, LSD was not sufficient, even coupled with rock and roll it only brought repression. It was like a failed alchemy. Instead of the dissolving and recrystallizing at a higher and more angelic level thousands of prisons were built, and the entire thing failed. But this spirit is THE spirit, the spirit of life itself, the spirit of novelty itself, and it will not be suppressed for long in any time or place. So now again it comes. ... It's a spirit of dissent that says we will not serve the values of materialism, the values of the ego, and the values that separate and break down the community. So here it is again."
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238-Various: "A Tribute to Albert Hofmann" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jul 21, 2010
Dr. Lilly begins with a description of his first LSD experience in an isolation chamber (300mg IM) in the Virgin Islands in 1964, saying about it, "I was scared stiff, absolutely terrified." He is followed by Dr. Oscar Janiger who gives a few brief remarks before Terence McKenna introduces Dr. Albert Hofmann by famously saying, "Psychology without psychedelics is pissing into the wind." The Dr. Hofmann takes the stage for a talk that you will most likely listen to more than once. One of my favorite quotes of his is, "Of greatest significance to me has been the insight that I obtained as a fundamental understanding from all my LSD experiences that what one commonly takes as the reality by no means it defines anything fixed but represents a thing that's ambiguous, that there is not only one but there are many realities, each compromising a different consciousness also of the ego."
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237-Various: "A Tribute to Albert Hofmann" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Jul 13, 2010
This is the first part of an event that was held at The Scottish
Rite Temple in Los Angeles on October 2, 1988 to honor Dr. Albert Hofmann on the 50th anniversary of his discovery of LSD. The MC that night was none other than Terence McKenna, and besides a few words from Terence, we also hear from Stanley Krippner and Andrew Weil, who not only have many kind words for Dr. Hofmann but also add some interesting insights about their own work with LSD, such as when Terence said: "We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous." ... And from Dr. Weil: "And here it seems to me is the fundamental absurdity of the way our science has developed: The most obvious fact of our existence is that we are conscious. That is the most obvious, most important aspect of our existence. How can you construct a world view, how can you construct a system that tries to explain the universe and leave that out? And yet that is what our science tries to do."
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236-Aldous Huxley: "The Politics of Ecology"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jul 09, 2010
In this lecture (delivered just one year before he died in 1963) Aldous Huxley explains that the most pressing problems that lie before us will be brought about by the ecological devastation that comes with a population explosion. With a world population of about three million at the time, Huxley accurately predicted that it would double by today, which it has. He begins this lecture saying, "When advancing science and acceleratingly progressive technology alter man's long-standing relationships with the planet on which he lives, revolutionize his societies, and at the same time equip his rulers with new and immensely more powerful instruments of domination what ought we to do? What can we do?" And among his other observations are: "My own view is that it is only by shifting our collective intention from the merely political to the basic biological aspects to the human situation that we can hope to mitigate and shorten the time of troubles into which it would seem we are now moving. We have to get it into our collective heads that the basic problem now confronting us is ecological."
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235-Various: "Osmond, Stolaroff, & Hubbard - 1964"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jun 30, 2010
On October 30, 1964, Dr. Humphry Osmond, Myron Stolaroff, Willis Harman, and Al Hubbard took LSD together. The next day they discussed what was learned. This is a recording of that gathering, and it is the first of the recovered recordings from The Stolaroff Collection. Their conversation took place on November 1, 1964 and most likely hasn't been heard since the day this recording was made on Myron's reel-to-reel Ampex tape recorder. Among other interesting parts of this conversation are their views of the newly raging controversies then being fueled by the work of Timothy Leary and Ram Das. Needless to say, scientific researchers like Osmond and Stolaroff were not exactly enamored with the emerging psychedelic culture that would soon lead us to the Hippies and beyond. They also found a connection between their work and Tielhard de Chardin's writings about the noosphere. My favorite part is an appearance by the legendary, Al Hubbard, the Johnny Appleseed of LSD. While I'm sure there are other recordings of Hubbard, this is the first time I have heard his voice, and it comes in the context of Humphry, Myron, and him discussing their previous day's acid trip together. If you are interested in the early history of the psychedelic movement, this recording is not to be missed!
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234-Trialogue: "The World Soul"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Jun 24, 2010
Today's talk is the missing Tape 4 from the first McKenna, Abraham, and Sheldrake Trialogue sessions recorded in 1989. Terence begins by telling a rather amazing story about a walk he had on a beach that turned into a fractal psychedelic experience, and without the aid of any substances I should add. From there it takes a while to get to the World Soul, and then after talking for a while, they discover that they are actually talking about different concepts! A couple of my favorite McKenna quotes from this talk are: "For my money, monotheism is the single most reactionary force in all of human history. I don't even know what is running second," and "Democracy is a step away from anarchy."
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233-Leary and Ram Das: "1983 Harvard Reunion"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Jun 17, 2010
The talk I've picked for today is from April 23, 1983, and it was given at Harvard University on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Timothy Leary and Ram Das, then Richard Alpert, being kicked out of Harvard. There are a lot of little gems here, but one of my favorites from Timothy Leary was, "[So Emerson] came to Harvard Divinity School, gave that famous speech in which he said, 'Don't look for god in the temples, nor in the buildings, nor in the pulpits, look within, find divinity inside yourself, drop out, become self-reliant (translated as do your own thing) and for, I believe thirty-three years, he was not allowed back on this sacred territory. We're back after twenty!"
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232-FifthAnniversaryPodcast: "Fisher, Stolaroff, and Al Hubbard"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Jun 10, 2010
Today's program marks the Fifth Anniversary of podcasts from the Psychedelic Salon, and I want to thank you for coming back each week. It just wouldn't be the same without you! ... And for this occasion I am very happy to play a recording that was made at Kathleen's legendary salon in Venice Beach on the evening of March 19, 2004. The guest speakers that evening were Myron Stolaroff and Gary Fisher who led those gathered in Kathleen's home that night in a give-and-take session that had everyone laughing before the evening was over. And, of course, they also provided some wonderful insights and stories about the early days of the current psychedelic resurgence.
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231-Damer-McKenna: "Bruce, Terence, and Virtual Worlds"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jun 04, 2010
Today we have a two-part program that begins with a reminiscence by Bruce Damer about how he came to know Terence McKenna. I then follow that with a recording of one of the last conversations Bruce and Terence had at Terence's house on the Big Island of Hawaii just a few weeks before Terence was laid low by a tumor in his brain.
One of the reasons I think it might be interesting for you to hear this conversation is to get a feel for what it was like to hang around with the bard McKenna. While you might think that he did most of the talking, you will find that the opposite is true, and much like Aldous Huxley, Terence did a lot of questioning and listening. It wasn't only from books that they acquired their particular views of the world.
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230-Trialogue: "The Evolutionary Mind" Part 3
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, May 27, 2010
In this final session of the last trialogue between Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, and Ralph Abraham the discussion is begun by Ralph when he states, "The edge of the millennium, any edge of any of the millennia, is particularly important to those revolutionary souls who want to make a change in things. It is a special time." ... and I need not point out that we are still at the very leading edge of this new millennium. And to the provocative question raised by Ralph, Terence answered, "This is a moment of enormous opportunity, and those who find themselves in this moment with power, defined however you care to define it, have a moral obligation to act. ... What we must become is clear."
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229-Trialogue: "The Evolutionary Mind" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, May 19, 2010
This is a continuation of the last Trialogue that was held between Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna. This session is kicked off by Terence McKenna who shifts the focus to The Evolutionary Mind AND the Machines. A couple of his comments include: "What is important about nature is that it is information. And the real tension is not between matter and spirit, or time and space, the real tension is between information and nonsense." And, "Vast amounts of the world that we call human is already under the control of artificial intelligences, including very vital parts of our political and social dynamo." Then Ralph and Rupert try to pin him down on a few inconsistencies. Following the trialogue I have added a short comment by Bruce Damer regarding the technical impossibility of uploading one's consciousness to a computer any time in the foreseeable future.
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228-Trialogue: "The Evolutionary Mind" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, May 15, 2010
Today's podcast is the first part of the last Trialogue that was held between Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna. The complete video of this Trialogue is also available through Google Video under the title "Trialogue at the End of the Millennium". By the end of their first hour, Ralph didn't think they had made any progress in their discussion, Terence thought great progress had been made, and Rupert was wondering whether our Sun was having relationship issues with its peers. All-in-all, this is a great mind-bender.
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227-Shulgin-Watts: "Sasha at MIT plus Alan Watts"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, May 08, 2010
In today's podcast we hear from two psychedelic luminaries, Sasha Shulgin and Alan Watts. The Shulgin talk is one that he gave at MIT on December 1, 2005 and can also be found in video format on the MIT Web site. The date and location of the Alan Watts talk is unknown but it contains one of his best illustrations of what may be the true condition of us humans and concludes with the observation that, "You see, it doesn't matter in what form you begin. Whether you begin again as a human being, or as a fruit fly, butterfly, or a beetle, or a bird, it feels the same way that you feel now. So we're really all in the same place."
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226-McKenna: "Hermeticism and Alchemy" Part 4
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Apr 30, 2010
In this final installment of Terence McKenna's 1992 workshop titled "Hermeticism and Alchemy" he points out that "History itself is a kind of alchemical process," and then goes into a political rant unlike any I've heard him give before. Two of my favorite gems are: "What we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state. I mean, what we are are the propagandized masses inside a Fascist dictatorship." and "I think that the Third Reich was a Sunday school picnic compared to the population policies of the Roman Catholic Church. ... In a civilized political environment those people would be placed under immediate arrest."
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225-McKenna: "Hermeticism and Alchemy" Part 3
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Apr 27, 2010
In this next to last installment of Terence McKenna's 1992 workshop, "Hermeticism and Alchemy" we get to hear yet one more description of the elves that doesn't involve self-transformation or basketballs. He also gives his opinion of what the glue is that holdsl the world wide psychedelic community together. A couple of my favorite quotes from this session include: "So in a way, one way of thinking about psychedelics is that they empower language. It's a way to force the evolution of language. The way you stretch the envelope of culture is by creating language." And: "The mind is not a form of intelligence. The mind is the theater in which intelligence is manifested. You don't want to confuse the garage with the car. ... Everything goes on within the confines of mind."
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224-McKenna: "Hermeticism and Alchemy" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Apr 23, 2010
This begins Part 2 of Terence McKenna's 1992 workshop on "Hermeticism and Alchemy". He begins by taking 20 minutes and covering over a dozen topics, complete with detailed references, while explaining what may have caused the Eleusinian Mysteries to disappear. But my favorite part of today's talk is when Terence tells the story of what he describes as "one of the high-water wierdness events of my life".
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223-McKenna: "Hermeticism and Alchemy" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Apr 13, 2010
Today's podcast begins a newly uncovered lecture by Terence McKenna. His topic is "Hermeticism and Alchemy" and he begins this 1991 workshop in fine form, making statements such as: "Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic." And, "Western civilization, in a way, can be thought of as an accumulated series of misunderstandings."
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222-Ott: "Crimes Against Nature: The Civil War Against Drugs"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Apr 06, 2010
In this appeal to help Jonathan Ott recover from the arson that destroyed his house and laboratory, I am playing a recording of Jonathan reading from his book "Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History". After his talk I give a Web address where donations may be made to help him over this big hurdle.
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221-McKenna: "Evolving Times"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Apr 03, 2010
In this two hour Terence Day (April 3rd) podcast, we hear Terence McKenna waxing his poetic best. For example:
"Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence, a situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land, all were in dynamic balance. And not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed. Poetry may have been at its climax. Dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy, there's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today. And it was under the boundary-dissolving influence of psilocybin."
"So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm."
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220-Damer: "EvoGrid: The Ultimate Nerd Project"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sun, Mar 28, 2010
Today's podcast features salon favorite Bruce Damer's complete interview from a recent interview he gave for the film FallWinterMovie. He begins discussing his main project, the EvoGrid, and says, "Perhaps Gaia, the biosphere, has a devious plan which is to allow one of its species, one of its offspring, to create a mechanism to create new forms of life." Bruce then goes on to discuss several other fascinating topics that I think you will enjoy hearing.
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219-Leary: "Live in San Francisco 1979" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Mar 23, 2010
In his usual outrageous way, Dr. Timothy Leary espouses lowering the voting age to seven in this second part of a talk that he gave in San Francisco in 1979. However, once you hear his logic for such a proposal you may see the method in his madness so to speak. And then there is his wonderful pronunciation that, "The legend goes like this, that in the high valleys around Basil, Switzerland there are alpine villages where the inhabitants have not drawn an un-hallucinated breath in 500 years." ... it is the good Doctor Leary at the top of his form.
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218-Claudia Little: "The Truth About Cannabis"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Mar 09, 2010
In this information-packed program, registered nurse and medical cannabis activist Claudia Little tells the story of her investigations into the use of cannabis as a medicine. Claudia is also a member of the Medical Advisory Board of Americans for Safe Access and a former U.S. Navy Nurse.
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217-McKenna: "Under the Teaching Tree" Part 3
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Mar 05, 2010
Among other stories, Terence tells of his UFO encounter in the Amazon in great detail ... one of his best tellings of this experience. He then goes on in an almost ambivalent way about his feelings about crop circles. Before long, though, he gets back to answering more questions about the smoked DMT experience, eventually comparing it to the archetype of the circus. He also explains his theory that crop circles may be the work of stem-bending Ninja Japanese tourists and that schizophrenics may actually be driven mad because they smell funny.
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216-McKenna: "Under the Teaching Tree" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Today we pick up on the Terence McKenna workshop that he conducted in April of 1985 in Ojai, California. Among his other insightful observations was, "Cannabis holds many benefits, not necessarily related to its properties as an intoxicant, but as a source of food, lubricants, plastics, fuels, etc. The reason the establishment is so hysterical on the subject of cannabis is because it errodes loyalty to the industrial state."
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215-McKenna: "Under the Teaching Tree" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Feb 20, 2010
This is the first part of a talk that Terence McKenna gave at the Ojai Foundation in April of 1985. In it he speaks about death and DMT among other things, such as: "I came to feel, and I still sometimes offhandedly refer to it like this, that it [DMT] is secret. It is not a secret. It is THE secret. There is a secret, and this is it. It is the secret that the world is not only not the way you think it is. It's that the way the world is, is a way that you can't think it is, because you simply do not have the imaginative capacity to conceive of such overwhelming peculiarity."
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214-Leary: "Live in San Francisco 1979" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Feb 12, 2010
This is the first of a two part recording of a performance Dr. Timothy Leary gave in San Francisco early in 1979. After being introduced by Grace Slick, Timothy does his best to provoke the crowd with statements such as, "For the last four or five thousand years, freedom and intelligence and individualism have been moving in an unbroken chain from East to West. So that here on the banks of the Pacific Ocean we obviously have assembled the most advanced nervous systems on the planet."
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212-Lorenzo: "The Wizard's Council"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Feb 04, 2010
In this podcast I play a recording of Chapter 13 of "The Genesis Generation", a novel about a 29 year old corporate geek who gradually evolves into an underground hero in the psychedelic community. The complete novel is available at www (dot) GenesisGeneration (dot) us ... Chapter 1 may be heard in podcast #186 of this series.
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211-McKenna: "Empowering Hope in Dark Times"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Jan 30, 2010
This talk has appeared under several different titles, including "Empowering Hope in Dark Times", "Alchemy", and "Unfolding the Stone" among others. IMO it is the most positive and hopeful talk that we have yet heard from Terence here in the salon. For example, he says, "It's absolutely irrational to not be filled with the fire of consuming hope. You just have to overcome the leveling that we inheirit from these empty, existential, scientific ideas."
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210-Various Speakers: "From the Shaman's Circle to the Ivory Tower"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Today's program is from a workshop given at the 3rd International Conference for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC) at the University of Amsterdam 23-26 July 2009. The conference was called "Religion, Nature and Progress," and this presentation by Anna Waldstein, Ivan Casselman, and Cameron Adams is titled, "From the Shaman's Circle to the Ivory Tower: Progress, Spirituality and Psychedelic Thinking."
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209-Huxley: "An Audio Collage of Aldous Huxley"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Jan 12, 2010
I've called this an audio collage for want of a better description. In this podcast you will hear not only what others thought of Aldous Huxley, you will hear him conversing in both interview format and in a more conversational setting. The range of topics covered in this collection of Huxley sound bites including a discussion of the arts in general, James Joyce, the best method for discussing philosophy including an example of how he went about creating his work, what he thinks about the supernatural, our lack of great symbols right now, and his involvement with psychedelic substances.
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208-Nadelmann: "It's Time To End The War on Drugs"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Jan 05, 2010
In this November 2009 presentation at a PATH event in San Diego, Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, gives not just facts and figures, but also includes a stirring call to bring reason into the debate about ending the War on People who use non-prescription drugs. ... As he says, "That we are each sovereign over our own minds and bodies, that is the core principle that we have to keep putting out there."
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207-Various Speakers: "A Tribute to Alan Watts"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Dec 21, 2009
Today we begin with a short clip of Alan Watts speaking about human consciousness. Then we go to a little gathering at Dr. John Lilly's home, where he, Laura Huxley, and others give tribute to the life of Alan Watts a few months after his death.
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206-McKenna: "Appreciating Imagination" Part 6
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Dec 09, 2009
In this final installment of a 1997 Terence McKenna workshop about Appreciating Imagination, he comes up with quite a few interesting thoughts, such as: "I think that in service to the principle of parsimony, preferring the simplest explanation, these things [beings encountered in DMT space] must be human souls." ... and ... "If you're living right, your life should get just more and more baroque, beautiful, complicated, mysterious ... and then you die."
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205-McKenna: "Appreciating Imagination" Part 5 (Timewave)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Dec 02, 2009
In this next to last part of a 1997 Terence McKenna workshop dealing with the imagination, Terence takes us for a ride on his Timewave hypothesis. ... At one point he says, "I do entertain the idea that we may each have our own Timewave, sort of following the model of astrology." ... Then near the end of this session we hear him say, "The whole thing [Timewave hypothesis] smacks of the impossible. It's even pushed me toward the idea that maybe this is not actually a reality. We're trapped, or I'm trapped. I don't know if you're trapped. But we're in some kind of piece of fiction. It's like a Phillip K. Dick deal, you know. We're in some kind of simulacrum, and the clue to the fact that it's a simulacrum is this impossible idea [the Timewave]. And so the point of the idea is not to believe it, but to use it as a wedge to fight our way out of this labyrinth and back to whatever reality we were in before we fell into this situation. Something like that."
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204-McKenna: "Appreciating Imagination" Part 4
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Nov 18, 2009
In part four of the Terence McKenna workshop about imagination he discusses the ego, Novelty Theory, and the possibility that time is not uniform. As he says, "The Timewave is not occult, but it is not science as we have done it these past 500 years, because it assumes that one of our primary intuitions is actually true; the intuition that every moment is unique [time is not uniform]. It treats that as the central starting point for an entirely new metaphysics of being." ... "The way you investigate time is by moving inward, by investigating metabolism. The human body is a knot in time." ... Also included is part of a conversation with Allan Lundell, Nick Herbert and few friends.
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203-McKenna: "Appreciating Imagination" Part 3
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Nov 10, 2009
In this third podcast of Terence McKenna's workshop on imagination, he picks up the pace and speaks to a dozen or more new topics. Not only does he explain what he calls 'McKenna's Five Percent Rule', he also gives us McKenna's Law: "As you advance in social hierarchy the percentage of smart people does not increase. ... Every human situation is bedeviled by morons. No matter how high you rise you're surrounded by fools, and you're lucky if you're not one of them. That's the basic thing to guard against." Plus he returns briefly to his critique of culture and says among other things, "Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it."
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202-McKenna: "Appreciating Imagination" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
Among many other provocative ideas found in this talk is: "The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being." ... Near the end of this podcast we also hear Terence explain his personal ideas about death.
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201-McKenna: "Appreciating Imagination" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Oct 21, 2009
Today's podcast is the first in a series from a workshop that Terence McKenna conducted at Esalen Institute in 1994, the focus of which was the human imagination. While he has some interesting thoughts about imagination such as, "Art is like the footprint of where the imagination has been." It was his thought about computers that most people may take away from this first part of the workshop where he also says, "The only difference between computers and drugs is that one is too large to swallow ... and our best people are working on that very problem."
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200-Various: "A Few Words From Our Elders"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Oct 16, 2009
Since this is my 200th podcast, I thought that it might be nice to hear a selection of sound bites from some of our esteemed elders. So in this program you will hear from Gary Fisher, Sasha Shulgin, Ann Shulgin, Myron Stolaroff, Terence McKenna, Baba Ram Das, and Timothy Leary in a medley of ideas that hopefully will inspire you to strive to become an elder yourself.
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199-Leary: "Timothy Leary at MIT - 1967"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Oct 07, 2009
In 1967 Dr. Timothy Leary gave a lecture to a group of MIT students in which he said, among other scandalous things: "The educational system, at the present time in the United States does neurological damage to the nervous system and functions as a narcotic, addictive drug." And then he went on to say: "You, the younger generation in particular, have got to drop out, and by drop out I mean all the way. You can't vote, I urge you not to do politics, don't picket, don't get involved in any of these menopausal mind games because it doesn't make any difference."
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198-McKenna: "NPR Interview - 1999"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Sep 24, 2009
This may be the last radio interview given by the bard Terence McKenna. The date was sometime in March of 1999, just a few weeks before the discovery of his brain tumor. Over a dozen new McKenna quotes from this podcast are posted on our blog at PsychedelicSalon (dot) org, and among the other little gems he at last clearly defines what he means by "the end of history".
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197-McKenna: "McNature"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Sep 16, 2009
Terence McKenna gave this talk the title of "Nature is the Center of the Mandala", but the cassette it was on had the title of McNature written on it. In any event, here is the Bard McKenna holding forth on the importance of keeping Nature as a focus in our lives. And as always, he has many provocative ideas such as, "Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong."
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196-Leary: "Timothy Leary vs. Notre Dame"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
In this 1968 lecture at the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Timothy Leary gives the then all-male student body a lesson in alternative thought. Basically, he told them that almost everything they are being taught is tainted with illogic. However, he also said that on the whole he didn't think that most of them were ready to use psychedelics yet, that the experience might be too powerful for them. Among other provocative things that the good doctor had to tell the young Catholic lads was, "Dope is going to be the religion of the future." One can only imagine (with a big smile) how discussions in the religious classrooms on campus went down the next day.
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195-Leary: "The Future of Higher Intelligence" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Sep 03, 2009
Today we continue listening to a panel discussion from a Psychedelic Conference held at UCSB in 1981. We hear from Robert Anton Wilson and Dr. John Lilly and then we'll hear a clip from a talk that Timothy Leary gave about Dr. Lilly sometime later. Finally, we'll be hearing a song that a German band recorded in 1972 with Dr. Timothy Leary on vocals ... you won't want to miss that one!
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194-Leary: "The Future of Higher Intelligence" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Aug 24, 2009
Today's podcast has a full cast of characters. Recorded early in the 1980s at a Psychedelic Conference held at UCSB, we hear a panel consisting of Frank Baron, Andrew Weil, Walter Clark, Robert Anton Wilson, and Paul Krasner that is moderated by Dr. Timothy Leary. Their topic is the future of higher intelligence, and as you can no doubt imagine, a Niagara of interesting ideas flows forth.
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193-Watts: "The Houseboat Summit - 1967"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sun, Aug 16, 2009
In today's podcast we join Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder for an hour-and-a-half of a conversation held on Watts' houseboat in February of 1967, just a few weeks after the first Human Be-In. While there are any number of interesting tidbits and some fascinating similarities to what is taking place in the world again today, one of the most interesting parts (at least to me) of their conversation is what must have been their first discussion of Dr. Leary's famous, but spontaneous proclamation of, "Turn on, tune in, drop out". If you are a student of Dr. Leary, this is a conversation you won't want to miss. . . . And did I mention that the real star of this show is Alan Watts, who said among other things: "In other words, when there is a game going on that's on a collision course, and that this game obviously is going to lead to total destruction, the only way of getting people out of a bad game is to indicate that the game is no longer interesting. See, we've left this game and it bores us."
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192-Leary: "Live at the Stone - 1987"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Jul 23, 2009
Think back to the Summer of 1987. Did you own a personal computer then? If so, you were in rare company. And in today's podcast we get to hear Dr. Timothy Leary explain why this new technology was going to revolutionize the world. But he doesn't confine himself to only talking about computers in this presentation that was given at The Stone in San Francisco. ... He also has some amazing stories to tell about the Summer of Love, Abbie Hoffmann, Hunter S. Thompson, and other fun people and events.
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191-McKenna: "The Ethnobotany of Shamanism" Part 5
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Jul 16, 2009
This brings to a conclusion the series of recordings from a Terence McKenna workshop that he led over the weekend of November 5-7, 1988 at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). One of the more fascinating questions that he answers is, "How do you remember to bring back what you've learned?" And his answer, dealing with state-bounded memory, is something I hadn't thought of before.
And like the preivous four programs in this series, Terence again peppers this one with provocative thoughts such as, "This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human."
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190-McKenna: "The Ethnobotany of Shamanism" Part 4
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jul 08, 2009
This week we pick up with Terence fielding questions about the visions he sees on various substances and where he thinks they come from.
One of his more controversial comments this week may be: "The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there."
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189-McKenna: "The Ethnobotany of Shamanism" Part 3
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jul 01, 2009
We continue with a Terence McKenna workshop recorded on the first weekend of November in 1988. The workshop was conducted at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. One of the more interesting segments of this talk is that it is one of his clearest public statements regarding the relative merits of natural psychedelics vs. synthetic ones. And his opinion on November 6, 1988 was, "I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs." ... He also goes on to say, "I have never felt that the primary use of these things [psychedelic medicines] was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that."
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188-McKenna: "The Ethnobotany of Shamanism" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jun 24, 2009
In today's podcast we pick up where we left off last week with Terence McKenna conducting a workshop in November of 1988. Among other topics, Terence begins his "World Tour of Psychedelic Plants". One of my favorite McKenna quotes from this talk is, "We now have no choice in the matter of business as usual. There will not, apparently, be business as usual." ... and then there is, "Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage."
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187-McKenna: "The Ethnobotany of Shamanism" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jun 17, 2009
In today's podcast, which was recorded at a small workshop held at CIIS in San Francisco on November 5, 1988, we hear Terence McKenna talk about some of his boyhood experiences that he feels led him into the world of psychedelic exploration. And then he goes on to briefly describe his years of travel while posing as a butterfly collector, eventually leading him to the Amazon. He then goes on to give his 1988 version of what he thought the psychedelic experience actually was, and he reads the titles of some of his favorite books. Among other McKennisims in this podcast: "What it [investigating psychedelics] really requires is a love of the peculiar, of the weird, the bizarre, the étrange, the freaky and unimaginable."
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186-Lorenzo: "The Genesis Generation" Chapter 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jun 10, 2009
In today's podcast Lorenzo reads the first chapter of his new novel, "The Genesis Generation", which you may purchase at GenesisGeneration.us.
This is a story about the transformation of a 29 year old "yuppie-geek" into an underground hero in the psychedelic community.
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185-McKenna: "Shamanism and the Archaic Revival"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jun 03, 2009
Today's program features a talk by Terence McKenna that you can find elsewhere on the Net under the title "Vision Plants", but I thought that "Shamanism and the Archaic Revival" is more fitting. ... Among other provocative things McKenna has to say is, "Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego."
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184-Damer: "The Boundaries of the Human Mind"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, May 20, 2009
Today's podcast features Bruce Damer, first at a Mind States conference in Oaxaca, Mexico and then in a late night conversation with Lorenzo. Among other things, Bruce talks about the team he led that developed some of the Virtual Reality simulations NASA used in training the astronaughts who recently repaired the Hubble telescope. ... However, the primary focus of Bruce's remarks may be summed up when he said, "If you want a future, you have to take charge of your own thoughts."
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183-Leary: "What Are Humans For"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, May 08, 2009
This program features a 1983 interview with Dr. Timothy Leary which begins with him talking about the Sixties and some of the characters he was involved with back then. Among his more provocative comments are:
"Harvard is there to train Ivy Leaguers to go to Washington and Wall Street and keep the wasp establishment going. They're not supposed to be turning out new Buddhas and a new brand of science fiction neuronaughts."
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182-Various: "The Spark of Divine Creativity"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Apr 28, 2009
Today we hear from two young traveling entertainers in a conversation with Mateo Pallamary and Lorenzo. Missy and Andre Nobels have been traveling around North America and entertaining with Missy's dancing and Andre's music. In this ad hoc conversation, the topic centers around creativity.
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181-McKenna: "What Science Forgot" Q&A
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Apr 25, 2009
In today's podcast, we hear the Question and Answer session from the talk by Terence McKenna that we heard in my previous podcast. It begins with the question, "Can you talk about the relationship of advanced mathmatics to modeling of consciousness in layman's terms?". From there, Terence moves into thoughts about magic and his old favorite, language.
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180-McKenna: "Psychedelics: What Science Forgot"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Apr 15, 2009
In this wide-ranging talk, Terence McKenna ends on a high note saying: "We represent a kind of concrescence of universal intent. We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event."
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179-Leary: "Timothy Leary at Cornell - 1989"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Apr 09, 2009
This talk was given on April 23, 1989 by Dr. Timothy Leary at Cornell University. Among the other provocative things Dr. Leary has to say about religion (along many other topics) is: "No matter how crazy, fucked-up an individual can be, he can't be as fucked up as the Catholic Church."
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178-Leary+RAW "A random walk through two great minds"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Mar 31, 2009
In today's podcast I play three clips from the audio collection of the Timothy Leary archive. The first is a radio interview of Dr. Leary, and it is followed by an interview with Robert Anton Wilson for the same program a couple of days later. The last piece is the beginning of a talk that Timothy Leary gave at Cornell in 1984. In it, among the many other things Leary has to say is, "I have one cause, and that's the goal of the performing philosopher, is to encourage you, and inspire you, and empower you, to the extent I can, to Think for Yourself and Question Authority."
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177-McKenna: "Surfing Finnegan's Wake" Part 2
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Mar 26, 2009
This is the second half of McKenna's thoughts about James Joyce's novel, "Finnegan's Wake". But in a departure from where we left off in my previous podcast, Terence spins off on a tangent about Marshall McLuhan and ends with a rant about war and the evils of television. It's an interesting talk that could have been given yesterday for its relevance to our current state of affairs.
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176-McKenna: "Surfing Finnegan's Wake" Part 1
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Mar 19, 2009
This is part 1 of a talk given by Terence McKenna in which he deconstructs James Joyce's monumental novel, "Finnegan's Wake". Among other interesting observations McKenna makes is, "The reason I'm interested in it is because it's two things, clearly. 'Finnegan's Wake' is psychedelic, and it is apolyptic/eschatlogical."
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175-Leary: "The Intelligent Use of Psychedelic Drugs"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Mar 10, 2009
Today we hear once again from Dr. Timothy Leary. This lecture was given in 1982 and covers a wide range of material, including an interesting overview of the use of psychedelics throughout history. Along with other provocative thoughts, he says, "We represent the aristocratic, exploring elite of our species, and we always have."
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174-McKenna: "Pushing the Envelope"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Mar 06, 2009
Today's program includes two Terence McKenna pieces. The first is of a Question and Answer session that one of our listeners discovered at the end of a video tape. As far as we know, these 25 minutes are new to the Net.
The second talk is one that he gave at the Wetlands in New York on July 28, 1998. A wide range of topics are covered in these two talks, and the program notes with links to a transcript of the last talk may be found at: PsychedelicSalon (dot) org.
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173-Shulgin: "How I Go About Inventing New Drugs"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
This week's program features a lecture by the master chemist, Sasha Shulgin. This talk was given at the Psychoactivity Conference in Amsterdam on 4 October 1998. In it, Sasha explains in detail how he goes about conceiving of and then creating completely new psychoactive compounds.
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172-Mind States: "The State of LSD in 2003"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Feb 16, 2009
In today's program we hear from Earth & Fire Erowid, Ralph Metzner, Stan Grof, Nick Sand, and David Nichols who were on a panel at the Mind States Conference in 2003 where they discussed the psychoactive compound, LSD. This is a follow up of podcast #154 in which the presentations by Nick Sand and Myron Stolaroff on this panel were previously presented.
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171-Leary: "The Technology of Freedom"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Feb 05, 2009
In this 1981 talk by Dr. Timothy Leary, he speaks about freedom, and about the technology we can use to achieve it. Among some of his other more provocative statements, he says: "Prison is a luxury. Unfortunately it is wasted on people who don't know how to use it."
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170-Trialogue: "How the Web Looked Back in 1994"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jan 30, 2009
Today we hear what Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna, and Rupert Sheldrake were thinking about the World Wide Web at a time before it was yet two years old. Recorded in Hawaii sometime in 1994, this was a private trialogue (conversation) between the three of them in the garden at Terence's house on the Big Island of Hawaii. Fortunately for us they had the foresight to turn on a tape recorder that day.
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169-Krishnamurti: "Truth is a Dangerous Thing"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jan 23, 2009
This podcast is a collection of Krishnamurti sound bites taken from several of his videos currently available on YouTube. Among the many interesting ideas he presents, two could be of particular use to us at this moment in history, namely, his views about hope and faith.
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168-Trialogue: "What Hawaii Says About Evolution"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jan 16, 2009
Today's podcast is from a cassette tape recording made by Ralph Abraham during a private trialogue between Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, and himself. It was recorded sometime in 1994 on the Big Island in Hawaii, most likely at Terence McKenna's home there. Their conversation about evolution includes an interesting comparision between the island of Hawaii and the island in space called planet Earth.
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167-Leary: "Evolution of Intelligence"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Jan 06, 2009
Today's talk is from a 1983 lecture given in Boulder, Colorado by Dr. Timothy Leary. Among the many other provocative things he has to say in this lecture is, "If you want to increase your intelligence, if you want to evolve, and grow, and go through the changes, the many changes that are possible, at all costs avoid terminal adulthood."
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166-McKenna: "Psychedelic Dreams"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Dec 24, 2008
This is a continuation of the talk by Terence McKenna in my previous podcast. It is from a lecture he (or someone?) once called "Dream Awake". Among Terence's many other words of wisdom in this talk is his famous statement: "The biggest danger with psychedelics is that while you are in that open state some moron will mess with you."
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165-Various Speakers: "Beats, Hippies, and McKenna"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Dec 18, 2008
Today's program is a mash-up of a conference Q&A session of a panel that included Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and Abbie Hoffman. This short panel discussion is then followed by a talk by Terence McKenna where among other interesting things he says, "The global destiny of the [human] species is somehow unfolding with the logic of a dream."
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164-McKenna: "Some Thoughts About Ayahuasca"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Dec 08, 2008
In this talk, the bard Terence McKenna discusses some of his experiences in making and using the Vine. Among other things, he says, "[The ayahuasca experience] is is a self-generated, self-controlled immersion in a non-causal, parallel construct of some sort."
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163-Sententia: "Reality Syndromes & Cyberpunk Symptoms"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Nov 27, 2008
Today's talk comes from the 2003 Mind States Conference in Berkeley, California where Dr. Wrye Sententia speaks about some interesting aspects of consciousness and the reality it creates. Here is an example of one of Wrye's thought-provoking ideas"
"And the reason I mention the decade of the drug wars [in connection with cyberpunk fiction] is because there are a lot of overlays between altering your mind through drugs and altering your mind through technologies, hard technologies."
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162-Forte: "Cultural Healing"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Nov 18, 2008
In this talk, given at the 4th annual Amazonian Shamanism Conference in Iquitos, Peru, Robert Forte challenges the psychedelic community to wake up and believe their own eyes about the events of 9-11. Only then, he believes, can we begin to move in the direction of healing our world cultures that are now in such deep conflict.
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161-Trialogue: "Reality Check"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Nov 6, 2008
Today's podcast is from a trialogue between Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, and Terence McKenna sometime in 1992. In this extended conversation, they discuss the concept of utopias and where their work might fit in the history of utopian works. Among other items they discuss is the failed utopias of The Sixties.
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160-Leary: "The League for Spiritual Discovery"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Oct 28, 2008
In this January 1966 radio interview, Dr. Timothy Leary talks about his new religion, one whose sacrament is LSD. Among other provocative things he has to say is, "When the time comes, let your kids turn you on. That's my message to the middle-age, middle-class, whisky-drinking American suburban family."
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159-Forte-Shulgin: "Horizon's 2008-Perspectives on Psychedelics"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Oct 14, 2008
In this podcast, Lorenzo plays two selections from the talks given at the 2008 Horizon's Conference. The first is a talk given by Editor & Publisher Robert Forte, and the second is a question and answer session with Ann & Sasha Shulgin. More talks from this conference are available from The Internet Archive at www.archive.org/details/Horizons2008
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REMOVED 158-Wilson: "Increasing Human Life Span"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Oct 01, 2008
In this 1986 talk, author Robert Anton Wilson explores some of the issues surrounding human life expansion before moving on to discuss the future and how some conspiracy theories seem to have some substance to them.
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REMOVED 157-Wilson: "The Acceleration of Knowledge"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Sep 23, 2008
In this fascinating talk given sometime during the 1980s, Robert Anton Wilson paints a picture of an ever-increasing amount of information growing, and reverberating around the globe. And he draws some interesting conclusions about the importance of LSD and other psychedelic medicines.
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156-Fisher-Grob: "Treating Childhood Schizophrenia with Psychedelics"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Sep 10, 2008
In this program, Dr. Charles Grob (Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine and Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center) interviews Gary Fisher, Ph. D., about some experiments he conducted in the early 1960s. ... In addition to talking about the state of psychedelic research before prohibition closed down almost every study involving these non-patentable medicines, they discuss a previously unpublished paper Dr. Fisher wrote in which he detailed the results of his work giving LSD and psilocybin to severely emotionally disturbed children raging in age from 4 years 10 months to 12 years 11 months. ... The full report is available at www.MatrixMasters.com/GaryFisher
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155-Leary: "Some Thoughts About Change (1945-1985)"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Sep 01, 2008
Today's podcast once again features Dr. Timothy Leary. The label on the cassette tape on which this talk was recorded gives the title of this lecture as "American Culture (1945-1985)", but in the talk Dr. Leary provides us with another title, "Some thoughts about change". No matter what you call this talk, the range of topics it covers means it is bound to touch on at least one of your interests.
Program notes may be found at: www.PsychedelicSalon.org
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154-Sand-Stolaroff: "Mind States 2003 LSD Panel"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Aug 25, 2008
The legendary alchemist who created Orange Sunshine in the 60's, Nick Sand, and psychedelic pioneer, Myron Stolaroff, are featured in today's program. Nick talks about alchemy and LSD, and Myron speakes to the spiritual heights that may be reached through a careful balance of meditation and LSD.
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153-Wilson: "Consciousness Change and the 8-Circuit Model"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Aug 18, 2008
Today's podcast features an interview with the brilliant Robert Anton Wilson who offers a suggestion for an elightenment exercise that you can do at home among other interesting ideas. He also speaks openly about his use of psydhecelics and his view of their importance.
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152-Leary: "Question Authority and Think for Yourself"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Aug 11, 2008
In this 1987 talk, Dr. Timothy Leary, once called the High Priest of The Sixties, gives a Fort Worth, Texas audience a few ideas about how to challenge the status quo. Even though this talk was given over 20 years ago, it still holds up today.
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151-McKenna: "Posthumus Glory"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Aug 04, 2008
In today's podcast we hear selections from Terence McKenna's last two presentations at the AlChemical Arts Conference held on the big island of Hawaii in September 1999, just seven months before his untimely death.
Among other little gems you will hear in these talks are how Terence was dealing with his final illness and a farewell thank you to the psychedelic community. Also included is part of a panel discussion that Terence and Tom Robbins held in which they discussed psychedelic literature.
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150-McKenna: "UFOs"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Jul 28, 2008
In a talk given at a convention of UFO enthusiasts, Terence McKenna tells the audience to save their time looking to the skys, because the aliens are already among us.
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149-Trilogue: "The Heavens"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jul 18, 2008
In today's program, Rupert Sheldrake begins the conversation by examining the history of the sterilization of the cosmos into a mechanistic machine. Then he goes on to invite speculation by Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham as to the possibility of stars having consciousness. All-in-all, this trialogue provides an interesting history of how humans have viewed the cosmos over the ages.
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148-Chopra: "Grand Rounds-Psychedelic Psychotherapy"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Jul 14, 2008
In today's podcast Dr. Preet Chopra talks about psychedelic psychotherapy in his grand rounds at a California hospital. Besides bringing us up to date on the psilocybin research project he is involved in, Dr. Chopra gives us some idea of the direction psychotherapy is taking in regards to psychedelic medicines.
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147-Wilson: "TSOG and Conspiracies"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sun, Jul 06, 2008
Today's program features two interviews with Robert Anton Wilson. The first one features his book "Everything Is Under Control" and the second covers conspiracy theories and his book "TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution".
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146-McKenna: "The Importance of Human Beings"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sun, Jun 29, 2008
In this lecture (originally titled "Eros to Eschaton") Terence McKenna says, "If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance." And from that foundation he goes on to claim that we humans "are the main event".
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145-Leary: "Live at the Inside Edge"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Jun 21, 2008
This is a talk given by Dr. Timothy Leary sometime late in 1991 or in 1992 at The Inside Edge in Orange County, California. Among the challenging ideas Dr. Leary presented was his thought that: "As soon as you belong to a system where you're not known individually, and where you don't know, individually, the other people, you are by definition depersonalizing yourself, a robot cog of the Big Machine."
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144-Huxley: "The Ultimate Revolution"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wue, Jun 10, 2008
In this 1962 talk, Aldous Huxley examines the possibility that events he wrote about in his novel, "Brave New World", are actually coming to pass. In this lecture, titled "The Ultimate Revolution" he also talks about terrorism, state terrorism.
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143-Trialogue: "Rethinking Society"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Jun 07, 2008
In this 1992 trialogue, Terence McKenna sets the stage with Ralph Abraham and Rupert Sheldrake by talking about the power of images and the need for society to begin a serious discussion about how to make it more liveable. This talk has a lot of unexpected twists and turns along with a few laughs as well.
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142-Leary: "The Creation of the Future"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, May 30, 2008
In this 1980 talk by Dr. Timothy Leary he recommends turning the reins of power to the young, and he makes a surprising suggestion about the proper age at which voting rights should be bestowed on our citizens.
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141-Trialogue: "Contemplating a Visual Psychedelic Language"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, May 23, 2008
In this 1992 Trialogue, Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna, and Rupert Sheldrake discuss the necessity of evolving language beyond words and text into a more condensed art form in order to better discuss psychedelic experiences.
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140-Grey: "Psychedelic Families" and Abraham "Psychedelics and Mathematical Vision"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, May 15, 2008
In this podcast you will hear two presentations. The first is a talk given by Allyson and Alex Grey at the World Psychedelic Froum held in Basel, Switzerland in March of 2008 in which they discuss the difficult issue of educating our children about psychedelics. Next we hear the introduction to a 1992 trialogue in which Ralph Abraham describes the history of psychedelic involvement with the math and computer revolutions of the 1960s.
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139-Damer: "Is the Universe Waking Up"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, May 09, 2008
In this podcast we hear Bruce Damer first at the Mind States conference in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2006 and then again in a more intimate setting in April 2008. His topics include views of the big picture of the universe possibly becoming aware of itself down to the world of today in which we may be frying our brains with too much time in front of our computers.
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138-Shulgin: "The Shulgins at Mind States 2005"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Apr 30, 2008
In this "Ask the Shulgins" session, in addition to some interesting chemistry questions, we learn more detail about the process Sasha uses to develop a new psychoactive substance. And Ann adds many soothing answers to some pressing questions.
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137-Leary: "Creation of the Future”
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Apr 21, 2008
In this 1979 talk, Dr. Timothy Leary sets out a rather unique view of what today might be called "intelligent design", but with a Tim Leary twist, of course.
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136-McKenna: "A Few Conclusions About Life"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Apr 14, 2008
In today's podcast we hear once again from the bard Terence McKenna, who at the ripe old age of 50 has come to a few conclusions about life.
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135-Mountain Girl: "The Pranksters, the Dead, and the Sixties"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Apr 05, 2008
In today's podcast we hear Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia's talk at the World Psydhecelid Formu in Basel, Switzerland during March of 2008. In it she recaps some of the highlights of her life as a Merry Prankster and as one of the cornerstones of The Greatful Dead.
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134-Pinchbeck: "A Playalogue about Sex and Social Control, Tantra and Liberation"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Apr 02, 2008
In today's podcast we join Daniel Pinchbeck for the playalogue he conducted at the 2007 Burning Man Festival. As part of the Palenque Norte lecture series, Daniel led a conversation about human sexual relations during a period of transformation between two ages. And later we hear Matt Pallamary's definition of shamanism.
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133-Leary: "The CyberSociety"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Mar 27, 2008
In this 1987 talk, Dr. Timothy Leary talks about the progression of technology that has brought humans to a new plateau of consciousness. And we also hear a personal, 1995 message from Eldridge Cleaver to Timothy Leary on a rather surprising subject.
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132-McKenna: "Shamanism" and Pallamary: "Spirit Matters"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Mar 21, 2008
In the first part of this podcast Terence McKenna gives us a few of his thoughts about shamanism. Also we hear from author Matt Pallamary, whose new memoir, "Spirit Matters" has just been published.
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131-Danforth: "Building a Model for Sustainable Psychedelic Therapy"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Mar 11, 2008
In today's program we hear the Playalogue led by Alicia Danforth at the 2007 Burning Man Festival. Along with input from the audience, Alicia covers many of the possibilities for continuing this important work.
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130-Leary: 1966 Radio Interview
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Mar 05, 2008
In this podcast we feature a radio interview of Dr. Timothy Leary conducted by the infamous conservative talk show host, Alan Burke, who did his best to abuse and discredit Dr. Leary. It is truly a sign of the 1960s panic about the interest young people were showing in LSD.
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129-Davis: "The Imagination and the Environment"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Feb 29, 2008
In this podcast we hear Erik Davis' 2007 Burning Man Playalogue in which a wide range of topics are discussed, including the environmental impact of festivals like Burning Man.
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128-McKenna: "The State of the Stone"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Feb 20, 2008
In this 1995 talk, Terence McKenna gives one of his more hopeful talks about love and the state of humanity at the end of the millenium.
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127-Leary: "How To Use Your Head"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Feb 13, 2008
This podcasat features Dr. Timothy Leary in his famous Cooper Union address when he told the American public about a chemical called LSD. Delivered in November 1964, this talk was one of the opening salvos of the cultural revolution of the Sixties.
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126-Trialogue: "Psychedelics and the Computer Revolution"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jan 30, 2008
In this 1991 conversation, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake discuss the impact of psychedelics and computers on culture.
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125-Trialogue: "Crop Circles"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jan 25, 2008
In this private trialogue Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna discuss various theories about the phenomenon of crop circles. This conversation took place in September 1991.
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124-Trialogue: "Cannabis"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jan 18, 2008
In this trialogue, recorded in September 1991 at a private session with Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake, they discuss the amazing properties and benefits of one of the planet's most universal medicines.
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123-McKenna: "Opening the Doors of Creativity"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sun, Jan 13, 2008
Terence McKenna talks about the shaman/artist, language and creativity.
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122-Trialogue: "Saving the World"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Dec 19, 2007
Recorded on September 2, 1991, this is the second tape of a conversation between biologist Rupert Sheldrake, mathematician Ralph Abraham, and psychedelic explorer Terence McKenna.
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121-Trialogue: "Grass Roots Science"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Dec 14, 2007
Recorded on September 2, 1991, this conversation between biologist Rupert Sheldrake, mathematician Ralph Abraham, and psychedelic explorer Terence McKenna seems to have been recorded in private (without an audience).
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120-Lorenzo: "Notes to Myself"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sun, Dec 09, 2007
Lorenzo muses on what it means to live a psychedelic life, and he is joined by several of his musician friends along with a brief sound bite from Terence McKenna.
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119-McKenna: "A Crisis of Consciousness"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Dec 07, 2007
In this talk by Terence McKenna, among other things, he says, "It is a crisis in consciousness which confronts us globally. Consciousness is the commodity that if we do not have enough of it, do not produce it fast enough, then the momentum of the processes we set in motion in our ignorance is going to sterilize the planet and do us all in."
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118-Ramachandran: "What Neurology Can Tell Us About Human Nature, Synesthesia and Art"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Dec 03, 2007
In this program neurologist Dr. V.S. Ramachandran talks about various ways in which brain structure can influence various forms of human behaviour, including the artistic impulse.
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117-McKenna: "The Importance of Psychedelics"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Nov 29, 2007
In this lecture, Terence McKenna talks about the tragic situation we humans have placed ourselves in, and ways in which the boundry dissolution effects of psychedelic medicines can possibly save our species from what appears to be a certain extinction. . . . "What the psychedelic experience does, really, is it stretches the envelope of the imaginable."
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116-McKenna-Pesce: "TechnoPagans at the End of History"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Nov 21, 2007
This is the introduction to a workshop given by Terence McKenna and Mark Pesce at Easlen in August 1998. In it, they discuss virtual reality and psychedelic medicines among other things.
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115-Pesce: "Bios and Logos"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Nov 13, 2007
In this talk that was delivered at the 2002 Mind States Conference held in Jamaica, Mark Pesce discusses, among other things, the technological singularity, DNA, and nanotechnology and how they relate to the ongoing evolution of our species.
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114-McKenna: "Psychedelic Society"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Nov 03, 2007
In this talk given in 1984, Terence McKenna describes his vision of a society based on psychedelic thinking. This is the talk that eventually evolved into his famous essay with the same title.
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113-McKanna: "Syntax of Psychedelic Time"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Oct 31, 2007
This is a continuation of a lecture by Terence McKenna that was given in July 1983. Also, Lorenzo talks about the firestorm that recently ravaged San Diego.
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112-McKenna: "Psychedelic Ideas"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Oct 20, 2007
Terence McKenna talks about the I Ching, his Timewave Zero hypothesis, and other esoteric concepts in what he calls a "think-along lecture" that was perhaps given sometime in 1983. . . . And Lorenzo reads some email from a few of the regular listeners to these podcasts.
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111-Leaf: "Establishing a Tribal Land Base"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Oct 10, 2007
This is a Palenque Norte playalogue that was moderated by Seabrook Leaf at the 2007 Burning Man festival. In this far-ranging conversation the concept of tribe is explored. Also, there are several stories about both successful and unsuccessful intentional communities.
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110-Trialogue: Hazelwwood House (Part 4)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Oct 04, 2007
In this final installment of the Hazelwood House trialogues, Ralph Abraham begins talking about "Fractals on my mind, an epic in four parts". He is then joined by Terence McKenna and Rupert Sheldrake in a discussion of ways in which mathematics impacts metaphysical thinking.
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109-Trialogue: Hazelwwood House (Part 3)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Sep 26, 2007
In part three of the Hazelwood House trialogues, Terence McKenna covers a wide range of topics with thoughts like, "That's what life is. It's a chemical strategy for the conquest of dimensionality."
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108-Trialogue: Hazelwwood House (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Sep 22, 2007
In this trialogue, which was the first held outside of California, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake talk about language, time, and what they mean by 'eschaton'. . . . This is part two of a four part trialogue.
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107-Trialogue: Hazelwood House (Part1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Sep 19, 2007
In their first trialogue held outside of California, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake begin this session by telling us what they think about one another. Then Rupert Sheldrake challenges Terence and Ralph to speculate on the as yet unknown physical principle underlying the ability of homing pigeons to return to their roosts. . . . This is part 1 of a four part trialogue.
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106-Damer: "The Ultimate Revelation: How Rare We Are in the Universe"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Sep 13, 2007
In this 2007 Burning Man Playalogue sponsored by Palenque Norte, futurist Bruce Damer leads a community discussion about how rare life appears to be in the universe. And he has a few suggestions about what we might want to do about it.
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105-Ameringo: "My Life as a Shaman and Artist"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Aug 22, 2007
The artist whose ayahuasca visions have inspired fans all over the world, Pablo Ameringo, is the guest lecturer in this podcast. Here he talks about his early life, and why he decided to take the path of the plants. Then he tells us what the plants have been saying to him lately. . . . At the end of the program, Lorenzo announces the schedule for the first ever Palenque Norte Playalogues, which will be held at the Burning Man Art Festival this year.
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104-Blackmore: "Consciousness Isn't What It Seems To Be"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Aug 04, 2007
This program includes Susan's ground-breaking talk, "The Grand Illusion of Consciousness" given at the Mind States IV conference held in Berkeley, California on the last weekend in May, 2003. . . . Also in this program, Lorenzo explains, for the first time, the concept of the Playalogue.
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103-Weil: "Psychoactive Drugs Through Human History
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jul 25, 2007
This program includes a talk given by Dr. Andrew Weil at the Psychedelics and Spirituality conference that was held in Santa Barbara, California sometime in May 1983.
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102-McKenna: "Build Your Own Damn Wagon"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jul 20, 2007
In this 1994 Esalen appearance, Terence McKenna talks about "Laws and Freedom, Habits and Novelty" among other things.
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101-Lorenzo: "Ayahuasca Adventure"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jul 13, 2007
Lorenzo interviews fellow Psychedelic Saloner, James, about a recent trip he made to the Amazon where he experienced ayahuasca for the first time.
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100-Shulgin-McKenna: "Psychedelics and Spirituality Conference - 1983" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Jul 03, 2007
This program includes the complete talks given by Sasha Shulgin and Terence McKenna at the legendary "Psychedelics and Spirituality" conference that was held in Santa Barbara, Califormia in May 1983.
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099-Various: "Controlling Culture" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jun 29, 2007
At the Mind States Conference held at Berkeley, CA in May, 2003, a panel discussion was held on the topic of ways our culture is being controlled by the government. This program features the statements of three of the panelists, Ricard Glen Boire, Erik Davis, and John Gilmore.
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098-Fisher: "Psychedelic Research in the 1960s" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Jun 18, 2007
This is the second part of a conversation Lorenzo had with psychedelic research pioneer, Gary Fisher, Ph.D. In this program Gary talks about extraterrestials, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, and more.
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097-Fisher: "Psychedelic Research in the 1960s" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sun, Jun 10, 2007
This is the first part of a conversation Lorenzo had with psychedelic research pioneer, Gary Fisher, Ph.D. In this program Gary talks about his work with the severely emotionally disturbed children he treated with LSD and psilocybin.
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096-Grob: "Psychedelic Research, MDMA Safety Issues, and more"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jun 08, 2007
Lorenzo and Charlie Grob talk about the nuts and bolts of psychedelic research, safety issues involved with MDMA (ecstasy) use, and the successful alcoholism treatment using LSD that was perfected by early Canadian researchers.
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095-Hanna: "Energy Drinks . . . and more"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, May 30, 2007
In this program Lorenzo has a long conversation with psychedelic entrepreneur Jon Hanna, writer, editor, lecturer, and producer of the Mind States conferences.
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094-Trialogue: "Morphogenic Family Fields" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, May 25, 2007
Part two of a trialogue held on June 8, 1998 at Santa Cruz, CA, where Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake explored Rupert's concept of a morphogenic family field.
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093-Trialogue: "Morphogenic Family Fields" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, May 19, 2007
Part one of a trialogue held on June 8, 1998 at Santa Cruz, CA, where Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake explored Rupert's concept of a morphogenic family field.
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092-Stolaroff: "Lone Pine Stories" (Part 3)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, May 09, 2007
Lorenzo has a conversation with Myron Stolaroff at his hime in Lone Pine, California, where they discuss Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Leo Zeff (the Secret Chief) and the importance of psychedelic medicines in the evolution of human consciousness.
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091-Trialogue: "Skepticism and the Balkanization of Epistemology" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, May 05, 2007
Part two of a trialogue held on June 8, 1998 at Santa Cruz, CA, where Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake explored the "fluff factor" and what degree of healthy skepticism is required these days.
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090-Trialogue: "Skepticism and the Balkanization of Epistemology" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, May 02, 2007
In this trialogue held on June 8, 1998 at Santa Cruz, CA, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake explored the "fluff factor" and what degree of healthy skepticism is required these days.
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089-Pallamary: "Ayahuasca: Diet, Rituals, and Powers"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Apr 26, 2007
This is an interview Lorenzo did with Matt Pallamary about the topic of ayahuasca. Included in their conversation is a discussion of the recommended ayahuasca diet, ritual ways in which the medicine is used, and its potential for personal transformation.
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088-Chopra: "Report on Psilocybin Study"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Apr 19, 2007
At the 2006 Burning Man festival, Dr. Preet Chopra gave a Palenque Norte lecture in which he reported on the progress of a study being conducted at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. This is a podcast of that lecture where you will hear how psychiatrists are treating people suffering from end-stage cancer and suffering from anxiety with an experimental protocol that includes using psilocybin, the active ingredient of magic mushrooms.
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087-Greer: "MDMA Before Ecstasy"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Apr 10, 2007
From 1980 to 1985, Dr. George Greer and his wife/Nurse-assistant, Requa Tolbert administered MDMA over 100 times to 80 people as part of his clinical psychiatric practice. According to the Heffter Research Institute, of which George is the Medial Director, George and Requa's review of their work remains the largest published study of the therapeutic use of MDMA. In this podcast we join George and Requa for their 2006 Palenque Norte lecture at Burning Man, where they discussed their earlier work.
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086-Mithoefer: "MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Apr 04, 2007
Dr. Michael Mithoefer talks about the progress he has made in his study of MDMA (Ecstasy) as an aid in the treatment of PTSD. This talk was given as a part of the MAPS/Palenque Norte lectures at the 2006 Burning Man festival.
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085-Damer: "The Great Project of the Universe"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Mar 29, 2007
Bruce Damer, in a talk given at the Mind States conference in Oaxaca, Mexico during 2004 talks about Terence McKenna and speculates about why the universe has evolved us humans.
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084-Stolaroff: "Lone Pine Stories" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Mar 23, 2007
Myron Stolaroff tells Lorenzo some stories about Al Hubbard, Duncan Blewett, Timothy Leary and others in a twilight conversation at the Stolaroff's home in the high desert.
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083-Stolaroff: "Lone Pine Stories" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Mar 15, 2007
Jean and Myron Stolaroff have a conversation with Lorenzo about their pioneering work with psychedelic medicines.
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082-Trialogue Mini Version
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Mar 09, 2007
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from an undated tape that was simply labeled "trialogue-mini".
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081-Siebert: "Salvia Divinorum"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Feb 28, 2007
Curator of the famous Web site, SageWisdom.org, Daniel Siebert and Lorenzo have a conversation about Salvia divinorum.
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080-Pallamary: "Adventures of an Urban Shaman"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Feb 22, 2007
Author and student of shamanism, Matt Palamary is interviewed by Lorenzo.
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079-Feilding-Pesce: Palenque Norte 2006 Lectures
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Feb 15, 2007
Guest speakers are Amanda Feilding and Mark Pesce who are heard giving their 2006 Palenque Norte lectures at the Burning Man festival.
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078-Trialogue: "The Apocalypse" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Feb 08, 2007
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 10, side B (The Apocalypse) of the first series.
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077-Trialogue: "The Apocalypse" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jan 31, 2007
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 10, side A (The Apocalypse) of the first series.
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076-Trialogue: "Education in the New World Order" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jan 26, 2007
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 9, side B (Education in the New World Order) of the first series.
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075-Trialogue: "Education in the New World Order" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jan 17, 2007
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 9, side A (Education in the New World Order) of the first series.
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074-Trialogue: "The Resacularization of the World" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jan 12, 2007
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 8, side B (The Resacularization of the World) of the first series.
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073-Trialogue: "The Resacularization of the World" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jan 10, 2007
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 8, side A (The Resacularization of the World) of the first series.
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072-Trialogue: "The Unconscious" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Jan 06, 2007
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 7, side B (The Unconscious) of the first series.
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071-Trialogue: "The Unconscious" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Jan 04, 2007
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 7, side A (The Unconscious) of the first series.
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070-Trialogue: "Entities" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Dec 29, 2006
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 6, side B (Entities) of the first series.
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069-Trialogue: "Entities" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Dec 28, 2006
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 6, side A (Entities) of the first series.
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068-Trialogue: "Light and Vision" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sun, Dec 24, 2006
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 5, side B (Light and Vision) of the first series.
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067-Trialogue: "Light and Vision" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Dec 21, 2006
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 5, side A (Light and Vision) of the first series.
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066-Trialogue: "Chaos and Imagination" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Dec 18, 2006
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 3, side B (Chaos and Imagination) of the first series.
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065-Trialogue: "Chaos and Imagination" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Dec 15, 2006
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 3, side A (Chaos and Imagination) of the first series.
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064-Norberg: "Confessions of a Dope Dealer"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Dec 14, 2006
A phone interview with Sheldon Norberg in which he talks about his former life, beginning in junior high school, when he was a dope dealer.
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063-Trialogue: "Creativity and Chaos" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Dec 12, 2006
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 2, side B (Creativity and Chaos) of the first series.
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062-Trialogue: "Creativity and Chaos" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Dec 08, 2006
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 2, side A (Creativity and Chaos) of the first series.
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061-Trialogue: "Creativity and Imagination" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Dec 06, 2006
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 1, side B of the first series.
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060-Stloaroff: "The Future of Human Consciousness"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Dec 05, 2006
This program features a talk given by Myron Stolaroff in Basil, Switzerland at the January 2006 celebration of Dr. Albert Hofmann's 100th birthday.
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059-Trialogue: "Creativity and Imagination" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Dec 01, 2006
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from tape 1, side A of the first series.
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058-Trialogue-: "Cast of Characters"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Nov 28, 2006
Between 1989 and 1998, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake conducted a series of trialogues on a wide range of topics. This program is from the introductory tape in the first series and sets the scene for all of the trialogues that will follow.
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057-Pinchbeck: "Aliens, Elementals, and the Daimonic Realm"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Nov 27, 2006
Here is Daniel Pinchbeck speaking at the Oracle Gathering in Seattle at the end of October 2006 where he discussed "meeting the other". In this presentation he asks, are the entities met in aliens abductions, fairy stories, and psychedelic visions actual "others" or projected aspects of our own psyche? How can we understand and articulate these encounters in a meaningful way?
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056-Lorenzo: "The Other Side of 2012"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Nov 14, 2006
This is a talk that Lorenzo gave at an Oracle Gathering in Seattle at the end of October 2006. In it he discusses three possible approaches to the 2012 meme: Muddling along, waiting for a mystical/magical transformation, or taking charge of your own life and planning for a personal change even though no major external events occur.
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055-Pendell: "Horizon Anarchism"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Nov 07, 2006
In his 2006 Palenque Norte lecture at Burning Man, Dale Pendell introduced the concept of Horizon Anarchism, and we are fortunate to be able to present this talk in its entirity in this edition of the Psychedelic Salon. If you think you know everyting there is to know about anarchism, you owe it to yourself to hear Dale's talk about this interesting new approach. One of my favorite soundbites is "Isolation is one of the keys of state power. So it is very important for us to get together and have fun."
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054-Sand: "Synergistic Combinations in the Future"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Oct 23, 2006
In his 2006 Palenque Norte lecture at Burning Man, Nick Sand explains how best to use some of the more interesting combinations of sacred medicines. Additionally he answered a wide range of questions that included such diverse topics as the relationship of the atomic bomb to LSD and the reasons he left the quiet life of academia to create Orange Sunshine, which was considered to be some of the best acid available in the 1960s.
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053-Shulgin: "Ask the Shulgins" (Burniong Man 2006)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Oct 10, 2006
This program features Ann and Sasha Shulgin in their 2006 appearance at Burning Man where they participated in the Palenque Norte lecture series with their ever-popular "Ask the Shulgins" question and answer session. . . . Also, Sasha describes how his first mescaline experience led to his future experiments with various compounds . . . and he warns about the unpredictability of these substances.
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052-Grey: "The Future of Visionary Art" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Oct 05, 2006
This is the second part of the Art Panel presentation for the Palenque Norte lectures at the 2006 Burning Man festival. This program consists of the remaining Q&A with the audience and Erik Davis' rap about the importance of visionary art.
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051-Grey: "The Future of Visionary Art" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Oct 03, 2006
This program is part one of the Art Panel presentation for the Palenque Norte lectures at the 2006 Burning Man festival. In this program Alex Grey talks about the purpose of visionary art, Allyson Grey explains her vision of personal sacred spaces, Martina Hoffmann advises us to not underestimate our own creativity, and Roberto Venosa describes the process of channeling energy from higher dimensions into visionary art.
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050-Pinchbeck: "Cancel the Apocalypse"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Sep 22, 2006
Daniel Pinchbeck brings us up to date with his current thinking about mythical cycles, the Mayan calendar, time as a quality, psychic evolution, and a wide range of other topics that he investigated while researching his new book, "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl". Among other things Daniel discusses in this, his 2006 Palenque Norte lecture at Burning Man, is "a massive upsurge in synchronicities" and "reality becoming more psychically malleable".
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049-Davis: "Pharmacology and the Posthuman Phuture"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Sep 20, 2006
In his inspiring 2006 Palenque Norte lecture at Burning Man, Erik Davis takes a peek at what the future may have in store for us. And contrary to so much of the doom and gloom we hear all around us these days, Erik's message is that there is much hope for humanity in the future. This talk is certainly thought-provoking and is not to be missed.
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048-Various: Palenque Norte 2006 Sampler
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Sep 12, 2006
This was the most ambitious schedule yet for the Palenque Norte lectures, 39 speakers in four days. Thanks to the good folks at Entheon Village who provided the facility, which was one of the largest tents on the playa this year, they took place without too many problems sneaking up on us. In this podcast you will hear sound bites from the talks given by Mark Pesce, Erik Davis, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alex Grey, Allyson Grey, and Nick Sand. In the weeks ahead, their complete presentations will be podcast for those of you who weren't able to make it to the burn this year.
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047-Damer: "The Day the Universe Becomes Conscious"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Aug 23, 2006
Terence McKenna once called Bruce Damer “a visionary's visionary,” and Bruce certainly lived up to that reputation in his 2003 Burning Man presentation. Combining subjects as diverse as evolution, psychedelic experiences, and physics, he builds a mental construct to rival Olaf Stapleton's classic work "Starmaker".
In addition to Bruce's ideas about a conscious universe, we were also treated to an interesting rap by his wife, Galen Brandt, as she explaines the lure of the Burning Man experience.
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046-Aisner "Reproducible Experiences on Different Entheogens"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Aug 12, 2006
RafaelO Aisner explains how to create reproducible experiences with MDMA, psilocybin, LSD, DMT, 5-MEO-DMT, 2CI, 2CB, 2CT7, 2CT2, and mescaline. This talk was originally given at the 2004 Palenque Norte lectures at Burning Man.
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045-Clark "Rave Culture And the End Of The World . . . . . . as we know it"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Jul 24, 2006
Fraser Clark returns to the Psychedelic Salon with a brilliant talk he gave as a guest lecturer at Stanford University. In his introduction to this podcast, Lorenzo calls this one of the most important programs we have heard so far in this series.
In this talk you're going to hear one off the most concise explanations of the evolution from beat to hippy to zippy to raver that you're probably ever going to hear.Adopting the philosophy of the rave culture, at least the way Fraser explains it in this talk, is perhaps our species' best hope for a sustainable, peaceful, and beautiful place to continue chugging along on our evolutionary path.
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044-Vanosky-Candelaria: “A Conversation About How Communities Come About”
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Jul 17, 2006
Ken Vanosky and Jerry Candelaria moderated the most interactive of the 2003 Palenque Norte conversations at Burning Man, and in this recording you will also hear from several members of the audience who added some significant thoughts of their own.
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043-Gilmore: "The Politics of Psychedelic Research"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jul 07, 2006
John Gilmore talks about the politics involved in legitimate psychedelic research at a conference in the Netherlands. What The Hack is an outdoor hacker conference/event that took place on a large event campground in the south of The Netherlands from 28 until 31 July 2005.
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042-Fadiman “Using Psychedelics for Rational Work”
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Jun 27, 2006
From the Mind States conference in 2003, James Fadiman gives an entertaining account of his early days in psychedelic research. Some of the early findings of his work will amaze you.
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041-Erowid: "Grassroots Peer Reviews of Psychedelic Information"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jun 21, 2006
Earth & Fire Erowid return to the Psychedelic Salon with a talk they gave at the 2002 Mind States conference that was held in Jamaica. In this presentation, Fire and Earth begin what has become an ongoing discussion among psychonaughts regarding ways in which to judge the validity of information in an age when information overload has become an everyday experience for many people.
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040-Aisner: "Psychedelogy: A Novel Paradigm of Self"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Jun 14, 2006
In this program, RafaelO Aisner, founder of the Rosetta Method School of Thought, explains his novel philosophical blend of Science, Mysticism, Psychology, Health, Urban-Shamanism and Empowerment.
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039-Various: Mind States 2005 Samples & Lorenzo
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Jun 06, 2006
Selections from talks given by Ann & Sasha Shulgin, Alex Grey, Dr. Rick Doblin, Dr. Julie Holland, and Dr. Charles Grob at the 2005 Mind States Converence. Also included is a talk by Lorenzo that recapitualtes his 2003 Mind States presentation.
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038-Zoe7: “Mind Machines, Entheogens, and the Expansion of Consciousness”
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sun, May 21, 2006
Zoe7 is a multi-dimensional synergy personality cluster who inhabits the body and mind of consciousness researcher, Joseph Marti. (The other five personalities are: Max McCullan, Ebhrious, Jiebro, Kzark Prestidius, and Lee Steel.) His book, "Into The Void Exploring Consciousness, Hyperspace and Beyond Using Brain Technology, Psychedelics and Altered-Mind States", depicts Marti’s experiments with mind machines, entheogens, and psychological time travel, how the Zoe7 cluster came to be, as well as new theories on parallel universes and probable Earths, the mechanics of reality and existence, and the mind of God.
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037-Sand: "Reflections on Imprisonment and Liberation as Aspects of Consciousness"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, May 17, 2006
Nick Sand, one of the original psychedelic guides from the Millbrook commune, alchemist, yogi, spiritual practitioner, and drug war victim, discusses the psychological states encountered as an underground chemist, a fugitive, and his five years in prison. The topics dealt with will be how attitude, intention, and time, reveal the reality of true inner freedom.
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036-McKenna: "In the Valley of Novelty" (Part 10)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, May 08, 2006
In this last of a ten part series, Terence McKenna closes this workshop with some thoughts about psychedelics as time machines, the forest of the Internet, the erotization of our technology, a form of circus called the DMT experience, and ending with some pracitical tools you can use to prepare for a psychydelic experience.
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035-McKenna "In the Valley of Novelty" (Part 9)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Apr 27, 2006
In just 50 minutes, Terence McKenna talks about how great cultures can lose their way, transforming machine-elves, the story of psychedelic psychotherapy, the Balkanization of epistemology, the UFO community as a social phenomenon, the role of psychedelics in the world corporate state, nanotechnology, time machines and the singularity. . . . See if you can keep up with this Niagara of ideas.
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034-McKenna: "In the Valley of Novelty" (Part 8)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Apr 17, 2006
Terence McKenna talks about: The evolution of art representing the human form, The impact of psilocybin on human sexuality, How to build a gravity bong, More thoughts on "the AI" being an obvious consequence of the Internet, Further discussion about the Timewave Theory, How his thoughts about the eschaton affect his daily life, Psychedelics and the end of your spiritual childhood.
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033-McKenna: "In the Valley of Novelty" (Part 7)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Apr 06, 2006
In this installment, Terence McKenna continues his discussion about schizophrenia, and then he goes on to discuss his involvement in the rave scene, the possibility of psychedelic mushrooms being messengers from an alien intelligence, culture as a conn, and a suggestion for reversing the destruction of our Earthly environment.
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032-McKenna: "In the Valley of Novelty" (Part 6)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sun, Apr 02, 2006
Terence McKenna talks about human/machine symbiosis, the Internet, evolution, teleology, and process schizophrenia among other things.
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031-McKenna: "In the Valley of Novelty" (Part 5)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Mar 21, 2006
This is the fifth program in a series of talks given by Terence McKenna in the summer of 1998. In addition to discussing the archaic revival, the importance of psychedelics at this moment in time, and similarities and differences between a mystical experience and a psychedelic experience he tells a few boyhood stories.
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030-McKenna: "In the Valley of Novelty" (Part 4)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Mar 15, 2006
Terence McKenna talks about his reasons for talking about psychedelics. He also talks about "the shaman and the world of Platonic ideals" and you will hear his rap on his perception of the psychedelic experience as a pure mathematical expression of hyperspace . . . it's a real trip!
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029-McKenna: "In the Valley of Novelty" (Part 3)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Feb 27, 2006
Terence McKenna discusses a wide range of topics including: Thoughts about 2012, the transcendental object at the end of time, and the origin of his timewave theory.
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028-McKenna: "In the Valley of Novelty" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Feb 14, 2006
Terence McKenna discusses a wide range of topics including: Psychedelics vs. Meditaion; Gnostic rocket fuel; Dealing with fear; The story of the Good Shit; and much more.
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027-McKenna: "In the Valley of Novelty" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Feb 04, 2006
Terence McKenna discusses a wide range of topics including: The timewave and recent plunges into novelty; The effects of DMT on the language portions of the brain; The most dangerous candy you can hand out; Art as the great searchlight that illuminates the future; and much more.
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026-Erowid: "The Role of Drug Geeks in Society"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jan 27, 2006
This is a talk given by Earth & Fire, the founders of the important Web stie Erowid.org. The talk was given at the 2002 Mind States Conference and includes the story of how Erowid came to be.
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025-Shulgin: "Sasha Shulgin Speaking About Cacti"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jan 20, 2006
This is a part of a talk given by Sasha Shulgin at the 2002 Mind States Conference in Jamaica. More information about Dr. Shulgin is available in the podcast section of the www.PalenqueNorte.org website.
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024-Grey: "The Art of Alex Grey"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Jan 12, 2006
Alex Grey, describes his journey as an artist through a description of some of his work. This talk took place at the Mind States conference in 2002. All of the paintings, drawings, and performance pieces he discusses in this presentation may be viewed on Alex Grey's personal Web site, www.alexgrey.com.
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023-Various: Mind States IV (2003) Sound Bites
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Dec 16, 2005
Samples from the 2003 Mind States conference that was held in Berkeley, California in May of that year. Included are sound bites from talks bySusan Blackmore, Richard Glen Boire, Earth & Fire Erowid, and Ralph Metzner.
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022-Shulgin: "Natural vs. Synthetic Psychedelic Chemicals"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Nov 17, 2005
A talk by Sasha Shulgin at the 2002 Mind States conference in Jamaica.
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021-Shulgin: "Psychedelic Psychotherapy and the Shadow"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Nov 10, 2005
A talk by Ann Shulgin about the significant work that was done by therapists who were using MDMA as a tool in their work, which was done before the government classified MDMA as having no medical use.
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020-McKenna-Abraham: "Q and A about the Web and the Millennium"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Nov 03, 2005
The question and answer session after a dialogue between Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham in August 1998.
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019-McKenna-Abraham:: "The World Wide Web and the Millennium"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Oct 27, 2005
A dialogue between Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham at Omega Institute on August 1, 1998.
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018-Davis: "Visionary Art/Visionary Design"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Oct 20, 2005
A talk given by Erik Davis at the MAPS/Palenque Norte Lectures during the Burning Man festival in 2005.
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017-Pinchbeck: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dimensional Shift"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Oct 13, 2005
A talk given by Daniel Pinchbeck at the MAPS/Palenque Norte Lectures during the Burning Man festival in 2005.
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016-Clark: "Monkey's Trip, A Short History of the Human Species"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Oct 06, 2005
A story about reversing the Big Lie . . . The true story of Monkey's Marvelous Trip from the African Jungle to Inner and Outer Space by Fraser Clark.
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015-Fisher: "Treating Childhood Schizophrenia With LSD and Psilocybin"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Sep 29, 2005
A conversation with psychedelic research pioneer, Gary Fisher, Ph.D., about some of his early work with seriously ill children.
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014-Various: "Medical Marijuana On The Offensive"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Sep 22, 2005
Dr. Rick Doblin and others discuss the latest news in the struggle to gain approval for cannabis as a legitimate medicine in the U.S. And the story of activist Steve McWilliams is also told.
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013-Grob: "Cancer Anxiety Study Tests Psilocybin"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Sep 15, 2005
This is a talk Dr. Charles Grob gave in July 2005. The topic was his current FDA-approved research project using the active ingredient from "magic mushrooms" to treat anxiety in cancer patients.
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012-Räetsch: "Witches Ointments and Aphrodisiacs"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Sep 08, 2005
A talk given by Christian Raetsch near Palenque, Mexico. The subject is the myths, plants, and recipies involved in witches ointments and aphrodisiacs.
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011-McKenna: "Culture and ideology are not your friends"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu, Aug 04, 2005
This is a talk given by Terence McKenna given in April 1999. Topics include: "The struggle between novelty and habit." and "Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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010-Räetsch: "What the Lacandón people know and think about Palenque"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed, Aug 03, 2005
A talk given by Christian Räetsch that the Mayan ruins near Plaenque, Mexico in January 2001.
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009-Brownstein: "Waking Up from the American Dream"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Jun 18, 2005
A Palenque Norte lecture by poet and novelist Michael Brownstein at the 2004 Bunring Man festival.
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008-Grey: "Art, Love, Family, and Psychedelics" (Part 2)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jun 17, 2005
Part 2 of a Palenque Norte lecture given by Zena, Allyson, and Alex Grey at Burning Man 2003.
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007-Grey: "Art, Love, Family, and Psychedelics" (Part 1)
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Thu Jun 16, 2005
Part 1 of a Palenque Norte lecture given by Zena, Allyson, and Alex Grey at Burning Man 2003.
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006-Hanna: "Drug-Inspired Metaphysical Concepts"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Wed Jun 15, 2005
A Palenque Norte lecture given by Jon Hanna at the Palenque Norte lectures during the 2003 Burning Man festival.
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005-Doblin: "Psychedelics and Marijuana: Therapy, Recreation, & Politics"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Tue, Jun 14, 2005
A Palenque Norte lecture given by MAPS.org founder and president, Dr. Rick Doblin, at the 2004 Palenque Norte lectures at Burning Man.
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004-Pinchbeck: "2012: A Change in How We Experience Time"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Mon, Jun 13, 2005
A Palenque Norte lecture given by Daniel Pinchbeck at the Palenque Norte theme camp during Burning Man 2003.
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003-Davis: "The Cults of Burning Man"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sun, Jun 12, 2005
A Palenque Norte lecture given by Erik Davis at the Palenque Norte theme camp at Burning Man in 2003.
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002-McKenna: "Linear Societies and Nonlinear Drugs"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Sat, Jun 11, 2005
A talk given by Terence McKenna in Palenque, Mexico during January 1999.
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001-Lorenzo: "Psychedelic Thinking"
hagerty@matrixmasters.com (Lorenzo)Author: Lorenzo
Fri, Jun 10, 2005
A talk given by Lorenzo Hagerty in Berkeley, California near the end of May 2001 at the Mind States II conference.
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