Psychedelic Salon

Psychedelic Salon

784 episodes

Since 2005, Lorenzo Hagerty has been podcasting interviews and talks concerning the use and benefits of psychoactive plants and chemicals, both in their natural settings and in medical research institutions. Past speakers include Sasha Shulgin, Annie Oak, Rick Doblin, Daniel Pinchbeck, Shonagh Home, Bruce Damer, Aldous Huxley and others. And there have been over 200 programs featuring talks by Terence McKenna. Also interviews with several of the now long gone elders, such as Gary Fisher, Myron Stolaroff, and Al Hubbard have also been featured.

Podcast 384 – “Sex, Aging, and Psychedelics”

Jan, 07, 2014
Guest speaker: Annie OakPROGRAM NOTES:Today we feature a Palenque Norte Lecture given by Annie Oak at the 2013 Burning Man Festival. This ground breaking founder of the Woman's Visionary Congress continues to push the envelope of psychedelic discussion into two of the most important issues of all to...

Podcast 383 – “A Psychedelic Point of View”

Dec, 27, 2013
Guest speakers: Terence McKenna & Edward SnowdenPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“Everything flows. Nothing lasts.”“Language is like an informational creature of some sort.”“This problem of language is central, I think, to understanding the psychedelic...

Podcast 382 – “The Psychedelic Option”

Dec, 16, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“And now the task changes. It's a completely different kind of spiritual universe that you live in after you found the answer, because the task becomes facing the answer. Facing it!”“What we call history...

Podcast 381 – “A Stiff Dose of Psychedelics”

Dec, 10, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“[It is] a race between education and disaster."We're going to either burst out into a millennium of freedom and caring and decency, or we're going to toxify the whole thing and turn it into an ash heap. And...

Podcast 380 – “Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate”

Nov, 27, 2013
Guest speaker: Lorenzo HagertyPROGRAM NOTES:This relatively short podcast features the audio portion of a film by Tom Huckabee and George Wada in conjunction with “The Starck Project”, a documentary soon to be released. The short film consists primarily of an interview with Lorenzo Hagerty...

Podcast 379 – “Divine Androgyny”

Nov, 27, 2013
Guest speaker: Jae StarfoxPROGRAM NOTES:This podcast features Jae Starfox's 2013 Palenque Norte Lecture, which was delivered at the Burning Man Festival. In their talk, Jae provides a candid look into some of the issues that transgender people are faced with as they make their way through a...

Podcast 378 – “A Psychedelic Point of View”

Nov, 18, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“A psychedelic point of view means a point of view which honors consciousness.”“You do not measure the depth of a universal mystery with the neural network of a primate.”“Our role is not to understand...

Podcast 377 – “An Ecology of Souls”

Nov, 16, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“In the matter of deeper things, deductive reasoning rests only on the appeal that hope can lend to its case.”“In the felt domain of experience called 'living', intuition is how most of us, even the most...

Podcast 376 – “Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet”

Nov, 06, 2013
We were saddened to learn of the untimely death of Daniel Jabbour on April 13, 2014.Celebrating The Life Of Daniel Jabbour: An Intersection Of Psychedelics, Activism And TechnologyA transcript of this podcast is being created at...

Podcast 375 – “Story Time with Ken Adams”

Oct, 29, 2013
Guest speaker: Ken AdamsPROGRAM NOTES:Today we get to hear another of the Palenque Norte Lectures that were held at the 2013 Burning Man Festival. This talk features the artist, experimental film maker, micro-publisher, and media developer, Ken Adams, who for many years was a close friend and...

Podcast 374 – “Bootstrapping Ourselves”

Oct, 24, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“Ego is the absolute impediment to Tao.”“We live in a domain of triviality that we have created.”“Do we embody the radiant correctness of what we say we are pursuing.”“I see the psychedelic...

Podcast 373 – “Thoughts About Gnosticism, Art, and Music”

Oct, 18, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennnaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“A single chemist can produce ten million hits [of LSD]. Well this is not some guy getting rich, this is about changing history, when you're talking about ten million consciousness-expanding...

Podcast 372 – “The Intentionality of Meaning”

Oct, 08, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.”“Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological...

Podcast 371 – “Civil Rights In Cyberspace”

Oct, 02, 2013
Guest speaker: John GilmorePROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by John Gilmore.]“Marijuana, it turns out, is three-quarters of the illegal drug problem, because it's three times as popular as all the other drugs put together. So if you can move marijuana out of the black market and into a...

Podcast 370 – “Modeling Human History”

Sep, 30, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.”“Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental...

Podcast 369 – “Timothy & Terence”

Sep, 17, 2013
Guest speakers: Timothy Leary & Terence McKennaInvitation to the opening of the Timoty Leary Archive at the New York Library. (Held on the second anniversary of the Occupy Movement.) :-)PROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“I know that I wouldn't be here if it weren't...

Podcast 368 – “Psychedelics and the Feminine”

Sep, 10, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.”“It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And...

Podcast 367 – “The Evolution of a Psychedelic Thinker”

Sep, 02, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief...

Podcast 366 – “Terence McKenna’s Suggested Reading List”

Aug, 26, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.”“What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always...

Podcast 365 – “Effects of Psychedelics on Society”

Aug, 19, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.”“We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a...