Psychedelic Salon

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 1990. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "The world that we are living in is not at all as the linguistic structures we have inherited would have us have it. We are actually living inside some kind of artificial construction which is potentially permeable by human understanding but to date has not been." "The unspeakable is the ground of language." "History is the story of the cancerous and unchecked growth of the ego." "If our god is omnipotent, omniscient, never wrong always right, utterly unforgiving, this is a jerk! Who needs this? We don't need this. Our image of deity is pathological. Our image of deity is the image of the cancerously untamed ego." "Psychedelics are not an ideology. Psychedelics are an experience." "What the shamans say is truer than anything we can say about them." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. Today we continue with the June 1989 Terence McKenna workshop session in which he sets out his ideas about history and time in his Timewave hypothesis. And while we now know that this idea of his will never actually become an actual theory, as it is sometimes said to be, nonetheless, he points out several instances in which history appears to be following a fractal pattern. As far as I know, this particular Timewave lecture hasn't been released on the Net before. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Imagine Convergence on Oracs Island Videos of the Psycherence 2018 Conference in Estonia Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Culture is a mirror of the mind." "What are we when we begin to take off our cultural clothing? What kind of world will be build in the pure imagination?" "History is a kind of psychedelic trip. That's what it is. It's the big trip." "This transcendental object probably is more like a being than an object. I just call it a transcendental object to keep those issues out of it when we try to think of it as an at tractor. No, it's a mind. It's an organizing entelechy. It is THE mind. It's probably the mind that you call your mind." "When you go into these high dose places you are seeing a local map of this thing toward which all creation moves, at least this is my take on it." "It's just cognitive activity. It's all that the psychedelic experience is. It's accelerated cognitive activity. ... I think that the glory of human beings is cognition." "What psychedelics lead to is appropriate activity. Appropriate activity is the way to be straight with the psychedelic vision." "I regard all organized religion as a plot against free thought." "The thing which pervades the psychedelic experience is this sense of weird, sense of closeness to a bizarre secret of some sort. I don't even claim that the psychedelic experience should be put on the spectrum of spiritual experience, somewhere between moral rectitude and Buddha." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Imagine Convergence on Oracs Island Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Minoan Crete PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Addiction to natural substances, with the exception of tobacco, is something you really have to work at." "There is something really insidious about synthetic drugs, about concentrating what is a vegetable essence, and very diffuse. Opium was no problem until morphine came along." "One of the things I think we have to disabuse ourselves of is that science knows anything about these things. The human studies were never done." "You may have the notion that we are a minority that feels this is important and there is a majority that feels that it's unimportant. That isn't the case. We are a minority who feels this is important, and there is a majority that knows nothing about it whatsoever, has no data, and no realization of what it is." "People such as ourselves, we are the cutting edge of neuro-psychopharmacology, because the content is the frontier, and these scientists know very little about it." "The official version of what can happen with these hallucinogens is very limited. There was never stress on content. The individual content of the psychedelic trip was treated like the ravings of a psychotic. In other words, it was never examined from the point of view that this person might be a reliable witness." "What does it mean that the most powerful of all hallucinogens occurs naturally in the human brain? What does it mean that the most powerful of all natural hallucinogens is the shortest acting?" Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Lands of the Saracen by Bayard Taylor Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Mushroom ManLogo for the Palenque Norte LecturesPhoto by Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. Today we continue with a workshop that Terence McKenna led at the Esalen Institute in June of 1989. Although he begins with an exploration of ideas surrounding the use of sound during psychedelic experiences, he also tells some great stories, including one of my favorites. I'd only heard it once before, and for me it's the funniest story I've heard him tell, and this is a new version that you won't want to miss. Additionally, this may be one of the earliest talks in which Terence addressed the issue of global climate change. Also, for the first time I remember hearing it, Terence talks about his ideas concerning the concept of exo-pheromones. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Language is sound that stimulates ideas." "Interesting, the world wide reliance on sustained tone in spiritual exploration." "The ego is a neurotic response to separateness, and you cannot maintain your ego in the presence of strong hallucinogenic plant patterns of usage." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Finn and Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Today marks the official beginning of the 3.0 track of the Psychedelic Salon. The main difference between Salon 3.0 and the earlier podcasts from the salon is that this 3.0 track on Patreon.com will be where you will hear the programs three months before they appear on the "classic salon" feeds. So to mark this new beginning I am playing a recording of a Terence McKenna weekend workshop at the Esalen Institute that, as far as I know, has never been published before. Date this lecture was recorded: June 23, 1989. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "What is history? What is it that is acting on us to propel us, in such a short time, out of the matrix of organic nature and into a matrix of our own creation, the world of culture, and epigenetic coding systems, and the human imagination as created by the modality of language. What is it that is pushing us in this direction?" "We fell into history. We became neurotic. We are, in a sense, the children of a dysfunctional relationship that we have forgotten all about." "I've had to come to term with the fact that bad drugs have been a major part of the human story." "The psychedelics are not ancillary. They're not peripheral. They're not secondary. They are the way to propel ourselves into these higher dimensional phase spaces. Eventually we will drag our computers with us." "What we see in our visions is not hallucinations. What we see in our visions is the higher truth." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Rick Doblin PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 31, 2018.] Today we continue with the second part of the 2018 Palenque Norte Lecture given by Rick Doblin, the president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. In addition to learning some new information about the current state of MDMA research, Rick ends the Q&A session with some information about mescaline that I'd never heard before. As he says, "Mescaline is the most important psychedelic that isn't being researched." Also, there is an announcement about a screening of the film "From Shock To Awe" that was discussed here in the salon three years ago when the producers were first raising the funding for the project. It has now been completed and will be screened in select theaters on November 12, 2018. Full details are at the beginning of today's program. [NOTE: The following quotations are by Rick Doblin.] "We got an agreement letter on July 28th, and what it means is that the FDA is legally bound to approve MDMA if we get statistically significant evidence of efficacy from this design and no new safety problems come up." "Mescaline is the most important psychedelic that isn't being researched." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option From Shock To Awe Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Rick Doblin The 2018 Palenque Norte Lecture Schedule PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 31, 2018. Today's podcast features the 2018 Palenque Norte Lecture given by Rick Doblin, the president of MAPS. In addition to a detailed description of the interaction between MAPS and the Veterans Administration, Rick also gives a detailed account of the now concluded Phase 2 study along with an explanation of how they believe MDMA works to relieve the symptoms of PTSD. As he says about the efficacy of the process he says, "What we found at twelve months is that people keep getting better. So at twelve months, two-thirds of the people no longer have PTSD. And of the one-third who still have PTSD, most of them have had a clinically significant reduction in symptoms, even though they still have PTSD." [NOTE: The following quotations are by Rick Doblin.] "I think we can look very carefully in our society and see that a lot of the people who are suffering but who might try to block what we're trying to do, if we really look deep into their suffering, a lot of them are really wanting us to succeed." "What we found at twelve months is that people keep getting better. So at twelve months, two-thirds of the people no longer have PTSD. And of the one-third who still have PTSD, most of them have had a clinically significant reduction in symptoms, even though they still have PTSD." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: David Nickles PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: October 8, 2018 Today's podcast features David Nickles, whose work may be found at the DMT-Nexus Website. The program is actually a recording of last week's regularly scheduled live version of the Psychedelic Salon, which takes place every Monday evening from 6:30-8:00 pm (Pacific) via a Zoom conference available to all of Lorenzo's supporters on Patreon. In this conversation, David provides some alarming details about the intersection of politics, psychedelic research, and big money. The DMT-Nexus Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Will Siu PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 29, 2018.] Today's podcast features Dr. Will Siu, an MD and psychiatrist specializing, among other things, in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Dr. Siu is also one of the participating researchers in the MAPS MDMA study. In this 2018 Palenque Norte Lecture, he not only provides us with an inside look as some of the issues now arising as the possibility of psychedelic therapy morphs into a reality. For anyone considering a career in the vast field of psychedelic medicine, this thought-provoking talk is not to be missed. Will Siu MD, DPhil Capitalism on Psychedelics: The Mainstreaming of an Underground by Eric Davis Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Shonagh Home PIKAL and TIKAL Commemorative Editions PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 11, 2018 Today's podcast features a recent talk given by Shonagh Home at the New Moon Mycology Summit that was held in Wingdale, New York. As she speaks of humankind's loss of some of the powerful symbols that paganism once provided, Shonagh weaves in specific examples of ways in which her clients have leveraged the imagery experienced in mushroom trips to resolve issues in their everyday lives. Shonagh also tells the story of how she came to be a medicine woman. "Our state-run, Prussian education system, which is worldwide by the way, is designed to shut down imagination and creative genius to produce a predictable and compliant populace." --Shonagh Home Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option   Visionary Mushroom Practicum: A Medicine Woman's Perspective on the Practical and Mystical Layers of Visionary Mushroom Medicine Shonagh Home Shonagh Home is a shamanic therapist, teacher, writer and poet. Her specialized private sessions and retreats are probing and revelatory, assisting clients to break chronic, self-defeating patterns, and move into empowered personal sovereignty. Shonagh is an international public speaker on the subject of visionary shamanic-spirit medicine, a voice for stewardship of the honeybees, and a teacher on the subject of Traditional Foods. She is author of the books, ‘Ix Chel Wisdom: 7 Teachings from the Mayan Sacred Feminine,’ ‘Love and Spirit Medicine,’ ‘Poetic Whispers from the Green Realms,’ and ‘Honeybee Wisdom: A Modern Melissa Speaks.’ Website: www.shonaghhome.com The Mycelium Underground (TMU) are organizers devoted to bringing people together for the love of learning and embracing the world of fungi and all with which fungi intertwines.   PIKAL and TIKAL Commemorative Editions Psychedelic Chemistry Cookbooks Reissued In Stunning Boxed Set Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Kim Hewitt PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: September 2018 Dr. Kim Hewitt talks about her research into the history of psychedelics and their current manifestations. Her most recent academic paper is on psychedelic feminism. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Empower an Indigenous Ayahuasca Initiative  Kat Lakey's IndieGogo project   The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: September 8, 2018 Today's podcast features a talk that Lorenzo gave at the recent Imagine Orcas Island Music and Arts festival. The title of this talk is "Psychedelics in the Age of AI", and it is followed by a question and answer session. At the end of the podcast Lorenzo plays a song from the newly emerging psychedelic/country/rock band The Burned. Lorenzo also talks about the festival as well as the Imagine Convergence that will take place on Orcas Island in March of 2019. Main Stage & LakefrontImagine Orcas Island Music & Arts Festival Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option   The Burned Website The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival October 1 - 7, 2018 Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Graham Hancock Graham Hancock speaking at the 2016 Glastonbury Festival PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 2016 [NOTE: All quotations are by Graham Hancock.] "Our governments are so determined to impose these insane [War on Drugs] policies upon us that the whole credit worthiness of government in every way becomes suspect, if it was not suspect already." "I discovered that the most important aspect of ourselves is not our body. That's one of the lessons that ayahuasca teaches, that it's not our bodies that are important. It's our consciousness." "I have never regarded reality the same, since I began to work with ayahuasca." "Only a truly, psychopathically insane global human society would allow warfare to occur at all. The fact that war can snare us. The fact that we can be persuaded to go and kill other people in other lands should not be regarded as normal. This is deeply abnormal. It's the sign of a society that's gone terribly wrong." "Wherever I travel in the world I find that people are exactly the same. The same hopes, the same fears, the same dreams, the same capacity to love, we are, none of us, any different." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: David Nutt Dr. David Nutt speaking at the 2016 Glastonbury Festival PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 2016 [NOTE: All quotations are by David Nutt "The drinks industry is keen to keep its monopoly over drugs. And it fought battles over the last 150 years to make sure that no other drug got into the market. When acceptable versions of drugs like opium and cannabis and cocaine became available to the public, systematically, the drinks industry created opposition to them, created fear about them, and eventually got them banned." "Most of the justification for keeping drugs illegal is because, supposedly, they are harmful. But as you know, and hopefully some of you have read some of my work over the years, know that most of the illegal drugs are less harmful than alcohol." "We know that probably the majority of politicians know that they are lying about drugs." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Zoe Helene Zoe Helene PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 20, 2018 Today's podcast features a conversation between Zoe Helene and Lorenzo. After successful careers in the arts as well as in the corporate world, Zoe has transitioned herself into an advocate for the use of psychedelics, ayahuasca in particular, to help us all accept women as equals in our currently male-dominated societies. Zoe Helene's Website Cosmic Sister on Twitter Cosmic Sister on Pinterest Psychedelic Feminism   Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Various PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 8, 2017 In this last episode of stories from the Blue Dot tour, you get to hear stories from the barn at my parents' place in Lancaster, PA. Tales from Tipper and friends as well as a contest to see if you can find my story in the back catalog. . . . I hope you enjoy this last round of stories. --Lex Pelger Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Myron Stolaroff Myron Stolaroff meditating in the morning PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: November 22, 1997 [NOTE: All quotations are by Myron Stolaroff "To me, one of the really great mysteries of our time is how we can have something as valuable as psychedelics and yet have our government, and the public-at-large, have such an absolutely twisted view of it." "As for myself, I'm on record as saying that LSD is the greatest discovery that man ever made." "I have a lot of friends who are always telling me about all kinds of nutrients. Gosh, there are things that are really, really helpful. But I want to tell you that the thing that helps more than anything is a good psychedelic experience." Are psychedelics useful in the practice of Buddhism? by Myron J, Stolaroff Journal of Humanistic Psychology Vol. 39 No. 1 Winter 1999 Pp. 60-80 Jon Hanna's Mind States YouTube Channel Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Aldous Huxley A gathering of friends at Laura Huxley's home PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features two recordings of Aldous Huxley. The first is an interview conducted by Mike Wallace, and the second part of today's program features a lecture of Huxley's that speculates about the possibilities of some sort of existence after the death of our bodies. Date the Mike Wallace interview was recorded: May 18, 1958 [NOTE: All quotations are by Aldous Huxley.]https://archive.org/download/578HuxleyFreedomAndMind/578-HuxleyFreedomAndMind.mp3 "We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology." "People with a vested interest in a certain kind of philosophy find it almost impossible to accept facts which go against that particular philosophy." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Daniel Greig PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: 2018 Daniel Greig studies cognitive science and philosophy. His lectures on psychedelics incorporate magic and mysticism. He uses the language of psychology and neuroscience. It makes for a fascinating mix. In this episode we will be hearing about his unique views on how these drugs are illuminated by the mystical systems of the past.   Daniel Greig 'The Psychedelic State' Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1 Crawl Space Hardcover by Jesse Jacobs