Psychedelic Salon

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna "Cosmic Christ" by Alex GreyPhoto credit: Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "If a Buddhist could design their own genome they would become a fungus, because a fungus is a primary decomposer. It is the only karma-less place in the food chain. There is no karma for the fungi. They don't destroy any life whatsoever." "The trick is going to be to recognize the extraterrestrials." "I think probably the biota of the Earth is riddled with extraterrestrial genes, if not organisms, and possibly intelligences." "It's very clear to me that every abduction case around, except for a vanishingly small number that we can put in the classical category of stigmata, can be explained by one simple fact: People are losing the ability to distinguish dreams from memories." "Trust only yourself." "I think we're getting set, basically, to decamp into the imagination. That the imagination is as real a place as across the river is if you've just acquired eyes." "A shaman is a seer, is a prophet, is a higher dimensional mathematician. And they may not use tensor equations to express what they're doing, but mathematics before symbols is experience." "We have unleashed such novelty that I think we're in the terminal phase of decamping from three dimensional space. We are leaving the womb of Newtonian being for something else, the imagination. And the birth is tumultuous. The entire planet is at risk." "If this planet hadn't been wrecked sixty-five million years ago we wouldn't be here. Well then, what is our position on planetary catastrophe? We're in the process of making one. Is it so that sixty-five million years in the future an organism filled with love, and justice, and intelligence will look back at our skeletons in the shale and say, 'Well, they had a good thing going, but if it hadn't been for their extinction we wouldn't be here.' " Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option "Thinking Outside the Quantum Box" by Bernardo Kastrup Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast presents a powerful round of story telling that took place in a Columbus, Ohio bike hangar. The event was hosted by the wonderful community of Mind Manifest West. "Mind Manifest Midwest is a psychedelic society based in Columbus, Ohio. Since 2016 we have hosted speakers to talk about some factual aspect of psychedelia. Our in-person community meets to share stories, promote harm reduction education, and create models for responsible transformational psychedelic use." 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: Terence McKenna Dale Pendell delivering his "Horizon Anarchism" lecture at the 2006 Palenque Norte Lectures during the Burning Man Festival PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "I take psychedelics to be the catalysis of language." "This great period of creativity that we're living through now in the sciences, in the arts, in the implementation of exotic technology, I think this is the real legacy of the Sixties. The people who run these fancy computer companies, and the World Wide Web, and the Net, and CERN, and all that, they're all freaks. They're all people who came up through the Sixties and have somehow fitted themselves in to straight society. But the great bulk of creative work in society and those areas is being done by people who took psychedelics." "On psychedelics essentially you feel, or you see, the morphogenetic field that surrounds objects." "Clearly we have become a toxic drag on the rest of nature." "What the New World Order is is a Corporate Order." "The best substitute for psychedelics, which takes a lot more time, energy, and dedication, is penny-less travel in Asian countries." "If I had to say one thing that DMT is, it's alien beauty." "I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that at the peak of a psychedelic experience you see more art in a half an hour than the human race has produced in the last thousand years." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option He Spoke for the Plants Remembering Dale Pendell Obituary by Jon Hanna   https://psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-055-horizon-anarchism/ Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book, The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Guest speaker: Julian Vayne PROGRAM NOTES: Today's Salon2 podcast features the return of Lex Pelger who interviews Julian Vayne, an author and oculist. They about the history of drugs and magick - especially in the underground London scene. Vayne also highlights some of the important ideas from his new book on creating psychedelic ceremonies. This episode is cross-posted from the Greener Grass podcast. Getting Higher by Julian Vayne Trailer for Getting Higher Julian Vayne's blog The psychedelic prisoner project Lex Pelger's cannabis graphic novels are now FREE online. http://www.lexpelger.com/nononsense Lex Pelger's new program: The Greener Grass podcast. http://greenergrass.libsyn.com/ Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1993 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "I think it's important to talk about and analyze your experience. There is no communication, even within the confines of your own mind, if you can't describe what's going on." "The crisis we're in, as a planetary society, is a culture of consciousness. There ain't enough of it. That's what happens when women are raped in Bosnia. That's a failure of consciousness. That's what happens when rivers are polluted with DDT. It's a failure of consciousness." "The idea that art should save humanity is very out of fashion in the cynical '90s." "When Fascism comes to America it will be called traditionalism. That seems to be how it's going to present itself." "Dancing your ass off in a noisy environment is a perfect strategy for clearing your system of a drug." "Your SELF is the instrument for the exploration of these dimensions." "Ideology is fairly absent in shamanism at a practical level. It's basically about experience, not about an ideological preconception." "What if there is actually something that survives bodily death, that actually continues to exist in a dimension which we would have to call mental, or trans-real. And what-if you could come and go from that dimension using shamanic techniques? That is what in fact shamanism has always claimed to anyone who would listen." "What is language? It's a strategy for escaping from the narrowness of the present moment." "I think that, well, frankly, I don't know what I think. It depends on how recently I smoked DMT." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Details of the Monday Night Conference Topic: Surviving in a Surveillance Society Time: Mar 5, 2018 6:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/326830671 Meeting ID: 326 830 671 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +19294362866,,326830671# or +16699006833,,326830671# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 929 436 2866 or +1 669 900 6833 International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=gd6Lbpidqa-Ks6hoGFbXcu2SJG8fB-he Salvador Roquet's bio on Erowid Eric Davis' Expanding Mind Podcast Goodbye Reality with Mark Pesce – 02.22.18 Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

Guest speakers: Scott Olsen, The Lakey Family From: ‘The Mysteries of the Amazon’ exhibit at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, FL PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: January 14, 2018 On this, the very first episode of ‘Find the Others’, The Lakey Sisters head to Florida. And so we are happy to welcome the Psychedelic Salon’s newest anchors, Alexa and Kat, as they prepare to part ways for the next chapter of their adventures. This episode was recorded just before Kat traveled back to the Peruvian Amazon, where she is currently studying to be an ayahuasquera. She will be recording her portion of ‘Find the Others’ from there. While Kat worked her way across the globe, Alexa journeyed back to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she’ll be recording her part of the podcast. In this episode, they interview Dr. Scott Olsen - author of the international best seller, ‘The Golden Section: Nature’s Greatest Secret’ and owner of one of the largest collections of Amazonian visionary art in North America. The sisters visit with Scott on the last day of ‘The Mysteries of the Amazon’ exhibit at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, FL, featuring the work of Pablo Amaringo and his students from the Usko-Ayar School of Visionary Painting. They talk with him about ayahuasca culture learn more about the paintings in his collection. Following that, they be talk with their parents about their psychedelic experiences and how psilocybin can work as a therapeutic agent. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Email the Lakey Sisters: FindTheOthers42 (at) gmail (dot) com  Links: Find the Others Website Intro music provided by Dashmesh ‘The Golden Section’ by Scott Olsen on Amazon ‘Wide Awake & Dreaming’ by The Lakey Sisters The Lakey Sisters on YouTube Mysteries of the Amazon Exhibit Photos (photos by Matt Pallamary)

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore, Cory Doctorow John Perry Barlow Photo source: EFF.org PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: November 17, 2006 Today we pay tribute to the late John Perry Barlow, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and an important leader in the struggle to keep the Internet free. In addition to John Perry's remarks, we will also hear John Gilmore, another of the co-founders of EFF.org. One of the most important essays written by Barlow is his Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, and at the end of this podcast you will hear John Perry Barlow reading that declaration himself. "If information is power, then the public needs to have more of it than the government, or the public will not be able to control the government." -John Gilmore "I think the city-state is going to have the biggest Renaissance since the Renaissance." -John Perry Barlow Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option   John Perry Barlow Library A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow  Electronic Frontier Foundation   Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1 https://lorenzohagerty.com/freebooks/

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1993 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "And that's what we are now, semi-human. We're capable of enormous acts of kindness and appalling acts of brutality." "All of our institutions have been built up on the assumption of ego and dominance hierarchies, and deconstructing that is really what the future is all about." "I think the modern family is, first of all a very modern invention, and basically a cauldron for the production of neurosis." "Ego is like a cyst which will begin to grow in you, whether you are male or female, unless you take a psychedelic. The psychedelic will dissolve this cyst. The cyst is in your personality. It's a tumor. It shouldn't be there. We do need to have egos, little egos." "What is impressionism but LSD thirty minutes in?" "I don't think there's much chance of survival without a major effort to reestablish archaic styles and institutions." "Hallucinogens are intra-species pheromones of some sort. They carry information across species lines." "History is the consequence of an animal species losing its connection to the Gaian mind." "I don't think we can fix ourselves through rhetoric. If we could fix ourselves through rhetoric then Buddha and Christ would have done the job." "The private issue, certainly for me and probably for most of you, [is that] it's easy to take psychedelics the first time because you don't know what you're getting into. Ever after that you have to really have a little chat with yourself, and there are barriers to overcome." 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: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1993 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "I think the great overlooked factor in any model of human evolution, and indeed of evolutionary models of many other species, is we have not given enough emphases to diet." "What seems to me to be one of the most centrally interesting questions to be asked of this world, and that is: What is human consciousness? Where did it come from? And why does it exist at all?" "It still is a very challenging thing to dissolve your ordinary state of consciousness, and abandon yourself to the dynamic of the larger mind that we find ourselves embedded in." "I think this is a frightening thing to contemplate, but the earliest cities, I will argue, were pens for human beings. That's what a city is. They're a pen for human beings." "What is the plant hallucinogen experience in all times and all places for all people? I don't know if you can be that general, but it's important to try. What it is, is it's an experience of boundary dissolution. It's an experience of having categories obliterated, of having previously defined boundaries and differences eliminated." "History is a progressive de-humanizing of the human experience." 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: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "Psychedelics are like any other social phenomenon. There are a lot of wannabes. There are a lot of people who are along for the ride." "I want to talk about what to my mind is the quintessential hallucinogen, and consequentially the quintessential spiritual and magical tool of this dimension. And that is DMT, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine." "A long, long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret. I won't keep it. I'm against secrets. I'm against hierarchies, lineages. All assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I am a true anarchist, first and foremost." "The psychedelic mantra: I've done it this time!" "And yet, the DMT thing, it's like and avalanche of orgasmic beauty, but a certain kind of beauty. The only words that I can find for the kind of beauty that it is are bizarre, alien, outlandish, freaky, and at the very edge of what the human mind seems to be able to hold." "What we are about to discover is probably the least likely thing any of us expected out of our dilemma. What we're about to discover is that death has no sting. That what you penetrate on DMT is an ecology of human souls in another dimension of some sort." "I never imagined that a through exploration of life's mysteries would lead to the conclusion that, in fact, this is but a prelude. We are in a very tiny womb of some sort. Our lives are gestations, and this is not where we are destined to unfold ourselves into what it means to be human. This is some kind of a metamorphic stage, like the pupa of a butterfly, and so this is deep water." "I think that the human body, the human mind, these are tools for the soul to use in the effort to unlock its meaning and its destiny." "A drug that you take and forty-eight hours later you're laying around in warm baths and refusing telephone calls is a drug you shouldn't have taken." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option   Burner Podcast Episode 74 Interview with Lorenzo Hagerty   Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book, The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1.