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196-Leary: "Timothy Leary vs. Notre Dame"

by Lorenzo September 10, 2009 culture

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…

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195-Leary: "The Future of Higher Intelligence" Part 2

by Lorenzo September 3, 2009 culture

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. Fin…

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192-Leary: "Live at the Stone – 1987"

by Lorenzo July 23, 2009 culture

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 confin…

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186-Lorenzo: "The Genesis Generation" Chapter 1

by Lorenzo June 10, 2009 culture

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 psyc…

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183-Leary: "What Are Humans For"

by Lorenzo May 7, 2009 culture

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 t…

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178-Leary+RAW "A random walk through two great minds"

by Lorenzo March 31, 2009 culture

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…

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159-Forte-Shulgin: "Horizon’s 2008-Perspectives on Psychedelics"

by Lorenzo October 14, 2008 culture

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…

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153-Wilson: "Consciousness Change and the 8-Circuit Model"

by Lorenzo August 18, 2008 culture

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…

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152-Leary: "Question Authority and Think for Yourself"

by Lorenzo August 11, 2008 culture

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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149-Trilogue: "The Heavens"

by Lorenzo July 18, 2008 culture

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 sta…

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145-Leary: "Live at the Inside Edge"

by Lorenzo June 21, 2008 culture

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 …

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143-Trialogue: "Rethinking Society"

by Lorenzo June 6, 2008 culture

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 unexpe…

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142-Leary: "The Creation of the Future"

by Lorenzo May 29, 2008 culture

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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