Psychedelics

297-Various: “Tribute to Robert Anton Wilson”

by Lorenzo January 26, 2012 Psychedelic Salon

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 tim…

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296-McKenna: “The World and It’s Double” Part 2

by Lorenzo January 11, 2012 Psychedelic Salon

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…

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295-McKenna: “The World and It’s Double” Part 1

by Lorenzo January 5, 2012 Psychedelic Salon

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 lit…

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293-Bey: “The Power of Art and the TAZ”

by Lorenzo December 9, 2011 Psychedelic Salon

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 p…

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291-Wilson: “The ‘I’ In The Triangle” Part 2

by Lorenzo November 21, 2011 Psychedelic Salon

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 Vatica…

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290-Wilson: “The ‘I’ In The Triangle” Part 1

by Lorenzo November 15, 2011 Psychedelic Salon

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 Origina…

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274-Shulgin: "Psychedelic Safety"

by Lorenzo July 15, 2011 Psychedelics

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 …

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258-McKenna: "The Angel in the Monkey"

by Lorenzo March 22, 2011 Psychedelics

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 anticipati…

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254-McKenna: "Psilocybin and the Sands of Time"

by Lorenzo December 21, 2010 Psychedelics

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 [takin…

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250-McKenna: "The Magic of Plants (Rites of Spring)" Part 3

by Lorenzo November 8, 2010 Psychedelics

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 fr…

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249-McKenna: "The Magic of Plants (Rites of Spring)" Part 2

by Lorenzo November 2, 2010 Psychedelics

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, “T…

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248-McKenna: "The Magic of Plants (Rites of Spring)" Part 1

by Lorenzo October 22, 2010 Psychedelics

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 w…

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233-Leary and Ram Das: "1983 Harvard Reunion"

by Lorenzo June 17, 2010 Psychedelics

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, b…

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