Psychedelic Salon

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 10, 1996 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "This synesthesia thing seems to be the direction in which language has to go in order to be universal. It has to be beheld, acoustical signals don't do it." "No matter how abstract the meaning may be it ultimately is a feeling of recognition." "If you can somehow realize that the purpose of your existence is to figure it out, and then figure it out, you will be in some sense liberated from it." "The reason we are so controlled and abused and misused by our institutions is because we are divided from each other." "You cannot be a public figure and a practicing alchemist." "So if I disappear off the grid until 2005, I'll be back for the last act, I'm sure, unless, of course fate drops the cosmic safe on my head. There's always that." "Our real glory is our imagination, and we seem to be the creature with this relationship to the imagination. It is an attractor for us into the future." "Virtual reality is a place where the creativity, the staggering creativity, of psychedelics can actually find a home." "What is the designing of a drug but the building of a nano-machine?" "Belief is toxic, all belief. Don't believe in anything. Live in the presence of the felt fact of immediate experience, everything beyond that is conjecture." "In contemporary society we're always in the past and in the future, but what is real are feelings. And feelings attain a nexus only in the moment, only in the moment. So explore the edges, keep your logical razors sharp, trust nothing that you haven't verified for yourself. My faith is that the universe will take you in and share with you its meaning, and its intent, and its conclusion." 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 The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch Source: WikipediazClick to see larger image PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 1993 Today's podcast features the last talk that Terence McKenna gave during his August of 1993 Scholar-in-Residence program at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. His topic for the evening was the way in which artists like Bosch and poets like Yeats imagined a trans-historical future in their work. Along the way, Terence inserts his views about art history and appreciation, and tells us why he believes that their work remains important to us yet today. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: George Greer PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 31, 2017 Today's podcast features Dr. George Greer, one of the co-founders of the Hefter Research Institute. In this Palenque Norte Lecture that he delivered at the 2017 Burning Man Festival, Dr. Greer not only covers the current state of psychedelic research, he also provides several interesting anecdotes about ways in which research participants have had their lives significantly improved through the use of psychedelic medicines. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Hefter Research Institute   Abstracts of papers by Greer and Tolbert “Subjective reports of the effects of MDMA in a clinical setting” “The Therapeutic Use of MDMA” “A method of conducting therapeutic sessions with MDMA”

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Grover Norquist Grover Norquist delivering his 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture at the Burning Man Festival PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 29, 2017 [NOTE: All quotations are by Grover Norquist "The best coalitions come from the hard right and hard left. Center coalitions don't get you anything except more of the same. Each of them are part of the status quo. So you're not going to get dramatic changes there." "What makes it enduring and work is that there's a level of trust between people who disagree, on many issues, but can agree on a series of principles." "The secret sauce of democracy is the rule of law." "There's a threat of violence behind any law, and if there's no threat of violence then the law will be ignored." "[Throughout] history more people have been murdered by their governments than by foreign invaders. So I kind of think fear of one's state is a rational fear in history." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: John Gilmore Electronic Self Defence Tools from EFF PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: September 1, 2017 [NOTE: All quotations are by John Gilmore] "The U.S. still has the world's largest prison population in absolute numbers and per capita. We imprison more people than the next ten countries put together. It's insane. It's a warped part of our culture." "[Some of the opposition to the Drug War] comes from people who are making money from the Drug War. I'm not talking about cartels and gangs. We haven't seen any opposition from cartels, which is interesting. What we see is opposition from police officers, police unions, police chiefs' associations, district attorneys, drug court judges, prison guards' unions, probation officers. All of these people are putting their kids through college on the swelled prison population of the Drug War. And they're afraid, if it goes away, we're not going to need to pay them any more, or they might have to focus on some harder and more dangerous crimes and more dangerous criminals. Most of the people who are selling pot are not going to slit your throat. And so, 99% of the resistance to legalization comes from cops and prison guards, basically." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Marijuana Policy Project MAPS.ORG Electronic Frontier Foundation Tools

Guest speakers: Daniel Pinchbeck and Michael Garfield Daniel Pinchbeck speaking at the first Palenque Norte Lectures during the 2003 Burning Man Festival.Photo by Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 30, 2017 Today's podcast features the author Daniel Pinchbeck and some friends at the 2017 Palenque Norte Lectures that were held during the Burning Man Festival. Besides discussing his books, ibogaine, and ecology, they also give us their thoughts about evolution and culture. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Entheogenesis Australis 2017 Outdoor Psychedelic Symposium http://www.entheogenesis.org/

Guest speaker: Bruce Damer Bruce Damer delivering his 2003 Palenque Norte Lecture PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 31, 2017 Today's podcast features the 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture by Dr. Bruce Damer. As he describes the life-long journey that has led him to search for the origin of life on Earth, you may be surprised at how forthcoming he is about the ways in which he thought about this problem. "Our common ancestor is a community, not an individual. . . . We did not come from competing individuals, we came from a collaborative network of simple things that were donating innovations and tools to a communal structure." -Bruce Damer Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 After a Veterans' Day story by Lorenzo, today's podcast features some stories from Nashville. Thanks to everyone at the Nashville Psychedelic Society for your help making a perfect last stop of the Blue Dot Tour. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Guest speaker: Shonagh Home Kai Wingo speaking at Breaking Convention:3rd International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, July, 2015 PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: October 2017 Today's podcast features a talk given by Shonagh Home in October for the Women and Entheogens Conference. Kilindi continued the conference in honor of the conference founder Kai Wingo. The Women and Entheogens Conference was the brainchild of psychonaught Kai Wingo. Continuing Kai's legacy the conference continued with her vision. The Conference pushed the envelope into new and novel ideas. This year's theme was "Psychedelics in Birth and Pregnancy from Conception through Life". Topics explored included the concept of utilizing entheogens for fertility, pregnancy and breastfeeding. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option https://vimeo.com/155222494

Guest speaker: Benjamin De Loenen International Center for Ethnobotanical Education Research and Service PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 In today's podcast Benjamin De Loenen, the founder of ICEERS (International Center for Ethnobotanical Education Research and Service), talks about things that led him to start this organization, which comes to the defense of plants and is dedicated to sharing the science and best practices around their use. ICEERS.ORG The Ayahuasca Defense Fund http://ayahuascadefense.com/ Ayahuasca Technical Report http://news.iceers.org/2017/07/2017-ayahuasca-technical-report/ Ayahuasca Good Practice Guide http://iceers.org/Documents_ICEERS_site/Safety&Ethics/Ayahuasca-Good_Practice_Guide_ICEERS2014.pdf Videos from the second World Ayahuasca Conference https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFSYWkLS73y6hwEaBHmIJyyQ9XCbMauc1&mc_cid=a1a4803e3a&mc_eid=4d4a945542 Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Psychedelic Salon Magazine https://flipboard.com/@lorenzohagerty/psychedelic-salon-beqt65mhy

Guest speakers: Annie Oak and friends Photo source: Fortune420.com PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a panel of distinguished women, all of whom are participating in various ways in the burgeoning new world of legal cannabis growing, distribution, and education. The panel assembled on the last evening in August at the 2017 Burning Man Festival, where they spoke in the Palenque Norte Lecture tent. You don't have to be a woman to get a lot out of the information and experience of these amazing women entrepreneurs. Just give it a listen and you will understand what I mean. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Guest speaker: Dave Nichols Photo by Jon Hanna from the Erowid.org vault of Dr. David Nichols PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 As the founding president of the Heffter Research Institute, a chemist who crafted some of the most important research molecules of this generation and a leader in the psychedelic community, we're pleased to present an interview with Dr. David Nichols. He talks about the impetus for his interest in these molecules, the potential dangers of microdosing and the feelings of a chemist whose creations escaped the laboratory and - while doing much good - also caused harm. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Microdosing with LSD and its Research Potential Legal highs: the dark side of medicinal chemistry http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110105/full/469007a.html Review of psychedelics by Dr. Nichols: http://pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/content/68/2/264 LSD Neuroscience - David E. Nichols at Psychedelic Science 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbUGRcuA16E To support Lex Pelger's Psychedelic Salon 2.0 podcasts, join the No Nonsense Club: https://www.patreon.com/NoNonsense

Guest speaker: Rick Doblin Lorenzo looks on as Jon Hanna delivers the very first Palenque Norte Lecture at the 2003 Burning Man Festival. PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: September 1, 2017 Today we feature the 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture delivered by the founder of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies, Rick Doblin. In this wide ranging talk, besides an update about the recent FDA approval for MAPS' major Phase 3 study of MDMA, we are treated to the fascinating story of how Rick was able to convince his conservative family into supporting his decision to pursue the investigation of psychedelic medicines. "What I intimated in my early LSD and mescaline sessions, they weren't all beautiful and peaceful and, you know, unity with god. They more were like taking a very ridged intellectual person and helping me to start to feel, and helping me have emotions, and helping me to start to wrestle with some deeper emotions." -Rick Doblin Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option MAPS.ORG http://www.maps.org/

Guest speaker: Keeper Trout PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 The wonderful Keeper Trout shares with us today includes his experiences archiving the files of Dr. Alexander Shulgin, working to collect the chemistry of psychedelic plants and medicines (particularly mescaline containing plants), and the cultural and legal history of the Native use of peyote and cactus as well as its suppression by the United States government. Keeper Trout is a multifaceted and delightful character who gives us today's engaging interview. See Trout's work on Shulgin's archive here: www.shulginarchive.org More about his work conserving the cactus here: www.cactusconservation.org And his own excellent and thorough work on the chemistry and history of use of psychedelics: http://Troutsnotes.com Also, here is the article in which Keeper mentioned: Hallucinations of Neutrality in the Oregon Peyote Case, by Harry F. Tepker, Jr. https://works.bepress.com/harry_f_tepker/23/ To support the Psychedelic Salon 2.0 broadcast, join the No Nonsense! Club on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NoNonsense Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Hemp for Victory

Guest speaker: Android Jones Android Jones delivering his 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 2017 Today's podcast features the Palenque Norte Lecture given by visionary artist Android Jones at the 2017 Burning Man Festival. Rather than give a structured lecture, Jones answers questions from the audience about the process he uses, including the use of entheogens, to create the fantastical images that we have seen on album covers, festival posters, live performances, and online at YouTube and Vimeo. If you have ever wondered how a work of art, such as his intriguing video titled Samskara came about, this evening conversation on the playa with Android Jones will fascinate you. [NOTE: The following quotations are by Android Jones [When facing a blank canvas] "you've got all these possibilities, and every time you make a decision the infinite possibilities are collapsing. By making a piece of art we are actually collapsing infinity. Every yes is a no to every other thing that you do." "I don't take psychedelics to try to understand some sort of like forth dimensional entities' agenda on Earth. I take psychedelics so I can understand the majesty of nature. I take psychedelics and I study the ways that trees grow. I take psychedelics and I look at the way that bees will start moving around the hives and the shapes they make. Psychedelics are not inspiring, but they help me gain a whole new level of insight into what is the most inspiring thing, which is just raw, beautiful nature that's around us all the time." "I like making art more than sex. I like it more than any other thing that there is. . . . I'm a junkie for that deep creative flow space." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Android Jones' Website Android Jones on Vimeo Samskara - An experience by Android Jones Left to right:Phong, Chris Aimone, Bruce Damer, Andrew (Android) Jones, Samantha Sweetwater

Guest speaker: Ben Stewart Ben Stewart PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 The filmmaker Ben Stewart sits down in Lex Pelger's living room to share his story about the journey that led him to making films and how the psychedelics helped shape his path. You can learn more about his work on his website: http://talismanicidols.net/ Watch Ben Stewart's videos at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVtkjwwba5AyYyIkq-DSZkw Follow Ben on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/KymaticaNamaste/ And see everything Gaia.com is up to at: https://www.gaia.com As always, this is a No Nonsense production. Any assistance is always appreciated. Join us on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/NoNonsense Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Guest speaker: Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow delivering his Palenque Norte Lecture at the 2017 Burning Man Festival PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 2017 Today's podcast features the 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture by Cory Doctorow. In this talk, which was given during the Burning Man Festival, Cory walks us through some of the current issues having an impact on our ability to have our thoughts and words exchanged between ourselves without the threat of Big Brother listening in. As he explains, this isn't a case of winning or losing, it is about the ongoing efforts we all must make so as to keep the Internet free and not simply be the tool of big corporations and governments to spread their stories at the expense of We the People. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Guest speaker: Neal Goldsmith PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: October 4, 2017 Today we hear from Neal Goldsmith about the speakers at the Horizons psychedelics conference this weekend: http://www.horizonsnyc.org/ And then our old friend Brian talks about the Saturday night event with Duncan Trussel. https://www.psymposia.com/events/microdosing-duncan-trussell/ If you can't make it, you can watch the show on their livestream. And as always, if you'd like to have your events, gatherings and work promoted, shoot an email to Lex: pelger (at) gmail (dot) com Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Guest speaker: Sergey Baranov Sergey Baranov PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 The path to peyote for a Russian seeker named Sergey Baranov. Throughout communities spanning the Americas, Sergey explored plant medicines and even faced a near-death experience before finally settling in Peru and founding the 'Cactus House' where he now leads ceremonies. Sergey Baranov's Website: http://shamansworld.org/ His Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/huachumawasi/ Path: Seeking Truth in a World of Lies by Sergey Baranov https://www.amazon.com/Path-Sergey-Baranov/dp/1480040711/ "Mescaline: An Ancient Medicine for the Soul" by Sergey Baranov https://wakeup-world.com/2017/05/06/mescaline-an-ancient-medicine-for-the-soul/ "Huachuma – The Visionary Cactus from the Peruvian Andes" by Sergey Baranov http://www.wakingtimes.com/2017/06/19/huachuma-visionary-cactus-peruvian-andes/ Meetings with Sergey Baranov: Sacrifice Your Fears for Your Vision http://astore.amazon.com/matrixmasterscom/detail/154421460X Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Altered Conference 2017 - BERLIN 3 - 4 November 2017 https://www.alteredconference.com/ Use the code PSYCHEDELICSALON at the checkout for a discounted ticket TantraPunk Podcast 126 with Lorenzo https://tantrapunk.com/decrypting-the-cyberdelic-revolution-with-lorenzo-hagerty-tpp126/ This Is Not A Drill Podcast 39 with Lorenzo https://superorganism.space/

The War Nerd Guest speaker: John Dolan PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 Today's podcast features an interview with John Dolan, who is well known as the "War Nerd". Additionally, he has another alter ego as the writer Gary Brecher. The War Nerd podcast covers a wild amount about the history along with speculations about the future of human warfare. In this interview, John explains the long history of drugs and war. Follow John Dolan on Twitter, https://twitter.com/TheWarNerd And support John's work through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd For extended reading about this deep subject, there's 'Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War' by Lukasz Kamienski Support the work of Lex Pelger on the Psychedelic Salon 2.0 podcasts (as well as all of his psychoactive advocacy) at www.Patreon.com/NoNonsense Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option