Psychedelic Salon
786 episodes
Since 2005, Lorenzo Hagerty has been podcasting interviews and talks concerning the use and benefits of psychoactive plants and chemicals, both in their natural settings and in medical research institutions. Past speakers include Sasha Shulgin, Annie Oak, Rick Doblin, Daniel Pinchbeck, Shonagh Home, Bruce Damer, Aldous Huxley and others. And there have been over 200 programs featuring talks by Terence McKenna. Also interviews with several of the now long gone elders, such as Gary Fisher, Myron Stolaroff, and Al Hubbard have also been featured.
Podcast 346 – “Critical Intelligence”
Apr, 05, 2013
Guest speaker: Bruce Damer /* A brief history of Palenque Norte (video)PROGRAM NOTES:Bruce Damer takes the 2012 Palenque Norte audience at the Burning Man Festival on a far flung journey into what he calls his practice of "global multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-technic shamanism" where...
Podcast 345 – “Transhuman Encounters”
Mar, 20, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the...
Podcast 344 – “A Global Cultural Crisis”
Mar, 13, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.”“Where...
Podcast 343 – “Developing a Community Tea House Model”
Mar, 04, 2013
Guest speaker: Annie OakPROGRAM NOTES:Today we hear from civil rights activist and the founder of the Women's Visionary Congress in her 2012 Palenque Norte Lecture at the Burning Man Festival. Anyone who is feeling that they are “out there at the end of the line” may find great encouragement in...
Podcast 342 – “Psychedelic Family Business”
Feb, 20, 2013
Guest speaker: Allyson & Alex GreyPROGRAM NOTES:“If it's a psychedelic family business, then you've got to consider the 'top line' [as contrasted with 'the bottom line']. What's the top line? The top line is: You have one unique life, and what do you love to do? What do you want to spend your...
Podcast 341 – “Ayahuasca Research Report – 1984”
Feb, 12, 2013
Guest speaker: Dennis McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:Today's talk features Dennis McKenna in a June 1984 presentation of his research concerning ayahuasca. This is one of the first, if not the first, public presentation of Dennis' early work involving this sacred medicine. For most of the last 33 years,...
Podcast 340 – “Visions and Biospheres”
Feb, 06, 2013
Guest speaker: John Allen and Tango Parrish SnyderPROGRAM NOTES:This podcast features another of the 2012 Palenque Norte Lectures that were held at the Burning Man Festival. The speakers are John Allen and Tango Parrish Snyder, both of whom have been involved in many large-scale Earth Science...
Podcast 339 – “A Necessary Chaos”
Jan, 29, 2013
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“This is where I think the psychedelics come in, because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there...
Podcast 338 – “A Tribute to Myron Stolaroff”
Jan, 22, 2013
Guest speaker: Myron StolaroffPROGRAM NOTES:This podcast features a few sound bites from several of the previous podcasts featuring Myron Stolaroff, who departed this life on January 6, 2013. Not only was Myron one of the world's leading psychedelic researchers, earlier in life he was instrumental...
Podcast 337 – “The World Could Be Anything”
Dec, 29, 2012
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That that mapping is insufficient. That the world is...
Podcast 336 – “2012 Re-visioned”
Dec, 21, 2012
Guest speaker: Daniel PinchbeckPROGRAM NOTES:This podcast features my friend Daniel Pinchbeck as our guest speaker. As you know, Daniel wrote a book titled “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, also, he is widely known as a speaker and writer about many things psychedelic and esoteric. However, I...
Podcast 335 – “Is There Any Reason to Hope?”
Dec, 14, 2012
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“[The wide variety of psychedelic plants] are the way in which the Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there...
Podcast 334 – “The Alchemy of Cacao”
Dec, 04, 2012
Guest speaker: Brian WallacePROGRAM NOTES:This podcast features Brian Wallace's 2012 Palenque Norte Lecture at the Burning Man Festival. Brian, who has been a community organizer for MAPS and other organizations, is also expert on the cacao plant. Originally, Brian titled this talk “The...
Podcast 333 – Producing “The Terence McKenna Experience”
Nov, 26, 2012
Guest speaker: Ken Adams“I'm almost sixty years old, and I can guaranty you that I'm fucking tired of having to whisper about psychedelics.” - Ken AdamsWatch a video of this talkPROGRAM NOTES:Today we feature the fifth Palenque Norte Lecture of 2012, which was given at the Burning Man Festival....
Podcast 332 – “Living in the Exile Nation”
Nov, 13, 2012
Guest speaker: Charles ShawWatch a video of this talkPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Charles Shaw.]“Having a felony conviction, and having a drug conviction, essentially makes you a second class citizen.”“For the lower classes, the poorer classes, which generally in this country are...
Podcast 331 – “Understanding theProcess of Consciousness”
Nov, 01, 2012
Guest speaker: Dr. Brian HewlettWatch a video of this talkPROGRAM NOTES:This podcast features the third in the series of the 2012 Palenque Norte Lectures at the Burning Man festival. The speaker is Dr. Brian Hewlett and he titled his talk "An Algorithm of Human Consciousness and Implications for...
Podcast 330 – “The Politics of Knowledge in Psychedelic Sciences”
Oct, 22, 2012
Guest speaker: Dr. Maddy CorbinWatch a video of this talkPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Dr. Maddy Corbin.]“I've been a nerd for a long time. That's how you get a Ph.D.”“At least in my experience of psychedelics, and people who take psychedelics and why they value psychedelics, is...
Podcast 329 – “Vision Mapping for the Golden Age”
Oct, 15, 2012
Guest speakers: Amanda Sage and Bruce DamerWatch a video of this talkWatch a video of Bruce Damer's brief history of the Palenque Norte lecture seriesPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Amanda Sage.]“Let's turn the museums into temples. I think the new museums are going to be...
Podcast 328 – “In Praise of Ayahuasca”
Oct, 07, 2012
Guest speaker: Graham HancockPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Graham Hancock.]“There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most profound and challenging ordeals is to drink Ayahuasca. It is in a way the ultimate...
Podcast 327 – “Jesus, Aliens, and Ayahuasca”
Sep, 28, 2012
Guest speaker: Jonathan Talat PhillipsPROGRAM NOTES:This podcast features a talk given by Jonathan Talat Phillips in Vancouver sometime earlier this year. In it, Jonathan tells the story of how, after a devastating loss as countercultural activist, he embarked on a mystical initiation involving...