Psychedelic Salon

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 326 – “Avoiding the Pitfall of Words”

Sep, 20, 2012
Guest speaker: J. KrishnamurtiJ. Krishnamurti ONLINEPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by J. Krishnamurti.]“The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take...

Podcast 325 – “Cauldron Chemistry”

Sep, 01, 2012
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.”“In the absence of...

Podcast 324 – “Esalen 2012 Redux”

Aug, 26, 2012
Guest speaker: Bruce DamerPROGRAM NOTES:Today's program consists of ten separate pieces from a June 2012 workshop at the Esalen Institute, eight of which are by Bruce Damer. Here are the titles that Bruce has given to these short talks:--Are we all becoming autistic astronauts?--On our dual bonobo...

Podcast 323 – “Searching for a New Paradise Myth”

Aug, 20, 2012
Guest speaker: Lorenzo and FriendsPROGRAM NOTES:This podcast features the final community discussions at the June 2012 Esalen workshop led by Lorenzo and Bruce Damer. Among the topics discussed were:-Creating a new myth for our community-The genesis of the Occupy Movement-Are psychedelic...

Podcast 322 – “The Evolution of Intelligence”

Aug, 11, 2012
Guest speaker: Timothy LearyPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.]“In my function as a [college] lecturer, it's my obligation, it's my task, it's my duty to instigate irreverence for authority, questioning of authority.”“And that's one of the things that is kind of amazing...

Podcast 321 – “A Discussion About Psychedelics”

Aug, 06, 2012
Guest speaker: Lorenzo and FriendsPROGRAM NOTES:Today's podcast features the next installment of the workshop that Bruce Damer and Lorenzo led at the Esalen Institute in June of 2012. The majority of this program features comments by some of the workshop's participants who bring up topics that...

Podcast 320 – “Occupy Yourself”

Jul, 28, 2012
Guest speaker: Lorenzo and friendsPROGRAM NOTES:In this follow-up session after Bruce Damer's “Deep Dive into the Mind of McKenna”, Lorenzo leads the discussion of the participants in a workshop held at the Esalen Institute in June of 2012. Topics of the conversation include:- Consciousness, not...

Podcast 319 – “The Voynich Manuscript”

Jul, 20, 2012
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:“Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.” -Terence McKennaAccording to Wikipedia, the Voynich Manuscript has been described as “the world's most mysterious...

Podcast 318 – “Psilocybin and the Sands of Time”

Jul, 10, 2012
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:This is Tape Number 002 of the Paul Herbert Collection.Some of the topics covered in this talk:Repression of psychedelic drugs Element of risk in taking psychedelics The imagination Interiorization of the body/exterization of the soul Death The importance...

Podcast 317 – “New and Old Maps of Hyperspace”

Jul, 05, 2012
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:This is Tape Number 001 of the Paul Herbert Collection.Some of the topics covered in this talk:Two types of shamanism, narcotic and non-narcoticUFOs and aliensThe end of history – the eschatonThe psychedelic experiencePsilocybin allows dialogue with the...

Podcast 316 – “A Deep Dive Into the Mind of McKenna”

Jul, 01, 2012
Guest speakers: Bruce Damer and Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:This program is a recording of part of a live event at the Esalen Institute near Big Sur, California. The workshop, titled “Terence McKenna: Beyond 2012”, was led by Bruce Damer and Lorenzo Hagerty. This specific recording took place...

Podcast 315 – “In a German Salon” Part 3

Jun, 27, 2012
Guest speaker: Timothy LearyPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.]“At every level there are eight stages of intelligence. You have to turn your brain on to the circuits that are used at that level of intelligence. And there are ways to change the human brain to different...

Podcast 314 – “In a German Salon” Part 2

Jun, 21, 2012
Guest speaker: Timothy LearyPROGRAM NOTES:strong>[NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.]“Since World War II, in the Western societies, the generation you belong to is almost a different species.”“It's a wonderful time in history to be alive when young people are doing things better...

Podcast 313 – “In a German Salon 1983″ Part 1”

Jun, 14, 2012
Guest speaker: Timothy LearyPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.]“The way we define intelligence is the amount of information energy you can receive, that you can store and retrieve, and that you can transmit.”“It's very intelligent to be able to live as long as you want...

Podcast 312 – “Occupy the Internet”

Jun, 04, 2012
Guest speaker: Eben MoglenPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Eben Moglen.]“For the policy makers, in other words, an overwhelming problem is now at hand: How do we have innovation and economic growth under austerity? They do not know the answer to this question, and it is becoming so...

Podcast 311 – “The Spirit of the Internet”

May, 29, 2012
Guest speaker: LorenzoPROGRAM NOTES:This podcast features a recording of a talk that I gave in March of 2001 at The Inside Edge, a Southern California association of cultural creatives. The topic was some of the themes in my book, “The Spirit of the Internet: Speculations on the Evolution of...

Podcast 310 – “Introduction to the Valley of Novelty Workshop”

May, 19, 2012
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.”“What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition...

Podcast 309 – “In Praise of Psychedelics” Part 2

May, 11, 2012
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“I think it's time to begin to talk very, very frankly about the forced engineering of consciousness, about the re-shamanising of society, about the re-birth of archaic values before it's too...

Podcast 308 – “In Praise of Psychedelics” Part 1

May, 10, 2012
Guest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]This is the first part of an evening lecture given by Terence McKenna in early February, 1994 on the Hawaiian island of Maui.“Our [Western] civilization touches everyone on this planet. We are involved in a...

Podcast 307 – “Palenque Entheobotany Seminars Remembered”

Apr, 25, 2012
Guest speakers: Matt Pallamary, Wild Bill, & Bruce DamerPROGRAM NOTES:Today's program features, first of all, a conversation between Matt Pallamary and Wild Bill, who begin by reminiscing about the legendary Palenque Entheobotany Seminars, but who then go on to other wild tales, some of which...