Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo self-isolating in the Psychedelic Salon This is a brief podcast bringing you up to date with some of the recent online activities of the salon. Join our live conversations on Discord's Psychedelic Salon server - It's FREE! Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com MAPS Career Page Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: QueerNinja The DopeTribePodcasting Pioneers PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast, which is being released on 4, 20, 2020, is dedicated to and in tribute to our dear friend Queerninja, who departed this little planet earlier in the year. The Ninja was one of the early pioneers of podcasting, and he hosted one of the first music podcasts on the Internet. It was called "The Sounds of World Wide Weed", and today's podcast features a replay of the final program in that podcast series. To lighten the mood a bit, today's podcast ends with Ron Shock's "Best Damn Dope Story Ever." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option A Tribute to Queerninja: Dopefiend Quarantined 005 Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Niles Heckman and Rak Razam PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 6, 2020 Today's podcast features an audio recording of last Monday evening's live salon. Our guests were film makers Niles Heckman and Rak Razam who were with us to talk about the second film in their series "Shamans of the Global Village". Rak Razam is one of the world’s leading ‘experiential’ journalists, and author of the critically acclaimed book Aya Awakenings: A Shamanic Odyssey and the companion volume of interviews, The Ayahuasca Sessions. Niles Heckmanis a filmmaker with a background working in high-end commercials, games cinematics, and multiple Academy Award-winning teams in Hollywood with New Line Cinema, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and Marvel Studios. In this episode, they take us on an in-depth journey into the ancient world of peyote cactus rituals. Niles Heckman - Documentarian Shamans of The Global Village Episode 2 (trailer) Screenings: Shamans of the Global Villiage Episode 2 Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "A person who does DMT once a year is a fanatically heavy user, I would say." "One way of judging how toxic a drug, or a plant, is is to ask yourself the question 'How long after I take it do I feel completely normal?' " "You want a surgical strike on the synapses, is what you're going for, not splattering all kinds of junk all over the place." "Growing the mushroom teaches you cleanliness, punctuality, attention to detail, steadiness, all of these virtues, which are the very virtues you need to travel smoothly in that dimension [on a magic mushroom trip]." "Here's a career for somebody. No hallucinogenic insect has ever been found, and yet there are persistent rumors in different parts of the world of either a butterfly or a beetle that is hallucinogenic." "As to why [psychoactive plants] have this peculiar effect that they do in us, I think that's because there was, anciently, and over the evolutionary life of human beings, actually a connection between us and nature. And that these drugs are the antenna, the switches that switch us back toward the Logos of the natural world." "This is something people don't realize, flowering plants are as recent as mammals. If the period of life on Earth is visualized as a yardstick, the period of the flowering plants is the last inch and a half." "[Psychedelics] are the [corrosive] acids of anarchy." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Android Joines PROGRAM NOTES: This Palenque Norte Lecture was recorded at Burning Man in August 2019. "Burning Man is like a handicap Olympics for art. Everybody gets a medal. There's no bar at all. The bar went away. Anything fits in. And we realize the handicap that all of us have in common is that we have the handicap of our trauma. Because it's our trauma, I believe, that is one of the unifying factors that brings us out here. Healthy people don't go out to the middle of the desert, to go do drugs, and get naked with other healthy people." --Android Jones Android Jones Website Samskara An experience by Android Jones [ DMT Simulation ] Dr. Bruce Damer performing "Fire In The Sky" with DJ DISSOLV on music & Android Jones live painting on two LED screens on the Lucent Temple of Consciousness stage at Lightning in a Bottle, May 28, 2016 Shpongle - Android Jones Visuals Shpongledroid Tour in New Orleans on 11-23-19 at Joy Theater Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Corey Doctorow Corey Doctorow PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 2019 [NOTE: All quotations are by Corey Doctorow.] "What like-buttons mainly do is collect data about you." "If you know something about people, you can lie to them better" "In a walled-garden that's what it's all about. It's not about spying on you. It's about locking you in and charging you extra." "Amazon is basically pursuing a strategy to turn themselves into a part of the state, into an arm of law enforcement [by providing doorbell camera footage to the police]." "We'll never be able to make Big Tech behave. The only way to make Big Tech behave is to make Big Tech small." "Tech is the tool we use to fix the other problems." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Podcast 565 – “John Perry Barlow Tribute” Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Eric Cifani and Chris Grasso The Morning After!Eric Cifani (right foreground) PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 2019. Today's podcast features a Palenque Norte Lecture that was presented at Burning Man last August. This presentation was given by long-time friend and supporter of the salon, Eric Cifani. With Eric is Chris Grasso, who also happens to be an attorney. Their presentation brings together the values that shaped shamanism and today's struggle for the freedom to explore our own consciousness without government interference. And I end the podcast with a few words of my own about the importance of shamanism in today's technical world. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Leonard Pickard, Ralf Jeutter, Nese Devenot, Julian Vayne, and Nikki Wyrd PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a reading of Chapter 1 of The Rose of Paracelsus by the author, Leonard Pickard. Additionally, there is commentary by Ralf Jeutter, Nese Devenot, Julian Vayne, and Nikki Wyrd. This podcast was produced by the Lakey sisters, Kat and Alexa. Psychedelic Salon podcast number 609, "The Rose Garden Introduction", provides an overview of this project, which begins today with a reading of Chapter 1. PROGRAM SECTION TIMES: 00:00 Kat and Alexa’s Intro 08:00 Title and Epigraphs 09:18 Author’s Note 10:53 An Invitation 12:12 Report to the Human Subjects Committee 15:20 Chapter 1 Part 1 01:04:07: Chapter Break and Commentary from Nese Devenot Part 1 01:17:32 Chapter 1 Part 2 01:51:42 Ralf Jeutter Commentary Part 1 02:01:20 Nese Devenot Commentary Part 2 02:11:11 Ralf Jeutter Commentary Part 2 02:23:17 Julian Vayne and Nikki Wyrd Commentary 02:29:50 Kat and Alexa’s Sign Off Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Rob Harper PROGRAM NOTES: Date this live salon was recorded: February 3, 2020. Today's podcast features a recording from last Monday's live salon where our guest was Rob Harper, the creator of a new documentary titled "Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness." The film features three men whose psychedelic journeys have had a profound impact on our world. These men are Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, and Aldous Huxley. After the interview with Rob, I play a short recording from earlier podcasts that featured these three men. Hopefully, this will give you a better idea of what pioneers they were and how relevant their ideas are yet today. Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness   Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

RIP QueerNinja (details to follow) Guest speaker: Terence McKenna   Sounds of World Wide Weed was heard on The Dopecast PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "And what was this profession [of shamanism] precisely about? Well, it was about exploring the envelop of cognition, pushing against the linguistic membrane of what it was possible to say, symbolize, conceive, and communicate." "I prefer the organic hallucinogens and recommend them to other people because I think their long history of shamanic usage is the first seal of approval that you must look for. I mean, if these things have been used for thousands of years, then you can be fairly confident that they do not cause [medical problems]." "The situation that we now reside in is not one of seeking the answer but facing the answer. The answer has been found. It just happens to lie on the wrong side of the fence of social toleration and legality." "If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?" Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "This is what the psychedelic experience means. It's a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board into eternity." "What we need is a new myth. What we need is a new true story that tells us where we're going in the universe." "Psychedelics return us to the inner work of the self, to the importance of the feeling of immediate experience." "I think of going to the grave without a psychedelic experience is like going to the grave without ever having sex. It means that you never figured it out what it was all about." "The three enemies of the people are hegemony, monogamy, and monotony." Alien Dreamtime Produced by Ken Adams IMAGINATRIX - the Terence McKenna Experience The Shamen - Re:Evolution (1992) Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Glenn Irving Photo by Sharon McCutcheon PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: January 13, 2020. Today's podcast features an interview with Glenn Irving who is a volunteer with the project known as #ThankYouPlantMedicine. As the project's title tells you, this is a world-wide effort to spread the word about ways in which the plants have come to our aid. The first mission of this project is to encourage 100,000 people to tell their psychedelic plant stories in public. You may be amused at the social media platform where Lorenzo plans to post his psychedelic story on February 20th. Thank You Plant Medicine Envision Festival Feb 17-24, 2020 | Costa Rica Drug Control: National Policies Dr. A.C. Germann, Professor Emeritus Department of Criminal Justice California State University, Long Beach If the ears of all the people in the nation who had ingested illicit substances in the past six months were to turn bright green for one whole week, the nation would be amazed, confused, astounded, and quickly taught something very important as they identified friends, relatives, neighbors, doctors, lawyers, accountants, priests, nuns, ministers, rabbis, soldiers, policemen, firemen, military personnel, businessmen, teachers, students, politicians, respected policy makers, administrators, supervisors, and workers from a variety of private and government institutions everywhere. Psychedelic Storytelling Veterans for Entheogenic Therapy Salon2 011 – “Psychedelic Therapy for Veterans” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Paul Krassner PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features one of the true heroes of the counterculture, Paul Krassner. In addition to leading the creation of our underground press, Paul was friends with important free-speech advocates such as Lenny Bruce and Abbie Hoffman. If you were alive during the so-called Sixties, you most likely remember his magazine, The Realist, that featured items for sale like the "Fuck Communism" bumper sticker and the "Disneyland Memorial Orgy" poster.   Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Paul Krassner's Website The Realist Archive Project The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon October 21, 1967: Antiwar activists' satirical attempt to levitate the Pentagon   Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Sophia Rokhlin PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: December 16, 2019. Today's podcast features a conversation that took place in the Live Salon a few weeks ago with Sohpia Rokhlin. Sophia is an author, speaker and nonprofit organizer from New York City. Through engaged botany and ecology, she bridges the worlds of indigenous ecological knowledge and Western science. She holds a BA in anthropology and religious studies from The New School and a M.Sc. in Ecological Economics from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). She is a Program Coordinator at the Chaikuni Institute and currently directs the sustainable ayahuasca cultivation program at the Temple of the Way of Light, a traditional plant medicine retreat center in the Peruvian Amazon. Sophia is also a co-author of When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance (Watkins, 2019) on the global spread of ayahuasca. She has worked with several psychedelic harm-reduction programs such as KosmiCare, and serves as an advisor on the Ayahuasca Community Committee for the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. She is currently based in Peru. Sophia Rokhlin Website Temple of the Way of Light Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines Dates for upcoming Head Talks with Shane Mauss A Comedian + Psychedelics + A Scientist = Head Talks Shane Mauss Website Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Ram Dass Ram Dass & Lorenzocirca: 2001 PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Ram Dass.] "I was addicted to the experience of being high. I was not addicted to the chemicals, but just to the state. I had touched something so pure, and so fulfilling, that I had to keep going back. And I tried every method I knew to stay high." "What is required on this trip is renunciation of attachment." "Psychedelics show a possibility, but beyond that you still have a lot of stuff to do." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: September 1987. [NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.] "I used to be a Libertarian, but they had too many rules." "And by 1968 a Gallup Poll showed that 70% of the population were against war. There's never been a time in the history of this country where 70% of the people opposed the government on a thing like war. So I regard LBJ as a pacifist president because he made pacifism so popular." "Alan Watts said to me 20 years ago the chief error of academic historians is the belief that the Roman Empire fell. It never did. It still controls the Western World through the Vatican and the Mafia. Well, Alan was exaggerating. It doesn't control the Western World. It's just trying to." "The American people are the most policed and governed and watched and observed and snooped upon people in the whole world." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: October 2, 1992. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]> "The horrible thing about UFO-people who claim contact is that the aliens they present to us are so incredible mundane. [They are] so much more mundane than what you would encounter on a DMT flash. They're just like the neighbors next door." "With alien intelligence the trick is not to find it but to to recognize it when it's in front of you." "Intelligence is a very slippery concept. Sometimes we can't even identify it in the person sitting next to us on the bus." "I think the world is a lot stranger than we can suppose without invoking benevolent aliens who prefer vegetarian diets and who come from the stars. Why do they so fit our preconception of what they would be?" "I think the best protection against unpleasant experiences on psychedelics is to do it with care and attention in environments that are safe and low on sensory input. In other words, you don't take it and go to a crowded singles bar, or even a rock 'n roll concert. If you have to combine psychedelics with rock 'n roll, do it with low doses." "I am terrified of psychedelics. I never take them without a sense of sickening dread." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Psychedelic researcher Sasha Shulgin in his lab PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: October 2, 1992. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Matter is becoming a fairly uncomfortable dimension for us to be in, and I daresay matter would probably be highly relieved to have us just move on so that the rainforest, chipmunks, glaciers, and schooling salmon can go back to doing what they do best." "There is no reason to expect rationality to be apprehensible." "A little courage on the part of these almighty scientists would go a long way toward overwhelming the fearful strictures placed on them by politicians who are trying to maintain a social equilibrium that is fairly odious anyway." "Mantras, with psychedelics, work like magic. Yoga, breath control, drumming, visualization, simple prayer, it all works amazingly well in the presence of psychedelics." "Unfortunately, these non-psychedelic spiritual techniques are very quickly co-opted by the beady-eyed priests among us who then peddle it back to us with a menu of moral do's and don't s." "I think the real spiritual frontier lies in the community. . . . We must, somehow, carry everyone with us." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Tom Roberts PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a conversation from last Monday's Live Salon with Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D., who is a professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University. Tom not only began teaching the world's first university catalog-listed psychedelics course in 1981, he is also a founding member of MAPS, former visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins, editor of Spiritual Growth with Entheogens, and author of Psychedelic Horizons and The Psychedelic Future of the Mind. In this interview, Tom talks about his latest book, MindApps: Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design. However, you most likely know him as the man who created the first Bicycle Day celebration. Date this lecture was recorded: November 18, 2019 [NOTE: The following quotations are by Tom Roberts.] "I'm attempting to broaden the field [of psychedelics], and trying to get people who are interested in history and literature and philosophy interested in psychedelics." "We can install ideas in our brain/mind complex, just as we install apps on our devices." Thomas Roperts, Ph.D. Publications Mindapps: Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option ALSO MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST Boohbah: Skipping Rope (Episode 1) A visual trip - no drugs needed :-) A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Jonathon Miller Weisberger PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: October 28, 2019. Today's podcast features a conversation that a few of my friends and I had with Jonathon Miller Weisberger, who is the founder of the Ocean Forest Ecolodge Retreat in Costa Rica. Jonathan is also the author of Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon. For almost 19 years he has also been facilitating plant medicine council gatherings in Costa Rica and Ecuador. Jonathon was born in Berkeley, raised in Ecuador, and began his training in the Amazon with Maestro Don Cesareo in the early 90s. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon Ocean Forest Ecolodge Retreat, Costa Rica Rainforest Medicine Gatherings The Difference between Ayahuasca and Yagé Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books