Psychedelic Salon

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com PROGRAM NOTES: Guest speakers: Ben Sessa, Tom Roberts, and Kat Lakey Today's podcast features a reading of Chapter 3 from Leonard Pickard's novel, The Rose of Paracelsus. The chapter is read by Dr. Ben Sessa who is currently leading a psychedelic research project with Professor David Nutt in the UK. The reading is followed by commentary by Dr. Thomas Roberts. Long time listeners to the salon will remember Dr. Roberts from my Podcast 633 – “The Man Who Invented Bicycle Day”. Leonard Pickard's email addressaphrodine (dot) 1 (at) gmail (dot) com Links to previous Rose Garden Podcasts Podcast 609 – “The Rose Garden – Introduction” Podcast 629 – “The Rose Garden” 002 Podcast 644 – “The Rose of Paracelsus” – Chapter 1 Podcast 652 – “The Rose of Paracelsus” – Chapter 2 Ben Sessa's Current Project Books by Thomas Roberts Psychedelics and Spirituality: The Sacred Use of LSD, Psilocybin, and MDMA for Human Transformation The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens Are Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Values Mindapps: Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design Foreword by James Fadiman Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select optionMacs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: November 16, 2020 Guest speakers: Pat Murphy and Charlie Grob Today's podcast features an interview in the Live Salon with filmmaker Pat Murphy and psychedelic researcher Dr. Charles Grob. During the course of the conversation the conversation drifted into several interesting tributaries. However, the main focus of our conversation was to discuss Pat's new film, Psychedelia. PSYCHEDELIA​ ​is an hour-long documentary film about psychedelic drugs and their ability to induce mystical and religious experiences. The film chronicles their use in controlled research studies prior to the cultural upheaval of the 1960s, when LSD was regarded as a promising medical breakthrough, as well as their recent re-emergence in psychiatry. Featuring leading experts in the field of psychedelic research, the film tells the story of medical professionals who have re-introduced these compounds into a legal and growing field of study. First-person accounts from a study on end-of-life anxiety explore the profound, life-altering insights psychedelics induce in participants and what these insights might mean for society at large. Psychedelia(the movie) Virtual Screening with Fluence25% off discount code: PSYCHEDELIADOC Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select optionMacs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com PROGRAM NOTES: Date this live salon was held: October 22, 2020 Guest speakers: Rio Hahn, Michael Shields, and Ron Turner Today's podcast features a recording of a live salon in which former friends and associates of Dr. Timothy Leary shared their remembrances of him on the occasion of 100th anniversary of Dr. Leary's birth. Among other first-hand accounts, we learned the truth about why Timothy decided at the last minute to not have his head frozen after he died. Archive of Timothy Leary talkson the Psychedelic Salon Lorenzo's Days as a Drug DealerConfessions of an Ecstasy Advocate

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: Guest speaker: J. Krishnamurti Today I am going to replay a recording of J. Krishnamurti that I first played here in the salon in January of 2009. A lot has happened since then, but I haven't noticed any overall change for the better in the way we humans interact with one another. My thought is that it may be worth our time to have another listen to these words of wisdom. [The following quotations are by J. Krishnamurti in today's podcast.] “Give your heart and your mind with every thing that you have to find out a way of living differently.” “We are talking about a revolution, not physical, but a psychological revolution in which there is no, at the depth, conformity. … Conformity exists when there is comparison. For a mind to be totally free from comparison, that is to observe your whole history which is embedded in you.” “What’s your answer to this question that human beings have lived this way for millennia upon millennia, why haven’t they changed? . . . Why don’t you, if you’re at all serious in this matter, why don’t you ask yourself that question? Why am I, a human being who has been through all of this, why haven’t I changed?” “And when observed through history, through our life, all that hope and faith have no meaning at all, because what is important is what we are, actually what we are, not what we think we are, or what we think we should be, but actually what is.” J. Krishnamurti 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 PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: September 28, 2020 Guest speaker: Gary Smith Today's podcast features attorney Gary Smith who has just published a major compendium of drug laws in the United States as well as in several other nations. In this wide-ranging interview, which took place during a live session of the Psychedelic Salon, you may be surprised at what could happen to you if the federal government finds both cannabis and a firearm in your home. Even if you have a doctor's medical marijuana recommendation and a licensed firearm you have committed a felony. Psychedelica Lexa comprehensive survey ofthe laws governing psychedelics Gary Smith's YouTube Channel Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select optionMacs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Gary Smith and Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Today's program features a collection of short Terence McKenna sound bites that may have some relevance to life during today's pandemic. Additionally, I have included four brief answers to legal questions by Gary Smith, author of Psychedelia Lex and next week's guest in our live salon. Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Bruce Damer and Dennis McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 4, 2020 Bruce Damer and Dennis McKenna engage in a spirited conversation for a tribute to Dennis' brother, Terence. This conversation was recorded on April 4th, 2020 at an online event held during the early phases of the COVID-19 epidemic. This tribute to Terence marked the 20th anniversary of his death, on April 3, 2000, a day which we have come to call "Terence Day" or perhaps more fun for everyone: "International Boundary Dissolution Day". Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

Guest speaker: Rio Hahn Rio Hahn PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 13, 2020 Today's program features a recent conversation in the live salon with Rio Hahn. He is an explorer, photographer/filmmaker, and author. Popularly known by the sobriquet “Rio,” given to him during his Amazon River explorations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; a founding and life member of the Rainforest Club; a Fellow, two-term Director, and past Ombudsman of The Explorers Club, as well as serving three terms as Chairman of the San Diego Chapter. He is the recipient of five Explorers Club Flags, a licensed sea captain, an open water diver, and a founding member of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology. And I should add that he is a friend of mine. I invited Rio to the salon to tell his stories about the time in the Amazon when Terence and Dennis McKenna joined Wade Davis on the RV Heraclitus for their now-legendary meeting in the jungle. However, the high (no pun intended) point of our conversation was his in-depth discussion of datura. This is the first time that datura has been discussed in the salon. Sawmi's Sacred PlantA Report of Unprecedented Datura Use in Nepalby Robert "Rio" Hahn, FRGS, FN'86 RV HeraclitusOwned and Operated by the Institute of Ecotechnics Spaceship Earth 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: Brandon Quittem PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: July 13, 2020. Today's podcast features Brandon Quittem whose essay, "Bitcoin is the Mycelium of Money" provided us with a launching pad for a lively discussion about ways in which the world's financial system may experience turbulence brought about by cryptocurrency. In addition to talking about the basics of digital money, we also discussed blockchain technology, psychedelics, and Bitcoin. Brandon Quittem Website Bitcoin is the Mycelium of Money by Brandon Quittem 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: Nikkita Oliver Nikkita Oliver PROGRAM NOTES: If you only listen to one podcast from the Psychedelic Salon, I hope that it is this one. While these podcasts have been focused primarily about preserving talks by our elders and promoting the ideas of our "new elders", today's podcast is different. Between the covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter demonstrations we have a lot to consider, and we have some serious decisions to make. Of all the people that I know, the young woman whose ideas you will hear in this podcast, Nikkita Oliver, is the one person who I would follow unhesitatingly into our shared future. She is highly intelligent, a great poet, and a leader that I believe we can trust. After you listen to this podcast and hear her Convergence speech from 2019, her TEDx talk in 2016, and her poems, I hope that you will feel the same way. Nikkita Oliver's Twitter feed “Building People Power”: Nikkita Oliver on Seattle’s Extraordinary Protests and What Comes Next Seattle People's Party Podcast 599 “The Psychedelic Hospice Movement” by Lorenzo 8:46 - Dave Chappelle 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: Brother David Steindl-Rast, Leonard Pickard, and Mark Juhan Brother David Steindl-RastCirca 2004Photo source: Wikipedia PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a reading by Brother David Steindl-Rast of Chapter 2 from The Rose of Paracelsus, written by Leonard Pickard. Earlier podcasts in this series include: Podcast 644 – “The Rose of Paracelsus” – Chapter 1 Podcast 609 – “The Rose Garden – Introduction” Podcast 629 – “The Rose Garden” 002 TED Talk by Brother David Steindl-Rast Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

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