Psychedelic Salon

Psychedelic Salon

775 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 611 – “At Home With DMT”

Jun, 24, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Andrew GallimoreAndrew GallimorePROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: June 17, 2019.Today's podcast features an interview with Dr. Andrew Gallimore regarding his protocol for extending DMT experiences with a drip technology. This conversation was...

Podcast 610 – “Beyond the Medical Model for Psychedelics”

Jun, 17, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comAnnie Oak and Ismail AliGuest speakers: Annie Oak and Ismail AliPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: February 26, 2019.Thanks to the new wave of research, psychedelics are poised to soon have legal medical use. MDMA- and psilocybin-assisted therapy are entering...

Podcast 609 – “The Rose Garden – Introduction”

Jun, 10, 2019
Guest speakers: William Leonard PickardKat & Alexa Lakey, discussing The Rose from Santa Cruz, and Cusco, PeruJulian Vayne & Nikki Wyrd, reading from Devon, EnglandBrother David Steindl-Rast, reading from Gut Aich Priory in Salzburg, AustriaBen Sessa MD, reading from London, EnglandRalf...

Podcast 608 – “Danny Nemu and the Neuro-Apocalypse”

Jun, 03, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Danny NemuPROGRAM NOTES:Danny NemuToday's podcast features a conversation that fellow saloner, Lex Pelger had with the Reverend Danny Nemu, author of 'Science Revealed' and 'Neuro-Apocalypse.' Their conversation covers how Danny found religion in Japan,...

Podcast 607 – “Music, Psychedelics, and Magic”

May, 27, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Matthew SchultzPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: May 15, 2019.Today's podcast features a conversation between Michael Kokal and avant-garde musician and artist Matthew Schultz. He was a founding member of the dark ambient band Lab Report,...

Podcast 606 – “Michael Pollan Discusses Psychedelics”

May, 20, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Michael PollanNow available in PAPERBACK!PROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: June 6, 2018Today's program features an interview with Michael Pollan by Michael Margolies from the Psychedelic Seminars project in San Francisco. Pollan is the author...

Podcast 605 – “Microdosing: Benefits, Risks, Unknowns”

May, 13, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speakers: James Fadiman and Ayelet WaldmanMike Margolies, Ayelet Waldman, and James FadimanPROGRAM NOTES:Date this interview was recorded: October 22, 2018.Today's podcast centers around microdosing psychedelics, LSD in particular. Much of today's interest in...

Podcast 604 – “Healing With Sound”

May, 06, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speakers: Matt Pallamary and René JenkinsRené Jenkins and Matt Pallamary PROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: April 2019.Today's program features a conversation between frequent guest, writer, and musician Matt Pallamary and René Jenkins who among...

Podcast 603 – “Treating Opioid Addiction with Ibogaine”

Apr, 30, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speakers: Andrew Tatarsky and Lakshmi NarayanPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: April 22, 2019Today's podcast features a recording of a recent session of the Psychedelic Salon LIVE in which our guests were Dr. Andrew Tatarsky and Lakshmi Narayan. In an...

Podcast 602 – “RAW Theology”

Apr, 21, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Robert Anton WilsonPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: Sometime in 1987.][NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.]There truly is no way to succinctly describe a talk by Robert Anton Wilson. This is one that you will want to listen to...

Podcast 601 – “The Secret of Psychedelics”

Apr, 15, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Alan Watts.Alan WattsPhoto from Archive.orgPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Alan Watts.]"If you have a radio, you don't only need an antenna, you also need a ground. So what happens in the world of mysticism, of psychedelic visions and so on,...

Podcast 600 – “Elders from the Sixties Discuss LSD”

Apr, 08, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speakers: Myron Stolaroff, Sidney Cohen, Al Hubbard, Timothy Leary, Oscar Janiger, and Humphry Osmond Left to Right: Myron Stolaroff, Sidney Cohen, Al Hubbard, Timothy Leary, Oscar Janiger, and Humphry OsmondPhoto credit: Erowid.orgPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture...

Podcast 599 – “The Psychedelic Hospice Movement”

Apr, 01, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Lorenzo HagertyA view of Roasario Resort in the distance ...  on Orcas Island, WashingtonPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: March 22, 2019Today's podcast features the talk that Lorenzo delivered at the recent Imagine Convergence held on Orcas...

Podcast 598 – “A Conversation with Nick Sand”

Mar, 19, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Nick SandLorenzo at home with Usha and Nick SandPROGRAM NOTES:Today's podcast features an interview given by legendary chemist Nick Sand, the creator of Orange Sunshine LSD. In this interview, given a few years before Nick's untimely death, we hear him...

Podcast 597 – “Terence McKenna on Art Bell” Part 2

Mar, 18, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: March 19, 1998.[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]"Repeated exposure to cannabis socializes it dramatically, and it becomes a much more manageable thing.""I can imagine the culture...

Podcast 596 – “Terence McKenna on Art Bell” Part 1

Mar, 18, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaArt BellPROGRAM NOTES:Today's podcast features an interview that Terence McKenna did on the Art Bell radio program on March 19, 1998. This conversation begins with an interesting discussion of how Terence was living off the grid at the...

Podcast 595 – “The Edge Runner” Part 2

Mar, 17, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: May 1990.Today’s podcast features the second part of a talk that Terence McKenna gave in May of 1990. Rather than follow a script for this talk, Terence answers questions from the audience...

Podcast 594 – “The Edge Runner” Part 1

Mar, 17, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: May 1990.[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]“The world that we are living in is not at all as the linguistic structures we have inherited would have us have it. We are actually...

Salon2 056 – “The Harvard Psychedelic Club”

Mar, 11, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Gunther WeilGunther WeilPROGRAM NOTES:Today's podcast from our Psychedelic Salon 2.0 track features some epic stories from a psychonaut who’s seen it all. His name is Gunther Weil.Gunther escaped the Holocaust, worked with Tim Leary on the LSD Concord...

Podcast 593 – “Understanding the Chaos at History’s End” – Part 5

Mar, 06, 2019
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989.Today we continue with the June 1989 Terence McKenna workshop session in which he sets out his ideas about history and time in his Timewave hypothesis. And while we now know that...