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.

Salon2 043 – “Psychedelic Charleston”

May, 16, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: VariousPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: May 23, 2017From the May 23, 2017 stop on the Blue-Dot tour, a psychedelic storytelling session in Charleston, South Carolina that served as the launch event for our friends at the Society for the...

Podcast 572 – “A Tribute to Larry Harvey”

May, 07, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Larry HarveyPhoto source: BurningMan.comPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Larry Harvey.]"Milton Friedman once said, 'Only a crisis, real or imagined, produces real change.' When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas...

Salon2 042 – “Psychedelic Law”

May, 01, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Noah PotterPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: April 2018A lawyer specializing in psychedelic law and a New Yorker who witnessed the heyday of Yippie activism in Sin City, Noah Potter shares his thoughts on the past and the future of the...

Podcast 571 – “Terence #2”

Apr, 23, 2018
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]"One thing about psychedelics, you don't have to be predisposed. It doesn't work for those who believe it work. It works for those who think it doesn't work.""The problems which...

Salon2 041 – “Psychedelic Stories from Atlanta”

Apr, 16, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speakers: VariousPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: May 17, 2017Today's Salon2 podcast features a few psychedelic stories from a wonderful hot night in Atlanta. Thanks to Moshe Jacobson for making the night happen.Psychedelic Atlanta's Meetup...

Podcast 570 – “A Psychedelic Truth”

Apr, 09, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaPedaling toward expanded awareness!PROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]"Nothing is unannounced.""[A psychedelic truth:] Nothing lasts.""The lie of Western psychology is that...

Salon2 040 – MDMA for PTSD

Apr, 04, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Ingmar GormanPROGRAM NOTES:Today's Salon2 podcast features an interview with Dr. Ingmar Gorman about his work at the intersection of MDMA and PTSD. Ingmar Gorman, Ph.D.The Psychedelic Education and Continuing Care ProgramPsychedelics 101 & 102 for...

Podcast 569 – “Searching for a Bias-less Media”

Mar, 28, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna"Rational, and by that I mean statistically extractable expectations, seem to be superseded on these trips by a kind of magical...

Podcast 568 – “We Become What We Behold”

Mar, 23, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKenna"Cosmic Christ" by Alex GreyPhoto credit: LorenzoPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]"If a Buddhist could design their own genome they would become a fungus, because a fungus...

Salon2 039 – “Psychedelic Columbus”

Mar, 19, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comPROGRAM NOTES:Today's podcast presents a powerful round of story telling that took place in a Columbus, Ohio bike hangar. The event was hosted by the wonderful community of Mind Manifest West."Mind Manifest Midwest is a psychedelic society based in Columbus, Ohio. Since...

Podcast 567 – “Psychedelicize Yourself”

Mar, 12, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaDale Pendell delivering his "Horizon Anarchism" lecture at the 2006 Palenque Norte Lectures during the Burning Man FestivalPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]"I take...

Salon2 038 – “Psychedelic Magick”

Mar, 05, 2018
Guest speaker: Julian VaynePROGRAM NOTES:Today's Salon2 podcast features the return of Lex Pelger who interviews Julian Vayne, an author and oculist. They about the history of drugs and magick - especially in the underground London scene. Vayne also highlights some of the important ideas from his...

Podcast 566 – “A Tribe of Selves”

Feb, 28, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: April 1993[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna"I think it's important to talk about and analyze your experience. There is no communication, even within the confines of your own mind, if...

Salon2 037 – “The Family that Trips Together, Sticks Together”

Feb, 19, 2018
Guest speakers: Scott Olsen, The Lakey FamilyFrom: ‘The Mysteries of the Amazon’ exhibit at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, FLPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: January 14, 2018On this, the very first episode of ‘Find the Others’, The Lakey Sisters head to Florida. And so we...

Podcast 565 – “John Perry Barlow Tribute”

Feb, 12, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speakers: John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore, Cory DoctorowJohn Perry Barlow Photo source: EFF.orgPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: November 17, 2006Today we pay tribute to the late John Perry Barlow, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, co-founder of the...

Podcast 564 – “Plants and Mind (Part 2-Chimpanzee or Bonobo)”

Feb, 07, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: April 1993[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna"And that's what we are now, semi-human. We're capable of enormous acts of kindness and appalling acts of brutality.""All of our institutions...

Podcast 563 – “Plants and Mind” (Part 1)

Jan, 29, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: April 1993[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]"I think the great overlooked factor in any model of human evolution, and indeed of evolutionary models of many other species, is we have...

Podcast 562 – “What It’s Like To Be Loaded”

Jan, 22, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna"Psychedelics are like any other social phenomenon. There are a lot of wannabes. There are a lot of people who are along for the ride.""I want to talk about what to my mind is the...

Podcast 561 – “Psychedelics and Artificial Intelligence”

Jan, 15, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: April 1999[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna"The electronic media and the psychedelics work together in a peculiar way to accentuate archaic values, values which are counter to the...

Podcast 560 – “McKenna’s Thoughts About Marshall McLuhan”

Jan, 12, 2018
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.comGuest speaker: Terence McKennaPROGRAM NOTES:Date this lecture was recorded: August 1993In today's podcast Terence McKenna waxes eloquent about the writing of Marshall McLuhan, whose work in the 1960 was considered a revolutionary break with traditional ways of thinking...