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May 21, 2018 • 1h 22min

Podcast 573 – “Countdown Into Complexity” – Part 1

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna The Baths at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 1996 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "My techniques are all shamanic and involve perturbing the senses and dissolving ordinary states of mind through psychedelics. So my techniques are shamanic, but my method is rational and analytical. So I use shamanic techniques to go into shamanic places and then attempt to study them scientifically using reason." "To me, the New Age is typified by an incredible credulity and an utter immunity to cognitive dissonance." "What I have done is I probe weirdness, but rationally. Most people who are attracted to weirdness want to convert, and believe it, and take it in, and exalt it. I don't. I don't want to believe anything. I hate ideology, all ideology. That's why I'm so casual about the possible crushing of my own, because ideologies are a lesser resolution of our dilemma than we are capable of." "The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does." "Culture is a flight from reality. ALL culture is a flight from reality." "Radical human freedom is what you were born for, and culture is a kind of placenta, which if you develop normally by around age twenty you have no need of it, and in fact you've recognized the toxic nature of it and are trying to put it behind you and get away from it." "All this computer revolution is is a shift to more lightweight building materials." "Enormous doses of fuzzy thought and ideology are usually known as religion. . . . And the claim that you can achieve, somehow, the paradox of being outside without ever leaving culture by using the cultural instrument of religion to make your way to the heart of the mystery. I reject this. I just think think it's bunk." "Spiritual thirst can't be culturally confirming, because it's a rejection of culture. Culture generates spiritual thirst." "In the underground, then, an enormous database has been built up. No one knows as much about psychedelics as people in the underground, because they're the people who have actually taken them, correlated that date, and kept track of it." "Psychedelics demand of us courage. Every single person who says they've done psychedelics several dozen times is a courageous person. You're standing in the presence of fearlessness, because otherwise people turn away from it." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
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May 16, 2018 • 54min

Salon2 043 – “Psychedelic Charleston”

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Various PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 23, 2017 From 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 Exploration of Altered States. Society for the Exploration of Altered States https://www.meetup.com/connectwithSEAS/ Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Imperfectionists - San Francisco, California Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
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May 7, 2018 • 60min

Podcast 572 – “A Tribute to Larry Harvey”

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Larry Harvey Photo source: BurningMan.com PROGRAM 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 that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic mission: To develop alternatives, and keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable." "You can't base the core of a culture on sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. Only an adolescent will tell you that." "The fact of the matter in the Sixties, at least the Hippie part, were avid consumers. They were happy consumers. The only people who came up with a critique of it later on were the Punks. As unattractive as they were, they figured out what the essential problem was. They would not sell out. They would not be commodified." "You are not going to create community unless you struggle together with other people. You will not create community unless you face survival with other people. Community isn't about sentiment. It's not about Kumbaya. It's not about loving other people., per se. It's about struggling with them, because only when you struggle together for survival with other people do you begin to see their soul. That's how it's done." "The Sixties were America's great recess." "If you want a stage at Burning Man, build it yourself." "We're not hiding from the world, we're trying to change it." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Burning Man Official Site Burn on the Bayou Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
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May 1, 2018 • 1h 8min

Salon2 042 – “Psychedelic Law”

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Noah Potter PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 2018 A 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 movement.   New Amsterdam Psychedelic Law Noah Potter, Counsel Noah Potter on LinkedIn Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Psychedelic Salon Monday Night Zoom Conference May 7, 2018 at 6:30 pm Pacific Time Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/598427792 Meeting ID: 598 427 792 Or iPhone one-tap: US: +16468769923,,598427792# or +16699006833,,598427792# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833 International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=rl6IjnPedyZ-dzB0GyTfHxP3-t34FYcb East Forest Podcast with Lorenzo Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
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Apr 23, 2018 • 1h 33min

Podcast 571 – “Terence #2”

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM 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 face us, put very simply, are going to demand sacrifice. And sacrifice is what the ego doesn't want to hear about." "Capitalism is as anti-human a philosophy as you can possibly conceive, because at this very moment we should be consuming less, manufacturing less, selling less, transporting less. And what's the battle cry? Free trade everywhere!" "The way a dream melts away is the way a DMT trip melts away, at the same speed." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Techno Pagan Octopus Messiah http://octopusmessiah.com/ Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
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Apr 16, 2018 • 42min

Salon2 041 – “Psychedelic Stories from Atlanta”

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Various PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 17, 2017 Today'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 Group Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
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Apr 9, 2018 • 1h 12min

Podcast 570 – “A Psychedelic Truth”

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Pedaling 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 something is stable. . . . And because of this lie we are in a state of perpetual anxiety because the truth of our experience is nothing lasts." "The central truth of being is the felt presence of immediate reality. That's all you will ever have." "I think this ability to accept the inevitable passing and coming to be of phenomenon is what psychedelic wisdom is really about." "Community is the enemy of authoritarian organization." "They don't hand out rights around here. The only people who have any rights are people who demand them." "Don't people understand that the essence of sophistication is tolerance?" "I think Americans are paranoid of nature." "This is very important work. Whether we succeed or fail, it would be tragic to not make the effort, because I think we really align ourselves with the Gaian intent when we bring these things to the community and share them." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
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Apr 4, 2018 • 60min

Salon2 040 – MDMA for PTSD

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Ingmar Gorman PROGRAM 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 Program Psychedelics 101 & 102 for Clinicians' courses Announcements Global Psychedelic Earth Day Cleanup on April 22, 2018 ICEERS survey of psychoactive use Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Lightning In A Bottle Learning and Culture Lineup Jon Hanna's video of Bruce Damer's 2007 Palenque Norte Lecture A short video clip the Lorenzo took at Bruce's lecture   Matt Pallamary, Bruce Damer, Jon Hanna, Lorenzo at the 2007 Palenque Norte Lectures   Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
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Mar 28, 2018 • 1h 14min

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

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM 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 connectedness. All kinds of strange things happen on trips that really happen! It's not hallucinations. These things really happen. The ordinary laws of causality are obviated, and you become a magnet for the strange, the peculiar." "In some sense, when you take a plant it takes you. . . . So essentially when you take psilocybin you are experiencing all the previous psilocybin trips that ever were." "I'm not of the school that says what we need is a drug we don't have. . . . I think that we have the substances we need. What we don't have are the techniques and the intelligence to know what to do with them." "Cannabis is the rudder on your ship." "In a sense, learning what drugs you should and shouldn't take is as big a task as deciding what kind of person you should or shouldn't go to bed with." "I think if you go through life taking vast amounts of drugs of all sorts then you didn't quite get it right. The idea is to find what works for you and then put the pedal to the medal. If it's LSD, or whatever it is, these things have personality. It's just like making a friendship, and some people are gonna want to be your friend, and some people are going to think you're a jerk. And you don't want to hang out with those people because they make you feel bad." "I don't believe everything the mushroom tells me. I just treat it like everybody else. You can't trust anybody one hundred percent." "I think one of the problems with education is that we are trying to use a print-created institution to educate electronically biased human beings. And it's created a kind of speed bump against illiteracy." "When media becomes bias-less media becomes reality." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Psychedelic Salon's Flipboard Magazine Psychedelic Salon Monday Night ZOOM.US CONVERSATION Please join us for an online conversation on the first Monday of each month. Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/598427792 Meeting ID: 598 427 792 Or iPhone one-tap: US: +16699006833,,598427792# or +19294362866,,598427792# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 929 436 2866 International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=rl6IjnPedyZ-dzB0GyTfHxP3-t34FYcb Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1
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Mar 23, 2018 • 1h 2min

Podcast 568 – “We Become What We Behold”

Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna "Cosmic Christ" by Alex GreyPhoto credit: Lorenzo PROGRAM 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 is a primary decomposer. It is the only karma-less place in the food chain. There is no karma for the fungi. They don't destroy any life whatsoever." "The trick is going to be to recognize the extraterrestrials." "I think probably the biota of the Earth is riddled with extraterrestrial genes, if not organisms, and possibly intelligences." "It's very clear to me that every abduction case around, except for a vanishingly small number that we can put in the classical category of stigmata, can be explained by one simple fact: People are losing the ability to distinguish dreams from memories." "Trust only yourself." "I think we're getting set, basically, to decamp into the imagination. That the imagination is as real a place as across the river is if you've just acquired eyes." "A shaman is a seer, is a prophet, is a higher dimensional mathematician. And they may not use tensor equations to express what they're doing, but mathematics before symbols is experience." "We have unleashed such novelty that I think we're in the terminal phase of decamping from three dimensional space. We are leaving the womb of Newtonian being for something else, the imagination. And the birth is tumultuous. The entire planet is at risk." "If this planet hadn't been wrecked sixty-five million years ago we wouldn't be here. Well then, what is our position on planetary catastrophe? We're in the process of making one. Is it so that sixty-five million years in the future an organism filled with love, and justice, and intelligence will look back at our skeletons in the shale and say, 'Well, they had a good thing going, but if it hadn't been for their extinction we wouldn't be here.' " Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option "Thinking Outside the Quantum Box" by Bernardo Kastrup Download a free copy of Lorenzo's latest book The Chronicles of Lorenzo - Volume 1

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