Psychedelic Salon

Guest speaker: Neal Goldsmith PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Neal Goldsmith.] “Personality is a strategy devised by a two year old.” “Parenting is like that. You don't want to be directing your child. You want to be more like a forest ranger than a farmer, making sure that if lightening strikes and there's fires you go put it out. But other than than you let the bramble grow, beautifully, and wholly, and healthfully.” “If you have a psychedelic experience, then your meditation practice is illuminated, and understood better, and aerated, if you will, conceptually aerated. You see it more clearly. It's not as musty, and the two go together, because mediation without psychedelics is kind of blind, but psychedelics without meditation is rootless.” “Ritual instantiates what works.” “Spirituality is not some big supernatural thing. It's just the advanced stage of normal human development.” “Psychedelics and meditation go together.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development By Neal M. Goldsmith Neal Goldsmith's WebSite Neal Goldsmith's Contact Information A recent, wide-ranging interview with Neal Goldsmith for the Comcastro podcast A recent write-up/interview with Neal Goldsmith in Brooklyn Magazine A recent interview with Neal Goldsmith in Bedford and Bowery magazine An interview on "Psychedelics as a Healing Modality" with Neal Goldsmith for the Questions for People podcast A six-minute video interview with Neal Goldsmith on psychedelic ecology called Fusion of Spirit and Science An hour talk by Neal Goldsmith on Psychedelics, Psychotherapy, and Change from the MAPS Psychedelic Science conference

Guest speakers: Nathan Ehrlich & Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Today the first feature is a story by Nathan Ehrlich which first appeared on the Israel Story Podcast this past January. This is a story of healing, both physically and psychologically by two men from different countries who discovered the healing properties of psychedelic medicines. We then close with a short rap by Terence McKenna who explains what he believes to be the best method for smoking NN-DMT. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Nathan Ehrlich, Multimedia Journalist Shamanic Journeys in Peru with Sergey Baranov Israel Story Podcasts on iTunes TAKE THE THIRD HIT Terence Mckenna (HD) by Collective Awakening   This campaign aims to actively: -Increase awareness around the benefits of psychedelics -Share stories humanizing the diversity of psychedelic users -Reverse decades of negative stigma surround psychedelic and psychoactive drugs -Educate people about current scientific research -Promote psychedelic harm reduction by understanding the true risks and how to manage them -Help end arrests, incarceration, and criminalization associated with global drug prohibition -Unite psychedelic, drug policy reform, and harm reduction movements We'd love for your organization to join us. Ways to get involved: In April, spread the message through your network encouraging everyone to use #psychedelicsbecause on social media Join us in New York during the UN General Assembly Special Session on Bicycle Day, 4/19: facebook.com/events/540226032823475 Reply back with your organization's logo attached if you would like to be included and featured on our upcoming website, psychedelicsbecause.org Submit a 2-sentence video for our promo: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j4jhXO_qO3fWN1ygrf_uQE2n4b4DbAk8dmPF70DweXA/edit Or if you have other ideas to contribute, let us know :-)

Guest speaker: Bernardo Kastrup PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a lengthy reading by Bernardo Kastrup from his new book, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief. This reading comes from Part 3 of the book, which is a fictional account of a young scientist who participated in a research program that is investigating the nature of reality through the use of psychedelic medicines and brain scans during the experience. During the course of the experiments this fictional scientist uncovers the many layers of consciousness upon which our consensus reality is based. People who have had the good fortune to experience what Sasha Shulgin called a Plus 5 experience will most likely be amazed at how well Bernardo has captured the essence of such experiences. More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief by Bernardo Kastrup Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Guest speaker: Bruce Damer PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a series of raps by Bruce Damer who is backed up by the Faye Steen House Band led by: Joe Oppenheimer on loops, FX, and acoustic, with Darcy Davis on keys, and Aengus Donald on percussion. The recording was made in Melbourne, Australia in 2015. This is followed by Lorenzo giving a few of his thoughts about the state of the world today and a way in which alchemy may be applied to heal it. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Alien Dreamtime Directed by Ken Adams Boss Drum Shamen An army of none: The U.S. military is more powerful, less accountable and more dangerous than ever before A World War Has Begun - Break The Silence

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Trust your perceptions. Trust your intuition. And then accept the consequences, because this is what existential validity must be.” “Must it not be that humanity is the yeast of of the Gaian alchemical rarefaction, and that human history is the process of catalyzing the alchemical condensation.” “Speciation of a single plant can occupy fifty or sixty thousand years. It never happens more quickly than that, and the grinding down of glaciers from the poles, these are processes that take hundreds of thousands of years. With the advent of human beings an entirely new ontos of becoming, an entirely new category of becoming is introduced into the entire cosmos, as far as we know, because we cannot verify that there are other self-reflecting beings in the universe.” “Memory is a time-binding function. It's a way of somehow taking the past and calling up its essential properties so that they are co-present with the given moment of experience.” “Our bridges are burning behind us. We see no way back.” “If you believe in something you have precluded the possibility of believing in its opposite, and you have hence limited your freedom.” “Every belief has consequences.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option More Terence McKenna and Hermeticism Podcast 223 – McKenna: “Hermeticism and Alchemy” Part 1 Podcast 224 – McKenna: “Hermeticism and Alchemy” Part 2 Podcast 225 – McKenna: “Hermeticism and Alchemy” Part 3 Podcast 226 – McKenna: “Hermeticism and Alchemy” Part 4

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “What we would call manic depression, despair, and that chaotic, near psychotic state of unbounded hopelessness is the precondition then for the alchemical work.” “An angel chartered modern science. It's the alchemical angel, which will not die. It returns again and again to guide the destinies of nations and people toward an unimaginable conclusion.” “The alchemical spirit lives on. It never really died. It's just that it has taken peculiar forms in our own day.” Podcast 319 - "The Voynich Manuscript" by Terence McKenna Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Guest speakers: Rose Kiseato & Shonagh Home PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a conversation between Shonagh Home and Rose Kiseato Shepherd Davis, who is a Navajo-Hopi water woman of the Native American Church of North America. She is from the tobacco clan and is a 5th generation grandmother in her maternal line. Rose is an accomplished artisan bead-worker who teaches classes on this ancient craft. She is recognized both by her tribe and by the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, and many people consider her to be their spiritual mother and grandmother. She has been participating in the peyote ceremony for over 25 years, and she lives on the Navajo Reservation in Sanders, AZ. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Cannabis Nurses Magazine Shonagh Home is a teacher, shamanic practitioner, and the author of ‘Ix Chel Wisdom: 7 Teachings from the Mayan Sacred Feminine,’ ‘Love and Spirit Medicine’ and the upcoming, ‘Honeybee Wisdom: A Modern Melissae Speaks.’ Website: www.shonaghhome.com Contact: shonagh.home (at) comcast (dot) net

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Modern philosophy is a desert for my money, and who cares about it? Nobody cares about it. Who's living their life according to the conceptions of modern philosophy, nobody as far as I can see.” “We live in a universe so alienated that we can barely conceive of the way back.” “We're like people who don't remember who we are or where we came from. And we just wander mumbling through the streets of our cities, foraging in garbage cans and frightening other people.” [Quoting another] “Coming into being is nothing else than presentation through sense.” “Too much light is trapped in the organic matrix.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “A child playing with mercury is an alchemist hard at work, no doubt about it.” “Buddhism would have gotten nowhere in America had not psychedelics created a context for Buddhist language to take root.” “Modernity has fixed our minds in the categories of Cartesian rationalism.” “The imagination is central to the alchemical opus, because it is literally a process which goes on in the realm of the imagination taken to be a physical dimension.” “We cannot understand the history that lies ahead of us unless we think in terms of a journey into the imagination.” “Somehow the redemption of the human enterprise lies in the dimension of the imagination. And to do that we have to transcend the categories that we inherit from a thousand years of science and Christianity and rationalism.” “Authentic being, make no mistake about it, is what alchemical gold really is. That's what they're talking about, authentic being.” “Somehow it's possible for an informing voice to come into cognition that knows more than you do. It is a connection with the collective unconscious, I suppose, that is convivial, conversational, and just talks to you about the nature of being in the world and the nature of your being in the world.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances A. Yates

Guest speakers: Veronica Hernandez & Shonagh Home PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a conversation between Veronica Hernandez and Shonagh Home. Veronica Hernandez, is a clinical psychologist and shamanic practitioner. Born in Peru, since 2006 she has been trained on shamanic facilitation. She received her clinical training at the Institute of Rational-Emotive Therapy, New York, under the supervision of Dr. Albert Ellis. She was assistant professor at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and research assistant at the Hospital Psiquiátrico Noguchi de Lima (Peru). In the United States, she worked as a Social Services Clinician at John Muir Health Hospital’s Inpatient Psychiatric Adolescent Unit, California. Currently she is completing her doctoral degree at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, where she is carrying out research on the healing and transformative benefits of entheogens, especially Ayahuasca. Among other topics, Veronica and Shonagh talk about children using pharmaceuticals, personal growth, spirituality, Jung's concept of a shadow, and processing psychedelic experiences. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option