Guest speaker: Timothy Leary PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features Dr. Timothy Leary reading a few selected chapters from his autobiography, Flashbacks. Interestingly, he begins this recording with Chapter 19, which details with his departure from Harvard. [NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.] “We agreed that as much as we loved and respected Harvard University, this finishing school for Fortune 500 executives was not the place for philosophic activists bent on changing practically everything.” “The State of California should be run like a successful business enterprise. . . . Anyone smart enough to live in California should be paid a dividend.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Books by and about Dr. Timothy Leary

Guest speaker: Lorenzo RIP: Zoe7 & Dr. Andrew Sewell PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcasts is from the audio book edition of my novel, The Genesis Generation. It consists of a reading of Chapter 9, Catlin's Salon. This is a fictional account of what was once the most fashionable psychedelic salon on the West Coast. Once each month, for more than eight years, an amazing group of people would gather to discuss a mind-numbing array of topics. And while the story line in my novel is obviously fictional, the backdrop of the salon itself is described as best I can . . . and as best that I now remember, looking back after so many years that have passed since those wondrous meetings of the L.A. Chapter of the Albert Hofmann Society. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Guest speaker: Shonagh Home PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Shonagh Home.] “Plant medicines have long been the domain of women.” “We are taught to escape in this culture, and so what these [psychedelic] medicines will do is they'll take you to the heart of the truth of who you are and what needs to be addressed.” “I think of myself as a spiritual warrior, and a spiritual warrior seeks to know, they are on a quest to know.” “We still have an Inquisition, it's a Pharmacratic Inquisition, it's still around.” “. . . they say we are wanting you to see and understand what's going on, because when you see, you SEE, then it's game over, right? [Which is] another reason why these medicines are illegal, because if you use them enough, in the right set and setting, then you start to get what's going on, you start to really see.” “We are here to remember the truth of what we are.” “You are not the 'story' of what you think you are.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Interview with Shonagh Home on Shamanic Freedom Radio Shonagh Home Web Site Love and Spirit Medicine By Shonagh Home The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens Are Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Values By Thomas B. Roberts

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “History has been the pursuit of a false god, the god of stability, the god of permanence, the god of the unchanging, and we've become just neurotic on this subject.” “What's being said here is re-claim experience. Do not dwell in the mistakes of the past. Do not lose yourself in the castles of the future, and do not give your authenticity away to experts, gurus, government commissions, bosses, wives, mates. Take back your mind and your body.” “You're involved in a mysterious engagement where every living moment presents you with mystery, opportunity, and wonder.” “The suppression of psychedelics has had the unfortunate effect of making it impossible for us to build a linguistically coherent community and have a shared body of experience, because you can't just say this stuff to everybody.” “Coming out of the closet on psychedelics should be part of the political agenda.” “The direct datum for metaphysical speculation should be ones own experience.” “I believe that the boundary dissolving quality of these psychedelics makes them social dynamite.” “The real message of psychedelics, I think, is to reclaim experience and to trust yourself. Your perceptions are primary. Your feelings are correct. Everything must constellate out and make sense and parse with what you know. If you don't start from that assumption then you are off center to begin with. And the psychedelics will dissolve the cultural programming that has potentially made you a mark and restore your authenticity.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth By Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechen Process and Reality By Alfred North Whitehead Childhood's End By Arthur C. Clarke When Prophecy Fails By Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide: A Handbook for Psilocybin Enthusiasts

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “I think if we ever tease apart this psychedelic thing, what we'll discover is it's an inter-species communication system.” “I'm at war with the keepers of the secrets.” “One of the motivations for my career is to get other people to check [DMT] out, because here is truly confounding data that you don't have to make an expedition to the heart of the Amazon, or battle your way through hours of waves of nausea and dark spaces, chanting your mantra obsessively. I mean, when you smoke DMT, 30 seconds later you're in the presence of the unspeakable, and the show is going full blast.” “It really frustrates me when people have psychedelic experiences and don't talk about them, because to me, that's what they're for. They're to fertilize the enterprise of communication. It's to be talked about. And if it's not talked about it's sort of like seeds which fall on sterile ground.” “I think that the world is held together by a misunderstanding.” “The real trick with an extraterrestrial is to know when you're in the presence of one.” “If you want the real thing, it's just five dried grams away. The REAL THING!” “The New Age, generally I find, is somewhat obnoxious, because it's a flight from the psychedelic experience.” “I love science. I just think it's incredibly pretentious and has claimed too much.” “It's astonishing the cul de sacs into which the human mind has wandered.” “The psychedelic thing speaks to freedom, and so you can shine that on a number of issues.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option   Contact in the Desert "The Planet's Premier UFO Convention"

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.” “The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.” “Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.” “The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.” “Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.” “The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Complete Listing of Salon Podcasts at Archive.org Dennis McKenna on the Dr. Future show

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “You discover that truth is philosophical coinage for the naïve. The 'banks' of philosophy do not trade federal truth certificates.” “All knowing is incredibly provisional, and this is something which is hidden within the context of the culture, because cultures don't run around announcing how they haven't got their act together.” “What the psychedelic thing is about, or at least for me, is it's a kind of sensual glorification of multiplicity.” “We are, literally, a schizophrenic species. We are at war with our own nature. Civilization, whatever that means, is felt to be so fragile an enterprise that it's constantly refusing to come to terms with the context in which it finds itself, which is the animal body, sexuality, emotion, pain, desire, elation, ecstasy, and so we go outside of those things and create a generalized abstraction and reason backward.” “The reason psychedelics, I think, are so frightening to the guardians of social order is because they represent a direct addressing of experience.” “What the psychedelics show, that is a secret that some people don't want told, is that we can redesign our behavior. We can change very, very quickly.” “The whole history of humanness is a history of unexpected adaptive response to unusual circumstances.” “Whatever the imagination is, psychedelics catalyze it, psychedelics enhance it.” “If we could feel the consequences of what we are doing we would stop doing it. . . . We're like someone half-awake inside a burning building.” “Everywhere where reason has shown its light the greater darkness has been revealed.” “The truth, for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't you should seek a deeper truth.” “History is the necessary distortion of an animal species to lead it to the brink of an ontological transformation.” “The magic, if that's the word, or the grandiosity, the power of ecstatic exultation that resides in the psychedelic is because it is literally a change of dimensional perspective.” “The real test of your psychedelic authenticity is your ability to write a novel.” “The quintessence of understanding is the ability to occupy other people's points of view.” “Not reckless dose but committed dose. Not to see if it works. It works, other people have established that. You don't need to do research to confirm that it's psychoactive.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

Guest speakers: Annie Oak, Twilight, and Bruce Damer PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a panel discussion with Annie Oak, Twilight, and Bruce Damer that took place at the 2012 Palenque Norte Lectures held at that year's Burning Man Festival. “Women tend to vote against drug law reforms in greater numbers than men, because they're worried about their kids. And without the full participation of women [in the movement to reform drug laws] we will not succeed in gaining our civil rights.” -Annie Oak Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Women's Visionary Congress Palenque Norte 2013 Speakers The Tor Project East Forest What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution By Gar Alperovitz

Guest speakers: Michael Garfield & Matt Pallamary PROGRAM NOTES: Today we only go back in time a short way, back to December 12, 2012 when Matt Pallmary and Michael Garfield took a break during their work on the stage production of Matt's novel, “Land Without Evil”, in Austin, Texas. In this wide ranging discussion between salon favorite, Matt Pallamary, and long time saloner, burner, artist, and musician, Michael Garfield, one of my favorite topics was Michael's very positive take on the long-term impact of the work of Terence McKenna, regardless of the fact that the Timewave theory had obviously been disproven. Michael is also a regular performer on the festival circuit, and his schedule may be found online at Michael Garfield.net Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Psychedelic Salon Magazine Degenerate Art: The Art And Culture Of Glass Pipes “Is Ecstasy the Key to Alleviating Autism Anxiety?” Horizons 2012: CHARLES S. GROB, M.D - “Why Psychedelics Matter” Videos from the Festival Circuit Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.” “Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.” “Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.” “National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.” “Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.” “In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.” “The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.” “Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Books mentioned in this podcast Faster Than Light: Superluminal Loopholes in Physics [Paperback] by Nick Herbert Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics [Paperback] by Nick Herbert A Vision by W. B. Yeats