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Lorenzo Hagerty
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Oct 6, 2020 • 1h 6min
Podcast 658 – “Legal Questions and Answers”
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PROGRAM NOTES:
Date this lecture was recorded: September 28, 2020
Guest speaker:
Gary Smith
Today's podcast features attorney Gary Smith who has just published a major compendium of drug laws in the United States as well as in several other nations. In this wide-ranging interview, which took place during a live session of the Psychedelic Salon, you may be surprised at what could happen to you if the federal government finds both cannabis and a firearm in your home. Even if you have a doctor's medical marijuana recommendation and a licensed firearm you have committed a felony.
Psychedelica Lexa comprehensive survey ofthe laws governing psychedelics
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Sep 27, 2020 • 42min
Podcast 657 – “Psychedelic Law and Terence McKenna
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Guest speakers: Gary Smith and Terence McKenna
PROGRAM NOTES:
Today's program features a collection of short Terence McKenna sound bites that may have some relevance to life during today's pandemic. Additionally, I have included four brief answers to legal questions by Gary Smith, author of Psychedelia Lex and next week's guest in our live salon.
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Sep 1, 2020 • 1h 5min
Podcast 656 – “Damer and McKenna Discuss Covid-19”
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Guest speakers: Bruce Damer and Dennis McKenna
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Date this lecture was recorded: April 4, 2020
Bruce Damer and Dennis McKenna engage in a spirited conversation for a tribute to Dennis' brother, Terence. This conversation was recorded on April 4th, 2020 at an online event held during the early phases of the COVID-19 epidemic. This tribute to Terence marked the 20th anniversary of his death, on April 3, 2000, a day which we have come to call "Terence Day" or perhaps more fun for everyone: "International Boundary Dissolution Day".
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Aug 17, 2020 • 58min
Podcast 655 – “Datura Tips from a Psychedelic Sailor”
Guest speaker: Rio Hahn
Rio Hahn
PROGRAM NOTES:
Date this lecture was recorded: August 13, 2020
Today's program features a recent conversation in the live salon with Rio Hahn. He is an explorer, photographer/filmmaker, and author. Popularly known by the sobriquet “Rio,” given to him during his Amazon River explorations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; a founding and life member of the Rainforest Club; a Fellow, two-term Director, and past Ombudsman of The Explorers Club, as well as serving three terms as Chairman of the San Diego Chapter. He is the recipient of five Explorers Club Flags, a licensed sea captain, an open water diver, and a founding member of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology. And I should add that he is a friend of mine.
I invited Rio to the salon to tell his stories about the time in the Amazon when Terence and Dennis McKenna joined Wade Davis on the RV Heraclitus for their now-legendary meeting in the jungle. However, the high (no pun intended) point of our conversation was his in-depth discussion of datura. This is the first time that datura has been discussed in the salon.
Sawmi's Sacred PlantA Report of Unprecedented Datura Use in Nepalby Robert "Rio" Hahn, FRGS, FN'86
RV HeraclitusOwned and Operated by the Institute of Ecotechnics
Spaceship Earth
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Jul 16, 2020 • 1h 5min
Podcast 654 – “Bitcoin Is Psychedelic”
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Guest speaker: Brandon Quittem
PROGRAM NOTES:
Date this lecture was recorded: July 13, 2020.
Today's podcast features Brandon Quittem whose essay, "Bitcoin is the Mycelium of Money" provided us with a launching pad for a lively discussion about ways in which the world's financial system may experience turbulence brought about by cryptocurrency. In addition to talking about the basics of digital money, we also discussed blockchain technology, psychedelics, and Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin is the Mycelium of Money by Brandon Quittem
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Jun 12, 2020 • 46min
Podcast 653 – “We Cannot Have a Pacified Movement”
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Guest speaker: Nikkita Oliver
Nikkita Oliver
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If you only listen to one podcast from the Psychedelic Salon, I hope that it is this one. While these podcasts have been focused primarily about preserving talks by our elders and promoting the ideas of our "new elders", today's podcast is different. Between the covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter demonstrations we have a lot to consider, and we have some serious decisions to make. Of all the people that I know, the young woman whose ideas you will hear in this podcast, Nikkita Oliver, is the one person who I would follow unhesitatingly into our shared future. She is highly intelligent, a great poet, and a leader that I believe we can trust. After you listen to this podcast and hear her Convergence speech from 2019, her TEDx talk in 2016, and her poems, I hope that you will feel the same way.
Nikkita Oliver's Twitter feed
“Building People Power”:
Nikkita Oliver on Seattle’s Extraordinary Protests and What Comes Next
Seattle People's Party
Podcast 599
“The Psychedelic Hospice Movement” by Lorenzo
8:46 - Dave Chappelle
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Jun 1, 2020 • 2h 44min
Podcast 652 – “The Rose of Paracelsus” – Chapter 2
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Guest speakers: Brother David Steindl-Rast, Leonard Pickard, and Mark Juhan
Brother David Steindl-RastCirca 2004Photo source: Wikipedia
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Today's podcast features a reading by Brother David Steindl-Rast of Chapter 2 from The Rose of Paracelsus, written by Leonard Pickard. Earlier podcasts in this series include:
Podcast 644 – “The Rose of Paracelsus” – Chapter 1
Podcast 609 – “The Rose Garden – Introduction”
Podcast 629 – “The Rose Garden” 002
TED Talk by Brother David Steindl-Rast
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May 27, 2020 • 6min
Podcast 651 – “Brief Pandemic Update from the Salon”
Lorenzo self-isolating in the Psychedelic Salon
This is a brief podcast bringing you up to date with some of the recent online activities of the salon.
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Apr 21, 2020 • 1h 41min
Podcast 650 – “Remembering Queerninja on 4202020”
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Guest speaker: QueerNinja
The DopeTribePodcasting Pioneers
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Today's podcast, which is being released on 4, 20, 2020, is dedicated to and in tribute to our dear friend Queerninja, who departed this little planet earlier in the year. The Ninja was one of the early pioneers of podcasting, and he hosted one of the first music podcasts on the Internet. It was called "The Sounds of World Wide Weed", and today's podcast features a replay of the final program in that podcast series. To lighten the mood a bit, today's podcast ends with Ron Shock's "Best Damn Dope Story Ever."
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A Tribute to Queerninja:
Dopefiend Quarantined 005
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Apr 12, 2020 • 1h 8min
Podcast 649 – “Shamans of the Global Village” Episode 2
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Guest speakers: Niles Heckman and Rak Razam
PROGRAM NOTES:
Date this lecture was recorded: April 6, 2020
Today's podcast features an audio recording of last Monday evening's live salon. Our guests were film makers Niles Heckman and Rak Razam who were with us to talk about the second film in their series "Shamans of the Global Village". Rak Razam is one of the world’s leading ‘experiential’ journalists, and author of the critically acclaimed book Aya Awakenings: A Shamanic Odyssey and the companion volume of interviews, The Ayahuasca Sessions. Niles Heckmanis a filmmaker with a background working in high-end commercials, games cinematics, and multiple Academy Award-winning teams in Hollywood with New Line Cinema, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and Marvel Studios. In this episode, they take us on an in-depth journey into the ancient world of peyote cactus rituals.
Niles Heckman - Documentarian
Shamans of The Global Village Episode 2 (trailer)
Screenings: Shamans of the Global Villiage Episode 2
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