Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Various PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 8, 2017 In this last episode of stories from the Blue Dot tour, you get to hear stories from the barn at my parents' place in Lancaster, PA. Tales from Tipper and friends as well as a contest to see if you can find my story in the back catalog. . . . I hope you enjoy this last round of stories. --Lex Pelger Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Downl...
Aug 22, 2018•49 min
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Myron Stolaroff Myron Stolaroff meditating in the morning PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: November 22, 1997 [NOTE: All quotations are by Myron Stolaroff "To me, one of the really great mysteries of our time is how we can have something as valuable as psychedelics and yet have our government, and the public-at-large, have such an absolutely twisted view of it." "As for myself, I'm on record as saying that LSD is the greatest discovery t...
Aug 14, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Aldous Huxley A gathering of friends at Laura Huxley's home PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features two recordings of Aldous Huxley. The first is an interview conducted by Mike Wallace, and the second part of today's program features a lecture of Huxley's that speculates about the possibilities of some sort of existence after the death of our bodies. Date the Mike Wallace interview was recorded: May 18, 1958 [NOTE: All quotations are by Aldous Huxley....
Jul 31, 2018•1 hr 40 min
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Daniel Greig PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: 2018 Daniel Greig studies cognitive science and philosophy. His lectures on psychedelics incorporate magic and mysticism. He uses the language of psychology and neuroscience. It makes for a fascinating mix. In this episode we will be hearing about his unique views on how these drugs are illuminated by the mystical systems of the past. Daniel Greig 'The Psychedelic State' Download MP3 PCs – R...
Jul 25, 2018•38 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "We asked for it, but we never knew we would get it in such spades. Last week was the 25th anniversary of the experiment at La Chorrera, and basically it's a trip that still goes on. We never came down. Now I've given up on coming down. I'm just hoping that if nothing happens in 2012 I'll have a few good years of penitent meditation ahead of m...
Jul 17, 2018•1 hr 22 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Various PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 2017 Thank you to the Philadelphia Psychedelic Society and to Psychedelic Seminars in Baltimore for two beautiful locations to hear these stories. As two of my favorite stops on the Blue-Dot tour, I'm glad to be sharing these stories about the power of psychedelics. -Lex Pelger The Philadelphia Psychedelic Society Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option...
Jul 10, 2018•1 hr 46 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Timewave 1995 - 2012Source: Fractal-Timewave.com PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 1996 This podcast features Terence McKenna in a March 1996 workshop where he goes into great detail about his Timewave idea. Although I haven't been including his Timewave talks in recent podcasts, since this series hasn't been posted elsewhere on the Net I've decided to keep the entire weekend's workshop intact. Baring any unexpected ...
Jul 04, 2018•1 hr 57 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Leia Friedman PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 2018 Leia Friedman hosts "The Psychedologist" podcast, she cofounded the Boston Entheogenic Network, and is a writer and community organizer. She tells Lex about her work and her psychedelic journey. The Psychedologist Cosmic Sister Medicine Hunter Temple of the Way Of Light Psymposia Articles Eco-Feminism Psychedelics & Sexual Healing Social and Climate Justice Activism Download MP...
Jun 26, 2018•45 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 1996 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "The way to get off on DMT is after you feel completely peculiar you have to do one more enormous hit. This is where courage comes in." "A meme has gotten loose on this planet that is the social equivalent of cancer in my opinion, and what it is is capitalism. Capitalism does not serve human beings. It serves itself in the same way ...
Jun 19, 2018•1 hr 27 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Various PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 6, 2017 This week we go back to the very beginning of the Blue Dot Tour where Rick Doblin kicked off our event in Boston. Thanks to Northeastern's Student's for Sensible Drug Policy for making the event happen and to all the storytellers who came out to share. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Cora Venus Lunny Showreel Cora Venus Lunny Website Do...
Jun 12, 2018•1 hr 12 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 1996 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "Nature is the original Internet. Nature is some kind of interconnected, communicating, data routing, self-regulating, non-equilibrium system." "I think what nature teaches, and what life teaches, is that worry is preposterous. Worry is a form of ego mania, because in order to worry you have to assume you understand the situation. Wha...
Jun 05, 2018•1 hr 24 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Casey Paleos PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: 2018 Dr. Casey Paleos is one of the few psychiatrists to have worked with the Big Three: MDMA, ketamine and the psilocybin of magic mushrooms. In this interview, a day after his MDMA experience in Boulder, he shares what he's learned from his years of psychedelic research. Casey A. Paleos, MD "Ketamine: A Light in the Darkness" by Dr. Casey Paleos Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option...
May 29, 2018•1 hr 25 min
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 ...
May 21, 2018•1 hr 22 min
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 Im...
May 16, 2018•54 min
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 c...
May 07, 2018•1 hr
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 Conf...
May 01, 2018•1 hr 8 min
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 a...
Apr 23, 2018•1 hr 33 min
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
Apr 16, 2018•42 min
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...
Apr 09, 2018•1 hr 12 min
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 opti...
Apr 04, 2018•1 hr
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...
Mar 28, 2018•1 hr 14 min
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 e...
Mar 23, 2018•1 hr 2 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com PROGRAM 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 2016 we have hosted speakers to talk about some factual aspect of psychedelia. Our in-person community meets to share stories, promote harm reduction education, and create models for responsible tr...
Mar 19, 2018•59 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Dale Pendell delivering his "Horizon Anarchism" lecture at the 2006 Palenque Norte Lectures during the Burning Man Festival PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1995 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "I take psychedelics to be the catalysis of language." "This great period of creativity that we're living through now in the sciences, in the arts, in the implementation of exotic technology, I think this is th...
Mar 12, 2018•1 hr 17 min
Guest speaker: Julian Vayne PROGRAM 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 new book on creating psychedelic ceremonies. This episode is cross-posted from the Greener Grass podcast. Getting Higher by Julian Vayne Trailer for Getting Higher Julian Vayne's blog The psychedelic ...
Mar 05, 2018•55 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM 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 you can't describe what's going on." "The crisis we're in, as a planetary society, is a culture of consciousness. There ain't enough of it. That's what happens when women are raped in Bosnia. That...
Mar 01, 2018•1 hr 34 min
Guest speakers: Scott Olsen, The Lakey Family From: ‘The Mysteries of the Amazon’ exhibit at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, FL PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: January 14, 2018 On this, the very first episode of ‘Find the Others’, The Lakey Sisters head to Florida. And so we are happy to welcome the Psychedelic Salon’s newest anchors, Alexa and Kat, as they prepare to part ways for the next chapter of their adventures. This episode was recorded just before Kat traveled back t...
Feb 19, 2018•46 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore, Cory Doctorow John Perry Barlow Photo source: EFF.org PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: November 17, 2006 Today we pay tribute to the late John Perry Barlow, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and an important leader in the struggle to keep the Internet free. In addition to John Perry's remarks, we will also hear John Gilmore, another of the co-founders of EF...
Feb 12, 2018•2 hr 22 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM 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 have been built up on the assumption of ego and dominance hierarchies, and deconstructing that is really what the future is all about." "I think the modern family is, first of all a very modern...
Feb 07, 2018•1 hr 4 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM 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 not given enough emphases to diet." "What seems to me to be one of the most centrally interesting questions to be asked of this world, and that is: What is human consciousness? Where did it come f...
Jan 29, 2018•1 hr 6 min
