Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "Psychedelics are like any other social phenomenon. There are a lot of wannabes. There are a lot of people who are along for the ride." "I want to talk about what to my mind is the quintessential hallucinogen, and consequentially the quintessential spiritual and magical tool of this dimension. And that is DMT, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine." "A long, long time ago I took an oath to t...
Jan 22, 2018•1 hr 28 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: April 1999 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "The electronic media and the psychedelics work together in a peculiar way to accentuate archaic values, values which are counter to the print constellated world." "The shaman is like a designated traveler into higher dimensional space. The shaman has permission to unlock the cultural cul-de-sac of his or her people and go behind the ...
Jan 15, 2018•1 hr 3 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 1993 In today's podcast Terence McKenna waxes eloquent about the writing of Marshall McLuhan, whose work in the 1960 was considered a revolutionary break with traditional ways of thinking about media. As Wikipedia says about McLuhan, he "was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. His work is one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having...
Jan 12, 2018•59 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 10, 1996 [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna "This synesthesia thing seems to be the direction in which language has to go in order to be universal. It has to be beheld, acoustical signals don't do it." "No matter how abstract the meaning may be it ultimately is a feeling of recognition." "If you can somehow realize that the purpose of your existence is to figure it out, and...
Dec 24, 2017•1 hr 18 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch Source: WikipediazClick to see larger image PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 1993 Today's podcast features the last talk that Terence McKenna gave during his August of 1993 Scholar-in-Residence program at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. His topic for the evening was the way in which artists like Bosch and poets like Yeats imagined a trans-historical fu...
Dec 19, 2017•1 hr 2 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: George Greer PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 31, 2017 Today's podcast features Dr. George Greer, one of the co-founders of the Hefter Research Institute. In this Palenque Norte Lecture that he delivered at the 2017 Burning Man Festival, Dr. Greer not only covers the current state of psychedelic research, he also provides several interesting anecdotes about ways in which research participants have had their lives significantly imp...
Dec 11, 2017•53 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Grover Norquist Grover Norquist delivering his 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture at the Burning Man Festival PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 29, 2017 [NOTE: All quotations are by Grover Norquist "The best coalitions come from the hard right and hard left. Center coalitions don't get you anything except more of the same. Each of them are part of the status quo. So you're not going to get dramatic changes there." "What makes it enduring ...
Dec 04, 2017•1 hr 29 min
Follow Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: John Gilmore Electronic Self Defence Tools from EFF PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: September 1, 2017 [NOTE: All quotations are by John Gilmore] "The U.S. still has the world's largest prison population in absolute numbers and per capita. We imprison more people than the next ten countries put together. It's insane. It's a warped part of our culture." "[Some of the opposition to the Drug War] comes from people who are making money from ...
Nov 27, 2017•1 hr 23 min
Guest speakers: Daniel Pinchbeck and Michael Garfield Daniel Pinchbeck speaking at the first Palenque Norte Lectures during the 2003 Burning Man Festival.Photo by Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 30, 2017 Today's podcast features the author Daniel Pinchbeck and some friends at the 2017 Palenque Norte Lectures that were held during the Burning Man Festival. Besides discussing his books, ibogaine, and ecology, they also give us their thoughts about evolution and cultur...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 10 min
Guest speaker: Bruce Damer Bruce Damer delivering his 2003 Palenque Norte Lecture PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 31, 2017 Today's podcast features the 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture by Dr. Bruce Damer. As he describes the life-long journey that has led him to search for the origin of life on Earth, you may be surprised at how forthcoming he is about the ways in which he thought about this problem. "Our common ancestor is a community, not an individual. . . . We did not come f...
Nov 13, 2017•1 hr 26 min
PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 After a Veterans' Day story by Lorenzo, today's podcast features some stories from Nashville. Thanks to everyone at the Nashville Psychedelic Society for your help making a perfect last stop of the Blue Dot Tour. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Nov 12, 2017•1 hr 1 min
Guest speaker: Shonagh Home Kai Wingo speaking at Breaking Convention:3rd International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, July, 2015 PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: October 2017 Today's podcast features a talk given by Shonagh Home in October for the Women and Entheogens Conference. Kilindi continued the conference in honor of the conference founder Kai Wingo. The Women and Entheogens Conference was the brainchild of psychonaught Kai Wingo. Continuing Kai's legacy the confe...
Nov 07, 2017•46 min
Guest speaker: Benjamin De Loenen International Center for Ethnobotanical Education Research and Service PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 In today's podcast Benjamin De Loenen, the founder of ICEERS (International Center for Ethnobotanical Education Research and Service), talks about things that led him to start this organization, which comes to the defense of plants and is dedicated to sharing the science and best practices around their use. ICEERS.ORG The Ayahuasca Defense F...
Nov 02, 2017•45 min
Guest speakers: Annie Oak and friends Photo source: Fortune420.com PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a panel of distinguished women, all of whom are participating in various ways in the burgeoning new world of legal cannabis growing, distribution, and education. The panel assembled on the last evening in August at the 2017 Burning Man Festival, where they spoke in the Palenque Norte Lecture tent. You don't have to be a woman to get a lot out of the information and experience of these amazi...
Oct 30, 2017•1 hr 1 min
Guest speaker: Dave Nichols Photo by Jon Hanna from the Erowid.org vault of Dr. David Nichols PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 As the founding president of the Heffter Research Institute, a chemist who crafted some of the most important research molecules of this generation and a leader in the psychedelic community, we're pleased to present an interview with Dr. David Nichols. He talks about the impetus for his interest in these molecules, the potential dangers of microdosing ...
Oct 26, 2017•32 min
Guest speaker: Rick Doblin Lorenzo looks on as Jon Hanna delivers the very first Palenque Norte Lecture at the 2003 Burning Man Festival. PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: September 1, 2017 Today we feature the 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture delivered by the founder of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies, Rick Doblin. In this wide ranging talk, besides an update about the recent FDA approval for MAPS' major Phase 3 study of MDMA, we are treated to the fascinating s...
Oct 23, 2017•2 hr
Guest speaker: Keeper Trout PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 The wonderful Keeper Trout shares with us today includes his experiences archiving the files of Dr. Alexander Shulgin, working to collect the chemistry of psychedelic plants and medicines (particularly mescaline containing plants), and the cultural and legal history of the Native use of peyote and cactus as well as its suppression by the United States government. Keeper Trout is a multifaceted and delightful characte...
Oct 19, 2017•56 min
Guest speaker: Android Jones Android Jones delivering his 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 2017 Today's podcast features the Palenque Norte Lecture given by visionary artist Android Jones at the 2017 Burning Man Festival. Rather than give a structured lecture, Jones answers questions from the audience about the process he uses, including the use of entheogens, to create the fantastical images that we have seen on album covers, festival posters, li...
Oct 16, 2017•59 min
Guest speaker: Ben Stewart Ben Stewart PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 The filmmaker Ben Stewart sits down in Lex Pelger's living room to share his story about the journey that led him to making films and how the psychedelics helped shape his path. You can learn more about his work on his website: http://talismanicidols.net/ Watch Ben Stewart's videos at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVtkjwwba5AyYyIkq-DSZkw Follow Ben on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/KymaticaNamaste/ ...
Oct 13, 2017•42 min
Guest speaker: Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow delivering his Palenque Norte Lecture at the 2017 Burning Man Festival PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 2017 Today's podcast features the 2017 Palenque Norte Lecture by Cory Doctorow. In this talk, which was given during the Burning Man Festival, Cory walks us through some of the current issues having an impact on our ability to have our thoughts and words exchanged between ourselves without the threat of Big Brother listening in. A...
Oct 11, 2017•1 hr 10 min
Guest speaker: Neal Goldsmith PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: October 4, 2017 Today we hear from Neal Goldsmith about the speakers at the Horizons psychedelics conference this weekend: http://www.horizonsnyc.org/ And then our old friend Brian talks about the Saturday night event with Duncan Trussel. https://www.psymposia.com/events/microdosing-duncan-trussell/ If you can't make it, you can watch the show on their livestream. And as always, if you'd like to have your events, gather...
Oct 04, 2017•27 min
Guest speaker: Sergey Baranov Sergey Baranov PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 The path to peyote for a Russian seeker named Sergey Baranov. Throughout communities spanning the Americas, Sergey explored plant medicines and even faced a near-death experience before finally settling in Peru and founding the 'Cactus House' where he now leads ceremonies. Sergey Baranov's Website: http://shamansworld.org/ His Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/huachumawasi/ Path: Seeking Truth ...
Oct 03, 2017•1 hr 2 min
The War Nerd Guest speaker: John Dolan PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 Today's podcast features an interview with John Dolan, who is well known as the "War Nerd". Additionally, he has another alter ego as the writer Gary Brecher. The War Nerd podcast covers a wild amount about the history along with speculations about the future of human warfare. In this interview, John explains the long history of drugs and war. Follow John Dolan on Twitter, https://twitter.com/TheWarNerd An...
Sep 28, 2017•58 min
Guest speakers: Michael and Annie Mithoefer Annie & Michael Mithoefer PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 Michael and Annie Mithoefer have been working for years to bring MDMA into the forefront as a treatment for PTSD. As a couple who works together holding space for these sessions, they share about what they learned of the promise and pitfalls of this medicine. Also see Psychedelic Salon Podcast 86, which was posted on April 4, 2007 for Michael Mithoefer's 2006 Palenque Nor...
Sep 25, 2017•48 min
Guest speaker: Gore Vidal PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a lecture by Gore Vidal about the true history of the U.S. presidency. Also included is a brief bit by George Carlin where he explains why America is always at war. And Lorenzo explains in detail why he believes that the USA is already a failed state. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option
Sep 21, 2017•1 hr 37 min
PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 Today's podcast features a great storytelling night from the Blue-Dot tour. Hosted by the Chicago Psychedelic Club, you can hear why we loved our stop in the Windy City. You can join the Chicago Psychedelic Club Also: check out 'The Journal of Humanistic Psychiatry' For integration meetings in Chicago, there is the newly formed 'Psychedelic Safety, Support, and Integration' group. To support our efforts, here in Salon2, at gathering stories, in...
Sep 18, 2017•1 hr 19 min
Guest speaker: Bruce Damer Dr. Bruce Damer at Burning Man 2017 PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 Some big announcements this week followed by a conversation with Dr. Bruce Damer who shares from his wealth of stories, science and psychedelic history. You can learn much more about his many endeavors at his website: Damer.com Dr. Damer's podcast is The Levity Zone TEDx talk by Dr. Damer explaining his work Open-access paper about Damer's findings including the graphic he scribbled...
Sep 11, 2017•1 hr 14 min
Guest speakers: Kevin Leibrock and Michael Harinen PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 Kevin Liebrock and Michael Harinen from Bluebird Botanicals tell us about their work producing high quality CBD oil that can be shipped to all fifty U.S. states. They answer some of the most commonly asked questions that people have about CBD. They also explain the process of producing whole plant extracts from Colorado hemp and discuss the ongoing involvement of the FDA, DEA and the Department...
Sep 04, 2017•52 min
Guest speakers: Matthew Markert and Frank Sacco PROGRAM NOTES: Year this lecture was recorded: 2017 For Marijuana Month, this week is our Cannabis "Paradox" Pair o' Docs episode. Dr. Matthew Markert shares thoughts about cannabis, epilepsy and the brain. As an MD/PhD interested in altered states of consciousness, he chose epilepsy as a way to study unusual states of the brain. You can email him at stanfordneuromed (at) gmail (dot) com. Then we hear from Frank Sacco, a doctoral student in Clinica...
Aug 22, 2017•1 hr 9 min
Guest speaker: Becca Williams PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: 2017 After much work with cannabis, Becca Williams learned how to use it as a Spirit Plant medicine. She teaches people about the power of cannabis to heal traumas and now leads Cannabis Ceremonies in Denver, Colorado. Her work also includes excellent educational videos. Her Website, Cannabis Ceremonies, is overflowing with content. Cannabis Ceremonies on YouTube Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl...
Aug 14, 2017•44 min
