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Podcast 478 – “Breaking The Spell On You”


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Guest speaker: Shonagh Home

From the "Married to Nature" series by Terra HolcombPROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Shonagh Home.]

“The mushroom has a wildness to it because it is wild, just as our minds once were wild.”

“I see the mushroom as the ultimate test of the initiate because you’re on your own. There’s no shaman to guide you, and so it is up to you to determine how this [experience] is about to look.”

“What is the point of doing these medicines if you are not going to break the spell of your perceptions, of who and what you think you are, and what you perceive this world to be.”

Exploring Psychedelics Conference, 2015

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November 24, 2015 · Filed under Culture, Evolution, Future, Language, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Shonagh Home

Podcast 477 – “What is this medium called consciousness?”


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Guest speaker: Hamilton Souther

Hamilton SoutherPROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Hamilton Souther.]

“In the jungle, the ayahuasca is used traditionally to heal what are known as mystical, non-ordinary, problems.”

“I came to look at it and realize that what we [North Americans] were looking for wasn’t specifically an experience that would produce healing, but we were looking for a shift in consciousness that would produce healing.”

“We are self-regulating, universal beings.”

“There can be negative effects, and that’s very real. The psychedelic plants are crap shoots in their own right, which makes having the presence of someone very trained very important. And that’s a departed point out in the world, like, take it and go and see what happens. I’m not of that group of thought. I think it’s very important to have people there who really, really know what they’re doing, like REALLY know what they’re doing.”

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Hamilton Souther’s Website

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November 16, 2015 · Filed under Ayahuasca, Burning Man, Consciousness, Culture, Education, Evolution, Future, Hamilton Souther, Medicine, Palenque Norte, Psychedelics, PTSD, Shamanism

Podcast 476 – “Origins of the Choice-Maker”


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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna

PROGRAM NOTES:

Today we pick up on the February 1996 Terence McKenna workshop that we began with Podcast 472. When he gets to his overview of habit and novelty and then moves into a discussion of time, his poetic language provides several interesting mental footholds from which we can expand on some of his thinking about the topic of time. As he says, “We are very naieve about the nature of time,” pointing out that the concept of using an average of measurements taken in a science experiment requires that all moments of time must be the same. “Are they?” he asks. “Is every moment just like the others?” From there he takes us on an interesting journey into the I Ching.

“We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.” -Terence McKenna

“Time is a series of fluctuating variables.” -Terence McKenna

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Victory for Users:
Librarian of Congress Renews and Expands
Protections for Fair Uses

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November 10, 2015 · Filed under Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Eschaton, Evolution, Future, Imagination, Psychedelics, Terence McKenna, Timewave

Podcast 473 – “Outcasts and Future People”


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Guest speaker: Timothy Leary

PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.]

“We deliberately keep kids dumb by treating them like kids.”

“We all know that if voting would change anything it would be illegal.”

“The future belongs to those who can see the future.”

“The smarter you are, the higher you want to be.”

“The key to the Sixties, as we see it now, was a period of self-discovery, of self-indulgence, and the refusal to accept the adult hive’s over-specialized models.”

“Show me a taboo, and I’m interested in it.”

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October 19, 2015 · Filed under Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Education, Evolution, Future, Imagination, Psychedelics, Timothy Leary

Podcast 470 – “Enter the Medicine Woman”


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Guest speaker: Shonagh Home
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PROGRAM NOTES:

Today we feature Shonagh Home from a talk that she gave at the recent Women & Entheogens Conference that was held in Cleveland, Ohio. The focus of Shonagh’s presentation has to do with breaking the spell of our cultural constructs that are preventing us from living informed and satisfying lives. She begins with an excellent overview of how, over the centuries, the ruling elite have conditioned society in ways that keep most of us from being truly free to pursue our lives in ways that suit us. She then introduces the ancient concept of the medicine woman and suggests ways in which we can embrace their return.
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BBC Documentary: The Century of the Self

John Taylor Gatto: The Pathological Methodology of Forced Schooling

Documentary: Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century

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

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September 28, 2015 · Filed under Books, Culture, Evolution, Future, Medicine, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Religion, Shamanism, Shonagh Home

Podcast 461 – “Shake the mud off your shoes, monkey”


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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries by W.Y.Evan Wentz

PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

“In hyperspace nothing is hidden.”

“Culture is a narrowing.”

“We’re about to have the chance to create a global culture, to essentially clean our basement and decide what we’re going to save and what we’re going to keep.”

“It’s the monotheistic religions that have to take a knock for the present situation.”

“The thing that I go back to over and over again, and that makes psychedelics different, and that makes what I’m doing different, is you are not asked to believe anything.”

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Psychedelic Salon Magazine

The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries: The Classic Study of Leprechauns, Pixies, and Other Fairy Spirits
By W.Y. Evans Wentz

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July 27, 2015 · Filed under Culture, Evolution, Future, Myth, Psychedelics, Religion, Terence McKenna

Podcast 459 – “Apes shouting at the monolith”


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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna

PROGRAM NOTES:

[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

“The most politically potent thing you can do for somebody is to educate them, to give them the facts. The facts are now so horrifying, and the means of delivering the facts so effective that there is no excuse for everyone not beginning to act in an informed manner.”

“How can we go to the place where ideas come from?”

“We are to life what life is to the inorganic realm.”

“I think psychedelics are catalysts to thought, to imagination, to understanding.”

“Our style of society is the historical equivalent of a temper tantrum. It has no viability. It’s completely self-limiting. It’s destructive. And it hands nothing on to its receivers.”

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From Larry to Lorenzo from Lorenzo Hagerty on Vimeo.

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July 13, 2015 · Filed under Consciousness, Culture, Education, Environment, Evolution, Future, Occupy, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Shamanism, Terence McKenna

Podcast 457 – “The Divine Invasion”


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Guest speaker: Rak Razam

Rak Razam

PROGRAM NOTES:

Today’s podcast features a talk given by Rak Razam this year at Byron Bay, Australia. Rak is an ‘experiential’ journalist, who writes about the emergence of a new cultural paradigm in the 21st century. Rak is the author of the critically acclaimed book Aya Awakenings: A Shamanic Odyssey and the companion volume of interviews, The Ayahuasca Sessions. In this podcast he discusses the Gaian process underway spearheaded by ayahuasca and other plant entheogens healing and cleansing us humans, preparing us to return to the “Garden”, and the sudden popularity of 5-MeO-DMT Sonoran Desert Toad medicine.

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Rak Razam (home page)

Aya Awakenings (trailer HD)

Ayahuasca Retreats

Dying to Know:
Ram Dass & Timothy Leary – Official Trailer #1

Bay Area Release Info with Direct links to ticket sales
Film opens Friday July 10th at the following theaters:

San Francisco – Roxie theater:

Berkeley – The Elmwood:

Sebastopol – Rialto:

San Rafael – The Smith Rafael Film Center:


Eugene Center for Ethnobotanical Studies

We are a crowd-sourced, social enterprise dedicated to supporting  plant-based, non-profit health and well-being as a viable, sustainable, and growing option to corporate based, for-profit, pharmaceutical options.


Casualties of the State (trailer)

Why watch “Casualties of the State,” a feature-length drama-thriller:

 

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June 29, 2015 · Filed under Ayahuasca, Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Death, DMT, Evolution, Future, Medicine, Psychedelics, Rak Razam, Shamanism

Podcast 456 – “Engineering Enlightenment”


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Guest speaker: Mikey Siegel

Mikey Siegel delivering his 2014 Palenque Norte Lecture

PROGRAM NOTES:

“Technology is a manifestation of mind.”
Mikey Siegel, Consciousness Hacker

Have you ever given any thought to the proposition that perhaps human well-being, or enlightenment, may be approached through engineering? In today’s podcast, which is the 2014 Palenque Norte Lecture given by Mikey Siegel, you are going to learn not only about the possibilities of such a thing as engineering enlightenment, you are also going to learn about the rapid advances that have been made in this field during the past five years. Mikey Siegel is one of the pioneers of what has come to be known as “consciousness hacking”, which is a hands-on-approach to making new tools for self-exploration.

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Enlightenment engineering–tech as catalyst for inner & outer peace:
Mikey Siegel at TEDxSantaCruz

BioFluent Technologies: tools for integrating body, mind and spirit

Consciousness Hacking is a hands-on approach to making new tools for self-exploration, in order to change the way we think, feel, and live.

Psychedelic Thinking And The Dawn of Homo Cyber (PDF)
Lorenzo’s May 2001 Mind States Talk

Podcast 001 – “Psychedelic Thinking and the Dawn of Homo Cyber”

Podcast 226-McKenna: “Hermeticism and Alchemy” Part 4

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June 23, 2015 · Filed under Burning Man, Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Education, Evolution, Family, Future, Hermeticism, Imagination, Mikey Siegel, Palenque Norte, Psychedelics

Podcasts 454 – Aldous Huxley: “Human Potentialities”


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Guest speaker: Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

PROGRAM NOTES:

This podcast celebrates the ten year anniversary of programming from the Psychedelic Salon. And so we return to one of the men who was responsible for igniting today’s psychedelic renaissance, Aldous Huxley. The talk featured here was delivered at MIT in 1961, sometime after it was first given at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. The Medical Center version of this talk has been credited with giving Dick Price the inspiration to co-found the Esalen Institute. Today, more than 50 years after this talk was given, there remains much of current interest in the sentiments that Huxley so eloquently puts forth.

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June 10, 2015 · Filed under Books, Consciousness, Culture, Education, Evolution, Future, Huxley, Psychedelics

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