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Consciousness

289-Wilson: "The Lost Studio Session"

I’m not really sure how to introduce this talk, which actually is a series of eight short vignettes about a wide range of topics. For example, who but Bob Wilson would be able to combine the idea of remaking the King Kong movie but staring Rush Limbaug…

Psychedelic Salon

288-McKenna: “What’s So Great About Mushrooms?” Part 2

Today’s podcast comes in two parts. First comes the question and answer session with Terence McKenna in which he not only makes statements such as, “Acid heads are in charge of designing the cutting edge of culture,” but also makes a statement abou…

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287-McKenna: “What’s So Great About Mushrooms?” Part 1

Today I’m beginning a slightly different format, the change being that after the lecture or interview, instead of adding my own comments about the talk, I will be covering various aspects of the Occupy movements now taking place all around the planet. …

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277-Various: "Peter Gorman Interviews Dennis McKenna" Part 2

This is the second part of a 1994 telephone interview that Peter Gorman (author and former editor of High Times Magazine) conducted with Dennis McKenna. In this part we learn of the curious coincidences that led Dennis to the successful conclusion of h…

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276-Various: "Peter Gorman Interviews Dennis McKenna" Part 1

This is the first part of an interview that Peter Gorman did with Dennis McKenna in 1994. In addition to hearing some interesting boyhood stories about the brothers McKenna, we learn of some of the things that were major influences on their lives. Pete…

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275-McKenna: "The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience"

In this October 1983 talk given in Berkeley, California, Terence McKenna speaks about the unspeakable, the essence of various kinds of psychedelic experiences. In addition to hearing some of his early adaptations of his ideas about the importance of th…

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270-McKenna: "Tryptamine Consciousness"

This marks the sixth anniversary of podcasts from the Psychedelic Salon, and it features yet another old Terence McKenna lecture. This one was given in December of 1982, which was in the early days of his public speaking career. McKenna’s focus for the…

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266-McKenna: "Interview with Dennis McKenna"

Dennis McKenna (in a wide-ranging interview with David Ellenbogen for WKCR 89.9 FM in New York City) gives us some of his views on the neurochemistry of the brain and where and how he sees consciousness fitting into the big picture of the cosmos. And h…

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234-Trialogue: "The World Soul"

Today’s talk is the missing Tape 4 from the first McKenna, Abraham, and Sheldrake Trialogue sessions recorded in 1989. Terence begins by telling a rather amazing story about a walk he had on a beach that turned into a fractal psychedelic experience, a…

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184-Damer: "The Boundaries of the Human Mind"

Today’s podcast features Bruce Damer, first at a Mind States conference in Oaxaca, Mexico and then in a late night conversation with Lorenzo. Among other things, Bruce talks about the team he led that developed some of the Virtual Reality simulations N…

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181-McKenna: “What Science Forgot” Q&A

In today’s podcast, we hear the Question and Answer session from the talk by Terence McKenna that we heard in my previous podcast. It begins with the question, “Can you talk about the relationship of advanced mathmatics to modeling of consciousness in …

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171-Leary: "The Technology of Freedom"

In this 1981 talk by Dr. Timothy Leary, he speaks about freedom, and about the technology we can use to achieve it. Among some of his other more provocative statements, he says: “Prison is a luxury. Unfortunately it is wasted on people who don’t know h…

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119-McKenna: "A Crisis of Consciousness"

In this talk by Terence McKenna, among other things, he says, “It is a crisis in consciousness which confronts us globally. Consciousness is the commodity that if we do not have enough of it, do not produce it fast enough, then the momentum of the proc…

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115-Pesce: "Bios and Logos"

In this talk that was delivered at the 2002 Mind States Conference held in Jamaica, Mark Pesce discusses, among other things, the technological singularity, DNA, and nanotechnology and how they relate to the ongoing evolution of our species.

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106-Damer: "The Ultimate Revelation: How Rare We Are in the Universe"

In this 2007 Burning Man Playalogue sponsored by Palenque Norte, futurist Bruce Damer leads a community discussion about how rare life appears to be in the universe. And he has a few suggestions about what we might want to do about it.

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104-Blackmore: "Consciousness Isn’t What It Seems To Be"

This program includes Susan’s ground-breaking talk, “The Grand Illusion of Consciousness” given at the Mind States IV conference held in Berkeley, California on the last weekend in May, 2003. . . . Also in this program, Lorenzo explains, for the first …

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