psychedelic

PROGRAM NOTES: The featured audio that I play in this podcast is part of a two-CD collectionproduced by Joe Matheny and given to the salon to podcast by the distributor, The Original Falcon Press, which you can find via originalfalcon.com. The voices you will here are those of: Douglas Rushkoff, Antero Alli, Tiffany Lee Brown, and Joseph Matheny. FROM: http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/?p=439&fb_source=message

Podcast 296 – “The World and It’s Double” Part 2

PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “One of the most puzzling things about DMT is that it does not affect your mind. It simply replaces the world 100% with something completely unexpected. But your relationship to that unexpected thing is not one of exaggerated fear, or exaggerated acceptance, as in ‘Oh great, [...]

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Podcast 295 – “The World and It’s Double” Part 1

PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Culture denies experience. We all have had, and even a population of non-psychedelic people have had, prophetic dreams, intimations, unlikely strings of coincidences, all of these sort of things. These are all experiences, which cultures deny.” “We live at the end of a thousand year binge [...]

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Podcast 118 – “What Neurology Can Tell Us About Human Nature, Synesthesia and Art”

Listen here PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotes are by V.S. Ramachandran.] “Let’s think about what the standard explanations were [before the late 1990s] for synesthesia. The most common explanation, which we used to hear until about five or ten years ago was, ‘Oh they’re just crazy, they’re nuts,’ because it doesn’t make any sense. And this [...]

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053-Shulgin: "Ask the Shulgins" (Burniong Man 2006)

This program features Ann and Sasha Shulgin in their 2006 appearance at Burning Man where they participated in the Palenque Norte lecture series with their ever-popular “Ask the Shulgins” question and answer session. . . . Also, Sasha describes how hi…

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026-Erowid: "The Role of Drug Geeks in Society"

This is a talk given by Earth & Fire, the founders of the important Web stie Erowid.org. The talk was given at the 2002 Mind States Conference and includes the story of how Erowid came to be.

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