Psychedelic Salon

The legendary alchemist who created Orange Sunshine in the 60's, Nick Sand, and psychedelic pioneer, Myron Stolaroff, are featured in today's program. Nick talks about alchemy and LSD, and Myron speakes to the spiritual heights that may be reached through a careful balance of meditation and LSD.

Today's podcast features an interview with the brilliant Robert Anton Wilson who offers a suggestion for an elightenment exercise that you can do at home among other interesting ideas. He also speaks openly about his use of psydhecelics and his view of their importance.

In this 1987 talk, Dr. Timothy Leary, once called the High Priest of The Sixties, gives a Fort Worth, Texas audience a few ideas about how to challenge the status quo. Even though this talk was given over 20 years ago, it still holds up today.

In today's podcast we hear selections from Terence McKenna's last two presentations at the AlChemical Arts Conference held on the big island of Hawaii in September 1999, just seven months before his untimely death. Among other little gems you will hear in these talks are how Terence was dealing with his final illness and a farewell thank you to the psychedelic community. Also included is part of a panel discussion that Terence and Tom Robbins held in which they discussed psychedelic literature.

In a talk given at a convention of UFO enthusiasts, Terence McKenna tells the audience to save their time looking to the skys, because the aliens are already among us.

In today's program, Rupert Sheldrake begins the conversation by examining the history of the sterilization of the cosmos into a mechanistic machine. Then he goes on to invite speculation by Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham as to the possibility of stars having consciousness. All-in-all, this trialogue provides an interesting history of how humans have viewed the cosmos over the ages.

In today's podcast Dr. Preet Chopra talks about psychedelic psychotherapy in his grand rounds at a California hospital. Besides bringing us up to date on the psilocybin research project he is involved in, Dr. Chopra gives us some idea of the direction psychotherapy is taking in regards to psychedelic medicines.

Today's program features two interviews with Robert Anton Wilson. The first one features his book "Everything Is Under Control" and the second covers conspiracy theories and his book "TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution".

In this lecture (originally titled "Eros to Eschaton") Terence McKenna says, "If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance." And from that foundation he goes on to claim that we humans "are the main event".

This is a talk given by Dr. Timothy Leary sometime late in 1991 or in 1992 at The Inside Edge in Orange County, California. Among the challenging ideas Dr. Leary presented was his thought that: "As soon as you belong to a system where you're not known individually, and where you don't know, individually, the other people, you are by definition depersonalizing yourself, a robot cog of the Big Machine."

In this 1962 talk, Aldous Huxley examines the possibility that events he wrote about in his novel, "Brave New World", are actually coming to pass. In this lecture, titled "The Ultimate Revolution" he also talks about terrorism, state terrorism.

In this 1992 trialogue, Terence McKenna sets the stage with Ralph Abraham and Rupert Sheldrake by talking about the power of images and the need for society to begin a serious discussion about how to make it more liveable. This talk has a lot of unexpected twists and turns along with a few laughs as well.

In this 1980 talk by Dr. Timothy Leary he recommends turning the reins of power to the young, and he makes a surprising suggestion about the proper age at which voting rights should be bestowed on our citizens.

In this 1992 Trialogue, Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna, and Rupert Sheldrake discuss the necessity of evolving language beyond words and text into a more condensed art form in order to better discuss psychedelic experiences.

In this podcast you will hear two presentations. The first is a talk given by Allyson and Alex Grey at the World Psychedelic Froum held in Basel, Switzerland in March of 2008 in which they discuss the difficult issue of educating our children about psychedelics. Next we hear the introduction to a 1992 trialogue in which Ralph Abraham describes the history of psychedelic involvement with the math and computer revolutions of the 1960s.

In this podcast we hear Bruce Damer first at the Mind States conference in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2006 and then again in a more intimate setting in April 2008. His topics include views of the big picture of the universe possibly becoming aware of itself down to the world of today in which we may be frying our brains with too much time in front of our computers.

In this "Ask the Shulgins" session, in addition to some interesting chemistry questions, we learn more detail about the process Sasha uses to develop a new psychoactive substance. And Ann adds many soothing answers to some pressing questions.

In this 1979 talk, Dr. Timothy Leary sets out a rather unique view of what today might be called "intelligent design", but with a Tim Leary twist, of course.

In today's podcast we hear once again from the bard Terence McKenna, who at the ripe old age of 50 has come to a few conclusions about life.

In today's podcast we hear Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia's talk at the World Psydhecelid Formu in Basel, Switzerland during March of 2008. In it she recaps some of the highlights of her life as a Merry Prankster and as one of the cornerstones of The Greatful Dead.

In today's podcast we join Daniel Pinchbeck for the playalogue he conducted at the 2007 Burning Man Festival. As part of the Palenque Norte lecture series, Daniel led a conversation about human sexual relations during a period of transformation between two ages. And later we hear Matt Pallamary's definition of shamanism.

In this 1987 talk, Dr. Timothy Leary talks about the progression of technology that has brought humans to a new plateau of consciousness. And we also hear a personal, 1995 message from Eldridge Cleaver to Timothy Leary on a rather surprising subject.

In the first part of this podcast Terence McKenna gives us a few of his thoughts about shamanism. Also we hear from author Matt Pallamary, whose new memoir, "Spirit Matters" has just been published.

In today's program we hear the Playalogue led by Alicia Danforth at the 2007 Burning Man Festival. Along with input from the audience, Alicia covers many of the possibilities for continuing this important work.

In this podcast we feature a radio interview of Dr. Timothy Leary conducted by the infamous conservative talk show host, Alan Burke, who did his best to abuse and discredit Dr. Leary. It is truly a sign of the 1960s panic about the interest young people were showing in LSD.

In this podcast we hear Erik Davis' 2007 Burning Man Playalogue in which a wide range of topics are discussed, including the environmental impact of festivals like Burning Man.

In this 1995 talk, Terence McKenna gives one of his more hopeful talks about love and the state of humanity at the end of the millenium.

This podcasat features Dr. Timothy Leary in his famous Cooper Union address when he told the American public about a chemical called LSD. Delivered in November 1964, this talk was one of the opening salvos of the cultural revolution of the Sixties.

In this 1991 conversation, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake discuss the impact of psychedelics and computers on culture.

In this private trialogue Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna discuss various theories about the phenomenon of crop circles. This conversation took place in September 1991.