http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs Miscellaneous thoughts and adventures from a few of the salon regulars Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:07:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/TerenceMcKenna/189-McKenna-CIIS-P3.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.> "Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1280 Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/TerenceMcKenna/188-McKenna-CIIS-P2.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness." "Every step into freedom contains within it ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1274 Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/TerenceMcKenna/187-McKenna-CIIS-Pt1.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Most software, I think, is written by freaks." "What it [investigating psychedelics] really requires is a love of the peculiar, of the weird, the bizarre, the ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1264 Hi Lorenzo and Saloners! I have some new and rare talks (that aren`t  available in the web sites that have the most audio by Terence) to share with you!! First let`s begin with the Ethnobotany of Shamanism a weekend workshop at the California Institute of Integral Studies, includes a introductory lecture ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1246 Guest speaker: Lorenzo Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/Lorenzo/186-Lorenzo-GenesisGeneration.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: In today's program there is no featured guest. Instead, Lorenzo presents the first chapter in his new novel, The Genesis Generation. In it, Lorenzo weaves the tale of a young man caught ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1251 Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/TerenceMcKenna/185-McKennaVisionPlants.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotes below are by Terence McKenna.] "People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting." "The numinous depth of the mystery that seems ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1242 Guest speaker: Bruce Damer Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/BruceDamer/184-Damer-OaxacaPt2.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotes below are by Bruce Damer.] "What Damasio is showing is that people who, in the lab, get a huge amount of cognitive stimulus all the time start to have ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1212 Guest speaker: Dr. Timothy Leary Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/TimothyLeary/183-Leary-WhatHuman1983.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations below are by Timothy Leary.] "The people who were teaching us about consciousness-expanding drugs were people like Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, even Henry Luce, the respectable conservative founder ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1199 Due to a recent hacker attack, I have had to change the level for user posting of main blog topics to "Contributor" from "Author". What this means is that while you can still create original posts, they first must be approved by an administrator (that's me :-). That way whomever it ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1196 Guest speakers: Missy & Andre Nobels, Mateo Pallamary Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/MattPallamary/182-MissyAndreMateo.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: MATEO: "Here's the thing about divine creativity, and that really pegs it because creation is divine, and we are creators. And when we tap into that cosmic ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1188 Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/TerenceMcKenna/181-McKennaErosEschatonQA.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: This is the Question and Answer session following the talk heard in the previous podcast. In it, Terence answers questions from the audience, such as, "Can you talk about the relationship ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1183 Well I`m back...this time with (of course!) Terrence, and his brother in arms Rupert Sheldrake. The lecture is called - "Forms and Mysteries: Morphogenetic Fields and Psychedelic Experience" and they talk among other things about this fascinating idea called morphogenetic fields. Morphogenetic fields are defined by Sheldrake as the subset ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1175 Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/TerenceMcKenna/180-McKennaScienceForgotPt1.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.] "Is there any permission to hope? More specifically, is there any permission for smart people to hope? I mean it's easy to hope if ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1166 Although my new book won't be released until late May or early June, I am honored to already have been interviewed about it over at D Dubs Reads. This is an interesting new Web site that bills itself as "An exploration through the psychedelic literature vaults." Besides the interesting book reviews, ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1151 Guest speaker: Timothy Leary Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/TimothyLeary/179-LearyCornell89Pt2.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All of the following quotations are by Timothy Leary.] "The first very dangerous side effect of psychedelic drugs is long term memory gain. And the second is short term memory loss. ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1145 Guest speakers: Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/TimothyLeary/178-LearyRAWvarious.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            CATVFREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: "Reality is the resultant of the perpetual struggle between rival gangs of people who think they can define reality for everybody else." --Robert Anton Wilson [NOTE: All of ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1139 Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen [audio:http://www.matrixmasters.net/archive/TerenceMcKenna/177-McKennaFinnegansWakePt2.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.] "McLuhan was synonymous with incomprehensibility in the Sixties." "In McLuhan there is a very deep strain of nostalgia for the essence of the Medieval world ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1131 Hi saloners! In my (tough) journey to find more Mckenna original talks, I recently came across two videos (that I converted to mp3) of Terrence that I never heard before. First lecture "The Taxonomy of Illusion" these descriptions are from the site photosynthesis: "An Evening with Terence McKenna at UC Santa ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1124 Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/TerenceMcKenna/176-McKennaFinnegansWakePt1.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.] "In some ways, I think it can arguably be said that this is the quintessential work of art, or at least work of literature, ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1089 Guest speaker: Dr. Timothy Leary Listen [audio:http://matrixmasters.net/archive/TimothyLeary/175-LearyIntelligentUse.mp3] Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs - Right click, select option Macs - Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations below are by Dr. Timothy Leary.] "We represent the aristocratic, exploring elite of our species, and we always have." "The purpose of human life is to go within and ... http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1083