Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "The UFO community is just fraught with the most crack-brained, peculiar, self-serving, unstable, mush-minded group of people you would ever hope to get together in one place. I [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "I was able to jack it [the strength of the ayahuasca brew] up, and jack it up until finally it was truly horrifyingly strong, and that’s what you [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "The surface of things is not where attention should rest." "I’ve never actually seen it [smoked DMT] hit anybody quite as hard as it hit me. For about [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: Introduction of Terence McKenna by Timothy Leary, followed by Terence’s talk. [NOTE: The following quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "What’s the hang-up here? What is the problem? Why is perfection so distant?" "Alchemy, as I’m [...]

Guest speakers: Anna Waldstein, Ivan Casselman, and Cameron Adams Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: Three lecturers are featured in this session from the 3rd International Conference for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC) held at the University of Amsterdam 23-26 July 2009. [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Your inherited allotment of drug synapses is unique, and this is why some people are sensitive to drugs, some people insensitive, some people extremely sensitive. And one of [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "You don’t conquer time by building vast instrumentalities and seeking a primary particle and all that. The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna, Allan Lundell, and Nick Herbert Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "An ideology is a simplification of reality where the vast, messy, baroqueness of being is put through some kind of rasher of language [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Culture is a simplification and a lie. It’s the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it." "If you aren’t ‘cool’ then you go [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "What we have been calling human consciousness is the only consciousness there is. It’s something you tap into, not something you evolve out of yourselves." "If your local [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "The imagination is actually a kind of window onto realities not present." "If the imagination runs riot in the dimension of the mundane it’s paranoia." "Art is like [...]

Guest speakers: Gary Fisher, Sasha Shulgin, Ann Shulgin, Myron Stolaroff, Baba Ram Das, Timothy Leary, and Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: SASHA SHULGIN:"So I looked upon these materials as being catalytic, not productive, they do not do what occurs, they allow you [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Well if you’re looking for psychoactive plants, nature is full of them. In every environment, in every ecosystem there are plants that either singly, or in combination with [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "It seems to me that it [Nature] is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language." "Standing outside the cultural hysteria the [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.]> "It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable." "This is in [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna]. "Ayahuasca, in a way, is somehow more open to suggestion. These other things have their own agenda. Ayahuasca will work with you." "The possibility seems to be that [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen 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 religion a rite [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen 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 the potential [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen 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 étrange, the [...]

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 on Friday, over a [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen 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 to have called us [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen 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 of advanced mathematics to [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen 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 you’re stupid, but [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen 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 of what [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen 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, of the twentieth [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotes below are by Terence McKenna.] "The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it [the Internet], because you can’t predict the impact of any technology before you [...]

  Hi saloners!   It`s great to be back with another talk of Terrence! This lecture already exists in audio file on the net. But the segment of this talk that i`m posting now it`s a different part of the audio file in circulation. It`s about 1hour and a half, and what can I say it`s Terrence… Enjoy! It`s great to [...]

Guest speakers: Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna, and Rupert Sheldrake Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: All of the following quotations are from a private trialogue held at Terence McKenna’s me in Hawaii sometime in 1994. "I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: All of the following quotations are from a private trialogue held at Terence McKenna’s home in Hawaii sometime in 1994. [NOTE: The following quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "I think what [...]

      Hi Lorenzo and “Saloners”!     Yes that`s what I call a synchronicity!! When I saw your podcast posted (from beats to McKenna) I thought that you were posting a segment from my upload, but at the time I felt disappointed because it was the part of the lecture that was available on the [...]

Thanks to the hard work of fellow saloner Alison Terry we now have some podcast transcripts available for you to download and read at your leisure. [Please note: Highlights indicate words that were unclear in the original recording.] Podcast #011Terence McKenna: "Culture and Ideology are Not Your Friends"(PDF Version) Podcast #027Terence McKenna: “In the Valley [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence Kenna.] "The good. What is it? Tricky, tricky, tricky. The true. What is it? Trickier, even trickier. The beautiful. What is it? Easy to discern. The beautiful is [...]

from pg. 20 of the December issue of the BBC’s new magazine Knowledge; available here and from the original journal source here “Space: Life from Venus could be blown to Earth by solar winds. The atmosphere above Venus contains chemicals that are consistent with the presence of microorganisms and these could be blown into Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists at [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Abbie Hoffman, Gregory Corso, and Diane Di Prima(?) Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: "There are no bad drugs. There are simply people who don’t know how to use them. Intelligent people use drugs [...]

     Hi Lorenzo!    First of all I want to congratulate you for the great work on the Psychedelic Salon! It´s awesome!   I´m an attentive listener from Portugal. I`m also a great fan of the bard Mckenna. His lectures are  absolutely fascinating to me. In relation to that, I recently convert a video to mp3 from his lecture in San [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence Kenna.] >"Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of [...]

Guest speakers: Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, and Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: "We have the concept of the ideal city in the ancient world, most especially the ideal city of Plato’s Republic. So casually we might call that Utopian fantasy. Although Plato [...]

Lorenzo, My mane is Willy H. I go by the handle WmOsiris. I have been listening to your podcasts for the past year and a half. I have been drawn to these Sacred Medicines for over 18 years and have learned many things about myself and the world. My first experience was with LSD and [...]

http://www.archive.org/details/Gregory_Corso_class_1_July_1981_81P083 51:55 on the recording.  I have heard him give this theory prior as well.  Did McKenna come up with his theory prior to 1981?  Corso uses the morning glory seed instead of the psilocybin mushroom. Share This

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.] "I think disease is (and I don’t want to be held to this entirely, but) largely more linguistic than people think." "The story you tell yourself is [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.] "I think reason can take us only a certain distance, and then we have to go with the divine imagination." "There have been many episodes in the [...]

Guest speakers: Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: "The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.] "What I’ve observed, and I think it’s fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I’ve observed is that nature builds on previously established [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [Quoting a friend] " ‘The apocalypse is already happening.’ The slow apocalypse is unraveling all over the world." –Terence McKenna "If it’s all on automatic, if the world is either [...]

Guest speakers: Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna, and Rupert Sheldrake Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: "I think that any models [of the psychedelic experience] that we can build, verbal, visual, or mathematical are really, really feeble compared to the experience itself." –Ralph Abraham "It’s the [...]

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: The following quotes are by Terence McKenna.] "One has, you know, a window of opportunity somewhere between zip and a hundred to solve, or understand, or penetrate, or appreciate, or come to terms with [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna and Matt Pallamary Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: The following quotes are by Terence McKenna.] "Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotes below are by Terence McKenna.] "I’m very pleased … to see how much of the youth culture has become sensitive to the psychedelic issue. Because it really means that after 20, 30 [...]

Backstory: on more than one occasion, Lorenzo has suggested that we re-listen to a Terence talk: hinting at more more more than meets the ear at first listen. So, i’ve tried it with this recent podcast #128. Listened once; then immediately a 2nd time; then 1-2 days later tried for a 3rd time but fell [...]

Aquarian NewMoon Eclipse (2/6/08) Dear Salon, on Stage6 there presently a number of Terence videos to be found. As a long time Ram Dass fan [actually got a hug from him on my birthday in '90 at a talk in Portland], i was intrigued to see a TM/Ram Dass talk listed. (Most of you know [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: The following quotes are from a conversation held in September 1991.] Terence McKenna: "But in fact it seems that the ouroboros has taken its tail in its mouth and [...]

Guest speakers: Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: These comments were recorded on September 3, 1991, and the opinions expressed by the participants in this podcast may have changed in subsequent years.] Rupert Sheldrake: "If it were just [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: Terence McKenna: "In the absence of cannabis the dream life seems to become much richer. This causes me to sort of form a theory, just for my own edification, that cannabis [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotes below are by Terence McKenna.] "Nature is the great visible engine of creativity against which all other creative efforts are measured." "The precondition for creativity is, I think, is disequilibrium, what mathematicians [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake Listen Download                      Subscribe      MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: Today’s program features the second tape in a series of trialogue tapes that were recorded in September 1991 at a private recording session with Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna. [...]

Namaste,   This is my first post and would first like to say hi to everyone and I’m delighted to be onboard.   I was watching a video recently of the now-legendary psychonaut and visionary Terence McKenna explaining how we are each ‘fishermen on the dark ocean of mind’, casting our nets adrift to catch [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Spring 2008) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [Note: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "These are the two things we don’t have: As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As human beings, as individuals, [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe                     MP3                            FREE PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotes are by Terence McKenna] "Culture denies experience." "We live at the end of a thousand year binge on the philosophical position known as materialism, in its many guises. And the basic message [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna and Mark Pesce Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Spring 2008) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 04:40 – Mark Pesce: "I knew that part of my own destiny as connected with virtual reality wasn’t to escape into another dimension [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Spring 2008) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.] 04:33 "What I think a psychedelic society, what that notion means or implies to me in terms of [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) [NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.] 11:53 "There’s no question but what the human imagination has taken to itself so much power that it [...]

What follows is a short clip from a talk I’m going to include in my next podcast. This is Terence McKenna, speaking in Berkeley, California in July of 1983. . . . Keep in mind the fact that this was almost a decade before the Web was invented, which should give you a small insight [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 04:11 Terence McKenna: "My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal [...]

Guest speakers: Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake, and Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 04:11 Ralph begins with "Fractals on my mind, an epic in four parts." . . . Part one, the sandy beach. [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 10:50 Terence McKenna: "I see the cosmos as a distillery for novelty, and the transcendental object is the novelty of novelty. [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 04:32 Terence McKenna: "But the fact of the matter is, there is no reason to believe that time is invariant, and [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 04:18 Ralph begins by describing "Terence to himself". 05:46 Ralph Abraham: "So in our process of trialoging we find it very [...]

I have been living in ignorance, not knowing of the February fire in Monterey that destroyed my darling 6’2″ leprechaun’s library. I feel the same sensation I felt when I found out Terence was living with terminal brain cancer. I have lost his brain, AGAIN! We are lucky to have his love for nothing can [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 05:33 Terence begins with a discussion of "the felt presence of immediate experience." 08:10 Terence McKenna: "The thing I like about the Zippy culture and the [...]

Guest speakers: Sasha Shulgin and Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 10:09 Sasha Shulgin: "First, I am a very firm believer in the reality of balance in all aspects of the human theater." 11:00 [...]

Guest speakers: Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna Listen Download                              Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                                    FREE                   (Coming Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 04:38 Rupert Sheldrake: quot;The primary metaphor is the magnetic field, that’s what gives you the sense of a field. But if you [...]

Guest speakers: Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna Listen Download                              Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                                    FREE                   (Coming Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 05:25 Rupert Sheldrake: "And so in human family groups we’d expect the same kind of morphic fields [as in other animal family [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 05:25 Rupert Sheldrake describes how one could go about creating a "consumer’s report" for odd-ball theories. 06:23 Terence McKenna: "Ninety-five percent [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 02:09 Terence McKenna: "Somehow as a part of the agenda of political correctness it has become not entirely acceptable to criticize, [...]

Here is some good news for those who have been asking for detailed program notes for some of the earlier podcasts. One of our salon regulars, Bill (who makes his home in Japan), has taken the time to prepare detailed Program Notes for the first three “Valley of Novelty” podcasts with Terence McKenna. You can [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 03:08 Terence McKenna: “Another way of thinking of it (the Knot of Eternity) is it’s the nexus of connectivity. It’s a [...]

Erik Davis, Techgnosis, February 14, 2007 Last Wednesday, February 7, a 5-alarm blaze erupted in an old building in downtown Monterey. The fire started in a Quinzo’s sub shop, that exemplar of tasteful dining, and went on to thoroughly destroy a number of joints, including Goomba’s Italian Restaurant, a Starbucks, and some storage offices belonging [...]

Guest speakers:  Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download:     MP3     PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 07:58 Terence McKenna: "People should be allowed to let the apocalypse happen, not make it happen." 09:35 Rupert Sheldrake: "I would say [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 02:31 Terence McKenna: “[The apocalypse] seems to be the unique, unifying thread throughout the Western religions Most insistently of all religious [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 02:39 Rupert Sheldrake: “The other side of this is the reform of the existing professions.” 05:24 Ralph Abraham: “Somehow there would [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 03:15 Rupert Sheldrake: “The present educational system mimics the initiation process and indeed is a kind of initiation process.” 07:18 Rupert: [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 07:18 Rupert Sheldrake: “If there were to be a true Mother Earth religion develop, it would obviously have priestesses rather than [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 03:48 Ralph Abraham: "So eventually the 60s happened, and probably my first experience that I would now identify as a real [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 03:52 Rupert Sheldrake: Explains his concept of "Cannabis Day" 06:18 Terence McKenna: "One day in each lunar cycle would be Cannabis [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 06:48 Ralph Abraham: Explains his bifurcation theory of the unconscious 08:01 Ralph: "We can speak of the consciousness of animals, the [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 05:40 Terence McKenna: "Going back to this thing about language, you get this same peculiar emphasis on language and letters in [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 02:24 Terence McKenna: "When you start looking at the question of these disincarnate entities, the first thing that strikes you is [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 05:38 Ralph Abraham: "It does seem very attractive to think of the electromagnetic field as some kind of favored intermediary among [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 04:52  Rupert Sheldrake begins a discussion about light. 10:55   Rupert "What kind of influence could be moving outward through the [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Listen Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 02:29 Terence McKenna: "The ego is essentially paranoia institutionalized." 03:53 Ralph Abraham: Considers the possibility that ego became strengthened when [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 02:29 Ralph Abraham: "So I should like now to speak about the chaos of ordinary life and the relationship of this [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 02:14 Ralph Abraham: Takes issue with McKenna’s and Sheldrake’s interpretation of chaotic attractors. . . . To a mathematician, the word [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 01:23 Ralph Abraham: A short primer on chaos theory. . . . The emergence of form from a field of chaos. [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 01:34 Rupert Sheldrake: "It’s like the creative process is like the welling up of new forms." . . . "I think [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 02:36 Rupert Sheldrake: Bringing together the idea of creation and imagination, or evolutionary creativity. . . . There is a profound [...]

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES (Minutes : Seconds into program) 04:36 – Terence McKenna introduces the Trialogue concept and history 08:46 – Rupert Sheldrake introduces himself, talks about his theory of [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option      In this last of a ten part series, Terence McKenna closes this workshop with some thoughts about psychedelics as time machines, the forest of the Internet, the erotization of our technology, a form [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option      In just 50 minutes, Terence McKenna talks about how great cultures can lose their way, transforming machine-elves, the story of psychedelic psychotherapy, the Balkanization of epistemology, the UFO community as a social phenomenon, the [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option      Terence McKenna talks about: The evolution of art representing the human form The impact of psilocybin on human sexuality How to build a gravity bong More thoughts on "the AI" being an obvious [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option      In this installment, Terence McKenna continues his discussion about schizophrenia, and then he goes on to discuss his involvement in the rave scene, the possibility of psychedelic mushrooms being messengers from an alien [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option      This is the sixth in a series of podcasts of a workshop Terence McKenna led in the summer of 1998. In this segment, Terence talks about evolution as the conquest of dimentionality, human/machine [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option      Terence McKenna talks about: Psychedelics and the archaic revival The role of courage in working with psychedelics The problem of dose Similarities and differences between a mystical experience and a psychedelic experience What [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option      As you would expect from a podcast called the Psychedelic Salon, in part four of this series of talks Terence McKenna gave at a workshop in the summer of 1998 we finally get [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 1:50 "Whether meditation and psychedelics are the same thing I think depends on your meditation and your psychedelics. Different meditations strive for different things. Much meditation [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Download: MP3 PC – Left click to play, right click to download Mac – Click, hold, select option PROGRAM NOTES: (Minutes : Seconds into program) 3:40 (referring to the ‘Martian meteorite’ of 1996) "..it was a watershed moment that the President of the United States felt the need to address the [...]

Guest speakesr: Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham Listen Download                              Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                                    FREE                   (Coming Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option This is part two of the conversation between Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham, which is featured in program #019 of the Psychedelic Salon. Share This

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham Listen Download                              Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                                    FREE                   (Coming Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option      This podcast is part of a dialogue between Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham that took place at the Omega Institute on August 1, 1998.      It isn’t often that we have the [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option A talk by Terence McKenna in Denver – April 1999      "This is a struggle between novelty and habit." . . . "[Your culture] is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and [...]

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Listen Download                      Subscribe               BitTorrent version      MP3                            FREE                   (Coming in Autum 2007) PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option A talk by Terence McKenna at the Palenque Entheobotany Conference in 1999. Share This