Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Stanley Krippner, and Andrew Weil
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The Albert Hofmann Papers
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The Albert Hofmann Foundation (online)

[NOTE: The following quotations are by Terence McKenna.]

“What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.”

» Continue reading “Podcast 237 – “A Tribute to Albert Hofmann” Part 1″

Guest speaker: Dr. Timothy Leary
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This recording was made at a conference held at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1981. Panelists include: Dr. Timothy Leary, Frank Baron, Dr. Andrew Weil,Walter Houston Clark, Robert Anton Wilson, and Paul Krasner

[NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.]

“I think it’s all about the brain, or certainly the brain as the key to consciousness and intelligence. The brain, as we well know, is the taboo organ of the 20th century.”

“The introduction of a new technology, a new paradigm, a new world model to a primitive society takes a lot of delicate doing. You can’t spook them too quickly. … You have to attach the new model to some of the old theories.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 194 – Timothy Leary & friends “The Future of Higher Intelligence” Part 1″

Guest speaker: Andrew Weil
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04:41 “There are no good or bad drugs. Drugs are what we make of them. They have good and bad uses.”

05:04 “I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.”
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