Guest speaker: Jon Hanna
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06:19 Jon tells about starting the publication of The Psychedelic Resource List.

08:32 Lorenzo and Jon discuss articles in the current issue of Entheogen Review, including “DMT for the Masses” and “Security Issues in the Underground”.
» Continue reading “Podcast 095 – “Energy Drinks . . . and other stuff””

Guest speakers: Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna
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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 look at the type of physics that would be appropriate for describing these fields it would not be magnitism, it’s quantum field theory.

07:23 Ralph Abraham:“I’m extremely suspicious of the application of quantum mechanical concepts in the arena of psychology, consciousness, sociology, and so on. To me that’s much fuzzier than the face on Mars.”

12:28 Terence McKenna: “Part of the problem is that physical models break down when prosecuted to quantum mechanical levels.”

21:15 Ralph begins his explanation of the physics of the nimbus, otherwise known as a halo.

30:47 Terence: “The more successful psychoanalytic theories, it seems to me, are the least mathmatically driven, and depend really on this mysterious business that we call the gifted therapist.”

Guest speakers: Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham, and Terence McKenna
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05:25 Rupert Sheldrake: “And so in human family groups we’d expect the same kind of morphic fields [as in other animal family groups]. . . . It would mean that family fields, with their morphic fields, would have a kind of memory from the families that contributed to them. The father’s and mother’s families of origin would come together in a family.”

12:12 Rupert: “Whatever the merits or demerits of [Bert] Hellinger’s system, which I think is very interesting and apparently very effective, the idea of making models of the family field seems to me something that one could address in a more general sense.”

20:29 Terence McKenna: “The family thing works because people really are complex chemical systems with genetic affinity.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 093 – “Morphogenic Family Fields” (Part 1)”

Guest speaker: Myron Stolaroff
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02:29 Myron Stolarofftalks about writing “The Secret Chief”, a biography of Leo Zeff.

06:06Lorenzodescribes Dr. Michael Mitthoefer’s research where he is using MDMA to treat victims of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

12:52 Myron tells how he strikes up conversations about psychedelics with strangers he meets while traveling.

18:00 Myron: “The DEA, they’ve been the toughest ones. To a man they’re really refuting these things with all the power that they have, and they’re not interested in learning anything about them. They’re not interested in learning if anything [positive] is possible.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 092 – “Lone Pine Stories” (Part 3)”

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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05:25 Rupert Sheldrake describes how one could go about creating a “consumer’s report” for odd-ball theories.

06:23Terence McKenna:“Ninety-five percent of the scientists who have rejected astrology cannot cast a natal horoscope, and that the ability to actually cast a horoscope never seemed to be required of these high-toned scientific critics of astrology. It was something they felt perfectly free to dismiss without understanding.”

07:26 Ralph Abraham: “Well, the hypothesis of causative formation, of course, favors deeper fluff. . . . The thing about astrology is that people say it works. An argument could be made that even though the Zodiacal reference frame that it is based on no longer has any basis in the sky that it works because people believe in it, and because it is in the N-field, and that because it’s deeper fluff, basically.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 091 – “Skepticism and the Balkanization of Epistemology” (Part 2)”

Guest speakers: Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake
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02:09 Terence McKenna: “Somehow as a part of the agenda of political correctness it has become not entirely acceptable to criticize, or demand substantial evidence, or expect people, when advancing their speculations, to make, what used to be called, old fashioned sense.”

04:10 Terence: “These phenomenon, which we know exist, and which we find rich in implication, would simply not be allowed as objects of discourse, they would be ruled out of order. So there’s something wrong on one level with what’s called empiricism, skepticism, positivism, it has different names.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 090 – “Skepticism and the Balkanization of Epistemology””