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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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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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 house, trance-dance, techno culture is that it’s about feeling. The combination of young people, drugs, a fairly sexually charged social environment, and syncopated music is just all designed to draw you into you and your friends and your scene, and your hood, and your place in the cosmos and not sell you out as a consumer to Hollywood, or Manhattan-manufactured forms of entertainment.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 102 – “Build Your Own Damn Boat””

Guest speakers: Lorenzo & James
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07:17 James and Lorenzo begin a discussion about the fortuitous ways in which people come into contact with ayahuasca.

17:30 James describes the preparation of the ayahuasca brew the day of their ceremony.

24:05 Lorenzo and James begin a discussion of purging during the ayahuasca experience.

30:31 James explains the difference between a shaman and a yachak among the indigenous Qechua people of Ecuador.

Guest speakers: Sasha Shulgin and Terence McKenna
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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 Sasha Shulgin: “One definition of the tools I seek is that they may allow words of a vocabulary, a vocabulary that might allow each human being to more consciously — and more clearly — communicate with the interior of his own mind and psyche. This may be called a vocabulary of awareness.” » Continue reading “Podcast 100 – “Psychedelics and Spirituality Conference – 1983″ (Part 1)”