Guest speakers: Ann and Sasha Shulgin
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“It’s amazing what children don’t know their parents do.” . . .Sasha

“Let me tell you, MDMA is an extraordinary psychotherapeutic drug.” . . . Ann

“I really cannot conceive of a color test that would show positive with 2C-B or 2C-I in urine because the amounts there are so small.” . . . Sasha
» Continue reading “Podcast 138 – “The Shulgins at Mind States 2005″”

Guest speaker: Dr. Timothy Leary
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[NOTE: The following quotes are by Dr. Timothy Leary.]

“When the big quake comes, be on the California side!”

“So the concept that developed at Harvard, then at Millbrook, and later it seemed to have moved out to other places, was the concept of serial imprinting. That for thousands of years the smartest women and men have known that through manipulating your nervous system by getting high in any way that you can you can suspend the old imprints and have a chance to start a new reality.”

“Your theory of evolution is the key to your own personal development, or your understanding of what’s happening around you. . . . Your theory of evolution determines, really, what kind of a life you’re going to lead.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 137 – “Creation of the Future””

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[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 the conundrum of being, this amazing circumstance in which we find ourselves, both individually and collectively.”

“The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 136 – “A Few Conclusions About Life””

Guest speaker: Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia
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In this podcast we hear a talk given at the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, Switzerland in March of 2008. The speaker is the one and only Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia, who has been a legendary figure in the psychedelic world since the early 1960s. Here is part of what Wikipedia has to say about Mountain Girl:

Carolyn Adams, (born May 6, 1946),[1] later known as Mountain Girl and Carolyn Garcia, was a Merry Prankster and the wife of Jerry Garcia. After growing up near Poughkeepsie, New York, Adams met Neal Cassady in 1964; who introduced her to Kesey and his friends, one of whom gave her the name “Mountain Girl”. Cassady took her to La Honda, Ken Kesey’s base of operations, where she quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and was romantically involved with Kesey, having a daughter by him named Sunshine.[2] The Grateful Dead song “Here Comes Sunshine” may or may not be an allusion to Adams’ and Kesey’s daughter (the Dead were fond of lyrics having double, often personal meanings).
» Continue reading “Podcast 135 – “TheDead, and the Sixties””

Guest speaker: Daniel Pinchbeck
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[NOTE: The following quotes are by Daniel Pinchbeck at the Playalogue he led on August 29, 2007 at the Burning Man Festival. This Playalogue was held in the big yurt at the PodCluster in Black Rock City.]

“I think there is a lot of evidence that suggests we’re in this kind of very critical sort of evolutionary window for the human species.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 134 – “A Playalogue about Sex and Social Control, Tantra and Liberation””