Guest speaker: Sasha Shulgin
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[NOTE: The two quotations below are by Sasha Shulgin.]

“Internally, no one’s an elder. Internally everyone’s kinda around 35 or so.”

“The people at the industry said, ‘Gee, if you have that kind of imagination that you can look at a structure and guess at another structure that might be active, why don’t you just do whatever you want to do.’ And I did.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 173 – Shulgin: “How I Go About Inventing New Drugs””

Guest speakers: Earth & Fire Erowid, Ralph Metzner, Stanislav Grof, Nick Sand, and Dave Nichols
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Erowid’s LSD Vault LSD and Drug Testing

LSD FAQ Part 1 LSD FAQ Part 2

“I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.” –Ralph Metzner
» Continue reading “Podcast 172 – “The State of LSD in 2003″”

Guest speaker: Dr. Timothy Leary
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[NOTE: All quotations below are by Dr. Timothy Leary.]

“Many people are afraid to be free. They’re afraid that if liberty were to seep through the land then they would loose something. The just don’t trust themselves enough to be free.”

“Prison is a luxury. Unfortunately it is wasted on people who don’t know how to use it.”

“The objective is to get as far away from The Man as you can.”

“There’s only one technology of freedom. It’s the human brain.”

“You’ve got to be smart to be free, and most people don’t want to take the responsibility to be free.”

“You are as old as the last time you changed your mind.” (Anon quoted by Leary?)
» Continue reading “Podcast 171 – “The Technology of Freedom””

Guest speakers: Ralph Abraham, Terence McKenna, and Rupert Sheldrake
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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 matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!” –Ralph Abraham

“Notice that throughout history the most oppressed group has not been the Jews, the Irish, the blacks, they’ve taken their hits, but the most consistently oppressed group of people throughout human history have been smart people. And now comes a tool for smart people [the Internet] utterly incomprehensible to dullards, that is essentially the equivalent of the hydrogen bomb.” –Terence McKenna
» Continue reading “Podcast 170 – “How the Web Looked Back in 1994″”