Guest speakers: Myron Stolaroff, Humphry Osmond, & Al Hubbard
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On October 30, 1964, Dr. Humphry Osmond, Myron Stolaroff, Willis Harman, and Al Hubbard took LSD together. The next day they discussed what was learned. This is a recording of that gathering, and it is the first of the recovered recordings from The Stolaroff Collection, hosted at Erowid.org.

» Continue reading “Podcast 235 – Osmond, Stolaroff, & Hubbard Discuss Psychedelics”

This program marks
Our 5th Anniversary!

Guest speakers: Myron Stolaroff and Gary Fisher
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The following is my video recording of this talk.

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This is a conversation that took place between Myron Stolaroff, Gary Fisher, and a group of friends at the legendary salon that Kathleen hosted on the third Friday of every month in Venice Beach, California.

» Continue reading “Podcast 232 – “Fisher, Stolaroff, and Al Hubbard””

Guest speakers: Dr. John Lilly, Laura Huxley, and others
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This podcast begins with a short clip of Alan Watts speaking about human consciousness. Then we join Dr. John Lilly, Laura Huxley, and a few other friends who are discussing the life of Alan Watts a few months after his death in November 1973.

Alan Watts in Wikipedia

List of books by Alan Watts

Guest speakers: Gary Fisher, Sasha Shulgin, Ann Shulgin, Myron Stolaroff, Baba Ram Das, Timothy Leary, and Terence McKenna
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SASHA SHULGIN:
“So I looked upon these materials as being catalytic, not productive, they do not do what occurs, they allow you to express what is in you that you had not had the ability to get into and express yourself without the help of the material.”

“My main argument for continuing to use the term [psychedelic] is that people may not approve of what you’re working in or what you’re saying, but at least they know what you’re talking about.”

ANN SHULGIN:
“My interest in these compounds is that they let you open up the doors inside your own psyche. They allow things to be more obvious, more apparent than the conscious mind usually lets them be.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 200 – “A Few Words From Our Elders””

Guest speaker: Gary Fisher
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Our conversation began by looking at photos of some of Gary’s former students, patients, and famous friends.

13:12 We begin a discussion of Gary’s work in the 1960s with severely emotionally disturbed children suffering from variants of childhood schizophrenia and infantile autism who he treated with LSD and psilocybin.

16:36 Al Hubbard is discussed
» Continue reading “Podcast 097 – “Psychedelic Research in the 1960s” (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 speaker: Myron Stolaroff
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03:48 Myron Stolaroff:
“After I’d had LSD, there wasn’t anything that could come anywhere close to it. That was the most remarkable thing in my whole life.”

04:34 Myron talks about his meetings with Aldous Huxley.

07:39 Myron talks about Meduna’s mixture, carbogen.

09:42 Myron explains what a carbogen experience was like.

16:15 Why some people don’t seem to have a positive experience with psychedelics.
» Continue reading “Podcast 084 – “Lone Pine Stories” (Part 2)”

Guest speakers: Jean and Myron Stolaroff
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04:53Jean Stolaroff:Tells the story of how she first became involved with psychedelic medicines.

07:50 Myron Stolaroff: Tells how Death Valley came to be a favorite location for taking acid trips.

09:20 Myron tells some stories about Al Hubbard and Death Valley.
» Continue reading “Podcast 083 – “Lone Pine Stories” (Part 1)”

Guest speaker: James Fadiman
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From the Mind States conference in 2003, James Fadiman gives an entertaining account of his early days in psychedelic research. The Mind States program that year had this to say about Dr. Fadiman:

James Fadiman, Ph.D. has been involved in both teaching and facilitating creative problem-solving with and without psychedelics for more than three decades. » Continue reading “Podcast 042 – “Using Psychedelics for Rational Work””