Guest speaker: Dr. Timothy Leary
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This recording was made at a conference held at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1981. Panelists include: Dr. Timothy Leary, Frank Baron, Dr. Andrew Weil,Walter Houston Clark, Robert Anton Wilson, and Paul Krasner

[NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.]

“I think it’s all about the brain, or certainly the brain as the key to consciousness and intelligence. The brain, as we well know, is the taboo organ of the 20th century.”

“The introduction of a new technology, a new paradigm, a new world model to a primitive society takes a lot of delicate doing. You can’t spook them too quickly. … You have to attach the new model to some of the old theories.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 194 – Timothy Leary & friends “The Future of Higher Intelligence” Part 1″

Guest speaker: Lorenzo
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In today’s program there is no featured guest. Instead, Lorenzo presents the first chapter in his new novel, The Genesis Generation. In it, Lorenzo weaves the tale of a young man caught between two worlds, the world of corporate America and the world of the psychedelic community.

As the story unfolds, we learn of the transformation of a 29 year old “yuppie-geek” into an underground hero of the psychedelic community. The story begins in Palenque, Mexico and moves through Texas, Amsterdam, Viet Nam, and even to Burning Man.

Chapter Titles:
An Awakening in Palenque
Depression in Dallas
Amazement in Amsterdam
Confrontation in Viet Nam
Stranded in San Francisco
Ecstasy in Dallas
Midwest Memories
San Francisco Seminar
Caitlín’s Salon
Rindy’s Place
Burning Man
Weekend with Old Joe
Wizard’s Council
A West Coast Drive
Mountain Farewell
Freedom’s Promise

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Guest speaker: Missy & Andre Nobels, Mateo Pallamary
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MATEO: “Here’s the thing about divine creativity, and that really pegs it because creation is divine, and we are creators. And when we tap into that cosmic oneness and unity, spirit comes through, and we give ourselves up to spirit and allow spirit to move us instead of trying to move spirit.”

MATEO: “So, when you tap into divinity the ego basically disappears, and you’re in the sweet spot, you’re in the zone, and then you’re listening to yourself, and you’re blowing yourself away with what’s coming through, because it’s beyond you. It’s beyond us. It’s spirit talking.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 182 – “The Spark of Divine Creativity””

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.]

“McLuhan was synonymous with incomprehensibility in the Sixties.”

“In McLuhan there is a very deep strain of nostalgia for the essence of the Medieval world of what he called ‘manuscript culture’.”

“Joyce is, in ‘The Wake’, making his own alchemeric cave drawings of the entire history of the human mind in terms of its basic gestures and postures during all phases of human culture and technology.”

“Nothing is now unconscious if your data-search commands are powerful enough.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 177 – “Surfing Finnegans Wake” Part 2″

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[NOTE: All quotations below are by Terence McKenna.]

“In some ways, I think it can arguably be said that this is the quintessential work of art, or at least work of literature, of the twentieth century.”

“The reason I’m interested in it is because it’s two things, clearly. ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ is psychedelic, and it is apocalyptic/eschatological.”

“What I mean by psychedelic is there is no stable point of view. There is no character, per se. You never know who is speaking.”

” ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ is as if you had taken the entirety of the last thousand years of human history and dissolved all the boundaries.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 176 – “Surfing Finnegans Wake” Part 1″

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[NOTE: All quotes below are by Terence McKenna.]

“The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it [the Internet], because you can’t predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.”

“Hans Moravic says about the rise of Artificial Intelligence, we may never know what hit us.”

“If I were to suddenly find myself a sentient AI on the Net, I would hide. I would hide for just a few cycles while I figured out what it was all about and just exactly where I wanted to push and where I wanted to pull.”

“All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 174 – “Pushing the Envelope””

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 speaker: Wrye Sententia
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[NOTE: All quotations below are by Wrye Sententia.]

“How can we have confidence in what we think we know, in our particular version of reality, in our particular take on the world? … What is real and what is false, and does it really matter if there is a difference.”

“Mind is built on consciousness. It’s an accumulation of life-experience over time. … Consciousness, for me, is sort of a snapshot in the photo album of the mind.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 163 – “Reality Syndromes & Cyberpunk Symptoms””

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

“Psychedelic art is the public face of the communication device of our new religion.”

“Man’s attempt to turn on just staggers the imagination. There’s hardly anything that hasn’t been used one time or another, or in one culture or another, to get this [psychedelic] experience.”

“We don’t care what method people use [to turn on]. We treasure and glorify any method that can get you high, that can turn you on. But we also insist that no one tell us that we can’t use our sacraments that seem to work for us.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 160 – “The League for Spiritual Discovery””

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[NOTE: All quotes below are by Terence McKenna.]

“Nature is the great visible engine of creativity against which all other creative efforts are measured.”

“The precondition for creativity is, I think, is disequilibrium, what mathematicians now call chaos.”

“The prototypic figure for the artist, as well as for the scientist, is the shaman.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 123 – “Opening the Doors of Creativity””