Podcast 243 – “Beyond the Doors of Perception”
Guest speakers: Ram Das, Timothy Leary, Paul Krassner, and Tom Van Sant
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PROGRAM NOTES:
“LSD produces religions experiences, but it’s less evident that it can produce a religious life.” -Houston Smith
[NOTE: The following quotations are by Timothy Leary.]
“The origins of most great religions go back to groups of people who made this discovery that you don’t look for god, you don’t look for power in the Caesars or in the temples or in the churches and all that. You look within.”
“The fun has hardly begun.”
[NOTE: The following quotations are by Ram Das.]
“But inside myself, as you all understand, that what you see [during a psychedelic experience] to turn it into what you be is a really subtle and sensitive trip.” 
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“A language which could be seen would be a kind of telepathy. If you could see what I mean you would see my thought. The way we communicate, small mouth noises and the assumption of shared dictionary, an assumption that is never borne out by careful questioning, is a miserable way to communicate.”
“I don’t think there are any sinister persons deliberately trying to rob people of their freedom. But I do think, first of all, that there are a number of impersonal forces which are pushing in the direction of less and less freedom, and I also think that there are a number of technological devices which anybody who wishes to use can use to accelerate this process of going away from freedom, of imposing control.”
