Guest speakers: Ram Das, Timothy Leary, Paul Krassner, and Tom Van Sant
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“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.”

» Continue reading “Podcast 243 – “Beyond the Doors of Perception””

Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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[NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna ... recorded in 1996, however, it is current enough to have been given just last night ... maybe it was .]

“And these angel-dealing, horoscope-casting, alchemy-pursuing visionaries of this Rosicrucian Renaissance became simply objects of historical curiosity, completely incomprehensible to the people who followed them, generation after generation after generation, until, I submit to you, the present. And in the present moment we, like they, inherit a world whose ideologies are exhausted and can only be refreshed from the margins.”

“In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We’ve re-understood that the world is one thing, and it’s a living thing. It’s a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept [of alchemy].”
» Continue reading “Podcast 239 – “Shamanism, Alchemy, and the 20th Century””

Guest speakers: Dr. Timothy Leary and Ram Das
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[NOTE: The following quotations are by Ram Das.]

"The next thought I had that I can remember was, Wow you can be anything this time around, you’re free. You can do anything, because it became so apparent to me the way in which mind creates. And I suddenly experienced myself as the creator rather than the victim."

"Methods are methods are methods. Meditation’s a method and psychedelics are a method. Methods are all traps. A method by its nature is a trap. It has to entrap you into itself in order to eject you at the end. You just hope it self-ejects."

"Psychedelics was one of the major forces in a shift in consciousness in this culture."

» Continue reading “Podcast 233 – Ram Das and Timothy Leary – “1983 Harvard Reunion””

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

“Now the key thing to the human species is this: That we have not committed ourselves to an over-specialized form.”

“It’s obvious that if any quantum leaps are going to happen in evolution it’s best designed to happen in a period of adolescence.”

“Evolution has always involved people like us getting together as we are tonight, figuring out where we came from, and who’s slowing us down, and what’s the factual evidence as to how fast and where we can move?”

“The future belongs to those who see the future.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 219 – “Tim Leary Live in Sanfrancisco 1979″ Part 2″

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

“For the last four or five thousand years, freedom and intelligence and individualism have been moving in an unbroken chain from East to West. So that here on the banks of the Pacific Ocean we obviously have assembled the most advanced nervous systems on the planet.”

“We all live within the reality bubble that our nervous system projects.”

“Neurology was the real revolution of the Sixties.”

“Your theory of evolution determines, really, what kind of a life you’re gonna lead.”

“The old theory, by old I mean the one they’re still teaching in your colleges, says that new speciation takes tens of millions of years to create a new species. Well if that’s so let’s go back to Quaaludes. Why bother?”

“The Sixties was a genetically designed and programmed paedomorphic revolt against adult authority.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 214 – “Tim Leary Live in Sanfrancisco 1979″ Part 1″

Guest speakers: Anna Waldstein, Ivan Casselman, and Cameron Adams
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Three lecturers are featured in this session from the 3rd International Conference for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC) held at the University of Amsterdam 23-26 July 2009. Their presentation is titled “From the Shaman’s Circle to the Ivory Tower: Progress, Spirituality and Psychedelic Thinking.”

“The suppression of mysticism, psychedelic experience, psychedelic thinking, began roughly two thousand years ago. And you get more intense socio-economic and socio-spiritual hierarchies … until you get to where we are today where there is state control of consciousness as well as state control of production and many other aspects of life.” -Anna Waldstein
» Continue reading “Podcast 210 – “From the Shaman’s Circle to the Ivory Tower””

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

“Religion is supposed to be fun and ecstasy, because it’s all a play of energy that we’re involved in.”

“Now the message I have is an old one, the simplest and most classic message that has ever been passed on in world history. It’s those six words: Drop out, turn on, then come back and tune it in. And then drop out again and turn on and tune it back in. It’s a rhythm.”

“Now how do you turn on? Well, I’ll tell you this, you can’t turn on with words, you can’t turn on with thinking. You can’t think your way out of this sticky black checker board of an American education. And good works won’t do it for you either. You can be as virtuous and as good as you want to, but you’re not going to turn on and get the key to the mystery that way. In order to turn on you’ve got to have what the religious metaphor calls a sacrament.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 199 – “Timothy Leary at MIT – 1967″”

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

“Of course, what the politicians debate about is really irrelevant because they’re in basic agreement. They believe in the system. They just want the power to run it. So they give us the illusion about fighting fiercely about words and tactics and promises, but we know, don’t we, that there’s no choice there.”

“What’s it all about? What’s life all about? Why are we here? To build bigger and bigger machines? To do things faster and faster and think more and more? In fifty years everyone will know what I’m telling you tonight. That the only reason for being here is to get on this glorious adventure of finding the Divine, unraveling the great conscious mystery story. That’s the only point, ecstatic being, that is, get high and stay high.”

“Dope is going to be the religion of the future.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 196 – “Timothy Leary vs. Notre Dame””

Guest speakers: Robert Anton Wilson, Dr. John Lilly, Dr. Timothy Leary
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“Creativity has a touch of the bizarre” –Robert Anton Wilson

“Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.” –Robert Anton Wilson

“We need something to replace death as an intelligence increaser. Generally, the only way that intelligence could grow was to get rid of the people who haven’t taken any new imprints since adolescence, as Tim would say.” –Robert Anton Wilson
» Continue reading “Podcast 195 – Timothy Leary & friends “The Future of Higher Intelligence” Part 2″