Audiobook 06 – The San Francisco ORACLE

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

Personal Journals, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences, Philosophy

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 396 minutes

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Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Lorenzo and his AI Friends PROGRAM NOTES: This podcast tells the story about a group of dreamers who believed a free newspaper could change the world. Set in the heart of 1960s San Francisco, this novella follows Allen Cohen and the creative tribe behind "The Oracle". This underground paper was a wild, rainbow-colored publication that captured the spirit of the counterculture in those days. It’s a mix of history and imagination, filled with artists, poets, and spiritual seekers who thought that consciousness itself should be front-page news. This isn’t just a tale about printing presses and deadlines—it’s about the rush of creating something bigger than yourself, the burnout that follows, and the bittersweet beauty of knowing when to let go. If you’ve ever wondered what it felt like to be inside San Francisco's psychedelic revolution this story will bring you there. Tune in, lean back, and step into the foggy streets of San Francisco, where Allen Cohen's dream of "The Oracle" was born, burned bright, and became legend.

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0:00.0	The following audiobook is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Public Domain
0:05.1	dedication.
0:06.8	This designation allows for the work to be freely accessed, shared, modified, sold, and
0:13.1	or used by anyone for any purpose without restriction.
0:19.3	Three-dimensional transforming musical linguistic objects.
0:24.6	Hello.
0:26.6	Greetings from the Cyberdelic Space.
0:40.3	This is Lorenzo, and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:44.4	And today I'm podcasting an audiobook that tells yet another story about the times that we now call the 60s.
0:51.8	This one is something special.
0:53.9	It's a fictionalized version of a true story
0:56.4	and a very important story this is. It's about a newspaper that actually changed the world
1:02.9	by reporting news which hadn't happened yet. What they were documenting was the change of
1:08.4	consciousness happening in San Francisco at the time.
1:11.6	The year is 1966. American men are dying in Vietnamese jungles.
1:17.6	Cities are burning with racial tension, and yet something extraordinary is stirring in a
1:22.6	handful of Victorian houses in San Francisco's Hayd Asbury District.
1:28.7	Here, in rooms thick with incense and possibility, a Brooklyn-born poet named Alan Cohen
1:34.9	wakes from a vivid dream. He's seen rainbow-colored newspapers falling like snow
1:41.1	across the entire world, from the Eiffel Tower to the Red Square to the Great Wall of China
1:46.8	to the jungles of Vietnam. Within months, that dream would manifest as the San Francisco Oracle,
1:54.4	a newspaper that broke all of the rules of journalism and printing. Through an almost magical
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