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Greetings from Cyberdelic Space

This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

And in a few minutes we're going to listen in on a conversation that I wish I'd heard, oh, 20 or more years ago.

It's a conversation between Shona Home, Lily Kay Ross, and Nishay Devano.

And actually, it took place early this summer, and my hope was to get it out to you sooner,

but alas, life got in our way for a bit, which I'm sure also happens to you from time to time.

As I was previewing our conversation, I couldn't help but to think about some other women who were also important leaders in our community.

You can read about them yourself in the wonderful book titled Sisters of the Extreme, Women Writing on the Drug Experience.

The book is edited by Cynthia Palmer and Michael Horowitz, two names that every psychonaut should know.

And in their collection, you'll find the works and stories of almost 100 women

whose lives were in one way or another influenced by psychoactive medicines.

While you might expect to find stories about the Delphic Oracle

and Cleopatra and Nefertiti, people like that in ancient history,

you may be surprised to read about women like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Sand,

Sarah Bernhardt, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Edith Piaf, Maya Angelou, Margaret Mead,

Nina Gruboldi, and Anne Shulgin, just to name a few.

And I expect that in future books like this you're also going to be able to read about the three women who are with us here today in the salon.

I think that perhaps many of my men friends here in the salon are going to be more than a little surprise that how us men, without even realizing what we're doing, can sometimes act very much like the jerks in the default tea party world do. They do it as a matter of course, and we do it because we're not paying attention, I think. So let's listen as these brave women express a few of the thoughts that us, well, us guys don't like to entertain.

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