Podcast 414 – “The Entheogenic Singularity”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Guest speaker: Bruce Damer PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Bruce Damer.] “Your brain has distinct pathways that outnumber the number of subatomic particles in the universe by a very large number. . . . Your brain is an information system that is bigger than the whole cosmos.” “Your brain is reverberating the whole cosmos.” “We are the great project of being.” “It's the informal experimenter (in their millions) that is the pioneering front edge of the science of psychedelics.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Tom Riedel's light show for this talk Johns Hopkins "Bad Trip" Survey After Psilocybin Mushrooms 2014 The main survey will take about 30 minutes to complete, and an optional open-ended section could take another 10-15 minutes. If you have previously completed a Johns Hopkins survey of "bad trips" on psilocybin mushrooms (aka. magic mushrooms or shrooms), please Do Not complete this survey. This is a questionnaire study of bad trips on psilocybin mushrooms -- psychologically difficult or challenging experiences while under the influence of mushrooms. This research study is being conducted by scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has been approved by the Johns Hopkins University Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB application number for this research study is NA_00080653. Dr. Roland Griffiths, Ph.D. is the Principal Investigator for this research study. Detailed information about the study is provided in the next few pages. If you need further information please contact ShroomSurvey (at) gmail (dot) com

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0:00.0	Greetings from
0:02.0	Greetings from Cyberdelic Space
0:06.0	This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:23.5	And today we're going to get to listen to the first of the talks that I've received from the
0:28.1	2014 Plankay Norte lectures that were held at the recent Burning Man event, from which I
0:34.4	received a postcard that was sent from my dear friends Naomi and Joe,
0:38.8	who were also the last ones to send me a postcard from the playa two years ago.
0:43.3	And the reason that I mentioned this is that during the times that I went to the burn myself,
0:48.1	I was only able to make it to the post office one time to mail cards to my grandkids.
0:53.7	It sounds strange, but it takes a great deal of
0:57.7	concentration and effort just to send a card from Black Rock City. Well, at least it was for me,
1:03.6	and so I truly treasure these cards from Burning Man. Thanks for thinking of it. Now, the talk that we're
1:09.9	about to listen to features Bruce Damer,
1:12.0	and I hope that later on you'll give yourself a little time to think about the vastly different approaches
1:18.4	to the psychedelic experience that Bruce speaks about when contrasted to last week's talk about plant medicines.
1:25.9	And while I don't have any definitive ideas about these
1:29.1	different approaches to enhance consciousness, I do think that we should all give a little
1:33.6	thought to the spectrum that is covered between us male geeks and the Gaian view that we also
1:39.4	subscribe to. It's really interesting when you think about these different approaches to
1:44.1	altered states of consciousness.
1:46.0	To me, the most fascinating part is that, well, they all seem to get you somewhere near to the same place.
1:53.0	What's that all about, do you think?
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