Podcast 418 – “Death By Astonishment”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2014

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Every drug problem can usually be traced to a previous drug problem.” “I think drugs are much safer than gurus.” “I've never been absolutely certain that psychedelics have anything whatsoever to do with the spiritual quest.” “Academic culture runs very heavily on alcohol.” “It's hard to live a life where you don't eventually get your mind altered.” “Anything which changes your mind can be abused as a drug.” “People who have taken 50 gamma of LSD, or 100 gamma of LSD, or two grams of mushrooms or something like that, they are not qualified to hold forth on the nature of the psychedelic experience, because those doses don't deliver it to you.” “DMT is the strongest hallucinogen there is. If it's possible to get more loaded than that, I don't want to know about it.” “A ten minute DMT trip is worth of academic pharmacology, art history, psychology, and all this other malarkey.” “Clearly we need to transform our language, because our culture is created by our language, and our culture is toxic, murderous, and on a downhill bummer.” “A shaman is a person who knows the unspeakable secret. And once you know it, there's no going back.” “If flying saucers were to land on the south lawn of the White House tomorrow, it wouldn't change the fact that DMT is the weirdest thing in the universe.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

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0:00.0	Greetings from
0:02.0	Greetings from Cyberdeckery
0:04.6	Greetings here in the psychedelic salon.
0:23.7	And if you're one of our fellow saloners who listens to these new podcasts right away when I post them,
0:29.7	then what you may want to do right now is to check the time,
0:33.0	because beginning around 8.30 p.m. Pacific time today, October 13th. If you surf on over to the Joe Rogan
0:41.0	experience via Ustream.tv, well, then you can watch Joe interview our friend Bruce Damer, and
0:48.5	that's what I'll be doing myself. Also, my friend Matt Palomari stopped by yesterday on his way back down to the Amazon jungle for a little more work with the vine.
0:59.5	And he asked me to say hello to you, and depending on what happens during the rest of this month, he may be back here in the salon with some more new ayahuasca stories for us.
1:09.6	And also Matt has a couple of new novels out, Dreamland and Eye of the Predator, both of which
1:15.9	I'll link to in today's program notes.
1:18.8	Now, before I introduce today's program, I also want to send a shout out to Dr. Neil Goldsmith
1:25.1	and his team for producing another of their successful horizons psychedelic
1:30.0	conferences.
1:31.2	This is one of the longest running conferences in the psychedelic realm, and it's often the
1:36.5	place where we first learn who our new up-and-coming psychedelic researchers and thinkers are.
1:42.4	And after the Saturday session, I received a call from Wild Bill, who you've heard from
1:47.9	and about, I should say, here in the salon on several occasions.
1:53.8	And he'd just come from that day's sessions and wanted to let me know that he met Lily Ross
1:58.6	there.
1:59.5	Lily, as you know, is also a featured speaker here in the salon.
2:03.4	But here's why I'm mentioning this encounter.
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