Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space. This is Lorenzo and I I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

And today, December 23rd, is a very special day for me.

For you see, on this day, 47 years ago, my ship returned to California from our little trip to Vietnam.

And waiting on the pier for me was my

four-year-old son and the exceptional woman who was then my wife and who had just given birth to

our daughter three days earlier. So it was on this day, not on the day of her birth, that I first

saw the infant girl who is now the mother of my three oldest grandchildren.

It was really a good day, just like today is shaping up to be, because at the end of the day

I'll be at the beach watching the sunset with some close friends and family.

All the consumerism aside, this is really a lovely time of year for some of us.

However, now that the end of the year holiday season is upon us, I'm sorry to report that

our other correspondents who have been supplying talks for us to listen to here in the salon

are all fully engaged in the season, I guess, just as you perhaps are, and as a result, they haven't had a chance to get any new material to me.

So, my dear friend, it looks like that for the next couple of weeks, it's just going to be you and me and our old friend, the Bard Terence McKenna, here in the salon.

Now, if you listen to last week's podcast, you may be wondering what direction I'll be moving in next.

Well, relax. The salon isn't going anywhere, and the format isn't going to change.

But the topics, hopefully, will begin to tend to follow the prevailing mood among some of us,

and I'll try to make more of a point about intersections between thoughts

of long ago from the Bard McKenna and events on the ground today.

And along the way, I'll also try to fill in some of the history that has led up to where we are

at this particular moment in time.

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