Podcast 454 – Aldous Huxley: “Human Potentialities”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Guest speaker: Aldous Huxley PROGRAM NOTES: This podcast celebrates the ten year anniversary of programming from the Psychedelic Salon. And so we return to one of the men who was responsible for igniting today's psychedelic renaissance, Aldous Huxley. The talk featured here was delivered at MIT in 1961, sometime after it was first given at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. The Medical Center version of this talk has been credited with giving Dick Price the inspiration to co-found the Esalen Institute. Today, more than 50 years after this talk was given, there remains much of current interest in the sentiments that Huxley so eloquently puts forth. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

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0:00.0	Greetings from
0:03.0	Greetings from Cyberdelic Spaces.
0:09.0	Hello to
0:09.0	Ceynolds.
0:10.0	Hello.
0:19.8	Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.
0:23.3	This is Lorenzo, and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.
0:23.0	And I want to welcome you to this, our 10-year anniversary podcast. And since this has been a
0:31.4	listener-supported podcast, all of these 10 years have been totally commercial-free. We don't
0:36.9	even use Google ads on our website.
0:39.4	So, hey, thank you one and all for helping this program continue on for so long.
0:45.0	Now, before I introduce today's speaker, I want to make one more acknowledgement.
0:50.4	You see, I started these podcasts in the spring of 2005, but only with the intention of mainly exploring the technology a little bit.
0:59.7	However, by June, I realized that, well, this is something that I wanted to keep on doing for a while.
1:05.1	And so I reorganized my first few podcasts and gave each one of them a number and, well, more or less, restarted the series on June 10th, 2005.
1:15.0	And the reason that I picked that date is because, well, it's the day on which we celebrate my mother's birthday.
1:22.0	If she were alive today, my mother, Ruth, Cecilia, Fox, Hagerty, Altapeter would have been 100 years old.
1:30.1	Happy birthday, mother.
1:32.9	As you know, our 10-year anniversary actually means that we are today beginning our 11th year of podcasting from the Psychedelic Salon.
1:42.0	I'll let you figure that out on your own.
1:45.0	And did you guess who my selected speaker would be today?
1:48.9	I suspect that you may have thought that it would be Terrence McKenna,
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