Podcast 467 – “Investigating Life – Part 1”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Guest speaker: Peter Gorman PROGRAM NOTES: Today’s podcast features an interview of Peter Groman by Tom Huckabee. The interview took place at Peter’s home in August 2015. In this, the first part of Peter’s story, we learn that Peter was one of the first American’s to take ayahuasca. At the time, Burroughs’ “Yage Letters” hadn’t yet made it around to him. He wrote a freelance story about the experience, which became a front page story in High Times Magazine. Many twists and turns later, Peter became the Editor in Chief of High Times and was instramental in entering the discussion of medical marijuana into the mainstream media. This is the first part of this interview, and it ends with Peter and his wife deep in the Amazon and being acosted by river pirates. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Peter Gorman’s Website Contact Peter Gorman Sapo In My Soul: The Matsés Frog Medicine Other talks featuring Peter Gorman Podcast 280 – “Albert Hofmann is Interviewed by Peter Gorman” Podcast 279 – “Peter Gorman Interviews the Elders” Podcast 278 – “Oscar Janiger Interviewed by Peter Gorman” Podcast 277 – “Peter Gorman Interviews Dennis McKenna” Part 2 Podcast 276 – “Peter Gorman Interviews Dennis McKenna” Part 1 Dr. Timothy Leary’s Cooper Union Speech Podcast 127 – Leary: “The Cooper Union Speech”

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0:00.0	Greetings from
0:04.0	The
0:04.7	Musical
0:07.0	Logistic art chips.
0:10.0	Helmichines
0:12.0	Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.
0:19.0	This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:24.1	Well, the other day I decided to re-listen to Dr. Timothy Leary's influential Cooper Union speech from 1964.
0:33.0	And as you may recall, this was most likely the first time that LSD was discussed in a mainstream and very influential public forum.
0:44.2	That speech had a major effect on many lives, and some have called it actually the opening act of what we now call the 60s.
0:52.1	In my introduction to that talk, I spoke about the importance of
0:56.5	understanding the history of our tribe if we are to move our understanding of consciousness
1:01.6	exploration into the mainstream. And in the way of an introduction to today's interview,
1:08.0	I want to make a brief comment about what we think of as history.
1:12.3	For many of us who have been forced to go to schools in the U.S., our view of history is
1:17.3	largely about people whom our politicians think have stories that are, well, worth telling.
1:23.2	But these people didn't create history on their own.
1:26.7	While a famous general or admiral may get credit for winning a particular battle,
1:31.3	well, they aren't actually the people who did the winning.
1:34.3	It was all of the common people, us average working stiffs,
1:38.3	who do the heavy lifting in the making of history.
1:41.6	And our stories don't seem to hold the attention of people who are mandating which
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