Podcast 633 – “The Man Who Invented Bicycle Day”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Tom Roberts PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a conversation from last Monday's Live Salon with Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D., who is a professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University. Tom not only began teaching the world's first university catalog-listed psychedelics course in 1981, he is also a founding member of MAPS, former visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins, editor of Spiritual Growth with Entheogens, and author of Psychedelic Horizons and The Psychedelic Future of the Mind. In this interview, Tom talks about his latest book, MindApps: Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design. However, you most likely know him as the man who created the first Bicycle Day celebration. Date this lecture was recorded: November 18, 2019 [NOTE: The following quotations are by Tom Roberts.] "I'm attempting to broaden the field [of psychedelics], and trying to get people who are interested in history and literature and philosophy interested in psychedelics." "We can install ideas in our brain/mind complex, just as we install apps on our devices." Thomas Roperts, Ph.D. Publications Mindapps: Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option ALSO MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST Boohbah: Skipping Rope (Episode 1) A visual trip - no drugs needed :-) A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

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0:00.0	Greetings from
0:06.0	Musical
0:07.0	Linguistic objects
0:10.0	Hello
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	And today's podcast features a conversation that I had last Monday night in the live salon with Dr. Thomas Roberts.
0:32.1	Tom is a professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University,
0:36.5	and he not only began teaching the
0:38.9	world's first university catalog listed psychedelics course in 1981.
0:44.6	He is also a founding member of MAPS, former visiting scientists at Johns Hopkins, and he's
0:51.1	the author of quite a few books, but in this interview, we're mainly going to talk about his latest book, Mind Apps, Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design.
1:03.2	Pretty interesting book, by the way.
1:05.7	And while Tom is also the author of dozens of other books and academic papers that deal largely with psychedelics
1:13.2	and what we often call consciousness, whatever that may mean. But in any event, you most likely
1:19.2	know Tom is the man who created the first Bicycle Day celebration. So let me play the recording
1:25.5	of our conversation now.
1:30.8	And I've got good. I've just gone to full screen. All right.
1:32.0	Okay. Yeah. You can see. Fascinating. Stanley is here from Washington State and Niles from the Bay Area.
1:37.4	And then Gene's coming in from Nova Scotia. So that's, these are all the early birds.
1:42.5	But Thomas, it would be great to get to finally meet you
1:46.1	you know I don't
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