Podcast 642 – “Shamans and Their Plants”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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RIP QueerNinja (details to follow) Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Sounds of World Wide Weed was heard on The Dopecast PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "And what was this profession [of shamanism] precisely about? Well, it was about exploring the envelop of cognition, pushing against the linguistic membrane of what it was possible to say, symbolize, conceive, and communicate." "I prefer the organic hallucinogens and recommend them to other people because I think their long history of shamanic usage is the first seal of approval that you must look for. I mean, if these things have been used for thousands of years, then you can be fairly confident that they do not cause [medical problems]." "The situation that we now reside in is not one of seeking the answer but facing the answer. The answer has been found. It just happens to lie on the wrong side of the fence of social toleration and legality." "If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?" Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

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0:00.0	Greetings from
0:05.0	Musical
0:07.0	Logistic objects
0:10.0	Helmich
0:12.0	Greetings from Cyberdelic Space
0:19.0	This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:23.6	And today I have to begin with some sad news.
0:27.6	Our dear friend, Queer Ninja, has died.
0:31.6	And if you've been with me here in the salon for a while, you'll remember KMO and the dope bean and me talking about him and his great podcast,
0:39.1	The Sounds of Worldwide Weed.
0:41.7	You know, at my age, the news of a death of one of my friends seems to come almost every month now,
0:47.3	but when it's the death of somebody that's much younger than myself, it really hits hard.
0:52.9	And to be honest, getting this podcast out today is, well, it's about all that I can do right now.
0:57.9	And everyone who knew the Ninja, well, they all feel about the same way, I'm sure.
1:04.2	In a couple of months, after we've had some time to adjust, KMO, the Dope Feen and I,
1:09.5	will be producing a joint podcast tribute to Queer Ninja,
1:13.1	and we'll try to also include some of his other friends like Lefty and Beebe.
1:18.0	BB, of course, is Black Beauty, whose lovely voice we hear each week here in the salon after the featured speakers talk.
1:24.8	Well, today, the best that I can do without coming to tears is to play one of
1:29.3	Ninja's favorite songs at the end of today's podcast. But right now, it's time to press on.
1:36.5	And taking Terence McKenna's advice about what to do when hitting a barrier or some sort,
1:41.7	well, I'm reverting to the last thing that worked, namely another
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