Welcome to

Musical, musical, linguistic objects.

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.

This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.

And today I'm going to play a recording from last Monday's live salon, where our guest was the

creator of a new documentary titled Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness.

Now, I'm putting a link to the movie's trailer in today's program notes, and you may want to click over to that short video right now so that you will have a little better idea of what we're talking about.

While the film features three psychedelic journeys that have had a profound impact on our world, it also includes interviews with a dozen psychedelic elders who are

still with us. The three featured psychonauts are Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, and Aldous

Huxley, and they are featured through readings from their books, and these readings, which are

backed up by some wonderful animated graphics and original music, while they're

interspersed with comments from live interviews. And if you've been with us here in the salon

for a while, you're already familiar with some of the people who are interviewed, such as Dennis

McKenna, Amanda Fielding, Rick Doblin, and Graham Hancock.

Now, after my live salon conversation,

I went back and watched his film once again,

and I realized then that while Watts, Leary, and Huxley are well known to us here in the psychedelic salon,

there will also be some new fellow saloners

who may be hearing about these men for the first time.

So after the interview with Rob, I'm going to play a short recording from earlier podcast that

featured each of these three men. And hopefully this will give you a little better idea of what

pioneers they were and how relevant their ideas are yet today. Now, here's our

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