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Psychedelic Salon

Podcast 660 – “Celebrating Timothy Leary’s 100th Birthday”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8567 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com PROGRAM NOTES: Date this live salon was held: October 22, 2020 Guest speakers: Rio Hahn, Michael Shields, and Ron Turner Today's podcast features a recording of a live salon in which former friends and associates of Dr. Timothy Leary shared their remembrances of him on the occasion of 100th anniversary of Dr. Leary's birth. Among other first-hand accounts, we learned the truth about why Timothy decided at the last minute to not have his head frozen after he died. Archive of Timothy Leary talkson the Psychedelic Salon Lorenzo's Days as a Drug DealerConfessions of an Ecstasy Advocate

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0:00.0

Greetings from

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musical

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linguistic art chips

0:09.2

greetings

0:11.7

greetings

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from cyberdelic space

0:19.8

this is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

0:23.6

And did you know that?

0:25.6

Timothy Lear is dead. No, no, is outside looking here. And if you still remember that old moody blue song like I do, well, it probably brings back some good memories for you too.

0:47.3

And, of course, you know that Timothy Leary is dead, but do you also know that it was exactly 100 years ago today that the good doctor was born?

0:57.0

I just finished hosting a live session of the psychedelic salon

1:00.4

that included some old friends and acquaintances of Dr. Learys,

1:04.4

and in just a moment I'm going to play a recording of that conversation for you.

1:08.9

First, however, I want to let our younger members of the salon know that,

1:12.6

well, even if you only have a vague idea of who Timothy Leary was,

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nonetheless, you are directly connected to him as well.

1:20.6

In fact, Dr. Timothy Leary is one of your psychedelic ancestors.

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Now, here's how I figure that. Obviously, you and I are together

1:29.5

in cyberdelic space right now. And the fact is that had it not been for Timothy Leary, I never would

1:35.6

have even found the psychedelic community. In 1984, I was a 42-year-old Vietnam vet and a Texas

1:42.9

lawyer who had never even smoked marijuana. Then, I was offered my first 190-year-old Vietnam vet and a Texas lawyer who had never even smoked marijuana.

1:46.0

Then I was offered my first 120 milligram tablet of pure MDMA, which was called Ecstasy at the time,

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