Podcast 661 – “Psychedelia: History, Science, and Mysticism”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

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🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: November 16, 2020 Guest speakers: Pat Murphy and Charlie Grob Today's podcast features an interview in the Live Salon with filmmaker Pat Murphy and psychedelic researcher Dr. Charles Grob. During the course of the conversation the conversation drifted into several interesting tributaries. However, the main focus of our conversation was to discuss Pat's new film, Psychedelia. PSYCHEDELIA is an hour-long documentary film about psychedelic drugs and their ability to induce mystical and religious experiences. The film chronicles their use in controlled research studies prior to the cultural upheaval of the 1960s, when LSD was regarded as a promising medical breakthrough, as well as their recent re-emergence in psychiatry. Featuring leading experts in the field of psychedelic research, the film tells the story of medical professionals who have re-introduced these compounds into a legal and growing field of study. First-person accounts from a study on end-of-life anxiety explore the profound, life-altering insights psychedelics induce in participants and what these insights might mean for society at large. Psychedelia(the movie) Virtual Screening with Fluence25% off discount code: PSYCHEDELIADOC Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select optionMacs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

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0:00.0	Greetings from
0:05.5	Musical, linguistic objects.
0:14.6	Greetings from Cyberdallic Space.
0:20.1	This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:24.2	And in this past Monday night's live salon, our guests were Pat Murphy and Charlie Grobe.
0:30.5	And while the focus of our discussion was Pat's new film, we kind of strayed from that a bit every once in a while.
0:36.6	But his new film is titled
0:38.0	Psychedelia, the History and Science of Mystical Experience.
0:42.7	Now, this coming Saturday, November 28th, there's going to be a 45-minute live question
0:48.1	and answer session at 2 o'clock Eastern time, and this event is being hosted by Fluence and is going to include Pat,
0:56.3	along with one of the participants in a recent psychedelic research study.
1:00.5	Now, a small fee is being charged for this, but it's also going to provide you with access
1:04.7	to watch the film for a full week after the Q&A session.
1:08.6	One of the takeaways from this conversation with Pat and Charlie that I got is how persistence
1:14.7	can pay off even if you don't have access to significant resources.
1:19.3	As you'll hear, Pat began this project when he was still a student at NYU, but it's taken
1:25.3	him nine years to get to where this first virtual live screening is going to take
1:29.6	place this Saturday. Now when I watched a pre-release edit of this film, I had no idea about what
1:36.1	went into its making. I just assumed Pat was a seasoned old documentary filmmaker. But as I watched
1:43.3	it, my impression was that a large and well-funded
1:46.0	crew had made it. You can't imagine my surprise when I heard the full story, as you will in just a
1:51.6	moment. In my opinion, this is an excellent film, and if you want to introduce somebody to the
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