Podcast 685 – The Nature of Consciousness

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: John Beresford PROGRAM NOTES: Dr. John Bereford delivering this talk in 2006 at the conference celebrating Albert Hofmann's 100th birthday. Today's program features a lecture by psychedelic researcher Dr. John Beresford. Here is Erowid's introduction to him: "British-born John Beresford began his psychedelic research interests in 1961, and shortly thereafter he resigned his post as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College. In 1963 he founded the Agora Scientific Trust, the world's first research organization devoted to investigating the effects of LSD. In contrast to Leary's invitation to "tune in, turn on, and drop out", Beresford initially wanted to keep LSD as a tool of scientifically trained specialists. However, later in his life he adopted a viewpoint that was opposed to the medicalization of psychedelics." Of course, the story that he is best known for is the time that he wrote to Sandoz Laboratories and requested one gram of LSD! (If my math is correct, that's about 4,000 doses of 250 mics each.) Amazingly, Sandoz sent him a gram through the mail and attached a note that read, "Good luck." The talk we are about to listen to was given by Dr. Beresford at the conference celebrating Albert Hofmann's 100th birthday. He titled it: "Psychedelic Agents and the Structure of Consciousness: Stages in a Session Using LSD and DMT".

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0:00.0	Three-dimensional transforming musical linguistic objects.
0:09.0	Elph machines.
0:15.0	Greetings from Cyberdelic Space. This is Lorenzo and I I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:24.2	And in our pursuit of documenting the early 60s, when interest in psychedelics was again building,
0:31.1	one of the people that we don't hear enough about is Dr. John Bairdstford.
0:35.0	And to be honest, I wouldn't have found this recording had it not been for Dr. Bairdsford's
0:39.6	daughter and son, who are working to ensure that their father's place in psychedelic history
0:44.8	isn't forgotten.
0:46.3	And for what it's worth, I consider John Bardsford's contribution to our community,
0:51.9	right up there on the same level as Albert Hoffman himself.
0:55.9	The talk that we are about to listen to was given at the event in Basel, Switzerland,
1:00.9	that celebrated Albert Hoffman's 100th birthday.
1:04.6	And for the superstitious among us, this talk was given on Friday the 13th in 2006.
1:11.6	And about halfway through this talk, Dr. Bairdzford says,
1:15.4	Consciousness is the origin of all appearance.
1:19.0	And I think you may want to pause your player when he says that
1:21.8	and spend a little time in contemplation of what he's been talking about.
1:26.2	Because if you've been listening to our live salons,
1:28.7	then you'll recognize this idea is something that we've also been frequently talking about.
1:34.4	Now, here's Dr. John Bardsford, discussing his model for the nature of consciousness.
1:42.2	For those of you who are not up on your psychedelic history, this is a rare appearance
1:46.7	by Dr. John Beresford, who in 1961 became interested in LSD.
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