Three-dimensional transforming, musical, linguistic objects.

Elphash.

Greetings from Cyprodelic space. This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.

And as we are in the process of wrapping up 2023, I hope that it hasn't been as a difficult

a year for you as it has been and continues to be for far too many of our human sisters and brothers.

Let's see what we can do to make 2024 a big

improvement over the past few years. For my part, I'm going to play an old tape that, in a way,

is more of a salon than a Terrence McKenna lecture. And what I hope you listen for and then think

about is how the participants seem to be in a somewhat apocalyptic state of

mind. What I find interesting is that this recording was made in 1985, and that was the year that

Bruce Springsteen's album, Born in the USA, was released, just to give you a little handle on

where you might have been that year.

As you'll see from the image and the program notes for this podcast, this appears to be tape number two of an unspecified number of tapes, and handwritten on the label is the word

unedited. However, the only editing that I had to do was to remove some of the scratchy background noise

and amplify all of the voices except for Terrances.

I assume that he was wearing a microphone, and that also picked up the comments from the rest of the room.

Now, the date of this recording is August 19, 1985, which is a couple days before the Ralph Abraham recording that we just played not long ago.

And the title for this recording is shamanism, alchemy, and the Millennium.

And it was recorded at the Esselin Institute near Big Sur, California.

As I said a minute ago, I was drawn by the concern for the future that I heard

in the voices of the participants in this workshop. Now, at the time, 38 years ago, the psychedelic

community at large was thinking about the upcoming millennium that would soon be followed by

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