Three-dimensional transforming musical linguistic objects.

Hello.

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.

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

And today we're going to dip back in time to 1988 and a recording of a talk by Ralph Metzner at the Transpersonal Vision Conference.

Now Ralph has been mentioned by several of our past speakers, but this is my first podcast in which he's the main speaker.

As you may know, Ralph was a German-born American psychologist, writer, and researcher, who worked with Lerian Ram Dass at Harvard.

Sadly, Ralph died in 2019.

In addition to being a psychotherapist, Ralph was also Professor Emeritus of Psychology

at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. As you'll hear, Ralph begins by

talking about the connection of Germanic mythology to the Nazis. He then goes on to say that if you can't deal with the story of your ancestors, you can't really deal with your ancestors. And considering the rise of the neo-Nazi movement here in the States, as well as in Europe, this message may be even more timely today than it was in 1988. On a more positive note, however, I suggest that you pay close attention to Ralph's idea

of the New Berserker's Warriors of the Earth.

If nothing else, it'll remind you of how long people have been calling our attention to

the planet's environmental problems.

Now, here's Ralph Metzner.

Questions about Germanic mythology and the fate of Europe.

Most of us are of European or partly European ancestry.

And the fate of Europe and the fate of North America are closely intertwined. or partly European ancestry,

and the fate of Europe and the fate of North America are closely intertwined.

This particular line of investigation began for me several years ago

when I had a dream in which I saw one of the giant Olmec,

Mesoamerican stone carved heads.

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