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Psychedelic Salon

Podcast 695 – The Legendary D.M. Turner

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

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

4.8567 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Elizabeth Gips and D.M. Turner PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features what may be the only recorded interview of the legendary D.M. Turner. It was conducted by Elizabeth Gips. FROM EROWID.ORG Elizabeth Gips, was the beloved "psychedelic grandmother" and host of the radio show Changes where she interviewed hundreds of visionaries over a 30-year span. D.M. Turner (born Joseph Vivian; 5 October 1962 – 31 December 1996) was an author, psychedelic researcher, and psychonaut who wrote two books on psychoactive drugs and entheogens. His first book, The Essential Psychedelic Guide, showcased his views on the subjective effects of various psychoactive and hallucinogenic substances. His second book, Salvinorin, addressed the effects of Salvia divinorum. Turner died after injecting an unknown quantity of ketamine while in a bathtub, drowning while presumably incapacitated by the effects of the drug.

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0:00.0

Three-dimensional transforming musical linguistic objects.

0:09.0

Elphashones.

0:14.8

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.

0:19.6

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

0:23.7

And today we're going to listen to what I think of as a real treat.

0:28.1

Ever since I became actively engaged in the psychedelic community, I've been hearing about the legendary DM Turner, DMT,

0:36.1

who wrote what was one of the first underground psychedelic books. And for what

0:41.3

it's worth, this is the only recording of D.M. Turner that I know of. After searching for several

0:47.2

years, well, quite a few years, actually, I recently found this recording buried in the middle of a longer

0:52.8

MP3 file on Archive.org.

0:55.0

I think it was posted by James Kent, who I knew briefly back when I was still doing mind state seminars,

1:01.0

and what I remember best about him is his seriousness about psychedelics.

1:06.0

And the fact that I never saw him when he wasn't wearing a suit and tie.

1:10.0

He is our generation's version

1:12.5

of William S. Burroughs in that regard. Turner's book, The Essential Psychedelic Guide, was published

1:19.4

in 1994. At the time, there was very little literature about psychedelics that was available to the

1:25.9

average person, like me.

1:28.2

So Turner's book became an instant classic.

1:31.3

One of my friends has a copy, and while I can see that it was an invaluable resource back

1:36.0

in the day, well, today the only reason I can see to spend $150 for a copy is, well, if you're

1:42.3

a book collector.

1:43.6

But that doesn't take away from its value at the

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