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Elphishol.

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space.

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

Now, today we're going to travel back in time to Clarnie, Ireland in 1994, and listen to a talk that was given at the International Transpersonal Conference by Dr. Charles Grob, or Charlie, as he's known to family and friends.

And, as you know from the title of this podcast, it's about an ayahuasca research project in Brazil.

With all of the information and experience reports about ayahuasca that are available today,

well, you may wonder why I'm podcasting a 30-year-old talk about it.

With the rush of news about psychedelics, however, that's now flooding the internet,

I think that it's important to pause and give a little thought to, well, how we got here,

and who are some of the people who laid the foundation for the psychedelic work that's

taking place today? What I'm hoping that you will take from this talk is a better appreciation

for the women and men who have risked their careers by being associated with research into

psychedelic plants and chemicals back in the dark ages of the 20th century's war on drugs.

Roger Walsh, a colleague of Dr. Grobes at the University of California, Irvine,

is the person that we hear introducing him, and it is not only a wonderful introduction, but it's also well deserved.

As you will hear, this tape was damaged and parts of

this lecture have been lost. But I think that the part I recovered is worth listening to,

particularly near the end when he provides the specific parameters that were studied

while the participants were under the influence of ayahuasca. If you have ever participated in an ayahuasca ceremony and wondered how safe the experience would be,

I believe that this lecture will at least let you know that some serious research has been done

about the physical effects that the tea has on a human body.

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