Psychedelic Salon

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Myron Stolaroff, Sidney Cohen, Al Hubbard, Timothy Leary, Oscar Janiger, and Humphry Osmond Left to Right: Myron Stolaroff, Sidney Cohen, Al Hubbard, Timothy Leary, Oscar Janiger, and Humphry OsmondPhoto credit: Erowid.org PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: February 16, 1979. Today's podcast features the audio track from the well-known las...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Lorenzo Hagerty A view of Roasario Resort in the distance ...  on Orcas Island, Washington PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 22, 2019 Today's podcast features the talk that Lorenzo delivered at the recent Imagine Convergence held on Orcas Island. The Imagine Convergence was a gathering of change-makers, intellectuals, innovators and...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Nick Sand Lorenzo at home with Usha and Nick Sand PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features an interview given by legendary chemist Nick Sand, the creator of Orange Sunshine LSD. In this interview, given a few years before Nick's untimely death, we hear him explain what led him to become a psychedelic chemist as well as the many trials and tribulations h...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 19, 1998. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Repeated exposure to cannabis socializes it dramatically, and it becomes a much more manageable thing." "I can imagine the culture crisis getting so crazy that the people at the top will have to turn to their cohorts and say, "...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Art Bell PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features an interview that Terence McKenna did on the Art Bell radio program on March 19, 1998. This conversation begins with an interesting discussion of how Terence was living off the grid at the time, but it then proceeds to cover such topics as: Sandoz acid, technology, culture, artificial int...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 1990. Today’s podcast features the second part of a talk that Terence McKenna gave in May of 1990. Rather than follow a script for this talk, Terence answers questions from the audience which feature such diverse topics as the family, education, ayahuasca, DMT, history, language, and ps...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 1990. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “The world that we are living in is not at all as the linguistic structures we have inherited would have us have it. We are actually living inside some kind of artificial construction which is potentially permeable by human understand...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Gunther Weil Gunther Weil PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast from our Psychedelic Salon 2.0 track features some epic stories from a psychonaut who’s seen it all. His name is Gunther Weil. Gunther escaped the Holocaust, worked with Tim Leary on the LSD Concord Prison Experiment, worked on Aerosmith’s first album, recieved a Ph. D. from Harvard, and hung out...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. Today we continue with the June 1989 Terence McKenna workshop session in which he sets out his ideas about history and time in his Timewave hypothesis. And while we now know that this idea of his will never actually become an actual theory, as it is sometimes said to be, none...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Culture is a mirror of the mind." "What are we when we begin to take off our cultural clothing? What kind of world will be build in the pure imagination?" "History is a kind of psychedelic trip. That's what it is. It's the big t...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Minoan Crete PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Addiction to natural substances, with the exception of tobacco, is something you really have to work at." "There is something really insidious about synthetic drugs, about concentrating what is a vegetable essence,...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Mushroom ManLogo for the Palenque Norte LecturesPhoto by Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. Today we continue with a workshop that Terence McKenna led at the Esalen Institute in June of 1989. Although he begins with an exploration of ideas surrounding the use of sound during psychedelic experiences, he...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Finn and Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Today marks the official beginning of the 3.0 track of the Psychedelic Salon. The main difference between Salon 3.0 and the earlier podcasts from the salon is that this 3.0 track on Patreon.com will be where you will hear the programs three months before they appear on the "classic salon" feeds. S...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Matt Pallamary Matt Pallamary delivering his 2007 Palenque Norte Lecture PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: January 21, 2019 Today's podcast features a recording from a recent live session of the Psychedelic Salon in which writer and ayahuasca researcher Matt Pallamary regaled us with his tales of jungle adventures. Matt Pallamary's Website...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: January 19, 2019 Today's podcast is part of a presentation that I made at a recent Entheo Medicine event in Santa Barbara, California. The title of my little talk was "Psychedelic Renaissance – Creating Your Own Community", and the program notes said that I would talk about how I came out of the "p...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: March 19, 1998. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Repeated exposure to cannabis socializes it dramatically, and it becomes a much more manageable thing." "I can imagine the culture crisis getting so crazy that the people at the top will have to turn to their cohorts and say, "...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Art Bell PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features an interview that Terence McKenna did on the Art Bell radio program on March 19, 1998. This conversation begins with an interesting discussion of how Terence was living off the grid at the time, but it then proceeds to cover such topics as: Sandoz acid, technology, culture, artificial int...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Shonagh Home Celtic goddess, Cerridwen holding the cauldron PROGRAM NOTES: Today's program features a talk given by Shonagh Home at the inaugural Viridis Genii Symposium that was held in July of 2015. In this talk Shonagh discusses the role of women through the ages who have worked with visionary plant medicines. She explains the role of the Oracle of...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Richie Ogulnick PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: December 17, 2018. Today's program was recorded during last Monday's live session of the Psychedelic Salon. It features a conversation/interview with Richie Ogulnick, who is a leading expert on the healing properties of ibogaine, particularly in ways it is being used to treat addictions of...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 1990. Today's podcast features the second part of a talk that Terence McKenna gave in May of 1990. Rather than follow a script for this talk, Terence answers questions from the audience which feature such diverse topics as the family, education, ayahuasca, DMT, history, language, and ps...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: May 1990. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "The world that we are living in is not at all as the linguistic structures we have inherited would have us have it. We are actually living inside some kind of artificial construction which is potentially permeable by human understand...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. Today we continue with the June 1989 Terence McKenna workshop session in which he sets out his ideas about history and time in his Timewave hypothesis. And while we now know that this idea of his will never actually become an actual theory, as it is sometimes said to be, none...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Culture is a mirror of the mind." "What are we when we begin to take off our cultural clothing? What kind of world will be build in the pure imagination?" "History is a kind of psychedelic trip. That's what it is. It's the big t...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Minoan Crete PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Addiction to natural substances, with the exception of tobacco, is something you really have to work at." "There is something really insidious about synthetic drugs, about concentrating what is a vegetable essence,...

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Mushroom ManLogo for the Palenque Norte LecturesPhoto by Lorenzo PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: June 24, 1989. Today we continue with a workshop that Terence McKenna led at the Esalen Institute in June of 1989. Although he begins with an exploration of ideas surrounding the use of sound during psychedelic experiences, he...