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Podcast 330 – “The Politics of Knowledge in Psychedelic Sciences” Oct 22, 2012

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Guest speaker: Dr. Maddy Corbin Watch a video of this talk PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Dr. Maddy Corbin.] “I've been a nerd for a long time. That's how you get a Ph.D.” “At least in my experience of psychedelics, and people who take psychedelics and why they value psychedelics, is because it helps to critique you. It helps to break you down. It helps to challenge your assumptions. Isn't that part of what we find, whether it's in our meditation or in our psychedelic practices is it pushes you to your edge, and it teaches you about your assumptions that you are making without even realizing it. And you learn to challenge yourself.” “How can we be as rigorous in our engagement with the outer world as we try to be with our engagement with our inner world?” “Psychedelics don't actually come from the counterculture. They come out of scientific laboratories.” “And because it came through a chemical that allowed them to study it, they began to engage with spirituality in a way that was historically unprecedented. The doorway, I argue that [psychedelics] are a doorway through which spirituality entered the scientific laboratory in a way that it usually doesn't.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Dr. Michelle (Maddy) Corbin Dr. Maddy Corbin “The Politics of Knowledge in the Psychedelic Sciences” - Burning Man 2012 from Palenque Norte on Vimeo. Women's Visionary Congress

Podcast 329 – “Vision Mapping for the Golden Age” Oct 15, 2012

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Guest speakers: Amanda Sage and Bruce Damer Watch a video of this talk Watch a video of Bruce Damer's brief history of the Palenque Norte lecture series PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Amanda Sage.] “Let's turn the museums into temples. I think the new museums are going to be temples.” “I'm interested in this collaboration, because I'm interested in what can we do to wake people up, to turn people on.” “And dream. I mean if this is about dreaming, what can each of us do to evoke the dream, a deeper dream, in another?” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Amanda Sage (official site) eARTh Voyage::: The mission is the art of transformation Amanda Sage “Vision Mapping for the Golden Age” - Burning Man 2012 from Palenque Norte on Vimeo. A brief history of Palenque Norte, from which the podcasts sprang . . . by Dr. Bruce Damer Dr. Bruce Damer "A Brief History of Palenque Norte" - Burning Man 2012 from Palenque Norte on Vimeo. The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman Dark Ages America by Morris Berman

Podcast 328 – “In Praise of Ayahuasca” Oct 07, 2012

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Guest speaker: Graham Hancock PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Graham Hancock.] “There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most profound and challenging ordeals is to drink Ayahuasca. It is in a way the ultimate adventure.” “I think that ayahuasca requires us to confront the truth about ourselves. That's one of the fundamental, universal experiences of anybody who has drunk the sacred visionary brew of the Amazon.” “All across the world we have a venal class of dishonest, self-serving bureaucrats who are using the power we give them to impose themselves upon us.” “You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.” “Do we as adults have the right to make decisions about what we put in our own bodies and what we experience with our own consciousness without reference to the powers of the state, or must we seek permission from the state in order to explore our own consciousness?” “I don't think it's an accident that I started smoking cannabis at round about the time I started researching “The Sign of the Seal”, which is the first book I wrote on a historical mystery. And I don't believe I would have actually written that book if I hadn't had this nudge from this curious plant ally called cannabis.” “What ayahuasca does is to allow us to make accessible to our senses areas of reality that are normally off limits to us. I believe that those are real, not fiction of the brain. What the shamans call 'the spirit world', what quantum physicists might call parallel universes or parallel dimensions, I think they exist.” “The model I use is that the brain is a receiver, or a transceiver, of consciousness rather than a generator of consciousness. And that as such, as a transceiver, the receiver wavelength of consciousness may be adjusted. And I think that's what happens with ayahuasca, and I think that we gain access to other levels of reality and the intelligences that inhabit those other levels of reality, which, for some reason, are interested in the human race.” “We ought to be able, in a responsible society, as responsible adults, to gain good information. If we want to experiment with our consciousness we should be able to gain good and reliable information easily. Instead it's very difficult. We have to go underground. We have to stay out of the mainstream if we want to learn about ayahuasca.” And, “What ayahuasca does is to allow us to make accessible to our senses areas of reality that are normally off limits to us. I believe that those are real, not fiction of the brain. What the shamans call 'the spirit world', what quantum physicists might call parallel universes or parallel dimensions, I think they exist.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option LondonReal.tv Graham Hancock's Official Web Site Graham Hancock's YouTube Channel The Joe Rogan Experience with Graham Hancock Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind By Graham Hancock More Books by Graham Hancock

Podcast 327 – “Jesus, Aliens, and Ayahuasca” Sep 28, 2012

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Guest speaker: Jonathan Talat Phillips PROGRAM NOTES: This podcast features a talk given by Jonathan Talat Phillips in Vancouver sometime earlier this year. In it, Jonathan tells the story of how, after a devastating loss as countercultural activist, he embarked on a mystical initiation involving underground ayahuasca ceremonies, kundalini awakenings, DMT cowboys, shapeshifting extraterrestrials at Burning Man, miraculous healings, and an international movement trailblazing visionary ways to help our planet in crisis. Along the way he uncovers the lost rites of the Christian mystery schools and secret “electric” messages for personal and global transformation. Jonathan is the author of “The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic.” He co-founded the cutting edge web-magazine Reality Sandwich and The Evolver Network, coordinating 40+ regional Evolver communities. He is a religion blogger for "The Huffington Post," the creator of “The Ayahuasca Monologues: Tales of the Spirit Vine,” a Reiki Master and Bioenergetic Healer. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Starck Project The Starck Project on Kickstarter

Podcast 326 – “Avoiding the Pitfall of Words” Sep 20, 2012

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Guest speaker: J. Krishnamurti J. Krishnamurti ONLINE PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by J. Krishnamurti.] “The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.” “No revolution, psychologically I'm talking about, is possible if there is merely the imitation of a particular ideology. To me, all ideologies are idiotic.” “What has meaning is what IS, not what should be.” “I think that is the worst thing one can do, to break up one's own existence into various fragments, and that's where contradiction lies.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Safe Access Now Martin Wittfooth Web Site Corey Helford Gallery

Podcast 325 – “Cauldron Chemistry” Sep 01, 2012

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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] “Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.” “In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.” “I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present.” “The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.” “I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Links mentioned in Jon Hanna's comments: The bio synthesis of dimethyltryptamine in vivo. Comments by Sasha about DMT & Tryptophan

Podcast 324 – “Esalen 2012 Redux” Aug 26, 2012

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Guest speaker: Bruce Damer PROGRAM NOTES: Today's program consists of ten separate pieces from a June 2012 workshop at the Esalen Institute, eight of which are by Bruce Damer. Here are the titles that Bruce has given to these short talks: --Are we all becoming autistic astronauts? --On our dual bonobo and chimp nature --The things I loved about Terence --Esalen @ 50 --"Procreate only once" (and we will have a future) --The wellspring of human consciousness --Terence's greatest Rap: Its all about Love, and where to now, Butterfly Hunter? Following that we will be hearing the two closing segments of the workshop. The first is the “Rap for Terence” by Earth Girl and following that comes Galen Brandt singing her tribute to Terence titled “Aho Terence floating in the sky” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option 2012 Palenque Norte Lectures at Burning Man Podcasts featuring Fraser Clark "Rave Culture And the End Of The World…as we know it" "Monkey’s Trip, A Short History of the Human Species"

Podcast 323 – “Searching for a New Paradise Myth” Aug 21, 2012

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Guest speaker: Lorenzo and Friends PROGRAM NOTES: This podcast features the final community discussions at the June 2012 Esalen workshop led by Lorenzo and Bruce Damer. Among the topics discussed were: -Creating a new myth for our community -The genesis of the Occupy Movement -Are psychedelic “mutants” among us? -Cultural Creatives -Freeing our food supply from money -Timebanks -What the mushroom has to say about the future -The Importance of myth -Developing a “Medicine Circle” app -Building new cultures through shared global experiences -The 'superfood' revolution and our connection to the Earth -Indra's Net -The Temple at the Burning Man Festival Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option FindTheOthers.net

Podcast 322 – “The Evolution of Intelligence” Aug 11, 2012

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Guest speaker: Timothy Leary PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.] “In my function as a [college] lecturer, it's my obligation, it's my task, it's my duty to instigate irreverence for authority, questioning of authority.” “And that's one of the things that is kind of amazing today, the junk information that we're being inundated with, the cloud, the atmosphere, the smog of disinformation.” “Reagan is a certifiable lunatic” “The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.” “We're getting to one of those moments, one of those great moments in history, when evolution is going to happen.” “At all costs avoid terminal adulthood.” “You are as old as the last time you reprogrammed your brain or changed your mind.” “You're as old as the people you hang out with.” “There is no reason why any human being should work. Robots work, humans perform.” “The sensible thing to do about drugs is this, get yourself a really good dealer.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Myron Stolaroff's Lone Pine Stories The Discovery of Love: A Psychedelic Experience with LSD-25 by Malden Grange Bishop (Dodd, Mead & Company: New York, 1963) Reviewed by Lorenzo Hagerty Mavericks of the Mind - Elizabeth Gips (read online) Thought Provoking Interviews on Consciousness by David Jay Brown

Podcast 321 – “A Discussion About Psychedelics” Aug 07, 2012

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Guest speaker: Lorenzo and Friends PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features the next installment of the workshop that Bruce Damer and Lorenzo led at the Esalen Institute in June of 2012. The majority of this program features comments by some of the workshop's participants who bring up topics that include: -Heroic doses -Body load with psychedelics -Techniques for using psychedelics -What exactly is the psychedelic state -The perfect answer when a cop asks, “Were are you at, buddy?” -The re-introduction of psychedelics to our species -How do we tell the psychedelic story -The Occupy Movement and the banking system -The need for a parallel system of money Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

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