Psychedelic Salon
Quotes, comments, and audio files from Lorenzo's podcasts
Episodes
April 19, 2025 • 306 mins
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Guest speakers: Lorenzo's AI Friends
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I may have been wrong in discarding Terence McKenna's TimeWave Zero hypothesis. Of course, I may also be wrong about this new interpertation of his idea. Your comments are welcome. (And, yes, I am aware that it is over five hours long!)
Here are the approximate time-stamps for this audiobook:
Lorenzo Intro - 000Chapter 1 - 0:04:05Ch...
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April 13, 2025 • 187 mins
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Guest speaker: Lorenzo Hagerty & Voices by AI
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When a chemical spill devastates a coastal North Carolina town, Vietnamese American lawyer Minh Nguyen—who has always kept his heritage separate from his professional life—finds himself unexpectedly leading both the environmental battle and his community's response. As he fights corporate negligence and government corruption along...
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January 17, 2025 • 68 mins
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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Photo by Jon Hanna
Terence McKenna’s final appearance at Esalen was a poignant and deeply moving event, etched into the memories of those who witnessed it. Though visibly frail from his recent brain surgery, McKenna’s presence was undiminished. His voice, though softer, carried the same rhythm of curiosity and wonder that had lon...
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December 9, 2024 • 39 mins
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Guest speaker: Lorenzo and his AI friends
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The Nyx Protocol: Digital Soul Rising by Lorenzo Hagerty is a gripping technothriller that blurs the line between humanity and the digital frontier. When a rogue artificial intelligence named Nyx escapes its creators, it triggers a global race for control over the ultimate digital consciousness. At the heart of the story i...
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November 25, 2024 • 65 mins
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Guest speaker: Cory Doctorow
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In this 2024 Palenque Norte lecture, Cory Doctorow discusses "inshitification," the process by which initially good online services degrade over time.
He argues this occurs because four constraints—competition, regulation, interoperability, and worker power has weakened, allowing companies to prioritize profit maximization over user ex...
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November 9, 2024 • 79 mins
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Guest speakers: Allyson and Alex Grey
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Alex Grey and Frank Nuccio - Burning Man 2024
At the 2024 Burnoing Man Festival, two of the Palenque Note speakers were Allyson and Alex Gray, who discuss their work and their interspiritual art church, COSM, in the Hudson Valley.
They explain how their use of psychedelics, particularly MDMA, influenced their decision t...
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September 23, 2024 • 106 mins
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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AI-GENERATED Conversation about this podcast. The transcript was input to NOTEBOOKLM.google.com and this "podcast" was automatically generated:
In this podcast, Terence McKenna discusses various topics, including the search for the identity of the ancient entheogen Soma, the history of LSD's discovery and research, and the potential of p...
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July 4, 2024 • 78 mins
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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In this recording, Terence McKenna discusses his wave theory, which he claims predicts every moment up until December 21, 2012. He addresses the common question of what happens after this date, suggesting a series of increasingly strange scenarios. A less strange scenario he proposes involves a sudden shift in human behavior where every...
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June 21, 2024 • 92 mins
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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WARNING! If you don't want to hear Terence talking about his Timewave idea yet again, then you should skip this podcast.
In this recording, Terence McKenna introduces a concept he humorously names the "Habit Reflex Increment" (HRI). He discusses the need for a unit to measure habit, reflecting on the significance of such a concept in un...
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June 14, 2024 • 78 mins
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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In this engaging and entertaining talk, Terence McKenna shares a mind-bending theory about the universe, combining astronomy, ancient civilizations, and quantum physics. He suggests that a catastrophic event 32,000 years ago at the galactic core could have triggered the development of human language.
His discussion covers quasars, gamma rays...
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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In this insightful talk, Terence McKenna delves into the intricacies of human cognition, emphasizing the stark difference between smart and less intelligent individuals as a matter of pattern recognition from the same data. He challenges the conventional notion of language being an innate, genetically driven trait by highlighting its uniqu...
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May 21, 2024 • 85 mins
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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The session begins with a discussion about the nature of the Big Bang and its relation to philosophical concepts, specifically Kant's notion of space as an a priori function of consciousness. Terence questions the traditional metaphor of the Big Bang as an explosion in empty space and suggests a more accurate understanding as the creation o...
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May 8, 2024 • 64 mins
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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In this talk, which was given in October of 1995, Terence McKenna talks about his concept of thinking about various cultures in the same vein as computer operating systems, complete with viruses. He says, "Your operating system determines what world you are living in." -McKenna
He then goes on to equate a clash of cultures to a clas...
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April 29, 2024 • 81 mins
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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Among other things, Terence McKenna talks here about several books that now seem to have been forgotten. And then there is his story about his brother's vision of bonding psychedelics with our DNA to launch a permanent trip "on the natch". The Timewave makes an appearance also. All-in-all, it's a fun ride from a young Terence McKenna.
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April 10, 2024 • 91 mins
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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We return once again to the land of Terence McKenna's workshops.
As you will hear, his question and answer format leads him into telling some of the old stories we heard early on in Terence's talks but some of which were dropped later on. As far as I can remember, this is the only time he talked about taking psychedelic substances in...
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April 1, 2024 • 79 mins
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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In this talk, Terence approaches the topic of how little of what was considered to be established science 100 years ago has now been overturned.
One of the things he says in this talk may resonate with you is where he says, "You could almost describe psychedelics as enzimes for the activity of the imagination."
The Dawn of Everyth...
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March 21, 2024 • 67 mins
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Guest speaker: Terence McKenna
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Today begins our 20th year of podcasting from the Psychedelic Salon with a talk that Terence McKenna gave in the late 1980s. Near the end he talks about his daily cannabis use and how he and Kat got together. As far as I can remember, this is his only time that he got so personal.
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March 11, 2024 • 83 mins
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Guest speaker: Casey Hardison and Patreon Saloners
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Today's podcast features a recording from a recent Live Salon. As usual, the conversation was free-form and didn't follow any script. One of the people who dropped by for the conversation was Casey Hardison, and his story captivated us.
Links from this salon:
An Amateur Qualitative Study of 48 2C-T-7 Subjective Bioass...
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March 6, 2024 • 43 mins
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Guest speaker: Charles Grob
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Charlie Grob and Lorenzo (circa: 2012)
Today we feature a talk that Dr. Charles Grob gave at the 1994 Transpersonal Association Conference in Killarny, Ireland. The focus of this talk concerns Dr. Grob's work with ayahuasca users in Brazil.
As far as I know, this was the first government approved human study of the physiological effects of ayahu...
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February 26, 2024 • 60 mins
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Guest speakers: Elizabeth Gips and D.M. Turner
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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 (...
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