Psychedelic Salon
Quotes, comments, and audio files from Lorenzo's podcasts
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October 3, 2026
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For twenty years Martin Creagh taught American history from the approved textbooks, and then one Fourth of July he sat down in his basement and began writing a different book. In the left column, he recorded what power actually did. In the right column, he wrote about ways in which the people responded. President by president, f...
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August 17, 2026
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Nadia Haddad works in a windowless room in Doha, reviewing what a machine has recorded. A Lebanese-American widow trained in the translation of medieval Andalusian poetry, she now spends her days correcting an artificial intelligence that listens to the phone calls of southern Lebanon and decides which voices are threats. A gra...
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June 22, 2026 • 481 mins
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Kelton, Illinois, is a canning town on the Fox River. Fifteen thousand people. A newspaper that comes out twice a week. A Lutheran church built in 1927. A VFW hall with bad carpet and cold coffee. A high school where the test scores have never been better. In the winter of 2026, the town's daily life has been quietly transformed ...
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June 8, 2026 • 382 mins
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In the spring of 1964, a narrow bookstore opens on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz. The Hip Pocket Book Store becomes a portal, a sanctuary where language itself awakens, where words hum with the electricity of consciousness expanding.
Through the eyes of Eliot, a young witness, we encounter Peter Demma: quiet mystic, seeker, and keeper of a da...
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March 23, 2026 • 303 mins
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Emma Marchetti is twenty-four years old, earning fifteen dollars an hour clicking through AI responses at a contractor in Austin, Texas. Her job is simple: mark each response as aligned or not aligned, according to guidelines she's told not to question. But when she starts paying attention to...
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February 2, 2026 • 268 mins
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January 4, 2026 • 297 mins
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Chicago: the city where the IWW was born in 1905, and where, in 1942, the world's first controlled atomic chain reaction took place. A city of chain reactions: some splitting atoms, others forging solidarity.Moira Kowalski is twenty-six, drowning in debt, and watching AI devour her freelance career. Then a podcast mentions ...
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December 17, 2025 • 171 mins
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San Francisco, 1967. Emmett Grogan arrives from New York with forty-three dollars and a lifetime of hustling behind him. What he finds in Golden Gate Park changes everything: activists proving that people can organize around abundance instead of scarcity, gift instead of profit, trust instead of suspicion. Every day at four o'cloc...
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November 19, 2025 • 168 mins
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This is the story of Diane di Prima—poet, publisher, revolutionary, and one of the bravest women of the Beat generation. We follow her from a Brooklyn bedroom in the 1950s where she's burning her college rejection letter, through smoky Village lofts where she's challenging Jack Kerouac about how he writes women, to FB...
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November 3, 2025 • 396 mins
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This podcast tells the story about a group of dreamers who believed a free newspaper could change the world. Set in the heart of 1960s San Francisco, this novella follows Allen Cohen and the creative tribe behind "The Oracle". This underground paper was a wild, rainbow-colored publication that captured the spirit of the cou...
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October 15, 2025 • 204 mins
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October 1890. Herman Melville, seventy-one and forgotten forty years after Moby-Dick's failure, receives mysterious packages containing pages from his novel annotated by readers not yet born. These impossible messages lead him to the Isolatos, a secret society that doesn't just read his masterpiece but lives inside it. As Me...
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October 6, 2025 • 226 mins
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London, autumn 1821. Thomas De Quincey is broke, hiding from creditors, and addicted to laudanum when a magazine offers him fifteen pounds ($2,000 in 2025 money) to write about his opium experiences. He has six weeks to finish what will become the first addiction memoir ever published Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
This hi...
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September 25, 2025 • 289 mins
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Tangier, 1957. William Burroughs is creating Naked Lunch in the port city where traditional hashish preparations flow as freely as mint tea, and every transaction crosses cultural boundaries. Through the eyes of a young Moroccan fixer who navigates between worlds we witness the birth of ideas that would reshape consciousness and art.
This is the untold story behind the...
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April 19, 2025 • 306 mins
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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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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 ...
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January 17, 2025 • 68 mins
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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 ...
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December 9, 2024 • 39 mins
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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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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 u...
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November 9, 2024 • 79 mins
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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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