Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: John Beresford PROGRAM NOTES: Dr. John Bereford delivering this talk in 2006 at the conference celebrating Albert Hofmann’s 100th birthday. Today’s program features a lecture by psychedelic researcher Dr. John Beresford. Here is Erowid’s introduction to him: “British-born John Beresford began his psychedelic research interests in 1961, and shortly […]
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Podcast 684 – Psychedelic Summit – Santa Cruz 1992
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Matthew Brederick, Bruce Eisner, Rick Doblin, Oscar Jannigar, Albert Hofmann, Humphry Osmand, John Beresford, Laura Huxley, Francis Huxley PROGRAM NOTES: Today’s podcasta features talks from the 1992 Psychedelic Summit that was held in Santa Cruz. As you can see from the names of the speakers, this was a star-studded […]
Podcast 683 – Psychedelics & “Genius” &+ “Love”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Bruce Damer Today’s podcast features two Palenque Norte talks that Bruce Damer gave at the 2022 Burning Man Festival. This talk was followed by an hour-long Q&A session that I’ll podcast after I post a few of the other Paleqnue Norte talks from 2022. Although I haven’t previewed them […]
Podcast 682 – The Psychedelic Athenæum
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Kathleen Lakey PROGRAM NOTES: Today we feature an interview that Charles Lighthouse recently conducted with Kat Lakey. Besides talking about her latest project, which will be the world’s first Psychedelic Athenaum, they discussed the Psychedelic Assembly, which was a conference that Kat and her friends produced a few months […]
Podcast 681 – Street Drugs Update
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Annie Oak and Rachel Clark Ann Shulgin (1933 – 2022) … photo by Jon Hanna PROGRAM NOTES: Today’s podcast features the first of a series of Palenque Norte Lectures that I’ll be podcasting over the next few months. And our guest speakers are Annie Oak and Rachel Clark. Annie, […]
Podcast 680 – The Importance of Psychedelics
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Terence McKenna and Elizabeth Gips PROGRAM NOTES: This podcast is dedicated to long-time saloner MARJEAN McKENNA This is a recording, from 1985, of an interview that Elizabeth Gips conducted with Terence McKenna at his home. The interview begins, like most of the 1980s era McKenna interviews, with a detailed […]
Podcast 679 – The Psilocybin Connection
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Jahan Khamsehzadeh PROGRAM NOTES: Today’s podcast features a conversation with author Jahan Khamsehzadeh, whose recent book, The Psilocybin Connection, is a significant addition to our understanding of how psychedelic substances have aided humans throughout history and how they continue to do so. The book’s publisher says that it is, […]
Podcast 678 – “Tripping with Albert”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Patreon Saloners PROGRAM NOTES: Can you imagine knowing someone for over 20 years, even tripping with them from time-to-time, and not knowing that this person had done LSD with Albert Hofmann on multiple occasions? Now that’s humility. Had it been me, that would have most likely been one of […]
Podcast 677 – “Stalking Enlightenment”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Patreon Saloners PROGRAM NOTES: Today’s podcast features a recording of a live salon that began with us sharing trip stories and eventually led into a discussion of Vedic astrology as well as right speech, right action, and right thinking. Along the way, we heard a wonderful story about the […]
Podcast 676 – “Leonard Pickard’s Rose of Paracelsus Ch 5”
Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Kat Lakey, Alexa Lakey, Leonard Pickard, Gaia Harvey Jackson, and Greg Sams PROGRAM NOTES: Today’s program features the next installment of the reading of Leonard Pickard’s book, The Rose of Paracelsus. This program was produced by Kat and Alexa Lakey and includes a personal message from Leonard. The reading […]