Podcast 633 – “The Man Who Invented Bicycle Day”

11/25/19 • 66 min

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Tom Roberts PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a conversation from last Monday's Live Salon with Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D., who is a professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University. Tom not only began teaching the world's first university catalog-listed psychedelics course in 1981, he is also a founding member of MAPS, former visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins, editor of Spiritual Growth with Entheogens, and author of Psychedelic Horizons and The Psychedelic Future of the Mind. In this interview, Tom talks about his latest book, MindApps: Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design. However, you most likely know him as the man who created the first Bicycle Day celebration. Date this lecture was recorded: November 18, 2019 [NOTE: The following quotations are by Tom Roberts.] "I'm attempting to broaden the field [of psychedelics], and trying to get people who are interested in history and literature and philosophy interested in psychedelics." "We can install ideas in our brain/mind complex, just as we install apps on our devices." Thomas Roperts, Ph.D. Publications Mindapps: Multistate Theory and Tools for Mind Design Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option ALSO MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST Boohbah: Skipping Rope (Episode 1) A visual trip - no drugs needed :-) A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

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Podcast 632 – “Rainforest Medicine”

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Jonathon Miller Weisberger PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: October 28, 2019. Today's podcast features a conversation that a few of my friends and I had with Jonathon Miller Weisberger, who is the founder of the Ocean Forest Ecolodge Retreat in Costa Rica. Jonathan is also the author of Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon. For almost 19 years he has also been facilitating plant medicine council gatherings in Costa Rica and Ecuador. Jonathon was born in Berkeley, raised in Ecuador, and began his training in the Amazon with Maestro Don Cesareo in the early 90s. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon Ocean Forest Ecolodge Retreat, Costa Rica Rainforest Medicine Gatherings The Difference between Ayahuasca and Yagé Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books

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Podcast 634 – “The Birth of a New Humanity” – Part 3

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Terence McKenna Psychedelic researcher Sasha Shulgin in his lab PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: October 2, 1992. [NOTE: All quotations are by Terence McKenna.] "Matter is becoming a fairly uncomfortable dimension for us to be in, and I daresay matter would probably be highly relieved to have us just move on so that the rainforest, chipmunks, glaciers, and schooling salmon can go back to doing what they do best." "There is no reason to expect rationality to be apprehensible." "A little courage on the part of these almighty scientists would go a long way toward overwhelming the fearful strictures placed on them by politicians who are trying to maintain a social equilibrium that is fairly odious anyway." "Mantras, with psychedelics, work like magic. Yoga, breath control, drumming, visualization, simple prayer, it all works amazingly well in the presence of psychedelics." "Unfortunately, these non-psychedelic spiritual techniques are very quickly co-opted by the beady-eyed priests among us who then peddle it back to us with a menu of moral do's and don't s." "I think the real spiritual frontier lies in the community. . . . We must, somehow, carry everyone with us." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Download free copies of Lorenzo's latest books