Wednesday, 23. January 2008
The Psychedelic Salon
The Psychedelic Salon is a political and spiritual podcast, a source for cutting edge information about the exploration and expansion of consciousness. Featured speakers include Terence McKenna, Alex Grey, Daniel Pinchbeck, Erik Davis, Ann and Sasha Shulgin, Nick Sand and more. You can access all of these podcasts for free at Psychedelic Salon.

The latest podcast:
Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake discuss "Cannabis".
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Program Notes:

Terence McKenna: "In the absence of cannabis the dream life seems to become much richer. This causes me to sort of form a theory, just for my own edification, that cannabis must in some sense thin the boundary between the conscious and unconscious mind. … And if you smoke cannabis, the energy which would normally be channeled into dreams is instead manifest in the reveries of the cannabis intoxication."

Terence McKenna: "And what I really value about cannabis is the way in which it allows one to be taken by surprise by unexpected ideas."

Terence McKenna: "For the 19th century, and for all of European civilization, cannabis was something that was eaten in the form of various sugared confections that were prepared. And this method of ingestion changes cannabis into an extremely powerful psychedelic experience. … For the serious eater of hashish, it is the portal into a true artificial paradise whose length and breadth is equal to that of any of the artificial paradises that we’ve discovered in modern psychedelic pharmacology."

Terence McKenna: "To my mind, the whole of Indian and Middle Eastern civilization is steeped in the ambiance of hashish."

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Terence McKenna: "Hashish, cannabis, has an ambiance of its own. It has a morphogenetic field, and if you enter into that morphogenic field you enter into an androgynous, softened, abstract, colorful, and extraordinarily beautiful world."

Ralph Abraham: "It [cannabis] is medicine for cultural evolution."

Terence McKenna: "If I judiciously control my intake of cannabis, it like gives me a second wind and a third wind to go forward with creative activity."

Terence McKenna: "It can turn you into a stupor, sort of lazy, loutish person. On the other hand, it can allow you to do very hard work for very long periods of time. So you sort of have to manage it, and I think a lot of people don’t learn to manage it."
Category: Herbs & Kitchen Category: Lunacy & Psychedelic Category: Music & Voices


The ‘starke Tobak’ of the german farmers in the 19th century was cannabis and it served them well. I think that you can use drugs for expanding your awareness, but the efforts of meditation are in the long run much more powerful becaus you achieve experiences out of your own strength.

Rainer am 23.01.08 @ 21:58 Uhr

That is some deep stuff. Never had the chance really. But maybe on vacation this summer! Shhhh. Don’t tell.

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