Podcasts about Palenque Norte

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: Cory Doctorow PROGRAM NOTES: 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 experience. Doctorow proposes solutions including strengthening antitrust enforcement, passing new privacy laws, promoting right-to-repair legislation, and empowering tech workers through unionization. The ultimate goal is to create a "new good internet" that is resistant to inshitification and serves users' needs. Cory Doctorow's Website Electronic Frontier Foundation The Repair Coalition

This week I riff with Austin Wade Smith (they/them) — an animist, designer, ecologist, and creative technologist based in Brooklyn, New York and the Executive Director of Regen Foundation, a US-based non-profit working with distributed ledgers and AI to design sovereign regenerative economics. Austin's work explores opportunities for social, legal, economic, and information technologies to foster greater interdependence between individuals and our living world. They teach design and engineering courses related to their research at universities in New York.In this conversation we explore what Austin calls “a simple framework designed to expand the legibility of the ‘more than human world' (such as ‘Nature', Non-Humans, ‘More-than-Human Ecologies', etc.) to various anthropogenic infrastructures and technologies, with the aim of increasing the ‘surface area' through which non-humans directly exert influence on human-made systems.”How can we make ecosystems more legible to the economic and political contexts in which they now exist?Get ready for a conversation that up-ends conventional categories to hack open a new possibility space for human-machine symbiosis and technologically-assisted biospheric stewardship!PS — I'm trying to launch a NEW podcast, Humans On The Loop, about how to use our new AI superpowers wisely. Here's more info in case you'd like to help support this project or know someone who might!✨ Relevant Links:AustinWadeSmith.comTwitterLinkedInEssaysRegen Foundation“Legibility for Our Living World with Austin Wade Smith” on Ma Earth“Corporate Metabolism” by Xander Paco Nathan“The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone” by Cosma Shalizi✨ Support This Show & The Family It Feeds:• Subscribe on Substack or Patreon for COPIOUS extras, including private Discord server channels and MANY secret episodes.• Make one-off donations at @futurefossils on Venmo, $manfredmacx on CashApp, or @michaelgarfield on PayPal.• Buy the music on Bandcamp! This episode features “Olympus Mons” off the Martian Arts EP.• Buy the books we discuss at the Future Fossils Bookshop.org page and I get a small cut from your support of indie booksellers.• Browse and buy original paintings and prints or email me to commission new work.✨ Select Related Episodes:• 217 - Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash on Regenerative Accelerationism & How To Heal A Broken Internet• 215 - Social Science & Collective Intelligence with Brigham Adams of Goodly Labs• 213 - Amber Case & Michael Zargham on Entangled Technologies & Design As Governance• 212 - Manfred Laubichler & Geoffrey West on Life In The Anthropocene & Living Inside The Technosphere• 180 - Web3 & Complex Systems with Park Bach, Sid Shrivastava, Shirley Bekins, & Avel Guénin-Carlut at Complexity Weekend• 178 - Chris Ryan on Exhuming The Human from Our Eldritch Institutions• 176 - Exploring Ecodelia with Richard Doyle, Sophie Strand, and Sam Gandy at the Psilocybin Summit• 76 - "Technology as Psychedelic Parenting at Palenque Norte, Burning Man 2017 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe

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 yet, there are recordings waiting for me from the talks by Corey Doctorow, John Gilmore, Android Jones, and Rick Doblin among others. My plan is to slowly roll them out to you during the next few months. Bruce Damer's Website Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate from George Wada Dog Paw Productions on Vimeo. Psychedelic Sunday Variety Series - February 5, 2023

It’s time for humankind to grow up — but it might also be more important than ever that we reconnect with our inner children and play like our lives depend on it (because they do). And so, given the in-progress BBC/HBO adaptation of Philip Pullman’s masterful fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, it feels like a great time to talk about this coming-of-age story and its cosmological questions. This week on Future Fossils, we link up with my friends Stephen Hershey and Kynthia Brunette, whose perspectives from acting and the study of human-computer interaction, as well as their deep fanship of Pullman’s writing, add up to a refreshingly fun and casual discussion of some of the biggest questions human beings ever thought to ask themselves.We talk about how translations from one medium to another affect the way we tell our stories; the media theory and logic of reinterpretation; C.S. Lewis and the important critiques of The Chronicles of Narnia; how Lyra Silvertongue is like and unlike Anakin Skywalker and other complex heroes whose success is the fall of an established social order; evolution in a cosmos where tension and opposition are required, and unity rhetoric deeply suspicious; the collapse of networks and how His Dark Materials anchors in the same archetypes as Dan Simmons’ Hyperion Cantos; 21st Century religion and faith in the absence of objects of faith; and much more.You can follow Stephen Hershey on Twitter (twitter.com/stephenhershey) for hot takes and on Twitch (twitch.tv/stephenhershey) for games and philosophy/astrology talks.You can link up with Kynthia Brunette on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/kynthia) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kynthia/) to learn more about her and her work with MAPS.Please rate and review Future Fossils on Apple Podcasts! And if you believe in the value of this show and want to see it thrive, support Future Fossils on Patreon. Patrons gain access to over twenty secret episodes, unreleased music, our book club, and many other great things as they spill out of my overactive imagination.We’d also love to have you in our thriving little Discord server, if you’re interested in meeting other members of our awesome scene. (And if you’d like to help edit transcripts, please drop me a line at futurefossilspodcast@gmail.com.)Intro and outro music by Skytree.Related Reading:NBC News — HBO’s His Dark Materials Does Philip Pullman JusticeThe Ringer — Jack Thorne interviewed on the HBO AdaptationEsquire — HBO Show vs. Books DifferencesRadio Times - HBO Show vs. Books DifferencesBBC - Philip Pullman WebchatRelated Future Fossils Episodes:111 - Android Jones on Analog + Digital, Painting the Sutras, & Being an Artist Dad71 - JF Martel (On Sequels & Simulacra, Blade Runner 2049 & Stranger Things 2)61 - Jamaica Stevens (On Crisis, Rebirth, Transformation)55 - "Creativity & Catastrophe" (Talk at Palenque Norte, Burning Man 2017)53 - A Very Xeno Christmas! with Evan "Skytree" Snyder14 - WESTWORLD Problems (feat. Michael Phillip of Third Eye Drops)And when you’re ready to switch it up with some psychoactive music, here's my music and my listening recommendations on Spotify. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we bring together Burning Man’s resident philosopher Caveat Magister (the author of The Scene That Became Cities, from Penguin Random House) together with anarchist community organizer Naomi Most of Noisebridge and Playa trickster historian Mitch Mignano for a conversation about the festival’s uneasy but remarkable transition into virtuality — and how holdouts worldwide persisted in “IRL” celebrations that preserved the face-to-face community and presence Burning Man cannot yet replicate online.This discussion was a total treat, and covered everything from complex systems and the evolution of the city to the new and strange ontologies emerging in the blue light of our screen-bound era.• Was Burning Man always just a physicalized version of the World Wide Web? Or is its power and uniqueness in precisely how it ISN’T?• Is Burning Man a kind of virtual reality already, or — like VR — just a not-entirely-successful effort to screen out the world that creates it?• What is the value of culture for culture’s sake, and why should we protect the efforts for it?• Is Black Rock City pointless, or is it an engine for teaching Applied Existentialism…or both, and more?• What happened at the in-person Burning Man(s) this year, when people still decided they would gather during a pandemic?This episode is dedicated to the memory of James Oroc.Writing and videos we mention in this episode:*** The Case of the Missing Man by Caveat Magister (Read the whole series!) ***Sand Talk by Tyson YunkaportaThe Garden of Forking Memes by Aaron Z. LewisWilliam Irwin Thompson in 1975 x Burning Man 2013 Through Google Glass [video]Transformational Festivals are a Symptom of Dissociation by MGGiving Into Astonishment: Scenes from Burning Man’s American Dream by MGIf you believe in the value of this show and want to see it thrive, please send your friends to this page and encourage them to support Future Fossils on Patreon. Patrons gain access to over twenty secret episodes, unreleased music, our book club, and whatever else spills out of my overactive imagination. We’d love to have you in our thriving little Discord server, if you’re interested in meeting other members of our awesome scene. And if you’re up for helping edit Future Fossils Podcast transcripts, you’re my hero! Please drop me a line at futurefossilspodcast@gmail.com.Intro music in this episode is “Valles Marineris” from my Martian Arts EP. Outro music is an early mix of “You Don’t Have To Move,” from my forthcoming/in-progress album The Age of Reunion.Dig deeper into these related Future Fossils episodes:25 – DADARA on Art, Virtual Realities, and Flow States31 – Mitch Altman of Noisebridge on Hacking Life for Fun & Profit41 – Hannah Faith Yata on Art, Wilderness, and Rebellion55 – “Creativity and Catastrophe” at Palenque Norte, Burning Man 201761 – Jamaica Stevens on Crisis, Rebirth, and Transformation71 – JF Martel on Sequels & Simulacra76 – “Technology as Psychedelic Parenting” at Palenque Norte, Burning Man 201796 – Malena Grosz on Community-Led Party Culture vs. Corporate “Nightlife”100 – The Teafaerie on DMT, Transhumanism, and What To Do With All of God’s Attention Enjoy and thanks for listening!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/FUTURE-FOSSILS. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lorenzo Hagerty's professional career is as diverse as they come:  attorney, consultant to Fortune 500 companies, electrical engineer, hot air balloon pilot, Naval officer, Internet/Java promoter, motivational speaker, and multimedia software developer.  Hagerty was president of Success, Inc., which provided sales training and network marketing courses to other companies, and he founded Dynasty Computer Corporation, which sold home computers even before IBM did.   Hagerty is perhaps best known as the congenial host of the Psychedelic Salon, a podcast series which for the past thirteen year has been showcasing interviews, lectures, and assorted additional audio sources that feature some of the brightest most creative individuals from the community of folks interested in psychoactives. He is the organizer of the Palenque Norte theme camp at Burning Man. Hagerty is also the author of the book "The Spirit of the Internet:  Speculations on the Evolution of Global Consciousness, as well as "The Genesis Generation:  A Psychedelic Novel," available for free in both audio book and e-book formats.  In 2012, along with Bruce Damer, Hagerty produced a series of events at the Esalen Institute and other places to celebrate the life and ideas of their friend Terence McKenna. In this podcast, you will hear about Lorenzo's time at Notre Dame, how he obtained a piece of the Golden Dome from on High, the Chronicles of Lorenzo, how he changed his name from Larry to Lorenzo, Bruce Damer, Sonic Brainwave Modulation, why he would never want to be my sitter in a ceremony, and the crazy event horizon of our future. More information about Lorenzo and his work can be found at:  https://lorenzohagerty.com/  or at: https://psychedelicsalon.com/

It's listener submission overload this episode (except for Patrick who marches to the beat of his own drum). As always we start with reviewing last week's submissions and then get to recommending new stuff. Zane's challenges the status quo with Challenging Behaviors, Liz talks about sex, baby, with the listener suggested The Sugar Baby Confessionals and Patrick gets ready to expand all our minds with Psychedelic Salon.Liz Recommends - The Sugar Baby Confessionalshttps://fablegazers.libsyn.com/"One way or another you always pay for sex.""We’ve all read about it in the glossies – young girls becoming Sugar Babies, swapping cash and gifts for sex, to pay their way through university. Well, what if your best friend – your best, married friend – embraced the sugar baby lifestyle – not by necessity, but by choice? Sara’s best friend, Ruby, did just that. Sexy? Scary? Judge for yourself."Host Sara, who describes herself as vanilla, wants to get to the heart of why her best mate Ruby is so interested in living a sugar baby life. What's so interesting about this podcast is that we get to explore Ruby's adventures into sugar baby land as she embarks on it, talking all about her feelings, thoughts and fears along the way, serial style.For both: Start from the start and listen along.https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/the-sugar-baby-confessionals/id1347256516?mt=2Pat Recommends - The Psychedelic SalonContinuing on with my theme of old woo woo lectures I bring you The Psychedelic Salon. I listen to this podcast mostly for the wealth of archived Terence McKenna lectures, but there's plenty of other interesting material in here too. Like the last podcast the format is usually and introduction from the host Lorenzo, followed by a lecture. There's coverage of the lectures given at Burning Man and Palenque Norte conferences covered here as well.For Zane & Liz: I like any old Terence McKenna talk and maybe you will too.https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/psychedelic-salon/id1235694853?mt=2Zane Recommends - Challenging Behaviourshttps://challengingbehaviours.wordpress.com/This podcast was submitted through our website! It is very focused and specific which is what I think podcasts do best. In each episode the hosts - Jack, Tom and occasionally Adam - aim to challenge our behaviours, approaches and preconceptions toward people with disabilities and learning difficulties, while adding to the overall discussion about these subjects. And that is the main part that this cast does well. They ADD to the discussion surround these subjects and the people they effect in both a first-hand and second-hand way. They are relatively new but they are learning quickly about episode composition and sound recording and if you can get over a few inconsistencies with sound there is a lot of interesting content.For Liz: RJ MitteFor Pat: Frank Turner (beware varying Audio Quality)https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/challenging-behavioursSubscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM.

Self-aware machines, organs on a chip, brain-entangled meta-human military units, smart-sensor-gridded coral reefs, drone flocks, DNA-based computing, robots having baby robots…the line between the “made” and “born” is getting blurrier and blurrier each day. What does it mean to be alive in a time when we already treat the corporation as a legal person, fall in love with chat bots, and “possess” telepresence robots in virtual reality for work?This talk is a three-part argument:1 - The Internet is usefully understood as a psychedelic substance, in that it remixes what we ordinarily think of as “inside” and “outside,” “self” and “other.”2 - The psychological effects of the Internet are, then, usefully addressed through the methods of psychedelic harm reduction (like MAPS’ Zendo Project, techniques developed by the Women’s Visionary Congress, or KosmiCare in Europe).3 - Because the Internet remixes everything, it casts our categories of “made” and “born,” “alive” and “mechanical” into question – and suggests a more complex and nuanced understanding in which “intellectual property” has a life and a destiny of its own, and we have far more in common with machines and “corporate persons” than we’re used to thinking.Therefore, the best way forward in this crazy age may be to treat ALL things, the living AND nonliving, with compassion and respect. We’re almost certainly mistaken about what merits care, these days…so let’s be kind to our machine descendants, treat our great ideas like children that we can’t control but CAN encourage down the right path, and in general do everything we can to be remembered as good parents to/for/by Whatever Comes Next…Recorded at Palenque Norte, Burning Man 2017, Black Rock City, Nevada. Guest appearances by Mitch Mignano (guest of episode 57) For more along these lines, check out these related media:• The prologue to this talk, a short rap from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Innovation Lab last year:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfjnWkDwYrc• An archive of nearly all of my public talks since 2009, including every talk I’ve given at Burning Man:http://evolution.bandcamp.com• Writings about the co-evolution of humans and technology:http://medium.com/@michaelgarfieldThanks and Enjoy!Subscribe on Apple Podcasts:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/future-fossils/id1152767505?mt=2 Subscribe on Stitcher:https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/michael-garfield/future-fossils Subscribe on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/2eCYA4ISHLUWbEFOXJ8C5v Subscribe on iHeart Radio:https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-FUTURE-FOSSILS-28991847/ Join our Facebook Discussion Group for daily news and conversations:http://facebook.com/groups/futurefossils Support the show (and an avalanche of other mind-expanding media):http://patreon.com/michaelgarfield See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lorenzo Hagerty is the founder of the Psychedelic Salon — one of the richest, deepest, and oldest podcasts on the internet. He’s a pioneer and leader in the psychedelic thought movement and has led a rich life on his path from a Texas Lawyer, a navy man, a computer visionary, to a trail blazing podcaster … and much more. He was also the producer of the Palenque Norte lecture series at Burning Man. He an OG counter culture originator and we couldn’t be happier to have him on the podcast. Lorenzo Hagerty Psychedelic Salon EastForest.org

Arash sits with Lorenzo, host of Psychedelic Salon Podcast and co-founder of the Palenque Norte talks at Burning Man. Topics covered include podcasting, plant medicine and artificial intelligence, along with a dash of wild speculation about where this massive multiplayer game we call Reality is headed. Closing set by Adam Gibbons.(UhuruAfrika).   psychedelicsalon.com palenquenorte.com soundcloud.com/djadamgibbons soundcloud.com/uhuruafrika kostumekult.com   Listen on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, iHeart Radio, Mixcloud or SoundCloud.   

We’re living through a mass extinction – which is also one of the most awesome opportunities for creativity the Earth has ever seen. In this talk that I gave at Burning Man 2017’s Palenque Norte Speaker Series, I give a short tour of Great Catastrophes of Natural History and show how each of them was also equally the advent of new life, intelligence, diversity, and richness. Studying how crisis is the mother of invention, it’s my hope that this talk will inspire you to see our turbulent, chaotic age as something to be celebrated. Learning what we can from evolution, we can shed new light on how to steer ourselves away from global ecological disaster – perhaps to even revel in our role as agents of epochal change in Earth’s amazing story.http://michaelgarfield.nethttp://youtube.com/michaelgarfield In this talk I discuss:• Going backward in order to go forward, the reclamation of the traditions and wisdom we have abandoned in our March of Progress;• The importance of situating ourselves and our moment in the larger context of Natural History;• The “Press-Pulse” Theory of mass extinction;• The emergent forms of life and evolutionary creativity ignored by nearly every conversation about how we’re “killing the planet”;• What The Great Oxygenation Event has to teach us about pollution and creativity as a response to danger;• Why philosopher Galen Strawson doesn’t believe in free will;• How the evolution of flowers was a huge catastrophe;• Richard Doyle’s update of the Stoned Ape Hypothesis and the role beauty and seduction have played in the evolution of consciousness and culture;• What the evolution of early birds has to teach us about the proliferating ecosystem of mobile devices;• Hopeful developments in the area of plastic-eating microbes and fungi, and using living machines to digest pollution;• The wilderness lives on in cities in the Anthropocene;• And how awesome the film Shin Gojira (2016) is.• PLUS: What if we are living in a giant galaxy-sized brain? Bruce Damer, Jake Kobrin, Mitch Mignano, and more speak up in the Q&A. Quotes:“The story of life can be told as a series of nested singularities, nested horizons of knowing and understanding.”“Sex is a far more effective R&D situation than clonal reproduction.”“Everything that we’re creating now, we want to treat it with love, and an understanding that it has a life and a destiny of its own, and it’s not something we control.”“Cultural realities are starting to seem less and less sufficient for describing and experiencing the full range of human potential.” Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Spotify Join the Facebook Discussion GroupSupport this show and get cool stuff! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 4 The one with Lorenzo Hagerty Today we had the privilege of speaking with Lorenzo Hagerty. Lorenzo is the producer and creator the Psychedelic Salon podcast as well as an author, non-practicing attorney, producer of the Palenque Norte lecture series at Burning Man and all around psychedelic Elder. He’s led a fascinating life and met some of the best known people in the psychedelic world. We are deeply grateful he was kind enough to share his time, wisdom, and experiences with us. You can find the Psychedelic Salon at his website: https://psychedelicsalon.com  Through this website you can learn about supporting his mission and legacy as well as get connected with a pretty robust forum community and lots of other fantastic resources. We highly suggest spending some time checking out what Lorenzo has to offer. Our intro music is provided by Lish and titled “One of those Days” You can find more of their awesome work on through their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/lishmusic/ Our transition tracks are provided by Desert Dwellers. Today’s transition is titled “Seeing Things (Original Mix)” You can find them through their website: http://desertdwellers.org/ As always please check us out at http://ascendedminds.net to connect and join our Tribe! We rely on your generous support to help us grow and continue our journey. You can donate through our website and Patreon or you can support us by connecting, sharing, and reviewing what we’re doing! Thank you for all your support regardless of the form it takes! We’re blessed and grateful for each of you! Blessed Be!

Guest speaker: Paul Stamets PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: August 2016 Today’s podcast features the 2016 Palenque Norte lecture by Paul Stamets, who is one of the leading mycologists in the world. In this talk Paul covers a wide range of knowledge about mushrooms and mycelium that will blow your mind. For anyone […]

A panel discussion from Palenque Norte 2014 at Burning Man with Rak Razam, the Teafaerie, Bruce Damer and Ken Adams. Does the planetary emergency we are undergoing need another psychedelic revolution to truly change things? Should we come out of the psychedelic closest and dose the politicians – or those closest and dearest? Can we use psychedelic experiences to change the world on the outside by going inside? Can we overcome the ego and embrace the group mind? Can we unlock hidden abilities and become superhuman? Can psychedelics enable us to think outside of the box, and to be strategic in facing the problems of our times? A provocative panel discussion from the playa to you... If you like this podcast support the emergence of new paradigm media by contributing to: http://www.patreon.com/rakrazam This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

On this episode of the Psychedelic Parenting Podcast, Jonathan talks with Stephen Gray, author, speaker, and "emerging elder." Stephen is the organizer and MC of the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference, which will be held next weekend, October 24 & 25, 2015 at the University of British Columbia's Buchanan Building, Room A101, Vancouver BC, Canada, where Psychedelic Parenting host Jonathan will be speaking on the topic of "Reclaiming Religious Freedom and Family Values."  Stephen is the Author of the book Returning to Sacred World: A Spiritual Toolkit for Emerging Reality. He also has many years of experience with plant medicine ceremonies in both the Native American Church tradition, as well as the Santo Daime religion. Tickets for Spirit Plant Medicine Conference can be purchased HERE. In this conversation, Stephen and Jonathan discuss the possibility of an emerging distinct medicine tradition for white North Americans, about the role of the sacred feminine in family and religious life, and of taking on the mantle of "elder" as one enters the latter part of life. The highlight of this interview is Stephen's story of the powerful commitment of a friend and respected NAC Roadman whom Stephen calls "Kanucas." Kanukas made a promise to Stephen to attend and speak at the launch event for his book, and even though he was met with a great deal of personal hardships around the time of the launch, Kanucas fulfilled his promise to Stephen. The story is also recounted HERE on Stephen's blog. Enjoy. TOPICS AND WEBSITES DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST:   Stephen Gray Blog Spirit Plant Medicine Conference Order Returning to Sacred World at Powell's Books The Native American Church Wikipedia Entry Oklevueha Native American Church NAC and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act   Santo Daime tradition Wikipedia Entry English Language Homepage Short video on Church of the Holy Light of the Queen   The Jubilant People: a support and after-care community for medicine seekers in BC   Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche Founder of Naropa University   Annie Oak Founder of the Women's Visionary Congress Founder of the Full Circle Tea House/Camp Soft Landing at Burning Man Author of The Manual of Psychedelic Support   Kilindi Iyi Founder of the Ta-Merrian Institute Author of "African Roots in Asian Martial Arts" (Journal of African Civilizations) "Africa, Transhumanism, & The Magic Mushroom" (Khanyisa Psychoactive Plant Conference, 2013) "High Dose Mushrooms--Beyond the Threshold" (Breaking Convention 2013)   Dr Bruce Damer Host of The Levity Zone Podcast Co-Creator of the Palenque Norte lectures at Burning Man Founder of The Digibarn Computer Museum   Conscious Living Radio Stephen's recent appearance on Martin Ball's Entheogenic Evolution Podcast

Dr Bruce Damer is a modern-day luminary and master of liminality. He has worked as a consultant for NASA, and is a featured speaker at both Palenque Norte and Esalen. He is also the host of the Levity Zone podcast.

Guest speakers: George Greer, John Gilmore, Rick Doblin, Annie Oak PROGRAM NOTES: Today’s podcast features the tributes to Sasha Shulgin that were made at the Palenque Norte lectures during the 2014 Burning Man Festival. In addition to comments from the audience, we hear from Dr. George Greer (MDMA Researcher and Co-founder of the Heffter Research […]

Guest speakers: Alicia Danforth & Charlie Grob PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a 2013 Palenque Norte lecture given by Alicia Danforth in which she tells about her work with the autistic community and their use of MDMA. Following that is a recording of a conversation with Alicia and Dr. Charlie Grob, who have just begun a new study to investigate the potential of using MDMA to help ease the social anxiety that is sometimes experienced by our friends and fellow saloners in the autistic community. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option LINKS mentioned in this podcast: Study Information: MDMA-assisted Therapy for Social Anxiety in Autistic Adults “What Is Autism?” by Nick Walker Exploring therapeutic effects of MDMA on post-traumatic stress Podcast 380 – “Confessions of an Ecstasy Advocate” Podcast Archive for Gary Fisher MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy

Guest speaker: Bruce Damer /* A brief history of Palenque Norte (video) PROGRAM NOTES: Bruce Damer takes the 2012 Palenque Norte audience at the Burning Man Festival on a far flung journey into what he calls his practice of "global multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-technic shamanism" where you "put yourself on the shelf" and dive deeply into the worlds of Pentagon think tanks, NASA mission designers, the tribal cultures of Pakistan, the Swiss, Egyptologists, IT professionals, and Christian Evangelicals, to come back with the true alchemical gold. With apologies to Terence McKenna, he says "there is no dominator culture" and that if we aren't careful we can collectively fall for cartoon epistemologies, chase chains of weaker and weaker claims, and become a victims of our own delusions, and fall prey to others' unsubstantiated theories. Bruce advises everyone to become their own best skeptic and develop "critical intelligence". If someone says something that strikes you as flaky or just doesn't feel right, Bruce suggests that you think it through before you pass on their meme. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Check out all of the projects Bruce talks about at his personal site at: www.damer.com Dr. Bruce's Levity Zone Podcast

Guest speaker: Daniel Pinchbeck PROGRAM NOTES: This podcast features my friend Daniel Pinchbeck as our guest speaker. As you know, Daniel wrote a book titled “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, also, he is widely known as a speaker and writer about many things psychedelic and esoteric. However, I know him best as a fellow alumnus of the Entheobotany Seminars at Palenque, where Terence McKenna and his merry band of psychonauts would hold forth each January. In this talk, one that he gave at the Palenque Norte lectures during the 2012 Burning Man festival, Daniel follows the format of other psychedelic luminaries and lets the audience guide the direction of the lecture through their questions. Among other topics that Daniel covers are 2012, consciousness, the Occupy Movement, and possibilities for the future. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Direct link to video of this talk

Guest speaker: Ken Adams “I'm almost sixty years old, and I can guaranty you that I'm fucking tired of having to whisper about psychedelics.” - Ken Adams Watch a video of this talk PROGRAM NOTES: Today we feature the fifth Palenque Norte Lecture of 2012, which was given at the Burning Man Festival. This talk features the filmmaker Ken Adams, who was a neighbor, friend, and collaborator of Terence McKenna in their search for new ways of explaining the psychedelic experience. Ken is the producer/director of a new, and experimental, film titled “The Terence McKenna Experience” which features never before seen and heard raps by Terence. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option TerraLucida-The Terence McKenna Experience-test sequence from Ken Adams on Vimeo. Ken Adams "Producing “The Terence McKenna Experience”" - Burning Man 2012 from Palenque Norte on Vimeo. Rolling Jubilee A bailout of the people by the people

Guest speaker: Charles Shaw Watch a video of this talk PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Charles Shaw.] “Having a felony conviction, and having a drug conviction, essentially makes you a second class citizen.” “For the lower classes, the poorer classes, which generally in this country are people of color, drug laws have always been used as a way to control them.” “And if you take away the distinction between tobacco and alcohol and cannabis and cocaine or alkaloids or whatever, what you've got is a war against altering consciousness.” “But what they're trying to stop more than anything is ideas. Because what it is is a war of ideas. And it is a war of control, a breaking away from an external control factor, like a government, or a religion, or an ideology, or an economy that enslaves you, and thinking outside the box in revolutionary terms to try to solve it.” “It's no secret that psychedelics change consciousness. It's no secret that they're revolutionary. I mean, we've known this for a while. What is absolutely fascinating to me is how easily that culture was dismissed.” “The true revolutionary leaders, I think, are going to be the ones who figure out how to not go in the street and how to disseminate the revolution by other means.” “I also think that the real revolution is going to come from women, personally. I think enough guys have tried to lead the revolution, and it's always the same thing because men have the same intentions, we always enter into a war paradigm. And we've gotta stop that war paradigm, and at least the feminine will allow us to get out of that war paradigm and get into something that is a collaborative negotiation of disputes and grievances. But I don't know what's that going to look like.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Charles Shaw "Living in the Exile Nation" - Burning Man 2012 from Palenque Norte on Vimeo. Charles Shaw's Exile Nation Project "Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics, and Spirituality" by Charles Shaw "The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade" by Alfred W. McCoy Rolling Jubilee Banks sell debt for pennies on the dollar on a shadowy speculative market of debt buyers who then turn around and try to collect the full amount from debtors. The Rolling Jubilee intervenes by buying debt, keeping it out of the hands of collectors, and then abolishing it. We're going into this market not to make a profit but to help each other out and highlight how the predatory debt system affects our families and communities. Think of it as a bailout of the 99% by the 99%.

Guest speaker: Dr. Brian Hewlett Watch a video of this talk PROGRAM NOTES: This podcast features the third in the series of the 2012 Palenque Norte Lectures at the Burning Man festival. The speaker is Dr. Brian Hewlett and he titled his talk "An Algorithm of Human Consciousness and Implications for Artificial Intelligence". As you can see, I have re-titled the talk “Understanding the Default Process of Consciousness” to better fit with some of his closing remarks which included: “If you understand the default process of your consciousness, and you work with that default process and start to pay attention to that process, then you can actually start to manipulate the process, just like you can manipulate any process that you understand.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option “What you experience as reality IS reality, and it's got consequences for you.” - Dr. Brian N. Hewlett Dr. Brian Hewlett "Understanding the Default Process of Consciousness" - Burning Man 2012 from Palenque Norte on Vimeo. The Psychedelic and Entheogenic Society of New York City

Guest speaker: Dr. Maddy Corbin Watch a video of this talk PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Dr. Maddy Corbin.] “I've been a nerd for a long time. That's how you get a Ph.D.” “At least in my experience of psychedelics, and people who take psychedelics and why they value psychedelics, is because it helps to critique you. It helps to break you down. It helps to challenge your assumptions. Isn't that part of what we find, whether it's in our meditation or in our psychedelic practices is it pushes you to your edge, and it teaches you about your assumptions that you are making without even realizing it. And you learn to challenge yourself.” “How can we be as rigorous in our engagement with the outer world as we try to be with our engagement with our inner world?” “Psychedelics don't actually come from the counterculture. They come out of scientific laboratories.” “And because it came through a chemical that allowed them to study it, they began to engage with spirituality in a way that was historically unprecedented. The doorway, I argue that [psychedelics] are a doorway through which spirituality entered the scientific laboratory in a way that it usually doesn't.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Dr. Michelle (Maddy) Corbin Dr. Maddy Corbin “The Politics of Knowledge in the Psychedelic Sciences” - Burning Man 2012 from Palenque Norte on Vimeo. Women's Visionary Congress

Guest speakers: Amanda Sage and Bruce Damer Watch a video of this talk Watch a video of Bruce Damer's brief history of the Palenque Norte lecture series PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Amanda Sage.] “Let's turn the museums into temples. I think the new museums are going to be temples.” “I'm interested in this collaboration, because I'm interested in what can we do to wake people up, to turn people on.” “And dream. I mean if this is about dreaming, what can each of us do to evoke the dream, a deeper dream, in another?” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Amanda Sage (official site) eARTh Voyage::: The mission is the art of transformation Amanda Sage “Vision Mapping for the Golden Age” - Burning Man 2012 from Palenque Norte on Vimeo. A brief history of Palenque Norte, from which the podcasts sprang . . . by Dr. Bruce Damer Dr. Bruce Damer "A Brief History of Palenque Norte" - Burning Man 2012 from Palenque Norte on Vimeo. The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman Dark Ages America by Morris Berman