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In this fortnight's installment of psychonautica, Max Freakout talks about issues raised in listener emails and forum posts, including the war on drugs and it's effects on entheogen users in the U.S, the difficulty in making large profit from psychedelic drugs compared to addictive drugs, the 1960s hippie movement and varying opinions about its legacy in the modern world, irresponsible use of entheogens, the progress of youth culture since world war 2, a comparison of the persecution of homosexuals to the illegalisation of entheogens, the effects of cannabis on dreams, the unhelpful and completely innacurate drugs education given in modern schools, the official policy of lying about drugs, the possibility of a drug taking licensing system, the need for a shamanic context for drugs-use, the magic mushroom scene in Amsterdam compared with ayahuasca groups around Europe. Max then reads out a sample from forthcoming novel 'Beyond the Basin', and goes on to talk about Norse mythology, its references to entheogens such as the viking 'brew of poetry', and the broader picture of the relation between mythology, life ad entheogens. then Max reads out a brief Salvia trip report including an experience of 'seeing the future', then talks about the relation of entheogens to Buddhist practise, including the entheogen-diminishing bias in modern Buddhism. finally, Max reads out an email about a listener's experience of science-fiction induced psychosis, negative visionary experiences, and the importance of entheogens in the battle against fundamentalism.


Playlist: Morcheeba - The sea; Gaudi - Ayahausca deep fall
 
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In this fortnight's edition of psychonautica, Max Freakout mentions the new psychedelic podcast from Martin Ball, then in response to listener emails, Max talks about the 'dreamherb' calea zacatechichi, the relation of salvia to dreaming and the benefits of unextracted salvia, drug combinations and synergistic effects including mixing maoi's with magic mushrooms, the difference between Syrian Rue and Banisteriopsis Caapi, frequency of psychedelic usage and tolerance after repeated use, ancient Buddhist use of cannabis and Datura, bad trips and anxiety, persisting after-effects of psychedelics such as flashbaks and hppd, free-will and religion, and philosophical insights from meditation.

Martin Ball's Entheogenic Evolution Podcast:
http://www.entheogenic.podomatic.com

Playlist:
DJ Krush - Trip like I do
Massive Attack - Angel
 
Max I have to admit the content of psychonautica is always congruent with my thoughts between podcasts...you've got an amazing show. Keep up the good work mate!
 
I'll keep them coming if you keep listening!

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In this fortnight's installment of psychonautica, Max Freakout reads out a follow-up email from eschatonic about entheogen-induced anxiety and proceeds to talk about the pros and cons of using entheogens to combat such anxiety, in response to a mushroom trip report from eschatonic, Max talks about the auditory effects of psilocybin and the mushroom's mastery of aesthetics. Next Max talks about the spiritual healing effects of psychedelics, frequency of tripping, psychedelic tolerance including the abscence of tolerance with Salvia and DMT, the adrenaline rush often experienced alongside the DMT flash, the effects of DMT on the lungs and the difficulty of obtaining pure DMT. In response to psychonautica 26, Max talks more about Datura, the severity of its effects, its steep dose-response curve, the difference in potency between the leaves and the seeds of the Datura plant, Datura as the witch's flying ointment, genital application of Datura using broomsticks and the difficulty of finding a good Datura trip report because of its amnesic effect, and rowing your own Datura. Next, Max reads out an Amanita Muscaria trip report, then talks about the historical use of Amanita, pharmacratic inquisition and Clark Heinrich's book about the Amanita, the metaphorical meaning of Jesus' miracle 'turning water into wine' as a reference to urine drinking following Amanita consumption, the relative weakness of Amanita mushrooms as an entheogen, compared with psilocybe mushrooms, the similarity in appearance of the Amanita mushroom to other toxic species of mushroom. Next Max reads out a zany magic-truffle trip report, then talks about the possible extra-terrestrial origins of magic mushrooms, and its potential connection to scientology, and finally, Max reads out an excellent salvia trip report from Texas, involving rapid switching of realities, neverending loops, and world of warcraft.

Playlist:
Erykah Badu - Other side of the game
Krs-one/Channel Live - Mad izm
 
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In this fortnight's installment of psychonautica, Max Freakout talks about anxiety, its causes such as fear of insanity, and possible methods to overcome negative feelings such as inner-surrender, psychedelic abstinence, and acupuncture, and the ideas presented in author Eckhart Tolle's book 'The power of NOW'. Max also talks about the Amanita Muscaria mushroom, including a trip report of an intense, life-changing religious experience from an experienced user of the Amanita involving time-dilation, out-of-body experience, and a realisation of Jesus Christ as Amanita and the relevance of many biblical details to this mushroom. Max reads out information about picking Amanitas in the wild, poor quality amanitas purchased from smart-shops, this mushroom's toxicity (especially when eaten raw) and instructions for prepararing it for safe consumption, the representation of Amanita mushrooms in human form in religious art. Max talks about techniques for making the most out of a Salvia Divinorum trip, and some personal experience from Nat Bletter about the long-term effects of regular Salvia use with tolerance, also Max reads out some information from Nat about Datura, types that are native to the New World compared to types from other parts of the world such as Mandrake, and also Datura and Nutmeg use among U.S prison inmates. Max talks about the folkloric use of Mandrake including its relation to King Arthur and Merlin, and then gives a personal Salvia trip report involving splitting time-slices, and talks about bad quality Salvia extracts and the huge popularity of Salvia. Finally, Max reads out a Salvia trip report, involving merging with the floor, total amnesia, then talks about the 'voice' of Salvia and the effect of past trips on future trips.

Playlist: Chester P - Jellyfish Kiss; The Doors - The End

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This fortnight's installment of Psychonautica is a conversation between Max Freakout and Floydhead. They talk about Floydhead's recent mushroom trip in amsterdam on the 'Mckennai' strain involving deep introspection, contemplating suicide, brief unconsciousness and physical injury in a coffeeshop, the Amsterdam smartshop scene, and Central Amsterdam as the setting for a mushroom trip, using vitamin C to lower the effect of mushrooms, the attempt by the dutch governement to prohibit mushrooms and the general conservative trend in Holland, the potency of different species of mushroom, mushrooms as 'food for thought'. Also Floydhead recounts his recent salvia trip to the 'kingdom of faces' at the dopeden, and they then talk about reverse tolerance of salvia, inner conflict and scizophrenia, synergies between drugs including weed and mushrooms, and the unreliability of DMT compared to salvia.

Playlist:
Dudley Perkins - Sally
Pink floyd - Up the Khyber
 
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This episode of psychonautica comes from the World Psychedelic conference in Basel Switzerland, Max is joined by Earthmansurfer, Elfa and Maya, talking about Stanislav Grof's talks on psychedelic therapy, ego death and rebirth, bad trips, psychiatric medication, perinatal trauma, the art of H.R Giger, and transit astrology. Also, they talk about Dennis Mckenna's talk on obscure psychedelics, such as psychedelic fish, toads and insects, Dale Pendell's psychedelic poetry, vipassana meditation, Kathleen Harrison's experiences in Mexico with Salvia divinorum, and several different species of psilocybin mushrooms, Native attitudes towards Western psychedelic use, purging on ayahuasca, Ralph Metzner's insights about etymology, low dose vs high dose experiences, psychedelic vs psycholytic psychotherapy, Pinchbeck vs Mckenna's views on personal responsibility, and Socrates' epistemology.


Playlist; Gaudi - Tutta pe'me
 
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From the recent World Psychedelic forum in Basel Switzerland, The title of the talk is 'The revolving doors of perception: deconstructing the myths and ambiguities of the psychedelic zeitgeist', Michael Horowitz talks about mythic events in Western history since the discovery of LSD 65 years ago. Horowitz speculates about the films that will be showing at the 2020 world film festival and the top 10 films yet-to-be-made, and talks about the superb aptness of the word 'trip',the mythic status of a person's first, best and worst trips in their life, the coincidence of the discovery of LSD and nuclear bombs, the CIA's experiments with psychedelics and their unwitting creation of the 60s counterculture, the Wasson family's legendary meeting with Maria Sabina, Tim Leary's psychedelic research and his later imprisonment, president Kennedy's acid-seductress, Aldous Huxley's humane and fully conscious death, the Beatles, rock festivals, underground chemists, acid-anarchists, the fate of the hippies, Nixon's near-miss with an LSD spiking, empathogens and the rave movement and the coicident rise of anti-depressants, 2012 and the transformative power of chaos and Tim Leary's death.

playlist: Jill Scott - Golden

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This week's episode of psychonautica contains the first half of the talk by Stanislav Grof - 'The roots of human violence and greed, observations from psychedelic research', from the World Psychedelic Froum 2008. Stanislav Grof talks about holotropic states of (non-ordinary) conscousness, their healing power, and revelation of the divine core of each individual., healing as becoming whole, holotropic breathwork the technique developed following the banning of LSD, Grof's original career plan in animated movies, Albert Hoffman's discovery of LSD, Grof's own experiences of unity consciousness with LSD, spiritual emergencies, the spontaneous self-healing of the human-organism, the insufficiency of modern psychology in accounting for non-ordinary states of consciousness, the need to include perinatal experiences in the cartography of the human psyche, the powerful effect of the birth experience on the life of the individual, Grof's conception of the 4 perinatal matrices and their relation to good and bad trips, types of experience such as becoming plants and animals, becoming enemies, past-life regression, seeing demonic entities, the vioence and greed of human history, the crisis in the evolution of consciousness, the inefficacy of military solutions to Western problems, the need for profound inner transformation, birth trauma as an explanation for horrific acts such as war crimes, astrology as a tool for predicting psychedelic sessions, the artwork of HR Giger, jung on synchronicity and hardwired archetypes, Buddhist conceptions of liberation, the fundamental ignorance of separate self and psychedelics as a tool to restore transcendental wisdom.


Playlist: LTJ Buken - Demon's theme

Mark W's links from psychonautica 31:
Radio show with Michael Horowitz
http://www.rusiriusradio.com/?p=86
Documentary about LSD
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...=21&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1
 
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This week's episode of psychonautia contains the second half of the Stanislav Grof talk from the World Psychedelic forum 'the roots of human violence and greed; observations from psychedelic research'. In this part, Grof talks about the connection of individual psychedelic trips to the collective unconscious (such as images of wars and revolutions), the symbolism of birth trauma in state propaganda, artistic representations of perinatal matrices, collective astrological transits, the cold war and development of nuclear weapons, Nazism and other 'misguided' mystical impulses, mystical death and rebirth as a completion of the original birth process, the long term effects of psychedelics, and Ken Wilber's 'the Atman project'. Next, Max Freakout gives a personal trip report of the 4/21 dopestock group mushroom experience.


Playlist: Entheogenic - Pagan Dream Machine (Vibrasphere Rmx)
 
In this week's episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout first reads out an obituary of Albert Hoffman who died on 29/04/08, written by Dieter Hagenbach and Lucius Werthmuller, then plays the talk by Dennis Mckenna - 'Psychedelics in basic neuroscience and clinical practise' from the world Psychedelic forum. Dennis Mckenna talks about the ancient use of psychedelics by indigenus cultures, the role of the shaman, and shamanic techniques of ecstasy, the pharmacology of psychedelics, serotonin receptors, true psychedelics and quasi-psychedelics such as Salvia Divinorum and MDMA, the use of psychedelics for studying the neural substrate of consciousness, various neuroscientists and their research projects, comparison of psilocybin to meditation, psychedelics and mystical/religious experiences, and the use of psychedelics to treat addiction and obssessive compulsive disorder.

Heffter research institute website:
www.heffter.org

Playlist: Blow feat. Kyrian - Bassnectar

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This week's episode of psychonautica contains a talk from Dennis Mckenna, from the recent world Psychedelic forum, entitled "bitter brews and other abominations: the use of some little known psychoactive agents". Dennis talks about nature, the 'cornocopia of molecular diversity', the relation of DMT to tryptophan, the distribution of DMT in nature and Alex Shulgin's observations, Charles Nichol's research, Salvinorin-A receptors, psychotropic fish, the toxic pufferfish delicacy in Japan, psychedelic toads, bufotenine psychoactive frogs, near death experiences, spiders on drugs, insects in DMT visions, Jonathon Ott, ambrosia nectar and psychoactive honey, the 'bee-god' and cave-paintings of mushroom shamans from the Tassilli Plateau,psychoactive snakes, snake venom used to treat heroin addiction in India, Mimosa Hostilis and its orally active DMT component 'juremamine', pre-emptive prohibition of plant species.

Playlist:
Pladavark - Singularity
 
I just started listening to this recently... very very nice, thanks a lot! its perfect for us who were not fortunate enough to be there in Switzerland :)

gonna listen to number 32 now

once again, thanks a lot!
 
This week's episode of psychonautica contains a talk from the recent World Psychedelic forum, by Amanda Feilding of the Beckley foundation, entitled 'expanded consciousness and its importance to survival'. Amanda talks about the specturm of states of consciousness, the benefits of expanding and altering consciousness, the neurophysiology of altered states, prehistoric mn, altered consciousness and cultural evolution, the psychedelic transformation of the 1960s, the Eleuinian mysteries, Benny Shannon's writings on the use of Acacia and Harmal (ayahuasca analogue) in ancient Egypt, the potential benefits of psychedelics for modern society, the ability of psychedelics to increase blood flow to the brain, the importance of increased cerebral circulation, the scientific understanding of consciousness, Beckley foundation's research projects, obstacles to scientific research into psychedelics, LSD assisted psychotherapy, using psilocybin to help with addiction problems and represssed memories, development of new antidepressant medications based on ketamine research, the antipsychotic component of cannabis, using an EEG on people meditating, trebination to increase blood supply to the brain, potential for use to delay the onset of dementia in old age, bringing the light of reason to drug policy, the evidence based approach to drug policy, the lack of attention being paid to the potential benefits of illegal drugs such as LSD and ecstasy, the road to a 'new Eleusis'.

Playlist: Ozric Tentacles - White Rhino tea

Beckley Foundation website:
www.beckleyfoundation.org

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The Beckley Foundation is UK-based non-profit with a long history of pioneering psychedelic research. Founder and Director Amanda Feilding has for the past years been laying the groundwork for an exciting new range of collaborations with leading research institutes around the world, largely...
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