Aug 22, 2008
In this week's installment of psychonautica, Max Freakout plays the
second part of the panel discussion started last week between
Carolyn Garcia, Ralph Metzner, Dale Pendell, Cynthia Palmer and
Michael Horowitz entitled 'The birth of the psychedelic movement, a
look back at another America'. This is the question and answer
session at the end of the discussion, topics that are discuused
include the books written by switched on academics in the 1960s,
the importance of dialogue and circle formation for the psychedelic
movement, the importance of the internet, the Gaia hypothesis, what
psychedelics can contribute to the modern world, psychedelic
churches and the possibility of setting up an LSD church, Orwellian
doublespeak in the capitalist marketplace, the initial flowering of
the psychedelic movement with Albert Hoffman's discovery of LSD and
the public availability of scientific data, the progress of the
psychedelic movement and visionary subcultures. Finally Max
mentions the new book by Paul Stamets
'Mycelium running - how mushrooms can save the world' and talks about the discovery of fungus growing inside the disused nucear reactor at Chernobyl. Email maxfreakout@hotmail.co.uk and join the growing community of friendly psychonauts hanging out at www.thegrowreport.com.
Playlist: The Kumba Mela experiment - East of the river Ganges
'Mycelium running - how mushrooms can save the world' and talks about the discovery of fungus growing inside the disused nucear reactor at Chernobyl. Email maxfreakout@hotmail.co.uk and join the growing community of friendly psychonauts hanging out at www.thegrowreport.com.
Playlist: The Kumba Mela experiment - East of the river Ganges