Today we discuss oo-koo-he, ayahuasca, habit and novelty theory, 2012, Terence McKenna, plant communication and the future of psychedelic research. For the last thirty years, Dennis McKenna has pursued the interdisciplinary study of ethnopharmacology and plant hallucinogens. He is co-author, with his brother Terence, of The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching (Seabury…
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Prof. Carl A. P. Ruck interview – “The Hidden World” – #025
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• •What do Snow White, Red Riding Hood, werewolves, ogres, fairies, Apollo, Wily Bears, dwarfs, Saint Anthony’s fire, Bacchus and drugs have to do with each other? What are the origins of the ancient European myths, legends and fairy tales? Did Europe have an ancient history embedded in drug shamanism from where these stories originate? And…
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G. Edward Griffin interview – “The Creature from Jekyll Island” – #033
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• •NOTICE: It is highly recommended that listeners of this show also listen to Eustace Mullins’ Last Interview #45-46, The Trivium and Quadrivium #49-50, Stephen Zarlenga #57 & 67, and Dr. Patrick Byrne #78. What force do bankers have on our society and government? Do the banks really control the world? Do global conspiracies really exist,…
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Dr. Brian Akers interview – “Sacred Mushrooms of Mexico” – #024
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• •Today’s guest is Dr. Brian Akers the author of The Sacred Mushrooms of Mexico. What were the mushroom traditions of ancient Mexico? Was there just one “mushroom cult”? Or were there diverse practices spread across many cultures? What were some of Gordon Wasson’s most important contributions to ethnomycology? What is the importance of the mystic,…
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Dr. David Hillman interview – “The Chemical Muse” – #023
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• •Today’s guest is Dr. David Hillman, the author of The Chemical Muse – Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization. Is Western Civilization built on ancient Roman and Greek use drugs? How available were drugs in Classical times? Have the ancient texts been translated so that references to drugs and their recreational use have…
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Prof. Michael Winkelman interview – “Religious Evolution” – #022
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• •Today’s guest is Prof. Michael Winkelman from Arizona State University. Are ritual and religion a part of human evolution? What are the benefits that religion and ritual provide humanity and society? Do other animals other than humans utilize ritualistic behavior? What part do psychedelic drugs play in human evolution? Has mankind outgrown any advantages in…
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D.M. Murdock (Acharya S.) interview – “Christ in Egypt” – #021
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• •Originally released March 9, 2009. Are Christianity and the story of Jesus based on more ancient sun worshiping religions? Does the story of Jesus have its roots in Horus, the ancient Egyptian Sun god? Today we’ll be discussing Acharya’s brand new book – Christ in Egypt. Those of you who think Zeitgeist part 1 and…
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Prof. Em. Thomas Roberts interview – “Psychedelic Horizons” – #020
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• •Do psychedelic drugs have the ability to increase or expand intelligence? What is the difference between multi-state versus single-state intelligence? Why is it important to think about thinking; and what is placebo ability? Thomas B. Roberts (Ph.D. Stanford) investigates mindbody states for the leads they provide for learning, cognition, intelligence, creativity, mental health, psychological processes,…
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Peter Webster interview – “Eleusis, LSD, and Psychedelic Evolution” – #019
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• •In the original 1978 edition of The Road to Eleusis by R. Gordon Wasson, Dr. Albert Hoffman (the inventor of LSD) and Prof. Carl Ruck of Boston University, a proposal was made that the sacred (and secret) drink called kykeon of the Greek Eleusinian Mysteries was derived from Ergot. In this book Dr. Hoffman proposed…
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Ernest Werner interview – “Did Jesus Ever Exist?” – #018
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• •What do we get when a former pastor, former assistant pastor, former minister, and former member of the Cornell University Chaplains’ Staff decides to question the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels? Ernest Werner, today’s amazing guest, argues that a non-historical Jesus cannot be disproved. Ernest has provided us a fascinating understanding of the way…
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Jack Herer and Rick Simpson interviews – “Cannabis – Run From the Cure!” – #017
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• •What if everything you were ever told by the government and doctors about marijuana was a lie? What if, instead of Marijuana causing cancer or brain damage, it actually cured it and generated new cells? What if our government had known this since the 1970s, but intentionally suppressed it and kept cannabis outlawed anyway? Today…
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Dr. John Loftus interview – “No Bushit!” – #016
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• •In this episode I break all of the rules. It is not (directly) about religion, entheogens, ancient mysteries or shamanism. But it is about the expansion of our (collective) consciousness. First I interview Dr. John Loftus, J.D., the former top US Justice Dept Prosecutor under the Carter and Reagan administrations about the history of Bush…
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Chris Bennett interview – “Cannabis and the Soma/Haoma Solutions” – #015
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• •No show on entheogens and shamanism can go without a discussion on the religious use of Cannabis. In this episode I interview one of pioneering researchers into the ancient sacramental use of Cannabis (aka “Marijuana”) – Chris Bennett. Chris Bennett is the co-author of Green Gold the Tree of Life: Marijuana in Magic and Religion…
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Stephen Buhner interview – “Sacred & Shamanic Beers” – #014
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• •What do beer and alcohol have to do with gnosis and shamanism? Everything. In fact, they are a major part of understanding the ancient mysteries and religions – like the ancient and heavily psychoactive beer made by the Catholic brewers – Gruit, and the aqua vitae. And were the German and other beer purity laws,…
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Dr. Roland Griffiths interview – “Mushrooms & Mystical Experience” – #013
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• •In May 2006 a Johns Hopkins University study on psilocybin (the active ingredient in Psilocybe varieties of mushrooms) was published stating that the religious experience had been proven through the use of the active ingredient in psilocybe mushrooms. The article by Dr. Roland Griffiths, et al, is titled: ‘Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial…
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Dr. Stanislav Grof interview – “LSD Psychotherapy” – #012
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• •Thank you for understanding. A 2.5 hour whopper of an interview. In this episode I interview Dr. Stanislav Grof, the world’s foremost expert on LSD research, as well as one of the original founders of the field of Transpersonal Psychology. Is everything you know about LSD and other psychedelic drugs mass hysteria and propaganda? This…
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John Lamb Lash interview – “On the Gnostics” – #011
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• •This episode focuses on the Gnostics. Who were the Gnostics and what did they believe? I’ll be interviewing John Lamb Lash, the author of Not In His Image – Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, And the Future of Belief. Comparative mythologist, author and teacher John Lash is one of the foremost exponents of the power of…
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Rick Doblin, Ph.D. interview – “MAPS – The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies” – #010
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• •What is the future of psychedelic research and what has been discovered so far? I interview Rick Doblin, Ph.D., the founder of MAPS – the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. Rick Doblin, Ph.D., is the founder and president of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which he founded in 1986. His dissertation (in Public Policy,…
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Dr. James DeMeo interview – “Saharasia, Pt. 2″ – #009
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• •The conclusion of my interview with Dr. James DeMeo (Podcast #007), author of Saharasia – The 4000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence in the Deserts of the Old World. What do sexual suppression, social violence, rape, child molestation, circumcision and warfare have to do with one another? You will be…
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John Major Jenkins interview – “The 2012 Meme, Part 2″ – #008
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• •Originally released December 7, 2008. In our continuing investigation into the modern phenomenon of the New Age 2012 movement, I’m going to interview John Major Jenkins to discuss his work in his book Maya Cosmogenisis 2012. Last month in Podcast #004 – The 2012 Meme, I interviewed Prof. John Hoopes, who refuted the majority of…
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Dr. James DeMeo interview – “Saharasia, Pt. 1″ – #007
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• •What do sexual suppression, social violence, rape, child molestation, circumcision and warfare have to do with one another? You’ll be surprised. In this two part episode with Dr. James DeMeo we’re going to dig down into the deepest suppressed resources of the human psyche to find out. The information presented in this episode is essential…
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Dr. Charles Grob interview – “Psychedelics, The Scientific Evidence” – #005
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• •Charles S. Grob, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine and Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He conducted the first government-approved study of MDMA, and was the principal investigator of an international biomedical psychiatric research project in the Brazilian Amazon of…
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Prof. John Hoopes interview – “The 2012 Meme” – #004
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• •Originally released November 10, 2008. In this show we investigate a modern mystery and phenomenon that has recently swept the world. It can be found discussed at large conventions for $300 for an admission ticket – where the so-called experts gather to promote their ideas of this field of study – and also in popular…
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Dr. Martin Ball interview – “Religious and Spiritual Freedom” – #003
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• •In this episode I speak with Dr. Martin Ball about the spiritual use of entheogens, especially mushrooms and Salvia Divinorum, as well as religious vs. spiritual freedom. Do you think you have religious freedom? You’d better hear this show! Martin Ball earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies with an emphasis on Native American religions and…
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Prof. John Rush Interview – “Was Jesus A Mushroom?” – #002
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• •Today I interview Professor John Rush regarding his new book Failed God: Fractured Myth in a Fragile World. This is the first academic book since the publication of John Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) that argues Allegro was correct – and provides ample support for the mushroom foundations of Judeo-Christianity. This is…
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Prof. Carl A.P. Ruck interview, with Richard Andrew Grove – #001
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• •For this episode I’m going to play a recording that I did back in April of this year, 2008. I went with Richard Andrew Grove of 8thestate media and Paul Verge of Divergent Films to the home of pioneering entheogenic researcher, Professor Carl A. P. Ruck of Boston University. Professor Ruck co-authored Persephone’s Quest with…
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Hawk and Venus: Neo-Shamanism or Megalomania?
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• •A Critical Rejoinder to Raw Amanita is Always Best By J.R. Irvin March 31, 2008 Copyright J.R. Irvin, 2008. All rights reserved. Introduction The following is a rebuttal to the “journal” entry Raw Amanita is Always Best by the ambiguously named “Hawk and Venus,” August 12, 2006. This rebuttal also serves as a critique and…
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Sexual Symbolism in Religion
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Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita
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• •Wasson and Allegro on the Tree of Knowledge as Amanita by Michael Hoffman and Jan Irvin Written 2006 Copyright © 2009 Jan Irvin. All rights reserved. Contents Introduction. 4 The Entheogen Theory of Christianity and the Bible. 5 Avoidance of Scholarly Response to Christian Entheogens and Jesus’ Ahistoricity. 6 Books Covering the Entheogen…
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The Balkan Wars Cover-Up, Yugoslavia, 1999
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• •Balkan Wars Cover-Up Yugoslavia 1999 By Jan Irvin “All War is Based on Deception” Sun Tzu “Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today…