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A Survey Of Shamanic Options

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This is one of my favourite Terence McKenna talks. I log it here because I sometimes lose it and want to track back to it.

During the 1980’s, before the birth of the Web, Terence McKenna’s workshops were just about the only source of information about psychedelics that reached the streets. While there was some information about psychoactive plants available in professional journals and university libraries, it took Terence to pull out this information and repackage it for the rest of us. In this June 1989 workshop, he does what he did best back then, give us a detailed inventory, continent by continent, of the psychoactive plants native to each area, along with a brief history of how humans interacted with them in the distant past.

Podcast List, September 2023

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If I’m lucky, then, other than the above noted, I’ve clipped out all the dead podcasts and these are all live and active.

Hypnagogue 391

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Okay, this one might start off a little strange, but we’re getting toward the bottom of the Holding Tanks and it’s getting time to reload ’em. Back half of this one is a trip to the library. You like the library, right? (There’s even one of those artists…) Off we go!

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The first piece is as woozy as I feel today, only nicer. (Beluga Brando, Become My Lungs, Become My Lungs, for future ref)

In Our Time: Solon The Lawgiver

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Listening to In Our Time (Solon the Lawgiver): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7wb

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Solon, who was elected archon or chief magistrate of Athens in 594 BC: some see him as the father of Athenian democracy. In the first years of the 6th century BC, the city state of Athens was in crisis. The lower orders of society were ravaged by debt, to the point where some were being forced into slavery. An oppressive law code mandated the death penalty for everything from murder to petty theft. There was a real danger that the city could fall into either tyranny or civil war. Solon instituted a programme of reforms that transformed Athens’ political and legal systems, its society and economy, so that later generations referred to him as Solon the Lawgiver. With Melissa Lane Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University Hans van Wees Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London and William Allan Professor of Greek and McConnell Laing Tutorial Fellow in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at University College, University of Oxford Producer Luke Mulhall

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k7wb

Desert Oracle Radio 200

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Listening to Desert Oracle Radio (The Autumn Tint of Gold): https://omny.fm/shows/desert-oracle-radio-1/the-autumn-tint-of-gold

This autumn is getting off to a strange start, as here in the Mojave High Desert there are carpets of little yellow wildflowers thanks to the hurricane, old Hurricane Hilary which soaked us all pretty good a month ago. Never seen so many weeds in late September. Happy Equinox from Desert Oracle Radio, celebrating 200 episodes with tonight’s show. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/desertoracleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

DESERT ORACLE: Where They Built The Bomb

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If you want to cool off in this brutal desert summer, you need to get up someplace higher, around 7,000 feet — the high-desert plateau around Los Alamos is real nice, at an elevation of 7,320′.

Lots of people have fallen in love with the climate and clean dry air up there, such as  J. Robert Oppenheimer & Gore Vidal & William S. Burroughs. Burroughs was supposed to be a War Captain, following orders, but it never quite worked out that way. Instead, he would go to war with Human Language . . . using the weapon of the oppressor.

Oppenheimer and Burroughs!

SPACEMAN’S TRANSMISSIONS: Lepque

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Not sure this will work, but let’s give it a shot:

For this guest mix I present you, the listener, with an absolutely stellar outing from an ambient DJ that hails from Hungary. Not only that, but the only female ambient DJ in Hungary. How cool is that? Beyond a measurable scale of incredibly cool.

Lepque started out as a radio DJ, but got the bug for digging into ambient via Peter Namlook and Jonn Serrie, and has been fighting for the pure ambient style for over 10 years now. The name ‘Lepque’ is a play on the word ‘Lepke’, which means butterfly in Hungarian. She claims that it comes from the moth symbol. Just as a moth seeks the light, but dies when reaching it, Lepque also prefers to stay in the background, within the cool and soothing darkness.

In Our Time: Megaliths

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Megaliths

In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what we know about ancient stones placed in the landscape and stone monuments, which are often visually striking and can be up to 6,000 years old.

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss megaliths – huge stones placed in the landscape, often visually striking and highly prominent.

Such stone monuments in Britain and Ireland mostly date from the Neolithic period, and the most ancient are up to 6,000 years old. In recent decades, scientific advances have enabled archaeologists to learn a large amount about megalithic structures and the people who built them, but much about these stones remains unknown and mysterious.

With

Vicki Cummings
Professor of Neolithic Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire

Julian Thomas
Professor of Archaeology at the University of Manchester

and

Susan Greaney
Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter.

Catching up on my podcast queue. I’ll always stop for a talk about megaliths.

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