…also be there. As you may remember, many of the Terrence McKenna talks that I played here in the salon came from Diana, who is perhaps the very first formal scholar to have deeply investigated McKenna's work. So be sure to bring your unanswered Terrence…

…you already know if you've been with us here for a while, and Diana Slattery. In a moment you're going to learn more about Diana, but if you've been with us since the very early days of the salon then you should probably recognize her name. I can't…

…to me, and in that box were dozens and dozens of audiotapes of Terrence McKenna talks, as you'll hear in a few moments. When Diana was working on her PhD, she conducted what must still be the most in depth study of how Terrence used language and having…

…than pleased that we now have an opportunity here in the salon to get to know her a little better. So let's join Shona and Diana now. This is Shona Holm and I am about to have a conversation with a very amazing woman who I have great admiration for…

…Diana now. This is Shona Holm and I am about to have a conversation with a very amazing woman who I have great admiration for Diana Reed slattery, and first of all Diana welcome, thank you I'm glad to be here. Well we're very glad to have you and I…

…am about to have a conversation with a very amazing woman who I have great admiration for Diana Reed slattery, and first of all Diana welcome, thank you I'm glad to be here. Well we're very glad to have you and I know Lorenzo is very excited, and so…

…bio that you sent me, and then we will proceed, but there's quite a lot for you to speak to my goodness. So I met Diana. I'll just say real quick that she is on the board of the women's visionary congress and I've been there twice now two years in…

…is just so warm, such an amazing woman and quite the background. So check this out. I'm just going to read this. Diana Reed slattery was born in time to compile a full 60s resume. Civil rights photojournalism, peace marching communes, social justice, self…

…psychedelics, language and the evolution of consciousness. Holy crow, girlfriend, I mean you've done quite a lot and I'm just fascinated, Diana, by just the idea that you would go into these psychedelic realms and then come out with such an extraordinary…

…I fully understand because they will speak through me and there are whistles and different it's like crazy yes so this is why, Diana, I have to talk to this woman because I find this very fascinating and even the way your initial approach to the…

…that mysterious other and I have no idea what the real source of it is but I'd like to know what you think. I geez Diana. Well I actually I okay so first of all I do know that the medicine will absolutely open up access greater access to to our…

…have a an actual conversation, we are having it. Yes so I and I also see the medicine as a portal and you know what else Diana I had an experience where I mean I done it enough monthly to know I could go in and speak to spirits and I went to…

…you about? Are we going to compare notes here? Yes, I went for the conversation rather, yes of course. Well do you work with owl Diana at all? Does owls come to you a little bit? I've had a couple of very strange owl experiences and but not as much…

…Yes yes that is a joke. There is no doubt they were behind the writing of this book and I find it very interesting also, Diana, your love of language and going into the whole. I mean I believe Hebrew is part of our language is partly based on Hebrew.…

…come out, because when we use different languages, right, no no that's well that's another superficial conversation between Sean and our friend Diana Oh yeah, wow. And so all of this really I mean you just created like such a masterpiece with this novel,…

…you know through plants and meditation and visualization. There are many, many, many avenues there to explore. But this is very interesting, Diana because yeah I see a sinister side of it for sure it is as sinister as you can imagine and it fortunately…

…to the Sioux Indians you know, and they are not happy about that. Yeah I don't know you know there's a part of me, Diana that just I just want to call a halt to everything the whole thing, the whole like everything in other words it's happening, the…

…a conversation and that just loosened everything up. So yes I much prefer that oh good, I'm so glad. All right thank you, Diana, so very much, yeah and we will we'll we'll speak again all right sweetie take care, thank you bye, you're listening to the…

…to pick up on what they were saying about technology. Now I don't want you to think that I'm kind of ganging up with Diana on Shona's concern about the rapid rise of technology in our lives. First of all I share Shona's concerns about Wi Fi signals…

…will eventually reach a state of resonance, and that's when our entire species will reach that frequency signature that Shona and Diana talked about at the beginning of their conversation. I do believe that Teilhard's wish for an awakening of the noosphere…

…back to baseline they should try to stand up without any help, and generally they can't so. But you know it's again like Diana just said it's so different for everybody and that's one of the the difficulties I think we have in talking to other people…

…honesty. But you know I feel that I've done enough to really have a lifetime of processing yet to go on and like I think like Diana said, that a real low dose can really trigger a lot of things again and for me my drug of choice is Cannabis and I…

…I spent quite a bit of time talking with Diana Slattery and in particular about this conference. And from what I learned about it from Diana, it sounds to me as if this is going to be one of the best and most important conferences of the year. So if…

…wasn't. Because it was on September 6, 1997, that 2.5 billion people all around the world watch the televised funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind, a journey…

…which have been properly labeled in the past, well, I'm sure that this is the correct date. And thank you again ever so much, Diana. Now, this first tape, which is what I'm going to play today, is the main part of McKenna's lecture. And the other tape…

…And again, I want to thank Diana Slattery for sending me the cassette tape that this talk was recorded on. Thanks again, Diana. Now, we're not only going to hear about some of Terence's favorite topics like language and culture, but there's also some…

…tape that this talk was recorded on came to me from our dear friend and long time saloner, Diana Slattery. And thank you yet again, Diana, for sending all of these great talks to me so that I could play them here in the salon. The note on this tape…

…talk that we're about to hear is even a little older than the previous McKenna talk that I played. And so thank you again, Diana, for sending these tapes for me to share with all of our friends here in cyberdelic space. Now, the handwriting on the tape…

…the first lecture in a weekend workshop series of some kind he was giving at the time. Now, a few weeks ago, Bruce Dahmer asked Diana about the source of these tapes. But since many of them were given to her a long time ago, she no longer can recall…

…the box of cassettes that Diana Slattery sent me a few weeks back, or I should say a few months back now. Thank you again. Diana and I picked this one out of the box for several reasons. The first one being that it is the oldest recording of a…

…of his that I found in the big box of tapes that Diana Slattery sent to me. And hey, thank you ever so much, Diana. I really appreciate it. Unfortunately, the ink on the label somehow became wet and got smeared on this tape. So I don't have any…

…one of the tapes in the box of McKenna material that my friend Diana Slattery sent to me a couple of months back. Now, Diana and I had reconnected at the psychedelic science conference after having not seen one another for a while. And in fact, I can't…

…at burning man or at a salon or another conference. Seems like we've known each other for a long time. But anyway, after talking with Diana, she said she had all these tapes of Terence McKenna she'd be happy to give to me. And so I got this big box…

…I'm going to begin the Diana Slattery phase of the McKenna material, for lack of a better description. So, hey, thanks again, Diana. Your years of recording and hauling these tapes around the country are finally going to pay off by you knowing that quite…

…program, I'm really excited about this one. It's another Terrance McKenna talk, of course, but this one is special to me. Although our angel Diana sent it to me a few weeks ago, it wasn't until today that I got around to listening to it. And what a…

…the title or even the date of that lecture. Had I not already started getting sick, I would have taken the time to contact Diana, the angel who gave me that recording and asked for a few more details. Fortunately, she didn't wait for me to get well…

…I thought I'd go ahead and play this recording that was sent to me by one of our fellow saloners. In fact, I actually met Diana at Burning man this year when she spent some time with us and stayed to participate in a few of the ply logs. At the…

…the fact that she had some old McKenna recordings and asked if I'd like to hear them. So, long story short, thanks to Diana, we are about to hear what may be one of Terence's earliest recorded talks. Hopefully someone who is at this lecture will appear…

…questions, comments, complaints, or suggestions about these podcasts, well, hey, just send them to Lorenzo matrixmasters.com. and thanks again to Diana for sending me today's talk by Terrence McKenna. And thank you. Dear Terrence, what would we have ever done…