Psychedelic Salon
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Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…that this is actually somehow a Universal Attractor and we represent a concrescence of complexity that is truly transcendental. You know James Joyce said if you want to be phoenixed you've got to be parked up in the end prospector you sprout all your…
…my god I don't know what it was but I hope it doesn't come back. That human history has that quality. I mean James Joyce should be mentioned here saying: history is the nightmare from which I'm trying to awaken and the whole structure of his novels,…
…to this man despite his foibles and his faults and we all have them but thank you, thank you for telling the tale in such a Joyce Y and silvery way of the magic, to attract us all, to make a signpost, to have us all go and seek out the magic, that…
…cycle it more and cycle it more and cycle it more. He was an absolute master. An absolute master I mean having studied James Joyce and all these absolute masters. For me it's just the high art of his skill and whatever material it was just as Dennis…
…understanding of for example, John Dee, the Elizabethan Alchemist and magician and the English philosopher martin. His reading of James Joyce, in particular pinnacle's way, his amazing ability to read and assimilate and bring into the same symbolic dimension…
…muted as massive parallel processing and neural nets and stuff like this. So I don't know where all this rests. You know, James Joyce said, man will be dirigible, which is like the flying saucer faith. I would like to think that the philosopher's stone…
…that has such an enormous forward momentum that the only place where it can express itself without destroying itself is, as James Joyce says, obnient. So long, long ago, when the faraway galaxy Star wars style may be in our future. Well, as opposed…
…and the institutions. We won't become insane. We are awakening. This is what's happening. The long nightmare of human history that James Joyce talked about. We are awakening. And the truth, you think you see the truth of your own intuition is the truth.…
…immediately after dying, you're just a dead person. But then you begin to unfold and test the boundaries. And, you know, as James Joyce says in Finnegan's wake up nient prospector, you sprout all your worth and woof your wings. And that's just in the…
…in. It's the thing that we hate most of all. We fear it. We really get agitated when death is raised as an issue. James Joyce called it the Grim reaper, a blessing in disguise. If you want to be phoenixed, come and be parked, meaning you have to die…
…fury that signifies nothing. So it's as though the meaning itself is in our hands. What shall we make of this? Is it just as James Joyce said, atoms and ifs? Or is there a plan, a process, a plot and a role for us that will give us some dignity in…
…reef of extruded psychic objects. And the tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three dimensional space. It's as James Joyce said, it's the problem of how man may be dirigible, right? And how man may be dirigible is basically by turning…
…parked. It's that simple, you see, but it takes courage to be parked when the grim reaper draws near. A blessing in disguise, Joyce calls him. So to me, what psychedelics point out and where I think society will go once they are integrated to the point…
…art, poetry, myth making, these are the things that point the way toward the realm of being, of the eschaton. That is what Joyce means when he says man may become dirigible. In other words, man may be released into a realm of pure engineering. The…
…words, what would we do if we could do anything? Would our transcendent impulses drive us to a kind of angelhood? Or, as James Joyce says, would we flop on the seamy side? And the answer normally given is, some would do one and some the other. Yes,…
…psychedelic thing can be seen as when it's done with plants is a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine. James Joyce talks about what he calls the mama matrix most mysterious. That's what you're seeing, those lights against darkness, all that stuff.…
…the stuff generated out of the alembic of history is this trans dimensional, cyber electric literalization of the imagination. You know, James Joyce said, man will be dirigible. What he meant was that the raw stuff of the unconscious will be downloaded into…
…planet. So what we need is to figure out how to get a spigot into that and get this stuff out. And then, as James Joyce said, man will be dirigible when we actually turn on all the bells and whistles of the historical process and realize that it is…
…so forth and so on, when those values are dissolved, what is waiting there is this incredibly poignant experience matrix, what James Joyce called the mama matrix, most mysterious. Nothing more than our bodies and the earth out of which our bodies came.…
…him going on a rant about war and the ways in which television has changed us. I thought I was going to hear more about James Joyce and wound up feeling like I was at some kind of a rally or something, but why am I talking about it? Let's just…
…he really seemed to spawn no highly visible successors. It was a unique personality and breakthrough, much in the same way that Joyce was a unique personality and spawned very few imitators. And the irony of all this is that McLuhan did his journeyman…
…his journeyman work before he burst onto the world stage as this mysterious savant of media. He did his work as a Joyce scholar. That's what he was. Literary critic, Joyce Scholar, medievalist, that sort of thing. And then in the early fifties or middle…
…world stage as this mysterious savant of media. He did his work as a Joyce scholar. That's what he was. Literary critic, Joyce Scholar, medievalist, that sort of thing. And then in the early fifties or middle fifties, he wrote a book, which I've never…
…the books I'm reading from and talking about, and then I'll actually read you a section of McLuhan, because it's a. Like Joyce, it's a stylistic thing that you can't really encompass without getting your feet wet. This was his best known book, probably,…
…of extruded psychic objects. And the tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three dimensional space. It's as James Joyce said, it's the problem of how man may be dirigible, right? How man may be dirigible is basically by turning himself…
…parked. It's that simple, you see, but it takes courage to be parked when the grim reaper draws near a blessing in. Disguise, Joyce calls him. So to me, what psychedelics point out and where I think society will go once they are integrated to the point…
…art, poetry, myth making, these are the things that point the way toward the realm of being, of the eschaton. That is what Joyce means when he says man may become dirigible. In other words, man may be released into a realm of pure engineering. The…
…Joyce's Finnegan's wake. Finnegan's wake is the. Is the last and most ambitious and most puzzling work of the british writer James Joyce, who of course wrote Dubliners and Ulysses. And if Ulysses is the algebra of literature, then Finnegan's wake is the…
…Arguably said that this is the quintessential work of art, or at least work of literature of the 20th century, and Joyce intended it that way. Joseph Campbell called it a staggering allegory of the fall and redemption of mankind. Equally respected critics…
…in Zurich in 1919. Right now it's having a huge resurgence in the form of sampling in pop music. And Joyce was the supreme samplere. He draws his material from technical catalogs, menus, legal briefs, treaty language mythologies, dreams, doctor patient…
…once you learn to play the game, is a joycean story that all graduates of Ulysses will recognize. I mean, the main. What Joyce was about was an incredible sympathy with common people and an awareness of the dilemma of, you know, being a jew in Irish…
…quite an amazing accomplishment. There's nothing else like it in literature. It had very little anticipation. The only real anticipator of Joyce in English, I think, is Thomas Nash, who most people have never heard of. Thomas Nash was a contemporary of…
…defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. And beauty is the stuff that lies under the skin of our individual existences. You know, James Joyce said in Finnegan's way. He said, we sprout on the sea side here in Moy Kane. Meaning in the red light…
…any century, people could have had this commerce with the end of time, with the far future, with the place where, as James Joyce said, man becomes dirigible, the place where, you know, we have bootstrapped ourselves to the point where we leave the planet,…
…structures that has such an enormous forward momentum that the only place where it can express itself without destroying itself is, as James Joyce says, up nayant, so long, long ago. In the faraway galaxy. Star wars style may be in our future. Well, as…
…forth and so on, when those values are dissolved, what is waiting there is this incredibly poignant experience of matrix, what James Joyce called the mama matrix, most mysterious. Nothing more than our bodies and the earth out of which our bodies came.…
…the dark ages, in the resonance. A lot of this is for the production of humor. I hope you realize, if you're fans of James Joyce and understand how Ulysses is constructed, you know, what's going on in Ulysses is a man is trying to buy some kidneys to…
…for characters in a book. What we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom. And this is why people like James Joyce, though Arcane and difficult to pierce. Seem to me central to understanding this. Because they're saying something about the…
…It's who we are. We aspire to be magic. And we probably, given our track record, we'll achieve it. As I said yesterday, James Joyce said, man will be dirigible. A humorous thing to say, but yes. I don't really understand what you mean by that. Like,…
…the biosphere, the invalidation of intelligence as an adaptation of biology and our extinction, or we are going to become, as James Joyce dreamed we could, man made dirigible is how he put it. In other words, the exteriorization of the soul, the…
…much distance as we traversed from the Big Bang to this afternoon in terms of how quickly things are going to unfold. James Joyce said, man will be dirigible. It's a wonderful thing to hope for. One thing that I've been fascinated with the time ladies…
…psychedelic thing can be seen as when it's done with plants, is a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine. James Joyce talks about what he calls the mama matrix, most mysterious. That's what you're seeing, those lights against darkness, all that…
…from where I think Terence was going with his metaphor, but at the very least, it may be a stepping stone to, well, as James Joyce so famously said, becoming dirigible. Now, I'm going to close today by remembering a man who died a few days ago. In my…
…we're going to live in the future. That's what we were born for. That's where we are at our best in 3d. Well as James Joyce says in Finnegan's way, here in Moy cane we fly flop on the seamy side, moy Cane being the red light district of Dublin.…
…Canada, he really seemed to spawn no highly visible successors, was a unique personality and breakthrough, much in the same way that Joyce was a unique personality and spawned very few imitators. And the irony of all this is that McLuhan did his journeyman…
…his journeyman work before he burst onto the world stage as this mysterious savant of media. He did his work as a Joyce Scholar. That's what he was. Literary critic, Joyce Scholar, medievalist, that sort of thing. And then in the early fifties or middle…
…world stage as this mysterious savant of media. He did his work as a Joyce Scholar. That's what he was. Literary critic, Joyce Scholar, medievalist, that sort of thing. And then in the early fifties or middle fifties, he wrote a book, which I've never…
…the books I'm reading from and talking about, and then I'll actually read you a section of McLuhan, because it's a, like Joyce, it's a stylistic thing that you can't really encompass without getting your feet wet. This was his best known book, probably,…
…triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. So there's a lot of fun in McLuhan, and this comes out of his being a Joyce scholar. You just can't mess with that without fun. This is his third book with Harley through the vanishing point space in…
…and begins to dissolve it, you know, and the linear, you know, the columns and lines. That's how narrative was until James Joyce and Henry James, and people like that showed that narrative could be broken up. Modernism is a form of primitivism. Strangely…
…attractor. I see what the itching is, but I don't see the relationship. Well, here it is in a nutshell, or a nutshell, as James Joyce said, I was not a sinologist. I was not a scholar of confucian or Han dynasty occultism. The good news is, the part…
…planet. So what we need is to figure out how to get a spigot into that and get this stuff out. And then, as James Joyce said, man will be dirigible. Well, as you may have surmised by now, the way Terrence ran his workshops, or at least that weekend,…
…as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. So there's a lot of fun in McLuhan, and this comes out of his being a Joyce scholar. You just can't mess with that without fun. This is his third book with Harley Parker through the vanishing point space…
…which the book brings into any society, in addition to the split within the individual of the that society. The work of James Joyce exhibits a complex clairvoyance in these matters. His Leopold Bloom of Ulysses, a man of many ideas and many devices, is a…
…complex clairvoyance in these matters. His Leopold Bloom of Ulysses, a man of many ideas and many devices, is a freelance salesman. Joyce saw the parallels on one hand between the modern frontier of the verbal and the pictorial, and on the other between…
…reference to the Masons is to the world of the bricklayer as a type of speech itself. On the second page of the wake, Joyce is making a mosaic, an Achilles shield, as it were, of all the themes and modes of human speech and communication by Meister…
…fin cycle of tribal institutions can return in the electric age. But if again, then let's make it awake or awake, or both. Joyce could see no advantage in our remaining locked up in each cultural cycle as in a trance or dream, he discovered the means…
…visual or profane and civilized. So that's his comment. Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. These people, Joyce, to some degree, pound, McLuhan, they were the prophets of the world in which we now stand, the world of integrated…
…expounding to his audience. There is a great body of reporterata which constitute a very complex problem for editors. So really, like for Joyce, for McLuhan, the book is the central symbol of the age, the central mystery of our time. In a sense, I sort…
…attitude that it's better to put it in than take it out. And that's certainly what you get with a joyce. I mean, Joyce is so dense with technical terms, brand names, pop references, localisms. The way to conceive a Finnegan's wake really is like a…
…reason why I think of it as eschatological and apocalyptic is because he really, you know, it's hard to tell. We don't have James Joyce around to ask how much of this material he took seriously and how much of it was grist for his literary mill. But…
…Giambattista Vico, who was a. I don't know what you would call him, a Renaissance sociologist, basically, and systems theorist. And Joyce once in a famous interview, said that if the whole universe were to be destroyed and only Finnegan's wake survived,…
…letters are scrambled, and only the movement of the present moment through the text correctly unscrambles and arranges the letter. This is Joyce thinking for sure. And it's very close to a central theme in Joyce and a central theme in the western religious…
…text correctly unscrambles and arranges the letter. This is Joyce thinking for sure. And it's very close to a central theme in Joyce and a central theme in the western religious tradition, which is the coming into being, the manifestation of the word, the…
…is the coming into being, the manifestation of the word, the declension of the word into matter. And in a sense, what Joyce was trying to do was he was in that great tradition of literary alchemy, whose earlier practitioners were people like Robert Flood,…
…already. The rosy glow could already be seen, the alchemist turned toward literary allegory in the 16th and early 17th century. Joyce is essentially in that tradition. I mean, this is an effort to convey, condense, the entire of experience, as Joyce says,…
…17th century. Joyce is essentially in that tradition. I mean, this is an effort to convey, condense, the entire of experience, as Joyce says, in the wake, all space, time, in a nutshell, is what we're searching for here, a kind of philosopher's stone of…
…your own intelligence. What you bring to it is going to determine what you get out. And if you have read the books which Joyce was familiar with, or if you have armed yourself with such simple things as a fodor's guide to Ireland, or a good map of…
…easy to make original discoveries. It's easy to see and understand things which probably have not been seen or understood since James Joyce put it there because he had this kind of all inclusive intelligence. Maybe I didn't make clear enough why that, to…
…of the 20th century in terms of the temporal context for this book. It was finished in 1939, a few months before 1939, and Joyce died early in 39. In a sense, he died in one of the most science fiction moments of the 20th century. Because the Third…
…and sympathetic character, the sorely harrowed victim of a relentless fate which is stronger than yet identical with himself. Joyce refers to him under various names such as here comes everybody and haveth childers everywhere, indications of his universality…
…this aside, the scraggy isthmus of Europe minor to welterweight, his peninsulate war. Now this word peninsulate is typical Joyce punning. Peninsulate war obviously is being launched from Brittany. Peninsulate war. Because Sir Tristram is the great archetype of…
…Wasn't it the truth? I told you lots of bundled finnegans. This is the resurrection. I mean, Tim Finnegan is very clearly for Joyce a Christ figure. And here is then the first evocation of Tim Finnegan. The fall. Then the viconian thunder of a once Wall…
…see this enormous man in the landscape. And there are many enormous men and women in the landscape of this planet. And Joyce maps the Dublin geography over all of them. Some of you may know Istaxi watl the magical mountain in Mexico. Istoxevatl means…
…because economy is an aesthetic criterion for shoemakers, not for artists. And economy is the curse of the Bauhaus, babblers from hell, which Joyce was very concerned to refute. All of that. If you have to place this in a context, it's in the context of…
…And she was a very practical woman, Nora Barnacle. There wasn't a literary bone in her body. I think. I think that's what Joyce loved about her, was that she was the real thing. And all these women, Molly and Olivia, they all. Nora, Joyce for sure.…
…that's what Joyce loved about her, was that she was the real thing. And all these women, Molly and Olivia, they all. Nora, Joyce for sure. He died shortly after it was published, although it had been known in manuscript for over ten years to the…
…didn't even know if he was serious or not. And it was very hard to find a public. It was a typographical nightmare. Joyce was going blind. And so, you know, trying to keep track of the spelling. And there's hardly a standard spelling in there. There's…
…up and 15 seconds have passed. That's the reality of life. But we suppress this chaotic, irrational side, the genius of Joyce and to some degree, although in a more controlled form, Proust. And then there were other practitioners. Faulkner certainly was…
…mind without trimming pruning, judging, denying. One of the great puzzles to me is the great antagonism between Jung and Joyce, because you would have thought that they would have been comrades in arms. But Joyce loathed psychoanalysis. He thought that…
…the great antagonism between Jung and Joyce, because you would have thought that they would have been comrades in arms. But Joyce loathed psychoanalysis. He thought that to use all this material to elucidate imagined pathologies was a very uncreative use of…
…fabricated into literature. It's very hard to surpass, you know, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, these people, they. Everybody genuflects to Joyce, but very few people plow in the way he did. I mean, Thomas Pynchon is considered a difficult, hallucinatory…
…is not supposed to have, which literature always has. And I think that. I don't know if it's true, but I think what Joyce believed and what I'm willing to entertain at some depth is the idea that salvation is somehow an act of encompassing comprehension,…
…is an actual act of apprehension, understanding, and that this act of apprehension involves everything. This is why the alchemic before James Joyce and this kind of literature, the only place where you got these kinds of constructs was in alchemy and magic.…
…that, you know, through an act of magic, the universe could be condensed to yield a fractal microcosm of itself. Well, then what Joyce is saying is that the novel, which was unknown in the alchemical era, the novel comes later. I mean, arguably, but the…
…be cast. I think the great modern exponent of this, although now dead, and certainly one who owed an enormous debt to Joyce, was Vladimir Nabokov. Especially Ade, is his pan of praise. To Finnegan's wake, basically. And the idea tacked in there is the…
…us loose is somehow also made of language. What else could fit the lock? So somehow an act of poetic leisure is necessary. And Joyce in Finnegan's wake, I mean, he didn't live to argue the case or to work it out. He died shortly after. But this comes…
…comes about as close as anybody ever came to actually pushing the entire contents of the universe down into about 14 cubic inches. Joyce and Proust had one meeting, and supposedly Joyce said to Proust, I'm too young for you to teach me anything. Are you…
…actually pushing the entire contents of the universe down into about 14 cubic inches. Joyce and Proust had one meeting, and supposedly Joyce said to Proust, I'm too young for you to teach me anything. Are you all familiar with the remembrance of things…
…old style novel, but there are places in it where he just takes flight and prefigures the kind of writing that Faulkner and Joyce were able to do. As far as psychedelic influences, I don't know that there are arguably any. Joyce lived in Trieste for a…
…of writing that Faulkner and Joyce were able to do. As far as psychedelic influences, I don't know that there are arguably any. Joyce lived in Trieste for a while and taught English. He may have been as a habitue of Paris. He may have been familiar…
…a civilization dies, it hypnotizes, synagogically, cycles the detritus of centuries and centuries of struggle to understand. And someone like Joyce, I think, just brings that to an excruciating climax, because it's all there, you know, it's all there from the…
…it. It's not simply that we are aesthetes, litterateurs, and that here in the twilight of the gods, we should sit around reading James Joyce. That isn't the point. The point is that this is the distillation of our experience of what it is to be human.…
…and in an irish pub can keep people going all night long. It's a celebration of complexity and of the human journey. And Joyce doesn't judge. I mean, you know, it says somewhere in Finnegan's wake here in Moy Cane, which is the red light district of…
…Huh. Yes, yes. The final affirmation. Yes. Sam Beckett, Nobel Prize winner, genius in his own right, but secretary to James Joyce for many, many years, passionately in love with Joyce's tragically schizophrenic daughter. One of the. You know, you want an…
…brought back to me he was a convert to Catholicism and an extraordinarily complex intellectual, with a medievalist who became a Joyce scholar, who became a communications expert. And in McLuhan, there is a very deep strain of nostalgia for the essence of…
…which the book brings into any society. In addition to the split within the individual of that society. The work of James Joyce exhibits a complex clairvoyance in these matters. His Leopold Bloom of Ulysses, a man of many ideas and many devices, is…
…complex clairvoyance in these matters. His Leopold Bloom of Ulysses, a man of many ideas and many devices, is a freelance salesman. Joyce saw the parallels on one hand between the modern frontier of the verbal and the pictorial, and on the other between…
…to the Masons is to the world of the brick layer as a type of speech itself. On the second page of the wake Joyce is making a mosaic, an Achilles shield, as it were, of all the themes and modes of human speech and communication. Beigmeister Finnegan…
…lived in the broadest way imaginable. In his rush lit too far back for massages before Joshua and judges had given us numbers. Joyce is in the wake, making his own Altamira cave drawings of the entire history of the human mind in terms of its basic…
…fin cycle of tribal institutions can return in the electric age. But if again, then let's make it awake, or awake, or both. Joyce could see no advantage in our remaining locked up in each cultural cycle as in a trance or dream, he discovered the means…
…or profane and civilized. So that's his comment. Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. These people, Joyce, to some degree, pound, McLuhan, they were the prophets of the world in which we now understand, the world of integrated…
…expounding to his audience. There is a great body of reporterata which constitute a very complex problem for editors. So really, like for Joyce, for McLuhan, the book is the central symbol of the age, the central mystery of our time. In a sense, I sort…