c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…tendency to denigrate ourselves, to see the world in terms of the great ones, not here, whoever they are. Aristotle, Madonna, Jesus, whatever. Your particular bent is the overcoming of neurosis, of unhappiness, of toxic lifestyles, is the felt presence of…
…If, on the other hand, you know, the dice rolled a different way for you, you know, you could be sleeping with Madonna tomorrow. You're listening to the psychedelic salon where people are changing their lives one thought at a time. Well, I really hate…
…their lives one thought at a time. Well, I really hate to have Terrance's last thought for today to be about sleeping with Madonna, but that's where the tape ended. But if you're one of our younger saloners, I don't want you to let that gross you…
…the tape ended. But if you're one of our younger saloners, I don't want you to let that gross you out just because, well, Madonna was a lot younger back then, as we all were. Anyway, we just heard Terrence McKenna and a few friends back in February of…
…Plant, Annie Lennox, Rob Lowe, Prince, the Talking Heads, the pet shop Boys, and George W. Bush during his playboy years. At the time, Madonna even moved to Dallas just to be closer to the Stark. It was a truly amazing place, and it was a most amazing…
…symmetry to see that this is a work of art that can draw toward healing. And these images of the mother goddess as Madonna and so forth and so on, I mean, these are very powerful constructs out of the unconscious and they heal. Sequential art, narrative…
…If genes are the basic units of biology, memes are the basic units of ideology and culture. So fascism is a meme. Madonna is a meme. All ideologies and all short term cultural phenomena are memes. And these memes compete. Whatever happened to boy George?…
…an idea. It's like what a gene is to biology. A meme is to ideology. And so our. Our task is to create memes. Madonna is a meme. Catholicism is a meme. Marxism is a meme. Yellow sweaters are a meme. Create memes. Rainbow colored dreadlocks are a meme.…