Psychonautica #46 - Birth of the psychedelic movememt

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In this week's episode of psychonautica, Max Freakout plays the first half of a panel discussion from the World Psychedelic forum, called 'the birth of the psychedelic movement, a look back at another America', featuring Carolyn Garcia, Ralph Metzner, Cynthia Palmer, Michael Horowitz and Dale Pendell. First, Dale Pendell talks about the successes and failures of the 1960s psychedelic movement, its exposure by the media and eventual co-option, the main contributors to the movement, and his own experiences. Next, Cynthia Palmer talks about the conservative, repressed 1950s, her experiences as a teenager during this period, her introduction to drugs and move to New York, growing cannabis and getting busted. Next, Ralph Metzner talks about his forthcoming book with Ram Dass, the consciousness-expanding experience of being born, and various other metaphors for consciousness expansion, Paul stamet's new book 'mycelium running', the mutual understanding between psychedelic people, the illegalisation of psychedelic drugs and different approaches to psychedelic expression. Next, Michael Horowitz talks about the high doses of LSD routinely used in the 1960s, the release of the Beatles' 'Sergeant Pepper's lonely hearts club' album in 1967, the abundance of love in the 1960s and his first trip alone. Finally, Carolyn Garcia talks about the concept of a chemically enhanced human being, the miraculous size of an LSD dose, the rapid changes and uncontrollability of the 1960s psychedelic movement, the political backdrop of the period, the music scene of the 1960s, and the protection it provided, Grateful Dead concerts as a conduit of the psychedelic movement, the end of the 1960s and its loss of freedom, the lasting effect of the 1960s on computer technology.
In the second part of the podcast, Max documents fan5tastic's first DMT experience, with a written trip report, and a recording of the aftermath of the trip, involving an account of a visit to an intense world of geometric patterns.



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