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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 210 – “From the Shaman’s Circle to the Ivory Tower”
Description: Guest speakers: Anna Waldstein, Ivan Casselman, and Cameron Adams
PROGRAM NOTES:
Three lecturers are featured in this session from the 3rd International Conference for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC) held at the University of Amsterdam 23-26 July 2009. Their presentation is titled "From the Shaman’s Circle to the Ivory Tower: Progress, Spirituality and Psychedelic Thinking."
"The suppression of mysticism, psychedelic experience, psychedelic thinking, began roughly two thousand years ago. And you get more intense socio-economic and socio-spiritual hierarchies … until you get to where we are today where there is state control of consciousness as well as state cont...