The Greatest Speech Ever Made The Psychedelic Assembly 2011-07-15 | The original mash-up edit of Charlie Chaplin's final speech in the film the great dictator, which went viral in 2011. Song: Window by The Album Leaf. (Translations below) Albanian - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFR-hXFJldUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHO0rnTdieUAmharic - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TikYB1IEPKEArabic - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kltOjef71_8Bosnian- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cbdhGNOPYw&feature=player_embeddedBulgarian - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ToV9-mOf8Chinese - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehBTKbGBvHcCroatian - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMmYuP-EZoMCzech - http://youtu.be/OPKR0ISKK30Danish - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juMpQTSLgowDutch - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPmRsEsISE8Estonian - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzYFXxjQgMI&feature=channel_video_titleFilipino - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNH5pbMXs-IFinnish - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN93hUdVT2gFrench - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhiMZIh3XiAGeorgian - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvdOHuJjx9kGerman - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMwYhgoHUVMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zlNXO25-kchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PZwi89dgn4Greek - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR0ZRMZ9y_IHebrew - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07KB1S10dpk&featu%C2%ADre=relatedHindi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR-nVXTS7goHungarian - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J0D1cHARMcItalian - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjQs9jLjsBsJapanese - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzTmkoR6mMQKorean - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR8Y7tO8yrILatvian- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5TdTvcDAJILithuanian - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa_hO5LdBe0 Macedonian - http://youtu.be/qHjhn3qBRucPolish - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuqbony9RiEPortuguese - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CE35ka2daMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGpCds0e-kgRomanian - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrrK37VfdIoRussian - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKCWu8FYFQYSerbian - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSSFgo6o1_s&feature=relatedSlovenian - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXnmyhVcsBgSpanish - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEAp8HRyjxoThai - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqTu_OWwgs4Turkish - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tY4CYSKoZAVietnamese - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhyGQw2zwHY*If you have a version of this video with subtitles in a language not already on the list above, send me the link and I will gladly add it. Apologies for the advertisements. The speech is matched 3rd party content, so youtube is trying to turn a profit. I do not make any money off of ads on this this video, nor would I want to. Just trying to spread a little hope. Abstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
9.19.25 in NYC: Into the Mystic - An Immersive Evening at Aliume Art The Psychedelic Assembly 2025-09-02 | The Psychedelic Assembly invites you to an intimate evening with visionary artist and mystic Alex Aliume!eventbrite.com/e/into-the-mystic-an-immersive-evening-at-aliume-art-tickets-1612155312939?aff=oddtdtcreatorThis exclusive experience will take place inside ALIUME ART, Alex’s immersive private gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This luminous space houses over 60 original works: UV-reactive paintings, sacred geometry 3D objects, and glow-in-the-dark kinetic sculptures that shift and transform under blacklight and 3D glasses.The evening will feature:A guided immersive journey with Alex through his large body of work, including Omnivision, Anima, and Aethereon, his latest creation, and the rest of the centerpieces of the space.A pair of 3D Chromadepth Glasses to heighten the visual experience and shift your perception.Opportunities for conversation and questions, offering a window into Alex’s creative process and mystical inspirations.Light bites and complimentary beverages served in the glowing atmosphere with the Psychedelic Assembly community.A chance to purchase original artworks and signed prints directly from the artist.Doors open at 7pm, and the presentation will begin promptly at 8 pm, so please arrive on time!ALIUMEART.COM | IG @ALIUMEART
Is That All There Is? The Psychedelic Assembly 2025-08-27 | Performance art meets Psychedelia in NYC circa 2023. Join the movement: www.ThePsychedelicAssembly.com
6/6 in NYC: RESET - Summer of Love: No Alcohol, Psychedelic Night Life The Psychedelic Assembly 2025-05-02 | TICKETS: eventbrite.com/e/the-psychedelic-assembly-reset-summer-of-love-tickets-1334014245519?aff=oddtdtcreatorAs the summer sun keeps on shining, we’re calling all cosmic dancers to come together for a far-out night of music, movement, and magic—no booze, no bad vibes. This psychedelic late-night party is all about good tunes, wild imaginations, and grooving together in full technicolor. Transformation, celebration, and deep connection... with zero hangovers, just pure joy.WHAT TO EXPECT:7,000 square feet of psychedelic festivitiesCostumes highly encouraged—come as a flower child, a rockstar, mushroom mystic, or tie-dye dreamer Main dance floor beats by DJ PreSkool — spinning vinyl-inspired vibes of the counterculture revolutionChill zone sounds in The Athenaeum Mesmerizing visuals by VJ Joe’s Amazing LightsImmersive AI art projections by Cobblestone Digital On-site harm reduction & education by our friends at DanceSafeDelicious non-alcoholic mocktails by Curious ElixirsCafe stocked with refreshing bevs (hydration station on deck, water always free)Fruit feast for the free spirits in our Groovy GalleryWhether you’re a seasoned psychonaut or just here for the vibes, this is your chance to tune in, turn up, and bliss out with a like-minded crew!**These parties always sell out, so grab your ticket now and ride the crest of this high and beautiful wave with us.
The Mushroom Speaks The Psychedelic Assembly 2024-11-04 | If this message resonates with you, please help us spread it?
The Psychedelic Assembly RESET - Carnival of Souls The Psychedelic Assembly 2024-10-08 | TICKETS: eventbrite.com/e/the-psychedelic-assembly-reset-carnival-of-souls-tickets-1034153560137?aff=oddtdtcreator🎃 TRIP OR TREAT 🎃Summer is over & the veil between worlds is thinning. Who better to dance on the edge of it than the NYC psychedelic community? Get ready to RESET at our latest No-Alcohol, Late-Night Dance Party: A Carnival of Souls.All Souls Welcome this All Soul's Eve as we're turning 7,000 square feet of prime Manhattan real estate into a mind-bending, kaleidoscopic underworld circus! Explore 7 historic interconnected rooms filled with spirit spires, ancestor magic, and the Assembly’s unique brand of trickster energy.They call it "shadow work," but why can't it be "shadow play"?Remember as kids how we'd morph into creatures of the night, run the streets, scaring the shit out of each other, AND—best of all—take candy from weird strangers with permission? Well, we're bringing that vibe back—dancing with the dark side, laughing at death, and collectively remembering that our fears are only as real as we allow them to be.Get spooky in our Dancehall of the Dead, with the much anticipated return of legendary DJ Preskool, while the incredible DJ Ash Wood brings the witchy vibes to our magician’s library, the Athenaeum. Epic illumination of the Big Top by (of course amazing) VJ Joe’s Amazing Lights, with on-site harm reduction from DanceSafe.Supporter tickets receive an open non-alcoholic bar, a gift bag and early entry to the party for a special private activation (details TBA soon)More details are coming soon, but FYI: these parties always sell out fast (IYKYK). So grab a limited Early-Bird Ticket NOW!
AI Animates YOUR Trip - A NYC Event at The Psychedelic Assembly : 6.28.24 The Psychedelic Assembly 2024-06-25 | THIS FRIDAY join us at the Psychedelic Assembly as we dive into Artificial Intelligence and its ability to model and communicate aspects of our psychedelic experiences! 🤖🍄 TICKETS: eventbrite.com/e/ai-trip-visualizations-tickets-912751473227?aff=oddtdtcreatorWe’ve been working hard animating YOUR trips and will be presenting them in front of a live human audience Friday night with psychedelic comedian and science educator Sarah Rose Siskind and Willa Barnett of Hello SciCom and Alexa Lakey- creative director of the Assembly!One lucky audience member will be selected to have their psychedelic experience animated on the spot, as we demystify this new technology, demonstrate our process and explore the philosophical implications of Artificial Intelligence in the world… in a humorous way!Tickets are on sale now so grab one now before this sells out!
The Athenaeum: A Psychedelic Library in NYC The Psychedelic Assembly 2023-06-27 | The Athenaeum is a new member-supported psychedelic library, social club and community center in NYC. If this video resonated please consider joining us and supporting this endeavor: thepsychedelicassembly.com/athenaeumNarration & Words by: The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo : youtube.com/voiddenizen#terencemckenna
The Worlds First Psychedelic Athenæum: Coming to NYC The Psychedelic Assembly 2022-12-12 | Help create the Athenæum, a member-supported psychedelic library, museum, event space, and cultural forum coming to NYC in 2023. Visit our Indiegogo Page and sign up for an early-bird membership to this historic place. - indiegogo.com/projects/the-world-s-first-psychedelic-athenaeum/coming_soon/x/31091736
William Leonard Pickard -The Rose Paracelsus - Ch 3. What the Doorknob Said The Psychedelic Assembly 2020-12-12 | For the full episode visit The Psychedelic Salon: psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-662-leonard-pickards-rose-of-paracelsus-chapter-3Guest speakers: Ben Sessa, Tom RobertsToday’s podcast features a reading of Chapter 3 from William Leonard Pickard’s novel, The Rose of Paracelsus. The chapter is read by Dr. Ben Sessa who is currently leading a psychedelic research project with Professor David Nutt in the UK. The reading is followed by commentary by Dr. Thomas Roberts.
William Leonard Pickard Reads The Rose of Paracelsus Chapter 1 The Psychedelic Assembly 2020-07-29 | This podcast features Chapter 1 "Highlander" of "The Rose of Paracelsus : On Secrets and Sacraments" recorded by the author, William Leonard Pickard. Additional commentary by Ralf Jeutter, Nese Devenot, Julian Vayne, and Nikki Wyrd.Support the author, pick up a copy of "The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments" on Amazon: amazon.com/Rose-Paracelsus-Secrets-Sacraments/dp/0692509003/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=rose+of+paracelsus&qid=1596050101&sr=8-1EMAIL address to contact the producers: therose (at) psychedelicsalon (dot) comPROGRAM SECTION TIMES:00:00 Kat and Alexa’s Intro08:00 Title and Epigraphs09:18 Author’s Note10:53 An Invitation12:12 Report to the Human Subjects Committee15:20 Chapter 1 Part 101:04:07: Chapter Break and Commentary from Nese Devenot Part 101:17:32 Chapter 1 Part 201:51:42 Ralf Jeutter Commentary Part 102:01:20 Nese Devenot Commentary Part 202:11:11 Ralf Jeutter Commentary Part 202:23:17 Julian Vayne and Nikki Wyrd Commentary02:29:50 Kat and Alexa’s Sign Off
William Leonard Pickard - The Rose of Paracelsus - Ch 2. Beginners Mind The Psychedelic Assembly 2020-06-02 | Chapter 2 of the Rose of Paracelsus titled Beginner's Mind. This chapter explores William Leonard Pickard's experiences at the Zen monastery in San Francisco. Surrounded by Buddhist monks he describes the conditions and practices and compares them to his time spent in prison. This chapter is read by the world famous Benedictine Monk Brother David Steindl-Rast with commentary by theologian Mark Juhan, For Lornzo Hagerty's commentary and introduction please visit the Psychedelic Salon: psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-652-the-rose-of-paracelsus-chapter-2
William Leonard Pickard - The Rose of Paracelsus - Ch. 2 Beginners Mind Promo The Psychedelic Assembly 2020-05-28 | Ch. 2 of the podcast series: William Leonard Pickard's The Rose of Paracelsus is out now. Beginner's Mind is read world renowned Benedictine Monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, with commentary from theologian Mark Juhan. Beginner's Mind explores the authors experiences at the zen monastery Beginner's Mind Temple in San Francisco, and the stark contrasts and strange parallels between the monastery and prison. Link to the full episode: psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-652-the-rose-of-paracelsus-chapter-2
William Leonard Pickard The Rose of Paracelsus - Ch. 2: Highlander - Promo The Psychedelic Assembly 2020-02-14 | The first chapter of William Leonard Pickard's The Rose of Paracelsus, is now live on the Psychedelic Salon. Leonard reads the chapter himself. Special guest commentary by Nese Devenot, Ralf Jeutter, Julian Vayne and Nikki Wyrd. psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-644-the-rose-of-paracelsus-chapter-1
Dennis McKenna Endorses Ayahuasca Facilitator The Psychedelic Assembly 2019-12-01 | Dr. Dennis McKenna PhD speaks about Ayahuasquera Jessica Bertram. If you'd like to contact Jessica or register for a retreat at the Ayahuasca center Parign Hak - Grandma's Home visit www.manu-ayahuasca.com
A Short Film on William Leonard Pickard & The Rose of Paracelsus The Psychedelic Assembly 2019-10-29 | A video introduction to the upcoming serial podcast on The Rose of Paracelsus by William Leonard Pickard. Persons interviewed here include: Dr. David Luke, Dr. Ben Sessa, Mark McCloud, Julian Vayne, Michael Dupler, J.D., Gregory Sams, Dr. Carlo Rovelli, Dr. Nese Devenot, Shane Mauss, and Dr. David Nutt.For the introductory podcast episode, visit the Psychedelic Salon: psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-609-the-rose-garden-introductionStay tuned for more!
William Leonard Pickard - The Rose of Paracelsus - Introductory Episode The Psychedelic Assembly 2019-06-28 | The introductory episode to The Rose of Paracelsus Podcast hosted on "The Psychedelic Salon". This episode previews the entire series, and features clips from various chapters and commentary. Check out the short film just released for this series too: youtube.com/watch?v=Ly6Zn1a-Xc0&t=135sGuest speakers: William Leonard PickardJulian Vayne & Nikki Wyrd, reading from Devon, EnglandBrother David Steindl-Rast, reading from Gut Aich Priory in Salzburg, AustriaBen Sessa MD, reading from London, EnglandRalf Jeutter, reading from GermanyJulie Holland MD, discussing The Rose from New York CityRyan Place, reading from Detroit, MichiganMark Schunemann. reading from the University of OxfordEstia from University of Durham (UK), reading from ParisJo from University of Durham, reading at Durham, EnglandNese Devenot PhD, reading from Case Western University School of MedicineBruce Van Dyke, reading from Reno, NevadaGreg Sams, reading from London, EnglandPROGRAM NOTES:Today’s podcast features an introduction to The Rose Of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments by Leonard Pickard. Rolling Stone once called Pickard “The Acid King”, and his book is being called a modern masterpiece. It tells the story of an international clan of secret LSD chemists. And who better to tell this story than Leonard Pickard, who is now serving two life sentences in a maximum security prison in the United States, having been accused of manufacturing large quantities of acid, billions according to one ex-DEA agent. Over the next two years we will present a reading of this book, along with commentary, by friends of Leonard’s. Today we feature an introduction of The Rose of Paracelsus with a series of readings from various chapters, followed by some commentary on the readings. In the months and years to come, we will be podcasting a reading of this entire book, chapter-by-chapter.EMAIL address to contact the producers: therose@psychedelicsalon.compsychedelicsalon.com/podcast-609-the-rose-garden-introduction
Help Empower an Indigenous Ayahuasca Initiative The Psychedelic Assembly 2018-08-03 | Parign Hak (Grandma's Home) is an Ayahuasca retreat unlike any other! If you give us a few minutes of your time, I'll explain why! If you'd like to help an amazing group of indigenous people in the Amazon, or preserve the Ayahuasca Vine, please consider supporting our initiative on Indiegogo! igg.me/at/parignhak/x/18835584
From Cusco to Shintuya The Psychedelic Assembly 2018-03-21 | Kat's latest excursion to the Peruvian Amazon. Keep up with TheLakeySisters at FindTheOthersPodcast.com
La Dieta in Pucallpa The Psychedelic Assembly 2018-02-23 | Kat's journey to Pucallpa traveling up the Ucayali River with Shipibo shamans for her ayahuasca dieta. Learn more about her journey at www.findtheotherspodcast.com
Wide Awake and Dreaming The Psychedelic Assembly 2016-08-06 | ‘Wide Awake and Dreaming’ is now available on Amazon Kindle! amzn.com/B01JT8KM1KWhen two sisters unearth a secret room one fateful morning, it launches them into the greatest adventure of their lives. With the help of their late grandfather’s journal, Delia and June discover not only how to control their own dreams, but how to share and create one together. The sisters soon embark on a wonderful and hilarious adventure through inner space. However, imaginations collide and their carefully planned expedition quickly spirals into uncharted dimensions. ‘Wide Awake & Dreaming’ explores the edge between control and chaos, dreams and nightmares– and two very different sisters. Where even you, dear reader, can follow Grandpa’s instructions and enter the infinite carnival of the mind. But be forewarned, there are two sides to every coin. With each fantastic dream, a terrifying nightmare might be lurking just around the corner. So step right up, boys and girls, the show is about to begin!Music by Casey Van Buren. Fire spinning by Amber Star.
The Transcension Hypothesis The Psychedelic Assembly 2012-04-08 | What happens after the Singularity? A collaboration with futurist, filmmaker and techno-optimist Jason Silva. www.thisisjasonsilva.com Twitter: @jason_silva For more information: http://accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis.html Sources: http://vimeo.com/22439234 http://youtu.be/EmAIptWS7Mk http://vimeo.com/17364363 http://vimeo.com/11685192 http://youtu.be/2TGGgfaGj9s http://vimeo.com/20031441 http://youtu.be/9ztU1bafTig http://youtu.be/VaZgtQRmunA http://youtu.be/nnqVYEhqxxI http://youtu.be/uNnbP6igAGY http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1434574702064909013 http://youtu.be/Z8axMaBL4uo http://vimeo.com/32001208 http://vimeo.com/25186640 Abstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
DMT Remix The Psychedelic Assembly 2011-08-27 | Special thanks to "DMT: The Spirit Molecule", please watch the film if you haven't already. Additional thanks to BBC's Planet Earth, and The Glitch Mob. Song: Sol, by Solar Fields. Abstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org http://thespiritmolecule.com
Joe Rogan - DMT (Dimethyltryptamine) is a Portal to the Afterlife The Psychedelic Assembly 2011-05-03 | If Joe Rogan could wake up, then you can too! Please share this with like minded people.Abstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
The DMT Experience, The Dreamtime, Alien Contact and the End of the Mayan Calendar in 2012 The Psychedelic Assembly 2011-04-30 | You know the Australian aboriginals have this concept of the Dreamtime, and I think when you put the Dreamtime, the chemistry of DMT, the abduction stories together, and the depth with which modern media has programmed and messed with people... You're very close to being able to begin to talk about the alien phenomenon. I think there ARE aliens, but I think they can only reach us through our minds. They don't cross the universe in ships of titanium, they don't even project holograms of themselves into the desert air. They come through the human mind. And if you look at the human mind, in all cultures and in all times and places except western Europe and a few intellectuals in the past few hundred years, the human mind has always been haunted by sprites, gnomes, nixies... so I don't see the U.F.O. as anything more than the latest wave of this mysterious relationship we have with disembodied minds through the imagination. Well then people say "so this is the old psychological reduction argument". No, because when I say the "the human imagination", i don't mean some paltry psychological function I think the human imagination is the largest part of us, and where we're going to spend most of the rest of human history. I think it's a kind of self fulfilling prophecy. We are contributing to it as we uncover it within ourselves. Something is calling us toward itself and as we approach it we become more like it. Something is sculpting out of the primate body over a couple of million years an entirely different kind of creature and as we go to meet this thing, we are taking on more and more of it's characteristics. It's god-like power, it's ability to span space and time. And when we finally do reach it I imagine there will be a kind of effortless moment of merging and recognition.- Terence McKenna Song: Roo Runner by Byron Metcalf, Dashmesh Khalsa, Steve RoachAbstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
Happy 4/20 to One and All! The Psychedelic Assembly 2011-04-20 | A video montage of public service announcements, microscopic imagery, cartoon characters, 3-dimensional fractals, and words of wisdom set to "Insomniac Olympics" by BlockheadAbstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
Music for a DMT (Dimethyltryptamine) Trip The Psychedelic Assembly 2011-04-05 | This particular song is titled "Sentient Beings", by Carlos Nakai. It's a little dark but it works really well.Abstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
Music for a DMT (Dimethyltryptamine) Trip The Psychedelic Assembly 2011-04-01 | Abstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.orgMusic by Carlos Nakai
March Fourth - March Forth - A Message of Hope The Psychedelic Assembly 2011-03-04 | Today is the 40 year anniversary of "the experiment at La Chorrera".Keep the faith! "Culturally, we are in the birth canal and everything appears to be being destroyed. The oceans, the atmosphere, the very integrity of our own bodies because of all of these diseases. Ideological contamination... you name it. But we simply must push forward. It's a forward escape. We can never go back to the game dotted planes of archaic Africa. That's gone, it's all gone. The only way out is forward, it's called a forward escape. I'm interested in propagating this notion, because number one I believe it and number two, it is a message of hope without which I think people are going to be very challenged. Because things are going to get worse, apparently much worse. History is turning into a white knuckle ride for sure. And without the faith in some kind of transcendental phase transition, I think there is a tendency to despair and to panic and to nihilism. And religion has failed. What religion gives us is what we saw last week in Texas. They can only concieve of phase transition as Apocalypse, as Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods. That ISN'T what it is. We are closing distance with the first moments of true human civilization. When people actually do treat eachother with respect. When there actually is a place made for the celebration of human differences. When we do feel the suffering of the people around us and respond to that. So without psychedelics and the models that they make possible hope is I think a very very fragile thing. And that's why I take the position that I do, because I think that we are on the brink of the adventure for which we left the trees, and left the African plane. But it's not a sure thing. It rests in our hands, as it always has. I mean remember that in the last million years, nine times the ice has moved south from the poles, miles high, pushing before it our ancestors. People wrapped in skins, naked as jaybirds, marginal as can be, no antibiotics, no global weather forecasting, no nothing. And they didn't drop the ball. They survived. They took care of their children and their elderly. They passed the skills and the technologies and the insights and the songs down the long stream of time. Can we do any less? We who have in our hands the power to shape the planet for good or evil? We who can communicate with eachother globally in a moment? It would be a pretty sad commentary on the notion of cultural progress and intelligence if THEY could keep the faith and we can't. So I just want to sort of close on that note. Invite you to keep the faith. Invite you to explore the edges. And to make of yourself a vessel, a conduit, for the world transforming Logos that is trying to speak to all of us, to create a sane and viable and celebratory world for our children... and their children."Abstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
The World Is Not What it Appears to Be The Psychedelic Assembly 2011-02-28 | "The world is becoming more and more irrational, more and more frought with anomaly. Not only flying saucers, but Bigfoot and the crop circles. There will be more and more of this stuff, as we approach the moment of concrescence. And to the degree that one can clear themselves of the momentum of past presupposition, the transcendental object at the end of time actually comes into view. Plato said 'time is the moving image of eternity'. The way I think of Shamanism and psychedelic voyaging is that it is trans-dimensional travel... literally. Not in the undefined way that you often hear it used, but in the mathematical sense. A shaman and a psychedelic person and a U.F.O. contact-ee is someone who has seen the end. The world of historical possibility condenses into a mercurial hologramatic disc. Part bios, part machine, part syntax, part mind. The categories dissolve. The world is not what it appears to be. " -Terence Mckenna
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life - Its at Your Feet The Psychedelic Assembly 2011-02-27 | "As you know, the world's largest radio telescope is at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. And as you probably know a multi-million channel analyzer has been attached to that thing and there's been funding for another deep space search. So there they are, at Arecibo with the worlds largest radio telescope reaching out... you know, "megamarubisticks" into the universe. When you actually go there, the telescope was built into a natural bowl, which they rounded out. And then they planted grass in this bowl to halt erosion. Well then to keep the grass from getting out of hand, they brought in white cows to crop the grass. So there in the grass beneath the world's largest radio telescope engaged in searching for extraterrestrial life, is the mushroom. In great profusion. If you wanted it, that's where you'd go to get it. And that is the perfect symbol for how we search for extraterrestrial life. It's at your feet, my friends"- Terence McKenna
NiT GriT - Dimethyltryptamine (Enter the Void with The Spirit Molecule) The Psychedelic Assembly 2011-02-09 | Another visual tribute to DMT featuring the song "Dimethyltryptamine" by NiT GriT. Visuals courtesy of the films "Enter the Void" and "The Spirit Molecule"Abstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
Monthly Magic Mushroom Festivals, Ego and the Future of the Planet The Psychedelic Assembly 2011-02-03 | "In the situation of the monthly, boundary dissolving group mushroom festivals, ego was not allowed to form.And I really view psilocybin as almost an innoculation against the formation of ego. But as soon as the mushrooms become less available this thing begins to grow in the human personality, literally like a cancer or a tumor. It's a calcareous growth on the psyche, that if we do not have this embeddedness in the vegetable matrix of Gaia, then anxiety arises, a lot of it sexual and related to self-identity and I don't have to discuss this, just refer you to Freud and the whole gang. Everybody understands how bent we are, the question is why? And I think this is why. Because we have been inpermanant state of neurotic disequilibrium for 15,000 years. And every move to attempt to correct this has pushed us further away from the goal that we want to have. So now we arrive at the late 20th century, nuclear arsenals fully in hand. We have made since the 15th century a demonic pact with matter, that has allowed us great insight into the destructive properties of matter. Made us hand-maiden to the devil. And yet we are still completely dark about our own motivation, how to educate our children, how to put in place a set of values that don't loot the future. And all of these problems appear to be getting worse. We're at the end of a process call it 2,000, 5,000, choose your date, but a long process of denial of human nature, first, and then war against human nature. And it goes so deep into our culture, that we don't even know where the basement level is. Well my response to this is to advocate the only thing that I think will work, but it's not a political position because a political position always implies a willingness to compromise and negotiate with the other side. And there really is no willingness to negotiate on the part of the psychedelic position, because it's pretty non-negotiable." -Terence McKennaAbstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
130 Psychedelic Images in 130 Seconds The Psychedelic Assembly 2010-12-20 | I started noticing themes in the visionary artwork I've collected. The song is "Holographic Universe" by Thievery Corporation.
Chapel Perilous - Along the Way to the Mystery The Psychedelic Assembly 2010-11-26 | Robert Anton Wilson who coined the term Chapel Perilous. This is when something happens in your life and it all begins to fit together and make sense, too much sense. Because it's coming from the exterior and it seems to either mean that you're losing your mind or you are somehow the central focus of a universal conspiracy that is leading you toward some unimaginable breakthrough. Along the way to the mystery lie the realms of loving everybody, moving fields of geometric color, past lives, you name it. But these are just milestones on the way. When you finally get to "the thing", the way you will know that you've arrived is that you will be struck dumb with wonder. That you will say "my God, this is impossible. This is inherently impossible. This is what impossible was invented to talk about. This cannot be!". Then we're in the ballpark. Then we're in the presence of the true "coincidentia oppositorum". There are all kinds of drugs, and techniques, and hot water and massage and this and that and vitamin therapy that moves you all over the map, makes you feel all kinds of different ways. I don't think that's what we're talking about. I think we're talking about something profoundly other that it is very hard to get this thing out into the mainstream because literally words fail us. It is a trans-linguistic object accessible to us here and now. And it's a complete puzzle to me why there is so little talk about it. We live in a society completely obsessed with sensation. You know people shoot cocaine, jump out of airplanes, go on tiny rafts across the Pacific, cross the North Pole on a roller skate, whatever it is... all in the name of adventure. Well, you know, by God if you want adventure there's adventure out there. There's adventure that will sink you to your knees with tears of joy streaming down your face. It isn't far away. It isn't for people you've never heard of, or universities, or you don't need a lot of funding, you don't have to be a professional, all this stuff. Everybody talks about the mystery within and how it's all right here, but I don't think people realize how literal all this stuff is.
What is DMT? (Dimethyltryptamine) The Psychedelic Assembly 2010-10-21 | The youtube community answers the question "what is DMT?". Special thanks to the "The Spirit Molecule", Rick Strassman, Shpongle, Joe Rogan, Doug Stanhope, and a whole bunch of brave people who uploaded video of themselves talking about this subject. Again, a very special thanks to soon to be released documentary "The Spirit Molecule". http://thespiritmolecule.comAbstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
McKenna - Psilocybin, the Logos, and First Contact The Psychedelic Assembly 2010-09-15 | Current thinking concludes that the peak of the emergence of intelligence in the galaxy was achieved 10 to 100 million years ago. That most races in the galaxy are very old and very sophisticated. We cannot expect such races to appear with a trumpet blast over every city on earth. Such an entry into history is tantamount to crashing into someone's house completely unannounced. Hardly the sort of thing that one would expect from a subtle and ancient galactic civilization. Rather, they have always been here. Or rather, their presence has always been here in the hallucinogens. When we understand this on our own, we will be signaling to them that we are now ready for the contact. We can send that signal, only by following the instructions of the seeded genes and building the necessary apparatus. When that is done, somewhere in the galaxy lights will flash the message that yet another of the millions upon millions of seeded planets has achieved the threshold of galactic citizenship. Current estimates are that even in a galaxy teeming with intelligence such a threshold is passed by an intelligent species only every hundred or thousand years. It is a joyous moment even for the galactarians.
Dimethyltryptamine - YOU can meet the alien The Psychedelic Assembly 2010-09-08 | You can meet the alien. YOU can meet the alien. Tomorrow night! If your connections are good enough. And you can meet the alien over and over and over again. You said this was what you wanted, baby, it's on it's way. It's being served. They haven't made U.F.O.'s illegal, but they certainly have made psychedelics illegal. This is because, this is the portal. The secret is out. It isn't gonna to be a top down revelation. It isn't going to come on Mcneil/Lehrer, or the cover of TIme. There will not be an announcement from the White House Press office. Anybody who has that vision of how it works has completely given away their own power. And you can play the game of waiting with the uninitiated, or you can simply go look at the end of the movie.
Terence McKenna - Ghost Symbol The Psychedelic Assembly 2010-08-24 | "There is something outside the realm of culture and the three-dimensional surfaces of things. That there is a hidden dimension to reality. Call it a plan. A purpose. A loving God. A cosmos instead of a chaos. And psychedelics, I believe, reveal a greater order than the order of the human world.This is why the way I do them is either in darkness — which means surrounded by the body (my body, which is part of nature) — or in nature itself. In the mountains, at the beach, in the jungle. Because what we are lacking, existentially, is any sense of order meaning and beauty in the world. Because the society we are living in has no order or beauty or meaning. It's just a scam in a rat race. But if you take the psychedelics in these contexts where the culture and its artifacts are suppressed then you connect up to the greater whole." "Part of the package of being a living, thinking being is that you get a universe inside of you. You get a galaxy sized object inside you that you can access. And there there are the mountains, the rivers, the jungles, the dynastic families, the ruins, the planets, the works of art, the poetry, the sciences, the magics, of millions upon millions upon millions of worlds.And this is apparently who we each are. We're a little bit of eternity sticking into three-dimensional space and, for some reason, occupying time in a monkey body.But when you turn your eyes then inward you discover the birth right. The existential facts out of which this particular existence emerged.And it's a great secret. A great secret and a great comfort. Because it means mystery didn't die with the fall of Arthur or the fall of Atlantis or the fall of anything. Mystery is alive in the moment, in the here and now. It just simply lies on the other side of a barrier of courage. And it isn't even that high of barrier, it's just is a barrier high enough to keep out the insincere and the misdirected. But for those who will claim it, in midst of the historical chaos in the late 20th century they become the archaic pioneers. They become the first people to carry the ouroboric serpent around to its own tail, and to make a closure. And to the degree that anyone of us has this connection back to the archaic in our life, it makes were we have been make a lot more sense and it makes were we're going seem a lot more inviting."
Take Back Your Mind! The Psychedelic Assembly 2010-07-28 | In the suppression of the psychedelic experience, the masters who make the rules have taken away a major slice of what it is to be a human being. This is intolerable. We have been robbed of our birthright by the frightened, the constipated, the narrow minded, the stupid and the afraid. Take back your mind! Take back your mind!We all are sold a bill of goods. Maybe you remember the Bob Dylan song where he says "it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to". This is what psychedelics teach you. You're not going to learn it from Time Magazine, it doesn't come like that. Direct experience, YOUR experience, your opinion, your feelings, your sexuality, is the only real thing in your universe. Don't transfer loyalty to ideology, to money, to party, to friends. All of these things are outside of the core of your reality and centuries of programming have been laid on to all of us, to take away the power of our own direct experience. This is why psychedelics are illegal. They don't care whether people jump out of windows or any of that... they're not interested in public health. They do not want people to take back their minds. And we're going to take back our minds!An empowered individual in touch with their own existential core can do what that guy did with the eighteen tanks. It was an IDEA that stopped the tanks. And it was an idea expressed not over state radio, not through the newspapers, but by one person taking a stand. If you are right, you are a majority of one. You are a majority of one. The mushrooms once said to me "You must have a plan. If you don't have a plan, you will become part of somebody else's plan."Abstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
Coincidence and Synchronicity The Psychedelic Assembly 2010-05-20 | The multi-verse is self similar and recursive at many scales. Music courtesy of Ratatat.
Terence McKenna - What is a Hallucination? The Psychedelic Assembly 2010-04-07 | What I love about psilocybin is that it causes you to hallucinate so effortlessly, at relatively low doses. And without a lot of accompanying... you know, sweating or tremoring or physical discomfort. And DMT is even more powerful as an inducer of visionary states. Now, people who have never had a hallucination, and if you read the literature, think that a hallucination means... little traveling lights, or colored lines, or the kinds of things you see when you press on your closed eyelids. Those are NOT what I'm taking about. That kind of thing is called hypnagogia. Hypnagogia also includes... chorus lines of dancing mice, little round candies, falling leaves, snowflakes... in other words the flotsam and jetsam of the mental ocean. What I'm interested in are full-field 360 degree visionary scenarios of... jungles, deserts, ice fields, ruined cities, machine-scapes and a whole bunch of other stuff which is not so easily dropped into any category of experience that we're familiar with. But highly organized, three-dimensional self-sustaining transformed modalities that you cannot pour language over. I mean when you try to say what it is all you can say is what it isn't. And I find that tremendously affirming because to me... and I guess this is important to me, that is the experience which proves that this is not self-generated. When I take a plant and it shows me something I could previously not have imagined, then I know I am in the presence of the other. Because it couldn't have come out of me. I mean if you insist that the Niagara of hallucination caused by psilocybin is generated out of the dynamics of your own psyche, if you insist that that's true, then you are unable to explain what your own psyche is. In other words you become unrecognizable to yourself in that case. And if you are unrecognizable to yourself you are not yourself in some sense. So I prefer to believe that it's coming from the outside. That mind is a field, but it's not being generated in the neurons of the brain.
DMT (Dimethyltryptamine) How Do They Keep The Lid on This? The Psychedelic Assembly 2010-03-06 | Why is it a secret? Is DMT dangerous? How DO they keep the lid on it? You'd think a society as obsessed with the paranormal as ours would want to check out the "spirit molecule".... "You know, sometimes people ask me if DMT is dangerous, and the honest answer is, only if you fear death by astonishment. And... death by astonishment is a real danger in these places. I mean these places are not simply strange, or amazing, or highly peculiar, they are ABSOLUTELY CONFOUNDING. I mean that's what I'm trying to get across. This is not going to require just some minor adjustment of our world view. These are the things they said were impossible, the things they promised, assured were impossible are possible. The greatest secret that has been kept from us is that the world is a thousand times a million times stranger than your wildest supposition. And how they keep the lid on this stuff, I do not understand. I mean I don't understand why I'm the only person saying this, because I'm completely convinced of my own ordinary-ness. I am only a human being, I represent all of you. What happens to me would happen to you, there's nothing special about me. Well then, my God how do they keep the lid on this stuff. It's weird. If a fleet of flying saucers were to land on the South lawn of the white house tomorrow, it would not change the fact that the weirdest thing in the universe is the DMT flash. Flying saucers landing on the South lawn of the white house is a positively mundane possibility compared to this thing, which is real! It's here, it's now, you don't have to go to Babaji, you don't have to go to the Himalayas, it's three tokes away! And yet, you know, we argue 'Is it possible? What does it mean? Is it this? Is it that?' It's amazing to me. I mean it is the New World. The Europeans eventually discovered the new world but they had to sail galleons three months through Hell to get there. This is three tokes and 30 seconds away and it is the absolute confounding exhibit of the whole structure of Western civilization. How can they keep the lid on it? I don't get it." Abstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
McKenna - A Message to the Psychedelic Community The Psychedelic Assembly 2010-02-15 | We have to force our evolution. We have to chemically restructure the primate brain so that we do not commit suicide. And the only way to do it in the time left, is for the psychedelic community to stand up on it's hind legs and roar. And you know... maybe they'll build camps for us. But the point being, I think there's a moral imperative to try what works. You know in the 60's psychedelics were called "consciousness expanding drugs" a good old phenomenological description. Well, if consciousness does not loom large in the future history of our species then what the hell kind of future is it going to be? No future at all I maintain. So if there is even the slightest iota of possibility that these things do what I'm saying they do, then we need to get Johnny Quick on it and check it out. Because we may be beyond the point of no return right now. But there's light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don't go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind. And if we will but explore the human mind, we can reclaim these relationships with our own authenticity and shed the childishness of historical existence, and gender politics and all the rest of it and move on to the real business of establishing a real civilization. Abstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
Terence McKenna - Show Me What You Are For Yourself The Psychedelic Assembly 2010-01-25 | What I've noticed in my DMT experiences, and when I realized this it was with a certain amount of horror, was, you break into this space... it's dome-like, it's warm, it's diffusely lit. There are all of these self-transforming machine elves and their toys which also are singing and condensing and making objects and so forth and so on. The whole thing triggers just wonder, cascades of wonder. But then... I realized after seeing this several times and trying to pay attention and hold my mind steady, that this is someone's idea of a reassuring environment for human beings. It is in fact literally a play pen of some sort. Well that means... that I'm not seeing whosever on the other side. I am emerging into an artificial construct of some sort, entirely their creation. Well then it just begins to lift this veil. I've had conversations with that entity in there where you say to it, 'Okay, you know, the dancing mice, all this, it's very nice... uh... we're feeling pretty comfortable here. Show me what you are for yourself. Show me what you really are.' Well immediately the temperature drops, black draperies begin to lift, and there's an organ tone straight out of the Bach b-minor mass that shakes the room. And after about 30 seconds of this, you just say 'enough already of what you really are for yourself!' Because you realize, it will fulfill the request. It can lift a veil on vistas of reality that, like some hero in a H.P. Lovecraft tale you will just be left gibbering for the rest of your life in a very small cell. Because there are truths out there that the termite mind of man, I think is not ready to handle. The universe is full of things no human mind can cognize or apprehend. But, because we cannot cognize or apprehend these things we do not even notice them, they are as it were, in the background. What's in the foreground is everything at least familiar enough that we can relate to it as strange. The problem is not to encounter the alien, but to have enough sense to know when it's looking at you. Cause it ain't gonna be like you think it is, that's the one thing you can take to the bank.Abstract art samples by ScottDraves.com and ElectricSheep.org
