Thread: Psychonautica 66 Dale Pendell - Psychedelics and Zen

In this fortnight's edition of psychonautica, Max Freakout plays a talk from the World Psychedelic forum by Dale Pendell called 'Psychedelics and Zen Buddhism, the search for a path', Dale Pendell talks about the connection between entheogen experiences and religious experience and the opinions of several writers on the subject, buddhist attitudes to entheogens, esoteric buddhism, attaining enlightenment outside of the buddhist tradition, cracking open the world with entheogens, zen training as a preparation for taking psychedelics, defining the goal of spiritual practise, shamans vs zen teachers, tantric practise and a number of stories from Pendell's book 'pharmaco-gnosis'. Next Max Freakout talks about the Amanita Muscaria mushroom, Datura, and DMT extraction.

Playlist: Victor Vaughan - Vaudeville Villain

DOWNLOAD EPISODE 66 HERE:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/dopecast/ ... ica066.mp3

Hey,

Thanks for the podcast, not sure what the speaker was really getting at, but he does have a very hypnotic voice

"Ken from Belgium" might be getting a bit confused about the sacred weeds episodes: they didn't do Datura, but did drink blue lotus wine, and eat the flowers, and in another episode, used henbane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Weeds


the psychonaut thread:

http://www.psychonaut.com/index.php?opt ... 67&lang=nl

and as an aside; I was doing recrystalisation just 5 hours ago at Uni! The crystals you can get really are beautiful "shimmering" would be the best description