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In this second installment of Shamanic Freedom Radio, Opaquelens goes to Epping Forest to broadcast the first part. He walks to the locations where he had previous mushroom trips in the days before they were banned from shops, and reminisces about his ‘stealth killer trap’ trip, his ‘standup dream’ trip and his ‘umbillical shapeshifter’ trip. As this is within a day of being hounded off the DMT Nexus forum (but not without a positive response and a sale!), he spends a bit of time ranting about people politics in forums, but praises the Grow Report and the Dopefiend network, especially Max Freakout, for being a friendlier and more civilised forum. He then philosophises about people politics and how we in the psychedelic community should be able to trancend petty people politics, and being a sensitive soul, he sounds a bit bitter! On the plus side, Opaque then mentions a future in the planning stages with James Arthur, who wrote Peopled Darkness about salvia, before visiting the Bedford Oak, an ancient oak tree in the forest to take a picture and use it as the wallpaper for this podcast. During the walk in the forest, Big Brother in the form of police helicopters fly over twice!
In Part 2, which is recorded two days later at home in South London, Opaque talks about how he may, if the podcast lasts the distance, broadcast from Avebury Stone Circle on Summer solstice. He then confirms that there will be an interview with author James Arthur and closes the book on his forum disaster at Nexus. He makes the point that the psychedelic community should trancend the ways of straight people by being less ‘conformist’ and less cliquey, stating that cliquey people lack the social confidence to go it alone, and that if the whole point of psychedelic culture is to look within, not succumb to people politics.
Before he wraps up he theorises on how culture has changed since the 1960’s, segwaying from playing Interstellar Overdrive, and appeals for listeners to contribute in whatever way they can, be it emails, trip reports or books to list on the site.
Music by Steve Hillage, Pink Floyd and 4 Hero.