New guest speaker suggestions ?

[Bushpig]

Any ideas for new guest speakers?  We've got quite a portfolio so far !

Boooshpig

[JRL]

Stephen Gaskin
Owsley Stanley
Carolyn Garcia (Mountain Girl)
Phil Lesh
Ed Sanders
Peter Stafford
Paul Krassner

[cenacle]

Dale Pendell (I know him slightly)
Daniel Pinchbeck
Paul Devereux
Shulgins
Bruce Eisner (I know him slightly too)
Earth and Fire of Erowid.org

maybe I'll add more if I think of them but this is off the top...the ones in the list I know I'd be willing to contact...

I'd like us to get some of these folks interviewed on the radio station too...

And maybe we could set up some kind of special archives for the growing number of transcripts we have...

[Syd]

I'd like to second Earth and Fire of Erowid.org!

[JRL]

Ken Babbs
Wavey Gravey

[Bushpig]

Earth and Fire sounds great!  JRL, ...Wavey Gravey?


Boooshpig

[JRL]

Are you asking who he is, or questoning my request?

[Bushpig]

The former, but a quick google has solved it, yup sounds good

Boooshpig

[JRL]

My feeling is we should try for some of these icons, maybe not plant people per se, but cultural figures. And don't think anyone is out of reach, I had Kesey lined up, but hen he died before he could come on.

[Himdumb]

Paul Stamets

[JRL]

Bill Haakelrode(sp?) aka Zoot Horn Rollo

[boomer2]

HI Peter Stafford is dead.  I just recently worked with him on his revised Psychedelic Encyclopedia re-issues as individual books.

His Magic Mushroom book has numerous photos and a cover by me. He also did the Ayahuasca and psychedelics book.  Others never came about. He died of alcoholism and other complications in a homeless shelter near SF.

Write Alan Shoemaker for a chat. He is the ayahuasca expert and shamanic preparer of that plant in Peru.  sets up all kinds of ceremonies and conferences on ayahuasca.  ANd jungle excursions of other entheogenic preparations from the Peruvian Amazon.

boomer2

[JRL]

When did Stafford die? I met him in 1995 in Golden Gate Park. Big concert at the band shell. he was sitting selling copies of his book. When i realized who it was I sat down and we talked about psychedelics and addiction. He told me off a suicidal woman saved by MDMA.

His book seems a bit quaint with all the new information of the internet age, but when I found it in 93 it was a revelation. Peter told me that information on psychedelics was doubleing every three years. RIP!!

[Bushpig]

Does anybody have any leads on these possible speakers?  Previous contact etc?  

Booosh

[boomer2]

When did Stafford die? I met him in 1995 in Golden Gate Park. Big concert at the band shell. he was sitting selling copies of his book. When i realized who it was I sat down and we talked about psychedelics and addiction. He told me off a suicidal woman saved by MDMA.

His book seems a bit quaint with all the new information of the internet age, but when I found it in 93 it was a revelation. Peter told me that information on psychedelics was doubleing every three years. RIP!!

Beverly Potter of Ronin Books sent me the info. I worked with Peter on his chapter on Magic Mushrooms recently published by Ronin. I did the cover for that book, helped in the editing and corrections and provided a few dozen photos or so before he died.

Here is from erowid.org

Erowid Character Vaults
Peter Stafford
1939 - July 20, 2007
Summary #
Peter G. Stafford, born George Leonard Sanford III, was a well-known American psychonaut and author of several books about psychedelics. After moving from New York to Santa Cruz in 1974, he wrote the classic Psychedelics Encyclopedia which served as the most informative book available on the topic for many years. He also wrote a number of related articles and helped organized several conferences during the 60s and 70s. He was a fixture of the California psychedelic community for decades, even after he began struggling with alcoholism, which continued for the rest of his life. He lived and worked in Santa Cruz, California until his death in 2007 when he fell from a ladder while climbing from the loft where he lived.

Peter was known for his generosity of spirit, creative thinking, friendliness, and his intelligence.
Author of (Books) #
# LSD The Problem-Solving Psychedelic (with and B.H. Golightly) (online version) (1967)
# Psychedelic Baby Reaches Puberty (1971)
# Psychedelics Encyclopedia (online version) (1977)
# Psychedelics - Revised chapter from PE (2003)
# Magic Mushrooms - Revised chapter from PE (2003)
# Heavenly Highs: Ayahuasca, Kava-Kava, DMT, and Other Plants of the Gods - Revised chapter from PE (2005)
Author of (Articles)
# LSD in Action (1969)
# Yage in the Valley of Fire (1969)
# Who Turned on Whom, High Times (1977)
# Psychedelic Scenarios, High Frontiers (1988)

boomer2

and have a shroomy day