Consciousness Cafe - Entheogens and Psychedelic Cultural Transmissions

Since 2001 Joe Rogan has been host of the NBC television program Fear Factor. In January 2006 Boing Boing broke the news that Rogan is a psychedelics afficianado and has smoked N,N-DMT. He has some interesting things to say about the experience.

Rogan is apparently a very serious psychonaut, as he claims he has a flotation tank in his home.

Links to both MP3s and YouTube video below.

Some fairly sophomoric quotes from the MP3, thanks to Dan's Mind for the transcription - the video and full MP3's have more interesting content but I haven't had the time to make a more complete transcription:

Everybody in their life, if you live, you know, and you haven't had a heavy psychedelic experience, and you haven't gone in an isolation tank, you've missed out.

You've missed out on a huge chunk of what life really is.

Life is a massive fucking mystery, and there's only a few different ways to really crack below the surface of that mystery, and the best way is psychedelics, and the heavier the psychedelic the better, and guess what, no one's dying from psychedelics.

All our thoughts on psychedelics are all based on bullshit propaganda that we heard about people you know, going crazy, or losing their mind's eye.

You're not gonna go crazy, you're gonna go fuckin' sane, alright, all that stuff is gonna remove your ego, and it’s gonna explain to you what the world is really all about.

Links:

Boing Boing Post
Wikipedia on Joe Rogan
Dan's Mind Post
Joe Rogan's Website
Joe Rogan talks about DMT on YouTube
Full MP3 (hosted on Boing Boing)
Full MP3 (hosted on DansMind)

YouTube:



Categories: psychedelic, DMT, Rogan, entheogens