Journalist, photographer, and artist James Oroc was born in the small South Pacific nation of Aotearoa. Since 1998 he has been pursuing and reporting on the cutting edge of extreme sports in more than 40 countries around the globe, his work appearing in magazines, films, and on MTV Sports. He has been a member of the Burning Man community since 1999, and he is also involved in the documentation and advancement of psychedelic culture as one of the first people to ever publically discuss the philosophical and metaphysical implication of 5-MeO-DMT.

His first book, Tryptamine Palace, is a quintessential read for those interested in psychedelic philosophy. It presents his theories on reality, God, quantum mechanics and 5-MeO-DMT that are present in Tryptamine Palace. In this interview, we scratch the surface of those theories but advance beyond the Tryptamine Palace and explore the topics of his most recent book, The New Psychedelic Revolution -- the rich history of visionary art, modern festival culture, the rising popularity of 5-MeO-DMT, and his psychedelic philosophies on the nature of mind.

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• How psychedelics give people bigger egos (especially 5-MeO-DMT)
• Oroc’s encounter with 5-MeO-DMT and what led him to the Tryptamine Palac
• Being a successful psychedelic author
• Medicalization vs. psychedelics as agents of modern mysticism
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• The importance of spirituality
• Ego death, psychedelics, and relating to God
• The history of psychedelics and where we are its cultural evolution
• Visionary culture: art, music, and transformational festivals (especially Burning Man)
• The vital role of community, trance, and dance in human life
• Psychedelic university - festival conferences

Just an update as to what is happening with me and the podcast for the next two months. 

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Chad Charles is a Conscious Connected Breathwork practitioner, intimacy/eros educator, and substance(5-MeO-DMT)-assisted body-based therapist. He has been very active in helping co-create projects that bring 5-MeO-DMT/bufo practitioners together in hopes that the worldwide standards of facilitation may rise to the best possible practice.

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Episode Breakdown

• why 5-MeO-DMT is called “The God Molecule”
• what is 5-MeO-DMT and what does it do, subjectively
• Chad’s history of involvement and role in the 5-MeO-DMT scene
• the difference between 5-MeO-DMT and “Bufo”
• what is the 5-MeO-DMT Conclave and
• the importance of psychedelic communities
• Bufo Smoking is modern, there is no ancient tradition
• The 5-MeO-DMT conclave best practices and code of ethics
• creating a structure for conflict resolution between 5-MeO-DMT facilitator
• BIG egos in the 5-MeO-DMT scene
• the spiritual bypassing enabled by 5-MeO-DMT
• protecting each other from prohibitionist law enforcement
• the calling out of Octavio and Dr. Gerry
• the importance of restorative justice circles in place of #cancelled
• 5-MeO-DMT flashbacks aka “reactivations”
• finding 5-MeO-DMT facilitators for dealing with trauma
• 5-MeO-DMT facilitator burnout and how it affects their clients
• The dangers of repeated use, how to assess those dangers, and how to protect your loved ones 

*Halloween Special 2018*
May Leitz from the Nyx Fears youtube channel joins on the show to talk about why we watch horror films, what personality traits lead us to different styles of horror, our culture's tendencies towards the extreme (such as American 'torture porn'), and the traumatic potential of the modern, quasi-abusive haunted house attractions.

May Leitz, like me, is a nerd for shit and I am happy to share our discussion with y'all.

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This episode features Amanda Seibert, a freelance cannabis writer, author award-winning journalist, photographer, videographer, and the author of The Little Book of Cannabis: How Marijuana Can Improve Your Life.

We sit down to talk about what the science says about the pharmacology of the plant's various components as well as the anecdotal uses of cannabis for bettering different areas of our lives, from sex to death. Of course, we also talk about the negatives, from cannabis addiction to cannabis hyperemesis syndrome.

Matthew Baggott discusses the phenomenon of "losing the magic" with MDMA use, where frequent users experience diminishing therapeutic effects over time, likely due to decreased serotonin transporters in the brain; as well as N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) supplementation as a potential avenue for getting the magic back. 

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Pierre Bouchard is on the show to talk about somatic therapy, the traumatic roots of depression, and the role ketamine-assisted somatic psychotherapy can play in healing that trauma, and thus the depression it produces.

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Well, this interview is not what you may assume.

It stands out in the repertoire of podcasts that have come before and are likely to go from here. That is because it isn't an interview at all, it's merely a conversation that happened off-the-cuff and just so happened to be recorded. I am releasing it because despite the diffused and tangential nature of the thing, it was fun and informative and because the guest, Patrick Kroupa is a man with much to offer, a formal interview and otherwise.

Patrick Kroupa (also known as Lord Digital, born January 20, 1969) is an American writer, hacker and activist. Kroupa was a member of the legendary Legion of Doom and Cult of the Dead Cow hacker groups and co-founded MindVox in 1991, with Bruce Fancher. He was a heroin addict from age 14 to 30 and got clean through the use of the hallucinogenic drug ibogaine. [wiki]

He is on the show this week to talk about peptides, anti-aging, and the complexities of health in the modern, toxic world.

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• BPC-157: what the hell is that?
• Repairing brain damage from long-term stimulate use
• Cautions around injecting peptides - tracking reliable vendors
• Ageing and Anti-Aging with HGH and Secretagogues
• Reinvigorating the Sex Drive
• Metformin
• Big pharma and the FDA
• Health care in Canada vs the USA
• The smear campaign against nicotine vaping
• Some background on the history of Oxycotin, fentanyl, and perspective heroin
• Measuring our hormones to assess your health
• James’ journey with the ketogenic diet (I am not longer on this diet)

Each a leader in the field of psilocybin therapy and medicine, Francoise Bourzat and Rosalind Watts are on the show to talk with each other about psilocybin for depression, trauma, dying; as well as integration, the role of community in getting the most out of our psychedelic experiences, why the depression comes back after psilocybin therapy, and the challenges of being a woman in psychedelic research. We also discuss the ethics of screening people for therapy, using mushrooms in naturalistic settings, ego inflation, and the impact of venture capitalism is having on psychedelic culture.

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• The basis of why these two women have come together for this episode
• Francoise's upcoming Research on psilocybin and grief
• Navigating the Challenges of being a woman in psychedelic research, and science in general
• Team support structures for handing difficult psilocybin therapy sessions as a facilitator
• Preparing a team to research psilocybin therapy and processing grief
• The masculine striving and the feminine building of community and family
• The role of grief and grieving in the process of healing with psilocybin
• Encounter with eternity help us reconsolidate the dying process
• The integration processes used during the psilocybin for depression trials
• How long should we wait between psilocybin journeys?
• A point about the value of heart rate variability as something o measure during psilocybin research
• Discussing why (and how) the depression comes back after psilocybin
• Psilocybin therapy and trauma healing
• Comparing MDMA to psilocybin insofar as trauma healing
• Concerns around how fast psychedelics are being mainstreamed
• The ethics of screening people for psilocybin therapy
• The role of community in getting the most benefit from psilocybin
• Building that community using the 'pollinator model'
• Discussions on the psilocybin service initiative in Oregon
• Using mushrooms in natural settings
• Discussions about psychedelic medicine in the context of capitalism
• Psychedelic ego inflation and narcissism increased by psychedelic use
• Why profitable psychedelic therapy will likely be poor therapy
• Quality psilocybin therapy vs 'kfc' therapy
• How big business legislation may hurt good people to keep doing their work in the context of legalization

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What lessons do our psychedelics experiences offer us in making sense of the global pandemic and all the crises that have come with it?

Our guests exploring this question are Rachel Harris, Maria Papaspyrou, Tarzie McLean, and Kyle Buller.

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• Introduction of each guest
• Sensemaking reality
• How do we make our challenges 'medicine'
• When does the ceremony end?
• Internal vs external challenge | active engagement vs passive receptivity
• Doing the work vs letting the work be done
• Learning to sit in uncertainty
• How does our perspective on death impact how we respond to the pandemic
• The pandemic, like psychedelics, places our dying front and center in life
• "The grief and the loss and the fertility of it all"
• The complexity between reconnecting with nature for our individual health and the demand to stay out of the wilds for the sake of planetary health
• Do our psychedelic experiences support our capacity to navigate crises in general?
• A question of meaning-making during the pandemic crisis
• We are all being affected differently
• The privilege to see this as a learning opportunity
• Exploring the unintended consequences of acting while highly embodied with 'triggered' energy
• The complications of reactive social media engagement during times of protest
• Are we integrating our pandemic lessons well enough to prepare for the growing climate crisis?
• Psychedelic integration has no end
• The ongoing process of meaning-making
• Failing to live up to our psychedelic lessons
• It takes a long time to integrate crisis, psychedelic or otherwise
• The selfishness of 'Yolo'
• What do you bring back for the world from your psychedelic experiences?

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If we want to build a better world, one that is free of the power complexes that subjugate others, it behoves us to address the root of those power complexes. In particular regards to the patriarchy, if we fail to see both the function and the origins of the patriarchy system in the psyche of man, we worsen it at best and, at worst, become power-obsessed oppressors ourselves.

The deep wounding of men by way of a toxic society is at the root of this interview with James Hollis PhD., whose ideas gave me stability in myself as I came to grapple with the pain, shame, and "quiet desperation" I have been carrying in my own life as a man.

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• The impact of society’s social conditioning of man - isolation, anger, anxiety, etc.
• Oppressive behaviour does not remove oppression
• How Dr Hollis came to write ‘Under Saturn’s Shadow’
• The secrets men are expected to carry that lock them away from vulnerability, and profound impact of fear on a man’s life
• How deep insecurity and fear dictate the creation of domination behaviour and the power complex
• A foundation in Jungian psychoanalysis, the Archetypes, and how emotional repression impact the sense of self, perception of reality, and behaviour
• A description of the patriarchy and its damaging role and impact on men
• The Mother, the mother complex, and the role of the father
• What does it mean to become a man, and who is teaching it to us?
• Rites of passage and initiation - how boys become men, and why many adult males are still boys
• A lacking sense of meaning in the lived life prescribed by the modern culture
• Making Meaning and finding out who you really are
• Empowerment vs power complex
• What are your ultimate tasks in life?
• How the social role conditioning of men prevents connection to the soul
• So…. what about Jordan Peterson?
• The potentials of psychedelic therapy in the context of Jungian psychoanalysis
• An actionable, pragmatic piece of advice for relating to men (no matter who you are)

What does ayahuasca integration mean and how do we do it? This is a question our guest for this episode, Rachel Harris Ph.D., has been exploring intensely though research, clinical practice, and her own direct experiences.

Rachel Harris, PhD, although retired now, was a practising psychotherapist for 35 years. She received a National Institutes of Health New Investigator’s Award, has published more than forty scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals, and has worked as a psychological consultant to Fortune 500 companies and the United Nations. She is also the author of the recent book Listening to Ayahuasca.

She is on the show to talk about her research with ayahuasca and what integration means, however, a very interesting tangent-at-depth emerged during the conversation between her and I: hearing voices, in particular hearing the voice of ayahuasca in your head as though it were an entity of external agency and intelligence, during and after the ceremony. To say that this is an intellectually dicey topic in the realms of conventional psychiatry and psychology, might be an understatement, but include in that fact that Rachel herself proposes to hear this voice and it was what guided her along her groundbreaking research and we have thoroughly entered the medical and academic fringe.

I very much enjoyed this connection with Rachel Harris and trust that you will too.
Thanks for listening. Enjoy.

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Episode Breakdown

• Research foundations, extent, and observations.
• Relating to the spirit of ayahuasca.
• Hearing voices: religious or psychosis? 
• God as an attachment relationship
• Ayahuasca as the perfect therapist. 
• Criticisms of biological psychiatry's approach to mental illness.
• Differentiating psychosis from spiritual awakening.
• Dark entities and entity attachment.
• Spiritual bypassing and spiritual materialism
• Integration: theories and practicalities.
• The importance of community transparency and social relationships in the integration process.
• Tips for finding safe and supportive ayahuasca experiences.

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We welcome Greg Wrenn to the show to share his experience of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) and how it was that his explorations of coral reefs and journeys with Ayahuasca turned the tide on his lifelong struggle with the condition.

Additionally, as both his experience of and healing from cPTSD is intertwined with his journalism on climate science, we also explore how the ecological and psychological effects of the climate crisis weave into our personal and collective experiences and expressions of trauma.

Enjoy

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Episode Breakdown

• (00:00) Opening; Guest Bio
• (3:28) Our favourite Star Trek TNG characters and why
• (8:05) An explanation of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD)
• (16:01) How cPTSD manifested in Greg’s life
• (22:43) The struggles faced when trying to heal cPTSD
• (30:02) The intersection of personal trauma and the climate crisis
• (43:19) Patreon Thanks
• (44:45) The damage and healing in our relationship with Nature
• (51:33) Neoliberalism and the fallacy of “self-care” in the context of the climate crisis
• (55:13) Being tricked to feel personally guilty for the climate crisis
• (1:00:45) How to find our personal way to do deeply meaningful good
• (1:05:47) The role of being in the living world in our wellbeing and sense of purpose
• (1:11:32) Where grief fits into navigating trauma and the climate crisis
• (1:19:19) Healing cPTSD with ayahuasca through healing our attachment wounds
• (1:27:27) Healing with ayahuasca requires an opportunity to apply your healing after the ceremony
• (1:30:05) The role psychedelics are playing in supporting our collective response to the climate crisis
• (1:37:23) Why it is important to ask ourselves: “What is it like to appreciate an ecosystem that will collapse in our lifetimes? To be moved by beauty that we’re pushing toward extinction?”
• (1:42:32) Follow-up links and contact details

Justin Townsend is the CEO and Head Facilitator at the psilocybin therapy retreat centre MycoMeditations. He is on the show for this episode to explore two topic themes:

1. The business side of running a successful psilocybin retreat centre in the economic context of the modern corporate world without losing your ethics in the process
2. The therapeutic framework and philosophy that MycoMeditations holds for their retreats and their guests.

Some of the things we cover on the first side of the conversation: Justin’s journey from the corporate world to running an psychedelic psilocybin therapy retreat centre; psychopathology and integrity in the corporate world, and how good people end up doing bad things; the nuances around running a financially successful psychedelic retreat centre without ethical sacrifices; what it means to be building what they call “gold-standard for group-facilitated psilocybin therapeutics in natural settings”; data propriety; and supporting peer-reviewed research.

In the other half of the conversation we explore: why MycoMeditations holds an entity “non-shamanic” framework for their psilocybin work; how to support someone who has a beyond Western framework experience from a non-shamanic framework; helping to prevent post-psychedelic hypomania from evolving into psychosis; differentiating between psychosis and a “normal psychotomimetic response”; non-pharmacological interventions for psychosis and psychotomimetic responses; as well as The Golden Shadow and the dangers of golden-shadow projection in both psychedelic therapy and spiritual communities.

Enjoy.

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Episode Breakdown

• (0:00) Opening
• (1:12) Overture and guest bio
• (5:18) Patron thanks
• (6:05) An important statement about endorsements
• (7:41) Interview begins
• (7:47) Justin’s journey from the corporate world to running an psychedelic psilocybin retreat centre
• (12:52) Exploring the toxic psychology/behaviours of the corporate world
• (20:26) Psychopathology in the corporate world, and how good people end doing bad things—multipolar traps
• (26:03) Merging his corporate experience and psychedelic work to build a high-quality company in the psychedelic retreat field
• (29:27) The importance of protecting a business ethos from financial takeover
• (32:39) Exploring nuances around running a financially successful psychedelic retreat centre without ethical sacrifices
• (39:06) MycoMediation’s mission to build the “gold-standard for group-facilitated psilocybin therapeutics in natural settings” — and how and why they are doing it
• (44:08) Why MycoMeditation will keep their “gold-standard” data proprietary, for now
• (54:46) Where/how MycoMediation is helping support peer-reviewed science.
• (57:21) Building a fully non-shamanic framework for psilocybin retreats, and why it matters for Western
• people.
• (1:04:41) How to support someone who has a beyond Western framework experience from a non-shamanic framework
• (1:17:16) Helping to prevent post-psychedelic hypomania from evolving into psychosis
• (1:21:09) Differentiating between psychosis and a “normal psychomemetic response”
• (1:31:16) Discussing non-pharmacological interventions for psychosis and psychomimetic response
• (1:39:04) The Golden Shadow and the dangers of golden-shadow projection in psychedelic therapy
• (1:45:51) A “tough pill to swallow” with respect to the issues of indigenous reciprocity and biopiracy as a psychedelic company
• (1:60:52) How MycoMeditations is helping to give back to the people of Jamaica
• (1:58:12) Pushing back on Townsend’s “tough pill to swallow”
• (2:01:50) Townsend’s concerns around what is happening with psilocybin in Oregon
• (2:06:58) Closing the interview, follow up links and socials
• (2:08:30) Outro

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In this psychedelic café, we explore spiritual awakening and spiritual crisis; what they are, and what causes them.

We also explore how we heal from spiritual crisis; their connection to trauma; the spiritual roots of healing bipolar; differentiating spiritual crisis from clinical psychiatric illness; the anti-theistic paradigm of psychiatry; personal crisis in the context of global climate crisis; and having a force larger than oneself un-make and remake our lives.

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• Benjamin Mudge
• Michelle Anne Hobart
• Kyle Buller
• Dr. Nicole Gruel

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Facilitator Chad Charles discusses the dangers of excessive 5-MeO-DMT use in participants and facilitators, as well as how to notice when people need help.

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Chris Bache PhD has previously been on the show to talk about his work with high dose LSD journeys, out of his book LSD and The Mind Of The Universe. In that book, he discusses visions he had of ‘the birth of the future human’ emerging out of the incredible suffering and challenges of a total, global collapse.

In this interview, Chris outlines why and where he sees this collapse as already having begun and what his LSD journeys into ‘deep time,’ the collective suffering of all humanity, and divine encounters with oneness have revealed about what it will take for humanity to make it through collapse into the future anew. A spiritual approach to the crisis of global collapse.

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Martijn Schirp of Synthesis Institute joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to wonder with us about the potential harms that will come from the profit-driven industrialization of psychedelics and psychedelic therapy; how we might safeguard the sacredness of psychedelics and people seeking psychedelic therapy against those harms; and where and how he sees Synthesis Institute as attempting to do so.

We also talk about cultural maturity; the systemic issues that lead to broad-sweeping ill-health amongst modern people; why no, it’s not “just business”; psychedelics’ role in helping us to learn to be better people in uncertain times; indigenous issues, and our personal sense of where we land in the long history of colonial harms; and why choosing love ain’t easy, but well worth it. 

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Episode Breakdown

• (0:00) Opening
• (1:59) Overture
• (4:28) Guest bio
• (640) Support the show
• (7:29) Interview begins
• (7:48) What is (and what inspired) the Synthesis psychedelic retreat centre?
• (12:39) The complex legality of psychedelics (psilocybin) in the Netherlands
• (18:53) The impact of capital on the psychedelic space/industry
• (26:42) How profit-driven management will impact people undergoing psychedelic therapy
• (36:08) What is the proper container for holding the full depth of learning present in learning to institutionalize psychedelic therapy?
• (38:08 ) Psychedelics’ role in being better people in uncertain times
• (43:14) Further possible issues of psychedelic underground therapy in the growing industrialization of psychedelics
• (46:01) Psychedelic therapy is expensive; who’s gonna pay for it?
• (53:44) Cultural maturation | It’s safer to critique than to do the work
• (58:28 ) Choose love. It ain’t easy, it’s but well worth it.
• (1:02:06) Safeguarding the sacred through Steward Ownership
• (1:10:53) How might Synthesis’ move to steward ownership positively impact the larger psychedelic space
• (1:14:51) Why work towards greater ethics as a company, even though it might not succeed financially
• (1:22:44) No, it’s not “just business”; how you use money is a reflection of who you are
• (1:26:21) What is making us sick? | Systemic institutional change is needed to optimize psychedelic healing
• (1:33:56) Addressing these questions in the context of indigenous issues
• (1:43:02) Wondering about our place in the long history of colonialism
• (1:48:20) Is the shadow of historical displacement and ancestral disconnection at the root of white nationalism?
• (1:52:52) Compassionately wondering about the psychological impact of widespread displacement from heritage amongst Western people
• (2:01:31) Information about Synthesis’ facilitator training course
• (2:06:18) Synthesis’ new psychedelic retreat centre in Oregon, USA
• (2:08:16) Follow up links
• (2:11:20) Outro

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Casey Schwartz, author of Attention: A Love Story, joins us talk about her journey with Adderall addiction; how social media technology influences our attention and behavior; internet reactivity and mob “justice”; psychedelics and their impact on attention; the deeper philosophy of what attention is; and why attention matters.

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Our guest is Elizabeth Bast!

She is on the show to talk about her journey as a tantric practitioner and explore the potentials of a sexually empowered spiritual practice.

We also talk about sexual consumerism; porn; toxic shame; #metoo; the historical use of entheogenic plants in yogic practice; and the (somewhat controversial) archetype of the sacred prostitute.

*** See below for full episode breakdown.
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Episode Breakdown:

- The lack of representation of women in psychedelic culture.
- The importance of different ways of knowing.
- Unpacking the medical diagnosis of psychosis and delusion in regards to psychedelic experiences.
- The purpose of yoga and the role of sexuality within it.
- A tantric perspective on sexual energy (kundalini) and how it influences the mind.
- Bast’s dance journey into Tantra.
- Descriptions of “dakini” and “sacred prostitute.”
- Sacred sex work and the dangers of modern culture's sex imitations (porn).
- The effect of pornography on one’s capacity for profound sexual encounters.
- Finding a sexual teacher.
- Sexual shame and popular culture.
- The historical use psychoactive plants in yoga.
- The modern use of psychoactive plants and substances in spiritual practice.
- Lessons on sexual relationships from Iboga.
- Bast’s prognosis of modern Western society’s sexual dysfunction — sexual consumerism, toxic shame, and lack of wise sexual education.
- The role of sexual repression/shame in sexual assault; discussing #metoo, #Ididit, and healing social and personal sexual trauma.
- Healthy vulnerability vs playing the victim.
- Practical steps and caution for starting a sacred relationship to sexuality.

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Dr. Oliver Grundmann joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to talk about Kratom. We discuss its traditional cultural use, legal history, pharmacology, modern cultural use, preparation best practices, its benefits and its risks, and how to safely start using kratom.

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Episode Breakdown

• What is kratom?
• Kratom’s cultural traditions and history of use
• Is its prohibition being lobbied by the drug trade?
• Traditional preparations of kratom
•  Pharmacology and effects in the brain
• G proteins, opioid receptors, and the beta arrestin 2 pathway
• How kratom gives you an opioid high without suppressing breathing
• The differing addictive potentials of Kratom's alkaloids, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine
• What opioid receptor is being activated with kratom?
• Is kratom addictive? What are the symptoms of withdrawal?
• Doctors might give you methadone for kratom withdrawal
• The difference betweenness addiction and dependence
• How good therapy might mean nothing for addiction if there are no social supports to help people into healthier social-economic circumstances
• Why people use kratom and how effective it is according to the research
• Adverse effects | kratom side effects
• Is kratom toxic for the liver? Yes, but it’s not that simple.
• How to know if you have an addiction to kratom
• What to watch out for when first starting with kratom
• How to get the most out of your kratom (skip the OJ!)
• Do different strains make a difference?
• Is the DEA trying to suppress kratom to protect the profits of big pharma?
• The importance of more research
• Further links and resources

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Comedian Shane Mauss is on the show to talk about the context that led up to his drug-induced psychosis, his time in a psychiatric institution, and why he still sees psychedelics as valuable tools for mental wellness in general, but comedy culture in particular.

**FULL EPISODE BREAKDOWN BELOW**

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To acknowledge the celebratory context of this epsiode I had done two things special with it. The first is that I took a pretty long time, in the beginning, to talk about my journey with the podcast (the actual episode starts 12:45, and the interviews at 18:00). Then, the second special thing, instead of one guest, or even two, or even three, there are EIGHT GUESTS!!!! That's right. 8 Guests.

I recorded several short, on location interviews during my travel through Europe in the summer of 2018. Most of them we shot at OZORA FESTIVAL, in Hungary. I had the amazing opportunity to be surrounded by the amazing psychedelic thinkers and researchers and I took that opportunity to ask them some questions. Three questions in fact.

THE 3 QUESTIONS

• What do you feel is the best use of psychedelics at this time?
• What does the psychedelic experience show us about what it means to die?
• What is an area in psychedelic culture that is important but under-represented in the major discourse?

THE 8 GUESTS

(In alphabetical order. head to https://bit.ly/ATTMind100 for further links to their work)

• Julian Vayne
• Nikki Wyrd
• Kilindi Iyi
• Marta Kaczmarczyk
• Meriana Dinkova
• Moudou Baqui
• Leor Roseman
• Rosalind Watts

I will let them introduce themselves during the episode, and the structure of the episode be explained in the intro.

Thanks for 100 episodes!

Enjoy.

Alexander Beiner joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to discuss the rise of psychedelic capitalism, its impact on the culture, and the risk of us losing something promising if we get swept up by various narratives for-profits models are seeding into our minds.

We also discuss modern Western culture’s crisis of meaning, the dissolution of trust in institutions, "the internet of beefs", and the challenge of sensemaking in our modern technological landscape.

• Decomposing The Shadow: https://www.jameswjesso.com/decomposing-the-shadow/
• The True Light Of Darkness: https://www.jameswjesso.com/true-light-darkness/

5-MeO-DMT and breath work facilitator Chad Charles joins me to discuss Leo Gura's Outrageous Experiments In Consciousness (30 breakthrough 5-MeO-DMT trips in 30 days, at increasing doses, in isolation). Our primary purpose was to discuss an element of the video that we both felt was outright dangerous, but the discussion expands to 5-MeO-DMT experiences in general.

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Patrick Kroupa and I share an off-the-cuff conversation about COVID-19. We talk about how it is impacting each of our lives, our thoughts on the socio-political responses to the pandemic, and what Patrick's experiences of watching friends and family die offers us insofar as how to show up to the upcoming mass fatalities due to the virus.

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Episode Breakdown

• How we are both coping with the pandemic
• What the pandemic look like on the ground in New York City
• Discussing the growth of COVID-19 reported cases and why there are so many more already and even more coming
• Is COVID-19 our great war? Humanity vs the destructive consequences of our civilization
• Rates of changes and the present dying of our civilization
• Will a better world come out of this or a totalitarian nightmare?
• The pandemic lockdown is forcing us to slow down and be in the present moment
• The impact of COVID-19 on people in poverty and people with drug dependence
• China is now in the aftermath and going about their business. What will our aftermath be like?
• Why flattening the curve is our most reasonable response, now that containment is impossible
• Canada's healthcare system and how it is already starting to cripple our care due to a lack of supplies
• Doug Ford is Ontario Canada's Trump-Lite (but apparently he is, personally, very supportive of psychedelic medicine)
• Test shortages for the population, mask shortages for the healthcare workers and why it's so important to follow social distancing measures
• The difference, for Patrick, between watching his friends die during and after overcoming his heroin addiction
• Comparing the experience of his friends dying with the recent death of his mother
• People we know are going to die of COVID-19 and we shouldn't ignore this fact
• Patrick's experiences of death offer us as perspective in these frightening, and fatal times
• Final thoughts and perspectives for all of us stuck in this together

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A central topic of this podcast is our capacity to change our minds.

I don't mean superficially – "Oh, actually yeah let's go see that movie instead." I mean a more fundamental change, our faculty for shifting our very sense of self and perception of the world around us. This type of change is not just an ethereal alteration of mental processes, but an actual redesigning of neural architecture. Our capacity to create such fundamental changes is due to our brain's ability to redesign its structure, lay new synaptic connections, which is called neuroplasticity.

[This episode was originally released as "The Neurobiology Of Altered Traits"]

The guest for this episode of the podcast is here to tell us how we can change our brains to change our lives and why it works. Welcome to Adventures Through The Mind, world renown neuroplasticity expert, Dr Rick Hanson.

Rick Hanson is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 26 languages and include Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture. He’s been an invited speaker at NASA, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and other major universities, and taught in meditation centres worldwide. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR, and now he is here with us on Adventures Through The Mind.

Episode breakdown below.

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See the show notes to this epsiode for links to Rick's work: http://bit.ly/ATTMind69

Akua Ofosuhene is on the show to discuss the role psychedelics can play in dismantling racism in society by helping us learn to let go of the conditioned beliefs we are taught to hold about race in general.

We also talk about how the dismantling of racism is actively harmed by the politics of outrage being carried into our personal relationships, and how getting beyond racism as a society can only truly come about in a cultural context based on the sacredness of the individual.

• Decomposing The Shadow: https://www.jameswjesso.com/decomposing-the-shadow/
• The True Light Of Darkness: https://www.jameswjesso.com/true-light-darkness/

David Krantz and I talk about how genetics affect the metabolism of cannabis (nutrigenomics) and the resulting impact of cannabis use on our epigenetic health. Furthermore, we reach into a discussion on how the same framework of understanding applies to our metabolism of psychedelics and the potential future of a genome-specific screening program for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.

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Episode Breakdown

• a general rundown of nutritional genomics and its application in understanding biology
• the profound health issues David faced that brought him into nutritional genomics
• (special note about the value of understanding polyvagal theory)
• the failure of the pre-packed dietary approach, be it veganism, paleo, or low-carb
• the endocannabinoid system
• the genetic differences of cannabis metabolism between different people
• why some people can “smoke weed every day” and make millions, and others can’t get off the couch
• how cannabis effects working memory differently in different genetic predispositions in each people based on baseline dopamine levels
• how our brain hides from itself
• the phenomena of “used to smoke all the time without issues then all of a sudden cannabis creates anxiety and paranoia”
• epigenetics and how cannabis changes how our genes express
• the genetic variant that increases the chances of developing cannabis-induced psychosis
• genetic profiling as a screening platform to understand what medical intervention would be most helpful for specific people
• the institutional complications that might prevent the introduction of genetic-specific medical care into the medical infrastructure
• how these ideas fit inside the modern context of the climate crisis
• how do genetic profiles influence dose-response differences with psychedelics
• speculating on the long term epigenetic impact of psilocybin use
• speculating on the long term epigenetic impact of therapeutic/healing work

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Tom Zembrzuski, aka Your Mate Tom joins us for this episode of Adventures Through The Mind to talk about his journey from a psychedelic champion and youtube celebrity to a man traumatized, live on youtube, by the very substances he once promoted.

We talk about what inspired him to produce psychedelic content on youtube, the process of getting internet famous, and the encounter with a timeless hell that sent him spiralling into post-traumatic stress disorder.

See full Episode Breakdown Below
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Bernhard Guenther joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to talk about the 'topic of all topics', the hyperdimensional ecology of entities that influence human life. Furthermore, he takes a deep look at the actual legitimacy of psychedelic 'healing', and its potential dangers insofar as false dawn syndrome, spiritual bypassing, and entity attachment or possession.

Despite how far out these topics may seem, I don't doubt you will find some deeply grounded and practical perspective in this interview, especially in regards to the modern ayahuasca-healing movements

~~~ To read the full blog entry for this episode and/or watch this episode in video: http://bit.ly/ATTMind86

***An important Update regarding problematic claim made against Guenther***

Have you ever experienced a psychedelic encounter with a plant spirit or an entity?

Have you ever experienced a spirit realm or being healed by a shaman? Have you ever felt as though you invoked some type of divination or noetic insight while on psychedelics? Have you ever wondered if any of that was real or just merely a hallucination?

The increasing popularity of using psychedelic substances within so-called shamanic ceremonies has introduced ideas and beliefs into the modern world that push conceptual limits of the rational mind. The rise of plant shamanism is a cultural force to be reckoned with and that which we encounter with shamanism feels urgent and real. Yet, however real the experiences with a shamanic encounter may feel, the question still remains: how real is it, really?

I asked Julian Plamer and James Kent to come on the show to debate  on this question:

"What do you believe is the fundamental nature of that which arises within a psychedelic experiences, in particular regards to what is often called The Shamanic paradigm, including the existence of a spirit realm, encounters with plant spirits or entities and the capacity to invoke healing or divination within a psychedelic experiences by way of this paradigm?"

It's a juicy one.
Enjoy

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• Healing The Past: Intergenerational Trauma & Emotional Responsibility (Lecture)
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What is the best way to address both the acute and systemic problems present in psychedelic culture?

It's a big question, so we have invited a number of people to have a psychedelic café about it.

Our guests, (in alphabetical order according to their last name, excluding host James W. Jesso)

• Marta Ketchmarchek, co-founder and coordinator of The Psychedelic Society of The Netherlands and Facilitator at Synthesis, a psilocybin retreat centre in Amsterdam
• Trevor Millar, owner of Liberty Root therapy, Chair for MAPS Canada, and on the founding board of the Canadian Psychedelic Association
• Jeronimo MM, member of ICEERS, which is the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service
• Anya Oleksiuk, psychedelic documentary filmmaker co-owner and co-director of The Psychedelic Society UK
• Brian Pace, the politics and ecology editor for Psymposia and lecturer of psychedelic studies at Ohio state university
• Mareesa Stertz of Film maker and co-founder of Lucid News
• Bett Williams, author of The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey

Brian Blomerth joins us on ATTMind to discuss his journey into drawing and comics, his artistic process, the intense journalistic research that went into both his psychedelic history graphic novels Mycelium Wassoni and Bicycle Day, the strange findings and complexities he uncovered during that research, and why making these cartoonist accounts of Psychedelic History matter to him.

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(0:00) Opening
(2:07) GIVEAWAY CONTEST!
(2:43) Episode overture
(6:26) Patreon thanks
(8:24) Interview begins
(10:20) The history of dog people in comics
(11:29) Brian Blomerth’s inspiration and journey into cartooning
(13:26) What inspired Brian to explore psychedelics as a topic for his comics
(16:16) The role psychedelics play in Brian Blomerth’s creative and artististic journey
(17:09) Creative inspiration vs the grind in the artistic/creative process
(20:33) The research involved in the production of Mycelium Wassoni
(22:43) The easter eggs Brian has woven into the background of the art
(25:14) Brian’s experience with mushrooms before producing this book
(27:34) Exploring some history of R. Gordon and Valentina Wason
(29:25) Why Brian chose to strongly feature Valentina Wasson’s part of the story
(32:29) The strange discoveries Brian made while researching the Wasson story
(34:24) The CIA controversy with R. Gordon Wasson, psilocybin mushrooms, and the differing opinions of how it unfolded
(39:53) Some discussion around Wasson’s obsession with Soma
(42:23) A review of the bicycle day story, and what we often get around about it
(46:13) The powerful impact of couples in the psychedelic history
(47:53) Maggie and the dolphin; and other stories of dolphin love
(51:35) No person is an island
(54:50) Follow up links and contact info
(57:00) Closing

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Dr. Frank Anderson joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to explore the Internal Family Systems model of therapy and its perspective on the nature of mind, trauma, “triggers”, and the symptoms of mental illness. We also talk about the transpersonal context of the self, choosing to grow up in the face of our own traumas, IFS’ application to psychedelic therapies, and how to use IFS to navigate the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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• What is Internal family systems therapy? 
• Systems thinking and the multiplicity of the mind
• Everybody is born with 'self-energy' and we don't need to build it or cultivate it
• We all have multiple personalities, IFS calls them 'parts' 
• The problems of parts taking on extreme roles 
• The different types of parts and their roles 
  • the two types of protective parts: mangers and firefighters
  • the wounded parts: exiles
• All our parts have positive intention - even if those intentions have negative results 
• How IFS is different than conventional therapy insofar as how it addresses 'problematic behavior': e.g. Cutting, addiction and suicide 
• How important therapist authenticity of affect is during the co-regulation process between client and therapist
• The difference between managing symptoms and healing wounds 
• What an IFS session looks like and the vital importance of 'getting the permission of the protective parts' before doing any healing work 
• The client does the healing, the therapist is an adjunct
• Healing happened through the internal relationship between the self and the parts 
• Self-energy: what is it, what does it feel like, what is its role and how do we connect with it 
• How trauma impacts our relationship between the self and our parts 
• In the IFS context of trauma, what does it mean to be an adult
• Growing up and healing trauma is a choice we need to need to make, even when our capacity to choose is different in different contexts (e.g. Systemic disenfranchisement) 
• The metaphysics of choosing our trauma before being born as a spiritual process 
• We all have the capacity to heal our trauma
• How does IFS understand psychedelic therapy, generally and specifically: MDMA, psilocybin, and ketamine
• There is such a difference between low dose and high dose ketamine insofar as doing therapy 
• Low-dose ketamine psychotherapy using IFS protocol, compared to MDMA protocol 
• The exciting potentials of how different psychedelic therapies can be optimized through IFS 
• The impotence of differing between recreational, therapeutic, spiritual and harmful use
• An IFS interpretation of the imperial ACE psilocybin model 
• Should therapists experience psychedelics before providing psychedelic therapy 
• How does understanding IFS as a paradigm for living help us with or without trauma 
• How to use self-facilitated IFS processes to deal with the trauma/pain/fear of the COVID-19 pandemic 
• Unblending from our past so we can show up to what's actually happening right now

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Dr. Tim Read is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and author based in London. 

He joins us on the show to discuss the deep unconscious, complexes, being triggered, and why we need a new way to treat mental illness. We talk about the difference between spiritual crisis and psychosis; how modern psychiatry is broken; and why psychiatrists should undergo psychedelic therapy.

Additionally, we explore the difference between being in process and processing; how our triggers are an opportunity to step into our healing journey; the role of relationships in our healing; how to help shift culture and community to better support people in crisis; how to support people in psychotic delusion (without colluding in their delusions); and the point at which we should involve psychiatric intervention.

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• (0:00) Opening
• (1:51) Overture
• (5:31) Patron Thanks
• (6:46) Interview begins
• (8:28) The deep unconscious, COEX/complexes, and being triggered
• (12:45) Why we need a new way to treat mental illness 
• (14:03) A bit more into COEX systems and processing being triggered
• (21:16) Being triggered distorts our perception of reality
• (22:40) Being triggered offers us an opportunity to heal (in process vs processing)
• (24:48) Getting stuck in a trigger
• (30:33) Triggers are an opportunity to step into our healing journey
• (33:30) How to process being triggered
• (36:30) The role of relationships in our healing process
• (40:40) How do we help shift culture and community to better support people in crisis
• (43:12) Why psychiatrists should undergo psychedelic therapy
• (44:35) Modern psychiatry is broken
• (48:10) A definition of Spiritual Emergency, Spiritual Crisis
• (51:34) The difference between spiritual crisis and psychosis
• (56:34) Mental illness is not biologically rooted (bipolar, psychosis, and schizophrenia)
• (1:00:07) Exploring the root of mental illness from a Jungian perspective
• (1:13:55) The deepest personal touches the transpersonal
• (1:15:36) The challenge of touching the transpersonal 
• (1:17:40) The point at which we should involve psychiatric intervention
• (1:21:07) Psychiatric medication can be necessary at times | don’t let ideology get in the way of common sense
• (1:26:04) How to support people in psychotic delusion (without colluding in their delusions)
• (1:29:59) It’s all about love | Love is the key ingredient
• (1:32:07) Follow-up links
• (1:34:00) Outro

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Zoe Helene of Cosmic Sister comes on the show to talk about Psychedelic Feminism

“The ultimate goal of psychedelic feminism is to promote rapid (cultural) evolution from within—starting with women. Females make up half the human population. We know it’s way past time we stepped up and took our share of the decision-making power—and yet we haven’t. Why is that? What are the “whys?” and what can we do to work through them? My work with women and psychedelics is about exploring those complex, multifaceted, interconnected “whys?” with sacred plants and fungi, our evolutionary allies from the natural world.” – Zoe Helene

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Zoe Helene, M.F.A., is a classically trained artist and cultural activist working for women’s self-liberation, healing and empowerment through intentional journeying with natural psychedelics. She is also the founder of the eco-feminist advocacy, Cosmic Sister whose trio of #psychedelicfeminism educational grants—Women of the Psychedelic Renaissance, Cosmic Sisters of Cannabis and the merit-based immersive Plant Spirit Grant—promote women’s voices in the field of psychedelics and our fundamental right to journey with evolutionary allies from nature, such as ayahuasca, cannabis, peyote, and psilocybin mushrooms.

Zoe’s work has been featured in articles and interviews in Forbes, BBC Travel, Outside Magazine, Bust Magazine, VICE, Broadly, LA Yoga, Boston Magazine, New York Magazine, Newsday, Utne Reader, Wisdom Daily, AlterNet, Organic Authority, MIT Technology Review, Fast Company and other top-tier media venues.

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- psychedelic feminism is not what you might think when you hear 'feminism'
- the patriarchy and the trauma of the modern world
- racism in America
- focusing on who we help
- psychedelics not just about 'healing'
- power complexes and holding each other down by fighting internally
- psychedelics to deprogram the worst parts of culture
- psychedelics are not benevolent
- the Cosmic Sister preparation and integration programs
- cultural appropriation vs cultural preservation and appreciation
- privilege is subjective and relative
- problems within ayahuasca culture and tourism
- what Cosmic Sister is and does
- building culture / abolishing faulty traditions

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Bett Williams and I explore a number of issues facing the modern politically switched on psychedelic person. We do so with special reference to the damaging impact of social media technologies on our perceptions,  identity, and  behavior; cultural appropriation within psychedelic ceremony building; and the Dark Side of leftist psychedelic politics. All of which grounded in a discussion around what it means to live psychedelically, as a psychedelic person in relationship with the psilocybin mushroom.

For context,  this interview was recorded a couple months ago and it’s actually just a coincidence (or accidental synchronicity) that it is being released during the week of the 2020 US presidential election. I'm definitely holding a particular curiosity as to how much the ideas discussed in this episode will be relevant or illuminating to the events that are going to follow in the next coming weeks. But that is a topic for larger wanderings beyond the podcast. I will leave it to the r/ATTMindPodcast subreddit.

In the meantime, though, enjoy this interview with Bett Williams

Chris Bache, the author of LSD and The Mind Of The Universe, talks about the value of psychedelic integration and how ego inflation is one of the greatest risks of psychedelic work.

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This is a clip from Global Collapse, Spirituality, and The Birth Of The Future Human | Chris Bache, Ph.D. -  ATTMind Podcast Episode 142

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Our guests for this episode are Dennis McKenna, The Teafaerie, Chris Bache, Bruce Damer, Dank Duchess, Laurel Anne Sugden, and Stephen Gray.

Together, in Psychedelic Cafe style, we explore conversation with the following question as our central guiding inquiry: "What is the power and potential of psychedelics in navigating the many-orders of growing collapse that our planet is currently facing?"

Topics explored include global crisis and the birth of the future human; how the pain and suffering of ongoing collapse that will drive us into our next expression in consciousness; the intelligence of the universe; liberating ourselves from materialism; coming to terms with death; nudging consciousness forward through symbiosis with plant teachers; the history of the San Pedro cactus as an example of how sacred plants help support us through climate crisis; and an optimistic look at our present circumstances.

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• (0:00) Opening
• (3:18) Overture
• (7:40) Patron Thanks!
• (9:46) Cafe begins; guest introductions
• (19:59) Introducing The Question: "What is the power and potential of psychedelics in navigating the many-orders of growing collapse that our planet is currently facing?"
• (20:31) Strong medicine might be required
• (25:22) The stress of modern collapse may be in service to our evolution
• (31:30) Un-fixing the ego and recalibrating our interdependence
• (37:02) Global crisis and the birth of the future human
• (42:13) Slay the dragon, Save the grail
• (45:18) Nudging consciousness forward through symbiosis with plant teachers
• (56:06) The great forgetting and re-membering Connection as primary
• (58:52) An optimistic look at our present circumstances
• (1:03:35) The power and potential of social networks to create important change
• (1:06:56) Life has been deeply connected since the beginning
• (1:14:05) It is the pain and suffering of ongoing collapse that will drive us into our next expression in consciousness
• (1:18:50) The history of the San Pedro cactus as an example of how sacred plants help support us through climate crisis
• (1:23:51) Life’s intelligence can be trusted
• (1:31:06) The intelligence of the universe; liberating ourselves from materialism
• (1:34:29) Psychedelics don’t belong (only) in the therapist’s office
• (1:35:50) The power of psychedelics is not in the molecule, not in the matter
• (1:43:32) Coming to terms with death; all life lives on death
• (1:46:51) The is no end point and there is nothing to fear when we die
• (1:50:01) There are no answers, that’s not the point
• (1:52:17) The sentient other; what does real actually mean?
• (1:57:59) Does modern psychedelic therapy make us myopic onto the self?
• (2:00:17) We only think we are alone
• (2:01:59) It’s going to get worse before it gets better, let’s learn to support each other
• (2:04:20) Actions are necessary to create good in the world, but our actions can be easily confused
• (2:07:19) “Please, take heart” ; the awakened heart is our natural state
• (2:10:01) Closing The Cafe; goodbyes
• (2:10:51) Outro

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In this episode, Christopher Bache and I explore the research and exploration that underpins Diamonds from Heaven: a twenty-year journey into 70+ high dose LSD experiences done with the explicit intent to map Consciousness.

We talk about why Bache chose this path, what it was like, and what here learned from it all about Consciousness, psychedelic consciousness, and what it means to be a finite human, nested in a complex web of relationships, defined by its dualist dance for meaning.

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Today's guests for the podcast --- three female, underground psychedelic therapists from Canada --- are on the show anonymously to share their wisdom, experience, and knowledge of psychedelic psychotherapy. Specifically, we talk about psilocybin, MDMA, and 3-MMC assisted psychotherapy; their methodologies and practices; cautions and concerns; and an in-depth look at both what it is like and what it takes to be an underground psychedelic psychotherapist.

This is an episode for anyone interested in psychedelic psychotherapy be it as a current or future provider or someone who is seeking it for their own health and healing.

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Tom and Sheri Eckert join us to talk about their initiative to legalize Psilocybin services in Oregon (#PSI2020).

We talk about what they have accomplished and what's left to achieve on the road towards getting PSI on the 2020 ballot, the challenges they are facing in the process, and the visions of a potential future world where psilocybin is not only destigmatized but safely, and institutionally available for anyone who chooses to experience it.

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• A primer on the psi2020 movement
• Who will have access to these services
• What about homegrown mushrooms or psilocybin possession?
• A picture of a potential production and supply chain of psilocybin
• How they are facing the continuing federal prohibition (drug war)
• Federal drug policy reform
• The possible dangers of big business and big Pharma
• The compass pathways controversy
• The highs and lows of the capitalist system in psychedelic culture
• Is it wrong to charge money for these services?
• What about subsidies for the economically vulnerable who need these services
• The difference between psi2020 and the Denver initiative
• The dark fantasy world of American drug law regarding psilocybin
• How will future people look back on our choices now
• What would a future world look like is psilocybin was socially destigmatized, and services for it are effectively institutionalized

Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris heads the Psychedelic Research Group within the Centre for Psychiatry at Imperial College London. He joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to talk about the Entropic Brain (and mind) theory, complexity vs. order, the disproportionate representation of 'ego' consciousness in modern civilisation and its impact on the natural world, confirmation biases and misreporting in psychedelic science and, of course, how psychedelics work in the brain.

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• An introductory primer on the entropic brain theory
• free energy principle, thermal dynamics, complexity science, and brain activity
• LZ/complexity and the varieties of consciousness states
• the importance of indexing the ‘mind stuff’ in psychedelic research
• Natural language analytics, mental illness, and how we narratives our psychedelic encounters
• primary and secondary states of mind, and
• Brain development and comparing psychedelic mind to the mind of a child
• ego consciousness, psilocybin, and the collapse of civilization
• REBUS and the resistance of uncertainty
• A little talk about trauma and psychotherapy
• A discussion around ‘Is there a confirmation bias in psychedelic neuroscience?’
• Deconstructing the fallacy of physicalist neuroscience
• The (very specific) neuroscience of psilocybin
  • What psilocybin does when it gets into the body
  • the neocortex and serotonin receptors
  • psilocybin’s effects on neural cellular behaviour
• Is psilocybin intelligent?
• Mapping brain anarchy
• What turns psilocybin into psilocin
• Psilocybin effect on and in the gut (enteric brain)
• Are there any genetic variations that could block psychedelics’ effects?
• “There will never be an account of reality that will be absolute.”

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As the technology of virtual reality continues to progress, it is important that we look beyond the uses gaming companies, Facebook, and Samsung will develop it for. What happens when the capacity to build a completely immersive and convincing alternate reality lands in the hands of visionary artists and shamanic healers?

For the new moon episode of ATTMind Radio, we welcome Dutch visionary artist Sander Bos to the show. Painter, musician, and reality-engineer, Sander has been exploring the potentials of art to awaken a sense of healing and enlightenment. He explores the role of the shaman as an artistic one and using virtual reality as his medium is seeking to create shamanic healing experiences in digital spaces.

"I am fascinated in building with light [...] a zen garden, a kind of healing space in VR, so you can experience different states of consciousness and different healing experience"

- Sander Bos

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The late, great Terence McKenna is famous for his suggestion to eat five dried grams of psilocybin mushrooms in silent darkness. Thanks to Terence five dried grams has been a milestone of depth and commitment to psychonauts around the world, an apex of intensity. Then Kilindi Iyi comes along and dismantles the concept of five dried grams as an apex of psilocybin intensity when he begins to speak publicly about his regular use of 30+ dried grams of psilocybin mushrooms.... 30 dried grams of psilocybin mushrooms, an ultra-high dose psilocybin experience.

Our guest for this episode, Kilindi Iyi is a martial arts expert, a (medicinal and culinary) mushrooms grower, and a psychonaut challenging the status quo of the psychedelic community with an outspoken, brazen courage. He joins us on the show to discuss his experiences with these ultra-high dose psilocybin experiences, what brought him to explore so deeply, what it's like to take such a high dose, and what he has gleaned from those experiences about the nature of reality. Most importantly, we talk about what it means to become explorers of the mind by taking entheogens at any dose.

Although much of what we talk about is offers direct insight and wisdom to anyone choosing to explore entheogens, some of it, much like back in Ep.6 with Rak Razam, goes wildly far-out; 30+ dried grams far-out.

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TOPICS DISCUSSED

• Why dose this high, what's it like, and what does it show us about what we are, in reality.
• Do set and setting even matter anymore?
• The role, potential, and possibilities available at ultra high doses.
• The role, potential, and possibilities of entheogens at any dose.
• How martial arts training influenced Kilindi's choice to explore entheogens.
• "The journey of the alone into the alone."
• Coming to learn death.
• Being an explorer on the frontiers of consciousness.
• Entheogens for exploring deep philosophical questions, such as the nature of consciousness.
• The nature of reality: simulation theory, quantum entanglement, higher dimensional civilizations, etc.
• Crystal Technology / Weaponized Crystals
• Death and the psychedelic dimension.

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Sky Otter (Bill Pfeiffer) joins us to talk about Deep Ecology, the problematic place we are in as a planet, and the profound healing potential still available to us, personally and collectively, through coming back into ecstatic communion and relationship with the Earth.

• Deep ecology, alienation, and spiritual activism
•  The value of a spiritual connection to the earth
• The trauma of disconnection, perpetuated
• A civilization of misery and violence
• Hatred against our greatest villains
• Jeff Bezos is a hero (and a villain)
• The profound grief of collapse; the profound miracle of being alive
• What do we do about this? Deep Ecology
• Skepticism and the separate-self
• Changing our perceptual apparatus towards Connection and Mystery
• A moving quote from John Seed
• Finding balance in facing collapse
55 Feeling the pain of the earth; community holds the grief
• Doing the best we can, even though it's nearly impossible
• The role of psychedelic plants in healing our disconnection from nature
• A ceremonial community of psychedelic practice is vital
• Ceremonial maturity in our psychedelic practice
• Befriending our parts through psychedelic mushrooms
• Are psychedelics “tools”?
• The fungi open us up to the ongoing revelation of nature.
• Links to more of Bill/Sky’s work
• Landscape Shamanism (course)
• Bill’s dream for your life

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Dr. Mikael Palner is an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Research at the University of Southern Denmark, studying the biological correlates of maladaptive neuropsychiatric diseases—such as anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress syndrome.

He joins us to discuss his research on the positive effects of psilocybin microdosing on stress resiliency, compulsions, and neuroplasticity; as well as what microdosing IS NOT good for, and some important cautions to consider with respect to potential harms of microdosing.

We also discuss why studies in rats show clear biological effects of microdosing on behaviour, but human studies seem to suggest placebo; a neural level definition of psychedelic microdosing; why microdosing research is being polluted by a lack of specificity; the value of the “psychedelic” effect of psychedelics in their use as a medicine; and why what rats need higher doses of psychedelics than human by weight.

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Episode Breakdown

• (00:00) Opening
• (05:02) Interview begins
• (05:08) Psychedelic microdosing (vs low doses)
• (06:44) The scientific study of psychedelic microdosing
• (08:43) A neural level definition of psychedelic microdosing
• (10:36) An explanation of receptor site binder occupancy and how it relates to microdosing vs macrodosing
• (16:27) Why the whole mushroom is more potent than equivalent psilocybin in extracted form
• (17:22) Rats need more drugs by weight than humans to get high
• (19:40) The models Palner used to study low dose psilocybin's effect on stress
• (26:27) The results of their study on low dose psilocybin, anhedonia
• (28:53) The stress-buffering effects were on the day after the psilocybin
• (32:01) psilocybin microdosing increases stress resilience, lowering compulsion pressure
• (34:37) Explaining conflict between approach and avoidance motivations (compulsion), and how psilocybin may help
• (39:26) 5-HT7 receptor, the paraventricular thalamic nucleus, and compulsive behaviour
• (42:10) Microdosing psilocybin, placebo or no?
• (44:22) Debating the value of removing the psychedelic effect from psychedelic drugs
• (50:39) Why human research suggestion microdosing benefits are placebo, while animal studies show biological cause and effect
• (55:50) Patreon thanks and info
• (58:28) Psilocybin Microdosing, what the science says it is and isn't likely to help with
• (1:00:53) psilocybin microdosing DO NOT make you more productive or creative, science says
• (1:03:42) What science suggestion psilocybin microdosing is likely to help us with
• (1:04:45) The neuroplasticity from psilocybin microdoses may harm an otherwise healthy person
• (1:08:52) microdosing research is being polluted by a lack of specificity
• (1:15:05) The 2024 FDA denial of MDMA was a good thing for psychedelic science
• (1:16:09) What research is next for Palner
• (1:17:49) How to stay connected with Palner's work
• (1:18:51) Closing
• (1:19:50) Integration coaching

This episode features Jeronimo MM of ICEERS Foundation and explores the potential dangers and pitfalls present for ayahuasca/plant medicine facilitators in non-traditional contexts. Dangers specific to the facilitators, that Jeronimo refers to as The 6 Pitfalls: Sex, Money, Power, Intercultural Relationships, and Legal Situations.

We also do a deep dive into what a “non-traditional context” is and two potential harms that might come up for participants, namely “when the experience is too much” and “Ayahuasca told me that…”

To use Jeronimo’s words from the interview you are about to hear, this episode explores “How to avoid harming people who have put themselves under your care”

We welcome Jeronimo back to Adventures Through The Mind for his fourth feature. His previous episodes were a dedicated interview on the complexity of the ongoing mainstreaming of psychedelics and the others were psychedelic cafes on how to protect from corporate influence and bad actors in the psychedelic scene, and the importance of ethnopharmacology for the future of humanity.

If you are a plant medicine facilitator of any kind or know facilitators, this episode is definitely for you. However, this episode will be relevant to anyone interested in participating in any kind of plant medicine ceremony. As the dangers presented, facilitators are also dangers present to participants under those facilitators’ care. Having a sense of what they are in advance empowers your capacity to better navigate the often murky world of underground facilitation.

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Importantly, this episode is a vignette into a portion of the 6-month course Jeronimo is putting on through ICEERS titled Increasing the Safety of Ayahuasca Sessions: A harm reduction course for facilitators in non-traditional contexts.

The course begins on May 8 and the admission process ends on April 27. Meaning there is little time left to sign up, if you feel called to do so.

More details (along with a video version of this interview) are available at bit.ly/ATTMind174
Or you can jump right over to the course page by heading to http://iceers.academy/

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Episode Breakdown

• (0:00) Opening
• (7:01) Increasing the Safety of Ayahuasca Sessions Course
• (7:50) Patron thanks
• (9:11)) Interview Begins
• (10:21) A harm reduction course for Facilitators in non-traditional contexts.
• (14:31) Why non-traditonal use contexts for ayahuasca require additional protocols to protect participants and facilitators
• (20:03) Dangers for participants: when the experience is too much, flight-response, disassociation, psychosis
• (29:18) The fine line between when to let difficult experiences unfold naturally and when to intervene
• (38:21) How to protect an ayahuasca participant from falling into disassociation
• (42:18) The dangers of "Ayahuasca told me that..."
• (50:15) Discerning between internal and external truths as a part of psychedelic integration
• (54:57) The 3 confirmations rule for psychedelic realizations
• (57:01) The 6 pitfalls for ayahuasca/plat medicine facilitators | Sex, Money, Power, Isolation, Intercultural Relationships, Legal situations
• (59:34) How the social structure of being an ayahuasca faciliator can push them into these pitfalls
• (1:10:11) The Pitfall of Money | the importance of payment, but the manipulations that can occur through payment
• (1:12:42) “Ayahuasca told me…” sex, love, and relationships
• (1:21:37) Its nice to be celebrated, but eventually it becomes a poison
• (1:27:31) The pitfall of “Intercultural Relationships” | relationships between non-traditional facilitators and traditional cultures
• (1:38:54) “How to avoid harming people who have put themselves under your care” | freedom vs responsibility
• (1:43:47) Follow-up links for the ICEERS course.
• (1:44:54) Closing

What are heightened sexual experiences? How do we access them? How do they relate to our ability to access pleasure, multiple orgasms, and a profound sense of intimacy with ourselves and with others? What do we need to watch out for on our journey of awakening to these heightened sexual experiences in order to stay safe in ourselves and avoid accidentally hurting others? And, what roles do our psychedelic experiences serve in this sexual awakening?

We welcome Miriam Elyse to Adventures Through The Mind to explore these questions and more.

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We welcome French cultural anthropologist and philosopher Martin Fortier on the show for this episode to discuss his research into how culture influences cognition. His current PhD research project consists of exploring the interplay between neurobiological processes and culture in hallucinogenic experiences. His main fieldwork is located in Shipibo communities of the Middle Ucayali, in the Peruvian Amazon.

Martin Fortier, Ph.D. Candidate, is currently a doctoral student at Institut Jean Nicod (a lab hosted by the Department of Cognitive Studies of ENS-Paris) and at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of EHESS-Paris. He is also a visiting student researcher at the Department of Anthropology of Stanford University.

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Episode Breakdown

• Martin's educational history and experience.
• The Sense of Reality; how we build models of the world and how/why we believe it to be real.
• Feeling "reality" vs. judging "reality".
• The experiential differences between serotonergic/psychedelic drugs (psilocybin, mescaline, LSD, etc) and anticholinergics/deliriants (datura).
• Experiential qualities: waking state vs serotonergic psychedelics vs. cholinergic psychedelics vs. dreaming vs. psychosis.
• .Ayahuasca/hallucinogenic visions as metaphorical perceptions
• Unpacking how the most valuable things in life are fiction / the hard problem of consciousness.
• Rationally exploring the hallucinogenic entities/spirits phenomenon.
• The role of the shaman.
• Honouring the indigenous cosmology while researching it from a western scientific framework / mitigating cultural appropriation within anthropological research.
• Scientific framework vs. indigenous cosmology.
• The nature of schizophrenia and psychopathologies and the potentials of ayahuasca shamanism as a potential treatment.
• Will psychedelics be important to philosophy? Should philosophers take psychedelics?

In this (on-location) interview, Darren Springer talks about the ancient history of pan-African psychedelic use and travels forwards through time along the wings of mythology until the myths dissolve into the harsh reality of slavery, racism, and neighbourhoods infused with violence. It is grounded in this reality that Darren shares with us the potential of psychedelics (psilocybin mushrooms in particular) for the healing of historical trauma and the revitalization of black communities in the UK.

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- Where we are
- Darren’s journey into the pan-African use of psychedelic mushrooms
- Going back into the earliest people of Africa and the great mushroom creation story
- The ancient use of mushrooms in Africa
- The historical role of women in African power plants
- The mixing of stories back through history.
- Egypt, Babylon, and Jesus; a mushroom.
- The role of psychedelic/power plants for black communities in England
- Psychedelics and the trauma of 500 years of slavery (post-traumatic slave syndrome)
- The challenge of re-introducing power plants to modern black communities in England.
- The qualities mushrooms awaken, and their potential for social healing.
- The power of letting go

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Given the situation the world is in, it's necessary for us to talk about COVID-19. And, it is my responsibility, as a public figure, to share with you about where I am at with this as well as to share some reliable resources.

That is what this update is.
It lets you know where I am at with my perspective on the virus. It's about 12min long.

TL/DR: COVID-19 is very, very real and very, very serious and I am highly encouraging you to inform yourself and start practicing social distancing ASAP.

RESOURCES

Here are some resources for you.

Things are changing every day at this point, although these links are a good place to get a sense of what's happening and why it is serious and why social distancing is important.

• Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca
• These simulations show how to flatten the coronavirus growth curve: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/
• What Are the Coronavirus Risks with Ayahuasca Ceremonies?: https://entheonation.com/blog/coronavirus-ayahuasca/
• Peter Attia doing a Q&A on COVID-19, great and easy to understand info here: https://www.instagram.com/tv/B9nlVtHgGE0/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

Here are some general pages regarding the pandemic.

• WHO official page for COVID-19: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
• Canada Official Page: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus-disease-covid-19.html
• Reddit Live Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/
• CDC official page on COVID-19: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
• Johns Hopkins LiveMap: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

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Maria Balaet is on the show to talk about the impact of psychedelics on memory processing, the neuropharmacology of memory, the interplay of memory and personal consciousness, and the ethics of memory modulation with psychedelics.

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Episode Breakdown

• Foundational concepts of memory, brain, and consciousnesses
• Neural Darwinism
• Memory as an operation of the brain
• Memory is not just about remembering things
• Encoding, consolidation, retrieval (and reconsolidation)
• Implicit vs explicit memory
• Different theories of memory retrieval
• The pharmacological mechanism of memory consolidation
• The malleability of memory over time - how memory is liable to disruption
• The memory of meaning
• The neurobiology of memory
• The impact of psychedelics on memory processing
• Her research using a ketamine analog to disrupt the reconsolidation process
• Psychedelics as memory modulators
• How we can use psychedelics therapeutically to change memory
• Research with ketamine to alter memory cues around alcoholism
• The dangers of at-home efforts to alter memory resulting in accidental self-harm
• Psychedelic brainwashing and malicious intent
• Differing psychedelics, different neuropharmacology, different memory modulation?
• The fleeting memories of DMT, dream recall, and state-dependent learning
• Is it possible to increase our ability to remember our psychedelic experiences?
• The role of glutamate in memory and how different psychedelics pharmacologically change that process (LSD vs ketamine)
• Maria's upcoming research on how people's cognition under psychedelics compares to the average sober population

Adam Strauss is on the show for this episode to dive into the painful lived experience of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and what it was, exactly, that psychedelics did for him that helped him regain agency over his life.

**full episode breakdown below**

***SPOILER ALERT: Ender's Game / Xenocide Novel Series ***

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This episode is with Mijal Schmidt and presents a rather robust exploration of what psychedelic integration is and the specifics of what an ayahuasca integration requires.

We talk about the importance of good preparation, and what that looks like; various integration practices and activities; the most common challenges in integrating ayahuasca experiences, including integrating HUGE experiences and difficult experiences; the integration of experiences of exogenous material, e.g. entities or absorbing other people’s processes; and how to know when we have successfully completed our integration.

We also explore the difference between psychedelic integration and psychotherapy; learning to accept what is happening in our journeys, even when we don't like it or want it or think it's what we are supposed to be experiencing; as well as how to support someone in a post-psychedelic crisis, and when to intervene for their own safety.

Enjoy!

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Episode Breakdown

• (0:00) Opening
• (1:05) Introduction and Guest Bio
• (4:53) Patron Thanks
• (6:07) Interview Begins
• (7:13) Mijal’s integration history in private practice and through the ICEERS Support Center
• (16:40) Best practices in preparing for a psychedelic journey
• (22:36) Preparing for ayahuasca specifically
• (28:56) The term “intake” vs “ceremony”
• (29:57) What an ayahuasca experience is, and what we might find
• (37:22) Considering the integration of experiences of exogenous material, e.g. entities or absorbing other people’s processes
• (44:05) The importance of acknowledging Mystery
• (50:40) What, exactly, is psychedelic integration?
• (58:10) Various integration practices and activities
• (1:02:21) We need to be care about when, and who we talk to about our psychedelic experiences
• (1:12:13) Be careful acting on what ayahuasca tells you, unless it's getting you out of danger
• (1:14:52) How to know when you have successfully integrated your ayahuasca experience
• (1:18:53) The most common challenges in integrating ayahuasca experiences
• (1:24:20) Integrating HUGE ayahuasca experiences
• (1:30:09) Learning to accept what is happening in our journeys
• (1:34:49) The feelings you think are in the way, are the way
• (1:26:23) Supporting someone in post-psychedelic crisis
• (1:41:53) When to intervene in someone’s post-psychedelic crisis
• (1:48:57) Follow-up links and social handles
• (1:51:12) Outro

"Breaking Convention is a biennial multidisciplinary conference on psychedelic consciousness, featuring more than 200 presenters from around the world." It takes place in London, England and is one of the largest psychedelic conferences in the world.

I was quasi-invited to speak (I was invited by a program curator, but wasn't an officially invited speaker) there this year. I decided I would try and harvest the opportunity to be amongst so many luminaries in the psychedelic field by catching as many short interviews as I could in my time there. I got 11. (also, my talk was recorded and they will eventually release it. Also, I do have a transcript that will also be released soon-ish)

Similar to what I did at OZORA Festival for ATTMind 100, I asked them all the same 4 questions:

1. Who are you and what do you do?
2. What is the most relevant consideration you are holding at this conference?
3. What role do you see yourself playing in the psychedelic renaissance?
4. What role, if any, do you see psychedelics playing in helping humanity respond to any of the many crises we are facing?

There are some nuances to each of these questions that are presented in the (quite long intro). If you would like to breeze through the intro, relevant bits are between 4:25 and 10:110, with the actual interviews starting at 11:55. Of course, please make an effort to watch/listen to the full intro if you are open to it (especially watch it cause I made something special in the intro just for this episode 😉 )

Featured guests listed below.
ENJOY!

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Today's guests, in order of appearance

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• Rita Kočárová - Psychedelics researcher
• John Anderson - Psychedelics researcher
• Akua Ofosuhene - Co-founder of Hub and Culture
• Tobias Erny - Iboga & Ibogaine therapist, researcher, and activist
• Chiara Baldini - Independent Researcher, Liminal Village Curator for BOOM! Festival
• Martijn Schirp - Founder of SYNTHESIS, legal psilocybin retreat in The Netherlands
• Maria Papaspyrou - Psychotherapist  [see her previous interview on the podcast]
• Tom Hatsis - Psychedelic Historian [see his previous interview on the podcast]
• Sanae Orchi - Broadcaster, public speaker
• Leor Roseman - Neuropsychopharmacologist
• Sam Gandy - Ecologist

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WHAT DOES THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE OFFER US IN SO FAR AS THE MEANING OF BEING IN RELATIONSHIP?

That is the question we are exploring for this episode of The Psychedelic Café. Our Guests are: Mel Cassidy, Bruce Sanguin, Miriam Elise, and Adam Wilder

Greg Kieser is on the show to explore a hypothetical future where society is led by Super Aware Intelligence Machines as a framework to talk about systems thinking, supersystemic thinking, idea ecologies, the two cognitive impediments that prevent humanity from solving the largest problems it faces, and where psychedelics are sewn into the mix.

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• Introducing the concept and themes of Dear Machine (a letter to a super aware intelligent machine in the future)
• Bringing a different quality of thinking to humanity's problems
• Systems thinking, supersystemic thinking, and idea ecosystems
• Comparing idea ecosystems to forests and the microbiome
• What ideas and ideologies best serve humanity's evolution?
• The problem-solving tools we are currently using are fundamentally incapable of solving the problems they propose to solve
• What perspectives and goals would a super aware intelligent machine will have for humanity?
• Why good ideas will grow and eventually outplace bad ideas, despite the tendencies for bad ideas (or ideologies) to spread more virally
• Regenerative agriculture as an example of how good ideas will eventually take over the bad ones
• Accounting for the limitations of human emotional immaturity
• Why psychedelics can help decrease irrational thinking
• Greg Kieser has optimism despite how disparaging the situation currently seems
• The two cognitive impediments that prevent humanity from solving our largest problems
• The illusory self and how it is baked into our social institution
• The interweaving of the self beyond the lifespan and into the natural world
• "We lack the brain capacity to acquire data, analyze it for actionable insights, then rank the value of the resulting knowledge." [source]
• Informational overload and the disintegration of objective reality
• The challenge of making decisions while trying to juggle all the knowledge we might have about that decision - analysis paralysis
• How to buy to apple
• Our governments are not prepared to solve our problems and are actually incentivized not to
• The value and the failures of democracy
• Psychedelics' place within humanities progression towards harmony
• Why psychedelics, themselves, will not actually help us better ourselves as a society
• What has he pandemic revealed about the validity of Greg’s thesis in Dear Machine
• Comparing the pandemic to the occupy movement
• What are the first steps we can take to start developing supersystemic thinking

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Erik Davis, writer and host of Expanding Mind podcast, joins us on the show to share what he sees are the essential skills we need to navigate the chaos of a reality liquified.

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Nicholas P. Money is Professor of Biology and Western Program Director at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is an international expert on fungal biology and author of popular science books that celebrate the microbial world including his most recent, Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi (2024)

He joins us on the podcast to deep dive into the biology, ecology, and intelligence of fungi. We discuss the body and life cycle of mushrooming fungi; the shape and behaviour of mycelium; how fungi are more similar to humans than they are to plants; and even a critical take on the efficacy of so-called "functional mushrooms".

We also explore the thesis he put forth in his 2021 paper, Hyphal and mycelial consciousness: the concept of the fungal mind. With that, we discuss fungi consciousness; the conscious intelligence of mycelium; how all organisms have consciousness; why science and society needs to NOT recognize the consciousness of non-human life; and whether our psilocybin experiences encounters with a fungal mind. We even get into debating the value of the human species on the other side of climate change.

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• (00:00) Opening
• (03:13) Interview Begins
• (04:03) If you want to make your way through crisis, align yourself with the mushrooms
• (07:25) Debating the value of the human species
• (10:34) The value of humanity
• (12:09) Being able to experience happiness, even in the midst of ecological collapse
• (14:36) Humans as beauty sense organs for the earth
• (16:12) Is there such a thing as objective "good"?
• (19:20) The body and life cycle of mushrooming fungi
• (22:14) The many other forms of fungi
• (26:10) The shape of mycelium
• (29:56) The different between fungal hyphae and plant roots
• (34:34) One main difference between fungi and plants
• (36:26) How fungi are more similar to humans than they are to plants
• (40:37) Why fungal infections are so hard to treat without harming ourselves
• (41:38) A critical take on functional mushrooms
• (45:16) Defining "conscious" and "consciousness"; all organisms have consciousness
• (55:29) Patreon Thanks
• (58:30) Science and Society needs to NOT recognize the consciousness of non-human life
• (01:06:09) Fungal hyphae are conscious; here's how
• (01:10:20) Can an organism be conscious and lack the capacity of intent?
• (01:18:39) "Is a mycelium more than a sum of its parts? Can it be regarded as an integrated conscious entity?"
• (01:21:12) Our visual identification informs our empathy? Finding Religions through science
• (01:26:46) Our psilocybin experiences encounters with the mind of the fungi?
• (01:34:28) A short story about what Prof Money hasn't experienced psilocybin
• (01:36:57) Maybe psilocybin is evolutionarily meant for us in some way
• (01:45:06) Follow up links and info on Prof Money's new book
• (01:46:50) Outro

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In this episode, we welcome back Dr. Andrew Gallimore to explore the content of his new book 'Reality Switch Technologies: Psychedelics as Tools for the Discovery and Exploration of New Worlds'.

We discuss how the brain builds an experiential world model from patterns of information at the neural level; how all of those worlds are correlated with specific neural patterns; how we can disturb that neural pattern to encounter new worlds; essentially, using psychedelic molecules to explore alternate worlds. 

We explore how different classes of psychedelics affects the brain differently and thus switch us to different potential worlds, focusing specifically on the neural and world-switching effects of classical psychedelics, tropane alkaloids, and ketamine.

We also explore why the brain doesn’t care if its models are true, only if their adaptive; how perception of reality flows from conceptual hypothesis down, not from sensory information upwards; the self-model and its disintegration (ego death); we talk about schizophrenia and hearing voices; and about how every experience is “real” but not all experience is accurately mapped to our environment.

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• (0:00) Opening and introduction
• (3:10) Guest bio
• (4:38) Patreon Thanks | Support the Show
• (6:14) Interview Begins
• (7:38) All experience is “real”; all experiences are of models made by the brain
• (10:45) DMT worlds are made of the same stuff as our normal waking world
• (13:15) The brain builds a world model from patterns of information at the neural level
• (18:31) The Interface Theory of Perception; not every experience is an adaptive model of the environment
• (22:07) The brain doesn’t care if its models are true, only if it's adaptive.
• (24:26) Perception of reality flows from conceptual hypothesis down, not from sensory information upwards; predictive coding
• (35:40) The world falls out of the brain; how the brain builds the rich complexity of an entire reality
• (40:50) The self-model and its disintegration (ego death)
• (45:08) Schizophrenia and hearing voices
• (52:21) How the brain builds the world space of consensus reality, and how we can explore new world spaces by changing our brains with psychedelics
• (59:59) The C-Switch: how classical psychedelics affect the structure and dynamics of our models for reality
• (1:07:32) How classical psychedelics offer us profound insights and increase creativity through their effect on our brain’s hypotheses about reality
• (1:11:39) Ego death is the result of classical psychedelics producing a loss of distinction between self and other
• (1:14:20) Increased wonder and insights resulting from classical psychedelics destabilizing the brain’s hypotheses
• (1:23:08) Considering the difference between 5-MeO-DMT and DMT in the context of classical psychedelic effect on “the world space”
• (1:27:34) The M-Switch: how tropane alkaloids (aka datura) affect the structure and dynamics of our models for reality through acetylcholine, the M1 receptor, and the management of error signals
• (1:36:38) Tropanes, attention, and coming in and out of reality and hallucinations
• (1:39:30) The N-Switch: how ketamine and PCP affect the structure and dynamics of our models for reality through the NDMA receptor, the push-pull dance between anesthesia and high-psychedelia
• (1:45:23) James musing on his high-dose ketamine experiences
• (1:46:45) Ketamine is an abstract state of consciousness
• (1:50:11) What about Cannabis, MDMA, and Amanita Muscaria?
• (1:54:51) Using psychedelic molecules (and designing new ones) to explore and map alternate worlds
• (2:02:47) Follow-up links and socials
• (2:05:21) Outro

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Welcome To The Psychedelic Café, a structured group conversation on curated topics, with curated guests, exploring a central question.

This session's question is: What does it mean to be a Black advocate in the Psychedelic Renaissance?

Our guests are The Dank Duchess, Darron Le Baron, Chor Boogie, Akua Ofosuhene, and Moudou Baqui

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Rachel Harris, PhD joins us to talk about her new book, Swimming In The Sacred

Swimming in the Sacred offers a revelatory look into the past half-century of psychedelics use via in-depth interviews Harris conducted with women elders who have worked underground guiding sacred entheogenic journeys to cultivate insight, healing, and spiritual development.   

Specifically, we talk about working with unseen worlds and unseen others; thin veils, absorption, and being accidentally overdosed by psychedelics; the uncanny connection between guide and journeyer during ceremony; and how psychedelic guiding work is NOT therapy and how therapy and guiding are two different skill sets.

Furthermore, we talk about the complexity of good dosing; the value of lower doses and the risks of putting larger doses on a pedestal; the strange emerging phenomenon of “competitive ego deathing”; and learning to work with life in a bigger way by learning to let our psychedelic insights work on us over time.

We talk about the risks of harm and abuse in both under- and above-ground psychedelic therapy; the difference between certification and qualification; how we lose our capacity to properly skill psychedelic guides in our rush to certify as many as possible to meet a massive demand; how to assess if a provider is trustworthy and skilled; and why psychedelic therapists NEED to experience psychedelics themselves.

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• (0:00) Opening
• (4:08) Guest Bio
• (6:23 ) Patreon thanks | Support The Show
• (7:55) Interview begins
• (10:08) The research behind Swimming In The Sacred
• (12:10) Focusing on the value of the wisdom of women guides, specifically
• (14:22) How women have been doubly silenced in psychedelic circles
• (21:11) These guides aren’t therapists; their work is not therapy
• (24:14) The capacity to work with unseen worlds is not necessarily available to all of us
• (29:21) Thin veils, absorption, and being accidentally overdosed by psychedelics
• (30:57) The complexity of good dosing | “Competitive Ego Deathing”
• (34:11) Therapists DO NOT need to dose with their client
• (34:44) Psychedelic therapists NEED to experience psychedelics | sitting and therapy are separate skills
• (41:47) The uncanny connection between guide and journeyer during ceremony
• (45:20) Modern psychedelic research is lacking collaboration with the wisdom of the underground
• (49:40) We lose capacity for skillfulness in psychedelic guidance when we rush to certify psychedelic therapists
• (53:18) The difference between certified and qualified
• (53:52) What to ask a psychedelic guide to determine if they are trustworthy
• (55:28) What is lost when psychedelics become a mainstream institution
• (56:14) Psychedelic guidance is not about symptom reductions
• (57:51) Addressing the risk of abuse in psychedelic therapy
• (1:07:27) Therapists, heal thyself | “Waking up” does not amount to “cleaning up”
• (1:08:51) Waking up, Cleaning up, Growing up, Looking around
• (1:11:13) Working with life in a bigger way
• (1:13:59) The value of lower doses and the risks of putting larger doses on a pedestal
•  (1:24:29) The strange trend of overdosed microdosing supplements
• (1:25:40) Psychedelic insights work on you over time, if you support them in doing so
• (1:34:03) Be careful not to psychologize spiritual experiences
• (1:39:56) Discerning between a “message from the medicine” and ego projection
• (1:42:51) Psilocybin-assisted Therapy Vs Therapy-assisted Psilocybin
• (1:44:57) Advice for people who want to become psychedelic therapists
• (1:47:09) Advice for therapists who want to start providing psychedelic therapy
•  (1:48:07) Ketamine Therapy is NOT Psychedelic Therapy
• (1:50:50) Advice for people who want to become underground guides
• (1:52:43) Advice for finding a psychedelic guide you can trust
• (1:54:27) Advice for people who want to develop a life practice with psychedelic plants
• (1:56:41) “Swimming In The Sacred” comes from Maria Sabina
• (1:57:58) Follow-up links
• (1:58:55) Closing

Rachel's other interviews on Adventures Through The Mind

• Integrating Ayahuasca (and "her" voice in your head) w/ Rachel Harris Ph.D. ~ Ep. 63
• What Psychedelic Can Teach Us About Dealing With Crisis - Psychedelic Café 2

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Jerónimo Mazarrasa is Program Director at The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service (also known as ICEERS), which is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming society’s relationship with Traditional Indigenous Medicines. He is also founder of ICEERS Academy, and creator AyaSafety, an online course for people interested in increasing the safety of ayahuasca ceremonies.

Our interview with Jerónimo is going to explore the vulnerability of increased suggestibility while the influence of ayahuasca (and other psychedelics), and the various harms that can can incur when one's facilitator that suggestibility is not handled with skilful care.

Throughout the interview we cover a range of different ways that facilitators can accidentally harm their clients through suggestibility; the relationship between openness and vulnerability; how "caring" and "lack of care" can exist simultaneously; how the isolation and clandestine nature the modern psychedelic underground makes cultural learning difficult; how a facilitator can learn what is harmful, with respect to suggestibility; and how participants can protect themselves from a lack of facilitator care—all with many anecdotes and examples sewn throughout the course of the conversation.

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• (01:04) Introduction
• (04:24) AyaSafety (code AYATTM for 15% off)
• (06:35) Interview begins
• (07:58) The AyaSafety Course, explained
• (18:07) Suggestibility and why is it a concern with Ayahuasca (and all psychedelics)
• (24:21) The relationship between openness and vulnerability, ideology
• (28:50) The different ways facilitators can accidentally harm their clients through suggestibility
• (30:57) The importance of knowing your limits and referring out
• (33:04) The harms of introducing spiritual/religious beliefs to clients under the effects of psychedelics
• (36:19) Sharing "visions" with clients can be a violation; tarot as an example of offering intuitions skilfully
• (42:05) Claiming external authority, ayahuasca told me that
• (47:55) Having a shamanic awakening doesn't mean you should become a shaman
• (52:20) Patreon Thanks
• (54:10) "Trauma" language can impose detrimental constraints on ayahuasca healing
• (57:38) The harms/benefits of a facilitator's unskilful/skilful use of language, and vice versa
• (1:00:38) Self-knowledge is essential for facilitators; isolation hinders self-knowledge
• (1:06:19) These risks are due to uniquely stark power imbalances
• (1:08:26) "Caring" and "lack of care" can exist simultaneously
• (1:16:37) How a facilitator learns what is harmful, with respect to suggestibility
• (1:22:42) How participants can protect themselves from a lack of facilitator care
• (1:33:24) AyaSafety course, details—who it is for, and who it is NOT for
• (1:40:35) Outro

This episode seeks to explore the phenomenon of spiritual forces, demons, and disease. But not so much from the "are spirits real?" perspective but from the position of assuming they are real and thus an exploration of what are they and how they operate on the human being. 

For this exploration, we welcome Are Thoresen, a veterinarian, acupuncturist, and scholar of anthroposophy. Are is also recognized as an expert in spirit entities and demonic possession, with a particular focus on their role in illness and healing.

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Of course, the ongoing skepticism of the "realness" of all this is present throughout this discussion as I, your host and interviewer, am not sold on the whole thing. At least not in the beginning, my heavy skepticism waning towards responsible ambivalence by the end of it all.

*** That said, I invite people to please keep their higher reasoning intact fo this interview as, real or not, getting obsessed with the presences of "demonic forces" and "battles between good an evil" can take us down dangerous roads psychologically. ***

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From the origins of life, through ancient human history, to the interplanetary future of humanity and everything in between.

"Bruce Frederick Damer, Ph.D. (born 31 January 1962) is a Canadian-American multidisciplinary scientist, designer, and author. Dr. Bruce Damer collaborates with colleagues developing and testing a new model for the origin of life on Earth and in the design of spacecraft architectures to provide a viable path for expansion of human civilization beyond the Earth."

This man's resume is extensive and beautiful. From helping to lay the foundations for multi-user digital interfaces in the early 90s, to designing spaceships for NASA, to bringing forth what is "perhaps the first "end-to-end" model proposed for life's origins." Not only that but he is also a strong, public supporter of the counter-cultural movement. Once personal friends, with Terence McKenna, Bruce is an incredible story teller and has come on the show for this special 2 part episode to share the story of the origins of life on planet earth, from start dust through the primordial soup and first homo sapiens all the way to dropping LSD at transformational music festivals.

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• A complete model for the origins and evolution of life on planet earth
• A poetic reference to the world of the progenote, our common biological ancestor 
• How language and storytelling can immerse you in experience
• Virtual reality storytelling environment (Android Jones' microdose and Duncan Trussell).
• Psychedelics, magical spaces, and "endotripping".
• The mystical experiences at the foundations of Western thought.
• The corporatization of Christianity and the spread of the Pauline Christians.
• Civilizational neoteny and the failures of conventional initiations.
• An updated version of Terence McKenna's Stoned Ape Theory.
• The Ground Truth.
• An example of how radically human beings have permanently altered the planetary biome.
• Will we find life on Mars? Why?
• Space technology, biospheres, and the future sustainability of humanity.
• Suppressed technology and how to navigate conspiracy theory.

This episode not only discusses the power of psilocybin to help us develop the skill of confident vulnerability but also what such a psychedelic lesson might mean for masculinity in the cultural context of inner-city Detroit.

To take us through this discussion, we welcome Ser Moudou Awa Balla Baqui, aka Baba Moudou Baqui, a lifelong citizen of Detroit's Highland Park and third generation metaphysician.

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• Moudou’s journey from Martial arts to psychedelics under the guidance of Kilinid Iyi
• Teaching people to fish as a metaphor for helping people with psychedelic competence.
• The trauma of the war on drugs in Detroit communities
• The (potential) role of psilocybin in the poor and oppressed communities of Detroit
• Sacred plants for healing the wounding of men
• Differentiating masculine and feminine from man and women
• The impact of psilocybin on the violence of crime-heavy black neighbourhoods of Detroit
• What changes are happing in people with psilocybin that results in the resolution of trauma and reduction of violence
• The power of vulnerability to heal and of healed wounds to empower us
• The unique and life-ligating bond of sharing sacred psychedelic space
• The vital importance of courage and vulnerability in our troubled times
• The power of feeling pain without attacking and how a lack of such power results in harming our children
• Learning not to force people into a better life
• Moudou’s healing journey during his father death
• The role Moudou’s psilocybin journey helped him with the grief of his father’s death
• The importance of gathering together to learn.

Heather Hargraves joins us to discuss using neurofeedback therapy to heal the brain and build a resilient nervous system.

We also talk about mental health disorders as an adaptive response of the nervous system, rather than a pathology. As well as where neurofeedback therapy fits in as an adjunct to psychotherapy in treat those disorders.

We also talk extensively about ADHD, traumatic brain injury, and brain health.

And, of particular excitement to you psychedelic-enthusiasts out there, we talk about psychedelic-informed neurofeedback. (Which is basically like using neurofeedback to encourage your brain to enter psychedelic-like states.)

• What is neurofeedback and how does it work
• Using neurofeedback to encourage homeostasis in the brain through progressive-overload exercise for the nervous system
• Increasing communication, complexity, and relationship within the nervous system
• Understanding mental health disorders as a product of nervous system adaptation rather than pathology
• Technologically-augmented psychotherapy through neurofeedback
• ADHD, relaxation-induced anxiety, and Heart Rate Variability (a neurofeedback perspective)
• ADHD as a product of early-life head trauma
• Using neurofeedback for training the brain into good mental and neurological health
• Beyond neuroptimal
• At-home Neurofeedback technology - pros and cons
• Using neurofeedback therapy to treat chronic pain
• Discovering psychedelic-informed neurofeedback
• Combining psychedelic-induced neurofeedback with actual psychedelics
• Using neurofeedback therapy to assist integration on the neurobiological level
• Using neurofeedback and microdosing to repair brain damage
• You need to change the microbiome to sustain changes in the brain
• Early life trauma starts in the brain stem - A criticism of the polyvagal theory
• Divergence Neuro–effective and affordable at-home neurofeedback headset
• Using Neurofeedback and VR to create a Nexus5 (novel) experience
• Having neurodivergent individuals in our communities is an important evolutionary advantage
• “Maybe we’ve been hypnotized into pathologizing healthy responses to unhealthy systems”
• Using neurofeedback and genomics to predict whether or not DMT will help treat addiction
• Creating technology that works like mycelium

Bob Wold is from Clusterbusters Inc. He joins us on this episode of Adventures Through The Mind podcast to present cluster headaches, one of the most painful conditions known to humankind—their patterns, symptoms, and pathophysiology; as well as the treatments presently available, with a specific deep dive into psychedelic tryptamines as the most effective treatment discovered thus far and how those with clusters use those tryptamines.

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Episode Breakdown

• (0:00) Opening
• (3:13) Episode Overture
• (6:42) Patreon Thanks
• (7:58) Interview begins
• (8:44) What are Cluster Headaches: patterns, symptoms, and physiology
• (16:52) Cluster cycles | headaches returning every year at the same time
• (20:09) Physiological causes and triggers
• (24:40) The strain of clusters on family and relationships | The life-saving benefits of community
• (29:24) Suicidality amongst survivors of cluster headaches
• (33:24) Pathophysiology of clusters: trigeminal nerve and the hypothalamus
• (36:34) The treatment landscape | medications and high-flow oxygen
• (43:49) Lack of funding compromising research on cluster headaches
• (48:55) The treatment landscape: opiates(e.g. heroin), caffeine, and aerobic exercises
• (58:57) The history of psychedelic tryptamines for cluster headaches
• (1:05:33) Psychedelic tryptamines are the most effective treatment for cluster headaches
• (1:0911) Psychedelic tryptamines for clusters: dosage, efficacy, and protocol
• (1:16:24) Why psychedelic tryptamines help cluster headaches
• (1:19:10) LSA vs LSD vs Psilocybin for treatment efficacy
• (1:23:10) Growing your own psychedelic medicine is revolutionary
• (1:28:57) Advocation and education on psychedelic tryptamines for cluster survivors
• (1:32:39) Novel psychedelics tryptamines for cluster headaches
• (1:35:54) Conflicts between the DEA and research into new psychedelic treatments
• (1:42:36) Clusterbusters: who they are, what they do, and how you can connect with them
• (1:45:22) Outro

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The Dank Duchess is on Adventures Through The Mind to discuss hashish, from what it means and how its made to why it matters in the modern cannabis market. We also discuss the ongoing impact of cannabis prohibition on black culture in the united states, harmful trends in the modern cannabis culture, and the power of hashish (and cannabis in general) to bridge our social divides and lay foundations for a better world.

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• The anatomy of the cannabis plant.
• All about trichomes and how different cannabis concentrates interact with them.
• Bubble hash making 101.
• The Market’s misunderstanding about what denotes hashish quality
• What “full-spectrum” means in the context of hash making.
• The definition of hash ‘meltability’ and why it matters to dabbing.
• What makes good hash good.
• How to test how good your hash is.
• Why hashish matters.
• The difference in experience between smoking buds and smoking hash.
• The harmfulness of competitive cannabis consumption.
• Positive trends in intentional cannabis culture.
• How the racism of cannabis prohibition continues to harm black people within cannabis culture.
• The evolution of hip-hop cannabis rock stardom into Xanax/Lean/Percocet/etc overdoses.
• Why Duchess thinks more back people need to step up in support of responsible substance use.
• The continued racism of prohibitionist law enforcement.
• The bridging capacity of communal cannabis use (the value of cannabis communities to bridge modern racial and social divides).
• What 'growing up' means and what it takes to grow up.
• The psychological harm of smoking cannabis alone.

Stephen Jenkinson joins us to discuss arguments against psilocybin for the dying, death as a god, the failures of hope, the cowardice of misanthropy, and the dangers of being arrogant when facing the divine.

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Robert 'Rio' Hahn is on the show for this episode to present the explorer's mindset to us, and all that it can offer us, through sharing his history as not only an explorer but one of the founding fathers for ethnobotanical research of psychoactive plants in the Amazon. He is not only a curious and sharp-minded man but an important figure in the history of psychedelic culture as we know it today.

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• Rio journey into the amazon on the  R/VHeraclitus to study psychoactive plants with Wade Davis and Dennis and Terrence McKenna
• What it was like to drink ayahuasca before anyone knew what ayahuasca was
• Is there regret for helping pave the way for ayahuasca tourism?
• How an explorers mindset can protect us from shamanic exploitation
• How and explorers mindset can help us navigate the pandemic crisis
• Surrender, acceptance, curiosity, and breath
• How to be explorers while holding psychoactive plants as teachers
• Rios journey into datura with a Hindu swami (swamis sacred plant)
• Keep hold of the explorers' mindset

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Many people struggle with addiction their whole lives. Their story one of (hu)man vs. addiction, their story often ending with addiction the victor.

But what if that is not the way the story needs to be written? What if there is a way out that helps us suffering to reach into the root of our pain and find our love for life again?

The guests for this episode of the podcast, Elizabeth Bast and Chor Boogie, believe true freedom from addiction is possible with an ancient African root bark called Iboga.

They believe this not only because of the growing scientific research and the countless anecdotes about iboga's potential available on the internet but because it is also their lived experience.

Elizebeth and Chor join us on the show to talk about heroin addiction, how it impacted their intimate relationship, the redemption they found in Iboga, and what iboga taught them about what it takes to heal the pain at the root of addiction in oneself and the hearts of those we love.

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Episode Breakdown

• The problematic language around addiction.
• A portrait of an addiction-impacted romantic relationship.
• A journey into heroin addiction.
• Heroin's impact on the trust, honesty, and intimacy in their relationship.
• How Iboga found its way in.
• What iboga taught them about what it means to be in a sacred partnership.
• Iboga's potential role in the ongoing opioid crisis.
• A poignant and pointed discussion on what it takes to heal addiction.
• The traditional origins of the Bwiti and the mythic origins of Iboga.
• The challenges iboga and iboga culture will face with its growth in a global marketplace and colonialism in general.
• The cultural impact of connecting with iboga for the African diaspora in North America.

If you had to point to any singular example of institutionalized racial prejudice in America, the so-called drug war is a shining example. The prohibition of drugs in the United States, and subsequently much of the Western world, has its origins in racism, classism, and xenophobia (as well as the socio-economic control of industry, but that's a different story for a different time). The war on drugs was a classist and racist war on people of color (the origin of the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937) and those representing a threat the governmental powers that be, such as hippies and anti-war activists (Nixon's launch of the war on drugs in 1971).

If we are to move forward into the better world, one that heals the wounds rotting at the core of the rise of Trump, and begin to understand the systemic foundations of racism in the United States, we need to understand the history. This episode, with Martin Torgoff, author of Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, The Beats, and Drugs, offers a piece of that history. In particular, it follows the history of drug prohibition and institutionalized racism along the coupled history of Jazz music from the early 20s, told through the stories of the musicians, political leaders, and poets whose lives are inseparable from that history.

For full show notes, links, and to watch this interview in video, head to bit.ly/ATTMind47

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From the origins of life, through ancient human history, to the interplanetary future of humanity and everything in between.

"Bruce Frederick Damer, Ph.D. (born 31 January 1962) is a Canadian-American multidisciplinary scientist, designer, and author. Dr. Bruce Damer collaborates with colleagues developing and testing a new model for the origin of life on Earth and in the design of spacecraft architectures to provide a viable path for expansion of human civilization beyond the Earth."

This man's resume is extensive and beautiful. From helping to lay the foundations for multi-user digital interfaces in the early 90s, to designing spaceships for NASA, to bringing forth what is "perhaps the first "end-to-end" model proposed for life's origins." Not only that but he is also a strong, public supporter of the counter-cultural movement. Once personal friends, with Terence McKenna, Bruce is an incredible story teller and has come on the show for this special 2 part episode to share the story of the origins of life on planet earth, from start dust through the primordial soup and first homo sapiens all the way to dropping LSD at transformational music festivals.

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TOPICS DISCUSSED

• A complete model for the origins and evolution of life on planet earth
• A poetic reference to the world of the progenote, our common biological ancestor 
• How language and storytelling can immerse you in experience
• Virtual reality storytelling environment (Android Jones' microdose and Duncan Trussell).
• Psychedelics, magical spaces, and "endotripping".
• The mystical experiences at the foundations of Western thought.
• The corporatization of Christianity and the spread of the Pauline Christians.
• Civilizational neoteny and the failures of conventional initiations.
• An updated version of Terence McKenna's Stoned Ape Theory.
• The Ground Truth.
• An example of how radically human beings have permanently altered the planetary biome.
• Will we find life on Mars? Why?
• Space technology, biospheres, and the future sustainability of humanity.
• Suppressed technology and how to navigate conspiracy theory.

Dr. Douglas Tataryn joins us to explain the Four Facets Of Human Transformation, how they develop (or don’t develop) over time, what roles those facets play, what it looks like when one is more developed than the others, and how we might develop those facets in a way that leads us to removing perceptual distortions and living happier, healthier, more embodied lives within ourselves and within our relationships.

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• A quick overview of topics from our first interview together
• What are the four facets of transformation
• Waking up
  • Transcending identification
  • Development of identity/locus of identification
  • Challenges of meditative disidentification
  • The end of thinking is possible
  • Different types of waking up
  • Recognizing the lie of what we thought was our self
  • Where is God in enlightenment?
• Cleaning up
  • After enlightenment
  • Why do enlightened masters still do dumb things
  • Accidental conditioned history, emotional impressions, feeling beliefs, and perceptual distortions
  • Accidental conditioned history includes trauma but isn't only trauma
  • The importance of clearing perceptual distortions
• Growing up
  • Increasing complexity
  • Growing up can damage our relationships with those who aren't growing up
  • Spiral dynamics integral: Traditional consciousness VS modern VS postmodern
  • Why do social justice warriors embody the very relational and behavioral values and patterns they claim to be championing against?
  • The profound importance of co-learning in communities of practice
  • Sharing and exploring feelings and emotions are needed to form deep bonds
  • How Jordan Peterson illuminated the ethnocentric gang mentality of SJWs
  • The stages of growing up
• Looking around
  • How a lack of emotional intelligence can damage our relationships
  • Developing sensitivities to perceive different aspect of reality
  • Shamanism's capacity to navigate realities that others are unable to perceive at all
• How the 4 facets of transformations overlay Ken Wilber's 4 quadrants of the self
• How the self and the world you are creating within yourself is being co-created by the four facets of human transformation

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TheraPsil is a coalition of healthcare professionals, patients, and advocates dedicated to fighting for the rights of Canadians facing end-of-life or illness-related distress to have legal access to therapeutic psychedelics.

Members of the TheraPsil team join ATTMIND for a discussion about their legal argument for access to psilocybin-assisted therapy for the terminally ill here in Canada; the role of psilocybin in helping alleviate the existential suffering that comes during a person’s dying time (and thus into talk about life’s meaning and its presence or absence in that dying time.

• What access to psilocybin-assisted therapy for terminally ill patients matters
• Our constitutional right to psilocybin
• How psilocybin has helped me with the anxiety of knowing I will die
• The ignorance of the modern medical paradigm around mental health issues
• The modern medical paradigm’s focus on suppression rather than healing
• The cultural limitations to undoing bad laws
• Why society more receptive to psychedelics now then they were in the 60s
• Psilocybin revealing the meaning of life through the dissolution of cultural ideologies
• The psychological context of a dying person and why psilocybin-assisted therapy for the terminally ill is helpful in that context
• The negative cultural paradigm we have around death worsens end of life distress and how psilocybin helps
• Dying people are generally on a lot of drugs, how to assess the pharmacological safety of psilocybin in that context
• The complexities of pain management during psilocybin-assisted therapy for the terminally ill
• Advice to palliative nurses based on lessons learned in psilocybin assisted therapy for terminal anxiety
• Pain management reduction of total pain after a psilocybin experience
• The increase of spiritual care in palliative medicine
• What it took for therapsil to succeed in getting access to dying patients in Canada
• Will decriminalization hinder medical access?
• The impact increased access to psilocybin might have for society
• The successful progression of medical science; achieving patient access to psilocybin-assisted therapy for the terminally ill

Selen Atasoy PhD and her team have developed a new model for interpreting fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) data based on the mathematics of harmonic waves a phenomenon ubiquitous in nature. Essentially, they have developed a way to 'decompose' brain states in the same vein as how we can decompose a musical piece down to its individual notes. They call is connectome-harmonic decomposition and have applied this approach to the fMRI data of the brain on LSD.

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• PTSD, genetics, and susceptibility to alcoholism
• The false dichotomy of nature vs nurture and body vs mind
• Atasoy’s research of altered states and the connectome-harmonics model
• fMRI research, it’s changed over time and how connectome-harmonics is a different approach
• resting state networks, e.g. the default mode network
• Harmonic waves, natural frequencies, standing waves and cymatics.
• Applying the cymatics model to the fMRI data
• Harmonic ‘decomposition’ of fMRI data, analogous to decomposing music into individual notes
• What did they learn about looking at LSD brain states from the connectome-harmonic model
• LSD increases the complexity of the brain
• An explanation of the concept of ’Criticality’ in regards to brain-states, in particular to LSD and psychedelics in the treatment of mental disorders
• Possible links between psychedelics and neuroplasticity
• The possible connections between harmonic analysis of the brain and the spiritual concepts of reality as an energetic system
• The importance of having an open, but critical mind when conducting science
• Exploring the impact of light/sound frequencies (such as music, mantras, or binaural beats) to alter brain states.
• Can we, theoretically, recreate psychedelic states with light and sound? Or recreate psychedelic brain-state harmonics into music?
• Can harmonic frequencies at the basis of reality be the primary influence behind the morphogenesis of flora and fauna?
• Can the standing waves and frequencies of physical environments influence subjective brain states through brainwave entrainment?

In this episode of the podcast, we explore the present day legal and political conundrum psilocybin mushrooms are facing as they sit on the verge of a significant change in their criminal status; the historical impact of mushroom tourism on the indigenous cultures that work with psilocybin; how that history is impacting those cultures today; and how all of this is influencing the complex political situation mushrooms now sit in the middle of.

Our guest is Mijal Schmidt.

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• (00:00) Opening
• (1:44) Episode Sponsor: Magicbag.co
• (2:50) Patron Thanks
• (3:35) Guest Bio
• (4:44) Interview Begins
• (6:40) The present legal/political landscape of psilocybin mushrooms in Mexico
• (15:44) The involvement of indigenous peoples in the changing laws around mushrooms
• (24:39) The conflicts that mushroom tourism has created between indigenous people and its impact on changing legislation
• (37:39) What does it mean to be “poor” in a context of cultural richness
• (43:51) The Mushroom Velada (indigenous mushroom ceremony)
• (48:03) How the cultural context of mushroom use impacts what is offers the person taking them
• (51:44) The modern “shamanic” traditions using psilocybin mushrooms in Mexico and the impact of mushroom tourism on those traditions
• (58:53) The problems created by mushroom tourism in San Jose del Pacifico
• (1:04:32) The potential spiritual extractivism of psychedelic tourism
• (1:12:03) Doesn’t tourism—psychedelic and otherwise—offer economic benefits?
• (1:19:30) The hope and the fear of what will come of the psychedelic renaissance
• (1:30:28) The possibility of not knowing | asking ourselves what our healing is taking from others
• (1:33:41) The limitations of me-focused psychedelic healing learning to think relationally
• (1:37:47) Bringing play and joy back into life (and the conversation)
• (1:40:50) Learning to think relationally
• (1:43:55) What Mijal would like to see for the future of Psilocybin Mushrooms in Mexico
• (1:53:10) Outro

Nolan Williams, MD joins to talk about brain injury, ibogaine, and the incredible results of his study (conducted at Ambio Life Sciences Center) on ibogaine for treatment of traumatic brain injury, "concussions" in particular.

We also talk about ibogaine as an oneirogen; the cardiac risks of ibogaine; how ibogaine compares to other treatments methods for brain injury, including other psychedelics; microdosing ibogaine for traumatic brain injury; and that ibogaine can seemingly “de-age” the brain.

Additionally, we talk about context vs pharmacology in the healing benefits of psychedelics; separating high-technology from time; and how and why using the vehicle of capitalism to fund psychedelic research may be a good thing. Enjoy

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Episode Breakdown

• (00:00:00) Opening
• (00:01:04) Dr. Williams' Bio
• (00:04:15) Patreon Thanks
• (00:05:51) Interview begins
• (00:07:56) An explanation of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their different severity—mild, moderate, severe
• (00:13:49) The impact of TBI on the person and society
• (00:16:33) Restoring brain function through psychedelics
• (00:20:03) TBI is an “invisible injury” that can express a huge range of symptoms
• (00:23:30) The substantial (but presently unknown) prevalence of TBI in society
• (00:28:05) The Western history of medical ibogaine
• (00:30:11) The pharmacological and psychological effects of ibogaine
• (00:31:50) Is ibogaine an oneirogen? (splitters vs lumpers)
• (00:34:10) Reducing stigma against Ibogaine by avoiding the term “psychedelic”
• (00:37:32) It’s difficult to get approval for ibogaine research due to mortality risks
• (00:39:03) The cardiac risks of ibogaine; how and why ibogaine can stop your heart—Torsades
• (00:43:13) What inspired Dr. Williams to investigate ibogaine
• (00:46:11) The details of the treating traumatic brain injury with ibogaine study
• (00:50:55) The details of the treating traumatic brain injury with ibogaine study
• (00:52:54) Why their study focused on Veterans
• (00:56:50) Concussions are “mild TBI”; ibogaine treatment study was with people who had mTBI
• (01:00:13) The incredible results of this study: a significant reversal of their disability status
• (01:03:27) Context vs pharmacology in the healing benefits of psychedelics
• (01:14:19) The ibogaine life review seems to happened regardless of context
• (01:17:26) How ibogaine compares to other TBI treatments methods
• (01:20:34) Ibogaine vs other psychedelics in the treatment of traumatic brain injury
• (01:22:11) Are ibogaine’s effects a “random” result of evolution?
• (01:24:57) What it is about ibogaine pharmacologically that makes it so effective for brain injury
• (01:26:11) The key metaphor of ibogaine
• (01:27:48) Ibogaine can “de-age” the brain
• (01:32:51) Separating high-technology from time
• (01:33:53) Using the vehicle of capitalism to fund psychedelic research is a good thing (?)
• (01:38:19) Mircodosing ibogaine for traumatic brain injury
• (01:43:01) What’s Next for Dr. Williams
• (01:44:16) Follow-up links and Socials for Dr. Williams

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-- what it takes to become a recognized shaman
-- what it takes to prove your capacity as a shaman
-- what western ayahuasca cultures gets wrong about plant healing
-- sound healing and the art of the icaro
-- why do some people enter psychotic delusion when trying to become shamans
-- how to protect westerners from the psychological dangers of ayahuasca retreats
-- what is a psychotic break from the shamanic perspective and how to heal them
-- why talk therapy isn’t included in ayahuasca healing at blue morpho
-- stepping beyond person trauma in order to heal and regain personal agency
-- what about malevolent forces, demons, or dark entities and how to navigate our encounters with them
-- the danger of fear
-- shadow work, personal responsibility, and the suffering in the context of universal love within which Hamilton Souther works
-- the fallacy of psycho-magical thinking in western/new age ayahuasca culture
-- the climate crisis, governmental denialism, and what we need to do about it

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Dr. Oliver Grundmann talks about kratom's adverse effects, including addiction risks, constipation, nausea, and potential liver toxicity. He emphasizes that liver concerns are rare, dose-dependent, and often complicated by other factors like alcohol use, while stressing the need for better product regulation.

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This is a clip from 'All About Kratom | Dr. Oliver Grundmann'-  ATTMind Podcast Episode 121

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Paul Austin is a microdosing expert and microdosing coach. He joins us on the show to talk all things microdosing, as well as the role microdosing will play in the integration of psychedelics into the modern world through increasing psychedelic literacy.

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- What is microdosing? What is microdosing is good for?
- Paul's journey with microdosing and his current microdosing protocol
- Microdosing for creative projects and flow states, and the treatment of depression and social anxiety
- Current microdosing research
- How to safely microdose psilocybin mushrooms and LSD
- The subjective differences between microdosing mushrooms and microdosing LSD
- Paul responds to the criticism of microdosing as a tool to make us better agents in the global industrial machine
- "Psychedelic literacy"
- The 'microdosing vs. institutionalised psychedelic research' controversy
- The psychedelic subculture is going mainstream and all the problems that come with that
Giant psychedelic egos
- Is microdosing LSD and psilocybin dangerous for your heart? Other dangers.
- Paul's experience microdosing 4-ACO-DMT and 1-P LSD; my experience with 2C-d

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We welcome Gay Dillingham to the April full moon edition of ATTMind Radio. Gay is an award-winning filmmaker and the director of Dying To Know: Timothy Leary and Ram Das.

We have her on the show to talk about Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (no known as Baba Ram Dass), who they were on the surface of history but also who they were as people, friends, and members of a larger community.

For full show notes, head to http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp45

We also talk about the process of making this film and why she felt telling the story of these two men was so important that she was willing to invest 19 years of her life into making it. (Also, how it was she got Robert Redford to narrate this film about counter-cultural heroes!)

Personally, watching this film was perspective altering for me, which I talk about in the episode. Having been exposed to an intimate revealing of people whom I had only known as the legends that had come before me, was deeply meaningful.

If you do, or don't know who these men are it's still a worthy listen, as, like Gay proclaims in the film, "whether you know them or not, chances are they changed your life".

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Today's guest, Rafael Lancelotta is on the show to unpack 5-MeO-DMT. He is a graduate student at the University of Wyoming studying Mental Health Counseling graduating in May 2018, with a particular focus on the therapeutic potentials of psychedelics. He is also the administrator of 5meodmt.org, which is a forum dedicated to forming community discussions on harm reduction, integration, and safe practices around 5-MeO-DMT.

Rafael Lanelotta joins us to talk about 5-MeO-DMT – chemically, neurologically, psychologically, culturally, and therapeutically.  He also comments on the current rise of toad retreats and his particular concerns over the weekend retreat model. Finally, he gives us some important tips on the 5-MeO-DMT integration process.

***See below for full episode breakdown.
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WHY DOES OUR SENSE OF CONNECTION MATTER?

This is the central question that guides the conversation you will hear today, another session in our Psychedelic Café series, where we featured a curated selection of guests to explore how "whether or not we feel connected affects everything".

We also explore the neurobiological origins of our sense of connection/disconnection with each other and how that is wrapped up in personal and collective traumas; our sense of connection with nature and the consequences that our lack of it is having on our lives and all life on this planet; as well as strategies and pathways of increasing our sense of connection with ourselves, each other, and the natural world.

We also talk about connecting with spiritual energies and our dead loved ones; ancestry in general; the importance of being able to grieve together; and the value of learning to turn towards pain.

Our Guests for this Café are: Darcia Narvaez, Robert Gilman, Rita Bozi, Charley Wininger, Jean Robertson, Sky Otter, and Sam Gandy

Enjoy.

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Episode Breakdown

• (5:37) Cafe begins; Introducing our guests
• (12:00) Introducing the question “Why does our sense of connection matter?”
• (26:58) Whether we feel connected or not affects everything
• (29:42) The neurobiological origins of our sense of connection/disconnection
• (31:36) The path out of early life trauma - our birthright is to live in a safe healthy state — learning to lift ourselves and each other out of trauma
• (35:22) A brighter future is available to us through our reconnection with our origins
• (38:24) Wondering about connection forged through war/displacement-based trauma
• (40:40) Various ways/techniques that we come back into connection
• (51:13) Increasing connection with nature, increases the sense of connection more broadly
• (54:57) Longing is the first step to coming back into connection
• (56:49) How to do a neurological reset (a technique for resetting the nervous system)
• (1:02:42) Building relationships of deep connection with each other
• (1:08:23) Connection with ancestry, dead loved ones, spiritual energies, and different generational perspectives
• (1:20:14) Our shared  ancestral trauma of war
• (1:24:23) Grief, grieving in community, and turning towards pain
• (1:30:59) How we respond to a stubbed toe as an example of moving through pain
• (1:35:00) Calling in “Reverence”
• (1:36:37 ) Closing thoughts on the conversation from each guest

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What is Consciousness? Is it unique to human cognition or is it universal and permeating all things? Is it an epiphenomenon of brain activity or a universal constant? Do all things 'have' consciousness or are they 'of', 'in', or 'by' consciousness? Who and what are we, humankind, in the grander process of Consciousness itself? What is the nature of this whole "Reality" game?

For the 50th episode of Adventures Through The Mind podcast, we welcome philosopher Bernardo Kastrup onto the show to address these questions and more.

For Full Show Notes & Links: bit.ly/ATTMind50

In this episode of the podcast, we interview deep ecology teacher and rainforest activist John Seed.

Together, we discuss the importance of altering our sense of self such that it includes the natural world, the role psychedelics can play in that process, and how, even if the world as we know it burns and collapses, life itself will thrive through it all as it always has.

We also talk about the philosophy of deep ecology and healing ourselves from the illusion of anthropocentrism; falling into the apathy of the modern world; “honouring our pain for the world” and how, when expressed, despair becomes empowerment. As well as the dance between present ecological crisis and the thriving of life for billions of years; the Disney-fication of nature vs the brutality of life being itself; and where psychedelics fit into deep ecology and environmental activism.

Far from being a downer episode, as one might expect with topics such as these, I found my conversation with John refreshing, empowering, and genuinely inspiring. To me, this is one of the small handful of interviews I have done that impacted me in a significantly positive way. I hope you experience something similar.

Enjoy.

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Episode Breakdown

• (00:00) Opening and Guest Bio
• (04:47) Interview Begins
• (06:20) The value and importance of activism; turning citizens into consumers
• (09:23) The dance between present crisis and the thriving of life for billions of years
• (14:25) Deep ecology and healing the illusion of anthropocentrism
• (27:13) Patreon Thanks
• (29:05) Grief and “honouring our pain for the world”; when expressed, despair becomes empowerment
• (36:08) Seeing the world with new eyes
• (39:38) Falling into the apathy of the modern world
• (44:56) The importance of community in facing our grief
• (47:43) A story of psychedelic cannabis and being healed by the forest
• (52:42) The Disney-fication of nature vs the brutality of life being itself
• (57:27) Exchanging stories of meaningful psychedelic visions
• (01:05:09) How psychedelics put John on his journey into environmentalism
• (01:08:27) Where psychedelics fit into deep ecology and environmental activism
• (01:11:31) What looks like chaos and destruction might be a greater intelligence at work
• (01:19:16) If we can cause less death and destruction, we should try
• (01:22:17) The drinking of psychedelic acacias in Australia; how acacia courtii saved John’s life
• (01:29:22) The challenge of facing one’s aging as one’s desire to give more to the world grows
• (01:33:23) Follow-up links and contact information
• (01:34:24) Outro

A.J. Bond—author of Discomfortable: What Is Shame and How Can We Break Its Hold—joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to talk about what shame is, what it feels like, and how it impacts our sense of self and perception of the world.

We also talk about healthy vs unhealthy shame; internal vs. external shame; attachment styles and shame’s link to our developmental past and early relationship with our parents; intimacy and how shame hinders our ability to truly connect with others; unconditional love and ayahuasca’s impact on AJ’s healing through shame; and, of course, how to navigate shame in a way that supports healing the wounds around which our shame directs us.

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For links to A.J.'s work, full show notes, and a link to watch this episode in video, head to bit.ly/ATTMind162

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This episode is sponsored by Maps of the Mind and their upcoming workshop Facilitating Psychedelic Experiences, happening on Saturday, July 2nd

More details can be found here: mapsofthemind.com/facilitating-psychedelic-experiences-workshop/
Use discount code JESSO40 in the section that says 'have a coupon' to get a ticket for £40

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Episode Breakdown

• (0:00) Opening | Ad for upcoming workshop sponsoring this video
• (6:01) Interview Begins
• (6:31) Why shame is an important topic for psychedelic culture
• (8:31) Shame: what it is and what its made of
• (11:57) The affect of shame
• (13:34) Shame as an evolutionary survival adaptation 
• (21:07 ) Healthy vs. unhealthy shame
• (24:30) Internal vs. external Shame
• (27:58) Narcissism, canceling, and toxic shame
• (34:35) Shame’s link to our developmental past and early relationship with our parents
• (40:01) Healing the past to liberate ourselves from unhealthy shame | getting discomfortable with shame
• (46:18) Why how we do a thing matters as much as the thing we do
• (51:58) Bringing our shame healing/liberation to a systemic level
• (55:40) All the ways shame will weave itself into your healing
• (57:32) Intimacy and how shame hinders our ability to truly connect with others
• (58:18) Connection and relationship is essential components of our healing 
• (1:05:07 ) Unconditional love and ayahuasca’s impact on AJ’s healing through shame
• (1:11:59) Develop a meta-scaffolding that allows us to be with our reactivity in a healthy way
• (1:14:06) Some basic steps for navigating shame
• (1:18:26) Follow-up and social links
• (1:20:41) Outro | Info about workshop sponsoring this video

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Alex Dorr joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to provide us an overview of mushrooms and the fungi kingdom; the anatomy, life cycle, and evolutionary history of mushrooms; and the role fungi play in the very foundations of life on this planet.

We also talk about mycoremediation, mycotechnologies, and go in-depth about the health effects of functional mushrooms such as reishi, lion’s mane, and cordyceps. 

• An overview of mushrooms and the fungi kingdom
• Mushroom evolution, anatomy, and life cycle
• How mushrooms support the foundation of life itself
• Mycoremediation (using fungi to fix industrial pollution)
• Using psilocybin is mycoremediation of human trauma
• Criticisms of the mainstreaming and industrializing of psilocybin
• Functional mushrooms and their benefit on human health
• The health effects of Lion’s Mane, Cordyceps, and Reishi mushrooms
• Four guidelines to follow for finding good quality functional mushrooms (sourcing, extraction, lab-tested, dose)
• Issues around Chaga mushroom extraction and sourcing
• Importance of ensuring good extraction methods
• The importance of ensuring functional mushrooms are certified organic and lab-tested
• Getting the right dose for your functional mushrooms
• Mycoprotein, aka mushroom meat
• Mycowood for making musical instrument
• Mycopesticides for malaria mosquitos 
• Malaria medication nightmares

• Decomposing The Shadow: https://www.jameswjesso.com/decomposing-the-shadow/
• The True Light Of Darkness: https://www.jameswjesso.com/true-light-darkness/

David Grillot and Jonathan Glazer are the founders of #ThankYouPlantMedicine, a global wave of gratitude for happening on February 20, 2020.

They are on the show to both talk about the movement itself and respond to some of my criticisms. We speak about the possible risks of "coming out of the psychedelic closet", the potentially adverse outcomes of destigmatizing psychedelics too quickly, the importance of actualizing our psychedelic learning, and the problems of politicizing the psychedelic movement.

*** Big thanks to my patrons on Patreon for helping keep this podcast alive! Especially, Thomas & Melanie H, Clea S, Steven B, James R, Dean H, Joe A, Andy D, Stephen B, Ian C, David W, Don J, Yvett FC, Ann-Madeleine, Chuck W & Dima B

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Episode Breakdown

• what is #thankyouplantmedicine?
• stigma against psychedelics hurts your integration
• the value of speaking your truth
• there will be risk for many people, is it worth it?
• the value of sharing your stories
• coming out of the psychedelic closet
• the complexities of using the language of the gay movement in the psychedelic movement
• the deep healing value of re-connection
• the ideal outcome of #thankyouplantmedicine
• how this movement might go wrong, personally and socially
• stigmas and taboos exist with a purpose
• why it takes more than psychedelics to better your life or the world, but they may help
• how to not talk about psychedelics
• the value of transcending political divides
• the risk of politicizing the psychedelic movement
• is #thankyouplantmedicine informed by psychedelic exceptionalism?