James W. Jesso is a public speaker and author who is a world-leading psychedelic expert. In our interview with James, we discuss the ‘shadow side,’ and how psilocybin mushrooms could help us come into contact with it. James believes that encountering our deepest fears and unknowns will allow us to be more in control of our lives.
The longer you walk the psychedelic cowboy path the more likely you are to watch that innocent twinkle fall tragically from your eye and shatter everything you care about right in front of your vulnerable mind, reducing you to a weeping heap of pain, sadness, and grief.
Assuming we need to be saved at all, it’s unlikely psychedelic will be that savour, at least by result of just taking them. But I believe that there is a role psychedelic therapy will play in the positive transformation of society (If we are lucky).
People call it the God Molecule because it can, apparently, dissolve all perceivable duality from reality and suspend one’s awareness is an infinite, all-encompassing totality of being, which is often described as becoming (or realising we have always been) God.
We are now officially at 75 years of humans tripping LSD!!! To celebrate, I made this video talking about why LSD has been so meaningful to my life. I also share one of my favourite trip stories.
Magico-anthropologist, filmmaker, photographer, publisher and author Carl Abrahamsson is on the show to both expand and deconstruct occult magic and make it accessible to the modern world.
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, Dr Rick Hanson.
It might have made sense for us to talk about psychedelics, but we actually ended up talking more about being podcasters! So for anyone interested in the backend of our podcasts, this the episode for you!
The rise of plant shamanism is a cultural force to be reckoned with and that which we encounter with shamanism can feel urgent and real. Yet, however real the experiences with a shamanic encounter may feel, the question still remains: how real is it, really?
Intergenerational Trauma and Emotional Responsibility ~ (Lecture given at Shambhala 2017)
I was aiming to travel from light and quick to deep and dark, to strong and militant and eventually back to smooth. How did…
While Terence McKenna was selling out speaking events, Dennis McKenna was publishing peer-reviewed research papers. Terence sadly died in 2000, Dennis is still with us, and is in fact, with us directly on this episode of Adventures Through The Mind.
Elizabeth Bast 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.
An essay exploring love, romance, wounds, and loneliness.
In this video, I explore some of the criticisms of Terence McKenna that have been showcased on my podcast, as well as my own thoughts on him and his ideas.
Dimethyltryptamine: the legendary psychedelic; nearly impossible to find, but everyone seemed to have heard of it; it takes you to alienate dimension in fifteen seconds and brings you back within five minutes. That was all I really knew. I was intrigued at the first moment I heard of it.
I have been researching, writing, and speaking on psychedelics for almost a decade now. There are a few books that stand out for me…
What if a member law enforcement openly said that the laws and policing practices we have for addressing drugs in this society are not only ineffective but making the problem worse; that prohibition has failed and we need to quit repeated our mistakes and legalize, regulate, and control drugs?
In this video, I explore my contemplations on whether or not this concept is alive in the perceivably linear time continuity I experience as a human being. The experiences in question are related to my psychedelic ceremonies and psychedelic explains.
What does ayahuasca integration mean and how do we do it? This is the question our guest for this episode, Rachel Harris Ph.D., has been exploring intensely through research, clinical practice, and her own direct experiences.