ATTMind is an interview-based podcast focusing on psychedelics. It is hosted by Canadian author and public educator, James W. Jesso.
“My primary goal with this podcast is to explore psychedelic cultures, research, and medicine. However, attached to that primary goal is a secondary goal: supporting the personal and cultural integration of psychedelic experiences in a functional and healthy way. I move towards that goal by exploring the psychedelic field with a curiosity for immediate and valuable relevance to a person’s lived life.
The psychedelic experience really shines when we find a way to integrate what we’ve learned from it into our daily lives. My desire to help that with that integration on a personal and cultural level is why I make Adventures Through The Mind.”
We deep dive into psychedelics as treatment for chronic pain with Dr. Alex Bekker, Professor and Chairman of Anaesthesiology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Jerónimo joins us 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.
Antwan and Leor are two of the authors of the research paper “Relational Processes in Ayahuasca Groups of Palestinians and Israelis” and are on the show to talk about that research and the complexities of conflict and conflict-resolution it explores.
Mel Cassidy joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to explore how their models of understanding and engaging human relationships apply to understandings and engaging our relationship to psychedelics, psychedelic healing, and psychedelic communities.
Ed Prideaux joins ATTMind to discuss HPPD, its symptoms, its history, its association with other mental health conditions, how widespread it seems to be, and how it isn’t necessarily a negative experience.
Adventures Through The Mind is part of my mission to better the world by sharing my gifts, skills, and personality. It is a mission of love geared towards community growth. As such, it is completely funded by the community that receives value from it; by people like you. Its growth and sustainability are dependent on that support.
If you are receiving value and would like to give back, please consider offering a donation. If you would like to go above and beyond and get more deeply involved and included in the ATTMind community, you can become my patron on Patreon. More details on those options can be found here.
Thank you so much. Without you, I couldn’t do what I do. <3 James
