Throughout the interview, led by the inspiration of a cephalopod now extinct 66 million years, we explore what is means to live our lives in alignment with life, creatively, and with heartbreak, grief, endings, and death as not only necessary parts of the process, but gifts that can deepen, enrich, and guide our limited days.

Dennis McKenna, The Teafaerie, Chris Bache, Bruce Damer, Dank Duchess, Laurel Sugden, and Stephen Gray join us for this Psychedelic Café, guided by the question “What is the power and potential of psychedelics in navigating the many-orders of growing collapse that our planet is currently facing?”

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.