This week’s guest is The Teafaerie, my amazing friend and a true one-of-a-kind psychedelic superhero.

The Teafaerie writes stories, poems, movies, plays and essays, makes videos, organizes flash mobs, and is one of the founders of Prometheatrics, a big beautiful Esplanade camp at Burning Man. At various times she has been a writer, nanny, actress, flow arts teacher, childbirth doula, homeless person, aid worker, live-action storyteller, toy inventor, app designer, street performer, and party promoter. She is a frequent contributor to the worlds most excellent psychedelic information site Erowid.org. She also regularly volunteers as a festival trip sitter with the Zendo Project and RGX medical.

Her most recent essay on Erowid:

https://www.erowid.org/columns/teafaerie/2016/05/17/mapping-the-source/

My favorite of her essays:

https://www.erowid.org/columns/teafaerie/page/18/

More about psychedelic harm reduction:

https://www.zendoproject.org/

We Discuss:

• Why it’s okay that the Elon Musk will get (to beta-test) immortality first (for the rest of us)
• The intimately cybernetic world of brain-machine interfaces and Life After Advertising
• “I’m just a coward. I TRIED despair and I can’t TAKE that shit.”
• How parenthood changes your decision to be or not to be an optimist.
• Simulation Theory
• ~ ”We need to stop stressing the system and offload our consciousness offworld to L5 or VR”
• …or is that some whack pseudognostic transmania?
• “I believe the universe is art, because…”
• We’re the children of god, but most people act like we’re the pets of god or the toys of god.
• The child of a sheep grows up to be a sheep. The child of a god grows up to be a god.
• Mass manifestation and the Global Consciousness Project
• How to make wishes come true by getting god’s attention
• Partner yoga for engineered miracles
• Burning Man is a manifestation engine
• What Are You Playing For?
• What evolution looks like to DNA
• Designer Babies & THE ETHICS OF Designer Babies
• “Do you know The Silmarillion?”
• Olaf Stapledon is the man
• Black Mirror’s episode “Black Museum”
• Autonomous by Annalee Newitz and robot AR architecture
• Greg Egan’s Permutation City (and Diaspora)
• “Any sufficiently advanced 3D printer could tattoo you.”
• ~ “If the universe is determined, it’s offensive to me, it devalues my art.”
• Getting your wishes fulfilled is of evolutionary benefit
• How many things had to go right? ALL of them.
• “Maybe THIS is the shortest path, and it’s JUST LONG.”
• 5-Meo DMT
• The burden of publishing to an enormous audience on Erowid
• Fangirling about my sci fi, “An Oral History of the End of ‘Reality’” (Episode 91)
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