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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

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• There is no psychedelic without culture
• The satanic trinity of Facebook Reddit and Instagram
• How mushrooms can help us break out of social media reality
• James' first psilocybin experience
• Social media becomes our mind : our mind becomes social media
• "Psychedelics and the internet go hand in hand"
• The importance of discipline with psychedelic practice
• Building ceremony culture as a non-indigenous person
• How culture defines what comes of our psychedelic experiences
• Are mushrooms have wisdom or do they just connect us to wisdom
• "The mushroom contains multitudes"
• The mushroom experience is build by our relationship to them
• Mushrooms revealed the ego saturation of social justice outrage politics
• What does it mean to engage politics 'psychedelically'?
• The politics of the history or Maria Sabina
• Getting beyond party line politics to appreciate the good work being done
• Bett Williams's criticisms on Micheal Pollan
• Growing mushrooms | What it means to be in relationship with the mushroom
• Respecting the risk being taken by those who grow and provide psychedelics
• Respect your drug dealer!
• The potential (and failings) of the psychedelic left to be leading the political conversation in a good way
• The moral obligation of breaking unjust laws
• There is something gained by psychedelic being illegal
• The unknown unknowns of the history of traditions
• Will more people eating more psychedelics help us with the crisis we are fading?
• What it means and what it takes to live a psychedelic life
• Psychedelic mushrooms are serious work, but won't work if you take it too seriously
• How to live life with psychedelics without hurting yourself
• Working out your buffalo problem
• How does age impact our ability to access depth with psilocybin
• The wild kindness

Alex Kazemi, author of 'Pop Magick: A Simple Guide To Bending Your Reality', is on the show to talk about using magick and magickal rituals to bend reality, but also how magick has both helped and harmed him on his path into, and through, substance addiction and early fame. We also talk about learning to free ourselves from the simulation of mainstream consumer reality, why the dogmas of the occult world are holding magickal practitioners back, drug-induced psychosis, and even NoFap as a powerful practice of inner alchemy.

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• What is Magick
• The theatre of modern culture
• What about occam's razor? Why do we need a higher power to understand Magick
• What is reality; what is freedom?
• Magical perspective vs magical practice
• Accessing desire deeper than material
• Being selfish and self-centred with your magical power
• Pop magick and the dogma of the occult
• Magick as a non-discriminatory spiritual option
• The value of tradition vs the cage of dogma
• Spirits and how we create entities
• The value of accessing a higher power
• Magick as a frame of reference for psychotherapy
• Healing trauma and addiction with magic
• How Magick both helped and harmed Alex's journey through addiction
• The anatomy of a magical ritual
• Accessing natural energy, within and without
• An important risk with doing Pop Magick
• Using magic to feed our addictions
• Abstract outcome vs specific outcome
• How questing for our own desires can hurt others
• James' journey into addiction and drug-induced psychosis
• Sigil Magick and candle Magick
• Charging your Magickal symbols
• Suspending Disbelief; Just give it a go
• Drug Magick
• Why Alex avoids drug Magick
• Sex Magick
• Nofap, porn, and inner alchemy
• The dangers of porn for young minds
• Pornography addiction

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Living in Gabon for 50 years, Tatayo was the first westerner to be initiated into the Bwiti Fang iboga tradition. He joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to discuss what he has learned about Bwiti after living in Gabon and working with iboga.

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• How Tatayo came to Gabon and why he decided to stay
• How he came to do his initiation
• What is Ebando
• What is the Bwiti, what is its connection to Iboga
• Bwiti different expression in Gabonese culture
• Iboga is love
• What is a Bwiti initiation?
• The complexities and dangers of cultural differences between Gabonese and westerners
• The necessity of intercultural mediation to protect both locals and westerners
• What is a Bwiti Iboga initiation ceremony like
• Iboga and the realm of the dead
• Iboga connects you with the synchronicity of your life
• The roles and presence of spirits in the Bwiti cultural paradigm
• How Iboga heals
• Tatayo's craziest rescue mission
• Ebando's upcoming Bwiti: school of life course
• Racial issues of being a white man speaking n behalf of an African culture
• The only secret is the plants
• being a bridge between cultures

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Carlos Tanner, director of The Ayahuasca Foundation, is on the show to talk about what childhood trauma is, how it's developed, and not only how ayahuasca can help heal it, but how we can set ourselves up for, and understand, that healing in a way that truly betters our lives.

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• Carlos' journey of recovering from addiction with ayahuasca and into ayahuasca apprenticeship
• What is childhood trauma and how is it made
• The role of ayahuasca in healing childhood trauma
• Why ayahuasca helps heal trauma better than psychoanalysis
• The importance of having a safe context to release stuck traumatic emotions
• The role of accessing hypersensitivity states during ayahuasca to remap traumatic memories
• The essential role of ceremony in guiding our ayahuasca experiences into a healing experience
• Inner environment metaphor to understand the science of healing with ayahuasca
• "whatever it takes"
• The role of stating your intention
• The connection between inner environment and relational context
• Are there certain traumas that ayahuasca can heal better than others?
• How do spirits fit into this childhood trauma healing process?
• How our beliefs inform our sense of what's real, and how our sense of reality isn't necessarily what's real
• What about dark sorcery, demons, psychic warfare, and magic darts?
• What about trauma that causes psychiatric conditions, like psychosis or bipolar?
• Ayahuasca's influence on epigenetics and inherited family trauma
• Integration specific to returning back to your life after doing ayahuasca in South America
• The results of the ayahuasca foundation's research on ayahuasca impact on mental health
• The second phase of their research

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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

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• The importance of relationships on the path of personal betterment through psychedelics
• The role of psychedelics in dissolving dysfunctional social paradigms of codependency
• Wounded in relationship, healed in relationship (and where psychedelics fit into the process)
• Learning to love oneself through peyote
• The similarities between kundalini sexual awakenings and psychedelic awakenings
• The power of accessing authenticity
• Psychedelic work is not about "me" and simply learning about oneself with psychedelics doesn't equate to being healed
• Integration happens in relationship
• Love as the bridge to the other
• An invitation to return to an a priori relational reality
• Learning how to love better and let love in better
• Being inauthentic people for unconscious efforts to get old attachment needs met
• Healing ourselves to go beyond the wounded pattern of trying to fulfill needs and step into celebrating being together
• Learning to be ok with putting up boundaries even if people won't like you for it
• Psychedelics helping us being ok with feeling shame and feel loved simultaneously
• The fallacy of self-sovereignty and connection being polar opposites
• The relationship between oneness and personal boundaries
• Ayahuasca and accessing profound eroticism within oneself
• Psychedelics helping us let go the shame of embodying our sexuality
• Do psychedelics make us polyamorous?
• Deconstructing the shame we hold for our natural sexual tendencies
• "Psychedelic erotic confusion"
• Is it an addiction to falling in love that feeds polyamory?
• Polyfuckary vs polyamory
• The power of psychedelics to bring us into our individual embodied sovereignty
• The will to grieve as a skill that helps us sustain healthy relationships
• Learning to be intimate with the unknown

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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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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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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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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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In 2017, Andrea Bird received her terminal diagnosis. In December of 2018, having no experience with it up to this point, she received underground psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to grapple with the challenge of dying. She is on the show for this episode to share her psilocybin story publicly for the first time.

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• Receiving the terminal Diagnosis
• Deciding to take psilocybin during her dying process
• Learning to be a dying person
• The context of her first journey
• The story of her first journey
• What her first psilocybin journey taught her about how to die
• Learning to love yourself
• Integrating that first journey into life (and dying)
• The shadow winter
• What brought her into her second journey
• 'Saying to good to everyone I love'
• Dying of cancer during the pandemic
• A fierce training of living in the present moment
• Giving back the gift of life
• Andreas suggestions in preparing for psilocybin during your dying time
• The role of poetry in learning to die

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