If we want to build a better world, one that is free of the power complexes that subjugate others, it behoves us to address the root of those power complexes. In particular regards to the patriarchy, if we fail to see both the function and the origins of the patriarchy system in the psyche of man, we worsen it at best and, at worst, become power-obsessed oppressors ourselves.

The deep wounding of men by way of a toxic society is at the root of this interview with James Hollis PhD., whose ideas gave me stability in myself as I came to grapple with the pain, shame, and "quiet desperation" I have been carrying in my own life as a man.

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• The impact of society’s social conditioning of man - isolation, anger, anxiety, etc.
• Oppressive behaviour does not remove oppression
• How Dr Hollis came to write ‘Under Saturn’s Shadow’
• The secrets men are expected to carry that lock them away from vulnerability, and profound impact of fear on a man’s life
• How deep insecurity and fear dictate the creation of domination behaviour and the power complex
• A foundation in Jungian psychoanalysis, the Archetypes, and how emotional repression impact the sense of self, perception of reality, and behaviour
• A description of the patriarchy and its damaging role and impact on men
• The Mother, the mother complex, and the role of the father
• What does it mean to become a man, and who is teaching it to us?
• Rites of passage and initiation - how boys become men, and why many adult males are still boys
• A lacking sense of meaning in the lived life prescribed by the modern culture
• Making Meaning and finding out who you really are
• Empowerment vs power complex
• What are your ultimate tasks in life?
• How the social role conditioning of men prevents connection to the soul
• So…. what about Jordan Peterson?
• The potentials of psychedelic therapy in the context of Jungian psychoanalysis
• An actionable, pragmatic piece of advice for relating to men (no matter who you are)

Stephen Gyllenhaal is an award-winning film and television director, writer and producer. His producing credits include the documentary IN UTERO, "a cinematic rumination on life in the womb and its lasting impact on human development, human behaviour, and the state of the world. Tapping into cultural myths, popular movies, and technological trends, the film demonstrates how our experiences in utero – particularly traumatic events – preoccupy us throughout our lives, impacting our decisions and shaping society." [source]

Stephen takes us on a poignant exploration of the topics discussed in the film he produced with his wife Kathleen, IN UTERO. We talk about the psychological and epigenetic impact of early life and uterine environment, as well as the means by which we can unravel the negative impact of our past into profoundly positive potentials for well-being in our lives today.

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• How environment conditions in the womb influence epigenetic and psychological development.
• The influence of unconscious memories of childhood and the womb on the adult’s perception of the self and of reality.
• Transgenerational trauma.
• Self-fulfilling prophecies and unconscious self-harm.
• Modern society’s cultural war zone: intellectualized sexism, racism, and classism.
• Perinatal psychology (psychological impact of the birth experience).
• The vital importance of the mother/child bond.
• The larger community of caregivers, on being a father.
• The vital impact of bonding.
• Being yourself, being OK with not being OK.
• Feeling unsafe and building safe, but necessarily comfortable, spaces.
• Taking responsibility as a parent.
• Healing trauma, from childhood to adulthood.
• Embodiment and the interconnection between the mind and body.
• How to support mothers.
• Treating adults with trauma – safe spaces and psychedelic therapy.
• An interesting synchronicity between Stephen’s near-death experiences and my dream the night before.

 

Paul Austin is a microdosing expert and microdosing coach. He joins us on the show to talk all things microdosing, as well as the role microdosing will play in the integration of psychedelics into the modern world through increasing psychedelic literacy.

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- What is microdosing? What is microdosing is good for? - Paul's journey with microdosing and his current microdosing protocol - Microdosing for creative projects and flow states, and the treatment of depression and social anxiety - Current microdosing research - How to safely microdose psilocybin mushrooms and LSD - The subjective differences between microdosing mushrooms and microdosing LSD - Paul responds to the criticism of microdosing as a tool to make us better agents in the global industrial machine - "Psychedelic literacy" - The 'microdosing vs. institutionalised psychedelic research' controversy - The psychedelic subculture is going mainstream and all the problems that come with that Giant psychedelic egos - Is microdosing LSD and psilocybin dangerous for your heart? Other dangers. - Paul's experience microdosing 4-ACO-DMT and 1-P LSD; my experience with 2C-d

 

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Tom Zembrzuski, aka Your Mate Tom joins us for this episode of Adventures Through The Mind to talk about his journey from a psychedelic champion and youtube celebrity to a man traumatized, live on youtube, by the very substances he once promoted.

We talk about what inspired him to produce psychedelic content on youtube, the process of getting internet famous, and the encounter with a timeless hell that sent him spiralling into post-traumatic stress disorder.

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• What Tom's first psychedelic experience offered his life
• How and why Tom got into being a psychedelic YouTuber
• How YouTube popularity influenced Tom's relationships to psychedelics
• The post-ego-dissolution psychedelic ego trip
• Tom's traumatic psychedelic trip and how it impacted his relations to life and to psychedelics
• Coming to terms with our own darkness
• How Tom's psychedelic trauma impacted his youtube content
• Why keep drinking ayahuasca after it crushed you?
• Tracking the emotional, psychological, emotional themes in order to integrate profound existential suffering
• Using cynicisms, video games, and drugs to escape the reality of inner pain
• Forgiveness and letting of bitterness and resentment
• The impact of telling his youtube followers that he is renouncing psychedelics
• The importance of talking about the negative potentials of psychedelics

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Today's guest, Rafael Lancelotta is on the show to unpack 5-MeO-DMT. He is a graduate student at the University of Wyoming studying Mental Health Counseling graduating in May 2018, with a particular focus on the therapeutic potentials of psychedelics. He is also the administrator of 5meodmt.org, which is a forum dedicated to forming community discussions on harm reduction, integration, and safe practices around 5-MeO-DMT.

Rafael Lanelotta joins us to talk about 5-MeO-DMT – chemically, neurologically, psychologically, culturally, and therapeutically.  He also comments on the current rise of toad retreats and his particular concerns over the weekend retreat model. Finally, he gives us some important tips on the 5-MeO-DMT integration process.

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• A general run down 5-Meo-DMT and its use.
• Comparing 5-MeO-DMT to N,N DMT -- experientially, chemically and pharmacologically
• Experiencing "God" on 5-MeO-DMT
• The difference between 5-MeO-DMT and the venom of the Bufo Alvarius toad
• Is smoking 5-MeO-DMT safe?
• Tips and suggestions for safe use
• Travelling shamans and toad smokers - warnings and concerns
• So you wanna be a shaman?
• Essential elements for 5-MeO-DMT integration
• The therapeutic potential and mental health concerns of 5-MeO-DMT
• Building online community for 5-MeO-DMT  | The 5 Hive

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Magico-anthropologist and author Carl Abrahamsson is on the show to both expand and deconstruct occult magic and make it accessible to the modern world.

Of course, occult magic is a massive topic with many winding, cryptic avenues and dark alleys to traverse. The topic has much more potential than what can be explored in a seventy-five-minute conversation. So, in relevance to the themes of ATTMind we venture into the world of occult magic with a compass pointing towards a Jungian psychological approach and the potentials of magic for personal transformation and individualization. (That said, we don't shy away from the romance of all that hocus-pocus stuff, too.)

You might be surprised to discover occult magic is much more accessible than you have been led to believe.

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• The history (and future) of Occult Magic 
• The magical art of Carl Jung
• Using magic to alter our sense of self and to process of individualization
• The importance of direct experience over ideology and social norms
• How magic in occult rituals can alter the subconscious mind, the sense of self and perception of reality
• The difference between ritual and ceremony
• Our capacity for willful and competent direction of energy
• The role and value of sex and sexual energy in magical ritual and personal transformation.
• The ancient art and importance of imagination and dreaming
• Cautions and considerations for using drugs in magical ritual
• Higher Learning: The value of building social institutions that enable safe and supportive psychedelic experimentation for young people.
• The kinship between art and magic
• Mythic impoverishment - the dangers of modern mass media entertainment culture on our imagination and potential for magic - PokemonGO!
• Practical tips on embracing magic today

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A central topic of this podcast is our capacity to change our minds.

I don't mean superficially – "Oh, actually yeah let's go see that movie instead." I mean a more fundamental change, our faculty for shifting our very sense of self and perception of the world around us. This type of change is not just an ethereal alteration of mental processes, but an actual redesigning of neural architecture. Our capacity to create such fundamental changes is due to our brain's ability to redesign its structure, lay new synaptic connections, which is called neuroplasticity.

[This episode was originally released as "The Neurobiology Of Altered Traits"]

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 to Adventures Through The Mind, world renown neuroplasticity expert, Dr Rick Hanson.

Rick Hanson is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 26 languages and include Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture. He’s been an invited speaker at NASA, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and other major universities, and taught in meditation centres worldwide. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR, and now he is here with us on Adventures Through The Mind.

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• Neuroplasticity, emotional learning, and the sense of self
• How negativity bias influences perception, learning, and memory
• Positive Neuroplasticity; using principles of neuroplasticity to cultivate happiness and resilience
• "Positive" and "negative" emotions.
• The difference between healthy cultivating of goodness and unhealthy evasion of negativity.
• The potential dangers of mindfulness
• The implications of transcendental or psychedelic experiences for the brain, the sense of self, and the nature of reality itself.

 

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Have you ever experienced a psychedelic encounter with a plant spirit or an entity?

Have you ever experienced a spirit realm or being healed by a shaman? Have you ever felt as though you invoked some type of divination or noetic insight while on psychedelics? Have you ever wondered if any of that was real or just merely a hallucination?

The increasing popularity of using psychedelic substances within so-called shamanic ceremonies has introduced ideas and beliefs into the modern world that push conceptual limits of the rational mind. The rise of plant shamanism is a cultural force to be reckoned with and that which we encounter with shamanism feels urgent and real. Yet, however real the experiences with a shamanic encounter may feel, the question still remains: how real is it, really? I asked Julian Plamer and James Kent to come on the show to debate  on this question: "What do you believe is the fundamental nature of that which arises within a psychedelic experiences, in particular regards to what is often called The Shamanic paradigm, including the existence of a spirit realm, encounters with plant spirits or entities and the capacity to invoke healing or divination within a psychedelic experiences by way of this paradigm?" It's a juicy one. Enjoy

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Dennis Jon McKenna is an American ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist, lecturer and author. He is the brother of well-known psychedelics proponent Terence McKenna and is founding board member and the director of ethnopharmacology at the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization concerned with the investigation of the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelic medicines.

He is also one of the founding contributors to the modern wave of ayahuasca research in particular and psychedelic research in general. In fact, the book Magic Mushrooms grower’s guide, which he co-authored with his brother Terence in the 70s, presented the first reliable method for cultivating psilocybin mushrooms at home.

Chances are if it wasn’t for Dennis and his brother, none of us would have ever tasted the magic at all.

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• The early years: developing the magic mushroom growers guide.
• The limitations of the biomedical model for psychedelic research
• The encounter and emergence of psychedelics in the culture of the 60 impact - dangerous
• How and why Dennis and Terence got into psychedelics.
• The McKenna early journey, from the jungle to the university.
• What it was like to travel into the jungle for ayahuasca during the early years, before the tourist boom, compared to today.
• The danger of the cults and power hunger within ayahuasca culture.
• The role of psychedelics in the modern plight of humanity.
• The moral dimension of psychedelic technology.
• Plant intelligence and mycelial brain of the forest (no?)
• Plant/mammal symbiotic co-evolution.
• Psychedelic spiritually is cheating?
• On Terence
  • Beyond the legend. The man, the brother.
  • How Terence privately feel about the time wave?
  • Did he stop taking mushrooms?
  • The challenges of being a psychedelic celebrity
  • How does it feel to watch Terence being torn down by his critics?
  • Did Terence work for the CIA?
  • Dennis favourite story of his brother
• The difference between Microdosing LSD and psilocybin
• The possible dangers of microdosing LSD?
• Cultural implications of microdosing vs macrodosing.
• Suggestion and cautions in choosing to guide others in psychedelic experience.
• What psychedelic is Dennis still taking?
• You don't know shit.
• If he were to die tomorrow, what piece of advice would he offer us?

Our guest is Elizabeth Bast!

She 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.

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- The lack of representation of women in psychedelic culture. - The importance of different ways of knowing. - Unpacking the medical diagnosis of psychosis and delusion in regards to psychedelic experiences. - The purpose of yoga and the role of sexuality within it. - A tantric perspective on sexual energy (kundalini) and how it influences the mind. - Bast’s dance journey into Tantra. - Descriptions of “dakini” and “sacred prostitute.” - Sacred sex work and the dangers of modern culture's sex imitations (porn). - The effect of pornography on one’s capacity for profound sexual encounters. - Finding a sexual teacher. - Sexual shame and popular culture. - The historical use psychoactive plants in yoga. - The modern use of psychoactive plants and substances in spiritual practice. - Lessons on sexual relationships from Iboga. - Bast’s prognosis of modern Western society’s sexual dysfunction — sexual consumerism, toxic shame, and lack of wise sexual education. - The role of sexual repression/shame in sexual assault; discussing #metoo, #Ididit, and healing social and personal sexual trauma. - Healthy vulnerability vs playing the victim. - Practical steps and caution for starting a sacred relationship to sexuality.

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