Adventures Through The Mind

According to today's guest, Tom Hatsis, Santa is not a mushroom shaman, Jesus was not a mushroom, and Christianity is not hiding a giant secret inside the biblical texts about the true hallucinogen at the root the religion being an amanita muscaria.

But, therein lies a whole different set of questions: What is the actual history of Santa Clause? Who was Jesus? What drugs were Christians actually taking? (cause they were getting HIGH and spoke openly about it). What is the real history of Christmas, the nativity, and the holy mushroom?

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• Why Santa clause was not a mushroom shaman
• The holy mushroom conspiracy
• The origin of red and white of Santa's outfit
• The history of old holiday card with elves and mushrooms
• St Nick had shamanic powers, but Santa and st nix aren't the same historical entity
• The origins of the holy mushroom conspiracy
• The historical roots of Christmas
• What were people getting high on during historical Christmas?
• Drug use in early Christianity was open and condoned
• The different psychedelic Christian cults and how they used their sacraments
• How we got from free-range psychedelic Christianity to the narrow-minded abstinent Christianity of today
• Christian appropriation of pagan traditions and paul's invention of a psychedelic eucharist
• Did Jesus get high?
• How Christianity conquered so many traditional cultures
• What made Jesus any different from all the other Hebraic radicals alive at the time
• Pauline Jesus vs Gnostic Jesus
• How the Nativity got associated with Christmas and why those aren't mushrooms in old Christian art

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Erik Davis, writer and host of Expanding Mind podcast, joins us on the show to share what he sees are the essential skills we need to navigate the chaos of a reality liquified.

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• Playing with chaos during festivals
• Festivals to psychological growth psychedelic
• A definition of objective reality
• The dissolution of objective reality
• What this looks like in the modern political world
• The dangers and opportunities of a consensus reality liquified
• Learning to centre in the chaos
• The value of levelling-up your intellectual community
• What psychedelic teach us to do cognitively
• Flat earth as an example of falling into dangerously false conspiracy theories
• Circular reasoning and The limitations of reasonable dialogue in breaking us out of our thought prisons
• Become a sceptical animist
• Safe consumption of digital media
• Encouraging skills over claiming solutions

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This episode not only discusses the power of psilocybin to help us develop the skill of confident vulnerability but also what such a psychedelic lesson might mean for masculinity in the cultural context of inner-city Detroit.

To take us through this discussion, we welcome Ser Moudou Awa Balla Baqui, aka Baba Moudou Baqui, a lifelong citizen of Detroit's Highland Park and third generation metaphysician.

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• Moudou's journey from Martial arts to psychedelics under the guidance of Kilinid Iyi
• Teaching people to fish as a metaphor for helping people with psychedelic competence.
• The trauma of the war on drugs in Detroit communities
• The (potential) role of psilocybin in the poor and oppressed communities of Detroit
• Sacred plants for healing the wounding of men
• Differentiating masculine and feminine from man and women
• The impact of psilocybin on the violence of crime-heavy black neighbourhoods of Detroit
• What changes are happing in people with psilocybin that results in the resolution of trauma and reduction of violence
• The power of vulnerability to heal and of healed wounds to empower us
• The unique and life-ligating bond of sharing sacred psychedelic space
• The vital importance of courage and vulnerability in our troubled times
• The power of feeling pain without attacking and how a lack of such power results in harming our children
• Learning not to force people into a better life
• Moudou's healing journey during his father death
• The role Moudou's psilocybin journey helped him with the grief of his father's death
• The importance of gathering together to learn.

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So, I recently got an email from a listener of the show regarding a recent episode of the podcast featuring Bernhard Guenther. The emails directed me to a couple of essays off his website from 2013/14 that the listener claimed had anti-Semitic views and propagated holocaust denial and wondered if I knew about it and what I would do about it.

This video is ultimately what I did about it.

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Bernhard Guenther joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to talk about the 'topic of all topics', the hyperdimensional ecology of entities that influence human life. Furthermore, he takes a deep look at the actual legitimacy of psychedelic 'healing', and its potential dangers insofar as false dawn syndrome, spiritual bypassing, and entity attachment or possession.

Despite how far out these topics may seem, I don't doubt you will find some deeply grounded and practical perspective in this interview, especially in regards to the modern ayahuasca-healing movements

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***An important Update regarding problematic claim made against Guenther***

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• Bernhard's journey into and out of deep psychedelic work
• False Dawn Syndrome and spiritual bypassing
• The role and limitation of psychedelics in the path to enlightenment
• confusing shamanism as being fundamentally related to medicine plants
• the 'topic of all topics' - spiritual entities
• hyperdimensional warfare and ayahuasca
• Has ayahuasca been hijacked by evil forces?
• Different forms of knowledge, going beyond the rational
• Embodiment as a path of enlightenment
• Society's obsession with "male energy"
• Ancestral healing through embodiment

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Piercing The Viel Of Reality

This is Bernhard Guenther's website. It is a wide-ranging collection of essays, films and interviews, ranging from spirituality, shamanism, psychology, self-work, esotericism, history, to the paranormal and hyperdimensional realities. See here for his healing work.

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*Halloween Special 2018* May Leitz from the Nyx Fears youtube channel joins on the show to talk about why we watch horror films, what personality traits lead us to different styles of horror, our culture's tendencies towards the extreme (such as American 'torture porn'), and the traumatic potential of the modern, quasi-abusive haunted house attractions.

May Leitz, like me, is a nerd for shit and I am happy to share our discussion with y'all.

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Jean Robertson joins us to deconstruct the relationship models of the modern world and offer us insight on what humanity might look like if we were to evolve into a post-judgement, collaborative culture.

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- The slippery creative nature of language - Shifting meaning with language - Collaboration vs coercion - Post-judgement; Humanity 3.0 - The coercive mindset and the patriarchy - Different forms of power - Unconditional love as an accessible, learnable skill - It needs to be more than just intellectualism - The central role of the kitchen sink - The lived experience of the collaborative model - Relationships in the collaborative model - Nothing is wrong, and no one is to blame - A new definition of thinking - Putting unconditional love in the Cultural Commons - The meaning of meaning

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In this episode, Christopher Bache and I explore the research and exploration that underpins Diamonds from Heaven: a twenty-year journey into 70+ high dose LSD experiences done with the explicit intent to map Consciousness.

We talk about why Bache chose this path, what it was like, and what here learned from it all about Consciousness, psychedelic consciousness, and what it means to be a finite human, nested in a complex web of relationships, defined by its dualist dance for meaning.

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• What led Bache to choose high dose LSD psychedelic exploration
• The difference between 'psychedelic exploration', 'psychedelic therapy' and 'psycholytic therapy'
• Describing the cycles of death and rebirth into higher levels of consciousness
• Dying beyond the self, beyond the human, beyond time and space
• Beyond the non-dual and into the diamond luminosity
• Cleansing, suffering, purification, and ecstatic blessings'
• What does it feel like to transcend time and space?
• Is the non-dual experience of 5-MeO-DMT just a stepping stone to an ever larger reality?
• Cultivating coherent cognition in increasingly higher states of consciousness
• The difference between LSD and Psilocybin
• Do the challenges of high dose LSD get easier over time?
• What is "Deep Time"?
• LSD's lesson on the future of humanity
• How Bache feels about death now, after all of these experiences
• Why Bache stopped, the phenomenological dangers of continuous, long-term, high-dose LSD sessions
• The impact of a deep psychedelic practice on our human relationships
• Integration practices and how we integrate these massive, transcendental experiences

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Patrick Kroupa joins us to talk about what it was like for him in the 90s, in New York City, as a part of the heroin culture. He also shares with us his journey from addiction to recovery through the use of ibogaine, as well as his role in bringing ibogaine treatment for heroin addiction to the worldwide scene.

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• Pre+ Internet Computer hacking and phone phreaking in 1980s New York City
• Patrick's first heroin dose at 14 years old
• The gradual path to addiction
• Heroin's teaching about detachment
• The left-hand path of tantra
• When heroin was cool
• What took Patrick from controlled use to deep addiction to ibogaine
• What heroin detox feels like
• Why ibogaine?
• What an ibogaine detox feels like
• The genesis of microdosing ibogaine
• Risk profile of microdosing ibogaine
• What to do after using ibogaine for resolving addiction
• The origins of the modern opioid epidemic
• Any regrets?
• The medicalization of ibogaine

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Zoe Helene of Cosmic Sister comes on the show to talk about Psychedelic Feminism

"The ultimate goal of psychedelic feminism is to promote rapid (cultural) evolution from within—starting with women. Females make up half the human population. We know it's way past time we stepped up and took our share of the decision-making power—and yet we haven't. Why is that? What are the "whys?" and what can we do to work through them? My work with women and psychedelics is about exploring those complex, multifaceted, interconnected "whys?" with sacred plants and fungi, our evolutionary allies from the natural world." – Zoe Helene

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ABOUT THE GUEST

Zoe Helene, M.F.A., is a classically trained artist and cultural activist working for women's self-liberation, healing and empowerment through intentional journeying with natural psychedelics. She is also the founder of the eco-feminist advocacy, Cosmic Sister whose trio of #psychedelicfeminism educational grants—Women of the Psychedelic Renaissance, Cosmic Sisters of Cannabis and the merit-based immersive Plant Spirit Grant—promote women's voices in the field of psychedelics and our fundamental right to journey with evolutionary allies from nature, such as ayahuasca, cannabis, peyote, and psilocybin mushrooms.

Zoe's work has been featured in articles and interviews in Forbes, BBC Travel, Outside Magazine, Bust Magazine, VICE, Broadly, LA Yoga, Boston Magazine, New York Magazine, Newsday, Utne Reader, Wisdom Daily, AlterNet, Organic Authority, MIT Technology Review, Fast Company and other top-tier media venues.

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- psychedelic feminism is not what you might think when you hear 'feminism' - the patriarchy and the trauma of the modern world - racism in America - focusing on who we help - psychedelics not just about 'healing' - power complexes and holding each other down by fighting internally - psychedelics to deprogram the worst parts of culture - psychedelics are not benevolent - the Cosmic Sister preparation and integration programs - cultural appropriation vs cultural preservation and appreciation - privilege is subjective and relative - problems within ayahuasca culture and tourism - what Cosmic Sister is and does - building culture / abolishing faulty traditions

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