Adventures Through The Mind

We feature Eve and Yaegon (aka Kalya Scintilla and Eve Olution) on the show to talk about the transformative power of music, theater and dance in the context of ancient technologies, mythology, and magic.

We also share a thoroughly grounded discussion about cultural appropriation, the history of domination across cultures, the challenge of being a successful woman in a sexist industry, and the life-giving potentials of monogamous partnership.

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• Going beyond groovy tunes and great costumes
• Crafting fields of potential with intention and ritual
• Mandalas of sound
• Theater as a means to evoke ancient mythology
• Altering reality with storytelling and performance
• 'Transformational festivals'
• Festival culture and the modern awakening of ancient technology
• The difference between celebrating 'the ancients' and stereotyping first nations people
• A short wondering on the world-history of domination across cultures and ethnicities
• Exploring cultural-appropriation and calling-out in music and festival culture
• Being a powerful, unapologetic feminine woman in the face of sexism in the dominant western culture
• The power of sacred partnership/relationship in life and in art; beyond polyamory

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Everyone is a shaman.

That is a bold statement and is not without nuanced caveat and discretion. However, is is the claim of our guest for this episode of Adventures Through The Mind.

Matthew J. Pallamary is a filmmaker and a highly accomplished, multi-award-winning author of 13 books, ranging from historical novels, personal memoirs, and even a non-fiction book on the art and practice of writing itself. His work is highly psychedelic and emergence for his multi-decade experience in Shamanism practices and the psychedelic subculture, on which he extensively lectures.

He is on the show to share what he has learned from his decades participating in shamanism and shamanic practices, especially in the modern context of charlatans, appropriation, and rampant abuse of power.

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- Everybody's a shaman - Shamanic history and oral storytelling - Charlatan shamans and earning your keep - Pallamary's journey from huffing glue to leading ayahuasca ceremonies - Who determines nationhood? Earning your keep as a medicine person. - The psychedelic is NOT easy - how deep shadow-work goes - "I'm a cast of 1000s" - integrating sub-personalities with ayahuasca - Shamanism is the mastery of energy - The energetic role of the shaman in ayahuasca ceremony - Truth and Integrity - finding for genuine shaman practitioners - Reaching for the absolute - becoming whole

Well, this interview is not what you may assume.

It stands out in the repertoire of podcasts that have come before and are likely to go from here. That is because it isn't an interview at all, it's merely a conversation that happened off-the-cuff and just so happened to be recorded. I am releasing it because despite the diffused and tangential nature of the thing, it was fun and informative and because the guest, Patrick Kroupa is a man with much to offer, a formal interview and otherwise.

Patrick Kroupa (also known as Lord Digital, born January 20, 1969) is an American writer, hacker and activist. Kroupa was a member of the legendary Legion of Doom and Cult of the Dead Cow hacker groups and co-founded MindVox in 1991, with Bruce Fancher. He was a heroin addict from age 14 to 30 and got clean through the use of the hallucinogenic drug ibogaine. [wiki]

He is on the show this week to talk about peptides, anti-aging, and the complexities of health in the modern, toxic world.

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• BPC-157: what the hell is that?
• Repairing brain damage from long-term stimulate use
• Cautions around injecting peptides - tracking reliable vendors
• Ageing and Anti-Aging with HGH and Secretagogues
• Reinvigorating the Sex Drive
• Metformin
• Big pharma and the FDA
• Health care in Canada vs the USA
• The smear campaign against nicotine vaping
• Some background on the history of Oxycotin, fentanyl, and perspective heroin
• Measuring our hormones to assess your health
• James' journey with the ketogenic diet (I am not longer on this diet)

Journalist, photographer, and artist James Oroc was born in the small South Pacific nation of Aotearoa. Since 1998 he has been pursuing and reporting on the cutting edge of extreme sports in more than 40 countries around the globe, his work appearing in magazines, films, and on MTV Sports. He has been a member of the Burning Man community since 1999, and he is also involved in the documentation and advancement of psychedelic culture as one of the first people to ever publically discuss the philosophical and metaphysical implication of 5-MeO-DMT.

His first book, Tryptamine Palace, is a quintessential read for those interested in psychedelic philosophy. It presents his theories on reality, God, quantum mechanics and 5-MeO-DMT that are present in Tryptamine Palace. In this interview, we scratch the surface of those theories but advance beyond the Tryptamine Palace and explore the topics of his most recent book, The New Psychedelic Revolution -- the rich history of visionary art, modern festival culture, the rising popularity of 5-MeO-DMT, and his psychedelic philosophies on the nature of mind.

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• How psychedelics give people bigger egos (especially 5-MeO-DMT)
• Oroc's encounter with 5-MeO-DMT and what led him to the Tryptamine Palac
• Being a successful psychedelic author
• Medicalization vs. psychedelics as agents of modern mysticism
• Finding God through psychedelics
• The importance of spirituality
• Ego death, psychedelics, and relating to God
• The history of psychedelics and where we are its cultural evolution
• Visionary culture: art, music, and transformational festivals (especially Burning Man)
• The vital role of community, trance, and dance in human life
• Psychedelic university - festival conferences

Just an update as to what is happening with me and the podcast for the next two months. Head to https://www.jameswjesso.com/events to see my tour schedule. Or to http://www.patreon.com/jameswjesso to get linked up to some inside tour adventure stories and some postcards from my travels. Or, http://www.instagram.com/jameswjesso to follow the public eye of my tour, where I will be travel blogging with the hastag #jamesjessotour2018

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Selen Atasoy PhD and her team have developed a new model for interpreting fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) data based on the mathematics of harmonic waves a phenomenon ubiquitous in nature. Essentially, they have developed a way to 'decompose' brain states in the same vein as how we can decompose a musical piece down to its individual notes. They call is connectome-harmonic decomposition and have applied this approach to the fMRI data of the brain on LSD.

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• PTSD, genetics, and susceptibility to alcoholism
• The false dichotomy of nature vs nurture and body vs mind
• Atasoy's research of altered states and the connectome-harmonics model
• fMRI research, it's changed over time and how connectome-harmonics is a different approach
• resting state networks, e.g. the default mode network
• Harmonic waves, natural frequencies, standing waves and cymatics.
• Applying the cymatics model to the fMRI data
• Harmonic 'decomposition' of fMRI data, analogous to decomposing music into individual notes
• What did they learn about looking at LSD brain states from the connectome-harmonic model
• LSD increases the complexity of the brain
• An explanation of the concept of 'Criticality' in regards to brain-states, in particular to LSD and psychedelics in the treatment of mental disorders
• Possible links between psychedelics and neuroplasticity
• The possible connections between harmonic analysis of the brain and the spiritual concepts of reality as an energetic system
• The importance of having an open, but critical mind when conducting science
• Exploring the impact of light/sound frequencies (such as music, mantras, or binaural beats) to alter brain states.
• Can we, theoretically, recreate psychedelic states with light and sound? Or recreate psychedelic brain-state harmonics into music?
• Can harmonic frequencies at the basis of reality be the primary influence behind the morphogenesis of flora and fauna?
• Can the standing waves and frequencies of physical environments influence subjective brain states through brainwave entrainment?

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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