Adventures Through The Mind

The somewhat painful emergence out of the "Just Say No" fallacy of the Nancy Reagan DARE moment is underway at the cutting edge of festival and nightlife culture. In its place, Harm Reduction has come to the forefront as the next wave of drug education. But more than just drug education, Harm Reduction is a public health philosophy that basically says "people are gonna do risky things, might as well give them real, evidence-based information to at least make informed choices, so as to minimize risk".

On this episode of ATTMind Radio, we feature Paul Brooks. He is a journalist and founding member of Calgary Party Safe, a not-for-profit harm reduction organization. He is also manager of a popular downtown club in Calgary, Alberta, Communication Director for Bass Coast Music Festival, and a super great guy. He is on the show to explore not only the philosophy and evolution of harm reduction but some practical information about staying safe when sampling psychoactives.

Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp31

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Yarrow Willard, Clinical/Master Herbalist, co-visionary of the Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary and self-proclaimed 'Herbal Jedi" is this episode's guest. He joins us to explore the potentials of plants and the natural world in training the material and non-material potentials residing in each of us.

• how to learn from plants.
• microdosing wild plants,
• epigenetics and health through the generations,
• the role plants play in our material and non-material health,
• cultivating biological resilience,
• branched polysaccharides and the fungal kingdom,
• training the microbiome,
• the current state of human domestication and how we can start to free ourselves.

Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp30

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Chris Bennett is a long-standing Cannabis activist and historian. He is also the man behind Vancouver's premiere herbal entheogen shop, Urban Shaman Ethnobotanicals. He is a prolific writer on the topics of Cannabis in politics and activism, as well as its ancient history. He is the author of Cannabis and the Soma Solution and Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible.

He joins us on the show to talk about the role Cannabis played in the early Abrahamic religions as the fabled Kaneh Bosm. Clearing up very old misinformation and carrying us from the historical origins of humilities relationship to Cannabis all the way the pending national legalization of Cannabis in Canada. A wealth of extremely interesting and transgressive information, Bennet has got something special ATTMind Radio.

Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp29

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Mike Zaremba talks floating. No sight, no sound, no gravity, total disconnection with the sensory experience of the outside world, floating is a gateway to states of awareness that may most of us never knew were possible.

Floating, (aka Floatation therapy or Sensory Deprivation) is a healing and altered state technology that is rapidly growing around the world. Our guest for this episode is Mike Zaremba. He is the co-owner of The Float House, Canada's most prolific floatation center, and the host of the podcast Vancouver Real. He joins us to talk the science, history and esoteric possibilities of Floating and its interwoven relationship to psychedelics.

Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp28

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Mel Mariposa is on the show to talk about Polyamory, a non-monogamous lifestyle. A self-proclaimed queer, polyamorous relationship anarchist, she is also the author of the blog Polysingleish.

On this episode of the podcast we dive deep into the what's, why's, & how's of polyamory. We talk about what is means to be authentic, honest, selfish, and open. We explore the importance of confident vulnerability and trust, and navigating the turbulent terrain non-monogamy offers us all, more or less. We while also tap into a much needed stark discussion on the shadow side of polyamory.

Mel offers us an interview that anyone interested in polyamory will enjoy, from the fresh and curious to the deeply experienced.

Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp27

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Douglas Tataryn is a clinical psychologist whose Bio-Emotive Framework brings us to the core of Emotional Intelligence. What is the Bio-Emotive Framework? It is an approach to emotional intelligence that enables us the release of emotional repression and the healing of past traumas. It gives us the tools to not only identify and delineate the core feelings directing our behaviors, but also an understanding of what is standing in the way of a happy, fully-embodied life.

We talk about the difference between emotions and feelings; the effect past experiences have in manipulating our view of the world in the present; the rampant condition of 'cultural alexithymia', how to connect, understand and release feelings that aren't serving you; and the vital role body awareness plays in our emotional intelligence.

This an episode I think EVERYONE can benefit from listening to.

Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp26

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Mark Haden is chair of the board for the Canadian chapter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He, along with his colleges, are the ones working to lay the policy groundwork for the legal integration of psychedelics into society.

Mark is also Adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia School of Public and Population Health; has worked for the addiction services for 28 years in counselling, and supervisory roles; has been published in several reputable journals including the Canadian Journal Of Public Health and the International Journal Of Drug Policy; and was even awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for drug policy reform work in 2013.

In this episode, we talk about the current state of psychedelic research and what is holding ti back, as well as what regularity structure the society may create in the eventual release of psychedelics from their political prison.

Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp25

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In this episode of ATTMind Radio, we welcome Oliver Quintanilla, director of the documentary Little Saints. The tagline for his movie is "eat a mushroom, talk to God", so you can probably assume that the content of this episode will be interesting, to say the least. His film was truly one of the most vulnerable documentaries on psychedelics I have seen (and I've seen a lot). It was great to take a peak at the state of ceremonial use of psilocybin in contemporary Mexico. However, I wasn't prepared for was the potency of Catholicism that is present within it!

It was great to pick Oliver's brain about the evolution of psilocybin's role in religious ceremonies in Mexico over the last few hundred years, the connection between "spiritual healing" and physical healing, why he made this movie, and what effect he has seen it produce throughout its screening tour. And of course, we talk about how he got into psilocybin and the role it played in his life growing up in Mexico.

Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp24

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Historian and ordained Buddhist lama Mike Crowley joins us on ATTMind Radio this week to talk about his new book, The Secret Drugs Of Buddhism. We explore the historical origins of Buddhism and discuss the fabled Soma and Amrita as a concoction of psychedelics plants similar to that of Ayahuasca. We talk about the complex of connections between psychedelics in ancient civilizations and various scriptures of ancient Asianic traditions, contact of intelligent entities in the psychedelics realms, the connections between modern drug culture and evolution of Buddhism.

Mike is a fantastic wealth of information and set me straight on a couple ideas I have been considering for a long while. This is a great podcast with lots of cool history. He is also funding the release of his book via Kickstarter, which ends on Feb 6, 2016. Don't miss your opportunity to help this book reach the world.

Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp23

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Yalila Espinoza is an intimacy coach and integrative health educator with her Ph.D. earned in studying the erotic intelligence of plants. She comes on the show today to talk about her journey into health from past sexual abuse and her time working with various in the jungles of South America (including Ayahuasca, Coca, and multiple long-term deitas, some of which in isolation).

Yalila also outlines her Spiritual Erotic Awakening model as we talk about sexual trauma, sexuality in Shamanism, inequality in Ayahuasca cultures, and what it means to trust in the body.

Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp22

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