Shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/18-david-tomen/
Watch this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/T1mXmooz53s

Do you own a brain? Do you like to use it for work and other important stuff? Would you like it to work better and stay like that for a long time?

Then you need to listen this interview with David Tomen from NootropicsExpert.com!

David is and expert in nootropics and boosting brain function and cognition, and on this episode of Connecting Minds we talk about how to get started with nootropics. 

We cover a TON of amazing compounds such as L-tyrosine, AlphaGPC, CDP choline, acetyl-l-carnitine, phosphatidylserine, DHA, the B vitamins, quercetin, CoQ10, PQQ, creatine, taurine, piracetam, aniracetam, oxiracetam, phenylpiracetam, coluracetam, and pramiracetam!

Links to David’s resources:

Website: https://NootropicsExpert.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NootropicsExpert/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidtomen

David’s book Head First: https://nootropicsexpert.com/head-first/

Shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/17-patrick-mckeown/
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LAH2ra_0H6U

On this episode of the Connecting Minds podcast we have world-renowned breathing expert Patrick McKeown discussing the dangers of breathing too much (which many of us do) and mouth-breathing (which many of also do) in adults and children. We discuss the techniques he teaches with the Buteyko Breathing Method and how to normalise our breathing volume for better sleep, reduced anxiety, improved concentration and focus, and find relief from chronic conditions.

Patrick McKeown, BA, MA (TCD), Dip BM (Prof KP Buteyko), FBPI, FRSB, is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. In 2002, Patrick completed his clinical training in the Buteyko Breathing Method at the Buteyko Clinic, Moscow, Russia. This training was accredited by Professor Konstantin Buteyko. Having suffered from asthma, rhinitis and sleep-disordered breathing for over 20 years, Patrick is able to offer both theoretical knowledge and his own experiences to help clients to overcome similar challenges.

To date, Patrick has written seven books and produced four DVD sets on the Buteyko Method, including two Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk bestsellers for the management of asthma: Close Your Mouth and Asthma-Free Naturally. The Buteyko self-help manual Close Your Mouth has been translated into ten different languages including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian and Russian. His latest book titled The Oxygen Advantage,  improves sports performance by addressing dysfunctional breathing patterns and simulating high altitude training. The Oxygen Advantage is currently available in English, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese and Polish. By September 2018, it will be published in German, Spanish, Chinese and Taiwanese.

Links to Patrick’s Resources:

Buteyko Clinic website: https://buteykoclinic.com/
YouTube:
Oxygen Advantage: https://oxygenadvantage.com/
Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patrick-McKeown/e/B006X1OD3U
Buteyko breathing exercises: https://buteykoclinic.com/breathing-exercises/
MyoTape: https://oxygenadvantage.com/product/myotape/#a_aid=christian 

Shownotes: http://christianyordanov.com/16-anders-beatty
Watch this interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/W7aglaLTvKA

On this episode of Connecting Minds I had the pleasure of chatting with Anders Beatty.

Anders works with the leading ibogaine and plant medicine providers around the world to help their clients prepare for and get the best out of their journeys. He shared a ton of great insights into addiction, trauma, plant medicine, and the journey to recovery.

This is another important episode if you are a parent!

Anders is a psychotherapist and works with a number of ibogaine and plant medicine clinics worldwide specialising in pre treatment "set" and integration for people undergoing a rite of passage for addiction, PTSD, trauma and 'burn out'.

Anders runs ibogaine counselling services and was once in "addiction" himself.

Links to Anders’ resources:

Ibogaine Counselling: https://www.ibogaine-counselling.com/
Psychedelic treatment for addiction:  https://www.psychedelicsforaddiction.com

Topics discussed on this episode:

We covered a lot of ground in this interview, some of the most salient points include: 

• Anders’ background, his experience with ibogaine and other plant medicines, and his work with the leading ibogaine and plant medicine providers around the world.
• The importance of “putting intentionality, integrity, respect and reverence into the process,” as Anders puts it.
• How various childhood traumas, big or small, can lead us to addictions.
• “Addiction is about self-medicating from being inauthentic.”
• What the lead-up for the client to the plant medicine journey looks like in terms of preparation.
• “Addiction is about being in control.”
• The magic is not in the plant medicine, it is in the work that the client does themselves.
• The “metaphorical cooking pot” or cauldron where each person put their own “ingredients” used to facilitate their own personal transformation.
• Guilt and shame are completely unproductive when it comes to addressing one’s addictions.
• The importance of therapists and counsellors having worked with the the medicines.

Episode shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/15-dr-aimie-apigian/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yL4zRs21_Zs

In this episode of Connecting Minds we have Dr Aimie Apigian and we talk about how stress and can lead to overwhelm and subsequent trauma that can get imprinted into our nervous systems. Pretty riveting stuff and very relevant to the current stressful environment.

Dr. Aimie is a Board-Certified Preventive Medicine Physician who specializes in trauma, attachment and addiction medicine, and optimizing our nervous system to feel our best and do our best. After throwing herself into finding answers on how to help her foster-adopted son as he struggled with severe emotional and behavioral issues, she started to see how much of trauma is biology, not psychology.

After 6 exhausting years the pieces came together for her son, and as he successfully shifted into feeling loved and understood, she then developed chronic fatigue and autoimmune issues, and discovered her own trauma patterns at the root of it. By what she calls, “biohacking trauma, attachment and the nervous system,” she has found it is possible to rewire the insecure attachment, trauma patterns and accumulated stress that is stored in our bodies.

In addition to running her medical concierge focus on bio-hacking the nervous system, She is the founder and director of Family Challenge Camps, a weekend intensive for families, and is the founder and CEO of Trauma Healing Accelerated, an LLC dedicated to providing education and courses for those wanting to help themselves and/or their children.

She has written a Roadmap to Accelerating the Rewiring of Trauma Patterns, runs the Intentional Parenting for Attachment 3 month program and has created self-guided online courses including the Shift To Calm Aliveness course to get people started with the basics of Somatic Experiencing, a powerful body-based therapy. She loves seeing the change happen that can happen so quickly by working directly with the body and optimizing one’s biology for connection and aliveness.

Links to Dr Aimie’s website and resources:

Website: https://draimie.com/

Shift to Calm Aliveness course: https://traumahealingaccelerated.mykajabi.com/Shift_to_Calm

Bio-Optimize Summit: https://bio-optimizesummit.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFNUriSZ4iaJkh8VDG0ElzQ

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/draimie/

Trauma Healing Accelerated: https://www.facebook.com/traumahealingaccelerated

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lMoAPIp26wU
Shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/14-ricky-varandas/

Ricky Varandas is the host of The Ripple Effect Podcast and The Union of The Unwanted podcast. In this episode we talk about censorship and some other stuff we need to talk about more ;) Make sure you tune in!

Links to Ricky's podcasts and social media:

The Ripple Effect Podcast: https://rvtheory6.podomatic.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RvTheory6
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RvTHEORY6
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ripple-Effect-Podcast/429013297211868
Union of the Unwanted Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-union-of-the-unwanted/id1543392645

Topics discussed on this episode:

• How Ricky got into podcasting.
• Censorship on social media.
• The Plandemic film - check out the series here: https://plandemicseries.com/
• Event 201.
• The person who invented the PCR test used to diagnose C0V1D says it is being misused.
• The trauma the current crisis is inflicting upon children.
• The stupidy of face masks.
• Lies about statistics of infections and deaths.

Episode shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/13-matthew-pallamary
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JECvEsw5hqw

Matt Pallamary (Mateo) is an award winning writer, musician, and sound healer who has been studying shamanism all of his life and incorporates shamanic practices into his daily life as well as into his writing and teaching.

In this episode we talk about Mateo’s exploration of shamanic cultures and their medicines, including Ayahuasca. We also talk about other cool stuff, so tune in as there are many gems of wisdom from Mateo’s decades-long study of shamanism, sound healing, and plant medicines!

Links to Mateo’s books, website, and social media:

Website: http://mattpallamary.com
Books: http://mattpallamary.com/writings/
Mystic Ink Publishing: https://mysticinkpublishing.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattpallamary
Amazon author page: http://t.co/wo9nR2vYsf?amp=1

Topics discussed on this episode: 

• Mateo’s background and his explorations with psychoactive and consciousness-expanding substances.
• His experience with Ayahuasca ceremonies and shamanism in Peru. The Dieta and other plants he’s worked with.
• The time between psychedelic experiences is where the real work gets done.
• How working with the medicine (Ayahuasca) can help you get past the mind/head/ego and become more heart-centered. Becoming essence-centered allows you to see you are the creator of you own ego, which is a set of coping strategies designed to help your survive in the world.
• Our primary wound is abandonment.
• Stanislav Grof’s perinatal matrices. 
• The two basic fears we have - entrapment and abandonment.
• The difference between LSD and Ayahuasca.
• Why it’s so important to do Ayahuasca with an experienced shaman/facilitator in a ceremony.
• Mateo’s  experience with Huachuma (San Pedro) and Peyote.
• How sound can be used for healing. Mateo talks about his work with sound healing as a musician. The importance of energy and intention.
• The plant Dieta and becoming one with the jungle.
• The importance of integrity for facilitators.

Shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/12-charlie-robinson
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-Z_BHE0py38

Charlie Robinson is the author of The Octopus of Global Control and the new book with Jeff Berwick a.k.a The Dollar Vigilante, The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire. We a talk about his books and his research into conspiracies intended to keep us subservient slaves to a select few people who orchestrate world affairs. This is an incredibly important episode for you to listen to in full. Please check out Charlie's work, it is sure to make you rethink some fundamental views you may hold about the world you live in ;)

Links to Charlie's books, podcast, website, and social:

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire: https://www.amazon.com/Controlled-Demolition-American-Empire/dp/B08M21XKJ5

The Octopus of Global Control: https://www.amazon.com/Octopus-Global-Control-Charlie-Robinson/dp/1521818495

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/macroaggressions/id1501964274

Octopus book website: http://theoctopusofglobalcontrol.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/macroaggressio3

Topics Discussed on this episode:

They are way too many gems from Charlie in this conversation to list them. A small sample of the topics covered include: 

• How Charlie got into his research and how it lead to him writing his first book, then with Jeff Berwick on the second one.
• The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire
• Who are the globalists? What are the up to?
• Why you should be interested in these topics.
• What causes politicians to make seemingly terrible decisions for the people.
• The role of child abuse in politics.
• False flag terror attacks.
• The use of propaganda in the media to sway public opinion.

Watch this interview on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/sL17AtT7Kxk
Episode shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/11-chris-bache

Christopher M. Bache, Ph.D. is professor emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training. Chris’ passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of nonordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states. An award winning teacher and international speaker, Chris has written four books: Lifecycles - a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn - a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; The Living Classroom, an exploration of collective fields of consciousness in teaching; and LSD and the Mind of the Universe, the story of his 20 year journey with LSD.

Chris is a father of 3, a Vajrayana practitioner, and lives in Weaverville, NC.

You can contact Chris at chris [at) chrisbache (dot--com].

Links to Chris' books and other resources:

LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven

Lifecycles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life

Chris presenting on reincarnation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlCMfEOmsrY

Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind

The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness

Website: https://chrisbache.com/

Chris' academic publications: https://youngstown.academia.edu/ChristopherMBache

Topics discussed on this episode: 

• Chris discusses his 20 year journey of exploration of his consciousness during 1979 - 1999.
• His discovery of Stan Grof’s work and how that catalysed his high-dose LSD work.
• The protocol he used, based on Stan Grof’s research.
• Chris’ first book, Lifecycles, which is about reincarnation.
• Chris gives us an overview of what happens to us when we take low and high doses of LSD. 
• We confront The Shadow - fears, worries, early traumatic experiences all the way back to infancy and the womb.
• The death-rebirth process.
• Ego death.
• The high-dose protocol initially developed for terminally ill cancer patients.
• CoEx systems and the Perinatal level of consciousness, and how accessing them through LSD can have therapeutic potential.
• What happens after one dissolves the CoEx systems and Perinatal matrices. 
• The practices that allowed Chris to integrate the his experiences into daily life.
• The middle and later stages of Chris’ journey and how the content of his sessions changed and developed.
• The Diamond Luminosity.
• Deep time and the birth of the Future Human.
• Chris’ attitude towards his own death, and the lack of fear associated with it.
• The reasons Chris decided to stop with his LSD work.
• The challenge of integrating the entire journey after stopping the sessions. 
• Chris’ plans for the future in terms of teaching and producing more work.