Let me start off by saying, I have zero interest in participating in what many call the transhuman movement. Specifically, implanting some type of technology into my body in order to alter or enhance the way in which I experience the world. 

That being said, I do think it’s important to understand what is going on. This is clearly going to be a thing in our lifetimes that will vastly impact culture and society and I’d rather be informed. A few weeks ago someone had recommended Singularity Weekly to me and I was startled to see how far along we are in this field.

I wanted to have Joe Allen the author of singularity weekly and Steven Bannon’s War Room transhuman expert. 

The most interesting thing that emerged from the conversation was the realization that transhumanism is very much a religion. There is a group of people that are attempting to transcend their current condition and achieve salvation. In these higher states, they also strive to achieve greater abilities of unity and access to higher intelligence.

Gee. Sounds kind of like most wisdom traditions. I guess the main difference is the mechanism they believe will usher into this change is technology. Joe called this worship of technology as our savior an inversion of spirituality. I tend to agree, but this new understanding certainly helped me better understand what is more fundamentally driving the leaders of these movements. 

I can’t say that my opinion has really shifted. I am increasingly getting excited about living a more analog life. Having less technology dominates my experience and generally being more connected to nature. This probably means I will have to move from my urban existence at some point, but I am okay with that. I increasingly think living in Urban areas with high degrees of invisible environmental toxins make it harder to be healthier than it needs to be. And I care more about myself and family being healthy than nice dinners with friends and access to luxury experiences. I think we will start to see this appeal to more and more urban professionals in the next decade. I guess we already are. 

It can be quite frustrating to be experiencing something unfamiliar that our medical system doesn’t have an answer for. Unfortunately, I know from experience as documented here!

This is very common with many “spiritual”, “mystical”, “energetic”, etc. experiences and effects, that are often referred to as emergent phenomena.

A few months ago, I was delighted to discover the The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium. The EPRC is a group of 180+ researchers, scientists, medical, therapy and spiritual professionals that are trying to tackle the hard problem of gathering data and research on the large catalogue of emergent phenomena experiences that humans may face and the efficacy of different protocols for handling them.

Daniel Ingram is one of the co-founders of the organization and also the author of one my favorite books on Buddhism Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha.

The EPRC’s aim is to give health care systems, mental health providers, and those who are helping to teach and promote various practices the information they need in order to make better decisions about how to both promote the benefits of these practices and manage the various effects that they can produce.

It can be quite frustrating to be experiencing something that our medical system doesn’t have an answer for. Unfortunately, I know from experience as documented here!

This is quite common with many “spiritual”, “mystical”, “energetic”, etc. experiences and effects, that are often referred to as emergent phenomena.

A few months ago, I was delighted to discover the The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium. They are large group of researchers, scientists, medical, therapy and spirirtual professionals who are trying to tackle the hard problem of gathering data and research on the large catalogue of emergent phenomena experiences humans may face and the efficacy of different protocols for handling them. 

Daniel Ingram is one of the co-founders who is helping driving this effort along with 180+ other people.

Their aim is to give health care systems, mental health providers, and those who are helping to teach and promote various practices the information they need in order to make better decisions about how to both promote the benefits of these practices and manage the various effects that they can produce. 

In my opinion, accelerating the acknowledgement and effective treatment of these types of experiences in mainstream healthcare is an imperative as wisdom practices like meditation and substances like psychedelics scale up in society.

We must develop an adequate support system to help people as they go through their own evolutionary process that right not leaves a lot to be desired. I deeply hope this happens so people can navigate this more gracefully and avoid the confusing fact finding mission I had to go on 4 years ago.

I found Daniel a joy to talk to and we touch upon lots of historical information about the effort of trying to make higher states of consciousness recognized by mainstream institutions. It was a fascinating conversation that I hope enjoy!

Today’s guest is someone I have followed since 2016 when I participated in a startup growth program called Reforge where he was a guest lecturer. Simply put, Andy Johns is one of the most prolific startup growth executives in the modern era. He has been an leader or key player at 8 consecutive billion dollar startups including Facebook, Twitter, Wealthfront, Quora, and others. 

In this conversation, Andy shares his personal experience of working on his mental health and consciousness through the context of being an ambitious person in the world of high growth startups.

For full show notes visit: https://scottbritton.substack.com/s/evolutionfm-podcast

This week’s episode is with my good friend Zach Poitra who I have worked with in a Shamanic capacity for 3 separate ayahuasca retreats.

Zach’s story is amazing. After working for an investment bank for 10 years, he moved down to Peru to live in the jungle and work on himself. What he thought would be a temporary stint transpired into him meeting and training with his shamanic teacher for 4.5 years before becoming a full-time shaman himself. Now after many years helping others with their own inward work, he has felt a calling to re-enter the world of finance which was something he would have never anticipated. 

He provides an inside look at what the life of a Shaman is actually like demystifying a lot of common misconceptions I know I originally had. We also talk about his inner experience of being guided to return to finance which too many, seemed like a surprising move. Personally, I think its a fantastic example of surrendering to the universe and when we do this things often take different forms then what we would have expected.

For complete show notes, head over to:

https://scottbritton.substack.com/s/evolutionfm-podcast

My friend Robby Bent joins us to talk about his amazing online / offline company Othership. A lot of people are turned off by wellness and mindfulness in the current way it is packaged and introduced. Robbie and his team have incredible perspective to this dynamic and are taking a different approach with their physical Othership locations and amazing breathwork app which I love. By focusing on creating something that's cool and avoiding all the spiritual woo woo, they are casting a wider net to these powerful practices that ultimately drive transformation.

Check out their site and app: https://www.othership.us/

Today my great friend Dylan Beynon, CEO of Mindbloom joins us on the show. Mindbloom is the market leader in providing ketamine assisted therapy in the US and our a trailblazer as these substances become more deeply integrated into our society and institutions. Dylan is one of the smartest and most thoughtful people I know making this an electric conversation. If you want to know more about the business side of pyschedelics and where the industry is heading, this is a must listen. 

This is the first episode of EvolutionFM, a new show exploring the evolution of consciousness in modern times. We cover what the show will be about as well as a bit of my experience in my own journey up to this point.

We brought back the podcast for a special episode with my buddy Ryan Denehy. Ryan is the Co-Founder of Swarm Mobile which was acquired by Groupon and one of the hardest working guys I know. In this episode, we chat about what it takes to be sucessful and how you can engineer your life to get the results you want for your life and business. If you're not there today, that's okay because this is a PROCESS, not an overnight switch. We chat about habits, routines, and attitude which made me super fired up about this episode!

Brothers Ilan and Guy Ferdman come on the show to share how they've relied upon being super intentional about what they choose to focus on to quickly go from starting a business to some of the most pre-eminent facebook marketers in their space. We'll talk about the even bigger vision they have and how they plan on getting there along the way. These guys are full of energy, wisdom, and enthusiam which makes for an awesome episode.