Expanding Mind

Improvisation, isolation tanks, and transformative encounters with an often misunderstood psychoactive plant: a talk with Twig Harper, experimental musician and head technician of Be Free Floating. befreefloating.com

Meditation, psychedelic science, and the integration of the end game: a talk with Katherine MacLean, PhD, who helped guide psychedelic and meditation sessions in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins.

The cult of death, narco spirituality, and Mexico's increasingly international folk saint: a talk with Professor Andrew Chestnut, author of Devoted to Death: Santa Meurte, the Skeleton Saint.

Shock, distraction, and techniques of working with trauma: Erik and Maja chat about the tough stuff.

Crystal visions, flutes, and the hidden sublimity of a reviled genre: a talk with Douglas Mcgowan, curator of I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990.

Situationist practices, critical design, and the politics of Guy Debord action figures: a talk with media theorist McKenzie Wark, author of The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out of the 20th Century.

Congressional exorcism, magical thinking, and the technology of serendipity: Erik and Maja talk about divination today.

Steve Jobs, technological paradox, and the metaphysics of Apple computers: a talk with Professor Brett T. Robinson, author of the new bool Appletopia: Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs.

Autism, UFOs, and the spirituality of trauma: a fascinating talk with Jason Horsley, aka Aeolus Kephas, author, filmmaker, blogger, podcaster. www.auticulture.com.

Borderzones, the ravages of NAFTA, and the drive for transcendence: a talk with author Charles Shaw about his new documentaryExile Nation: Plastic People.www.exilenation.org