Inner Truth with David Newell

Following on from my solocast a few weeks back on the Toad Medicine (5-MEO-DMT), I'm continuing the psychedelic series with a two-part episode on the increasingly popular psychedelic vine ayahuasca.

In this episode I talk about my funny, crazy + very intense experience on a 10-day ayahuasca retreat in Peru and unpack all the essentials from:

• What ayahuasca is
• What happens when you take it
• Why people are doing it
• How to prepare mentally and physically for it
• Setting your intent
• What ceremony is like
• How to make sense of your experience
• Integration back into normal life
• Realizing your kinship with plants

You can find all the things I mention in the episode online.

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Trish Whelan is one of the best and most sought after Kundalini Yoga teachers in Ibiza + most importantly, an absolutely wonderful soul!

Go back 10 years and Kundalini was quite a fringe yoga modality (it still is to some extent) but it has seen an unmistakeable growth in the past decade and with good reason, it gets incredible results + quickly.

In this conversation we dived right in to why Kundalini is such a great technology for this time (the Age of Aquarius), how it can support you, and the best way to get involved.

We discussed the shifting astrological times, the practice of kundalini, how its creator's predictions are all coming true, why Ibiza is a magnet for people + what you can practice at home to start feeling the benefits right away.

Want to learn more? Check out Soul Adventures for information on her amazing yoga retreats at her beautiful place in Ibiza.

Jess Lewis is someone you seriously cannot put into a box!

She's been a model, a boxer, and now she's the founder of the amazing Gathering of Minds which brings together all sorts of wonderful people at the frontier of consciousness to give TedEx style talks and share their wisdom about adversity they've overcome and how they've done it.

In its 5th year in London, GoM is an awesome way to meet people doing truly fascinating work in the field of consciousness expansion.

Supporting a global shift in consciousness is a major thing for Jess and both plant medicine + shamanism have played a big role in her life.

There's a whole bunch of amazing stuff in this interview that I had no idea about so listen out for some serious shamanic wisdom.

Samantha Moyo is a beautiful soul, a dear friend and co-creator of Inner Truth.

She also knows a thing or two(!) about building conscious communities. Having founded Morning Gloryville, the sober dance event that became a global social movement, she is now heading up a pioneering new conscious community building platform, Tamuka, to help conscious brands find and amplify their voice.

Building soulful brands in this day and age is a whole new field of exploration and experimentation and in this conversation we had an honest chat about dealing with old syndromes of competitiveness and conflict whilst trying to build effective and sustainable brands.

We also spoke about recent awakenings, initiations, finding your tribe, and what the future looks like for community building.

Sam is one of the most creative thinkers I know so prepare for some beautiful, mind-expanding perspectives on old paradigms.

You can find her at www.tamuka.co and @moyo_samantha.

Three weeks ago on a relatively spare of the moment decision (call it divine inspiration), I smoked the venom of the Senoran Desert toad known as Bufo Alvarius.

The venom contains the chemical 5-MEO-DMT, commonly considered the most powerful psychedelic in the world.

Lord knows who tried it the first time (they probably had quite the shock), but when you smoke it, you experience extremely rapid ego dissolution, lose all sense of your body + mind (as you know it) and become one with the universe.

It was simultaneously the most beautiful and terrifying experience of my life.

In this episode – a first solocast for Inner Truth – I share the story on why I did it, what it was like, what I learnt, and why I'll never be the same again.

Buckle up for a comedy ride to the 10th dimension.

This episode we're talking all about re-wilding the body, mind and soul.

That majestic feeling you get when you've spent the weekend at the coast or hiking in the woods? That's re-wilding.

Andy Raingold of Change In Nature, specialises in just that. Taking people out of themselves and back into nature to create transformational reconnection experiences.

I've heard so many good things from people about what happens on his retreats and how it affects their lives. Just check out their website of testimonials.

He is insanely passionate about reconnecting people with nature and themselves, and is both super knowledgeable and humble.

He told me that in the UK people spend only 5% of there time outdoors. Can you believe that?

Wherever you are, see if you can go and listen to this outside if you can.

What lies beyond the world we can see with our eyes?

The answer is a lot more than you might think!

There is a language hidden in the world of things seen, that can help us to understand what is really going on in the world around us.

Shamanism is one of the ways we can see through and integrate the physical and spiritual planes of existence.

It is one of the oldest wisdom traditions known to man and having fallen temporarily onto the fringe of popular culture, it is now becoming popular again amongst a generation of people keen to learn indigenous wisdom and reconnect with spirit.

This week I caught up with one of my favourite teachers - Isa Gucciardi - to talk about her new course with Inner Truth which is all about how we can develop these shamanic powers for life.

Daniel Pinchbeck is a NY Times best-selling author who's work covers psychedelics, shamanism, and most recently climate change.

We talk a lot on Inner Truth about our own wellbeing and recently I've been thinking a lot about how our own inner lives are symmetrical with the outer world.

How we treat ourselves inside is a close mirror for how we respond to events outside and also how we treat the environment.

One of the people that's been at the forefront of this kind of thinking is the incredible author Daniel Pinchbeck who shot up around 2002-2003 with his amazing book Breaking Open The Head which documented his travels around the world to take part in psychedelic initiations with various indigenous communities.

It was in these journeys that he had profoundly transcendent interconnected experiences that convinced him that what many of us are missing is initiation into the planet and an experience of no separateness to understand our deep bond to the planet.

In his latest book – How Soon Is Now? – he posits that human beings have actually brought about climate change in our collective unconscious as a direct response to our need to be bonded together as a species and rediscover our connection with the planet.

Its an amazing evolutionary theory and one I can't help could be right when I consider my own tendency towards thinking I'm individually powerless and thinking we all need to come together.

Daniel isn't a skeptic though he sees this all as evolutionary necessity and his book contains dozens of amazing ways for us to more actively participate in healing ourselves and the planet so listen out in this episode for some great advice for you to think on.

Sam Lee is a Mercury Prize nominated folk singer, song collector, award winning promoter, broadcaster, animateur, and naturalist.

He's been on my radar a while because his music and events really speak to a lot of incredible tradition that can help connect us inward and discover our own story.

His music is deeply influenced by his own passion for folklore and myth and in creating it he has always been incredibly thoughtful about his choice of story and the instrumentation he pairs it with.

What is particularly beautiful is his love for connecting story, music, people and place.

If you look at the modern era, a lot of these old stories have been lost and the rituals and practices that would accompany them have fallen away too. But there is incredible power in these stories, if you think about it, as humans, stories are how we communicate some of the deepest truths of human behaviour and how we make sense of the world.

So in this discussion we went deep into what has inspired Sam to pursue the story-rich genre of folk, how he creates his music, and what he hopes to inspire in people with it.

This episode is all about building your dreams but doing it with patience, perseverance, and uniqueness.

In the music industry for over 20 years, first as a journalist, then breaking into DJing with a regular spot on BBC Radio 1 as well as managing talent under his own record label, Rob then partnered with his wife Jocie to building out their own independent music festival which has grown over the last 15 years into the mega event that is Bestival.

What I love about Rob is he is super down to earth despite being clearly incredibly talented and organised to run everything he has done successfully.

I caught up with him in the days just before Bestival 2018. You might hear a few trucks and things moving as he was on the build site as we were speaking!

Stay tuned to the end for some great advice about building your dreams.