Ask questions for the next AMA via patreon or the YouTube channel membership community: Topics (in order addressed): Depression, podcast recommendations, ayahuasca, understanding our motivations, self care & helping others.

Sarah Rose Siskind psychedelic comedian and science comedy writer. She hosts a monthly comedy show in New York City about Psychedelics and other drugs called Drug Test. She was the lead comedy writer for StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, a TV show on National Geographic, and has written comedy for an artificially intelligent robot called Sophia at Hanson Robotics. Sarah is the co-founder of Hello SciCom, a company that combines science communication and comedy to help people in science communicate their message more effectively. Today we talk about the intersection of psychedelics, comedy and science. She is @srsiskind on twitter.

Darren Le Baron is an organic horticulturist, food enterprise tutor, educator, and event organizer based in the UK. He is a keen mushroom cultivator and has been growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms for over a decade.  He teaches an online Shroomshop Master class where he teaches the art of mushroom cultivation and he is the mycologist in residence at London’s Somerset House.  Darren is also a qualified Permaculture teacher and facilitator and supports businesses and communities in creating sustainable working systems and environments.  He is a member of London’s Psychedelic Society where he presents regularly, and is also a chair and committee member for the psychedelic conference Breaking Convention.  Today we talk about psilocybin mushrooms and what humans can learn from mushrooms in general.

In this episode of the podcast I share some thoughts on absolute perspectives and the overview effect.

Ruth Kinna is a professor of political philosophy at Loughborough University in the UK.  She gained her doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford and, since 2007, has been the editor of the journal Anarchist Studies.  She has published many academic papers and books for the general reader, including Anarchism: A Beginner's Guide and The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism.  Today we discuss the intellectual tradition of anarchism in general as well as particular strands that deal with spirituality and our relationship to nature.

Matt Segall is an Assistant Professor at  the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) where he teaches courses on process philosophy and German Idealism.  He received his doctoral degree from CIIS in 2016.  His dissertation was published as The Physics of the World Soul and it offers a synthesis of the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and the work of the German Idealist philosopher Friedrich Schelling.  He also blogs regularly at footnotes2plato.com and has a youtube channel by the same name.  Today we talk about the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.

James Hollis is a Jungian psychoanalyst, author, and public speaker. After gaining a PhD from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey in 1967 he worked for 26 years as a lecturer in the Humanities. In 1977 he retrained as a Jungian psychoanalyst at the C. G. Jung Institute, in Zürich, Switzerland. For many years he was Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas and was the Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington until 2019. He still runs a private practice as a Jungian psychoanalyst in Washington, D.C. and is the author of 16 books. One of his books, Under Saturn's Shadow, focuses on the psychology of men, which is what we talk about today.

Andy Letcher is a writer, lecturer, and musician with a doctorate in ecology from Oxford University, and a second doctorate in religious/cultural studies from King Alfred's College, Winchester. He is currently a senior lecturer in ecology and spirituality at Schumacher College and is an expert on contemporary alternative spiritualities, especially modern Paganism, neo-shamanism and psychedelic spiritualities. He is the author of the book Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom and has written many academic papers on topics such as animism, folklore, and Druidry. Today we discussed the intersection of ecology and spirituality.

This week on the podcast I discuss 5-MeO-DMT & NN-DMT.

Dr. Mellody Hayes is a physician, writer and speaker, who focuses on psychedelic medicine. She is a graduate of Harvard and UCSF medical school, and was a cofounder of Decriminalize Nature, a leading force behind psychedelic decriminalisation. Her writings have been published in Scientific American and Los Angeles Times and she’s been behind multiple projects in the psychedelic space including a ketamine clinic that provides psychedelic psychotherapy. We discussed the role of psychedelics in individual and societal transformation and how the two are connected.