I was introduced to Jay Stevens by our mutual friend, Robert Forte. Jay is the author of “Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream”, as well as a poet, and musician. He’s an expansive thinker with a wide breadth of knowledge, and I so enjoyed the conversation we shared. Find Part 2 here:danikatz.locals.comwww.patreon.com/danikatz Find Jay’s Orphics here:https://jaystevens.bandcamp.com/album/what-the-moon-wants-from-the-wolfhttps://jaystevens.bandcamp.com/album/orphic-revival Show notes:

• Storming Heaven~ compelling readers to read the next sentence
• The art of saying “NO!”~ who says it best and why?
• Has the worship of celebrities & authority figures supplanted a worship of God?
• Examining the deterioration of the Creative Class through the lens of the Hollywood writer’s strike
• 1960’s Revolutionary moments~ how LSD gave the gift of creative inspiration
• Modern-day Psychedelics & Psy-ops~ soma for the masses in an absence of sacredness
• Thoughts on the rise of Ayahuasca popularity & the origins of plant wisdom
• From demonization to institutional acceptance~ how trendy psychedelic therapies can lead us away from knowing & healing ourselves
• Psy-ops One, drugs and the Black Bureaucracy
• MKUltra and the conjuring of mass rhythmic entrainment~ what is the end game?
• The science of sound~ examining the origin of linguistics & the power of language
• "Everywhere I looked was poetry"~ Jay’s personal journey with his muse
• Finding flow~ the nature of entrainment
• What are we?~ Insectoids or bio-cosmic resonators?
• “In the beginning was the word….”~ thoughts on language as technology for communicating & creating reality
• The cream doesn’t rise to the top!~ the arrogance & psychopathy of our ruling class
• AI and the digitization of humanity~ can we opt out of the machine?
• Re-mixing Storming Heaven~ expanding the second edition to include updated material