Marcus Hype had his first experience in an altered state of consciousness in high school when he smoked weed with friends. He had a great experience and eventually tried substances like LSD and psilocybin in high school and university. Marcus discusses some of those experiences and how they impacted him. He took a several-year break from most psychedelics and only recently used LSD and DMT again. Marcus describes how on a breakthrough DMT trip, he met a female spirit guide who knew everything about him and showed him his life through music and patterns. He also discusses how that experience has impacted his everyday life.

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Rick Strassman Interview
Rick Strassman discusses his DMT research on the Joe Rogan podcast.

Christopher Solomon is an experienced salvia user and offers one-on-one guided salvia sessions through his website, SalviaHealings.com, in which he incorporates somatic therapy techniques and lessons he has learned from over a decade of salvia use. Christopher shares some of his personal salvia experiences, including one in which an energetic being appeared in his room, and telepathically communicated a message of love to him. Christopher also talks about the benefits of low-dose salvia use and shares how he developed a salvia pipe that allows salvia users to make the most of their low-dose, therapeutic salvia sessions.

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Salvia Healings
Learn about Salvia Divinorum for healing, finding your inner strength, and exploring your consciousness.

Salvia Pipe
A salvia pipe Christopher designed for safe, insightful salvia journeys.

Kyle Raw used to read the heroin and meth subreddits in order to scare himself sufficiently to never try those substances. When a friend told him about MDMA therapy, he went to Reddit to disprove his friend and confirm that MDMA was in fact a dangerous drug. Instead, he found himself learning about the potential benefits of MDMA and a number of other psychedelic substances. Kyle had been having suicidal thoughts and decided as a last-ditch effort to try LSD to see if it could help. Kyle has had a number of psychedelic experiences, both profound and challenging, that have helped him find meaning in life, develop empathy for others, and forgive himself.

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In the first half of this episode, Shen Leidigh discusses some of his life experiences and relates them to the psychedelic nature of life in general. In the second half, he describes a solo 61-day vision quest in the wilderness that took a turn for the worse when he ran out of food with a few days left. This led to a life-changing psychedelic experience that had a profound effect in his life. The experience didn't eliminate his depression, but Shen has found that since his vision quest, his mental health has improved and he's seen an increase in his creativity and artistic abilities.

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The Psychedelic Singularity
A 168-page, full-color graphic novel about artificial intelligence, mushroom magic, and adventure, authored and illustrated by Shen Leidigh.

Eric Osborne has over 20 years of experience with psychedelics. In 2013, he started a psilocybin retreat center in Jamaica called MycoMeditations and hosted a podcast called Psilocybin Chronicles where he interviewed guests about their experiences with psilocybin. More recently, Eric and his wife Courtney moved back to the United States and founded Psanctuary, a non-denominational faith-based community that centers around the sacrament of sacred psilocybin-containing mushrooms for personal, communal, and global healing. They also co-host their podcast, Psilocybin Says, where they discuss the use of psilocybin for self-development. In this episode, Eric shares some fascinating personal experiences that don't fit into a strictly materialistic worldview. He's interacted with interdimensional entities and deceased loved ones and made clairvoyant psychic connections with other people in group psilocybin settings.

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Psanctuary
Psanctuary is a non-denominational faith-based community that centers around the sacrament of sacred psilocybin-containing mushrooms for personal, communal, and global healing.

Psilocybin Says
A podcast co-hosted by Courtney McClure and Eric Osborne discussing the use of psilocybin for self-development.

Steve Hupp grew up in a home with good parents but found himself on the wrong side of the law at a young age. At one point, while serving time in federal prison, Steve met a Peruvian shaman named Guadalupe who suggested he may benefit from drinking ayahuasca. After getting out of prison, Steve corresponded with Guadalupe's family and they sent him a bottle of ayahuasca in the mail. Over time ayahuasca deeply transformed Steve and he felt led to serve it to others. Steve and his wife Teri now operate Aya Quest Native Americas Church, where they hold ayahuasca retreats in Kentucky. In our discussion, Steve shares his journey from atheist to modern-day ayahuasca shaman.

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Aya Quest Native Americas Church

Kentucky Ayahuasca

Teri Hupp was working in the restaurant industry when she interviewed a man who she didn't have a good feeling about. She didn't want to give him a job but her general manager overrode her and hired him. Teri and Steve eventually fell in love and married. Steve was a devout atheist and struggled with anger but things changed when he found ayahuasca. Teri saw the changes Steve underwent as he began drinking ayahuasca and eventually decided to try herself. Ayahuasca helped her heal from a turbulent childhood and she and Steve started Aya Quest Native Americas Church in Kentucky, where they hold ayahuasca retreats. Teri shares some of her own experiences with ayahuasca and reflects on the changes she's seen in people who have attended their ayahuasca retreats.

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Aya Quest Native Americas Church

Kentucky Ayahuasca

In this episode, Mariano Gru joins us on the podcast for the second time. I first interviewed him in episode 10, where he discussed some of his experiences with Salvia Divinorum. Since we last talked, Mariano started a new venture building sound and lightproof portals that provide a safe, comfortable environment for occupants to meditate or blast into hyperspace and explore different realities. We talk about Mariano’s frustration with float tanks and the evolution of his portal designs up to the present. We also talk about some of Mariano’s recent experiences with smoked Salvia Divinorum which are really interesting. You can head over to InnerPortalDesigns.com to see his portals and contact him if you’re interested in purchasing one.

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Inner Portal Designs

Inner Portal Podcast

Inner Portal Linktree

Elle Rochelle was at a low point in life, depressed and drinking heavily when she attended a stand-up comedy show in Brooklyn and heard a comedian talking about ayahuasca. When she got home she googled ayahuasca. The experience sounded terrifying but also like it might be exactly what she needed. After an initial two ceremonies in upstate New York, Elle found a shaman in Brooklyn she liked and began working with. Elle participated in over 50 ayahuasca ceremonies. She discusses traumas that surfaced during her ceremonies and describes how she worked closely with her therapist to work through and heal from those traumas.

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Anthony Hart dropped out of high school and struggled with an addiction for a time as a young adult. Eventually Tony distanced himself from the people he was associating with and found healthier friendships. He describes a number of interesting psychedelic experiences he’s had but one, in particular, stands out. Tony was watching a show on Netflix when he had an out-of-body experience that triggered a spiritual awakening for him. Since his experiences, Tony has found himself reading books and online forums about psychedelics, digging into his family heritage, and researching the history of the area he grew up in.

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