Episode Highlights

• Michaela’s path of “unbecoming” and learning to be in greater humility and right relation with all things
• The continued blossoming of the psychedelic renaissance demands that we raise our consciousness to solve the complex problems within and beyond the psychedelic space
• Questioning the Western model of individualized healing and the loss of deep modalities like music, dance and tribal connection
• Positive aspects of Western psychological modalities in relationship to psychedelic healing
• Problems with the profit-driven nature of big pharma and the lack of feminine and indigenous voices in the Western model of psychedelics
• Michaela’s own internalized patriarchal ways and the need for an intersectionality of voices in the psychedelic conversation
• Themes of coming home, deep knowing and the wisdom of plants that have woven through many episodes on this podcast
• Potential dangers of synthesizing sacred plant medicines
• Current calamities with a variety of for-profit psychedelic business ventures
• Certification in psychedelic facilitation as a westernized, patriarchal model
• The role of nonprofits in the preservation of indigenous wisdom and “giving back” to nature
• Legalization of psychedelics and the overharvesting of sacred plant medicines around the world
• Recognition that this topic is nuanced and and invitation to the listeners to offer their own solutions and wisdom

Michaela’s Links 

• Website: https://www.thepsychedelicmom.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepsychedelicmom/

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Poem: “A Poem to my Daughter Ellie” by Teddy Macker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKGLvTPlO28
• Psychological Modality: Internal Family Systems - https://ifs-institute.com/
• Non-profit: The Blessings of the Forest - https://blessingsoftheforest.org/
• Non-profit: Pathways To Peace’s program: The Wisdom Keepers - https://pathwaystopeace.org/programs/wisdom-keepers-bringing-peace-to-our-world/
• Podcast - Rebel Wisdom: “Making Sense of the Downward Spiral” by Daniel Schmachtenberger - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWk-ZpJdRFg
• Podcast - The Emerald: “The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized” - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-revolution-will-not-be-psychologized/id1465445746?i=1000600711232
• Podcast - Rebel Wisdom: “Endgame for the Psychedelic Renaissance?” by Jamie Wheal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOXJOZK1ZNQ
• Daniel Schmachtenberger - The Consilience Project - https://consilienceproject.org

David is a digital artist and filmmaker and has spent most of his adult life investigating consciousness and the spiritual dimensions of life. He’s been part of creating a platform and app for personal growth and human connection called 29k, and now is working on developing a parallel world with AI technology, called TRIBE. TRIBE is inspired by his journey of awakening and the indigenous cultures. The intention is to help us reconnect with our true nature, others and the planet via the exploration of our own consciousness and creativity.

Episode Highlights

• David's transformative experiences with psychedelics, which have led him to understand the concept of God and non-duality
• He believes that the way to access the infinite is to strip away the weights and hindrances that hold back consciousness
• Self-love is important for healthy relationships and healing childhood wounds is necessary for self-love
• Psychedelics can help us access hidden parts of ourselves and aid in healing, and integration work after psychedelic experiences is crucial
• De-stigmatizing psychedelics is important for future generations to create a better world
• Allowing children to be themselves is an essential aspect of healthy parenting
• David and his brother are working on an AI model that can create unique creatures based on uploaded photos
• David’s experiences with psychedelics and the importance of courage in exploring oneself
• David’s current project called Tribe, through which he has created a parallel, virtual world with a tribal culture that deeply reflects his own spiritual journey
• The incredible potential of AI to create thousands of characters in a short time and the challenge of separating the "signal" from the "noise"
• How David’s experiences with psychedelics have led him to explore his spirituality and intuition
• The Tribe project has received tremendous positive feedback and has helped David feel validated in his spirituality

David Lindberg’s Links 

• Website: https://www.tribe.site (mobile only)
• Instagram: https://https://www.instagram.com/david_x_tribe/

Bringing an infectious warmth and playful levity wherever she goes, Monica Rodgers is a tireless advocate for the full actualization of women, inspiring women everywhere that saying “YES to the MESS” is the missing link to self-love and personal liberation and awakening. Through The Revelation Project Podcast and group coaching programs, Monica guides women through their inner (r)evolution, from trance to transcendence, revealing the toxic myths of social conditioning and self-doubt in order to illuminate the magic and magnificence of our imperfect selves.

She believes that women can take action towards realizing our true potential only when we stop proving and striving to be who everyone wants us to be. When we reveal the truth of who we are, we return to our “original design” and with the practice of self-love and compassion, we become aligned, opening the portal into our divine purpose where true prosperity dwells. There has never been a more important time for women to reveal the truth of who we are as a catalyst for positive change in the world as the Divine Feminine returns in the Sophia Century.

In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Monica Rodgers discuss …

• How women have been enculturated to deny their divine feminine energy
• The messages women receive to stay small and suppress their emotions
• The cumulative impact of these messages as a “trance of unworthiness”
• How women are taught to perform their gender rather than embody true feminine power
• Monica's own awakening to her divine femininity
• How a woman’s intuition is connected to her biological design
• The journey “home” to feminine power as a journey back into the body
• “Saying YES to the MESS” and learning to feel and articulate deep emotions
• How circles of sisterhood have been disrupted and need to be reclaimed
• Erotic power in relation to the hermetic principle, “the law of correspondence”
• How true revelation happens outside of the comfort zone
• How Monica helps women return to and awaken through their bodies
• The sexiness of a man who is in touch with both the masculine and feminine
• The invisible work of women
• The difference between being a mother and embodying the mother archetype
• The resentment the wounded maiden feels as she consciously or unconsciously feels unable to reach her full potential
• How women are conditioned to hold onto our youth at any cost
• Tending to the voices of the inner child and wounded maiden
• Monica’s “triple wound” and how she hit bottom
• Unresolved trauma showing up in parenting
• Hearing the voice of the inner critic and understanding it as self abuse
• The misperception that by staying small women are staying safe
• Bringing in new practices, voices and tools to disrupt the trance of unworthiness
• The “heroine’s journey” as a quest for wholeness

Monica Rodgers’ Links

• Website: https://jointherevelation.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp-jPBjrXvM/
• Podcast:: https://https://revelationproject.fireside.fm/

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge – by Dr. Joanna Kujawa - https://www.amazon.com/Other-Goddess-Magdalene-Goddesses-Knowledge/dp/1945026847
• Book: The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock - https://www.amazon.com/Heroines-Journey-Womans-Quest-Wholeness/dp/1611808308/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1679442107&sr=1-1
• Book: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein - https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Hearts-Possible-Sacred-Activism/dp/1583947248/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1679442177&sr=1-1

Aaron Paul Orsini is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of psychedelics and neurodivergence. In the years since being diagnosed autistic and ADHD, Aaron has had extensive firsthand experience with a variety of psychedelics including LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA, all of which helped him to heal, grow, and motivate him to publish three books on the topic — Autism On Acid, Autistic Psychedelic, and Introduction to Psychedelic Autism — in addition to co-founding AutisticPsychedelic.com, an online hub for autistic individuals, their family members, and the professionals who seek to support them amidst their intentional explorations with psychedelic medicines.

Since helping to establish the Autistic Psychedelic Community in March of 2020, Aaron has gone on to serve as an autism-focused psychedelic research co-author for University College London, and has also served as a diversity committee member for the American Psychedelic Practitioners Association. He presently serves as the lead instructor of the online “Introduction To Psychedelic Autism” course, and as a neurodiversity-affirming lecturer for Alma Institute and SoundMind institute, two of Oregon’s legal, M109-compliant psilocybin facilitation training programs. Aaron also continues to influence progressive educational approaches by serving as an expert advisor for a harm-reduction-focused adult autistic substance use program known as A.D.A.P.T., which recently received funding from ResearchAutism.org.

In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Aaron Orsini discuss …

• Conventional vs. more nuanced interpretations of autism spectrum disorder  
• The fluidity of autism trait presentations from individual to individual and moment to moment  
• The simultaneous grief and elation Aaron felt when he was diagnosed with autism at age 23 
• Why someone diagnosed with autism might feel relief having experienced social and mental health challenges before diagnosis without understanding why
• How autistic people are challenged by society's expectation that they mimic non-autistic behaviors
• How psychedelics have helped Aaron understand his emotions more clearly and simultaneously process cognitive and somatic information
• The clarity Aaron’s early psychedelic experiences helped him reach about how he was in “devastation thinking” without realizing that he could access calmer, more present states of consciousness
• Championing mindfulness and psychedelics as preventative mental health care
• Aaron’s first MDMA experience and the realization that he had been run by fear his whole life up until that point
• How psychedelic don’t “cure” autism, but can offer new insights, experiences and perspectives that can be cultivated further
• Enhanced somatic awareness as a way to develop a greater sense of safety
• The effect microdosing LSD has on Aaron
• How MDMA can provide an opportunity for an internal check in: What’s my lucid take on my life when my fear systems are offline? And what is possible when I feel I can forgive the worst harms? 
• How helpful it can be to cry to process deep emotions
• Michaela’s experience finding Aaron’s work and getting involved with his content 
• The value of non-judgemental encouragement as the parent of an autistic child

Aaron Orsini’s Links 

• Website: https://www.autisticpsychedelic.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autismonacid/
• Autistic Psychedelic Community - Weekly Sunday Open Discussion: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIld-yupz0oGd3tIHoDhoKjB6vvM4dX3NLl
• The Online “Introduction To Psychedelic Autism” Course: https://www.autisticpsychedelic.com/learn
• Read or Listen to Books from Neurotopia Press: https://www.autisticpsychedelic.com/support
• Schedule a Consultation with Aaron: https://www.psychedelicautism.com/

Resources Related to This Conversation

• Oregon’s Alma Institute: https://www.almatraining.org/
• Oregon’s SoundMind Institute: https://soundmind.center/
• Convergence LA (March 30-April 2, 2023): https://psychedelicstoday.com/convergence/
• Psychedelic Therapy Album, “Psychedelic Symphonies”: https://ditto.fm/psychedelic-symphonies

Ben, an Army Veteran with almost 10 years of service, is a specialized military mountaineer and cold weather expert, who spent 24 months training in mountain and cold-weather survival in the arctic. He realized a higher calling for his life and transitioned onto the path of spirituality and religious freedom. In 2020, Benjamin took 8 veterans to Mexico to reconnect with themselves, and Source, through plant medicine work and ancestral exploration. Benjamin has since been creating safe containers and helping guide Veterans through deeper psychedelic experiences. 

As a Co-Founder of the Church of Psilomethoxin, and partnering with other initiatives, he continues working with Veterans and First Responders, using Sacred Plant Medicines, to help them better understand their purpose and optimize their human experience. 

Benjamin is an avid free diver, and is a community leader guiding others to personal growth in nature centered outings. His connection to nature and self has led him on this path of awareness and healing that he believes will improve the quality of life for all humanity. Benjamin has been creating safe containers and helping guide Veterans through deeper psychedelic experiences.

In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Ben Moore discuss …

• Ben’s work with psilocybin while trying to emerge from a suicidal state and the awakening of his empathy for all beings
• The deep internal darkness and unworthiness Ben felt after returning from active duty
• The empowerment Ben felt through learning to cultivate psilocybin mushrooms for personal consumption.
• How Ben felt the energy he put into cultivating his own mushrooms was reflected through his experiences taking them
• Ben’s many realizations of the emotional baggage he had been carrying and how psilocybin helped see how he could ease his burden
• The lack of support for people coming out of the military to help them reintegrate into society
• Alarming statistics about mental health and sexual assault in the military
• Creating a psychedelic church based in Austin, TX, which also offers virtual access
• Psilomethoxin: psilocybin mushrooms that are “fed” 5-MeO-DMT during the cultivation process
• Variations between the experiences of psilocybin and psilomethoxin
• The mental and physical relief veterans can receive from the spiritual experience they have with psychedelics
• Is psilomethoxin legal?
• How Ben’s work with psychedelic medicine has influenced both his family relationships as well as those of other veterans
• The deep healing Ben experienced as he learned how to show his kids that he was committed to protecting their life and freedom and also … play with them!
• Ben’s vision of veterans around the world coming together to realize how there is no need to fight or see each other as enemies 
• Building psychedelic communities that are protected and can work free of government intervention
• How to join the Church of Psilomethoxin
• Our responsibility as citizens to be willing to radically change how we live in order to transform our world and bring more peace and justice to all

Ben Moore’s Links 

• Website: www.psilomethoxin.com
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/psilobenjamin/

Ana’s life mission is to help people remember who they are. Her spiritual path started in her early 20’s after she moved from her home land of Mexico to the U.S. to study music. Her mission became even clearer when she was summoned by the plant teachers of the world to give her gift of service to the community in an even deeper way. Her education spans a wide range of modalities. In addition to being a certified Life Coach, her training includes, Sound Healing, Reiki, Pranic Healing, Shadow Work, Quantum Healing, Psych-K, Ho’oponopono and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to name a few.

Ana has an incredible gift of creating very safe spaces for people to explore deep trauma as well as the remembering of their innate wellness and connection to creation. Her unconditionally loving demeanor and ability to meet people where they are at, provide for an environment where people can do very deep spiritual and emotional work. Ana lives and works in a beautiful mountain cabin, surrounded by ponderosa trees and breathtaking mountain views, only 25 minutes above Boulder Colorado.

In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Ana Medina discuss …

• The somatic release that can happen during an experience with bufo alvarius
• How Ana holds space for clients working with bufo and the way she balances feminine and masculine energies
• The many evolutionary insights bufo can reveal
• Michaela’s experience being served bufo by Ana
• How Ana created The New Paradigm Mystery School in collaboration with other women
• The difference between Western and indigenous definitions of nature
• Our deep attachment wounds with our ‘Mother’ earth
• How decriminalization is connected to colonization
• What happens when psychedelics ‘unmask’ us
• Learning about the empowered feminine through the challenges of toxic masculinity
• Decolonizing the mind, body and spirit
• How we all come from indigenous roots and yet still need to be aware of cultural appropriation
• The spiral nature of healing
• The importance of being gentle with ourselves as we unlearn our cultural conditioning
• Shame and our survival mechanisms

Ana Medina’s Links

• The New Paradigm Mystery School - The next session with Ana begins in May 2024

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: Beyond Harm: Toward Justice, Healing and Peace by Derek R. Brookes 

Ana’s life mission is to help people remember who they are. Her spiritual path started in her early 20’s after she moved from her home land of Mexico to the U.S. to study music. Her mission became even clearer when she was summoned by the plant teachers of the world to give her gift of service to the community in an even deeper way. Her education spans a wide range of modalities. In addition to being a certified Life Coach, her training includes, Sound Healing, Reiki, Pranic Healing, Shadow Work, Quantum Healing, Psych-K, Ho’oponopono and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to name a few.

Ana has an incredible gift of creating very safe spaces for people to explore deep trauma as well as the remembering of their innate wellness and connection to creation. Her unconditionally loving demeanor and ability to meet people where they are at, provide for an environment where people can do very deep spiritual and emotional work. Ana lives and works in a beautiful mountain cabin, surrounded by ponderosa trees and breathtaking mountain views, only 25 minutes above Boulder Colorado.

In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Ana Medina discuss …

• The life–changing sense of love and belonging Ana felt during her first ayahuasca experience
• Being guided by the medicine to start assisting in ayahuasca ceremonies
• Ana’s developmental trauma growing up in Mexico City, including the suicide of her stepfather
• Ana’s first “soul revealing” (psychedelic) experience as she flew from Mexico to move to LA and realized that she had the power to reinvent herself
• Ana’s challenges living life as a suburban mother in Virginia feeling that she did not belong
• The confusion of living a “masked” life
• How Ana received divine guidance that she had to reclaim her ancestral roots and do shadow work
• What is shadow work and why do we need to do it?
• Can emotional triggers be ‘psychedelic’?
• Bringing compassion to shadow work through the understanding our need to construct layers of protection earlier in our lives
• Reintegrating exiled parts of ourselves
• Feeling the texture of feminine energy within psychedelic medicine work
• Ana’s journey learning to be a bufo alvarius facilitator
• The need for reverence and preparation in order to work with bufo safely and in a way that opens a path to meet the soul
• Bufo alvarius and the somatic release of intergenerational trauma
• The divine mother energy Ana feels in her facilitation work with bufo alvarius

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: The Secret of the Shadow: The Power of Owning Your Whole Story by Debbie Ford - https://tinyurl.com/5etavy2c

As a native New Yorker, Stuart’s career in the arts took a turn when he first experienced ceremonial plant medicine. Exploring the esoteric arts, he spent the past 13 years traveling the world, working with different plant medicine lineages – time on the Red Road (Native American Tradition), in Peru with the Shipibo and with the Columbian Tiatas. He served plant medicine for years helping people heal. Now he is sharing his lifelong wisdom with students and clients – working with plant spirits, teaching the Alchemy of Prayer and offering spiritual, shamanic and integration guidance in New York and around the world. He continues to study and deepen his wisdom through devotional practice with elements, plants and the cosmos.

In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Stuart Adam discuss …

• Stuart’s work helping people use prayer to create a new personal operating system
• How Stuart came to work so deeply with prayer
• Stuart’s debaucherous life as a downtown NYC artist back in the 90s
• Stuart’s first ayahuasca journey while still being a heroin user
• The process of healing his heroin addiction on his own and how much he learned about addiction on a vibrational level
• Using tobacco to clear the vibration of addiction out of the body
• How the “grabby” energy of addiction can move from one substance or habit to another without being resolved at a deeper level
• Stuart’s journey developing his capacity to serve ayahuasca
• The building blocks of prayer and nuances of teaching clients how to pray
• Can you manifest with prayer?
• Stuart's practice working with fire and how it has transformed him
• A way to work with the element of water through a special morning prayer practice
• Learning to trust your prayers and in so doing, yourself
• Working with tobacco to heal addiction
• Stuart's process of working intentionally with tobacco for a period of 40 days to help heal his addictions, which he now teaches to others
• The relationship between plants and prayer
• Do we need heroic doses of psychedelics or even psychedelics at all to transform?

Stuart Adam’s Links

• Website: https://thealchemyofprayer.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stuart_alchemyof/

Jeremy Colbert, also known as Taragápe, is a musician, sound healer, energetic alchemist, certified integration specialist, and facilitator for ceremonial Earth Medicine experiences. He holds a degree in music education and after teaching children music for eleven years in Pittsburgh, he has shifted paths to support adults with the reconnection to their inner child as well as the full spectrum integration of the magic and karma of what it means to be human on Gaia. Music plays a central role in Taragápe’s practice and facilitation as he believes it to be the vibrational geometry that holds space for our energetic alignment.

He currently resides near Boulder where he continues to develop and expand his practice and offerings – regionally and remotely. Taragápe’s debut album, Spirit Maze, a sonic integration piece, is available on one’s preferred music listening platform.

In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Jeremy Colbert (Taragápe) discuss …

• Jeremy’s first psychedelic journey and subsequent integration process that ultimately birthed the song ‘As Above, So Below’, which inspired the theme music of this podcast
• Jeremey’s first trip to Peru to work with Ayahuasca and how the lack of integration support he received there led him to develop his own approach 
• The ways in which Jeremy’s personal psychedelic integration work as well as his integration coaching are deeply connected to music
• What is shadow work and how can we bring our shadow into the light?
• Jeremy’s struggle growing up witnessing his mother embodying one persona socially and a different one at home
• Recognizing aspects of his mother’s trauma in himself
• The powerful synchronicities connecting the death of Jeremy’s mother and Ram Dass’ book, Be Here Now
• Jeremy’s coaching work with mothers and how he sees psychedelics impacting their parenting
• The energetic frequency of victimhood and how it can be absorbed by children from their parents
• Self-love as the guiding principle of Jeremy’s psychedelic integration coaching
• How a strong masculine container for medicine work can help feminine energy flow more freely within it

Jeremy Colbert’s (Taragápe) Links

• Website: https://taragape.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taragape/
• Jeremy’s Album ‘Spirit Maze’: https://spoti.fi/3Hcaw1A
• Book a free 45 min Exploratory Call: https://calendly.com/taragape/exploratorycall

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: Be Here Now by Ram Dass: https://tinyurl.com/4rxfyj4h

Special thanks to Krystle Marie Smith for the gorgeous images included in the video version of this episode. Krystle Marie Smith, otherwise known as “Krystleyez”, is a visionary artist who harnesses the power of art as a vehicle for personal and collective transformation. Painting cosmic maps into the interconnected nature of existence, her artwork navigates the way between heart, mind, and spirit.

Jackson Strong is a purpose-driven entrepreneur and coach. He co-founded the Pursuit of Kings men’s group, and the AUREA movement for soul-led entrepreneurs. He is dedicated to seeing his clients live out their purpose and experience the thrill of living an aligned life.

In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Jackson Strong discuss …

• AUREA’s mission to help people tap into the divine source and activate their soul work
• Jackson’s process of awakening out of darkness and seeing that darkness as his teacher
• Jackson’s transition from the corporate world into creating his own conscious marketing firm
• Aspects of our culture that are “soul concealing”
• Jackson’s current areas of focus in his personal growth
• Author Steven Pressfield’s notion of “resistance” and the perspective that it is a force inviting us to expand our capacity
• Healthy masculinity and femininity in balance with each other
• Daily practices Jackson engages with to deepen his self-sovereignty and embodiment
• How both intimate and family relationships in Jackson’s life have revealed his shadow
• A parent’s responsibility to help their child step into their calling
• AUREA’s suite of offerings: live events, a business mastermind and a membership program
• Jackson’s biggest takeaways from AUREA’s inaugural 2022 event
• The power of community and recognizing that we are all mirrors for each other
• How psychedelics help us see a greater reality and relate to our challenges from a higher perspective

Jackson Strong’s Links 

• Jackson’s Website: http://www.strongrowth.com
• Aurea’s Website: https://aurealeaders.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jackson.mac.strong/?hl=en
• Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/jacksonstrong

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield  - https://tinyurl.com/2p8b6pbh