Norman Ohler is a Berlin based novelist and filmmaker. In 1995 he published the first hypertext-novel world-wide: ‘Die Quotenmaschine’, a detective story set in New York. In 2001, his acclaimed Berlin-novel ‘Mitte’ was published, followed in 2002 by a novel about Johannesburg called ‘Ponte City’. 

In 2004, Ohler was writer-in-residence in Ramallah, and was the last person to interview Yassir Arafat. In 2008, he co-wrote “Palermo Shooting'”, a film by Wim Wenders, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2017, Ohler’s first non-fiction book ‘Blitzed - Drugs in Nazi Germany’ became a New York Times bestseller: an explosive true story that uncovers an untold aspect of what fueled Hitler and the Nazi war machine, currently translated into 32 languages. His new book, ‘Tripped’ A.K.A ‘Der stärkste Stoff’ about the history of LSD appears is out now.

Episode Highlights

• Norman’s personal journey with LSD and his mother’s Alzheimer's
• The historical impact of drugs: from LSD to Nazis
• The global war on drugs and its implications
• Swings in the perception of psychedelics in the media
• The cynical view on psychedelic advocacy
• Psychedelics and personal transformation
• The complex influence of LSD
• Psychedelics in the context of empathy and social change
• The debate on psychedelics and social movements
• The legal landscape and future of psychedelics
• Psychedelics in warfare and government control
• Potential impacts of psychedelics on society 

Norman Ohler’s Links 

• Website: www.normanohler.com
• Instagram: @normanohler

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age by Norman Ohler
• Book: Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler
• Book: Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace by Peter Janney

Brooke McPoyle is a classically trained singer who learned an operatic style of breathwork at 12 years old. In college she played Division 1 golf, learning the intense effect of adrenaline on the nervous system. She quit the sport after college after feeling she didn't have enough control to handle pro tournaments. She started teaching breathwork in 2016 in Delray Beach, and began to see a dynamic relationship between the breath rhythm & the state of the nervous system. 

She trained with an Apache medicine man who was taught by Tibetan monks. Her studies of Arnold Ehret, music, beekeeping, & ground force reaction made her look at the breath as an equation. By deducing what she was witnessing to an equation she began to see a pattern that she calls the Brain & Breath Connection. In her studies she relates the Fascia system as the instrumental strings of the body and the breath as the force that moves through it. 

Episode Highlights

• From opera to golf and beyond: Brooke's unique path to breathwork
• Insights about the science of breath
• Exploring the fascia
• The power of humming: a simple technique for profound healing
• Brooke's personal journey merging science, art, and spirituality
• Harnessing breathwork for healing and empowerment
• The power of trauma for growth
• A deep dive into the ‘detox breath’ technique
• Expanding lung capacity and breath control
• Electromagnetic frequencies and health
• The importance of foot health and grounding
• The physiology of breathing and a live breath hold test
• The impact of breathwork on stress and overall health and wellbeing

Brooke McPoyle’s Links 

• Website: www.musicalbreathwork.com
• Website: www.etsmusic.com
• Instagram: @musicalbreathwork
• Facebook: Musical Breathwork

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Naturopathic Physician: Dr. Catherine Clinton
• Chiropractor: Dr. B.J. Palmer
• Sculptor & Tensegrity Pioneer: Kenneth Snelson
• Father of the Geodesic Dome: Buckminster Fuller
• Creator of Structural Integration: Dr. Ida Rolf

Quilley Powers is a 5-MeO-DMT facilitator, with intersections with dying and meditation. She began her explorations with psychedelics in the 60s, mostly with recreational use, but also worked with Leo Zeff with many different medicines. For 35 years she mostly stepped away and practiced Theravada meditation. Now the intersection is obvious and, having many experiences on the cushion that were similar, working with medicines was natural.

Episode Highlights

• Exploring psychedelics in the 60s 
• Quilley’s sacred journey of psychedelics and personal transformation
• Coming to a deeper understanding of life and death
• Embracing the healing journey: psychedelics, loss, and meditation
• The path of psychedelic awakening with 5-MeO-DMT 
• Navigating life, death, and mystical experiences with 5-MeO-DMT
• Exploring neuroplasticity and personal change with 5-MeO-DMT
• Redefining healing: embracing our triggers as guideposts on our path
• The power of being undefended and transparent
• Administering 5-MeO-DMT safely across ages
• The profound experience of serving 5-MeO-DMT near death
• Embracing the full spectrum of life and all emotions
• Exploring the depths of reality and consciousness
• The significance of age and wisdom in facilitation

Quilley Powers’ Offering

• A FREE half-hour phone call to anyone who wants to know more about her work. Email her at [email protected] with your name and phone number

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven by Christopher M. Bache 
• Psychedelic Pioneer: Leo Zeff 

Licia Sky is a somatic educator, artist, singer-songwriter, and bodyworker who works with traumatized individuals and trains mental health professionals to use mindful meditation in movement, theater exercises, writing, and voice as tools for attunement, healing and connection. She is a regular instructor in trauma healing workshops at Cape Cod Institute, Kripalu and Esalen. For the past decade, she has been teaching expanded awareness in workshops to clinicians and laypeople around the world.

Episode Highlights

• Somatic healing and psychedelics
• The power of subtlety in embodied practices
• Unmasking the self
• Embodied awareness: before and beyond psychedelics
• Personal journeys to embodiment
• Intuition vs. Western models in healing
• Exploring the essence of healing beyond symptoms
• The power of attentive listening
• Embracing silence and witnessing in therapy
• Ketamine's unique healing properties
• The importance of integration and personalized healing journeys

Licia Sky’s Links 

• Website: www.traumaresearchfoundation.org
• OFFERING: 30-minute Mind-Body Workshops

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
• Book: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Book: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters by Anthony De Mello
• Book: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
• Book: Extraordinary Knowing : Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer
• Book: LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Medicine by Stanislav Grof
• Book: LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven by Christopher M. Bache

Brandilyn Clay, MA is a ‘mamapreneur’ and mother of two. She is an expert in spiritual psychology and offers coaching programs supporting mamapreneurs in growing their businesses, as well as Love-Coaching for married couples with young children. Brandilyn is the CEO of Goddess Capes, a conscious clothing line producing pieces that awaken the goddess within women and Liquid Gold, a bone broth elixir brand. Her favorite way to connect to the divine is through sacred song and sound meditation.

Episode Highlights

• Brandilyn’s story: From beekeeper to psychedelic explorer
• Her path out of a traditional Mormon upbringing
• The transformative power of psychedelics
• Bridging realms: the essence of a ‘psychedelic mom’
• Challenging aspects of psychedelic journeys
• Brandilyn’s journey into motherhood
• Embracing motherhood and psychedelics
• The ultimate psychedelic experience: birth
• Postpartum integration: a missing piece
• Rebirth and identity transformation
• A holistic approach to supporting mothers
• The importance of ritual in postpartum care
• Navigating motherhood's many challenges
• Brandilyn’s entrepreneurial ventures
• The Mother's Temple: a new online platform for mothers

Brandilyn Clay’s Links 

• Website: www.brandilynbee.com
• Website: www.liquidgoldbonebroth.com
• Website: www.goddesscapes.com
• Instagram: @brandilynbee

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Psychedelic Pioneer: Terence McKenna
• Pioneer of Floating: John C. Lilly

Tony Pham (Butterfly) started meditating in 2010 during a difficult time when he was questioning all the stories people told him about who he was supposed to be. He is a heritage Buddhist, facilitator, and healer that occupies the intersection of queer and BIPOC identities. He is also a 2nd generation Vietnamese American whose parents immigrated to the United States as refugees from war. 

Butterfly is a ceremonial leader and ethical steward of spiritual practices rooted in compassion, indigeneity, and sacred lineages. In addition to supporting private medicine clients as a sitter in the U.S., they are a guest facilitator and integration specialist with Tandava Retreats, a wellness center in Mexico that responsibly offers 5-MEO-DMT. 

Beyond 1-on-1 work, he facilitates group heart ceremonies and is also honored to be a guest teacher with respected programs such as Psychedelic Liberation Training, Psychedelic Therapy Training, and F.I.V.E MEO Education. Their dharma teacher is Lama Rod Owens and one of their Bufo teachers was Pit Prieto, a co-organizer of the World Bufo Alvarius Congress before transitioning out of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Butterfly is also an alumnus of the East Bay Meditation Center’s PiTA8 trauma informed mindfulness program for social justice activists. In addition to teaching meditation and Compassion Cultivation Training classes at Tibet House US, he has also completed anti-racist, death doula and non-violent communication training.

Episode Highlights

• Butterfly's journey: from meditation to psychedelic facilitation
• The varying intensity of different psychedelic training programs
• The practice of reciprocity in psychedelic culture
• Butterfly’s path to psychedelics: personal stories and insights
• The role of psychedelics in healing and identity
• Embracing non-duality and paradoxes of enlightenment
• Butterfly’s powerful iboga initiation
• Integrating psychedelic experiences in daily life
• Navigating the challenges of expansion and self-compassion
• The role of therapy and alternative healing modalities
• Non-duality: free will and the ego
• Ethics and responsibility in psychedelic facilitation
• Training and education in psychedelic work
• Reflections on personal growth and the path of service
• The importance of community and self-care in healing work

Tony Pham’s Links 

• Website: www.tonyopham.com 
• Instagram: @butterflytruth
• OFFERING: A complimentary 20-minute guided meditation with Tony Pham (Butterfly)

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Psychedelic Therapy Training: Ecstatic Mysticism
• Meditation Course: 10-Day Vipassana Course 
• Psychedelic Therapy Author: Kylea Taylor 

Dr Meghan Roekle is an ex clinical psychologist, now fulfillment teacher and meditation guide. Dr. Meghan has significant training in clinical psychology, energy psychology, embodiment meditation, and in the practical realization of our true nature as Oneness. She is passionate about coaching people to awaken, heal and find their unique fulfillment, and has redefined fulfillment to include awakening, teaching others how to live it in one on one and group coaching calls, and supervising other coaches and therapists.

Dr. Meg has dozens of free recorded meditations under the name Simple Being, as well as a free monthly community meditation on Zoom, every 3rd Sunday of the month, where she assists people in finding fulfillment by embodying their physical body and the One Body. She enjoys writing and recording videos on topics related to awakening, healing and the nature of reality.

Episode Highlights 

• Non-duality, psychology and fulfillment
• Understanding non-duality and the illusion of the separate self
• Healing trauma and anxiety through awareness
• Embodiment, fulfillment, and the journey beyond healing
• Navigating life choices and listening to your body
• Exploring mental and emotional healing techniques
• Healing through awareness, emotional expression and acceptance
• Understanding and overcoming personal wounds
• The role of perception in healing
• Unpacking layers of personal and collective healing
• Exploring the mysteries of consciousness and reality
• Envisioning a new earth: fulfillment and awakening

Dr. Meghan Roekle’s Links 

• Website: www.meghanroekle.com
• Website: www.simplebeingmeditation.com
• Instagram: @megroekle
• Facebook: Meg Roekle, PsyD

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Short Essay: For the Sake of Itself by Dr. Meghan Roekle
• Short Essay: The Strangest Pleasure by Dr. Meghan Roekle
• Book: Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power by Carolyn Elliott
• Book: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein
• Book: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
• Interview: The Awakening Curriculum - 10 Fetters with Angelo Dilullo
• Byron Katie’s Four Questions

Beana Bern is a creative, energetic, compassionate and evolving space holder, medicine guide, idea generator, imagination farmer, recovering executive, new paradigm business coach, psychonaut, eternal optimist, fire dragon, mental projector, artist and medicine woman.

Episode Highlights

• Beana's journey from psychonaut to medicine guide
• Beana's early psychedelic experiences
• The profound impact of Beana's psychedelic experiences 
• Beana's transition out of corporate America 
• The essence of psychedelic medicine
• Rootstock Retreats: creating a space for healing and transformation
• The alchemy of holding space
• Integrating psychedelic experiences: the role of time and nature
• Beana's connection to the land
• The intensity of living close to nature
• Homesteading and the elemental reality
• Finding ground in a fast-paced world
• The power of radical authenticity
• A life of service and integrity
• The role of medicine in personal and collective healing
• Building a new paradigm community at Rootstock
• Microdosing immersions: a journey through the seasons

Beana Bern’s Links 

• Website: www.rootstockretreat.com
• Instagram: @rootstock_retreat
• Facebook: Rootstock Retreat
• DISCOUNT: 33% off on Beana’s self-guided microdosing course, Microdosing Earth Medicine: Seasonal Practice in Whole Living with the coupon code “ENTELECHEY”

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Interdisciplinary Research Center: Wasiwaska 
• Song: The Coast by Paul Simon 

Seth Lorinczi is a Portland-based writer who focuses on psychedelics, music, and culture. His writing appears in The Guardian, DoubleBlind, Narratively (forthcoming) and elsewhere. His debut book, ‘Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir’ will be published in May, 2024 by Spiral Collective Press.

Episode Highlights

• Seth Lorinczi’s early psychedelic experiences
• Reconnecting with psychedelics in midlife
• MDMA therapy: a turning point in Seth’s marriage and personal development
• A psychedelic-assisted exploration of marriage and healing
• Unraveling family history through a psychedelic lens
• Seth’s profound journey to Hungary to trace his family history
• Reflections on Jewish identity and survival
• Exploring personal and existential identity through psychedelics
• The impact of psychedelics on parenting and family dynamics
• Navigating the paradoxes of psychedelic experiences
• Societal and personal implications of psychedelic use

Seth Lorinczi’s Links 

• Website: www.sethlorinczi.com
• Instagram: @sethlorinczi
• Substack:  Dispatches From the Fringe

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir by Seth Lorinczi (Coming in May 21, 2024)
• Movie: Jojo Rabbit (2019), directed by Taika Waititi

Stefanie Cohen’s healing path began in an effort to heal herself from a decades-long struggle with anxiety and depression. After years of being on and off various psychotropic medications, she finally gave up and began seeking help from the natural world. She started working with herbal allies in a ceremonial context and experienced the deep healing and vast intelligence the natural world offers. Eventually, Stefanie returned to a state of peace and began a deep exploration into her own psyche and the true nature of consciousness.  

Stefanie holds a Level 1 certification on various therapeutic modalities such as Hakomi and Internal Family Systems. She also looked to indigenous teachings: apprenticing to soul work through Vision Quests and land-based practices, learning shamanism with Rose Khalsa and sitting in deep meditation with the moon and the mountain. She has a certificate from the Synthesis Institute’s Psychedelic Practitioner Training, which offers a new paradigm for mental health care, and has completed the Rainbow Bridges School for Evolutionary Guides. Stefanie brings humility and humor, honesty and compassion, skill and curiosity to her work with clients as she considers it a great honor to be able to work with them in that way.

Episode Highlights

• Exploring non-duality and the psychedelic path
• Stephanie's cliffhanger: adventures at an ibogaine clinic in Mexico
• From ego dissolution to non-dual realization
• Service and connection: finding purpose post-transformation
• The non-dual path: navigating shame, patterns and your true nature
• Psychedelics as a gateway to self-exploration and healing
• Exploring the depths of fear and authenticity
• The dual nature of healing: shadow work and mystical experiences
• The profound impact of 5-MeO-DMT: ego death and unconditional love
• The non-dual experience: unity, love and the end of suffering
• Integrating non-duality into therapeutic work and daily life

Stefanie Cohen

• Website: www.harveymountainhealing.com

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Psychedelic Integration Coaching: Being True To You 
• Book: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller 
• Book: A Course in Miracles by Helen Schucman