Our guests for this episode are Dennis McKenna, The Teafaerie, Chris Bache, Bruce Damer, Dank Duchess, Laurel Anne Sugden, and Stephen Gray.

Together, in Psychedelic Cafe style, we explore conversation with the following question as our central guiding inquiry: "What is the power and potential of psychedelics in navigating the many-orders of growing collapse that our planet is currently facing?"

Topics explored include global crisis and the birth of the future human; how the pain and suffering of ongoing collapse that will drive us into our next expression in consciousness; the intelligence of the universe; liberating ourselves from materialism; coming to terms with death; nudging consciousness forward through symbiosis with plant teachers; the history of the San Pedro cactus as an example of how sacred plants help support us through climate crisis; and an optimistic look at our present circumstances.

Enjoy.

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Episode Breakdown

• (0:00) Opening
• (3:18) Overture
• (7:40) Patron Thanks!
• (9:46) Cafe begins; guest introductions
• (19:59) Introducing The Question: "What is the power and potential of psychedelics in navigating the many-orders of growing collapse that our planet is currently facing?"
• (20:31) Strong medicine might be required
• (25:22) The stress of modern collapse may be in service to our evolution
• (31:30) Un-fixing the ego and recalibrating our interdependence
• (37:02) Global crisis and the birth of the future human
• (42:13) Slay the dragon, Save the grail
• (45:18) Nudging consciousness forward through symbiosis with plant teachers
• (56:06) The great forgetting and re-membering Connection as primary
• (58:52) An optimistic look at our present circumstances
• (1:03:35) The power and potential of social networks to create important change
• (1:06:56) Life has been deeply connected since the beginning
• (1:14:05) It is the pain and suffering of ongoing collapse that will drive us into our next expression in consciousness
• (1:18:50) The history of the San Pedro cactus as an example of how sacred plants help support us through climate crisis
• (1:23:51) Life's intelligence can be trusted
• (1:31:06) The intelligence of the universe; liberating ourselves from materialism
• (1:34:29) Psychedelics don't belong (only) in the therapist's office
• (1:35:50) The power of psychedelics is not in the molecule, not in the matter
• (1:43:32) Coming to terms with death; all life lives on death
• (1:46:51) The is no end point and there is nothing to fear when we die
• (1:50:01) There are no answers, that's not the point
• (1:52:17) The sentient other; what does real actually mean?
• (1:57:59) Does modern psychedelic therapy make us myopic onto the self?
• (2:00:17) We only think we are alone
• (2:01:59) It's going to get worse before it gets better, let's learn to support each other
• (2:04:20) Actions are necessary to create good in the world, but our actions can be easily confused
• (2:07:19) "Please, take heart" ; the awakened heart is our natural state
• (2:10:01) Closing The Cafe; goodbyes
• (2:10:51) Outro

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