ZEIT HEIST

Acacea Lewis is a Researcher, Lecturer, and Alchemist of Herbal and Entheogenic Medicines. In this conversation with Josh Gaines, she discusses the world of plant medicines and their profound teachings. We explore the unique signatures of various plant medicines and their deep connections with the human heart and mind. She discusses how psilocybin can evoke feelings of euphoria and love, similar to chocolate in cacao ceremonies.

Acacea Lewis is a Student, Researcher, and Alchemist of Herbal and Entheogenic Medicines. Acacea shares her journey from aspiring physicist to pioneering consciousness researcher, exploring the quantum realms through mushrooms. This conversation occurred during the first night of a three-day psychedelic conference in Portland, Oregon, with Kian Nikzi facilitating. Acacea's work in Divine Master Alchemy classes aims to advance the science of consciousness, ancestral healing, and genetic reprogramming.

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Acacea's courses, Divine Master Alchemy: https://acacea.mykajabi.com/

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I'm giving up porn for thirty days as a personal experiment to see how it affects my brain function, sexuality, relationships, connection to pleasure and view of the world. I traveled to Seattle on July 4th for the Amma 2024 US Tour to be in her presence, receive a hug and see what would happen.

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[originally recorded June 4, 2024] This episode is about struggles with self worth, feeling unlovable, comparing ourselves to others, having boundaries with people who are too much, going through a paradigm shift of identity, childhood trauma giving me a flawed sense of Love, thinking I don't belong. Also: McDonalds and video games.

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An intuitive experiment, leading you in a meditation & visualization. I would recommend wearing headphones, sitting in a comfortable seat, or lying down. Could be used before bedtime to carry you into sleep, or as a daytime practice.

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[originally recorded May 26, 2024] Thinking about how I won't find any answers in books to the most important questions, how my body or "the vessel" contains all the wisdom one needs, The Way is Within You, the Flower of Life, interconnectedness of everything, awakening, enlightenment, being present in the moment, etc.

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[originally recorded June 22, 2024] How to perform Middle Pillar ritual, my first time doing magick on Summer Solstice 2020, how it relates to the 2024 Solstice, talking about the authors who were stepping stones for me out of organized religion & the things I've learned in the last four years. Specific thanks & credit due to Damien Echols, Jason Louv & Lon Milo Duquette for being foundational in my understanding & practice of these concepts.

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[originally recorded on April 14, 2024] How the March 25 Lunar Eclipse and April 8 Solar Eclipse manifested in my personal reality. Also, discussing the cultural impact of "The Midnight Gospel," and cracking open my first meditation journal or "grimoire" to discuss how I got into Western Ceremonial occult practices. Also some jokes about the Bible.

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Naomi Wiener is a Portland-based artist, illustrator and professional fabricator who has built models, set pieces and characters on stop motion animation projects for Adult Swim (The Shivering Truth), Laika Studios and Netflix, including Guillermo Del Toro's Oscar-winning Pinocchio (2022).

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0:00 Intro titles & how we met

0:45 Drawing origins & being inspired by cartoons

2:06 Influences: King of the Hill, Studio Ghibli

6:10 Getting into Model Making & Sculpture

7:35 Interest in Stopmotion Animation

10:50 From Creative Passion to Career

12:58 Art School for Animation

17:09 Resurgence of Stop Motion

23:27 Loving Cinema & Influential Films

26:35 Comedic timing & animating at school

28:47 Screenwriting & Story

30:06 Getting hired for an Adult Swim project

34:56 Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio

39:49 Sculpting from Sketch references and Storyboards

43:45 Laika’s filmmaking process

46:31 What do you hope to work on in the future?

48:50 Naomi’s 2D work, Illustrations & Paintings

52:24 What Directors would you love to work with?

55:50 Materials used for stop motion puppets & working with scale

Igor Bjorn Brezhnev is a poet, artist, performer, and founder of the independent publishing house Lightship Press in Portland, OR. In this conversation with Josh, Igor describes his immigration from the Soviet Union, getting sober and how it relates to making art, dealing with bitterness and anger, having no country or place to call home, being interdependent on the world and other people, the physical versus the metaphysical, and much more. 

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