From San Pedro Apprentice to Comic Book Artist | Daniel Moler ~ ATTMind 214

Writer and comic book artist Daniel Moler spent years apprenticing in a Peruvian San Pedro cactus lineage, then started drawing his ceremonies as comics. He joins us for this episode of the podcast to talk about San Pedro; the art of comic books; and where his creative process and psychedelic ceremonies come to meet each other through his work. Along the way, we get to talking about attention, monetising everything, and burning out as an online creator. 🌀 Show notes and links 🌵 Daniel's work: danielmolerweb.com · Comics: Psychonaut Presents and The Simon Myth Chronicles 🍄 Sponsored by Amentara, lab-tested Amanita muscaria and other herbal extracts. Use code ATTM22 for 22% off your first order. 🥰 Support the show and join the community: Patreon · other ways to support · newsletter Huge thanks to my $23+ patrons: Ian C, Eliz C, Dan G & Andreas D Another special thanks to Lila AC for their generous one-time donations Episode Breakdown (00:00) Opening (00:38) Intro (04:33) Ad Break - Amentara (05:10) Interview Begins (05:37) Machine Elves, 2012 and the Evolver years (13:12) What is San Pedro (Huachuma) (14:41) Finding a legitimate, safe teacher (17:29) Healing PTSD with a slow medicine (21:16) Ad Break - Amentara (23:07) Absolutely serious, but don't take it too seriously (31:42) Comics for people who've never tripped (38:53) What comics can do that film and painting can't (50:53) Patreon Thanks (53:22) Create your own road show (1:00:08) Falling off the earth: creator burnout (1:05:30) Psychedelics, art and the imaginal soul space (1:13:56) Psychonaut Presents, a psychedelic memoir (1:17:18) Dark Medicine: the most beautiful experience of my life (1:22:45) The Simon Myth Chronicles (1:30:48) Real, but not literal (1:36:19) Where to find Daniel (1:38:31) Outro

In this Adventures Through The Mind micro, musician East Forest explains why so many of us have lost our connection with music, and how listening can bring it back. East Forest explains how recorded music turned us from makers into consumers, and why most people have handed their own musicianship over to "professionals." We also discuss AI-generated songs, AI artists slipped into playlists, and what happens when the artist isn't human anymore. Finally, he makes the case for active listening, simply doing one thing at a time, and I share how a deep-listening circle let me hear a Nirvana song as if for the first time. (00:00) Has humanity lost its connection to music? (01:18) We consume more than we create (02:33) AI music and the peak content era (05:17) When the artist isn't human anymore (06:58) Is listening a creative act? (08:10) Active vs passive listening (10:00) Feeling is the language of music (10:24) Hearing Nirvana for the first time, again (12:24) Outro This is a clip from 'Music for Mushrooms (and the Nearly-Lost Art of Being Moved by Music) | East Forest', Adventures Through The Mind 201. 👀 Full episode here Listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts, or watch it on YouTube 🙏 Support the podcast Become a patron on Patreon Make a one-time donation Related episodes The Ancient Power Of Music And Theater | Kalya Scintilla and Eve Olution ~ ATTMind 80 Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, The Beats & Drugs w/ Martin Torgoff ~ Ep.47 Connect with East Forest Watch Music for Mushrooms East Forest on Bandcamp Connect with me Instagram Newsletter Telegram LinkedIn Bluesky Substack  

Jason Grechanik spent nearly a decade apprenticing in Amazonian tobacco medicine with the Shipibo in Peru. He joins us to discuss both what the medicine of tobacco offers and what it asks of us. What is sacred tobacco, and what isn't it? Tabaquero Jason Grechanik spent nearly a decade with the Shipibo in Peru and apprenticed in Amazonian tobacco medicine. We get into why tobacco is called the plant of the creator, what a tobacco dieta asks of you, and how Nicotiana rustica became the cigarette. Then I push back: dependence, daily hapé, the "dizziness" that convinces people a plant told them they're ready to serve, the deaths that come from getting the dose wrong, and why "natural" doesn't mean safe. ‼️ This episode is educational. It does not recommend using tobacco or nicotine in any form. ‼️ 🌀 Show notes and further links 🌿 Jason's work: nicotianarustica.org · Podcast: The Universe Within 🍄 Sponsored by Amentara, lab-tested Amanita muscaria and other herbal extracts. Use code ATTM22 for 22% off your first order. 🥰 Support the show and join the community: Patreon · other ways to support · newsletter *** Huge thanks to my $23+ patrons: Ian C, Eliz C, Dan G & Andreas D Another special thanks to Dan S and Brent J for their generous one-time donations   Episode Breakdown (0:00) Opening (3:37) Ad - Amentara (4:13) Interview Begins (5:06) From a Virginia tobacco farm to the Amazon (13:27) Tobacco, the plant of the creator (21:44) What tobacco heals, and la dieta cura (32:50) Ad - Amentara (34:42) What tobacco asks of you (42:41) Drink first, smoke later (46:42) Never drink tobacco on your own (49:19) Rustica vs Tabacum: how tobacco became the cigarette (56:44) Healing codes and orphans of time and space (1:00:52) Patreon Thanks - Patreon (1:02:59) Addiction, dependence, and daily hapé (1:08:49) Mareación: the dizziness you have to master (1:13:52) Rat Park and the hole we try to fill (1:21:54) Natural doesn't mean safe (1:25:42) Everything has a cost (1:34:48) Follow up links (1:36:26) Outro

Psychotherapist Marc Aixalà of ICEERS explains what psychedelic integration is, and what it isn't. Marc offers some metaphors to help psychedelic integration, his seven dimensions of integration, and outlines why each of these has to be custom tailored to the needs of the individual person. Marc also offers us his perspective as to why integration is not psychotherapy, and why it should end once the person no longer needs a practitioner. Finally, he makes the case that preparation matters even more than integration, because psychedelic healing is a process, not an event.   (00:00) What is psychedelic integration? (01:46) Metaphors, dimensions, and needs (04:47) The seven dimensions of integration (05:49) Why integration isn't psychotherapy (08:17) Why integration should have an end (10:43) Preparation matters more (12:54) Healing is a process, not an event (16:49) Outro This is a clip from 'An In-Depth Exploration Of Psychedelic Integration | Marc Aixalà', Adventures Through The Mind 202. 👀 Full episode here Listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts, or watch it on YouTube 🙏 Support the podcast Become a patron on Patreon Make a one-time donation Related episodes Integrating Ayahuasca Experiences (and psychedelics in general) | Mijal Schmidt ~ ATTMind 183 A Jungian Approach To Psychedelic Integration | Maria Papaspyrou ~ ATTMind 104 Connect with Marc Psychedelic Integration: Psychotherapy for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness (Marc's book) ICEERS | Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Services Connect with me Instagram Newsletter Telegram LinkedIn Bluesky Substack

What is it actually like to take ibogaine? Jonathan Dickinson, CEO of Ambio Life Sciences and author of Ibogaine and the Bicameral Mind, takes us inside the flood dose: why you can't stand up for hours, why it's closer to a waking dream than a psychedelic trip, and what the people he's treated say they saw. We also get into the book's big ideas (Lacan's "the Real" and Julian Jaynes's bicameral mind), why the benefits can arrive even when nothing seems to happen, and the real medical risk, including deaths. 🌀 Show notes and links 📚 Jonathan's book and work: jonathandickinson.ca · Ambio Life Sciences: ambio.life   🍄 Sponsored by Amentara, lab-tested Amanita muscaria and other herbal extracts. Use code ATTM22 for 22% off your first order.   🥰 Support the show and join the community: Patreon · other ways to support · newsletter Huge thanks to my $23+ patrons: Ian C, Eliz C, Dan G & Andreas D   Episode Breakdown (0:00) Opening (0:52) Ad (1:34) Interview Begins (4:11) What ibogaine is, and where it comes from (7:12) An oneirogen, not a psychedelic (14:03) Inside a flood dose (20:22) Visions, hallucinations, and false memories (26:35) Nobody says ibogaine is easy (35:19) Lacan, the Real, and why discomfort heals (44:33) The bicameral mind (56:04) Ad (57:14) No, I think it gets weirder (1:06:46) What to believe about what you saw (1:15:22) Ancestors and the realm of the dead (1:19:52) Leo Zeff, the Secret Chief (1:26:06) Patreon Thanks (1:28:04) When nothing happens, and it works anyway (1:38:28) The medical risk, and people have died (1:40:25) Leaving the country, and what it costs (1:48:49) Follow up links (1:52:05) Outro

Justin Townsend of MycoMeditations explains the "golden shadow" and why psychedelic facilitators need to be well-trained to hand that projection back rather than take it on. The dark shadow is the unsavory stuff we don't want to admit to: the shame, the disgust, the fear. The golden shadow, however, is the beautiful stuff about ourselves: our strengths, our creativity and our capacities for success. However, the golden shadow can get buried and projected just as much as the dark shadow. The way it shows up is as a kind of intense admiration for someone else. Putting them up on a pedestal, viewing them with all these beautiful qualities of ourselves that we're unable to see in ourselves. This could be a retreat leader, a therapist, a celebrity, or a guru. In this clip from episode 170, Justin walks us through how projection of the golden shadow can happen in psychedelic therapy and the problems that his can cause for both the participant and the facilitator when that facilitator is not ready and willing to refuse that projection and instead help their participant integrate it.    CHAPTERS (00:00) What the shadow and the golden shadow are (01:39) Spotting the projection, in retreats and in public (02:14) The facilitator's job, and how followers build a guru (04:31) Slow boil: how good people become the villain (6:54) Outro ***This is a clip from 'The Business and Practice of Psilocybin Therapy in Jamaica | Justin Townsend ~ ATTMind 170', Adventures Through The Mind Podcast, episode 170*** FULL INTERVIEW Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify Watch in Video Read the show notes SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon  Other options Toss me a tip on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS Buy some merchandise:  https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ More Options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support Connect with Me Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jameswjesso.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-w-jesso-64361812b/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/attmindpodcast/ Newsletter:  https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter Substack: https://substack.com/@jameswjesso Telegram Channel:  https://t.me/jameswjesso

This episode is going to explore the state of the psychedelic movement right now — the money, the policy, the ethics, and the stories that are not getting told. Specifically, we are going to be exploring what is actually happening across the so-called psychedelic renaissance: the for-profit pharmaceutical track, city and state level decriminalization, the unregulated market selling products that mostly do not contain what they claim to, the biopiracy question that almost nobody in mainstream media will ask about, and why one of the field's most trusted journalists says psychedelics are a relationship rather than a cure. Our guest is Shelby Hartman. What You'll Learn About: 🌊 The three waves of psychedelic research, from the 1950s through Nixon to the arrival of for-profit "corporadelic" pharma 🍄 Why almost nothing sold as a "gray market" psychedelic is legal, and what an independent lab actually found inside mushroom chocolate bars 🧭 How to vet a coach, facilitator, shaman, or space holder, and why anyone can call themselves one 🌿 Biopiracy, iboga, and the Bwiti — how plant medicine and the knowledge around it get taken without reciprocity ⚖️ Who will qualify for legal psychedelics, who can afford them, and who feels safe on a clinical couch 🔬 Whether the double-blind randomized trial is even the right design for studying psychedelics 📰 What a journalist chooses not to publish, and why not every medicine wants to be found 🌀 Episode Show Notes and other Relevant Links   📚 Check out Shelby Hartman's book The DoubleBlind Guide to Psychedelics: A Road Map to Tripping, Microdosing, and Beyond USA: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-doubleblind-guide-to-psychedelics-a-roadmap-to-tripping-microdosing-and-beyond-madison-margolin/331fec74d7e84ffe?ean=9781648291791 CAD: https://www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781648291791/   🍄 This episode is sponsored by Portier Supplies. Use promo code ATTM10 for 10% off your order.   FULL TOPICS BREAKDOWN BELOW ... SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁 Watch and Subscribe on Youtube *** Huge thanks to my patrons on Patreon! In particular, my $23+ patrons; Ian C, Eliz C, Dan G & Andreas D   Other options Toss me a tip on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS Toss me a tip on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/jameswjesso Buy some merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ More Options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support Connect with Me Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jameswjesso.bsky.social Twitter/X: https://x.com/jameswjesso LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-w-jesso-64361812b/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/attmindpodcast/ Newsletter: https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter SubStack: https://substack.com/@jameswjesso Telegram Channel: https://t.me/jameswjesso Integration Coaching: https://www.jameswjesso.com/jesso-private-skype-sessions/ ... Episode Breakdown (0:00) Ad - Portal Box (0:31) Opening (1:15) Introduction (3:50) Interview Begins (4:42) Three waves of the psychedelic renaissance (10:13) Gray market products and unvetted coaches (18:57) Biopiracy and indigenous reciprocity (24:43) Who gets access, and on whose terms (31:08) The research track, and what counts as evidence (37:30) What's going well, and what she can't call yet (41:28) The cannabis cautionary tale (44:13) Ad - Portal Box (44:58) What legalization cost growers in Canada (48:38) Why DoubleBlind started (52:54) How the coverage changed, and the stakes now (59:08) Ten years of staying off the algorithm (1:02:40) Psychedelics are a relationship, not a cure (1:06:39) Tools, or living beings (1:07:42) Patreon Thanks (1:09:52) Renaissance, revolution, or media fad (1:12:11) What a journalist chooses not to publish (1:15:37) The questions no one will answer for you (1:19:22) The DoubleBlind Guide to Psychedelics (1:24:21) Follow up links (1:26:14) Outro

In this Adventures Through The Mind micro, I explain what MDMA is and why it makes us feel love. I explain why MDMA is an entactogen rather than a classic psychedelic, and how it floods the brain with serotonin. I also discuss how it raises our sense of safety, lowers our sense of danger, and drops the emotional boundaries we normally hold, which is what made it work in couples therapy. Finally, I cover the PTSD research, and why MDMA with someone new can leave you holding an intimacy you have not earned. (00:00) What MDMA is, and how it works in the brain (06:25) Love with a capital L (11:02) Safety, danger, and the boundaries that drop (14:36) Why MDMA worked in couples therapy (18:14) The intimacy trap, and MDMA for PTSD (21:41) Outro This is a clip from 'Psychedelics in Research & Practice | James W. Jesso', Adventures Through The Mind 200. 👀 Full episode here 🙏 Support the podcast Related episodes Entactogens, MDMA, and Bringing New Love Drugs To Market | Matthew Baggott ~ ATTMind 177 MDMA for Couples | The Love Doctor, Charley Wininger ~ ATTMind 138  

This episode of the podcast is going to explore what actually happens inside psilocybin assisted therapy, from the first conversation to the last integration session. Specifically, we are going to be walking the entire arc of a legal psilocybin therapy engagement through the lens of naturopathic medicine: preparation, the session itself, integration, the risks, and how to tell whether any of it is right for you. Our guest is Dr. JJ Pursell.   What You'll Learn About: 🌿 What naturopathic medicine actually is, and how its root-cause approach differs from the conventional model 🍄 What psilocybin is, and what "psilocybin therapy" legally means in Oregon (which is far less than you'd expect) 🛋️ Inside a session: the service centre, the eye shades, the music, the waves, and what a facilitator is and is not there to do 🔄 Why she requires every client to commit to integration work before she'll agree to work with them at all 💧 What "alleviating suffering" really means, why it isn't the same as feeling good, and why the hardest material is usually the most useful ⚠️ The real risks: the bolt response, prolonged psychosis, cardiac contraindications, HPPD, and coming out the other side feeling worse 🚩 How to find a facilitator you can trust, the red flags to walk away from, and how to know when it's the wrong time entirely 🌀 Episode Show Notes and other Relevant Links   📚 Check out JJ's book Psilocybin Therapy: Understanding How to Use Nature's Psychedelics for Mental Health USA: https://bookshop.org/p/books/psilocybin-therapy-understanding-how-to-use-nature-s-psychedelics-for-mental-health-dr-jj-pursell/7796363e51a70603 CAD: https://www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781643262000/ 🩺 Dr. Pursell's website: https://drjjpursell.com 🤝 Follow JJ: Instagram | YouTube | LinkedIn | Facebook   🍄 This episode is sponsored by Amentara. Use promo code ATTM22 for 22% off your first order.   FULL TOPICS BREAKDOWN BELOW ... SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁 Watch and Subscribe on Youtube *** Huge thanks to my patrons on Patreon! In particular, my $23+ patrons; Ian C, Eliz C, Dan G & Andreas D   Other options Toss me a tip on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS Toss me a tip on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/jameswjesso Buy some merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ More Options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support Connect with Me Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jameswjesso.bsky.social Twitter/X: https://x.com/jameswjesso LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-w-jesso-64361812b/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/attmindpodcast/ Newsletter: https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter SubStack: https://substack.com/@jameswjesso Telegram Channel: https://t.me/jameswjesso Integration Coaching: https://www.jameswjesso.com/jesso-private-skype-sessions/ ... Episode Breakdown (00:00) Opening (03:05) Ad Break (Amentara) (03:48) Interview Begins (06:47) What naturopathic medicine is (15:14) What is psilocybin (19:45) What psilocybin therapy actually looks like (30:53) Why integration matters (44:43) What alleviating suffering really means (51:07) Patreon Break (53:14) Decomposing the Shadow: why the hard stuff isn't a bad trip (1:02:19) Wow, mushrooms sound so good, where could it go wrong (1:09:49) Ad Break (Amentara) (1:10:53) Choosing a safe facilitator, and the red flags to watch for (1:23:17) How do you know it's the right time (1:35:30) One thing to leave you with (1:37:32) Follow up links (1:39:05) Outro  

Is your attention being trained the same way an algorithm is trained? In this micro, Carl Hayden Smith joins me to unpack what he calls the attention war: how algorithms and short-form media shape the brain toward ADHD-like patterns, whether you have ADHD or not. We also talk about what surfaces in the mind after a few phone-free days, and why Carl believes AI's real danger isn't sentience, but a mass hallucination of it: one that's already changing how we see ourselves. Watch this MICRO on YouTube This is a clip from 'Hyperhumanism: Reclaiming Our Humanity in the Age of AI | Carl Hayden Smith', Adventures Through The Mind Podcast, episode 198. FULL EPISODE Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch/Listen on Spotify Listen on Overcast Watch on YouTube Read the show notes MORE AI & TECHNOLOGY EPISODES The Future of Visionary Art in an Era of AI ~ Psychedelic Café 11 How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the Meta-Crisis | Alexander Beiner ~ ATTMind 185 Connect with Carl Noonautics The Museum of Consciousness Cyberdelic Nexus Support the Podcast Become a Patreon member Donate via PayPal All support options Stay in Touch Newsletter Instagram: @attmindpodcast EPISODE TIMESTAMPS (00:00) Cold open: are screens training our brains toward ADHD? (00:45) McLuhan's "the medium is the message" (01:28) Is technology leading us, or are we leading it? (02:54) Losing wifi in Egypt, and realizing how addicted we are to data (03:37) "It is an attention war": algorithms harvesting consciousness (03:53) Gen Alpha, dumbphones, and phone-free tree apps (04:51) Will AI's fake-everything problem make us abandon screens? (05:56) Outsourcing cognition to AI, reclaiming the felt experience (06:31) Attention seeds consciousness: seeing the world through memes (07:45) "Designed to be like gambling machines" (08:10) A phone-free hike, and what surfaced in the mind that night (08:56) TV as "the opium of the masses," and a life review (10:50) Jaron Lanier: "AI won't destroy us, it will make us insane" (11:34) Machine learning vs. sentience: AI's "mass hallucination" (12:43) Should the machine be the artist, or should we keep that role? (13:21) Outro: about this clip and the full episode with Carl Hayden Smith