Archaic Drum

Jeffrey Wium’s work, studies and spiritual explorations have taken him around the world, providing firsthand experience with varying systems, ideologies and perceptual realities. In 1995, after ten years of intensive production schedules, location travel and living in metropolitan centers, Jeffrey moved to quieter environs to nurture a path of inner study. After an indepth study of Qigong in both the States and in China, he sought a deeper understanding in Tibet, Nepal and India, and received the Avaloketesvara initiation directly from the the Dalai Lama during his time in these regions of the world. He has trained and worked with a variety of healing/transformative modalities which have included, meditation, yoga, bio-geometric design, wilderness living skills and indigenous philosophy. Jeffrey began his education in Andean energy medicine in 2004 with academic programs and research expeditions as well as traditional apprenticeships in the Peruvian highlands. He has operated as a celestial Paqo since January 2007. Jeffrey offers talks, integrative programs, personal and professional consultations and health-centered retreats based on conscious living principles, experiential learning and non-duality. His astonishing film, Wisdomkeepers, Paqo Andino, he states, was created as a way to allow others to experience ancient eco-spiritual ways of life, understand animistic consciousness and help foster personal and collective well-being.

BENEBELL WEN is the author of Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth (North Atlantic Books, 2015). She is a corporate attorney practicing law in California and New York, who also happens to be a practitioner of various metaphysical arts. She studies tarot, feng shui, the I Ching, numerology, and both Chinese and Hellenisic astrology. Wen is of Taiwanese descent. She currently lives in Northern California with her husband James and their beloved cat.  

An in depth discussion with Dr Cynthia Shifrin about her work with Spiritual Responce Therapy within her psychotheraputic practice.

Oliver Martin has explored for more than 20 years the sacred gifts of the Psilocybin mushroom. He shares here his own personal experiences and transformations through his work with this ancient medicine. He as well speaks of his work in helping others with this particular mushroom to discover their true essence as a human being in allowing them to transcend their particular ideas and limiting beliefs of theirselves and the world.

Marshall Lefferts is a lifelong explorer of cosmic geometry, music, the fractal-holographic nature of the cosmos, and unified physics. For more than 37 years he has studied and synthesized a variety of pioneering research, including the work of Buckminster Fuller, David Bohm, Nassim Haramein, Foster Gamble and others. He is founder/director of the Cosmometry Project, Board President of the Resonance Project Foundation, and a core faculty member of the Resonance Academy's Delegate Program. Marshall was also Associate Producer of the documentary film, Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take? He is co-founder of the Gene Keys Network and Superluminal Systems, a former co-director for the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, and consulting producer for the Buckminster Fuller Institute. He has been the Producer of various media projects for more than 20 years.

Marie-Rose has more than 25 years of experience in film and television production. She began her career at the CBS affiliate in phoenix, Arizona, writing and producing children's programming, directing live newscasts and co-writing and producing a documentary on World War I aviation. She then expanded her work to include commercial production, episodic television, and feature films. Marie-rose bridged traditional and new media when she became one of the first producers to create Interactive Television Content for the Microsoft Corporation. She also works as a media consultant on projects that match her goals of promoting global and cultural awareness and is currently developing several TV series projects. She completed the award winning documentary TALKING STORY—an 11-year project—in Fall of 2011 and has recently authored a book by the same name of her remarkable personal journey in the making of this film.

Kingsley L Dennis, PhD, is a sociologist, researcher, and author. A prolific writer, he has authored several critically acclaimed books including 'The Phoenix Generation';'New Consciousness for a New World'; 'The Struggle For Your Mind, and the celebrated 'Dawn of the Akashic Age' (written with Professor Ervin Laszlo). He previously worked in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, UK. Kingsley is as well the author of numerous articles on global technologies, new media communications, modern lifestyles, well-being, science & spirituality, and conscious evolution. Beyond his emmersion in the academic life he has also lived and worked for many years overseas, including spending five years in Turkey. He   was born in the United Kingdom and currently lives in Andalusia, Spain. He continues to research, write, travel in his continuing efforts to reveal a greater path and purpose for humanity.

Pierre Pradervand has worked for decades in personal development and social justice.  In his workshops, he provides personal development tools that empower everyone to find and strengthen their own internal anchors, empowering them to live from a more open, free and compassionate place.He is the founding member of two international African NGOs. His work for social change has taken him to more than forty countries on five continents, including living many years in Africa. His personal development workshops are conducted in his home country of Switzerland, where he also writes and volunteers in such places as a prison in Geneva. Pierre earned his doctorate in sociology and has published fifteen books in a dozen languages.

Lisa Cairns could be called a Non-duality teacher, however she says very little about herself and doesn't really call herself a teacher. The interview ssays it all and speaks for itself. She encourages each that come to listen to her to open themselves to the somplicity and inherent freedom that is available to all in each and every moment.

Robin Rice is an internationally published author, online teacher, social change artist and mentor to world-level leaders. Her writing has been translated into three languages and distributed in nine countries. She transforms lives and careers through an online apprenticeship in contemporary shamanism and soul mentoring each year. Through Rainmaker Consulting, she offers life changing support to world-level change makers.  Robin has traveled the world to study indigenous leadership from a wide variety of traditions and these themes are the background for all of her work. Her company, Be Who You Are Productions, Inc., has created a wide range of free creative offerings including social change projects that have traveled around the globe.  After spending many years writing books, she founded the 70,000+ member Awesome Women Hub on Facebook and through AwesomeWomenHub.com. In 2011, she and 150 other women created a 5-city music video tour titled “What The World Needs NEXT.” The empowering videos were shared around the world.

Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory. His work in recent years has centered on the formulation and development of the “Akasha Paradigm,” the new conception of cosmos, life and consciousness emerging at the forefront of the contemporary sciences. He serves as President of the Club of Budapest, Chairman of the Ervin Laszlo Center for Advanced Study, Chancellor of the Giordano Bruno New-Paradigm University, and Editor of World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2004, 2005), he got Goi Peace prize (2001). He has authored more than 70 books, which have been translated into twenty languages, and has published in excess of four hundred articles and research papers, including six volumes of piano recordings.          

In this special episode, I present a talk that was given in 1995 by my first Zen Teacher, Seisho Maylie Scott, Roshi. I first met Maylie in 1991 when I went to a meeting of the Zen Group there, where I lived for some years during that period. She speaks here in this talk of one of her teachers, Maureen Stewart, who she had become rather close to before Maureen passed away in 1990. I've until this day, not encountered another teacher who could so eloquently transmit the teachings of Zen Buddhism, and bring light the profound paradoxes of life in the way she was able to. I saw her as a clear vessel of the deeper "Truths" that can sometimes arrive. Her only agenda seemed to be at attempting to help clear things up a bit for those who came to listen to her and sit.

Kelly-Ann Maddox is a qualified spiritual counsellor, award-winning Tarot reader and free-wheeling Chaos Witch. After picking up her first Tarot deck at a young age, Kelly-Ann Maddox developed an intense passion for the tool and has now spent almost two decades exploring its potential. In her work as an intuitive spiritual counsellor she seeks to combine the rich, symbolic language of the cards with different psycho-spiritual modalities including transpersonal psychology and Jungian psychoanalysis. As a pantheist pagan and a dedicated witch, she places emphasis on the importance of spiritual autonomy and enjoys helping people connect with their own views about divinity. She also focuses intensely on shadow work and self-love, offering lessons via Youtube as well as one-on-one readings, counselling sessions and Tarot mentoring. Her first e-book, 'Heal Hearts, Hold Space: Inspiring Advice for Tarot Readers' is available now.

Her first published book - "2012: A Clarion Call: Your Soul's Purpose in Conscious Evolution" - (Bear & Co/Inner Traditions - April 2011) was placed in the top ten of Spring 2011 book reviews by Publishers Weekly. Twice nominated Nobel Peace Prize nominee Professor Ervin Laszlo endorsed this book as "The most remarkable spiritual book on this or any other subject that I have ever read.” Barbara Marx Hubbard stated "Nicolya Christi is our guide through this evolutionary world shift, one of the best I have encountered."Her second mainstream book is titled "Contemporary Spirituality for an Evolving World: A Handbook for Conscious Evolution-From Personal to Global Transformation" (Bear & Co/Inner Traditions), published (September 2013). The foreword is written by Prof Ervin Laszlo. It is endorsed by Barbara Marx Hubbard, Pierre Pradervand, Rev Peter Owen-Jones and Kingsley Dennis.

Guy Crittenden is a journalist with 25 years experience writing on environmental and sustainability themes, after co-founding a small magazine publishing company in 1989. He recently shifted his focus to writing and speaking on diverse topics that include shamanism, entheogenic plants and mankind's relationship with nature and the spiritual world. Guy is a regular contributor at Reset.me.com and some of his writings may be found on his personal blog at guycrittenden.blogspot.ca which include detailed accounts of ayahuasca ceremonies he's participated in within various locations in South America).

Adam C. Hall achieved the American Dream in its fullist and then woke-up to the nightmare of his own condition. Adam undertook a life-changing metamorphosis that would ultimately alter his mind-set from Earth Conqueror to Earth Keeper. He is the founder of the EarthKeeper Alliance which works to protect the Earth and its inhabitants in multiple ways.

Pam Montgomery is an author, practitioner and educator of Plant Spirit and Earth Healing. She has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature since 1986. She is a founding member of the Northeast Herbal Association and is on the advisory board of United Plant Savers. Since her childhood days, influenced by her grandmother in the eastern hills of Kentucky, she has been learning about the plants and their magnanimous spirits. She is on the forefront of bringing Plant Spirit Healing into the arena of Complementary and Alternative Medicine practice.

Peter Russell is a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, of The World Business Academy and of The Findhorn Foundation, and an Honorary Member of The Club of Budapest. At Cambridge University (UK), he studied mathematics and theoretical physics where he was mentored directly by Dr. Stephan Hawking. Then, as he became increasingly fascinated by the mysteries of the human mind he changed to experimental psychology. Pursuing this interest, he traveled to India to study meditation and eastern philosophy, and on his return took up the first research post ever offered in Britain on the psychology of meditation.

Richard is a acupuncturist and an Oriental medical doctor, who works extensively with a variety of healing modalities which include herbal medicine, sound healing and ayahuasca. Richard began his search for meaning at an early age, when he developed a strong interest in the nature of healing.Shortly after beginning his medical practice, his lifelong interest in healing and spirit merged again, joined, this time, by the power and profound beauty of entheogens with sound and music, and went on to study extensively with indigenous healers in Ecuador and Peru.

Our 2nd Interview with Sangoma Shaman, John Lockley. He gives a detailed explanation of his new training program, "The Way of The Leopard", and offers his wisdom on a variety of other subjects including life, purpose and destiny.

John Dupuy is the CEO of iAwake Technologies, LLC, and holds a master's degree in Transpersonal Psychology. He has been working personally and professionally with brainwave entrainment technology since 2004, and has developed a passion for the power and efficacy of brainwave entrainment technology to support the healing of mental health issues, deepen spiritual growth, and support an increase in attention and focus in business, academics and athletics.

Larry Norris is the co-founder and executive director of ERIE (Entheogenic Research, Integration, and Education), a group dedicated to the development of entheogenic research and integration models ERIE brings diverse entheogenic speakers, practitioners, and researchers to share their wisdom with the San Francisco/Bay Area community. He is also a PhD student in the East-West Psychology department at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. His dissertation will review archived ayahuasca experiences from a research center in Florianopolis, Brazil to identify transformational archetypes that induce the insights hidden within the experiences. This summer at CIIS, Larry will be teaching a graduate course called Entheogenic Education: Contemporary Perspectives on Ancient Plant Wisdom in order to discuss the concept of entheogens as educational teachers and cognitive tools. As a dedicated activist and a proponent of cognitive liberty, his efforts are a contribution to not only change the Western legal status of these powerful entheogenic tools and teachers, but also to emphasize the potential sacred nature of entheogens given the right set and setting.

Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and ten books. He was among the top 100 Global Thought Leaders for 2013, as ranked by the Duttweiler Institute, Zurich, Switzerland's leading think tank.

ChoQosh Auh’Ho’Oh is a Native American elder of Coastal Native Indian descent. She taught for the Cross Cultural Communications program at University of California Berkley for 19 years.   In 1990, at the invitation of the Maori King Hukapa Mateau of Aotearoa/New Zealand she was asked to come to share her knowledge and sacred stories. It was there she received the name “Te Wahini O Nga Ho O E Wa- Woman of The Four Directions Who Call The People to Action”. The Chumash elder, Sky Eagle, called her one of the great teachers of these times.

ChoQosh Auh'Ho'Oh is a Native American elder of Coastal Native Indian descent. She taught for the Cross Cultural Communications program at University of California Berkley for 19 years. In 1990, at the invitation of the Maori King Hukapa Mateau of Aotearoa/New Zealand she was asked to come to share her knowledge and sacred stories. It was there she received the name "Te Wahini O Nga Ho O E Wa- Woman of The Four Directions Who Call The People to Action". The Chumash elder, Sky Eagle, called her one of the great teachers of these times.

Carlos Tanner is the director of the Ayahuasca Foundation in Iquitos, Peru. He has been a student of plant medicine for more than 10 years. He speaks to us here about his experiences over the years with Ayahuasca and how it has transformed his life and also the lives of those who have worked with this plant at his Foundation.

Annette Knopp is an Inner-Depth-Counselor, Shamanic practitioner, and co-founder of Blue Spirit Retreat in Costa Rica.  Her invitation is to realize the infinite preciousness of existence in form and formlessness, and to integrate that knowing into all areas of daily life.   She draws from a rich background in non-dual inquiry and meditation, Shamanic Energy Medicine from the Andes, and modern Western psycho-spiritual approaches. Annette mentors clients from all over the world, teaches retreats in the US and Costa Rica, and is a featured in the book “Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom – the Feminine Face of Awakening" by Rita M Robinson.

This is our first episode from our series, "The Yage Tapes", in which we will be in conversation with various individuals who have participated in Ayahuasca ceremonies with shamans in various parts of South America. Emma Lucy Shaw is a Scottish/English visionary artist who lost both her parents at an early age and ended up homeless not long after. She stayed with friends, moving from place to place and eventually set off to travel throughout Scandinavia, finding work and shelter when she was able. Her life took a dramatic turn after she journeyed to Peru to participate in ayahuasca ceremonies with shamans in the Amazon. She is now back in the UK where she has found a new and fulfilling life for herself and spends much of her time creating her art.

At 18, John Lockley was serving in the South African army as a medic (during the war with Angola in the 1980s) when he had a strong, prophetic dream calling him to train as a Xhosa Sangoma shaman, within the same tribe of Nelson Mandela and Desmond TutuHe eventually met Mum Ngwevu, a well-known Xhosa Sangoma medicine woman, in one of the poorest townships in South Africa. She had foreseen his arrival in a dream and began his 10-year apprenticeship, giving him the initiated name Ucingolwendaba, meaning messenger or connector between people and cultures.John trained under difficult conditions in the townships of the Eastern Cape. He is unique in being initiated into three timeless traditions: African Shamanism, Yoga and Zen Buddhism, and also holds an honours degree in Clinical Psychology.

Interview with Eric Thompson who is the creator of the iNet entrainment process, co-founder of iAwake Technologies, LLC and its Chief Technical Officer. We are speaking with him about the advances he has made within the field of brainwave entrainment technologies.

Pamela speaks the Truth of advaita, non-duality - that the universe is one undivided whole. For the last fifteen years she has traveled widely in the United States, Canada and Europe, holding satsang and giving private sessions. Week-long retreats have been held in Mexico, Costa Rica, France, the United Kingdom, Canada and the USA. She has endeared herself to many through her lighthearted humor and compassion, and deep understanding of what it is to be human. She lives in the Bay Area of Northern California.

Simon G. Powell is the author of The Psilocybin Solution and Darwin's Unfinished Business. He is also a musician and filmmaker. He lives in London, England.

Bill Pfeiffer is the founder of sacred Earth Network which implemented leading visions for almost 20 years.During that time he made Russia a second home; having traveled there 42 times, giving him a rare cross-culturalperspective. He has been active throughout the years conducting workshops on Spiritual Ecology.He also has 25 years of experience in re-evaluation counseling and Vipassana meditation, and has undergone extensivetraining with Siberian shamans, as well as with Joanna Macy and John Perkins.He has also spent much time in the US Southwest learning about Native medicine ways.We'll be speaking with him today about his book Wild Earth Wild Soul A Manual For an Ecstatic Culture.

Jac O’Keeffe was raised in rural Ireland. With a desire to know more about God, she studied theology and music. Graduating in the 1980′s, she was left disillusioned and a non-believer. Turning her focus to issues of social inequality, she studied adult and community education, and began her career interweaving community development with the arts. In 1997 her life was dramatically changed when her sixth sense awakened. Her personal quest led to that which is beyond the mind – a transcendence of dualistic thought. She facilitates spiritual gatherings in a question and answer format within the US and Europe, offering clear pointers to spiritual seekers of truth.

David Jay Brown holds a master's degree in psychobiology from NYU. A former researcher at the University of Southern California, he has written for Wired, Discover, and Scientific American, and his news stories have appeared on The Huffington Post and CBS News. A frequent editor of the MAPS Bulletin, he is the author of several books, including Mavericks of the Mind, Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse, and we speak here about his new book, The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality. He lives in Ben Lomond, California.

Jake Ducey left home as a teenager one day, also leaving behind a life of alcohol and drug abuse, to explore the world with a meager savings and adventurous spirit. His journey ended up transforming his life for good when he arrived at a deep knowing that what he was searching for was within himself all the time. He discovered that our destiny is reached only when we have looked deeply inside first. Upon returning from his spiritual adventure, Jake raised the funds to build a school and home in San Marcos, near Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, to support orphans who are taken care of by a Quiché Maya Shaman.  Now 21, Jake is the author of  Into the Wind (Waterside, April 2013) and he speaks throughout the country on consciously and responsibly creating our lives.