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In episode 14 of Psychedelic Divas, my guest is Wendy Tucker, daughter of psychedelic pioneer Ann Shulgin, who was married to ground-breaking psychedelic chemist Sasha Shulgin. Wendy shares her extensive history within the psychedelic community, including hosting the infamous Friday Night Dinners that began as a family gathering and evolved into a critical hub for underground psychedelic culture. Wendy discusses Ann and Sasha's legendary work, including Sasha's resynthesis of MDMA along with 200 novel compounds and Ann's seminal therapeutic contributions within the psychedelic community. Wendy also discusses the creation of the Shulgin Foundation, whose goal is to preserve the historic Shulgin Farm and lab, and the ongoing community efforts to maintain this legacy. The conversation touches on Sasha's meticulous process for testing novel compounds, the importance of safe and informed psychedelic use, and the educational work being continued today through the Foundation and other platforms. This episode offers a deep dive into the historical and personal stories that shaped the psychedelic movement.   Learn More About the Shulgins To find out about events at the Shulgin Farm or to contribute to the foundation, go to: ShulginFoundation.org   To order PIHKAL or TIHKAL or other books, check out TransformPress.com   Rent the movies: Dirty Pictures and Better Living Through Chemistry on streaming platforms or view on YouTube   Find the Shulgin Vault at Erowid.org   Connect with Carla If you're inspired by this episode and want to stay connected, follow Carla and Psychedelic Divas on social media or visit the website to get your Psychedelic Safety Guide Including What to Do When Things Go Wrong: ·        Website: PsychedelicDivas.com ·        Carla's Coaching: CarlaDetchon.com ·        Instagram: @psychedelicdivas ·        YouTube: @carladetchon ·        Subscribe & Review: If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review Psychedelic Divas. Your support helps amplify these important conversations and grow our community.

Erowid.org is the Internet's most comprehensive and fun encyclopaedia of recreational drugs. If you aren't ordering research chemicals from a shady online Russian pharmacy and using them to commune with tree demons at a bush doof, then you aren't really living.VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATIONJack has published a novel called Tower!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheetThe first nine chapters of Tower are available for free here: jackbc.substack.comOur Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHellJack's Substack: jackbc.substack.comLevi's website: www.levioutloud.comwww.thebookclubfromhell.comJoin our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9HscrWatch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featuredX: @bookclubhell666Jack on X: @supersquat1Levi on X: @optimismlevi

We look at some of the most craziest ether trips on Erowid...

Send us comments, suggestions and ideas here! On this week's show we are joined by Tim Hacker of the Cryptic Chronicles Podcast to discuss the many ways you can have a bad trip while ingesting Datura, also known as “Jimson Weed.” We begin the episode by discussing how Datura works on a chemical level and wax philosophic before jumping into some first hand accounts of the nightmare dimensions faced by those daring enough to imbibe one of mother nature's most dangerous plants. Beautiful, deadly and hard to dose, the wildly common Datura flower brings us these various tales of bleeding walls, mountains of screaming corpses, angry dads and visions of death. In the extended version of the show (available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit) we go quite a bit further and read many additional reports. We hope you will enjoy these first hand accounts as much as we did. Thank you and enjoy the show! Check out Erowid.com (it's ancient) for some great information and trip stories. Support the Show.

Join Jimmy as he delves into the intricate logistics of psilocybin mushrooms. Jimmy discusses the importance of proper storage conditions for psilocybin-containing mushrooms, sharing valuable tips on selecting suitable containers and avoiding moisture exposure.Moving on to ingestion methods, Jimmy covers a range of options, including brewing psilocybin-infused herbal teas, crafting mushroom chocolates, and preparing lemon tek solutions. Throughout the episode, Jimmy addresses common questions and concerns surrounding psilocybin use, such as dosage accuracy, potency testing, and the effects of heat exposure. He emphasizes the importance of informed decision-making and encourages listeners to seek reliable resources, such as the Miraculix potency testing service and online communities like Erowid and Reddit, for additional guidance.No mushroom source? No problem. Download our Free Psilocybin Sourcing Guide.Additional Resources:Episode Blog PostHow Long do Shrooms Last? Do Psychedelics Expire & Go Bad?How to Store Psychedelic Mushrooms: A Complete GuideTop 5 Ways to Consume Psychedelic Mushrooms For TherapyTake your psychedelic education to the next level: Shop for Exclusive Client Resources.More Psychedelic Passage:Official WebsiteBook a ConsultationBlog PageYoutubeInstagram: @psychedelicpassage  Reddit: u/psychedelicpassageHave a burning topic in mind? Share your thoughts: Feedback & Topic Suggestions BoxAbout Us:Psychedelic Passage is the nation's first psychedelic concierge service. Our platform connects clients with a pre-vetted network of trusted, local facilitators across the country. We serve as an independent body that moderates the network of facilitators who all have their own private practice, which means we can advocate for you without a conflict of interest. Our comprehensive vetting process ensures each hand-selected facilitator serves jo

Today we check out a clip from Stormy Daniels new documentary about blowing Donald Trump and it's incredibly cringe. Then we watch a magnificent Christian sitcom called Family First. In this episode, a satanist comes to stab the Christian family because the devil told his coven to do it. Our boy Javioffa30 is back posting on Twitter after his (alleged) stint at a detox facility. Good to see him getting back to what he does best - fentanyl. We look up some of the craziest things people have shoved up their butt and you would not believe how often it actually happens. One guy talks about what it's like being schizophrenic and honestly it sounds pretty cool. A map of fetishes most searched on google by state sheds some fascinating insight into the perverted mind of America. The kids are once again back to eating nutmeg to get high so we read some trip reports on Erowid.  If you enjoyed the show, please Like & Subscribe to our channel and share the links. This show can be found @hiddeninplainsightradio on Instagram and @thehiddenpod on Twitter. iTunes Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-in-plain-sight/id1488538144?i=1000459997594 Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5zsntvl63Do7m9gNTD8Za2?si=MczvbuMlRuCbmWChclVUZA YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNRejWJs0hn8pefj5FiE7ZQ Rumble Link: https://rumble.com/c/c-389525 If you want to support the show, check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hiddeninplainsightpod --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hiddeninplainsightradio/message

In today's episode a listener writes in and tells us about what he experienced whilst on a DMT trip! Good account this. Check it. Support the pod:www.patreon.com/monsterfuzzCheck out our merch:https://monster-fuzz.creator-spring.comEverything else!www.linktr.ee/monsterfuzz

I dive deep into the crazy history of the popular drug website "Erowid"! Learn how it was conceived and why it is so influential by listening now!

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speaker: John Beresford PROGRAM NOTES: Dr. John Bereford delivering this talk in 2006 at the conference celebrating Albert Hofmann's 100th birthday. Today's program features a lecture by psychedelic researcher Dr. John Beresford. Here is Erowid's introduction to him: "British-born John Beresford began his psychedelic research interests in 1961, and shortly thereafter he resigned his post as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at New York Medical College. In 1963 he founded the Agora Scientific Trust, the world's first research organization devoted to investigating the effects of LSD. In contrast to Leary's invitation to "tune in, turn on, and drop out", Beresford initially wanted to keep LSD as a tool of scientifically trained specialists. However, later in his life he adopted a viewpoint that was opposed to the medicalization of psychedelics." Of course, the story that he is best known for is the time that he wrote to Sandoz Laboratories and requested one gram of LSD! (If my math is correct, that's about 4,000 doses of 250 mics each.) Amazingly, Sandoz sent him a gram through the mail and attached a note that read, "Good luck." The talk we are about to listen to was given by Dr. Beresford at the conference celebrating Albert Hofmann's 100th birthday. He titled it: "Psychedelic Agents and the Structure of Consciousness: Stages in a Session Using LSD and DMT".

Today is an episode with Dr. Julie Holland about connection and the love molecule Oxytocyn. In this episode, Dr. Julie Holland delves into the essence of social connection and the role of oxytocin, exploring anti-inflammatory strategies and the complexities of drug legalization. Advocating for decriminalization, she navigates topics from MDMA therapy to parenting advice, offering insightful perspectives and hope. Please note that the discussions in this podcast are for informational purposes only and do not promote or encourage the use of drugs. Always consult a healthcare professional for personalized advice.Dr Julie Holland is a psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, and author known for her work in psychopharmacology and mental health. She has expertise in the effects of drugs on the brain and behaviour. Dr. Holland has written several books, including "Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking, The Sleep You're Missing, The Sex You're Not Having, and What's Really Making You Crazy" and "Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, from Soul to Psychedelics." She has also been an advocate for drug policy reform and has spoken about the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, particularly MDMA, for mental health conditions like PTSD.Harvest is an event produced by Athena Advisers and Capital Partners[3:11] Dr. Julie Holland explores the significance of social connection for mental health, emphasizing our inherent social nature as primates.[6:25] Strategies for managing flight or fright responses are discussed, including anti-inflammatory diets, activities, and the role of oxytocin in cuddling.[9:30] The conversation shifts to cannabis, advocating for its legalization and delving into the effects of CBD.[12:26] Recreational vs. therapeutic drug use is debated, with Julie advocating for decriminalization to reduce harmful substitutions.[15:24] The potential impact of drug decriminalization on addiction is explored.[17:40] Dr. Holland discusses the risks of drug use on children's brain development, highlighting authorities' concerns about legalization.[21:10] Dr. Holland shares her journey into psychopharmacology, detailing her early interest in substance effects and her personal experience with psychosis.[26:00] The therapeutic potential of MDMA, especially for PTSD, is examined, with a glimpse into its future role in depression treatment.[28:00] Common questions about drug interactions are addressed, reflecting the concerns of many individuals.[30:00] Parenting advice on discussing drugs with children is shared, emphasizing education and caution against unknown substances. Dr Holland's favourite documentary about drug is the website Erowid ("documenting the complex relationship between the human and psychoactive)[33:18] Dr. Holland offers advice for individuals with low desire, providing valuable insights.[36:24] Dr. Holland shares her "Harvest of the Day," revealing a source of hope.Don't miss the upcoming episode featuring Prashant Goel's insights on self-transformation. Follow Harvest Series on Instagram (@harvestseries) and Rose Claverie (@rose.claverie), and watch their podcasts on YouTube (Harvest Series) for more engaging content.Harvest Series is produced in partnership with Athena Advisers and Capital PartnersYou can follow us on Instagram : @Harvestseries, or...

These are the only three reports of Adrenochrome on Erowid

More experimental ReddX content: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTz_vyR-zjcCnyjZ6sDxU1qbl5aG2bFVJErowid is about science. You can research to your heart's content about all of the substances this world has to offer. It might offer some insight that could save your life. The worst thing we can do is bury the truth. Knowledge is power, and Erowid trip reports are brutally honest.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/reddxyTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/daytondoesDiscord: https://discord.gg/reddxPayPal: https://www.paypal.me/daytondoesPatreon: http://patreon.com/daytondoesTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/daytondoesFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReddXD/Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/reddx

Mike has a conversation with Dr. Cole Marta and Brooke Balliett, LMFT of the California Center for Psychedelic Therapy. Recorded Sunday, April 2nd at the Center. Topics discussed include: Preparing set and setting for a psychedelic trip, dosage differences in individual people, Ego Death, surrendering to a trip, resistance, Creatives, sharpening by amphetamines, Alex Grey, the Community of trippers, experimenting with shrooms during COVID lockdowns, Ketamine use for preventing suicide, Ecstasy vs Molly, research chemicals, dancesafe.org, Schedule One Drug License, research pharmacies, variations in unregulated street drugs, regular doses, benefits of regulated drugs, clinical benefits for mental health patients, importance of set and setting, protecting friends from bad drugs, buying drugs online, Ketamine's similarity to Nitrous, Spiritual connection, Ketamine therapy cycle, belief in God, ancient use of psychedelics, Ancient Greeks, Salem Witch Trials, Ketamine primarily used to treat depression and PTSD, common ground of psychedelic trips and deep meditation states, Default Mode Network, changes in cognition/perspective/emotionality, visuals, psychedelic replications, Replications Sub Reddit, trippy dream of Ketamine high, new client intake, prep before treatment, submitting to the process, the power of getting started, center vs clinic, unsafe feeling resulting from trauma, pre-verbal trauma, Ketamine as anesthetic, MDMA's power to helping client feel safe, treating depression with psilocybin, “Being depressed is the opposite of being excited about being alive”, debilitating depression, spectrum of personality traits, Zendo, Burning Man, lack of guidance at raves, Adavan, duration of trips, staying up overnight on LSD, post-rave kit, inability to fall asleep, feeling a trip coming on, improved dancing ability, DJ RAW, raves as church, the body as a conduit for sound, fractals in nature, tapping into new levels of being, inability to understand language while on LSD, A-Ha moments/changing perspectives, seeing through cultural illusions, “Watching the news on acid is a bad idea”, DMT, feeling of immobility, short duration, NN (orange resin) vs 5MEO (frog venom), Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, 5MEO flashbacks, using cannabis and psilocybin as entry points to the psychedelic experience, tardigrades, importance of good sourcing, situational awareness while high, Erowid.org and FiresideProject.org. Psychedelictherapyca.com Givebutter.com/CCPT-TYL

This week we go to one of the internet's oldest communities, Erowid, to find some psychonauts and see what they are up to. I had my frequent co-host Chris James (@thecjs and Not Even A Show) on so that we could talk about drugs with some authority but we needed someone to educate so we brought on our least square friend Jesse Farrar (Your Kickstarter Sucks, Go Off Kings @BronzeHammer on Twitter) to talk about Nutmeg, Dramamine, Gasoline and Catnip If you want more Bryan you can get it on patreon.com/murderxbryan twitch.tv/murderxbryan for streams @murderxbryan on twitter Music by @avantlard  I love you Bryan

We kick things off discussing the wonders of John Goodman, including his roles in The Flinstones and Speed Racer. We discuss how much we love Mel Brooks and Rob talks about seeing Funny Girl on Broadway. Somehow, we transition to Sara Jay and Rob explains Onlyfans marketing strategies to Sid and Darren. We discuss the recent developments in the accusations against Marilyn Manson. We discuss the merits of king beds. Rob explains what Erowid is to the other hosts and we dive deep into the websites on user "experiences" on the site.Watch the episode on Youtube and Twitch for free. Join our Patreon and get two bonus episodes each month, and other behind-the-scenes goodies. More info here.Follow us on: Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and our Discord Chat. Also don't forget about our Spotify playlist. We also have merch if you're into that kind of sharing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can one experience with magic mushrooms potentially end an addiction? If you enjoy this episode, take a second to rate & review my podcast! :) I will love you forever Erowid.org is a database that has hundreds of anonymous submissions of people's experiences with different substances. The story I chose to read about was of a man who went through a traumatizing mushroom trip that ended up showing him the importance of taking care of his body, allowed him to seperate himself from his 22 year long addiction, and break free from it.  

Robbie and Abby Martin continue their psychedelic series with an episode about the DEA raid on the LSD missile silo manufacturing plant, Robbie's quest for psychedelics online, his experience taking 2-C-T-7 and dangerous attempts to synthesize DMT at his home. They discuss the fear campaign around several overdoses of 2-C-T-7 and introduce the groundbreaking life and work of the brilliant chemist behind 200+ psychedelic analogs, including MDMA, Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin and his wife Anne. This is Episode 5 of an ongoing series on Psychedelic History, Episodes 1-5 are availible now. Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to Episode 4 of the series: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Previous: Episode 1: A Brief History of Hallucinogens, MK-Ultra, the CIA, LSD, Leary & the Psychedelic 60s / 70s Episode 2: How Raves Brought Back the Psychedelic Subculture, DanceSafe, Pill Tests & the DEA vs MDMA Episode 3: Terrence McKenna, Johnathan Ott, DMT, Pharmahuasca, Heroic Dosing, Utopianism & the Psychedelic New Age Episode 4: When Microsoft Employee #9 Boosted an Online Psychedelic Revolution, Erowid.org, DXM & Salvia FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey //

Abby and Robbie dive deeper into the life and work of Sasha and Anne Shulgin and their close yet tumultuous relationship with the DEA, their books PiHKAL / TiHKAL , the raid of his home and the crackdown on “designer drug” internet retailers that were selling pure chemical drugs following the recipies from both of Shulgin's books. This is Episode 6 of an ongoing series on Psychedelic History, Episodes 1-6 are availible now. Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to Episode 4 of the series: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Previous: Episode 1: A Brief History of Hallucinogens, MK-Ultra, the CIA, LSD, Leary & the Psychedelic 60s / 70s Episode 2: How Raves Brought Back the Psychedelic Subculture, DanceSafe, Pill Tests & the DEA vs MDMA Episode 3: Terrence McKenna, Johnathan Ott, DMT, Pharmahuasca, Heroic Dosing, Utopianism & the Psychedelic New Age Episode 4: When Microsoft Employee #9 Boosted an Online Psychedelic Revolution, Erowid.org, DXM & Salvia Episode 5: the Acid Drought, Making DMT, A Godfather of Psychedelic Analogs & His Problem Child 2-C-T-7 FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey //

Media Roots Radio on Psychedelics: Episode 3: Terrence McKenna, Ott, DMT, Pharmahuasca, Heroic Dosing, Utopianism & the Entheogen New Age Abby and Robbie dive into the psychonauts that repopularized psychedelics in the 80s and 90s, focusing on the brilliant visionary riddler Terrence McKenna and his wild theories––from Stoned Ape to TimeWave Zero––his promotion of heroic dosing, his mainstreaming of DMT and the notion of DMT 'machine elves.' They explore the complicated nature of McKenna's legacy, including the pitfalls of the utopianism that he and others elevated about heroic dosing. They also cover the lesser known Johnathan Ott, a chemist who coined the term entheogen and pushed for the production of a Pharmahuasca, a pharmaceutical pill version of Ayahuasca. This is Episode 3 of an ongoing series on Psychedelic History, Episodes 1-4 are availible now. Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to Episode 4 of the series: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Next: Episode 4: When Microsoft Employee #9 Boosted an Online Psychedelic Revolution, Erowid.org, DXM & Salvia [Patreon Subscriber Exclusive] FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey //

Media Roots Radio on Psychedelics: Episode 2: How Raves Brought Back the Psychedelic Subculture, DanceSafe, Pill Tests & the DEA vs MDMA Robbie and Abby Martin discuss the resurgence of psychedelics in the 80s through underground raves. Unregulated warehouse parties featured the revival of psychedelics like LSD and the arrival of MDMA and ecstasy during the era of Regan's 'War on Drugs.' Out of this subculture came DanceSafe, which administered the safe testing of ecstasy pills, and a new government fear campaign. Featuring exclusive insight from DanceSafe founder Emanuel Sferios about the suspicious flooding of the ecstasy market with DXM to help paint MDMA as a dangerous drug that melts brains. This is Episode 2 of an ongoing series on Psychedelic History, Episodes 1-4 are availible now. Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to Episode 4 of the series: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Episode 3: Terrence McKenna, Johnathan Ott, DMT, Pharmahuasca, Heroic Dosing, Utopianism & the Psychedelic New Age Episode 4: When Microsoft Employee #9 Boosted an Online Psychedelic Revolution, Erowid.org, DXM & Salvia [Patreon Subscriber Exclusive] FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey //

Media Roots Radio on Psychedelics: Episode 1: A Brief History of Hallucinogens, MK-Ultra, the CIA, LSD, Leary & the Psychedelic Sixties / Seventies Robbie and Abby Martin start the series by exploring the Western world's initiation into psychedelics: the CIA buying up the world's supply of LSD to administer MK-Ultra's dark experimentation against unwitting subjects as well as thousands of volunteers through research organizations and front groups at elite universities which spawned Silicon Valley. They discuss the evolution of main characters like Timothy Leary and how the San Francisco Bay Area became a hotbed of psychedelic renaissance through the hippie movement, from the Grateful Dead to Ken Kesey. Figures like John Lilly were attempting to sync consciousness with dolphins using hallucinogenic drugs and performance art by the likes of Alex Grey and others became representative of the era. Nixon's 'War on Drugs' started the reactionary wave of psychedelic criminalization. This is Episode 1 of an ongoing series on Psychedelic History, Episodes 1-4 are availible now. Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to Episode 4 of the series: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Episode 2: How Raves Brought Back the Psychedelic Subculture, DanceSafe, Pill Tests & the DEA vs MDMA Episode 3: Terrence McKenna, Johnathan Ott, DMT, Pharmahuasca, Heroic Dosing, Utopianism & the Psychedelic New Age Episode 4: When Microsoft Employee #9 Boosted an Online Psychedelic Revolution, Erowid.org, DXM & Salvia [Patreon Subscriber Exclusive] FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey //

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Rachel (she/her) is a long-time drug educator, raver, and burner. She tumbled down the rabbit hole of all things related to harm reduction after discovering Erowid(a non-profit educational & harm-reduction resource) at the age of 12. She currently serves as the Education Manager at DanceSafe, a 501(c)(3) public health nonprofit that specializes in drug education.

In this episode I'm talking with a major contributor to the Erowid experience vaults and writes about novel drugs and their effects. Check out the blog: nervewing.blogspot.comJoin the Revolution: Sign the Pledge… STOP Consuming Corporate MediaSubscribe to the YouTube channel.Support the podcast.Music featured in this episode:White Lighterswhitelighters13.bandcamp.com

James Kent talks with Nervewing, the top contributor to Erowid's experience vaults, about novel psychedelics and the dangers of underground psychedelic research. Topics include research chemicals, novel dissociatives, mental health, keeping to a regimine, and how to stay sane while experimenting with hundreds of novel chemicals.

Jake MacIntyre became interested in different states of consciousness as a young teenager when his older sister introduced him to the topic. He discusses some of his early psychedelic experiences and the increased personal connection he felt while tripping at a concert and at home with his sister. He describes different entities he has encountered on DMT, including one who taught him valuable lessons, only to be forgotten when the DMT wore off. He also talks about a psilocybin experience where he saw his empty room and the pain that would be inflicted on his family if he were to act on suicidal ideations he'd been having at the time. Not all of Jake's experiences were positive. During one mushroom trip he walked into his friend's parents bedroom and pulled the blanket off them while they were asleep. Fortunately the parents were kind about the situation.The purpose of the podcast is for entertainment and harm reduction. Please consult a physician and your local laws before considering the use of psychedelic substances. Please also understand that you may not hold us liable or responsible for relying on any information contained on the podcast or our website.Links from this episode:Erowid

INTRODUCTION:The Ramble by the River podcast is hosted by none other than Jeff Nesbitt!!! Jeff has been podcasting for quite some time and he brings a unique passion and flavor to the table that I resonate quite well with. In this interview we talk about how Jeff got kicked out of church for getting a divorce, how hypnosis plays into church services, male body image issues and Jeff's mushroom experiment in the Crack Shack.  INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to):·      Jeff's Recount Of Getting Kicked Out Of Church For Getting A Divorce·      The Inspiration Behind The Ramble By The River Podcast·      The Value Of Podcasting·      Why It Is Important To Separate God From The Church·      How Hypnosis Plays Into Church Services ·      The Pandemic And Maintaining Connections ·      Male Body Image Issues·      The Family Gratitude List·      The Marshmallow Test ·      Jeff's Mushroom Experiment In The Crack Shack  CONNECT WITH JEFF:Website & Podcast: https://ramblebytheriver.captivate.fmFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeff.nesbitt.9619/Twitter: https://twitter.com/rambleriverpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ramblebytheriver/ DE'VANNON'S RECOMMENDATIONS:·      Pray Away Documentary (NETFLIX)       - https://www.netflix.com/title/81040370       - TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_CqGVfxEs SDJ MEMBERSHIP (FULL EPISODES):·      $2.99 per month.·      Donate any amount for 30 days of access.·      $25 per year.https://www.sexdrugsandjesus.com/membership-account/membership-levels/ Jeff Nesbitt [00:00:00] You're listening to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast, where we discuss whatever the fuck we want to. And yes, we can put sex and drugs and Jesus all in the same bed and still be all right. At the end of the day, my name is De'Vannon and I'll be interviewing guests from every corner of this world. As we dig into topics that are too risky for the morning show, as we strive to help you understand what's really going on in your.There was nothing on the table and we've got a lot to talk about. So let's dive right into this episode.Jeff: Ramble by the river podcast is hosted by none other than Jeff Nesbitt. Jeff has been podcasting for quite some time. Now when he brings a unique passion and flavor to the table that I personally resonate well with. You all will too. And this interview, we're going to talk about how Jeff got kicked out of his church for getting a divorce, how hypnosis plays into church services, male body image issues, and [00:01:00] Jeff's mushroom experiment in the crack shack.Y'all that right? There was a hoop and is totally worth sticking around to listen, to enjoy the show.De'Vannon: Jeff, thank you so damn much for coming on to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast.Today. I say that with my church finger up, like the ushers would have in church on a Sunday morning. It is so glad to have you. How are you doing my friend? Jeff: I'm doing fantastic. Thank you so much for having. De'Vannon: Well, of course, it's only the polite thing to do, and I am a Southern Belle. You know, you had me on your show and, and of course I would have you upon mine.I wouldn't dream of having it any other way. And I'm perfect. Now your show is called ramble by the river. And I want you to tell us where you came up with that name, [00:02:00] the flow of your show and why you were inspired to call it that. Jeff: All right. So yeah, first of all, thank you so much for having me on the show.It's been a pleasure already, and I think it's going to be a good episode. And I had you on my show last week, because as you mentioned, and it was really fun. So my show ramble by the river has been going out since January of 2021. And it started because I have a job where I spent very much of my time by myself, and I really enjoy connecting with people. It wasn't something I was getting in my day-to-day life and I started to miss it and I really just needed that connection.So I started trying to pursue different avenues of creativity, like. Just music was one of them. And just trying to find what was going to bring me some kind of satisfaction. And I've, I've been listening to podcasts pretty often since around 2015. And by pretty often, I mean like [00:03:00] every day for several hours, because I'm driving all the time and by myself, so you can really click in and engage to some content when it's just you and nothing else.And so, yeah, I ended up getting my favorite podcasts, which I'll shout them out right now, or the king of the staying with Brendan Shaw and Theo Vaughn at one that one's great. Feel Von is in general. Very good. He's got another one called this past weekend. He's a comedian from California. He's actually from Covington, Louisiana.So he's down there from where, from where you're at.He's let's see who else we get. Aubrey Marcus podcast is one that I like a lot. He's he's pretty cool. Joe Rogan obviously is like the godfather of podcasting, mark Marin, just, you know, the classics. And so I would basically felt like I built these relationships with these content creators who I already mostly knew through traditional media forms, like TV shows, movies, things like that, a lot of standup comedians.[00:04:00] And I just really started to like, the medium podcasting is different than anything else because it's long form. And I got so used to trying to communicate. Who I was through 140 characters or through a picture or through one Facebook post and especially in a climate of everybody, just bitching constantly about what other people post on social media.So I just felt very self-conscious because no matter what you post on those short form platforms, you're going to be misinterpreted by somebody. If it's worth even reading in the first place. If it's, if it's just boring as fuck in the first place, no one even cares. You're not even going to get any traction on it.And then if you're a little provocative to try to get a little bit more attention, then you're going to hurt somebody's feelings or piss somebody off, or create a disagreement with somebody. And it's just not a good way to communicate. It's not effective. It doesn't create that sense of community that we're all looking for and that we all need.It does actually quite the opposite. It [00:05:00] creates division and polarization and increases some of the tribalism that is causing havoc in our political system today. So I didn't want any part of that. And I really, I really have never liked social media. So it's, I mean, I like the idea of it. I liked it back in the very beginning days, like 2007, when it was like almost anonymous and it wasn't all talking to other platforms before Twitter and Facebook and Instagram all connected.It seemed better to me, but I digress. I didn't like those forms as a way to express who I am. And in this digital world, you have to do that. That's where we're living now. Especially during the pandemic, we are essentially living in a simulation. We're getting in, we're jacking into the system every day.We're going to work through our computers. We are living digital. And I wanted to do that in a form that could actually capture the most accurate representation of who I really am. [00:06:00] And I think that's podcasting because it's just a, it's a, it's a time capsule of your thoughts and opinions of that moment, because it's not always researched fully.It's not always supported with evidence. I like them to be ideally they will be, but a lot of the time it's just raw. It's emotional stuff. Just pouring out of you and anybody can do that once you open the tap and just try not to feel super vulnerable, it's, it's pretty therapeutic.So after that I was like, all right, I'm going to start a podcast. And Buddy who lived right down the road. I grew up with also named Jeff and I'm not, and hit him and me both kind of battle with depression. So it's something we've dealt with since like middle school. And we've been friends for a very, very long time and we both deal with it and we recognize that each other.So we've kind of talked with each other about it that entire time. And so [00:07:00] winter time, as most people who struggle with depression know winter time is the rough time. That's when stuff starts to get harder and you have to work a lot harder to stay. Just keep your head above water. It's dark, it's cold.It's wet. It's just like, it's a wet blanket on your soul, a Pacific Northwest winter. So we're like, let's start a podcast. Jeff and Jeff Inc. And which is like our pretend fake company that we started in fourth grade. So we started getting stuff together and he's a fishermen commercial fishermen. So pretty quickly he was, he was having to go work.And so I was out here building the studio and I did, I, the majority of it by myself, I painted this mural, I, which wraps all the way around the room. And I. Put in quite a few hours on the studio and it came together and I was like, well, [00:08:00] shit. Now I have a podcast studio. I better start a podcast. So I started workshopping names and I just keep a list in my phone.Every time I would think of one or something clever came up, I'd put it in the phone. And by the time I had around 50 names, I thought, okay, one of these has to work and I had a hell of a time picking because I wanted something that was memorable, but also kind of fit the style is just like, it's tough.So you, you also have a really good name by the way. I meant to compliment you on that. Yeah. So ramble by the river came from, I wanted to use the word ramble just cause I think it's a catchy word and I was like that song ramble and man, and I think it's the, all my brothers, I don't know. We'll get a copyright infringement if we sing it.But Yeah, from there, I buy a river, I tried it out and I liked the logos and I went with it. Plus I always kind of felt like this is my training wheels into the world of podcasting [00:09:00] because I, when I started, I didn't know how to podcast, I just started. And so I set a goal of accomplishing 50 interviews in the first year, and I needed a show to do that with, so that's how ramble by the river was born.De'Vannon: And so it is, I'm so glad that you gave birth to it. I bet you looked great when you were preggers.And so I I love everything that you said, and I, I feel like that even though like the guests that come on, a lot of our shows that may not have. Have like a, I want to be like a doctor, have some sort of acronym behind their name to necessarily justify their experience. I feel like that the guests experience is the most justifiable of all, because a person's lived experience to me, outweighs a PhD or an MD [00:10:00] or anything like that.And so for somebody to come on my show, I don't care if they have, you know, you know, a PhD or anything like that, they have to have had, you know, gone through something themselves, at least, you know, especially like from episode nine, moving forward, because that's when I took over, you know, production and recruiting and everything myself.And so because that's what I want to know about, you know, that's, my audience is trying to hear, you know, know, you know, which one did you go for? We need, we need to hear about that because people will. When they people feel like they can relate to a person, you know, then they will listen to them. And it's easy to relate to somebody who's been divorced.Who's been kicked out of church. Who've been slapped across the face, or who's had the whip of bitch ass at some point, you know, it check all Jeff: those boxes. De'Vannon: Right. And so, as opposed to somebody with a PhD, because less people [00:11:00] have PhDs than do, but Mo everybody has had a bad day, you know, or has gone through a terrible experience or has, you know, a little skeleton tap dancing in their closet.They may not want somebody to know about, you know, or hadn't learned exactly how to kill that bitch yet, or just let him out so he can just twirl for fuck's sake. And so that, and then I'll also like, like he referred to podcasts as a time capsule. I agree. I felt like every episode we record. When we write blogs books, we keep a website, you know, those things that write music and things like that, you know, those intangible electronic things will outlive us, you know?And so once we you know, as long as the earth remains, you know, these platforms are going to be here because there's so much money in it. And so much people doing it, you know? You know, so once we're all like dead and spirits floating around doing whatever the fuck [00:12:00] spirits do you know, this work will still be here.So in future generations, when people come along, who is going, going through the same shit, cause everything kind of seems to happen these generation over again, you know, then they'll still be able to hear what we have to say. And our voices will be heard. We are eternal until there is no more earth. And so to agree, that's a great reason to have started your podcast.And I'm glad that you have it. Jeff: Yeah. I mean, you could go to a Tupac concert in 2018 because they recorded his voice. They recorded his, his physical form and, and they're reproducing it digitally. That's that's exactly the same thing. It's just, we're trying to become immortal essentially. De'Vannon: And, and, you know, and I appreciate the transparency because, you know, you didn't go have your personal experiences, which we're about to get into some of those and go, you know, achieve your successes with that, and then go [00:13:00] run off and have your happy, successful life, you know, taking time to talk about that, to help somebody else.That's a huge thing because you know, like in the Bible, you know, Jesus heals those seven lepers, I think it was. And then most of them skipped off, you know, where joystick and seedsman what they had received, but only one came back to give things. And so to me, every episode, you know, you record is a way of giving thanks, you know, for the blessings that you have and everything like that.So I look at it as a project of gratitude. Jeff: That's so exactly what it is. I pray every time I do one of these things before I do it, but I just, I will know what to say. And if I don't know what to say, that it comes off at least as funny so that people can get some benefit out of it. But yeah, I think that a lot of what I do every day is, is practicing gratitude.I love my life and I didn't always love it. And so I appreciate the contrast. Okay. De'Vannon: Absolutely. And we're going to talk about [00:14:00] your your family gratitude list and stuff like that later on. So for now I want to get I want to get more into your history, like with the cherishes, you and I both have an interesting relationship with the church and.This concept of Christianity here in America. Now I know that you were kicked out for some things that happened. I want you to tell her story. Jeff: Yeah, happy to. So kicked out is probably a little bit strong of a term. I don't want to talk down on the church at all or anything, but essentially I had been teaching a Sunday school class for kids for a few years, and I don't want to my own horn, but I was fucking good at it.And so, you know, just showing up every Sunday, just kind of killing it as a Sunday school teacher, the kids love me. I really I was doing the Lord's work and. My marriage was not going great, which, you know, wasn't surprising to anybody, including the pastor who married us, [00:15:00] who subsequently asked me to please not teach Sunday school class anymore because I was getting divorced and he thought it was going to set a bad example for the kids.And I, I disagreed, I still disagree because that was like my church family. And it as even I tried so hard, I was, I was understanding and I just, it hurt my feelings. It really, it really kinda was just like thing, I guess. I, because I had thought that I was providing more value to the church family than just like sending an example of a, what a good marriage looks like.There are other facets of the human experience that I, that I felt like I was still doing. Okay. That one part of my life was falling apart. And I guess that was enough to make me not. Role model. I don't know. It wasn't, I, the justification for it was, was not really my concern. After that point, a lot of people were like, oh, you should have fought that or gone back, but it wasn't, I don't want to [00:16:00] do that.I don't want to force myself into any place. It's like this podcast, if you don't like it, turn it off. I don't care. I'm just trying to be me. But and I have stuff to share. So I that's, I was trying to do that and it didn't work out. So I haven't been back to that church since, but I heard, I hear good things about it.I know it's grown and I hope I wish them the best, but yeah, it was a sad, sad moment. I haven't really found a good church home since then. And that sucks. I like, I think the community is, is crucial and church, whether you're fully onboard with the faith aspects of it or not. It's a really good exercise in, in human connection.I think like even going to church that you don't traditionally follow the religion. It's it's. Interesting experience to put yourself through that. Cause they're weird. De'Vannon: Cause they're weird. Yeah. They're weird. Jeff: If you go into a church and you've never been to church before and they're speaking in tongues or, or they're wearing dresses [00:17:00] and given piece of price, I mean there's some baffling shit going on at church and I grew up with it.So I didn't realize how silly it seems to those who haven't been indoctrinated, but look at it through fresh eyes and you're like, okay, this is all equally baffling, every religion. So it's like, I don't know. I'm, I'm really not critical of people's faith because everybody's just searching for meaning and people find it in different places.De'Vannon: I'm sorry that happened to you, Jeff. And although you, you don't want to talk bad about your church. I will, they can eat a Dick and, and I would extend the middle finger to them. Jeff: That's not Christ-like De'Vannon: no, it isn't, but you know, I'm not a spirit and I'm not Jesus Christ. So I don't, I'm not being Christ like all the time.So I just stepped in the flesh for just a moment. Now I'm back out of the flesh. Jeff: And so I appreciate you sticking up for me. I De'Vannon: won't do it. [00:18:00] I know like, you know, you know, there are people out there who. You know, maybe they don't cuss as much as I do or they won't do, you know, things like what I just did with flipping off churches and what not.And I'm happy to do it for them, you know, because it just needs to be done sometimes. And you know, I'm aware of my spirituality and my power in Christ and the holy ghost and all that. And I'm also very grounded in the fact that I'm still a human and I just, you know, you know, every now and then, you know, a bitch's ass might need to get up and they might need to get flipped out.I flipped out out or something like that. And I'll pray about it later, you know, and then it'll be all right. And so, and I feel great. And so this is a huge thing that I want to take some time that to, to marinade here because. There's many people who've been kicked out of churches. We've only seen a few of the accounts on the news for various reasons.You say kicked out as a strong term. But like when [00:19:00] I was, when I was technically removed from ministry at Lakewood, because they found out that I was LGBTQ and therefore unfit to serve in the adult choir or around children anymore, you know, then nobody specifically said, don't come back to the church, but Jeff, you know, the feeling, once you throw somebody out of something that meant so much to them, like you said, I just wanted to come and share my gifts.You know, there was, you know, and now I can't do that here. You dislike it. It's like getting a divorce. It's like, it's like being married and getting a divorce, but then trying to stay in the same house. Jeff: Yes exactly. It's a De'Vannon: rejection, you know, you're not going to do that. Now. Now the church in their arrogance thinks that Y you, you, you probably can, if not, should just come on back and sit through a service, you know, like nothing's changed, but everything's changed because they made you look like a heretic, [00:20:00] you know, in bad and terrible.And they took one thing that they didn't like, and they let that overshadow all of the great and fabulous things that you had been doing, you know, nevermind your work ethic, consistency, qualifications. And actually, it seems like you were called by God to be doing this. As you said, you were damn good at it.Well, the only way that happens is if the Lord is with you, you know? And so, you know, in terms of like your effectiveness and actually reaching people and connecting, like, it sounds like you were, and so. Humans decided that you have reached a, a stumbling block in your life or at impasse or a rough spot.This is the priority. And this now defines you what fuck them, because they don't get to pick that. But see, this happens to a lot of people. And like you said, you never really found a good church again. You know, it was a [00:21:00] long, long road. Like, I don't know, 10, 15 fucking years before I found what I was comfortable.You know? And again, that sort of break up of is, is catastrophic to somebody, you know, in, in the, not only us, but also people, our friends who have watched us get kicked out of allies, both, both LGBTQ allies were even friends of straight people like yourself. Who've been kicked out. They go, it didn't happen to them, but they're like, look at what you did to my friend.I'm not fucking with churches either. You know? And so. What would you say to people who who have been kicked out of churches before removed from ministries, you know, in the, in the friends and allies of those who have watched this happen to people who they know are good people and could, could not understand why the church was being so antagonistic, Jeff: I would say to try to find God where you can.And like I said before, that does [00:22:00] not look the same to everybody. And God doesn't even mean the same thing to everybody. To me, God means one thing. But to my, like my mom, it means a completely different thing. And so I was raised very. I, I was hesitate when I say I was raised very religiously, but I was, my mom is a very religious woman and she believes completely in the doctrine of the Christian Church and not the Catholic church, which is like the old Christian Church, but like contemporary American Christian Church.And it's where I grew up in a, it was called well, let's see, it was a community church, but. Denominationally. It was kind of like an evangelical, so it was big and showy and the music was everything. And lots of speaking in tongues and it's, so I go back and forth on that. So because of that early exposure to that kind of culture, I am extremely hesitant [00:23:00] to get involved in any kind of group hypno, hypnosis, bullshit.Like everybody puts your hands up or everybody do that. I don't like any of it. I'll barely do the wave at a football game. Like you try to get me to do a chant with hand motions, fuck off. I'm not doing it. You're not hypnotizing me because I understand psychology. That's what's really going on is you're you're engaging in a map mass hypnosis.And so when you do that and you're bonding your consciousness with all the. People in the collective consciousness, under a banner of some kind of greater purpose, it's extremely powerful. And you open yourself up to all kinds of manipulation. And so it's just, that's not to say that every time those tools are used to open your operating system, that doesn't mean that every time that happens it's for malicious means, but it does mean that that's always a possibility.So I'm skeptical. And when they, you know, people are, I love to see people [00:24:00] praising God and worshiping and stuff, but when they bring out the basket of ribbons and the ladies are twirling them and, and your people are speaking in tongues and falling over and stuff, it, I start to really feel uncomfortable.So yeah, I don't know. I, I can appreciate spirituality. And at the same time, I understand that it has a lot of power to control and. Corrupt people. So I'm really skeptical of, of really, really highly emotional groups of people, I guess, is probably the best way to say it. On the other side of that my father was not a highly religious man.He tried really hard, but deep down, he's kind of a thug and kind of at times criminal and just, he was kind of an abused child and he led a very difficult life and he taught me the way of the world was to protect yourself and everybody's out to get you. You've got to learn how to fuck them before they fuck you.And [00:25:00] so I had this strange, just the juxtaposition of the turn, the other cheek mentality coming from my mom where, you know, put yourself last, be humble. The. Be humble, be the servant to the world. And then on my dad's side, it was like, take care of yourself, protect your family, get yours. Don't let somebody make you their bitch, just, you know, get out there and set yourself up for success as a human being.And so those are two very far points from each other on the whole spectrum of existence. And so I landed smack dab in the middle. So I feel like I'm kind of a unique perspective and it definitely shaped the way I see the church. And to get back to your question, but what, the way I would tell a person to handle that situation where they've, they've seen people in the church doing things that they shouldn't have done, or they, somebody they trusted let them down or they're.I mean, [00:26:00] there is always going to be those times because we're all human and we all make mistakes. And as much as we want to think of religious figures as above suspicion, they're fucking not. They're just humans too. And they get into flesh and they like titties and they liked sex and he liked drugs and they like all the same stuff we like.And they honestly, they like stuff. That's a little bit naughty, just like humans. Everybody's a human. So I really try to separate God from the church, from the people in the church, because I think all three of those are very separate and distinct things. So I would, I would just suggest that people look for God somewhere where he is, because he's not in every church.And he is in every, I mean, he's in everything. He is a, is a bad term, but God is everywhere. God is what holds the universe together. And that's what I believe in. I think that if you open your heart and look for God, you can find him in very unexpected. De'Vannon: I concur.[00:27:00] You don't necessarily need a physical building in order to communicate with the Lord.As the Bible says, in my understanding that he is as near as a very air that we breathe. And so there's no need to go searching about, you know, he's already there, it's a matter of your awareness and tapping into his presence. And then I agree, God is not in every church in the sense that his love is not necessarily being expressed there through the people in charge and running, things like that.So Jeff: some, you could feel it and in the building, you can feel it when you're there. Like you can tell when the, like, this group of people is United to help the world. And sometimes this group of people doesn't give a fuck about what's going on outside these walls. De'Vannon: Right in. So, and like, so y'all what Jeff was saying about like hypnosis and stuff like that has to do with.How overwhelming all the different practices and things like that can be from my study of [00:28:00] hypnosis and stuff like that. Basically when you have a whole lot of summit, when you have a whole lot of different shit going on your critical mind, which is only like 12% of the brain, like your subconscious mind is like 88% of it.It's like way more than what you might think. But when you overwhelm the critical mind, you know, you stop being so critical and then you just kind of start accepting a bunch of shit. So when you have the people speaking in tongues and twirling about in the music it's playing and you've already got a whole platform set up and the people are up there on stage.And so though, you're, they're already looking down at you and you're already looking up at them. You don't really have much of a, you know, a critical mind left by the, by the time all that is done. And like he's saying, you're in a state of what is known as hypnosis at that point, when your critical mind has been broken down enough for you to be on the receiving end of stuff, that.Otherwise be more critical of, sometimes it can be used good. And the places where the love of God actually. And sometimes it's not in [00:29:00] places where it isn't and perhaps they might use that to manipulate even all kinds of things, give given money, you know, especially stuff like that. You know, you just, you do have to be careful for, you know, in the falling out, falling out in the quote unquote Ms.Spirit shit. I've been in unfortunate situations before where they're happy. Who like literally tried to put their hand on people and make them lay on the ground. You know, stuff like look, the holy ghost is real. There is a version of that. That's actually authentic, but those free people, people are gifted like that.And the Lord is using them. Them don't even have to touch people. They're going to fall out like that. And the Lord is going to slay somebody in the spirit as it is called it. Ain't going to have to be forced. And then you're not going to have people like I've seen. Making people talk in tongues and telling them to do it, you know, and then dancing in the spirit and stuff like that is real too.But then you've got sister, Sarah who [00:30:00] every damn Sunday at 11 o'clock that she go up and down the aisle, you know, like clockwork, we not talking about that. Bitch has Jeff: got a word again.Of course De'Vannon: she has a fucking word. She always had a damn word.So the Sarah needs to go sit her ass down somewhere because this is Sarah is addicted, is addicted to church and doesn't realize it. And there's so much ego and pride tied up into all of the reasons whyY people. You know, fill the need to do these things. But community, like you said, is a huge part of it. We were going to seek a group of people, no matter what the bucket is, you know, and in your podcasts, I listened to you say how you, you don't have been kind of alone or in life and stuff like that. And yet, you know, now are who you talk, you know, more [00:31:00] about you know, like your connectedness you know, and stuff like that. You haven't, you know, you haven't always felt as so connected in life and your podcast. I was listening to you say how you used to push people away because you thought they would threaten your autonomy. And connected connectedness is so important. Now I hear the importance of it in the things that you say now yet you've experienced so much rejection in life.How have you managed to, to maintain your connection with people during the pandemic is what I'm curious about? Jeff: Well, I think primarily the pandemic especially kind of helped me to realize that prior the priority that needs to be placed on connection. Because like I said before, I was just spending a lot of time by myself and it wasn't fulfilling.And even when cool stuff happens or you see neat stuff or anything, that is like what we think of as a genuine. [00:32:00] Rich experience is just dramatically reduced by being alone. You don't, you don't, it's not the same. You don't form the same kind of memories when you're alone sharing it with another person is important or another group of people or whatever.But yeah, so the podcast really helped me because it gave me an excuse to not only invite somebody to my house, to just talk, but an excuse to ask real questions and to talk about something beyond the weather and which vaccine you got De'Vannon: and on your podcast, I thought it was very bold and very courageous of you to get into body image issues that you've had in the past.You know, a lot of men, especially men who identify as heterosexual, don't just go around, you know, talking about the way they feel about their body, you know? And so. I want you to walk us [00:33:00] through that. Cause you know, the, the issue that you had, you know, with your body, since you were a teen and the way you feel about your your dad bought now.Jeff: Yeah. So body image is, is a big thing for me and it always has been, it started with. When I was real young, I was very proud of my body because I was faster than most kids. I was a little bit bigger than most of the other kids taller. Like I liked, I liked my body a lot. It did well for me. And then around fourth grade, I put on some weight and started not loving my body so much.And at that point I really, it became kind of a, an unhealthy relationship between me and my body. And I, I would think a lot of negative thoughts and just regularly look in the mirror and just pick out all the stuff that I hated and that I would love to change. And I would fantasize about how great life would be if I could just be not quite as choppy or if my skin was a little bit better.[00:34:00] All those versions of me were so much happier and they were beloved by the world and all this things that are just fantasy and. When I hit, you know, later in high school, I started getting in pretty good shape and it, it happened through sports. I was always involved in sports throughout. And, but when you're younger, though, you can, you can be involved in sports and be athletic and still be kinda chubby.It's not that hard just because I didn't know anything about nutrition. And during those years I also developed some pretty unhealthy relationships to food, which I still struggle with. Now I'm a sugar junkie, like crazy. And it's something that I go to when I'm really stressed. Something that I go to when I'm feeling happy and I want to celebrate.It's just like, it's, it's, it's a weird thing because it's something that you do actually need to survive. It's food, but it's sugar in particular is not a, not a necessary ingredient. It's not iodine. Like you don't have to have it to live. So it's, and it's, I mean, that's [00:35:00] debatable, I guess, because of like the glucose, you need to fuel your cells, but you can do that.Ketosis, but that's a whole nother topic, but yeah. So as I got into my college years, I started getting in really, really good shape to where I was very much proud of my body. And from that point on, I really kind of was able to let go of the shame that I had kind of acquired and carried with me since childhood of just not loving myself, of just being afraid to let people see me with my flaws and everything.And I started realizing like, this is who I am. I don't need to sit there and fantasize about changing and wishing I was different because that's wasted energy. This that's, that's not who I am. This is who I am. So I got to love this. And now I really do. And I don't mind having a dad bod, I will, I will say I do wish it was a little bit tighter.I'll tight. I'd like to tighten up a bit, but it's hard to find the time I feel like lately I've been choosing between. Podcasting [00:36:00] family time working out and preparing healthy meals is like extra, but it's, it's hard. It's, there's just so many things to do so many ways to spend your time in this world, but it's definitely important to me.De'Vannon: Well, thank you for sharing that Jeff, you know, these bodies are not going to last forever anyway. And so, you know, I think working on your legacy, you know, with your podcast is spending time with your family, you know, you know, would come before that because you're already doing, you know, making sounds like making healthy meal choices, you know?And so as long as you know, your blood lab results and test results are good in terms of like, and you feel good, you know, in terms of like how everything looks and everything like that. Well, you know, are, you know, I like to. I like to, I really just view us, you know, you know, temporary physical beings. And so, you know, getting spiritually fit [00:37:00] to me is more important than getting physically fit.Now I do work out and I have a gym in my home and everything like that, but, you know, if it comes down to it on any given day you know, I'm going to skip the gym and do some sort of spiritual work instead, you know, if I don't have time because once I die and everything, if I have a six-pack or not, which I don't, but if I, if I did, you know, that ain't gonna, that ain't going to go with me, you know, until the spirit around, whereas my spiritual fitness will, you know, cause how we live in this.Tends to have an impact as I understand that on the next one. And so I agree. Jeff: I think that actually ties right in with the fact that it's all one being. So like, I feel my best personally, when I am physically fit and spiritually fit, but I have been doing the work on both ends. That's when I feel like I've kind of reached my pinnacle and that's a hard, that's a hard place to stay because it, you feel like you can just top all over any direction and it takes so much work just to maintain, [00:38:00] but that's a, that's probably like the peak is when you're, you're feeling good on, on both fronts.De'Vannon: Absolutely. And speaking of your. Of your family. I want you to tell us about how you do your family gratitude list. You know, coming from a history of sobriety and recovery out, that's where I was exposed to gratitude lists. When you recovering from various addictions, they tell you to focus on being thankful.You say Jeff, on your podcasts at what you put your attention into is where your energy goes. And so you try to focus on what you're thankful for and not just you, I believe y'all passed your gratitude list around every day or something like that. So tell us about your family gratitude lists. Jeff: Yeah, so yeah.Gratitude is. One of the most powerful tools for improving your own mental health is especially if you're feeling down or like you've been rejected by society or that you're not getting what's owed to you. It's really easy to fall into those traps, [00:39:00] essentially, a psychological traps that we set for ourselves that are designed to help us to propel ourselves into another stage of life, like in a traditional environment, it would be a good thing.It'd be advantageous for you to feel like maybe you were owed more because that'll lead you to pursue more. But in this world of abundance, that at least I am operating in. I know not everybody is as privileged as, as I have been, but it is really about. Looking towards the future. Do you want to see, and really along the way, being able to look around you and say like, maybe this isn't where I want to end up, but while I'm here, I can definitely appreciate the value in it.And so what my family does is we will send a text. We have a group text that's me and my kids and my wife, and one of us, whoever has the idea. First, we'll send a group text. It just says today, I'm grateful for blank, blank, blank, and give three things. And it [00:40:00] can be anything it can be today. I'm grateful for blue skies pros and you know, a newly paved road, like random stuff.And I'll try to do random stuff so that it gets my kids thinking. That you don't have to just be grateful for your X-Box and the new puppy. You can be grateful for mundane things, and that is almost more powerful sometimes because it helps us to remember that we're always blessed. We're always lucky to be here.It's it's probably the probability of us existing is so small that it's really incredible that we do. So you can be grateful for that. And the psychology behind grateful attitudes is really pronounced. Everybody can understand it kind of implicitly, but when you actually look at the research, it has a huge effect on overall subjective wellbeing, just to recognize the things you're grateful for.De'Vannon: I agree, and it just feels [00:41:00] better, you know, and we all want to feel good. And it's something that changes, you know, in the metaphysical and more. You know, progressive thinking, you know, you know, we talk about like vibrations and things like that. And you know, like how do you focus on negative stuff? And that lowers your vibrations and how this contended to close doors for you in life.Perhaps you won't receive as many blessings because of the negative energy that you can be putting out. You know, when you're focusing on, what's not working as opposed to what is working and gratitude lists helped to reorient us and to not. And be overwhelmed with the negativity because sometimes on bad stuff, does that happen, we can make a really big deal out of them not to take any importance out of it, but then we can make it such a big deal that we lose sight on the fact that there is still good stuff going on in.So I love what y'all are doing with the [00:42:00] gratitude with, because it'd be pretty, you know, hard to let that, for that to happen. When each and every day you reminding yourself of, of the life that you have in your life. Jeff: Yeah. And sometimes it's real work. So when things are going badly and kind of, you don't realize it all the time, but you almost like it.You almost want to let it play out. So if you're having a bad morning and you know, there was ice on your windshield and the car wouldn't start and, you know, there was traffic and all this stuff, you're just, you're in that I'm in a shitty mood zone. And then you get a message on your phone from your daughter that says today, I'm grateful for clean school bus.You know, puppy dogs and jolly ranchers it, you have to respond to that with love. You. Can't just be like, oh yeah, well, I'm grateful that I don't have to be that. I don't know. I'm, I'm grateful for the ravages of old age. So I don't have to endure this life much longer. You can't do that. You have to respond to it, love it.And then all of a sudden [00:43:00] bang you're back in that gratefulness mindset. So doing it on a daily basis, it's not always just, you know, fluffy, good feelings. It's sometimes it's actual work and that's the times when it's the most meaningful. De'Vannon: And you said it another way in your podcast when, and you tied it into like how somebody maybe offended you and you had a choice and they apologize to, you know, let it go and move on or to follow the negativity, which is what you were saying.Like, if you're having a bad day and somebody counters that with positivity or you. Take the positive path that they're offering you or somebody that's offended you the apology, or are you going to press for, with the negativity and you sent the pick of the choice, that's going to lead to the best result for you not to pick the choice it's going to make you feel the best just in the next few moments.And so can you speak to us how the D the temptation of the shortsightedness to, why would we want to use it? [00:44:00] And you, you kind of already said it, you know, sometimes we want to chase the negative. Why have we become addicted to it? Is it doesn't then it's a long, that is what we're more accustomed to than being positive.What's Jeff: the temptation. Well, I think on a few different levels, you can think about it. So have you ever heard of the Mo the marshmallow test? This is a study that they did. I mean, they've done it since the fifties, I think, but they take children who are notoriously poor at self-regulation. So they, they would love to prefer immediate gratification over.Prolonging gratification for an extended benefit. So in this test, they, they sit the kids down. The kids can be anywhere from, I don't know, three or four to 10, actually, it doesn't matter. You can do it with adults, but it wouldn't be as interesting. And they say, here you go. Here's one marshmallow. And they plop a marshmallow down on the table in front of them and they say, we're going to leave the room and we're going to be gone for just a couple of minutes.And when we come back, If you have been able, if you have left the [00:45:00] marshmallow here, we're going to give you two marshmallows. You're allowed to eat the marshmallow while we're gone. If you, if you eat it, then you don't get the second marshmallow. But if you can wait, we'll give you two. And then they, they leave the room and the kid is in there by themselves, looking at the marshmallow and they film the kid.And so you get to see them. Some of the kids will cover their eyes. Some of the kids will pick it up and stare at it. Some of the kids will like cover their mouth and just, they do all kinds of like physical behaviors to express this desire that they're having internally to eat that marshmallow. And so like very few of the kids are able to hold off for the whole five minutes and get a second marshmallow.And they have found that the ones that do the ones that are able to delay gratification, go on to have a lot more success as adults in later life. And so I think that that is that little phenomena right there. Extend what, what, how we think about ourselves? Because in that specific circumstance that you just mentioned, where [00:46:00] you've just gotten into a fight, say it's with your spouse or somebody who you're close to and you you're mad.You're like, you're all, you're in the flesh. You're mad. Your emotions are wild and you have a choice because, okay, let's say they've apologized and they're trying to resolve it. They're not mad anymore. But you were in, you were the one who was in the right. So you won the fight. So you feel like you kind of are justified in staying mad a little longer.Then you have that choice. Do I just let it resolve and get over it or do I, you know, punish them a little bit? Let, let them know that I'm still mad and you have to kind of zoom out from your own experience of that moment and realize like, what are the consequences of both of those decisions? What are the consequences of staying mad and punishing this person?Well, it's going to continue the fight. It could hurt them enough to where then they're going to feel like they need to come back at me. It's going to just continue conflict. And it's going to continue this feeling of discomfort that I have because anger is not a pleasant feeling. And [00:47:00] it's, it's something that you should want to get rid of.But for some reason we kind of like it. And so, or you can have the choice of humbling yourself and, you know, ending, ending the conflict. But that feeling is not great either, because then we have this weird thing of like, Discontinuity. If that's the right word where you, you almost, as a person, you want your consciousness to feel like we're making smooth transitions from feeling to feeling in moments a moment so that we, because that's how we narrativize our existence.And it doesn't feel right when you just cut off that anger and say like, I'm not going to engage in this. I'm moving on, forgive and forget done over. And so it's tough. And like, everybody is different. I'm pretty quick to forgive. Once I decide it's over, I'm just, I let it go, but that's not going to happen for everybody.And it takes some practices. De'Vannon: It does say practice and sometimes counseling. I used to be very vindictive like that. You know, somebody did meet something, especially, especially like significant other, oh, [00:48:00] hail now, you know, it was going to be some shit, you know, until I said it wasn't going to be some shit and that was going to be hell to pay.But you know what, that, that gives us power over people. You know, when we feel like we have, when they, when they've heard us and then they, then people that have heard us before and we may need additional healing and stuff like that. But over time and through, you know, counseling and, you know, studying hypnotherapy myself and everything, which you, a lot of things you say, come, come directly out of the hypnotherapy school that who, you know, that I not saying you learned it from them or, you know, but I'm saying the, the, the knowledge process, you know, intersects with mine, you know, on many different levels.And it's absolutely fascinating. Oh, the Jeff: psychology background. De'Vannon: Okay. That's why then probably because hitting the therapist worked with you know, some running hand in tandem with a psych psychology psychologist. Do you have a psychology degree? Jeff: Yeah, I do. I do. Yeah. I studied it for five years. [00:49:00] I took the long way around undergrad.I studied all kinds of stuff. I just really enjoyed college. And so it took me five years and got the psychology degree and didn't really have the ambition to pursue an academic career. It just seemed like a kind of a hard route.De'Vannon: Okay. That's good stuff, man. Okay, so let's switch gears so you can talk about drugs, some drugs, man. And and we're going to talk about, we're going to kind of close the shout with your mushroom experiment that you did and the crack shack that I really want to hear all the juicy details of. But since we're talking about drugs, I want to take a moment to talk about what's going on in Portland, since you reside, not far from that area, you know, they legalized, well, they decriminalized all drugs.They're like back in February, meaning that they won't throw you in jail for it. They're not saying it's a great idea, but they're saying you shouldn't go to jail for it. I [00:50:00] agree with that. Everybody seems to be doing well and doing happy, but I want to hear your thoughts on it, especially since you live right there.Jeff: Yeah, sure. So, well, first of all, the whole strategy of drug decriminalization, it gets a lot of press. And I think a lot of people don't fully understand it in context because it's, it's, people are very reactionary about it and it's very taboo and we have all, anyone in our generation has been brought up during the drug war.And so, I mean, we're at war, that's the enemy. We're not going to decriminalize the enemy, but it's, it's fallacy. The drugs are not entities, their tools and their chemical tools that do a very specific things. And it's okay to take advantage of those tools under the right circumstances, the problems come about when people are not educated or when people don't understand what they're doing, or they don't know the history of what they're dealing with or just, I mean, there are so many possible pitfalls, which are the [00:51:00] re, which is the reason why we need to have good education about the subject and the idea that we are.Millions of people. I don't know how many people, a lot of people in prison for these nonviolent drug offenses just baffles me because it seems like such a waste of money. I don't, I'm sure a quick Google would probably reveal the number, but it's gotta be a lot of money per day, per inmate. And when these people were just trying to do something that just made them feel a little less shitty, that seems like a bad system to me.And obviously there are potential threats to assist them that doesn't have criminal penalties for drug offenses, but I think it could be designed in a way that really helps society instead of hurts society and could save a lot of money. Really, my whole, my main motivation for like taking this opinion is fiscal.I think that the idea of, of housing that many people for something that. Just, we're not, they're not protecting and they're not protecting society from these people. They're [00:52:00] punishing these people for doing something that was only meant to affect them. Now that's just for individual users to say the same about cartels and people who are managing massive drug rings and you know, basically black market stuff.That's, that's different. And that's, that is criminal because it's spreading around to other people. And I don't know, I think regulating that would eliminate that problem and create a regulated industry. Much like has happened in the states where marijuana has been legalized. I used to have to get into the car with strangers to go buy weed.I sat the meat, scuzzy, dirty people in Walmart, parking lots, get in the car, go down the road, all of the stuff. I don't want to do that shit. Nobody should have to, especially not as a teenager, like the, this it's dangerous. And in the world we live in now. Young people don't have to do that. Obviously teenagers shouldn't be doing any drugs, period.That was a joke, but I was doing them when I was a teenager. I was making bad choices and it's because I didn't [00:53:00] have education about what I was getting into education would be a huge step towards creating a system that actually works. And I think the one that we are operating in now, doesn't because people are still getting high and not always in a safe environment and not always under safe circumstances.And I think there could be a lot more just benefits extracted from the system rather than nothing but drawbacks. De'Vannon: Yeah. I've gotten in the car with my fair share of scuzzy, dirty people to go get crack and meth and you know, and everything else. I thank God that I'm still alive because I mean, it was bad.I would just find any like random person, like in the hood. At some point you can, especially since I used to be a drug dealer and a heavy user, I could tell who's getting high and who isn't. So all you gotta do is go down the street and you. That bitch knows where to find some shit and they ain't got shit to do anyway.So all you gotta do. And every time they'll get that, just getting in the [00:54:00] car, I think one person, maybe one night didn't, but other than that, a hundred percent of the time. So I'm all for illegal legalization tax that if you will, I don't give a damn, we should all be able to go down the fucking drugs or us and just, which is what I used to call my drug business back in the day.And you know, and just get whatever the fuck you need and do go home and leave her. But those fuck alone, Jeff: but it should have labels on it. And we should be able to tell where it was made and we should be able to call somebody if it's bad, or we should be able to not worry about going to jail. If you overdose, like there should be a system in place to protect people.People are going to get high either way. De'Vannon: Yeah. It's not about to stop, you know, but that's just conservative. You know, politicized who politicize that, you know, in the beginning, in the beginning, whoever that president was, I think that that whole war on drugs thing to either get reelected or to stay in, to stay in power with some sort of political gain, it Jeff: was a lot about was [00:55:00] controlling black people and Mexicans, the government knew that.So at least with marijuana, marijuana was highly associated with like jazz musicians and Mexican laborers in the south. And the president at the time, I forget which president it was, but the director of the DEA, I believe was Harry Anslinger. And he was quoted as saying like, we are going to do this to control these minority populations.And then, so they launched this whole misinformation campaign called reefer madness and, you know, convince a lot of people have some really big myths about drugs that are still, you know, pretty persistent to this day. But there's a lot of, a lot of misinformation out there and it's intentional. De'Vannon: It is, but we're going to get the victory over that.I think so. Oh, so tell, tell us about your mushroom experiment back in the crack shack and tell us what the crack shack. Jeff: Sure. So [00:56:00] I grew up in a small town, had a very tight group of friends and just a few miles down from my house. My friend Ronnie lived, and there was a, they had old like garden shed out behind their house that we had converted into like a hangout.I w converted as a strong word. We put a couch in there and it was still just as dirty and gross as before, but we hate like decorated all the walls with Sharpies and stuff. It was, it was like, Exactly what you would picture for a group of high school boys hanging out and mostly just like smoking weed and drinking beer and laughing a lot.And so that was where I spent a lot of my evenings and, you know, junior, senior year of high school and we got pretty interested in drugs. So not only was that kind of like the place I did them. There's also where I went to learn about stuff. He had a computer with good internet access and not a whole lot of adult supervision, which is exactly what I was after.So we were on the Shrew, Marie and [00:57:00] Erowid and all these mushroom sites back in the early two thousands, just when the, the field of psychedelics was still very taboo and still really kind of underground completely there wasn't studies going on at Johns Hopkins at that time, like there is now. And so we're everything is, is amateur.The information is amateurish and you're never sure it's not coming out of universities. You're never sure what to trust. And so I really trusted. My friends more than I should have in my own instincts, more than I should have. So we live in a place where there's a very, very potent strain of psychedelic mushroom called as a residence is Salafi as a residence.And they were first documented around the time I was in high school by a guy named Paul Stamets. And he found that they have a much higher psilocybin content than their close relatives. So we were all pretty stoked about that. And we decided to try to find them and identify them. And we did, and [00:58:00] my friends had all tried them a couple of times already and I had yet, and I decided I was going to go for it.So I showed up ready to go and didn't really know what to expect, but I was just coming at it with an open mind. And my friend handed me one of those red solo cups, stuffed, just packed full of fresh philosophy as a residence, probably between 35 and 40 full mushrooms, which is a lot I don't I don't know how much your listeners are familiar with the dosage for mushrooms, but what's referred to as a heroic dose, we'll take you on the hero's journey.That's usually five grams of dried mushroom material. And again, each species is a little different, so it's not always the same, but this is much, much higher than that. And I had never done it before. So within 20 minutes, my whole body was. Humming, this weird warm feeling where it's like, almost like your [00:59:00] blood turns into a bunch of microscopic canaries.Like they're just fluttering about your veins and you're just feeling different than you've ever felt before. And from there you start to slide and you don't really stop for quite a while. I was listening to this band called built to spill, check them out if, if you're into that stuff. And I remember it because it was such a profound moment that stuck in my head that I've heard the song a few times since and this was again like 15 years ago.I still, it takes me right back to that moment. And I was listening to the, built to spill this song called. It's a good song and all the colors from the Sharpies on the wall with the music where like pulsating, almost like the walls were breathing and super colorful. And then like with the symbol crash at the end, and it's like fading out all the colors just like started running down the walls and bleeding together.And I was like, all right, I think they're working. And then I looked up at the ceiling and it was [01:00:00] covered with spiders and I was afraid of spiders, but for some reason I wasn't feeling real scared at the moment. And that's the last I remember of that section. I know there was probably so much more, but next thing I remember.Standing in the middle of the room and looking like everybody's laughing at me and I'm like standing in the middle of the room and I have no idea what's what's really going on. And I looked at the TV and my face was on a TV and my eyes were bright red. And I thought this was a hallucination, but what had happened was my friends were actually fucking with me and they had hooked up a video camera and put it on me and then connected it to the TV.This was probably super mean. And I sh I would never do this to anybody, but they, they were trying to freak me out and I, I, it worked so I, I was started freaking out a little bit. Yeah, that part was, was scary, but you know, not that big a deal because I was still somewhat connected to [01:01:00] reality. And shortly after that, I, I remember hearing people say, Like leading up to the trip.When you see a door, go through it. When you see a staircase, follow it, like just do whatever the trip wants and open yourself up to possibility. And because if you don't, you're going to have a bad trip. So I took that little too literally. And when I felt the urge to urinate, I was like, just go with it, bro.Do it. This is what the trip wants. It won't, you're not peeing yourself in real life, but I was, and I paid myself in the middle of the room and that's probably the comic relief of the whole story. Because I was there with like a girl that I had just started dating and like didn't really even know her well enough to see me in a Somewhat vegetive state.And she had to change me. She said it was to like trying to change the 200 pound baby. Like it was, it was, it was terrible. But so shortly after I was put into some [01:02:00] fresh clothes, I lost connection with my body completely. And I, I experienced what I refer to as ego death. I could not remember is not even the right word because there's, there was no memory warehouse available, period.My, I, it's not that I just didn't remember who I was. I didn't even know that I was a person. I was just a, an energy field and I was in open space and I was going through different dimensions where sometimes it was all black. Sometimes it was like every color and sound and. Experience I could ever fathom.And other times it was all white and blank and it was just like the deep, deep layers of consciousness of what it means to be alive and to be a human. And I saw nothing. I got deep enough to where I had gone through all of the, the astral plane, [01:03:00] where everything exists in a possibility. And I had penetrated out the other side of that and entered a realm of nothingness.And at that moment, I just, I couldn't believe how Careless. I had been to, to put myself here because at this moment, I didn't know if I was ever coming back. I had lost all concept of time. So it's moment to moment. Every moment is its own. And it's just, it's, it's impossible to put it into words that accurately describe the experience.It's it's, that's why so many people feel driven to pursue it, I think. But yeah, I just, I realized that everything we have is so, so precious and so rare in, in terms of, of all that there is, and can be this, this small shred of existence that we can actually touch and taste and experience and feel and live in, in three dimensions in time.And it's beautiful [01:04:00] and it is the most beautiful thing it's, it's like, it's everything. So I. I don't know, it's just, this is the ultimate knowledge that we're lucky to be here. Just permeated my whole being. And I felt very connected to God and to the universe. And at this point I didn't even care anymore that I wasn't sure if I was a human or a doorknob.I just didn't, it didn't matter. I was just lucky to be experiencing an experience. And so from there it slowly pull me back little by little one, one click at a time, two into, you know, three-dimensional reality and into my timeline. And I slowly learned again, who I was. I remember sitting there with my friend.And this is like eight hours after ingesting the mushrooms so long enough for them to have mostly worn off. But there, I was just kind of buttoned back up and he was like, quizzing me on objects in my life that I would definitely know, [01:05:00] like he was, I, I, for some reason, I remember him asking me about football a lot, cause I was playing football at the time and he was asking me like the different positions and what, what a football was.And I remember being really excited when I remember what football was, because I couldn't have done that a few minutes earlier. And so eventually I reassembled the collection of memories and experiences that I call Jeff Nesbit and got back to live in. De'Vannon: Could you have been, do people overdose on a mushroom that you haven't been stuck in that vegetative state?Jeff: Huh? I highly doubt it. I don't, I've never heard of that happening. And if I think about it, biologically, I think your body would just metabolize the chemicals and transfer them out. So it's in order to be stuck in that state, you would have to have continuous exposure to the chemical. De'Vannon: So there's though I was thinking more in terms of like [01:06:00] brain damage, you know, Jeff: I would not say like physical brain damage, like as if you hit your head or something, but I will say that people with a pre pre

Andrew Sharp began researching altered states of consciousness in high school after a friend introduced him to Erowid, a popular website with educational and harm reduction material about psychoactive substances. Despite his interest in drugs, Andrew had a hard time shaking the indoctrination he received from the D.A.R.E. program taught in public schools in the United States. He also grew up in a strict Christian household. One day, Andrew's friend was riding his bike and witnessed someone get out of their car and put a container in a tree. Andrew's friend intercepted the dead drop after the car left and found that the container had a huge stash of cannabis. This eventually led to Andrew's first experience getting high. Andrew smoked a lot of cannabis in college and eventually became interested in mescaline. He had a number of experiences with mescaline he brewed from San Pedro cacti from Home Depot. However, he didn't have the life changing experience many people report after trying psychedelics. Andrew usually tripped on mescaline at parties in a group setting. One day he decided to do it at home on his own. This trip served as an unlikely savior from the depression that ailed him and helped him change his outlook on life and his relationship with his girlfriend.The purpose of the podcast is for entertainment and harm reduction. Please consult a physician and your local laws before trying anything mentioned in this podcast. Please also understand that you may not hold us liable or responsible for relying on any information contained on the podcast or our website.Links from this episode:ErowidFantastic Fungi

Cosa sono i trip report? Perché in certi casi arrivano a costituire una sorta di genere letterario? A cosa serve il sito Erowid? Chi era Alexander Shulgin e cosa c'entra con tutto questo? Ne parliamo nella diciottesima puntata di Illuminismo psichedelico, insieme allo scrittore e sceneggiatore Peppe Fiore, che in “La scommessa psichedelica” (Quodlibet) ha scritto un saggio intitolato “Il trip report come sottogenere della letteratura di viaggio”.

The birth of the Psychedelic Renaissance is often attributed to Richard Schultes' research on peyote and magic mushrooms in the 1930's. Nonetheless, it was his collaboration with both Gordon Wasson and Albert Hofmann that brought this indigenous wisdom and chemistry to a wider world. At the same time, the equally extraordinary contributions of Valentina Wasson and Maria Sabina merit equal recognition and appreciation.   Allen, John W. “Mushroom Pioneers.” Www.erowid.org/Library/Books, 2002. De Rios, Marlene Dobkin. “María Sabina: Her Life and Chants.” Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 14, no. 3, 1982, pp. 259–260., doi:10.1080/02791072.1982.10471940. Erowid, www.erowid.org/. Estrada, Alvaro. María Sabina, Her Life and Chants. Ross-Erikson, 1981. Forte, Robert. Entheogens and the Future of Religion. Park Street Press, 2012. Furst, Peter T. Hallucinogens and Culture. Chandler & Sharp Publishers, Inc., 1997. Johnson, Cody. Magic Medicine: A Trip through the INTOXICATING History and Modern-Day Use of Psychedelic Plants & Substances. Fair Winds Press, 2018. Letcher, Andy. Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom. Ecco, 2007. Pfister, Donald H. “R. Gordon WASSON: 1898-1986.” Mycologia, vol. 80, no. 1, 1988, p. 11., doi:10.2307/3807487. Riedlinger, Thomas J. Sacred Mushroom Seeker: Essays for R. Gordon Wasson. Dioscorides Press, 1990. Schultes, Richard Evans, and Siri Von Reis. Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline. Timber Press, 2008. Schultes, Richard Evans. “Plantae Mexicanae II, the Identification Of TEONANACATL, a Narcotic Basidiomycete of the Aztecs.” Botanical Museum Leaflets of Harvard University, vol. 7, no. 3, 1939, pp. 37–54. Schultes, Richard Evans. “Teonanacatl: The Narcotic Mushroom of the Aztecs.” American Anthropologist, vol. 42, no. 3, 1940, pp. 429–443., doi:10.1525/aa.1940.42.3.02a00040. Sheldrake, Merlin. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. Random House, 2021. Wasson, Gordon. “The Death of Claudius, or Mushrooms for Murders.” Harvard Botanical Museum Leaflets, vol. 23, no. 3, 1972, pp. 101–128.

Garden style is everywhere, and Master Gardener Jon Moy returns to refuse the credit for starting it.We talk about his big move to Portland, why everyone is obsessed with growing plants, folks getting into mushrooms, Monty Don fits, and Erowid.**Listen to the entire episode on Blamo! Extra

"Ayahuasca has been my greatest teacher" - Dennis McKenna. Interviewing the sage and visionary Dennis McKenna about his life experience on psychedelics, ethnopharmacology, healing mental illness, ethnobotanical findings, plant medicine, ayahuasca as the great teacher, the owner of psilocybin, exploring the Amazonas with Terence McKenna, advice on set and setting and personal recommendations for a good living. It's an interview divided into three parts... First, Dell Jolly from Unlimited Sciences, second the first conversation I had with Dennis in November. Third, in the last part of our conversation, held in n January, I'm joined by the PRO athlete and biohacker Luis Enrique Palomares. So we finished the interview, that we had to postpone the interview halfway due to an emergency. "Psychedelics have the potential to revolutionize mental health." As I mentioned above, before interviewing Dennis McKenna for the intro, I asked Del Jolly from Unlimited Sciences, collective psychedelic research, to give us more background information about the impact of psychedelics and psilocybin on society, mental illness and PTSD why it's important the work they are doing. "I don't worry too much about life because life is tough anyway" "We need to bridge the ceremonial and the medicinal" - Dennis McKenna Index of contents Life milestones. Highlights from exploring the Amazonas with his brother Terence. The most natural and healthy hallucinogens. Human consciousness and evolution. The journey and story with Ayahuasca. First psychedelic experience. Thoughts on ethnopharmacology and big takeaways. Essential lessons. Other medicinal plants. The McKenna Academy. The most insane journey. A formula for a good living. Contemplative techniques. Dennis morning routine. About set and setting, ceremonies and psychedelic experiences. Recommended books. Advice for psychedelic newbies. Advice to experienced psychonauts. "You have to acknowledge what little we know" Podcast show notes McKenna Academy. Live Free Laura interview to Dennis McKenna. Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs. Series of books of Carl Jung. Erowid.

Recording Date: 2/10/21//SHOW NOTES//WEBSITES:- dkmu.org - DKMU- lauratempestzakroff.com - Laura Tempest Zakroff- erowid.org - Erowid- myvillagewitch.com - Byron Ballard- Fishsticks Twitter: @sororfishsticksBOOKS:- Condensed Chaos by Phil Hinehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/371437.Condensed_Chaos- Post Modern Magic by Patrick Dunnhttps://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1398743.Postmodern_Magic - Quantum Sorcery by David Smithhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7226607-quantum-sorcery- Newfoundland Accenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6vW8RG3Pq0https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzWZVXqHqkF1KXaUS9vwmlA- BIG TOE:IT'S TIME TO REINVENT THE WHEELWHOEVER SAID LETS NOT REINVENT IT WAS A FUCK WHO NEVER USED A WAGON WHEELEND OF STORYSO OUR CURRENT MODEL OF TIRE IS HELD TOGETHER BY PRESSURERUBBER SEALED ONTO METAL, SHAPED AND MOLDED TO FIT EACH OTHER. THE BEAD ON THE TIRE IS SEALED, AND EXPANSION OF AIR CAN OCCURMOST EVERY WHEEL WE USE NOW IS MOLDED STEEL, AIR, AND RUBBERIMAGINE GETTING TO SPACE AND STILL USING WOOD WHEELSWHAT ASSHOLES WE'D LOOK LIKEALSO WE'D BE A SLOW TASTY SNACKLUCKY FOR YOU SOME VERY SMART PEOPLE ARE WORKING ON QUANTUM WHEELSTHEY MAY FALL OFF EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE STILLBUT AS LONG AS YOU GOT YOUR TRUSTY DUSTY WRENCH, AND SONIC SCREWDRIVER, YOU'RE SET.SO JUST LUG THAT PAL BACK ONTO YOUR ANTIGRAV SKATE DRIVE IN YOUR FLYING SAUCER WHEN BIGFOOT SAYS HE HAS A SPAREITS A TASTY MEALMADE OF CELLULOSE AND DARK MATTER- OMNIDTTI : HTNF)O(Witches Betwixt is a collective of queer witches representing a wide variety of magical practices and spiritual paths. We release a 60+ minute episode bi-weekly in which we discuss various topics relevant to the experience of a queer witch. Check us out on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, Pandora, Tune-In + Alexa, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Deezer & Listen Notes//OFFICIAL SITE//http://witchesbetwixt.com//COMMUNITY GRIMOIRE//https://www.witchesbetwixt.com/grimoireWant to add something to the Community Grimoire? An article, essay, photo, artwork, video, song - anything you can digitize we will do our best to archive. Send your submissions HERE: https://www.dropbox.com/request/J48QQlymJcJWnuRCm1GG//SOCIAL MEDIA//Twitter: @witchesbetwixtInstagram: @witchesbetwixt//PAGES & CHANNELS//Facebook: http://facebook.com/witchesbetwixtYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmkEyEu2RkaX9LwAhKVp2Ww//COMMUNITY//Official Facebook Group: http://facebook.com/groups/witchesbetwixtOfficial Discord: https://discord.gg/JBERBjYrnc//SUPPORT//Donations for our shoe-string budget, garage-band podcast are ALWAYS deeply appreciated but NEVER an obligation or requirement. You're out there listening to us, that's what matters the most!https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/witchesbetwixt?locale.x=en_USMusic:Mnemosynehttps://soundcloud.com/mnemosyne_productionsSupport the show (https://paypal.me/witchesbetwixt?locale.x=en_US)

Join Garden Variety Perverts as we tour the anarchist's garden and learn about common plants with defensive and deadly properties!   Notoriously pious hosts James and Jared introduce you to the natural history and chemical properties of: stinging nettle (Urtica dioica L.), morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea [L.] Roth), foxglove (Digitalis purpurea L.), death camas (Toxicoscordion venenosum [S.Watson] Rydb.), poison hemlock (Conium maculatum L.), water hemlock (Cicuta maculata L.), lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis L.), castor bean (Ricinus communis L.), and the Big Bad itself – motherflippin' poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans [L.] Kuntze).   Enjoy the fine aromas of compost as we mix botany's heritage of Enlightenment-era racism and ancient Greek pederasty with modern medicine and organic chemistry. Has your boss been described as “effective, but harsh”? This is the podcast for you!   WARNING: Podcasts are an audial medium and plant identification depends on visual stimulus. Do not rely on this or any other podcast to identify plants, especially those which may be toxic. Neither Compost Bin of History nor Garden Variety Perverts condone plant-based violence. CTFO.   Links to sources:   Ioannidis JPA (2005) Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Med 2(8): e124. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124   Editors of Erowid (????) Everything on Erowid cause it's great. https://erowid.org/splash.php   Caselli, Irene (2010) Ecuador's indigenous justice system on trial. BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-10683003   Garms, Gabe (2015) How to Tell the Difference Between Poison Hemlock and Queen Anne's Lace. Raven's Roots Naturalist School. http://ravensroots.org/blog/2015/6/26/poison-hemlock-id   Lindquist, Karen (2020) How to Identify Water Hemlock. WikiHow. https://www.wikihow.com/Identify-Water-Hemlock  

This episode we’re supposed to be heading to South America, however… we ended up a little bit north of our mark. I’ll explain more later but to not take any more away from today’s topic we’ll be doing our first diety deep dive where we explore the existence of the Aztec Prince of Flowers. And for our fact, we’re taking a look at the fathers of Columbia’s LGBTQiA movement. And kudos to those who caught it – yes, today we’re going full Triple D, here… on the Colored Folklore podcast. 01:03 – Music: https://musicvine.com/track/all-good-folks/mr-mischief (Mr. Mischief), https://www.allgoodfolks.co.uk/ (All Good Folks) (via https://musicvine.com/ (Music Vine)) 01:10 – Logo: https://www.behance.net/arthurmask (Arthur) 01:14 – Episode Art: https://www.behance.net/JacquelineNicolau (Jacqueline) 04:26 – https://elements.envato.com/mexican-hip-hop-VPC9BP2 (Mexican Hip Hop), by TexasBrother 04:50 – https://www.ancient.eu/Aztec_Civilization/ (Aztecs, Mexico) 11:02 – https://www.amazon.com/Cassells-Encyclopedia-Queer-Symbol-Spirit/dp/0304704237 (Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Lore) 13:55 – http://theleveret.blogspot.com/2020/07/?zx=5dc82271a65eff24 (Xochipilli) https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG233789 (The British Museum) https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/ask-us/how-were-xochipilli-and-xochiquetzal-linked (Mexico Lore) https://www.ancient.eu/Xochipilli/ (World History Encyclopedia) https://www.erowid.org/entheogens/xochi/xochi.shtml (Erowid) https://www.ancientpages.com/2018/05/19/xochipilli-aztec-god-of-love-music-song-and-ecstatic-mushroom-trance/ (Ancient Pages) http://queering-the-church.blogspot.com/2010/08/some-gods-of-homosexual-love.html (Queer Saints and Martyrs) https://felixdeonsdirtydays.tumblr.com/post/185992958750/xochipilli-the-prince-of-flowers-is-the (The Diary of Felix d’Eon) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8113605/ (Aztec Homosexuality) https://archive.org/details/constructionofho00gree_0/page/164/mode/2up (Construction of Homosexuality) https://davidbowles.medium.com/mexican-x-part-xii-what-did-a-xochihuah-possess-3784532d8023 (David Bowles) https://masaamerica.food.blog/2019/07/08/xochipilli-the-prince-of-flowers/ (Masa Americana) 22:54 – https://elements.envato.com/romantic-mexican-LR4TNW9 (Romantic Mexican), by CineMedia 23:07 – Take Aways 26:13 – https://pacifista.tv/notas/leon-zuleta-el-padre-del-movimiento-lgbti-que-colombia-olvido/ (León Zuleta & Manuel Velandia) https://caribeafirmativo.lgbt/25-anos-del-homicidio-leon-zuleta-precursor-del-movimiento-lgbt-colombia/ (Caribe afirmativo) https://www.elespectador.com/colombia2020/pais/manuel-velandia-una-vida-en-el-exilio-por-defender-la-diferencia-articulo-857557/ (el Espectador )  31:42 – Colored Folklore contact information https://www.coloredfolklore.com/ (Colored Folklore) Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/coloredfolklore (@ColoredFolklore) Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pg/Colored-Folklore-574501846576901/ (Colored Folklore Business Page) Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/coloredfolklore/ (@ColoredFolklore) Support this podcast

Jess and Ramona go on a bad trip, man. These are stories from Erowid.com wherein the users of various substances explain their negative experiences with a variety of drugs. Trip through time, space, and meaning with the horror hoarders crew. You might discover yourself- or take a journey through hell, but it's bound to be a wild time. Glitter Blast by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4707-glitter-blast License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Fluidscape by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3767-fluidscape License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In Zeiten von QAnon und Corona ist dieser „Stoff“ wieder in aller Munde bei Verschwörungstheoretiker*innen (ups – Wortspiel). Wir haben dem Stoffwechselprodukt mal auf den Zahn gefühlt und uns angeschaut warum sich der Mythos entwickelt hat, dass es sich hierbei angeblich um eine LSD-ähnliche psychoaktive Substanz handeln soll. Spoiler-Alert: tut es nicht. Was ein Film aus dem Jahr 1998, QAnon, Corona und die Hexenverfolgung aus dem 15. Jahrhundert damit zu tun haben, das erklären wir euch in dieser Folge! Triggerwarnung: wir sprechen kurz über Drogenmissbrauch, Gewalt und sexuelle Gewalt an Kindern und Kindesentführung. P.S. In zwei Wochen sind wir wieder mit einer neuen Folge Sur/real für euch da! Wer bis dahin mehr von uns sehen möchte, Ihr findet uns hier: Instagram @surrealderpodcast Facebook @surrealderpodcast Lasst uns gerne Feedback da, nutzt hierzu die Podcast Plattform eurer Wahl, unsere Social Media Kanäle oder schreibt uns eine Mail an connect@surreal-podcast.com! Show Notes: Adrenochrom bei Erowid.org (Englisch) - Adrenochrome Commentary - Erowid Experience Vaults Report Id: 51847 “Killing the Myth” Adrenochrome bei Chemie.de (Deutsch) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Buch: Angst und Schrecken in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson, 1971 - Film: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Regisseur Terry Gilliam, 1998 Spiegel-Artikel “Trumps Trolle zeigen sich“, Marc Pitzke (Journalist und USA-Korrespondent von Spiegel Online), 3. August 2018 Video von Spiegel TV „Die Verschwörungsfanatiker von QAnon“, gesehen bei Youtube Wissenschaftsverlag Spektrum.de SciLogs-Artikel „Adrenochrom & Satanskulte – Die dualistischen Verschwörungsmythen von Xavier Naidoo“, Michael Blume (Religionswissenschaftler), 5. April 2020

'White Rabbit' by Grace Slickhttps://www.erowid.org/ -- Erowid, is a non-profit organization that provides information about psychoactive plants and chemicals. It documents legal and illegal substances, including their intended and adverse effects, not only from expert sources, authorities, and science, but anecdotal accounts from those who have partaken.'Erowid' is a made-up word (a very Carrollian thing) meaning, roughly, 'Know Your Source,' a good basic rule when taking in anything that affects the mind or the body or both, whether pills, mushrooms found in the woods, information on drugs, a children's book, a website, or a podcast.

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The Teafaerie, like God herself, is never serious but always sincere. She has facilitated psychedelic peer support at festivals since her work with Rock Med in the 90s, and boy does she have some stories to tell. On the show, we talk about the art of trip sitting and how we can see a difficult trip as an emergence, not an emergency. We discuss how to protect ourselves from conspiracy theories, personal mythologies, and the psychedelic renaissance itself. Finally, we end by asking, if the global pandemic is like a bad trip, how would the the Teafaerie turn our dark night of the soul into “psychedelic benefit enhancement”? In fact, stay tuned for an addendum after the outro, where the Teafaerie goes a little deeper on how to trip sit America. The Teafaerie gets her name from the fabled “Tea Time” of the Rainbow Gathering, a pirate tea house of no minor psychedelic repute. She writes the Teatime column on the psychedelic website Erowid and has been trip sitting wayward psychonauts in one form or another since the 90s. If you happen to be suffering from a little post-ecstatic bliss disorder, sit down and join us for some tea. LINKS
Teatime on Erowid https://erowid.org/columns/teafaerie/ Tea Time at Rainbow Gathering: https://kitchensofrainbow.org/tea-time/ Ruespieler YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeYOS3W6aVelr9x2zHqITyg TIMESTAMPS :05 - Serving Psychedelic Emergence :15 - Adventures in harm reduction from Rock Med in the 90s to drug testing today :23 - How will the medicalization of psychedelics change how drugs are taken recreationally? :29 - How do you trust the truth of your psychedelic experience :36 - How do you protect yourself in a suggestible psychedelic state :52 - There’s conspiracy a plenty but they are endlessly frustrated by chaos :58 - How do we protect psychedelics from the psychedelic renaissance? 1:04 - Trip sitting tips from two decades of psychedelic benefit enhancement 1:19 - The pandemic as a psychedelic experience 1:25 - Addendum on trip sitting America

What's up and solar shout-outs to all my sibilant psychonauts and rainbow serpent surfers! This episode I am quite jazzed to present the legendary Teafaerie, who kindly graced the BNP with her time, wisdom, experience, semantic turquoise meaning reef and dialectic borealis. We talk all things Teahouse-style shop, from plant medicine personalities to psychedelic benefit enhancement technology.Teafaerie is a unparalleled energetic leveler, head-space healer and subtle practitioner of the shamanic medicine arts. She is an absolute wealth of stories and knowledge, both inside and out of the entheogenic cosmosphere. Teafaerie's fun, eloquent and illuminating articles on the iconic psychoactive information vault Erowid.org have received well over a million views. She is working on an epic poem/essay recounting her journey to and within a jaguar sanctuary in Peru, and a new podcast is in the works. This is an episode not to be missed. Jump in, and enjoy! Thank you as always for listening to the BNP! Spread the word and tell a friend! Rate, review and subscribe! Check us out on Instagram @conantanner! And support the show financially at www.patreon.com/noetics for as little $1/month! Send me a haikuI will read it on the podSeventeen syllables (Does the word 'syllables' count as 2 syllables or 3? Either or? Ok wyrd.)Until next time, One Love Everybody,ConanTRACK LIST FOR THIS EPISODEDykotomi - Corvid CrunkChillhop Music - Warm Summer Nights Instrumental Hip Hop (Mix)Nicy - Personalite Complike (feat. Goldchabs)Graham Nash - ChicagoCriolo - Casa de PapelaoSupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/noetics)

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It’s not often I ask two strangers if they’d like to come on air to reveal how they use substances to spark up their sex and intimate lives. But as soon as I asked, Charlie and Shelley Wininger said "Yes!"Meet Charley and Shelley Wininger. He’s 70 and an author and psychotherapist. She’s 68, a retired RN. They’ve been married for 20 years yet they claim their sex life has never been more charged. He’s having full body orgasms. Hers are getting more powerful the older she gets—half the time they “knock Charley out of bed.” Their secret? Cannabis (and other substances)…and a little dark chocolate. I ran into this couple last year at a MAPS conference (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) through a friend who suggested I broach this topic with them. It’s not often I ask two strangers if they’d like to come on air to reveal how they use substances to spark up their sex and intimate lives but I did, and they jumped! Some topics we cover include:How to lose your mind to discover your sensesHow cannabis can counter the diminished libido of menopauseWhat’s better Sativa, Indica or Hybrid?Why Spotify is better for sex than Amazon MusicThe double edged sword of using MDMA to enhance sex And how you tell your kids that you’re about to come out about the way you use substances to heat up your sex on a weed podcast heard around the worldWhether you’re 70 or 27, I suggest you share this episode with your friends, parents and grandparents—I promise it’ll add a little spark your next intergenerational family gathering. Bonus: MDMA Harm Reduction Protocol (courtesy of Erowid and clinical practitioners)These substances are available in health food stores and on Amazon6 hours before you roll200 mgs Magnesium Glycinate1 glass grapefruit juice1-3 hours before100 mg Na-R-ALA200 mg Magnesium Glycinate1000 mg Vitamin C100 mg Grape Seed extract 30 mins before1 Tums/Rolaids (increases stomach alkalinity which prolongs the roll) 2 hours after dosing100 mg Na-R-ALA200 mg Magnesium Glycinate1000 mg Vitamin C100mg Grape Seed Extract 4 hours after dosing100 mg Na-R-ALA Following 3-5 nights100 mg 5HTP400 mg EGCG (Green tea extract)This episode is brought to you by the 5th annual 420 Summit, which being held in beautiful San Francisco April 24 and 25. This is the most interesting and cutting edge Cannabis Conference I’ve ever attended. For the last two years, Summit 420 has been awarded the “Best of the Best” Business event in YPO, so if you’re a YPO member or among the cannacurious I urge you to register now. You’ll get the inside track on new investment possibilities, ground breaking technologies and compelling research projects. There will be live seminars on how to taste terpenes. You can sample an incredible dinner prepared by the finest cannabis chefs in the Bay Area. You’ll attend a ganja yoga class or visit with some of the most successful businesses leaders in the world’s largest cannabis market. This year Ethan Nadelmann, founder of the Drug Policy Alliance and a key player in pushing California to legalize in 1996, will be kicking off the proceedings with a keynote on “The New War on Vaping” and how it is echoing the failed War on Drugs. Space is limited so be sure to register for this incredible event now at www.ypo.org/Summit4202020. And be sure bring your spouse/partner. This will be one you’ll want to share.

In today’s episode, Joe interviews Mike Jay, Author of the book, Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic. In the show they discuss Mescaline’s origins and the history of Peyote use. 3 Key Points: Mike Jay is a Cultural Historian and Author whose topics include science, medicine, drugs, madness, literature and radical politics. Mike’s recent book, Mescaline, is a definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to western modernity. Over time, Peyote has been used by spiritual seekers, by psychologists investigating the secrets of consciousness, artists exploring the creative process, and by psychiatrists. Support the show Patreon Leave us a review on iTunes Share us with your friends – favorite podcast, etc Join our Facebook group - Psychedelics Today group – Find the others and create community. Navigating Psychedelics Show Notes About Mike Mike Jay is a freelance writer, an author and cultural historian Mike has been interested in Mescaline for a really long time Indigenous Use James Mooney is a crucial figure in the transition from indigenous use of peyote to the more current applications The New Deal made religions respected, protected under the First Amendment for freedom of worship History There is a ton of literature before the 60’s on psychedelic use It was obvious that if people were interested in psychoactive drugs, they would take it themselves Back then, science was much more proactive than it is today, but it is becoming more popular again Peyote Experience It's hard to find an ethical source of Peyote Mike says its unpleasant but warm and tingly and euphoric By 1970, Mescaline was this legendary substance, but it was hard to find on the streets unless you knew an underground chemist On the Erowid site, they have a bulletin that the DEA created about all of the street drug seizures He wrote a book 20 years ago called Emperors of Dreams 2CB is not as intense as Mescaline Mescaline is a phenethylamine It does not cross the blood brain barrier as easily. So you need to take more of it It is a body and mind drug Indigenous Use The Comanches were in a reservation in the Wichita mountains He was notified by the Comanches on some history He went to meet with them, and they told him stories on the history Peyote use originated inside of a Tipi “The way that we see psychedelics in modern Western culture, is not the only way of thinking about it:” - Mike Native American Church There is an interesting thing that happened between Mexican/South American Shamanic practice and Native American Church In the ceremony, the facilitator is made to not ask like a priest, everyone is their own priest It is a healing modality for everybody The very first peyote experiences in the west encouraged artists to make art Salvador Dali was apparently anti-drug use The surrealist movement had a number of rules Huichol art is a very psychedelic inspired art The plant Peyote is so fast growing, in some places it is growing naturally San Pedro is way more sustainable than Peyote There is a lot of demand for Peyote currently Joe says he thinks that Peyote is not scheduled in Canada Accounts The western story is full of first-person experiencesIts based on the personal experiences and visions In the indigenous accounts, there are very little stories on experience or personal matters, its more recording on the collective experience Links Website Twitter About Mike Mike Jay is a leading specialist in the study of drugs across history and cultures. The author of Artificial Paradises, Emperors of Dreams, and The Atmosphere of Heaven, his critical writing on drugs has appeared in many publications, including The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The International Journal of Drug Policy. He sits on the editorial board of the addiction journal Drugs and Alcohol Today and on the board of the Transform Drug Policy Foundation. He lives in England. Use code PSYTODAY at Onnit for a discount on all products except fitness equipment Get a 30 day free audible trial at audibletrial.com/psychedelicstoday

Episode #30 of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with Laura Pendell, writer, artist and partner of the late ethnobotanist Dale Pendell. Laura and I got together after several meet-ups last year to record this conversation in their shared library and studio in Penn Valley, California this past summer. We intended to record a conversation that celebrates Dale's work, perspective and unique way in the world. Dale Pendell was most known for his books in the Pharmako trilogy (Pharmako/Dynamis, Pharmako/Poeia, Pharmako/Gnosis) a project that explored the use, history, pharmacology, sociology, personal experience, chemistry, and alchemy of most plants or substances considered 'psychoactive.' He also wrote novels and poetry. Dale had a unique writing style that mixed his own experience, research, poetry and old folklore. I'm grateful Laura took the time to record a conversation with me about Dale's work and way in the world. I think that fans of Dale's work will gain some unique insight from out conversation here.   In this conversation with Laura, we talk about: Dale's nature of exploration and the way he navigated his interests the Pharmako trilogy and their demonstration of Dale's experimental nature with plants Dale's ability to combine different facets of things together in his work Dale's unfinished and unpublished works including a book on his prison experiences in Mexico and the U.S., and a collected writings book that is in the works Dale and Laura's camp project called 'Oracular Madness' during the early years of Burning Man and Dale's book 'Inspired Madness' as a reflection on the camp Dale's book 'The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse' and how it is a unique view of a possible future scenario and it's telling stories of our modern times Dale's talks on 'Horizon Anarchism' at Burning Man Dale's artist book 'The Gold Dust Wilderness' one of the first works he published and silkscreened and based on his experience living off grid on a mining claim in Trinity county, Ca in the 1970's. This book was the genesis of his unique writing style of information, imagination and poetry (it's so cool to see this book in person!) Dale's herbal root beer, elixir, and absinthe projects Laura's connection to poetry and absinthe Dale and Laura's connection to Zen Buddhism Laura reads some of Dale's poetry including 'The Ballad of the Hungry Ghosts,' 'Medicine,' and 'Stonecrop' the herbarium collection that Dale compiled over decades in Nevada county, Ca and beyond (over 1000 specimens) Dale's relationship with the psychedelic and drug database Erowid   Links: Dale Pendell's blog: http://dalependell.com/ Pharmako trilogy by Dale Pendell: https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00CKD4JLQ/ref=dp_st_1556438052 Dale's lecture on ‘Horizon Anarchism' at the 2006 Burning Man: https://soundcloud.com/lozo-382782666/055-dale-pendell-horizon-anarchism Erowid resource library (There's also a physical location where the Erowid library is located, near Auburn, CA) https://erowid.org/ Apache Stronghold Oak Flat: http://apache-stronghold.com/index.html Signal Fire: http://www.signalfirearts.org Support the podcast on Patreon to contribute to our grassroots self-funding of this project. Support the Ground Shots Project with a one time donation: paypal.me/petitfawn Our website with backlog of episodes, plant profiles, travelogue and more: http://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com Our Instagram page @goldenberries Join the Ground Shots Podcast Facebook Group to discuss the episodes Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the Ground Shots Project Theme music: 'Sweat and Splinters' by Mother Marrow Insterstitial Music: ‘Drawing the White' by The Momentary Prophets Produced by: Opia Creative  

The Teafaerie is a writer, flow arts teacher, space nerd, zero-g enthusiast, superhero, and a billion other things. She is most well-known for her amazing column on Erowid.org and many refer to her as their favorite psychedelic speaker. I first heard The Teafaerie on Future Fossils podcast and ended up listening to her episode over and over again like it was my favorite record. I HAD to have her on my show. So I emailed Michael Garfield and asked for an intro. After much scheduling and rescheduling, we made it happen! The Teafaerie makes me excited about the future. She reminds me how lucky we all to even have avatars right now. Do you know how many people would kill to have an avatar in 2019? Sure we have many challenges we must confront and there will be losses along the way, but how great is it to be alive in this strange ever-accelerating future present? I have never met anyone like the Teafaerie and I’m confident that you haven’t either. She’s a character in her own category and she speaks poetically at lightspeed. Learn more about the Teafaerie http://www.instagram.com/flowfaerie https://erowid.org/columns/teafaerie/ Links mentioned in this episode: http://rainbowbrainskull.com http://raminnazer.com This podcast was recorded at Rainbow Brainskull Studios in Los Angeles, CA.

This week’s guest is The Teafaerie, my amazing friend and a true one-of-a-kind psychedelic superhero.The Teafaerie writes stories, poems, movies, plays and essays, makes videos, organizes flash mobs, and is one of the founders of Prometheatrics, a big beautiful Esplanade camp at Burning Man. At various times she has been a writer, nanny, actress, flow arts teacher, childbirth doula, homeless person, aid worker, live-action storyteller, toy inventor, app designer, street performer, and party promoter. She is a frequent contributor to the worlds most excellent psychedelic information site Erowid.org. She also regularly volunteers as a festival trip sitter with the Zendo Project and RGX medical.Her most recent essay on Erowid:https://www.erowid.org/columns/teafaerie/2016/05/17/mapping-the-source/My favorite of her essays:https://www.erowid.org/columns/teafaerie/page/18/More about psychedelic harm reduction:https://www.zendoproject.org/We Discuss:Why it’s okay that the Elon Musk will get (to beta-test) immortality first (for the rest of us)The intimately cybernetic world of brain-machine interfaces and Life After Advertising“I’m just a coward. I TRIED despair and I can’t TAKE that shit.”How parenthood changes your decision to be or not to be an optimist.Simulation Theory~ ”We need to stop stressing the system and offload our consciousness offworld to L5 or VR”…or is that some whack pseudognostic transmania?“I believe the universe is art, because…”We’re the children of god, but most people act like we’re the pets of god or the toys of god.The child of a sheep grows up to be a sheep. The child of a god grows up to be a god.Mass manifestation and the Global Consciousness ProjectHow to make wishes come true by getting god’s attentionPartner yoga for engineered miraclesBurning Man is a manifestation engineWhat Are You Playing For?What evolution looks like to DNADesigner Babies & THE ETHICS OF Designer Babies“Do you know The Silmarillion?”Olaf Stapledon is the manBlack Mirror’s episode “Black Museum”Autonomous by Annalee Newitz and robot AR architectureGreg Egan’s Permutation City (and Diaspora)“Any sufficiently advanced 3D printer could tattoo you.”~ “If the universe is determined, it’s offensive to me, it devalues my art.”Getting your wishes fulfilled is of evolutionary benefitHow many things had to go right? ALL of them.“Maybe THIS is the shortest path, and it’s JUST LONG.”5-Meo DMTThe burden of publishing to an enormous audience on ErowidFangirling about my sci fi, “An Oral History of the End of ‘Reality’” (Episode 91)Future Fossils Podcast is starting a book club for mind-blowing sci fi! Learn more and sign up: https://patreon.com/michaelgarfieldSubscribe to this show on any platform you desire:https://shows.pippa.io/futurefossils See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Download Key Takeaways Bluebird Botanicals is leading the industry in third-party testing and Lab results, green initiatives and a stand on hemp policy. CBD helps cushion the psychoactive impact of THC on CB1 receptors, making for a less intense ‘high’. Lex has a lot of hope for the 2018 Farm Bill, and believes hemp has widespread uses that will open many market opportunities in the future. Intro Joe interviews Lex Pelger, Science Director of Bluebird Botanicals, a Colorado-based company. They talk about CBD and the issues with the FDA talking about health benefits. The use cases of hemp and drug war are discussed. Who is Lex Pelger? He is a Science Director of Bluebird Botanicals. Lex moves from New York to Colorado. He did a psychedelic storytelling open mic tour (Blue Dot tour) across the USA and it culminated at the MAPS Psychedelic Science Conference. Moved from the hustle of New York to Colorado to have his baby. The Cannabinoid Lex gets excited the more he learns about how intricate the endocannabinoid system is to humans and all mammals Bluebird Botanicals doesn't make any medical claims CDB supports health and homeostasis The cannabinoid system was discovered in the body only 25 years ago Opium and Cannabis were the two oldest plants used in the body There isn't anyone connection for cannabis, because there are so many receptors in the human body There is a ton of research happening on cannabinoids Lex thinks the research ban on phytocannabinoids is unfortunate Cannabis and cannabinoids are the most studied drugs in the US CBD functions as a homeostasis molecule Anandamide was the first endogenous cannabinoid discovered in the human brain in 1991 by a team led by Raphael Mechoulam in Israel Raphael Mechoulam discovered the final structure of THC in 1963 CB1 Receptor in the brain was discovered in 1991 also CB1 Receptor If the CB1 receptors are blocked in a human or animal, they won't get ‘high’ on weed The presence of CBD doesn't allow THC to fully bind to the CB1 receptor, so when CBD is present in THC, you won't get quite as high Lex thinks it's unfortunate that because weed has been in prohibition, it has been bred so hard to only have THC He thinks all weed should have a little bit of CBD to cushion the psychoactive nature of THC The Endocannabinoid System Joe says there is no profile to test the endocannabinoid system to know if a person is deficient or not, that he knows of Lex says if you get your genetic results from a company like 23 and me, it will tell you about your cannabinoid alleles A bad trip to a young brain can damage it forever The activists that annoy Lex are ones that refuse the obvious negatives Weed should not be given to all children The ‘Right to Fly’ Jonathan Thompson - Psychedelic Parenting Blog and Podcast How to create a community on psychedelics Noah Potter - Psychedelic Law Blog An open-source thought experiment in psychedelic law and policy “This plant is tied down by so many regulations” - Lex In the state of Colorado, you can't make new genetics Lousy laws made it hard to diversify the cannabis plant Lex believes Aldous Huxley’s book The Island is the best blueprint for what a sane integration of psychedelics and psychoactive might look like. Lex says people taking mushrooms in the woods together is so special, simply because a group of people is spending 6-8 hours with nature and with each other. Bluebird Botanicals Many different products - isolates, oils, vape juice, and topicals will be back soon Independent Lab Verification Leading the industry with third-party lab results Transparent about ingredients, NO pesticides used! Paired with Eurofins - world’s biggest testing lab Bluebird partners with the farmers, packaging partners, etc to be green and more eco-friendly always CEO Brandon hears about a new point of quality to be added, he goes for it Passed 99% inspection quality, CGMP Lex thinks its so nice to work for a company that focuses on giving back to the customers, focusing on employees, quality, the planet, and just giving back CBD Drug Law Changes in California The regulations restrict being able to add CBD to food, which goes is against the 2014 Federal Farm Bill Bluebird is on the board for the US Hemp Roundtable - Hemp Policy Jonathan Miller - Lawyer of the group and writer to address misinterpretation of the law “It's foolish to have the 1950’s 1960’s mindset of cannabis” - Joe Marijuana vs Hemp Both are cannabis plants Cannabis is the species, THC is more than .3% THC, Hemp is less than .3% THC “If a state inspector comes in and tests 6 samples and the results come up as .4% or .5%, they make you burn it. They don't burn it for you, you have to burn it yourself while you watch.” - Lex Cannabis is tricky to grow for commercial use It takes 3 generations for the plant to get used to the environment “Thank you, farmers, for being farmers” - Joe 2018 Farm Bill Mitch McConnell majority leader of the Senate, is pushing this because he comes from Kentucky, the Hemp state. The Senate version of the Farm Bill is correct, the House version has none of the correct language in it. McConnell and the pro-hemp committee will hash out the differences between the two bills. This Bill expands on all of the rights so it makes it look more enticing and safe for big businesses like Whole Foods and Banks. This bill is going to open up many markets. Hemp as an Industrial Product “What’s really cool about hemp is how widespread the uses are” - Lex The Hemperor, Jack Herer discovered all of the uses for the hemp plant Oil and plastic did win, hemp did not win as a top 10 commodity It’s a hard plant to work within the processing stage Thomas Jefferson stopped growing hemp because the retting stage was too hard on his slaves Hemp is not going to change all the markets it's been said it will transform Lex says hempcrete is fascinating. Using hemp as lubricants, bath bombs, and just the seeds are fascinating uses The Russians and the English fought in a war over access to hemp Hemp is a rope that doesn't get destroyed by saltwater, fueled the world’s Navy Fiber is so important, and hemp as a fiber was widespread Hemp seeds are a perfect mix of essential fatty acids Hemp seed made pigeons breed more Joe says there was a huge tradition of people eating pigeons Agriculture is so bad for topsoil, hemp can help repair our lands for us to keep surviving Hemp is a holy material in Korea Joseph Needham layed out all of China’s inventions and explained that the founders of Daoism had a cannabis-induced ‘dream’ and envisioned the first Daoist school where Yin and Yang came from Lex’s job as a Science Director for Bluebird Lex does a lot of education around CBD, Cannabinoid science conferences His passion for cannabis stems from his grandma’s medical condition He wanted to find a way to describe the cannabinoid system for elders to understand Lex is thankful for groups like Erowid, who sit down and interview our elders Lex tells a story about a man who took LSD in the woods, and fell to the ground and felt one with the trees, felt himself rooting down, and felt complete. He never forgot that feeling Lex thinks that a person should be stable before embarking on a psychedelic journey “Huxley says that therapists are attracted to psychedelics because of their own dark icebergs” - Lex. He thinks that therapists should be A gatekeeper, not THE gatekeeper Joe has been trying to get in touch with Dana Beal who popularized ibogaine “Dana Beal was an old-time, cowboy pot smuggler to fund yippie political activism, outreach, and political activism, so he could make the way that he made money, illegal” - Lex He used the system against itself Cannabis can cause catalepsy in people - which makes one ‘blackout’ 90% of cointel pros were against the Black Panthers Hoover feared them because they were black and he was racist They were extremely effective Lex explains that the war on cannabis has a racist framework, Nixon said “Because black people use cocaine and hippies use cannabis, we can use it against them” Lex goes on to talk about the history of the CIA, which puts its money into drug trade because it's untraceable, they protect the drug lords to use it for their own financial benefit He says the CIA and DEA are inefficient bureaucracies “Our belief at Bluebird, is we have to end the war on drugs. It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on people. The war on drugs is incredibly effective at doing what it was designed to do, and that was to hold, certain people groups down” Joe comments saying that there are babies being born and being brought into this world. He appreciates Bluebird for having proper business practice Final Thoughts Lex finished his Moby Dick Pot books about the endocannabinoid system and the war on drugs He says he based them on Moby Dick because it was the only thing large enough to fit the entire history of cannabis and war on drugs He does the Greener Grass Podcast for Bluebird which includes topics on cannabis and green initiatives. He is also a part of the Psychedelic Salon http://www.lexpelger.com/ https://bluebirdbotanicals.com/

Hey, I know that drug laws are lame and whatever, but what if I told you that you could get super high… legally! What if I told you that there was this drug that was pretty much like marijuana but was totally legal. What if I told you that you’ll have no idea what the […]

This week on Three Dicks' Picks, we continue talking superheros: we watched the Pixar classic, The Incredibles; we also talk about Janelle Monae's new release Dirty Computer, and we wrap up the show by talking about people's crazy experiences with drugs via erowid.org. At the end of every episode, we rate each pick as well as reveal our picks for our next episode - so you can watch, listen, and join in on the next episode's discussion along with us! Movie — The Incredibles — 3:59 Music — Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae — 54:06 More — Erowid.org — 1:39:01

A conversation with Sylvia Thyssen, senior editor at the Erowid Center, about experience reports, drug geekery, Shulgin's notebooks, and Erowid's current Pineapple fund-matching drive.   

On this episode we took phone calls again! // Them Middies // Keepin Up With The Kayfabe // Improvised Bowls // Getting Wasted To Wind Down // Can I Get Two Grilled Cheese For Free? // Abusing The Return Policy // Janitor Gigs With @Asbigasyourdad // Go Wash The Parking Lot // How Do I Make Time For Creative Stuff? // Earbud Update With @Shitprole // Drug Charges In Arizona // Teaching At Public School // I Don’t Want To Go To Another Shitty Country // Legalized Weed Changes In California // Meetup At The Street Fight Show // Opening Song - John Holt - Police In Helicopters Break Songs - The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff Kurt Vile - KV Crimes GG Allin - Carmelita Closing Song - Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles

Tracey Helton Mitchell (Hope after Heroin) calls in and tells us about her using days and recovery. Tracey shares about using the same syringe for a year, being the "abscess queen," having a 70 year old sugar daddy when she was in her twenties, and other hardcore tales. Now Tracey is almost 20 years sober, a great mother, an author, and a positive force in the treatment world. We play a voice memo from Samuel in Australia about the time he ate a bunch of opium in the airport, nearly shit himself, and passed out. Chris talks about Erowid. Dave described a recent encounter with a whale while swimming. Lastly, we close with Cormac's versoin of "Good so Bad"... his 7 year old son provided the backup vocals. 

Casey William Hardison is an entheogenic activist and psychedelic chemist who most famously known for getting busted making LSD In the U.K. and defending himself in court, by acting as his own lawyer during his trial.  Instead of arguing he did not commit the acts, he argued that--as long as he harmed no one--he had the human right to engage in his chosen entheogenic praxis. Casey stood for cognitive liberty and freedom of thought and continues to do so to this day.  During his trial, Casey challenged the drug laws as a discriminatory affront to free thought, therapeutic choice and free religion. The trial judge rejected these arguments and an eight-week trial ensued after which Casey was convicted on March 18, 2005 on 6 of 8 counts and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on April 22, 2005.  Aside from being known for being kidnapped by men with guns for partaking in a peaceful loving activity, Casey has attended entheogen-related conferences, wrote articles for the MAPS Bulletin, The Entheogen Review, and contributed to Erowid.  Casey is a freedom fighter of the highest order of love and light.  Extensive show notes and links are below.  if you enjoy this show please leave a 5-star rating and review on iTunes. You can also support this how for as little as $1 a month at www.patreon.com/mikebranc   FYI - I kind of went off the rails and ranted in anger about Sessions, Trump and the war on drugs in the begining of this episode for a about 20 minutes. You can skip ahead if you want to get to the interview.   Thank you!  #M I N D R I G H T S Show Notes and Links:   Eroded Vault- Casey William Harrison: https://erowid.org/culture/characters/hardison_casey/   Erowid:  erowid.org   Burning Man: https://burningman.org/   Maps MDMA: http://www.maps.org/research/mdma   Psychedelic Science: http://psychedelicscience.org/   The Beckley foundation:  http://beckleyfoundation.org/   Amanda Fielding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Feilding   William Blake: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3679-if-the-doors-of-perception-were-cleansed-every-thing-would     Jung and Alchemy: http://www.carl-jung.net/alchemy.html   Remembering Nick Sand - Orange Sunshine LSD Chemist: https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/nick-sand-orange-sunshine-lsd-chemist-dies-75/   Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/tonight-on-viceland-hamiltons-pharmacopeia-lizard-school     The Grateful Dead: http://www.dead.net/     Richard Evans Shultes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Evans_Schultes   MAPS vol 10 # 2 2000: http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v10n2/v10n2.pdf   Pharmacotheon Entheogenic Drugs Their Plant Sources and Histories by Jonathan Ott:   https://www.amazon.com/Pharmacotheon-Entheogenic-Drugs-Sources-Histories/dp/0961423439/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495210221&sr=8-1&keywords=entheogenic+drugs+their+plant+sources+and+history+-+Jonathan+Ott   Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline By Richard Evans Shultes: https://www.amazon.com/Ethnobotany-Discipline-Richard-Evans-Schultes/dp/0881929727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495210285&sr=8-1&keywords=ethnobotany     Ethnobiology Conference: https://ethnobiology.org/conference/upcoming   Mentor, Sasha Shulgin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin   https://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Shulgin/e/B000APJGIC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1495210495&sr=8-1   The amazing 2c-T-7 molecule: https://erowid.org/chemicals/2ct7/2ct7.shtml     Brave New World By Aldous Huxley: https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World/dp/B0012QED5Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495210778&sr=8-1&keywords=aldous+huxley+brave+new+world     Erik Davis  Article: https://aeon.co/essays/new-psychedelics-research-is-on-a-knife-edge-of-meaning   Noosphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere    Gaia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)   2-cd molecule: https://erowid.org/chemicals/2cd/2cd.shtml   Center For cognitive liberty & Ethics: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/     On cognitive liberty part 1,2,3,4 Richard Glen Boire: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/curriculum/oncoglib_123.htm     The November Coalition:  November.org  - the razor wire - drug war prisoners : http://therazorwire.org/     Drug War Stats: http://www.drugpolicy.org/drug-war-statistics   Benjamin Rush:https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Rush     Thomas Paine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine   cognitive liberty shirt - unlock your mind symbol: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/tshirts.html   Sylvia Tyson:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Tyson   journal of cognitive liberty - http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v10n2/v10n2.pdf -   Psychedelic Salon: https://psychedelicsalon.com/     The Spirit Of The Internet: https://www.matrixmasters.com/spirit/html/html.html   The Gunners Dream by Pink Floyd - “and no-one kills the children anymore” :  http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/the-gunner-dream-final-lyrics.html   Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/casey.william.freeblood     just Google casey LSD: https://www.google.com/search?q=casey+lsd&oq=casey+lsd&aqs=chrome..69i57.1885j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8   Civil Disobedience By Henery David Thoreau  

Playing for Team Human today is psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, and psychedelics researcher Dr. Julie Holland. Dr. Holland explains the role of psychedelics in helping people gain the new forms of information and awareness they need to become more fully human. Is there the potential for greater understanding and human connection through the psychedelic experience? Together Holland and Rushkoff explore this question, charting out a path toward greater empathy and solidarity.Today’s monologue features Rushkoff on Timothy Leary and “Finding the Others.” Visit XY Magazine for his complete essay, featured as part of the recent relaunch of the magazine.Dr. Holland’s latest book is Moody Bitches: The Truth about the Drugs You’re Taking, the Sleep You’re Missing, the Sex You’re Not  Having, and What’s Really Making You Crazy Visit Dr. Holland’s website for useful links to educate yourself about psychedelics. Here are a few places to start with:MAPS – The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studiesmaps.orgDrug Policy Alliance – for education and reform of America’s drug lawsdpa.orgErowid (excellent resource for drug education)erowid.orgHeffter (supporting psychedelic research worldwide)heffter.orgOrsha Magyar’s NeuroTrition siteneurotrition.ca  Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We apologize to our listeners for our show being late this week. We are coming to you directly from the Exploring Psychedelics Conference at Southern Oregon University, and preparations and travel have slowed down the release of this week's episode. On Today's Episode of the podcast, Jonathan talks with Jon Bridge. Jon is  a 34 year old father of two. from Canada. The two met through a Facebook Group, The Terence McKenna Experience, thanks to Jon's willingness to share his inspiring story of hope and healing. Jonathan felt called to respond almost immediately after the posting appeared on his feed, and the two connected to share Jon's story. Jon's experience of the failure of standard  psychiatricpharmaceutical drugs  and his journey back to health with the help of psilocybin mushrooms and a clear understanding that the conditions that ailed him for years did not have to be permanent, or simply "managed" with ill-understood collections of molecules. Jon [I was on] daily doses of high strength, high dose pharmaceutical garbage. I was supposed to be a customer for life. Although I have no credentials behind my name I have a story of healing and hope. I had been a long time sufferer of mental illness but thanks to psychedelic medicines I have discovered a new, better self. My journey into psychedelic healing has just begun and I hope to be able to inspire someone to help themselves. Jon's "before" picture, on the let, is dated March 20, 2010, exactly 6 years before the date of his Facebook post..Looking in the eyes, it feels possible to almost see the changed interior landscape behind them. This is a story that our listeners will not want to miss. (None of Jon or Jonathan's remarks should be interpreted as psychiatric advice. Neither is a licensed therapist. Changes in medicines should be done with the partnership of a qualified professional.) Thanks to everyone who "Liked" Psychedelic Parenting on Facebook and helped us reach our goal of 1000 page likes by the end of March. As of 3/31/16 at 11:59pm, we had 1017 page likes! Thanks again to all who clicked, shared or clickshared... And, as always, if you like what you see and hear, please consider a tax-deductible contribution to the work. Help us keep the podcast streaming and the website improving! Click the purple button below to contribute to Psychedelic Parenting via MAPS Click HERE to join our mailing list or become a part of our "Secret" Facebook discussion group. TOPICS AND WEBSITES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: Exploring Psychedelics Conference Home Page Facebook Page Grateful Meds Dispensary, Talent, Oregon Home Page Oregon Cannabis Connections: "Third Grateful Meds Dispensary Opens in Talent" Pharmeceutical Products Cyprolex (Generic: Escitalopram) Tryptophan Lithium Seroquel (Generic: Quetiapine) Wellbutrin (Generic: Bupropion) Citalopram (Brand Names: Celexa, Cipramil) Divalproex (Valporate) Stopping Psychiatric Drugs  For specific dangers and symptoms and helpful guidelines for coming off psychotropics, see Coming off Psychiatric Medication  Ketamine Erowid.org page WebMD: "Ketamine: The Future of Depression Treatment?" ClinicalTrials.gov: "Rapid Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine in Major Depression" Vice.com: "I Used Ketamine to Treat My Depression" Ketamine Advocacy Network: "Provider Directory" Dextromethorphan ("DXM") Erowid.org: "DXM Vault" Psilocybin Erowid.org: "Psilocybin Mushroom Vault" Vice.com: "What it Feels Like to Treat Depression with Magic Mushrooms" New York Times: "Can Mushrooms Treat Depression?" The New Yorker: "The Trip Treatment" By Michael Pollan Mixing Psilocybin and Cannabis (as Jon describes in his story) Shroomery.org forums: "Cannabis and Mushrooms" Erowid Experience Vaults: "Rendered Eternal, Mushrooms and Cannabis" Santa as Shaman When Santa Was a Shaman: Ancient Origins of Santa Claus and the Christmas Tree  by Tony van Renterghem NPR.org: "Did 'Shrooms Send Santa and his Reindeer Flying?" Reality Sandwich: "Shaman Claus: The Shamanic Origins of Christmas" Plenty of Fish (POF) Free Online Dating Service

Today is January 24, 2016, and we are discussing why we make the show. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Thanks for listening. Submit your comments for the show by text or voice message and send to info@entheogenshow.com. Entheogen: What is it Quick recap on genesis What is the point? Information Community Personal Journey Save your soul and the world? Where we are Referrers: Tool, Erowid, Facebook, Twitter Subscribers: How can you support the show? Sign up for our newsletter: EntheogenShow.com Submit your comments for the show by text or voice message and send to info@entheogenshow.com.

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is December 14th, 2015, and we are discussing the Zendo Project with special guest, Sara Gael, Harm Reduction Coordinator for MAPS. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Our guest, Sara Gael, has been involved with the Zendo Project since its inception in 2012. Since then she has helped coordinate harm reduction services at festivals all over the world including Burning Man, Afrika Burn, Envision Festival, and Lightning in a Bottle. She is also an intern investigator in the Boulder, Colorado Phase II Clinical Trial of the Safety and Efficacy of MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy. Sara works as a psychotherapist in private practice and received her Master’s in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology at Naropa University. What is the Zendo Project? Zendo is billed as Psychedelic First Aid for Festivals & Events: “The Zendo Project provides a supportive environment and specialized care designed to transform difficult psychedelic experiences into valuable learning opportunities, and even potentially offer healing and growth. In turn, our work reduces the number of drug-related hospitalizations and arrests.” Why is a program like Zendo necessary? Basic tips: how to help a friend through a difficult trip Safe Space Talk through, not down Sitting, not guiding Difficult is not bad What type of training does the “sitter” or “facilitator” receive? Benefits of human contact, touch How to volunteer with Zendo Volunteers are needed for Burning Man, Afrika Burn, other festivals Sara discusses experience in the field at Burning Man, BOOM, Cannabis Cup, etc. How does Zendo work with medical and other support services KosmiCare at BOOM in Portugal, where drugs are decriminalized, provides a glimpse of a post-prohibition future: their efforts are sponsored by the local government and festival, and they include onsite testing of pills. Erowid Center helps bridge the gap with EcstacyData.org which features pill testing results database, in addition to the psychoactive vaults of Erowid.org. What’s the deal with folk remedies (bananas, oranges?) Nice things that smell good, art supplies, beautiful space, pillows, blankets, tea – your Psychedelic Grandma’s house Resources: Watch Zendo Training Video on YouTube Donate to Zendo Zendo Training Manual Zendo webinar The Manual of Psychedelic Support Handbook for Therapeutic Use of LSD Zendoproject.org Zendo Project Year End Review: 2015

Kevin and Earth reminisce about Burning Man 2007, the “Eclipse/Man-Burn-Early Year” What was Burning Man like in 1995? Fire tells the story of a Burning Man purist in 1995 who had stopped going since there were people there she didn’t know “radical self-reliance” and community reliance Earth asks Kevin: “did you carry out your own poop?” When they moved to California in 1994, Earth worked remotely for his dad’s tech company; what was working remotely like in 1994? Earth started New College in Sarasota, FL, the same year Rick Doblin graduated; Fire joined the next year. (Rick’s wild time at New College in the ‘80’s described in Acid Test by Tom Shroder) Earth and Fire discuss their friendship with Sasha and Ann Shulgin and the famous Friday night dinners Erowid becoming an educational nonprofit in 2008 Erowid’s Library

0n this episode, Jonathan talks with DanceSafe founder and director of the upcoming documentary MDMA: The Movie, Emanuel Sferios. Emanuel founded DanceSafe in 1998 with a goal of providing fact-based drug education and harm reduction at raves and parties. After a number of years working as an environmental activist, he has returned to the world of drug policy reform and education with this documentary project. Jonathan and Emanuel discuss drug policy, drug education reform, how to talk to your teen about their interest and use, and why testing is so much more critical in today's drug climate than it was back in their day. Emanuel also weighs in on our BIG questions right now: "How to talk to your children with integrity about substances," and "How to come out to your parents about psychedelics." Emanuel also spends a great deal of time discussing the many popular substances out there right now, how they may differ from the party climate we grew up in, and how to help our kids make the informed choices about their use or non-use of plants and chemicals. Jonathan also talks about the ongoing Psychedelic Parenting GoFundMe fundraiser, and announces 2 BIG pieces of news: Robert Barnhart, producer of A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin, (who will be joining us on an upcoming episode) has pledged a $2000 matching gift to the fundraiser, which means anyone giving now will have their donation DOUBLED by Robert's generous gift. Also, Psychedelic Parenting is now being fiscally sponsored by The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which means our supporters can now make tax deductible donations to our efforts though MAPS! We would like to thanks everyone who has already given, David, Dasha, and Bodhi Gaian and the team at Pharmazonia. Dennis McKenna, and our anonymous donors TJ, Matt, SC, JYN, and VR. We are honored by your support and email messages.  TOPICS AND WEBSITES DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST: Psychedelic Parenting GoFundMe campaign MDMA: The Movie DanceSafe DARE program  (critical analysis) Danforth et' al Research on MDMA and autism DOPE Movie IMDB Roger Ebert.com Review Nobody is putting Ecstasy in your kid's Halloween candy! (Free Range Kids) Drug Testing Supplies DanceSafe Shop (instant answer reagent testing) Bunk Police (appears to be down at the time of this posting) Ecstacydata.org (mail order gas chromatography) A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin (Robert Barnhart's film, mentioned in the introduction) Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)  Substances discussed (all links to Erowid.org) MDMA ("Ecstasy," "Molly") LSD ("Acid")  25I-NBOMe ("2C-I-NBOMe," "N-Bomb," sometimes sold as "Acid, but is not LSD) Cathinones ("Bath Salts," "Cat," "Qat," "Khat," sometimes sold as "Molly," but is not MDMA) MDPV ("Flakka," "Bath Salts," sometimes sold as "Molly," but is not MDMA)

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is December 9, 2015 and we are very excited to feature a special interview. This is the first half. It is our great pleasure and honor to welcome Earth and Fire Erowid! For context, Joe reads a quote from Michael Horowitz, personal archivist for Timothy Leary: “Powerful descriptive writing about personal drug experiences mimics the effects of the drugs themselves. Reading Aleister Crowley on how hashish aided his meditation, or Mezz Mezzrow on playing in a jazz band on marijuana, or Gordon and Valentina Wasson’s otherworldly mushroom journey in a curandera’s hut in Mexico, or Anais Nin describing how LSD turned her body into liquid gold can be mildly psychoactive in itself. Especially so if you’d had your own prior experiences. We also collected books and studied the rituals of the peyote and mushroom cults, the history of the opium wars and laughing gas parties. We learned that drug literature is endless, and drug-taking was one of the earliest and most common activities of mankind.” - Michael Horowitz, from an interview about the Tim Leary Archives Followup from previous episode of Entheogen, Honoring the 20th Anniversary of Erowid: Earth and Fire helped 17 year-old Brad avoid jail time Earth and Fire helped Kevin get through high school and college Joe got Erowid blocked from the network at his corporate job Support Erowid! Donate money, choose a gift Become a member or monthly supporter, receive the excellent and beautifully designed Erowid Extracts newsletter Donate your books, used or new Volunteer to triage experience reports or for other projects, e.g. foreign language help Topics: What role did the “mildly psychoactive” effect Horowitz attributed to some drug literature play in the founding of Erowid? Feeling it before taking it – hours (or days) before Imagination, memory, DMT, neurotransmitters, hallucinations lucid dreaming Oneirogens (dream generators); list of Oneirogenic substances on Wikipedia dream pillows Calea zacatechichi (the "dream herb") the physical expression of one’s intention, e.g. the taking of a substance, can be just as powerful as the substance itself What is it like having a New Yorker reporter in your home for three days? Reflecting on Emily Witt’s profile of Erowid from inside the mirrored bubble Kevin preaches: “drug education about marijuana was the gateway drug itself” What could responsible drug education in school look like? Abstinence, fear-based approaches are the norm. What could be the alternatives for young people? Earth introduces the concept of electroceuticals Brad is hopeful about the psychedelic research renaissance Special thanks to Earth and Fire Erowid for their tireless efforts for over 20 years, and huge thanks to Erowid’s noble crew Erowid Experience Vaults: edited, curated alternative to “wild west” internet forums like bluelight.org; other contemporaries: lycaeum.org, deoxy.org statistics about trip reports submitted, triaged, reviewed, and posted Earth clarifies something in the New Yorker article: “we are in fact ‘the weirdos among the straights and the straights among the weirdos’.” Fire live-edits the Entheogens page on Erowid to add LSD after our observation corrections@erowid.org

Erowid’s mission: “Documenting the complex relationship between humans and psychoactives.” Thanks to Earth and Fire Erowid for their hard work over the last two decades. Our personal experience with the page: Joe got Erowid blocked from his corporate job 15 years ago Erowid helped 17 year-old Brad avoid jail time Erowid helped Kevin get through high school and college The accurate, honest information from Erowid vs. the limited, outdated info supplied by anti-drug programs. Informing doctors. Erowid precept: don’t take anything without first researching it. Does this information make people more likely to try drugs? Is there a double standard for psychedelics? Alcohol, pharmaceuticals, football? The Shulgins’ Friday Night Dinners, attended by Earth and Fire. Donate to Erowid, a 501(c)(3) non-profit.

Poison Boy is relentless and determined to bring you the best infotainment with the best podcast in the world. The phenomenal Dr. Tammi Schaeffer drops knowledge bombs like napalm all over the place and discusses the carbon monoxide experience in Northern New England. Then Poison Boy relates his experiences with Earth and Fire Erowid of the world famous Erowid website and we wrap up the excitement with an exploration of the 27th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. What are you waiting for?!

On this episode of the Psychedelic Parenting Podcast, we talk with Dr. Neal Goldsmith, clinical psychologist and author of Psychedelic Healing: The Power of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development. Neal is also the father of a 16 year-old-son and the Speaker Curator and MC for the Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics conference, which will be held this weekend, Friday-Sunday October 9-11 in New York City, where your humble webmaster will be speaking on the topic of "Reclaiming Religious Freedom and Family Values." Neal will also be speaking on the topic of "Psychedelics and Death: A Brief Introduction". During this conversation, Neal discusses his own history with Psychedelics, how an experience with LSD in middle age awakened his own understanding of how we are shaped by childhood interactions and how they can be a powerful tool for uncovering the true self. He also discusses his own experiences as a dad, and how he "came out" to his son as a cannabis user. Websites and topics covered in this podcast: Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics Personal/Professional website of Dr. Neal Goldsmith Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development (at Powell's) More information on "Nesting Agreements:" "Nesting: Will it Work for You?" "What is 'Bird's Nest Custody' and How Does it Work?" "How to Implement a Bird's Nest Custody Arrangement: 6 Steps" Liveblogging a Nesting Divorce (nestingdivorce.blogspot.com) Imago Relationship Therapy Wikipedia Entry Imago Relationships International It's Just A Plant (at Powell's) Erowid.org: Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives

In this episode we are very pleased to be able to interview Earth and Fire Erowid, the founders and directors of the Erowid website and center. We discuss the origins of the site, their mission regarding educating about drug use, and how that interfaces with what we do as [...]

In this episode we are very pleased to be able to interview Earth and Fire Erowid, the founders and directors of the Erowid website and center. We discuss the origins of the site, their mission regarding educating about drug use, and how that interfaces with what we do as [...]

Tea tidings with the Teafaerie at MAPS Psychedelic Science 2013 conference. Who IS the Teafaerie, and how does she manifest the psychedelic dream? The Teafaerie has been an avid entheogenic explorer her entire adult life and she has served as ground control for well over 100 trips. A real-life superheroine, we discuss the burgeoning meme of superhumanity, the Ultraculture, and the roots of this post-human possibility in the conscious festival scene and psychedelic culture worldwide. Teafaerie writes for Erowid on all aspects of psychedelics and virtuality, and her Western take on the shamanic realms from a data-information space is a valuable signpost in the cultural cosmovisions. Discover the secrets of 420, and the Teafaerie's secret origin in the Rainbow Tribe, Philip K Dick is channeled, and the seed dream of the Jedi Temple, a training academy in the shamanic arts is explored in this gonzo interview with experiential journalist Rak Razam. Victory for all! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Guest speaker: Dennis McKenna PROGRAM NOTES: Today's talk features Dennis McKenna in a June 1984 presentation of his research concerning ayahuasca. This is one of the first, if not the first, public presentation of Dennis' early work involving this sacred medicine. For most of the last 33 years, ayahuasca has been one of the major preoccupations of his professional life, and he is considered one of the world's leading scientific experts in this field. As Dennis says in a recent article in The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: “In that time, I have written extensively on the botany, chemistry, and pharmacology of ayahuasca, on its potential therapeutic uses, and on the need for more, and more rigorous, scientific and clinical investigations of this remarkable plant decoction. Working with colleagues such as Dr. Grob, my good friends Jace Callaway and Dr. Luis Eduardo Luna in Finland, my mentor Dr. Neil Towers, my late and beloved brother Terence, Dr. Glaucus de Souza Brito, and others, to investigate the myriad mysteries of ayahuasca, has been as rich and rewarding an experience as any scientist could ever hope for.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Index of Dennis McKenna Articles (from Erowid.org) The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss (2012) Dennis J. McKenna (Erowid Character Vaults) “Ayahuasca and Human Destiny” by Dennis McKenna Dennis McKenna on the Joe Rogan Experience

Guest speaker: Myron Stolaroff PROGRAM NOTES: This podcast features a few sound bites from several of the previous podcasts featuring Myron Stolaroff, who departed this life on January 6, 2013. Not only was Myron one of the world's leading psychedelic researchers, earlier in life he was instrumental in helping the Ampex Corporation develop the audio and video tape recorders. Below are a few links, videos, and books that more fully illustrate the life of this Renaissance Man. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option The Myron Stolaroff Archive on the Psychedelic Salon Donate to The Stolaroff Collection at Erowid Myron Stolaroff memorial video Myron Stolaroff and Gary Fisher in Dialogue The Gary Fisher Archive on the Psychedelic Salon A Visit with the Stolaroffs The Myron Stolaroff Vault at Erowid.org The Secret Chief: Conversations With a Pioneer of the Underground Psychedelic Therapy Movement By Myron J. Stolaroff The Secret Chief Revealed By Myron J. Stolaroff Thanatos to Eros: 35 Years of Psychedelic Exploration Ethnomedicine and the Study of Consciousness By Myron J. Stolaroff What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry By John Markoff Myron Stolaroff on Wikipedia

Fellow Psychonauts, for those about to dose, we salute your reckless bravery in your quest for shits, giggles and inner-truths. You asked for it and you got it! More tales of illegal drug adventures from the Vaults of Erowid. I hope you enjoy them! I seriously hope after listening to this harm-reduction podcast that you […]

Guest speakers: Myron Stolaroff, Humphry Osmond, & Al Hubbard PROGRAM NOTES: On October 30, 1964, Dr. Humphry Osmond, Myron Stolaroff, Willis Harman, and Al Hubbard took LSD together. The next day they discussed what was learned. This is a recording of that gathering, and it is the first of the recovered recordings from The Stolaroff Collection, hosted at Erowid.org. "There's a central power system, and here's the source. And the guidance system simply involves getting the person as close as possible to that source. The closer he gets the more aware he is, the more he sees who he is, the more he sees that everything he does is really of his own making and his own creation, and the more he sees his total responsibility. Now it's inconceivable to me that you could move toward that source without increasing responsibility. And to me, Leary has found a way of moving in that direction but not going toward it, because he's obviously missed his responsibility level." -Myron Stolaroff "From our crowd I think very, very few people get off the beam the way I would consider Leary and Alpert are off the beam, for example." -Myron Stolaroff "[We should use these substances] in a way which will not simply allow us to become aware of what any decent mystical saints have been aware of for a long, long time, but to become aware of how to produce a rise in the social level of communication, which will, indeed, transform the species from a biological animal to a communicating animal, which is what Teilhard had in view." -Humphry Osmond "[The map of the noosphere] is not to be created by mucking up bits of the Book of the Dead and saying how smart chaps were. This is a fraud." -Humphry Osmond "When you most need help is when you least want it." -Myron Stolaroff "This is the life that I've seen: Live or die. Be intelligent enough to get along. Don't walk in two places without knowing where you're going." -Al Hubbard "The ten year delay in our work brought about through our struggle with NIH in Washington and through being unable to cope with a large and powerful power-system there has produced, it's resulted in probably several million people being quite unnecessarily damaged." -Humphry Osmond (November 1, 1964) "You have to understand the specific risks that [using psychedelics] involves. Now the specific risk is that every person involved will be altered whether they like it or not. And that the result of this will, in a sense, alter every other relationship they have whether they like it or not." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Please Support the Archival Efforts for The Stolaroff Collection