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Talking About Kids
Why mental-health lessons in schools might be a great idea with Kevin Runions

Talking About Kids

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 45:15


Send us a textRecently, Lucy Foulkes, a Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian newspaper titled, “Mental-health lessons in schools sound a like a great idea. The trouble is, they don't work,” in which she asserts, “the only information we should teach en masse is where a young person should get help.” My guest today to discuss this article and get beyond its provocative title is Kevin Runions. In addition to being a friend of Talking About Kids, Kevin is an academic researcher, an independent consultant, and a globally-recognized expert on the important components of school climate, like bullying initiatives and mental-health lessons. Spoiler alert: Keven and I do not believe that the research Lucy cites supports her conclusion. More information about Kevin, including how you can engage him to improve school climates where you live, is at talkingaboutkids.com.

Hacker Public Radio
HPR4476: Does AI cause brain damage?

Hacker Public Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025


This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. Quick-Glance Summary I walk you through an MIT experiment where 54 EEG-capped volunteers wrote essays three ways: pure brainpower, classic search, and ChatGPT assistance. Brain-only writers lit up the most neurons and produced the freshest prose; the ChatGPT crowd churned out near-identical essays, remembered little, and racked up what the researchers dub cognitive debt : the interest you pay later for outsourcing thought today. A bonus “switch” round yanked AI away from the LLM devotees (cue face-plant) and finally let the brain-first team play with the toy (they coped fine), proving skills first, tools second. I spiced the tale with calculator nostalgia, a Belgian med-exam cheating fiasco, and Professor Felienne's forklift-in-the-gym metaphor to land one mantra: *scaffolds beat shortcuts*. We peeked at tech “enshittification” once investors demand returns, whispered “open-source” as the escape hatch, and I dared you to try a two-day test—outline solo, draft with AI, revise solo, then check what you still remember. Net takeaway: keep AI on a leash; let thinking drive, tools navigate . If you think I'm full of digital hot air, record your own rebuttal and prove it. Resources MIT study MIT Media Lab. (2025). Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt. https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/ Long term consequences (to be honest - pulled these from another list, didn't check all of them) Clemente-Suárez, V. J., Beltrán-Velasco, A. I., Herrero-Roldán, S., Rodriguez-Besteiro, S., Martínez-Guardado, I., Martín-Rodríguez, A., & Tornero-Aguilera, J. F. (2024). Digital device usage and childhood cognitive development: Exploring effects on cognitive abilities. Children , 11(11), 1299. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11592547/ Grinschgl, S., Papenmeier, F., & Meyerhoff, H. S. (2021). Consequences of cognitive offloading: Boosting performance but diminishing memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , 74(9), 1477–1496. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8358584/ Ward, A. F., Duke, K., Gneezy, A., & Bos, M. W. (2017). Brain drain: The mere presence of one's own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research , 2(2), 140–154. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/691462 Zhang, M., Zhang, X., Wang, H., & Yu, L. (2024). Understanding the influence of digital technology on cognitive development in children. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences , 5, 100224. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266724212400099X Risko, E. F., & Dunn, T. L. (2020). Developmental origins of cognitive offloading. Developmental Review , 57, 100921. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32517613/ Ladouceur, R. (2022). Cognitive effects of prolonged continuous human-machine interactions: Implications for digital device users. Behavioral Sciences , 12(8), 240. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10790890/ Wong, M. Y., Yin, Z., Kwan, S. C., & Chua, S. E. (2024). Understanding digital dementia and cognitive impact in children and adolescents. Neuroscience Bulletin , 40(7), 628–635. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11499077/ Baxter, B. (2025, February 2). Designing AI for human expertise: Preventing cognitive shortcuts. UXmatters . https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2025/02/designing-ai-for-human-expertise-preventing-cognitive-shortcuts.php Tristan, C., & Thomas, M. (2024). The brain digitalization: It's all happening so fast! Frontiers in Human Dynamics , 4, 1475438. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-dynamics/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2024.1475438/full Sun, Z., & Wang, Y. (2024). Two distinct neural pathways for mechanical versus digital memory aids. NeuroImage , 121, 117245. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811924004683 Ahmed, S. (2025). Demystifying the new dilemma of brain rot in the digital era. Contemporary Neurology , 19(3), 241–254. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11939997/ Redshaw, J., & Adlam, A. (2020). The nature and development of cognitive offloading in children. Child Development Perspectives , 14(2), 120–126. https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdep.12532 Geneva Internet Platform. (2025, June 3). Cognitive offloading and the future of the mind in the AI age. https://dig.watch/updates/cognitive-offloading-and-the-future-of-the-mind-in-the-ai-age Karlsson, G. (2019). Reducing cognitive load on the working memory by externalizing information. DIVA Portal . http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1327786/FULLTEXT02.pdf Monitask. (2025). What is cognitive offloading? https://www.monitask.com/en/business-glossary/cognitive-offloading Sharma, A., & Watson, S. (2024). Human technology intermediation to reduce cognitive load. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , 31(4), 832–841. https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article/31/4/832/7595629 Morgan, P. L., & Risko, E. F. (2021). Re-examining cognitive load measures in real-world learning environments. British Journal of Educational Psychology , 91(3), 993–1013. https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjep.12729 Podcast episodes that inspired some thoughts Felien Hermans (NL) Tech won't save us Screenstrong Families Provide feedback on this episode.

Raving Coaches
Stop Struggling Alone: How to Get Coaching Clients by Climbing with a Partner

Raving Coaches

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2025 7:52


What if the reason your business feels hard… isn't you? In this solo episode of the Raving Coaches podcast, I talk about why building a coaching business solo often feels like climbing a steep hill—and why the right kind of support changes everything. Backed by a study from the Journal of Experimental Psychology, we explore how your perception of difficulty shifts just by having someone climb the hill with you. I get into the difference between having cheerleaders at the bottom of the hill and a coach who's actually walking it with you. Whether you're brand new or feeling stuck mid-climb, this episode is a reminder that the business you're building doesn't have to feel so heavy. Listen in to find out how to choose support that makes the journey lighter—and more effective. Resources mentioned:

One Thing with Dr. Adam Rinde
Episode 124 : The science of over-eating and how to overcome it with Dr. Helen McCarthy

One Thing with Dr. Adam Rinde

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 48:49


Why do we eat when we're not hungry—especially at night? Willpower isn't the answer. In this episode, clinical psychologist Dr. Helen McCarthy reveals the Appetite Pendulum—a powerful framework that helps you understand hunger, fullness, and emotional eating without shame.We dig into why evenings are the danger zone, how to tell the difference between hunger and emotion in your body, and how a 10-second Pause Technique can change your relationship with food starting tonight. You'll also learn the four biggest saboteurs of healthy eating, why GLP-1 medications like Ozempic help some people but aren't the full solution, and the one small habit change that makes the biggest difference.If you've ever struggled with “food noise,” night-time grazing, or the cycle of willpower and regret, this conversation will give you practical, evidence-based tools you can use immediately.About Dr. McCarthy:Dr Helen McCarthy is a Clinical Psychologist, and is the "Appetite Doctor". She developed Appetite Retraining to help people lose weight by re-learning to eat in tune with their body's natural hunger and fullness signals.Helen is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society who has worked as a Clinical Psychologist since 1989.  She has a B.Sc. Honours degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Durham and a Doctorate in Psychology from the University of Oxford. After leaving Oxford Helen trained as a Clinical Psychologist within the British National Health Service and worked as a Clinical Psychologist in the NHS and then in private practice. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bristol and served as a Faculty Member for the UK Royal College of General Practitioners Leadership in Obesity Programme. She has also served as a member of the Advisory Panel for the UK and International Health Coaches Association.Helen has appeared on ITV and Channel 4 TV channels on programmes dealing with the psychology of weight loss.She says, "What I love most of all, is putting psychology into practice to help people overcome what's troubling them in their relationship with food".Please support our podcast by visiting our affiliate sponsor: Healthgevity : ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠ Enter: ONETHING for a 10% discount

Experience by Design
Designing Legal Experiences with Demetrios Karis

Experience by Design

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2025 77:09


I am just back from a vacation that took me across three states, one Navajo reservation, and some federal land in the southwest of the United States. Departing the humid and heavily greened northeast to the dry and brown and red landscapes of the southwest was a major transition. I have never spent that much time in that part of the country, so it was, you might say, quite the experience. Traveling throughout the region really revealed the expansiveness of it. The lack of foliage will do that as you can kind of see to the horizon between the buttes and mesas. It also was my first time flying in a long time where I didn't have to take off my shoes going through security. That was exciting. Well, maybe not exciting but one less thing to manage and deal with given all the other rules and restrictions that we have to face when trying to get to our lanes. When thinking about the trip and all the jurisdictions I crossed, it can be hard to keep track of what I can and cannot do. City laws, state laws, federal laws, tribal laws, airport regulations. What's legal in Vegas is not legal in Sedona. What you might be able to do in Page, Arizona isn't necessarily the same as St. George, Utah. You get the point. And let's keep in mind that all of this started in Boston, Massachusetts. The law can be complicated no matter what, and only becomes that much more challenging when you are throwing in all of these different environments. And did I mention the seemingly constant shift in time zones as you cross different borders? My guest today has a keen interest in making the law more manageable. Professor Demetrios Karis has been exploring ways of improving legal design to improve access and outcomes for citizens engaging the courts. As we discuss, there is plenty of work to do that keeps him and his students busy. From legal forms, to wayfinding in courts, to translating legal procedures, to legal language itself, the law has a lot of room to make things easier and create better experiences.I talk with Demetrios, who is a colleague of mine at Bentley University, about the origins of his user experience career through this PhD in Experimental Psychology from Cornell. He shares his first job at Grumman Aircraft, where he was looking at the design of cockpits and instrumentation as part of their internal research and development group. He shares his journey to Verizon, and then to Google where he learned more about doing qualitative research and ethnography. He then discusses how his teaching at Bentley University and experiences in the court system resulted in working with the Massachusetts courts to try to improve access and usability of courts and the law. As he states, the court system is designed by lawyers for lawyers. Despite that, more people are representing themselves, which results in massive challenges on what to do and how to do it. We also talk about his writing on the collapse of human civilization resulting from the sustainability crisis, and how we need to tackle challenges in complex systems through intensive study, creativity, and determination to make positive changes. Demetrios Karis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/demetrioskaris/Demetrios Karis Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Demetrios-Karis

TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast
Thomas Akam on Model-based RL in the Brain

TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025 52:06 Transcription Available


Prof Thomas Akam is a Neuroscientist at the Oxford University Department of Experimental Psychology.  He is a Wellcome Career Development Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, and leads the Cognitive Circuits research group.Featured ReferencesBrain Architecture for Adaptive BehaviourThomas Akam, RLDM 2025 TutorialAdditional ReferencesThomas Akam on Google ScholarpyPhotometry : Open source, Python based, fiber photometry data acquisition pyControl : Open source, Python based, behavioural experiment control.Uncertainty-based competition between prefrontal and dorsolateral striatal systems for behavioral control, Nathaniel D Daw, Yael Niv, Peter Dayan, 2005Further analysis of the hippocampal amnesic syndrome: 14-year follow-up study of H. M., Milner, B., Corkin, S., & Teuber, H. L., 1968Internally generated cell assembly sequences in the rat hippocampus, Pastalkova E, Itskov V, Amarasingham A, Buzsáki G. Science. 2008Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision 2025

Do you really know?
Why do some people confuse their left and right?

Do you really know?

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2025 4:59


Knowing the difference between right and left is crucial for various daily activities like driving and navigation. While most of us take this skill for granted, a significant portion of the population faces challenges with it. A study published in 2020 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology estimated that one in six adults struggles to distinguish their right from their left. Of course, if you turn the wrong way when out in the street, it can be a minor inconvenience. You might get lost, or turn up late for an appointment for example. But in some cases, confusing left and right can be a matter of life and death. It might sound unlikely, but all too many times, surgery has been carried out on the wrong side of a patient's body due to human error, with tragic consequences. And back in 2010 it emerged that the sinking of the Titanic may have actually been caused by a left-right steering error. So, how does this actually work? Now, why is this such a challenge? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to the last episodes, you can click here: ⁠What is an oil shock?⁠ ⁠Could Turmeric help indigestion?⁠ ⁠What is reverse ageing?⁠ A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. First Broadcast: 23/10/2023 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life Beyond The Numbers
A Very Different World - Laura Haycock

Life Beyond The Numbers

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2025 44:19


"When I first become aware that I was experiencing perimenopause, or at least put a name to what I had been experiencing for years without knowing what was going on, it was a very different world. That was just 10 to 15 years ago." Laura Haycock   Laura Haycock and I talk about her recently published book, M-Power, which addresses menopause as a critical issue that intersects with organisational culture and how we treat one another at work. Her book is rooted not just in lived experience, but in a deep understanding of culture, leadership and inclusion. Laura elaborates on the importance of understanding menopause beyond just a women's issue and highlights the systemic changes organisations can implement for a supportive environment. The discussion also touches upon the historical and societal factors that have shaped our understanding of menopause and how modern workplaces can adapt. We reflected on what it takes to lead in a changing context, where organisational effectiveness depends on recognising what people need to thrive. This is not just a conversation for women. It's an invitation to rethink how organisations support humanity at work - by seeing what's usually invisible.   Laura Haycock is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She graduated from Oxford University in Experimental Psychology and has a Masters in Applied Psychology from Cranfield University, College of Aeronautics. Laura offers over 30 years of consultancy experience across all aspects of talent management in the UK, Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, and Middle East & Africa. She co-directed a start-up environmental consultancy for several years. This entrepreneurial background adds to her impact as an executive coach. Through her own business, Brew People, she helps good leaders become great leaders by putting inclusion at the heart of everything they do to: identify true talent; empower high performance; connect diverse teams; and develop everyone's full potential. She has deep expertise in empowering women through their careers and uses systems-thinking to combine actions from a strategic, practical and individual level. Connect with Laura On LinkedIn Through her website, Brew People   Resources Mentioned M-Power: A Menopause Action Plan for Organizations by Laura Haycock Dr Louise Newson   

Elevate Yourself
Episode #62, Social Connectedness & Health with Psychologist, Dr. Cassidy Leibold, PhD!!!

Elevate Yourself

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2025 21:35


Episode Title: Social Connectedness & Health, with Dr. Cassidy Leibold, PhD!!! Cassidy's Bio: Is a graduate of the University of Dayton (2020) and University of Kentucky, with an MS and PhD in Experimental Psychology. Specifically, she studies Behavioral Neuroscience and Pharmacology. Her research focuses on the excitotoxic effects of alcohol on the hippocampus, and how prolonged alcohol exposure impairs neurogenesis and overall cell survival in this brain structure. She is now a lecturer in the Psychology department at the University of Kentucky, and loves getting to work with aspiring researchers and clinicians. Description: In this episode, Rob welcomes back Dr. Cassidy Leibold, PhD, a lecturer in the Psychology Department at the University of Kentucky. Cassidy shares the exciting developments since her last visit, including her new role teaching aspiring researchers and clinicians. She also reflects on her journey through her PhD, where she studied the effects of chronic binge alcohol use on neurogenesis in the hippocampus—a key brain region involved in memory formation. Cassidy discusses the importance of social connectedness and how our relationships play a significant role in our health. She explores the evolutionary significance of group membership, the brain's response to social pain, and how social media can both connect and amplify relationships. She also explains the delicate balance between the number and quality of social connections, highlighting why quality tends to matter more as we age. Cassidy wraps up the conversation with her personal insights on how she's grown since her PhD, including changes in how she views success, the impact of joining groups that support her, and the importance of personal well-being. Topics Covered: Cassidy's Journey and New Role at the University of Kentucky Cassidy shares her experiences during and after her PhD, discussing the challenges of conducting empirical research and the lessons she's learned along the way. What We Know About Social Connectedness Explore how social connectedness has shaped human survival and how it continues to impact our health today. Cassidy dives into the evolutionary psychology behind group membership and why being part of a group is so deeply ingrained in our brains. Quality vs. Quantity in Social Relationships Cassidy talks about the importance of both the number and quality of connections, explaining why the quality of relationships becomes more important with age and how our closest relationships influence our behaviors and beliefs. The Elevate Yourself Podcast is brought to you in partnership with Athletic Brewing. Use code ELEVATE30 for 30% OFF your first online order at checkout!

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 22, 2025 is: jettison • JET-uh-sun • verb When you jettison something, you get rid of it either because it is not needed or because it is impeding your progress or otherwise weighing you down. // Now that the purchase of the building has been finalized, we'll revamp what we want to keep and jettison the rest. // The approach of the storm forced them to jettison their vacation plans. See the entry > Examples: “A 2017 study found that participants who wrote a to-do list before bed instead of journaling about their accomplishments fell asleep ‘significantly faster.' … ‘The more specifically participants wrote their to-do list, the faster they subsequently fell asleep, whereas the opposite trend was observed when participants wrote about completed activities,' the study authors wrote in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. They speculated that writing down tasks lets you jettison your worries, so you don't need to think about them while trying to sleep.” — Tracy Swartz, The New York Post, 20 Jan. 2025 Did you know? Jettison comes from the Anglo-French noun geteson (literally “action of throwing”), and ultimately from the Latin verb jactare, meaning “to throw.” The noun jettison refers to a voluntary sacrifice of cargo to lighten a ship's load in time of distress, and is the source of the word jetsam, the word for goods that are so jettisoned; that word is often paired with flotsam (“floating wreckage”). These days you don't have to be on a sinking ship to jettison something: the verb also means simply “to get rid of.”

TrueLife
Zachary Marlow - Transmissions From The Edge

TrueLife

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2025 85:32


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaZachary MarlowThere are guests…and then there are cosmic detonations wearing human skin.Zachary Marlow is not just a man —he's a frequency that burns through consensus reality like a solar flare through cellophane.He is what happens when a child sees through the lie of the worldand dares to dream with mythological violence.He's wandered across five continents —not as a tourist,but as a pilgrim mapping the breakdown of our collective hallucination.From mental illness and addiction to the precipice of death itself,he died into truth —and was reborn as a practical visionary with dirt under his nailsand galaxies in his breath.This is the architect of a new myth,the mind behind “Another World Is Possible” —not just a film,but a cinematic ritual,a weaponized transmissiondesigned to collapse the false matrixand bloom the possible within the impossible.His voice weaves like mycelium through the dead soil of late capitalism,carving tunnels of lightthrough the dark machinery of despair.He doesn't speak in opinions —he speaks in revelation.So if you're here for surface talk and small stories…run.But if you feel that ancient thrum in your bones —that whisper that says this world is not enough —then stay.Lean in.Because this episode is a psychedelic initiation.And Zachary Marlow is your Virgil,your shaman,your time-bending cartographer of what comes next.Let's go.https://www.anotherworld.earth/ Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

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Sabba Nazhand & Jack Gorsline - Psychedelic Science Exodous

TrueLife

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 15:45


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaLeaving Psychedelic Science, thoughts, highlights & the future of Psychedelics…Sabbahttp://linkedin.com/in/sabbanazhandJackhttps://linktr.ee/JackGorsline?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=7e7b5bf8-8996-4502-a1d0-57ade0c01233 Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

In Our Time
Hypnosis

In Our Time

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2025 45:30


Ever since Franz Anton Mesmer induced trance-like states in his Parisian subjects in the late eighteenth century, dressed in long purple robes, hypnosis has been associated with performance, power and the occult.  It has exerted a powerful hold over the cultural imagination, featuring in novels and films including Bram Stoker's Dracula and George du Maurier's Trilby - and it was even practiced by Charles Dickens himself.But despite some debate within the medical establishment about the scientific validity of hypnosis, it continues to be used today as a successful treatment for physical and psychological conditions. Scientists are also using hypnosis to learn more about the power of suggestion and belief. With: Catherine Wynne, Reader in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Visual Cultures at the University of HullDevin Terhune, Reader in Experimental Psychology at King's College LondonAndQuinton Deeley, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, where he leads the Cultural and Social Neuroscience Research Group.Producer: Eliane GlaserReading list:Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry (Vol. 1, Basic Books, 1970)William Hughes, That Devil's Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination (Manchester University Press, 2015)Asti Hustvedt, Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Bloomsbury, 2011)Fred Kaplan, Dickens and Mesmerism: The Hidden Springs of Fiction (first published 1975; Princeton University Press, 2017)Wendy Moore, The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2017)Michael R. Nash and Amanda J. Barnier (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis Theory, Research, and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2012)Judith Pintar and Steven Jay Lynn, Hypnosis: A Brief History (John Wiley & Sons, 2008)Amir Raz, The Suggestible Brain: The Science and Magic of How We Make Up Our Minds (Balance, 2024)Robin Waterfield, Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis (Pan, 2004) Alison Winter, Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain (Chicago University Press, 1998) Fiction: Thomas Mann, Mario and the Magician: & other stories (first published 1930; Vintage Classics, 1996)George du Maurier, Trilby (first published 1894; Penguin Classics, 1994)Bram Stoker, Dracula (first published 1897; Penguin Classics, 2003)In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio production

TrueLife
Jenny Chen Robertson - Psychedelic Science 2025

TrueLife

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2025 34:48


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaJenny Chen RobertsonIn an empire of numbness, where sedation is sold as salvation,One woman dares to weaponize wisdom and baptize bureaucracy in the psilocybin sacrament.”Jenny is not a facilitator.She is a forger of frameworks,A cartographer of care,Turning risk-reduction into revolution.She walks the fault line between clinical ethics and ecstatic experience—MBA-trained, yes—But with soul credentials inked in sweat, in silence,In sacred listening.She's briefed lawmakers with the calm of a nun and the clarity of a sniper.She's testified with tremors in her voice and steel in her spine.Her resume reads like a paradox:Real estate magnate turned mycelial matriarch.Spreadsheet whisperer turned soul doula.Jenny co-founded the Safer Psychedelics Association of New EnglandNot to play nice with power—But to redefine it.She speaks for the trip-gone-sideways,For the mothers who don't trust “the system,”For the cops confused by consciousness,For the firemen called to burning minds.This isn't harm reduction—it's harm revolution.This isn't education—it's uncolonized knowing.She doesn't just talk set and setting—She re-sets the setting of the entire conversation.So lean in close, fam—Because when Jenny speaks,The old paradigm doesn't just shudder—It begs for a blindfold.And the future?It's already listening.SPAN: Safer Psychedelics Association of New EnglandJenny Chen Robertson Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

TrueLife
Dr. Lucía Levenberg - Psychedelics, Psychotherapy, & Argentina

TrueLife

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 21:55


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaLucía LevenbergWelcome, fellow travelers of the psyche and the soul.Today, we are graced by the presence of a healer, a warrior of awareness, a sentinel of the sacred self. She is not only a psychiatrist — she is an integrative alchemist of mind, body, and spirit. A public speaker. A teacher. A researcher. And above all, a deeply sensible human—guided by kindness, lit by love, and moved by compassion as a way of living.From the frontline of transformation, she serves with fierce gentleness as Head of Psychiatry at Equipo Libertador, an Argentinean clinic reshaping how we understand and care for eating disorders. She co-founded the Psychedelic Task Force within the Argentine Psychiatrists Association and stands tall as a member of Educannar, leading the charge in cannabis and psychedelic education and research.Trained across modalities — systemic, cognitive, contextual, and psychedelic-assisted therapy… fluent in endocannabinology, phytotherapy, mycotherapy, and functional medicine — she is a living bridge between ancient plant wisdom and future neurofrontiers.She is a teacher of postgraduate minds, a trainer of resident physicians, and an unshakable advocate for human rights, anti-ableism, and neuroaffirmative practices.She doesn't just work in mental health — she reimagines it, embodying a contextual, compassionate approach to consciousness and connection.Prepare yourself, dear listener. Because today we welcome a voice who reminds us that healing isn't sterile — it's sacred. That psychiatry isn't just clinical — it's cosmic. And that love, above all, is still the most radical medicine of them all.http://linkedin.com/in/lucia-levenberg https://www.instagram.com/dra.luciaele/ Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

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Veronica Oquendo - Psychedelics From Ecuador to Denver

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 23:05


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaVerónica From the shadowed valleys of Quito to the luminous peaks of human consciousness,today's guest is no ordinary traveler.She is a psychologist of the soul, a digital alchemist,a quiet storm whispering clarity through the noise of the world.A warrior of well-being,Verónica stands at the crossroads of inner healing and global action —with one hand on the pulse of the people, and the other reaching deep into the invisible dimensions of psyche, justice, and flow.She studied at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador,sharpened her vision at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar,and carved her compass in Human Rights at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.But her greatest credentials are carved in light —in her fight against el lado oscuro de la fuerza,in her refusal to look away,and in her sacred ability to help others see beyond what they thought was possible.By day, she moves through the corridors of the Ecuadorian Chancellery,by night, she unlocks inner galaxies through her private clinical practice.She's a creator. A therapist. A teacher. A truth-seeker.And when she speaks — the room listens, not with their ears,but with their bones.This isn't just another episode.This is a leap — an invitation to flow, to awaken, to dare.So buckle up, tune in, and expand outward…Because today, we welcome the wise, the wild, the wondrous:Verónica.https://www.facebook.com/fundacionquilago?mibextid=wwXIfrhttps://www.instagram.com/fundacionquilago/ Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

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Lewis Goldberg - Crafting the Psychedelic Narrative: Inside KCSA's Media Strategy

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2025 33:40


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaLewis Goldberg Ladies and gentlemen, seekers of signal in the static,allow me to introduce a voice forged in the alchemical fireof policy, purpose, and paradox.Lewis Goldberg is not just a publicist.He's a linguistic locksmith,a master of messaging who doesn't just shape narratives —he whispers to the current underneath them.With the war drums of old Washington echoing in his blood,he cut his teeth in the mythos of power:Clinton's campaign trail, Torricelli's tightropes,the ever-calculating eye of a First Lady named Hillary.But then —like any good archetypal wanderer —he turned toward the plant path.Toward cannabis, toward psychedelics,toward the revolution happening beneath our feet.He didn't just pivot — he prophesied.In 2015, he helped launch KCSA's cannabis division,giving shape and story to an industryrising like smoke through the cracks of a crumbling paradigm.He co-hosts The Green Rush,a podcast that is part intelligence briefing,part esoteric transmission for the business-minded psychonaut.And while some men worship quarterly reports,Lewis builds cathedrals in the stock ticker —rooting for the underdogs,channeling the sacred absurdity of Mets games,Jets heartbreaks,and the eternal optimism of Rutgers fanswho believe — against all odds —that truth, like victory, can be summoned with enough heart.So today, as we stand on the thresholdof Psychedelic Science 2025,we welcome not just a strategist —but a conjurer of attention.A myth-maker of market forces.A Blakean bard in a tailored blazerwho reminds us that even in the most corporate corners of culture…something sacred still wants to break through.Give it up for Lewis Goldberg. Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

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Vicente Alonso - Iboga, Initiation, & Introspection

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2025 90:53


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaHe doesn't offer therapy.He offers amputation—of illusion, of ego, of everything that keeps you from the truth.Vicente Alonso is not here to fix you.He's here to dismantle you—quietly, precisely, without apology.Trained in Gestalt, but tempered by a decade in the shadow of Dr. Claudio Naranjo,Vicente doesn't guide with words.He hunts with presence.Ibogaine is not a tool in his hand.It's the blade he honed on his own soul.Meditation made him still.Suffering made him exact.Now he moves like a sniper through the psyche—tracking trauma through breath, memory, and myth.As co-founder of AH-Samatā and director of IbogaQuest,he's built a method where neuroscience kneels before the sacred,and therapy becomes ritual dissection.This isn't healing.It's psychic surgery under candlelight.No anesthesia. No escape.This is Vicente.Step in only if you're ready to die to who you were—and live like the wound never lied.https://www.ibogaquest.com/ Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

People I (Mostly) Admire
160. How to Help Kids Succeed

People I (Mostly) Admire

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2025 60:09


Psychologist David Yeager thinks the conventional wisdom for how to motivate young people is all wrong. His model for helping kids cope with stress is required reading at Steve's new high school. SOURCES:David Yeager, professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. RESOURCES:10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation―And Making Your Own Life Easier, by David Yeager (2024)."A synergistic mindsets intervention protects adolescents from stress," by David Yeager, Christopher Bryan, James Gross, Jared Murray, Danielle Krettek Cobb, Pedro Santos, Hannah Gravelding, Meghann Johnson, and Jeremy Jamieson (Nature, 2022)."Harnessing adolescent values to motivate healthier eating," by Christopher Bryan, David Yeager, Cintia Hinojosa, Aimee Chabot, Holly Bergen, Mari Kawamura, and Fred Steubing (Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences, 2016)."Breaking the Cycle of Mistrust: Wise Interventions to Provide Critical Feedback Across the Racial Divide," by David Yeager, Julio Garcia, Patti Brzustoski, William Hessert, Valeria Purdie-Vaughns, Nancy Apfel, Allison Master, and Matthew Williams (Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2014)."The Influence of the National truth Campaign on Smoking Initiation," by Matthew Farrelly, James Nonnemaker, Kevin Davis, Altijani Hussin (American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2009)."Tobacco is Whacko Commercial," (2002)."Florida Tobacco Pilot Program: Thanking Customers," (2000)."Think, Don't Smoke PSA Commercial," (1999)."The Mentor's Dilemma: Providing Critical Feedback Across the Racial Divide," by Geoffrey Cohen, Claude Steele, and Lee Ross (Personal and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1999). EXTRAS:"The Suit, Savile Row, and Smartly Dressed Men," by The Rest is History (2024).

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Blood, Plants, & Power: W/Stephanie Abrams & Jenn Zuckerman

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 57:50


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaJENNIFER ZUCKERMAN & STEPHANIE KARZON(This isn't a podcast. It's a summoning.)They are not healers…They are system-sabotaging, pharmaceutically-disobedient shadow surgeonsdisguised as womenwho came not to integrate with the machine—but to lovingly dismantle it from the inside.Jennifer Zuckerman walks like she remembers the burning templesof medicine,and she's here with a torch and a playlist.White coat? Gone.Now it's tinctures, trauma maps, and prescription pad arson.She doesn't taper meds—she liberates identities wrapped in child-proof caps.She's the bridge between clinical protocol and cosmic remembrance,reminding you that healing isn't sterile—it's wild, erotic, terrifying, and sacred.She doesn't treat patients.She resurrects forgotten gods buried under a decade of SSRIs.⸻Then there's Stephanie Karzon,clinical neuropharmacologist and operational hitwoman for the new paradigm.She's the kind of woman who can turn an Excel sheetinto an occult artifact,a protocol into a prophecy,and a strategy session into a reality distortion fieldwhere logic and magic shake hands and start a band.She's part oracle, part hacker, part psychedelic systems saboteur.Her workflows breathe. Her molecules plot.She's redesigning healing itself—not to fit the system,but to make the system irrelevant.You don't hire Stephanie to fix things.You summon her when it's time to burn down the lie of “efficiency”and replace it with sacred recursion, intuitive intelligence, and bioluminescent logistics.⸻Together—Jennifer and Stephanie—aren't part of a movement.They're the rupture.The mycelial insurgents crawling beneath the hospital floorboards.The ones who plant psilocybin in your care planand call it “a necessary correction.”This isn't wellness.This is the sacred rewilding of medicine.This isn't healthcare.It's a feral uprising with a stethoscope and a serpent drum.You thought you came to listen?You came to remember.Welcome to the frontlineof the ritual reprogrammingof everything you were told healing had to be.Let's begin.https://linktr.ee/steph__k?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=ef7a3580-8859-439d-b7b5-9fd55a4a11b9https://iresonatehealth.com/ Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

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Joshua Moyer - How Music Finds Us in Our Darkest Moments

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2025 70:45


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaJoshua Moyer! Today's guest doesn't just make music—he summons it. From the concrete cracks of rebellion and the sacred chaos of altered states, Joshua Moyer is that rare breed: part street poet, part sonic alchemist, part underground prophet.He built the full soundtrack to my psychedelic science art challenge—played every instrument, wrote every lyric, and bled every note like a sermon on the run. Guitar riffs like back-alley prayers. Handpan rhythms that echo in the bones. This wasn't background music—it was ritual sound design for a new kind of revolution.Joshua ain't here to perform. He's here to ignite.He walks with the ones who speak in flame—those born from wound, not womb. He doesn't ask permission from the institutions. He builds temples in the ruins they left behind. His art? It's rebellion. It's remembrance. It's resistance wrapped in melody.If you're looking for safe, skip this one.If you're ready to rewire your senses and meet a man who turns suffering into symphony—welcome to the transmission.Here's Joshua Moyer.Absolutely—here's a fierce and poetic list of questions designed to pull brilliance into the open, bridging sound artistry with revolution and evolution. These are the kind of questions that crack open deeper truths, like vinyl under pressure—raw, rhythmic, and revelatory:https://youtube.com/@dichotomyentertainment?si=OCVk4TvvkrJyQCYihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuamoyernc?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

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Greg Shanken - The Psychedelic Playhouse

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2025 61:28


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaGreg ShankenSome build brands.Greg Shanken builds frequency.CEO of Gloss by title—but in truth? A digital alchemist,spinning data into destinyand pixels into psychedelic prayer flags.He's the glitch in the algorithmthat remembers we have souls.Where most sell clicks—Greg summons revolutions.Half-marketer, half-mystic,he weaves SEO with serotonin,funnels with freedom,Google maps with mycelial maps of the mind.A rebel with metrics.A insurgent  with heatmaps.A seer in a sea of salesmen.This isn't marketing.This is medicine wrapped in code.Welcome to the interface.Welcome to Greg Shanken.https://glosstech.io/Tickets: https://www.district216.com/ Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

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Speak Loud. Die Free. Broadcast Truth. - Jack Gorsline & Alex Detmering

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2025 113:49


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaJack & Alex—no mapno mercyno god in this signal—what we have here is not a podcastit's an interdimensional dump of raw signal from the edge of the hallucinationcoming in hot from the cortex of a dying archonwe found the feed inside a broken cassette tape under a senator's tongueenter Jack Gorslinetruth-hacker, reality surgeon, full-time ghost in the policy machinehe's got classified chalkboards and a third nostril for lieshe once broke a teacher's union strike with a pen full of mescaline and Marxhe does interviews in dreamspace and files FOIA requests on ayahuascaand then Alex Detmeringno—noyou don't get to “understand” Alexyou interface with himyou black out and wake up mid-slide decksweating glyphshe's a brand sorcerer with teethhalf-venture capitalist, half-forgotten Sumerian storm godhe built a marketing funnel that opened a portal in midtownJack is the scalpelAlex is the screamtogether they form the delta-virus of gnosisWe are on the eve of a conference, yes—but it feels more like a ritual trial by fire held in the mouth of a dead god.The PhDs are humming.The politicians are leaking spores.And the lunatics?The lunatics have taken the wheel.So rip out your compass, bite down on the microphone,and scream your birth name backwards into the void.This… is TrueLife.And we're already too deep to turn back.https://linktr.ee/JackGorslinehttp://alexdetmering.com/ Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

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Anders Beatty - Iboga: Escape the Healing Industrial Complex

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 92:53


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaAnders BeattyTonight, we tear back the curtain and torch the altar of the false gods.Because the sacred has been sold.The medicine commodified.The healing — haggled like cheap incense in a back-alley bazaar of white coats and stock options.But not here. Not now.If Alan Watts were here, high as heaven and laughing through eternity,he'd be standing next to Blake, eyes aflame with angels and anarchy,and Alfred North Whitehead, nodding solemnly,watching reality bend and pulse beneath the weight of unspoken truths.They'd speak of a man like Anders Beatty.Not a practitioner.A myth in motion.A survivor of the abyss who returned not to lecture —but to liberate.He didn't read about healing.He bled for it.He took the poison, met the ghosts,and came back with fire in his chest.Anders doesn't speak the language of pharma boardrooms or TED Talks.He speaks in stories, in scars, in the tremble of soul before rebirth.He is what happens when integrity survives the inferno.And now — the same forces that peddle wellness like toothpasteare circling the last true sacraments.Ibogaine — fierce, ancient, untamed —is being dragged toward the chopping block of scalability.But Anders stands as a living shield,saying: Not this one. Not this time.He's here to remind us:healing was never meant to be scalable.The sacred was never meant to be safe.And medicine was never meant to kneel to margin calls.So tonight —Forget the guidelines. Burn the frameworks.This isn't a podcast.This is a war chant for the soul.This is prophecy with blood on its hands.Welcome to the fire.Welcome Anders Beatty.Anders Beatty ibogaine coach talks about preparing for a monomythic ...https://awake.net › rsvp Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

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Rev. Dr. Jessica Rochester - Ayahuasca Awakenings, Equality

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 89:11


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaRev. Dr. Jessica Rochester: In an age where plant medicines are paraded like commoditiesand sacred sacraments are filtered through the sterile lens of profit and protocol,there stands a bridge—woven not from theory,but from decades of devotion,grit, and grace.Rev. Dr. Jessica Rochester is that bridge.Madrinha. President. Torchbearer.Founder of Céu do Montréal, the Santo Daime Church she brought into being in 1997—not as a rebellion,but as a restoration of sacred memoryto the North.A transpersonal counselor forged in the crucibles of Assagioli and Grof,she speaks the languages of the soul and the somatic,guiding seekers not around, but through the sacred fire of self-confrontation.She walked the bureaucratic labyrinth from 2000 to 2017,securing a Section 56 Exemption—not for fame,but to protect the sacrament of Santo Daime from the cold fists of the state.She is an ordained Interfaith Minister,a Doctor of Divinity,and an author whose two-volume opus—Ayahuasca Awakening—is less a book and more a mapfor those ready to take off their masksand meet the jaguar within.For over four decades she has led workshops,held private practice,stood at the crossroads of consciousness and culture,teaching not how to escape,but how to embodythe radical act of spiritual adulthood.And today,while the psychedelic renaissance sells peak experiences,Rev. Dr. Jessica Rochester whispers of something older,quieter,stronger—The long walk home.The humble medicine of self-care,self-mastery,and sacred discipline.So if you came for a keynote speaker,step aside.If you came for a true guidebetween the seen and unseen,prepare your heart.Because the Madrinha is not here to entertain you.She is here to remind you who you werebefore the world told you who to be.https://www.revdrjessicarochester.com/ Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

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Sabba Nazhand - The Last Sermon on Leadership

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2025 58:48


Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USBuy Grow kit: https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band willl Blow your Mind! Codex Serafini: https://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-animaSabba NazhandListen up, beautiful strangers and corporate pilgrims, because this ain't your TED Talk and it sure as hell ain't your quarterly earnings call.This is the last sermon at the bus stop—the one they told you not to listen to.The one where the preacher's barefoot, bleeding a little, laughing a lot, telling you that your KPIs are killing your soul and your ROI is just another name for fear of dying broke and unnoticed.And standing at the corner of this psychedelic crossroads is Sabba Nazhand.He's not here to scale your company.He's here to scale your consciousness.Or maybe tear it down to the studs and ask you why you built it in the first place.Sabba's not your sanitized startup hero.He's the guy smuggling soul across the borders of AI, startups, and altered states—wearing the dust of Burning Man on his face, carrying the ghost of a blood transfusion in his veins, and whispering heresies into the ear of anyone still awake in this zombie economy.From the blood-soaked streets of Tehran to the glass temples of Silicon Valley, Sabba's been playing both sides—tech and mystic, mentor and madman, capitalist and cosmic fool. He's led teams, advised startups, burned through playbooks, and emerged on the other side with only one message:“If you're still measuring success in metrics, you're already dead.”This ain't about products.This is about prophets.This is about dismantling the assembly line of your life, and replacing it with a playground of the possible.This is about ROI becoming R.O.I.—Return On Inner-fucking-anarchy.So light a match, kiss your five-year plan goodbye, and let Sabba take you somewhere your HR department doesn't have a policy for.This is the conversation at the end of the world.And you're late for the bus.http://linkedin.com/in/sabbanazhandhttps://www.joinsafar.com/ Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USCheck out our YouTube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPzfOaFtA1hF8UhnuvOQnTgKcIYPI9Ni9&si=Jgg9ATGwzhzdmjkgGrow your own:https://modernmushroomcultivation.com/This Band Will Blow Your Mind: Codex Serafinihttps://codexserafini.bandcamp.com/album/the-imprecation-of-anima

How Humans Work with Jef Szi
#48: Robin Dunbar - Friends, Tribes and Social Cohesion

How Humans Work with Jef Szi

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 65:43


Episode SummaryRenowned evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar returns for part two of his conversation with Jef Szi and the How Humans Work Podcast, diving deeper into the limits and leaps of human social patterns.In this episode, Professor Dunbar expands on the evolutionary foundations of human relationships, moving beyond social grooming and the endorphin system to explore kinship and the deeper nature of our social lives.He begins by examining the cost and time investment required to maintain our inner circle of intimate friends. From there, he maps out the concentric layers of more peripheral friendships and the behaviors and expectations that characterize them. Dunbar emphasizes the vital role our closest five friends play in our wellbeing and longevity.We then explore how humans scaled up from the group sizes typical of primates to the now-famous “Dunbar's Number” of 150. This leap—central to the Social Brain Hypothesis—reveals how brain size in primates correlates with social group size, due to the cognitive demands of managing complex, stable relationships.Dunbar illustrates these ideas through compelling examples—courtship, language, and religion—showing how humans have creatively repurposed existing biological mechanisms to sustain cohesion in increasingly larger groups.He also sheds light on how cultural practices like laughter, feasting, ritual, and storytelling serve to bind people together into broad, loosely connected “supergroups.”Ultimately, Dunbar offers a concentric model of our social world, illuminating the patterns, breakthroughs, and constraints of human sociality. This conversation helps us better understand our evolutionary journey and how we might draw on both embodied emotion and cognitive insight to navigate a highly uncertain future.***** About: Robin Dunbar: Robin Dunbar is Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Oxford University. His work in the Experimental Psychology department at the Magdalen College is concerned with ‘trying to understand the behavioral, cognitive and neuroendocrinological mechanisms that underpin social bonding in primates (in general) and humans (in particular).' Robin is the author of several books, including The Social Brain, Human Evolution, and Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships. Professor Dunbar is known for advancing the Social Brain Hypothesis with Dunbar's Number. *****Episode #48 TakeawaysDunbar's number suggests humans can maintain 150 relationships.Time investment is key to strong friendships.Friendships provide emotional support during crises.Social interactions can be as beneficial as medical interventions.Volunteering can substitute for friendships in terms of social exposure.Cohesion in larger groups requires superficial cues and shared knowledge. Friendship layers are assessed within the first four weeks.Common interests determine the depth of friendships.Intuition plays a key role in evaluating relationships.Institutions help manage social cohesion and relationships.Shared knowledge and folklore create larger communities.Religion serves as a stabilizing force in communities.Top-down structures provide discipline, while bottom-up structures foster local identity.Population density poses significant future challenges.Humans have historically found solutions to problems.Optimism is essential for...