Podcast appearances and mentions of julian vayne

Julian Vayne, Psychedelic Occultist, Writer, Teacher and Artist. Great chat with Julian, I thoroughly enjoyed this. A very, very interesting guy. Julian Vayne is a British independent scholar and author with over four decades of experience within esoteric culture: from Druidry to Chaos Magic, from indigenous Shamanism through to Freemasonry and Witchcraft. Julian is the author of books, essays, journals and articles in both the academic and esoteric press. He sees his work as part of the process to help re-imagine an earth-centered, non-dogmatic, open-source spirituality. He shares his practice through mentoring, workshops, online teaching and retreats. Julian's style is highly collaborative. With an academic background in teaching and learning, and as co-author of numerous texts, Julian's style emphasizes curiosity, collaboration and creativity. His approach is informed by chaos magic, deep ecology and lineages within Wicca and Tantra. Julian is a co-organizer of the psychedelic conference Breaking Convention, and a Trustee of The Psychedelic Museum Project. A founding member of the post-prohibition think-tank Transform, Julian sits on the academic board of The Journal of Psychedelic Studies, and has been a visiting lecturer at several British universities. He is an advocate of post-prohibition culture and supporter of psychedelic prisoners through the Scales project. Julian facilitates psychedelic ceremony, as well as providing one-to-one psychedelic integration sessions and support. He is the author of the celebrated Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony. Since 2011 he has been sharing his work through The Blog of Baphomet. For further details visit https://julianvayne.com/ To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland and also news for all the creative music that we do at BluescampUK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

In this episode of the Mystai Podcast, I am rejoined by occult & author Julian Vayne. On the back of our last episode together, this time we discuss the historical context and evolution of Chaos Magic with texts like Caroll's Liber Nul & Psychonaught and some of the things modern Chaos Magicians get wrong about the system. We also have some fascinating insights into Psychogeography, consciousness & the metaphoric language we use to describe it, and how that is affected through use of psychoactive substances. You can connect with Julian on his website: https://julianvayne.com/ His book "Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony" is available here: https://psychedelicpress.co.uk/collections/books/products/getting-higher-psychedelic-julian-vayne Find me on the internet ►TWITTER: https://x.com/ChrisLyonX?mx=2 ►INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mystaiofficial/ ►FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/mystaiofficial ►SUBSTACK: https://chrislyon.substack.com ►DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/j2rChj4YFB I am currently teaching a lecture series on Ancient & Late Antique Hermeticism. Do check it out! https://www.mystai.co.uk/way-of-hermes

RU286: JULIAN VAYNE ON PSYCHEDELICS, ANIMISM, SIGIL MAGIC, OCCULTURE http://www.renderingunconscious.org Rendering Unconscious episode 286. Julian Vayne is a British independent scholar and author with over four decades of experience within esoteric culture: from Druidry to Chaos Magic, from indigenous Shamanism through to Freemasonry and Witchcraft. Julian is a senior member of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros and widely recognized as one of Britain's leading occultists. https://julianvayne.com Follow him on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julian.vayne/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julian.vayne Twitter: https://twitter.com/JulianVayne YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DeepMagicBeginsHere Watch at YouTube: https://youtu.be/sXBVh53TTtk?si=t_uhjiCkbJA9dyUC RU received the 2023 Gradiva Award for Digital Media from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. https://naap.org/2023-gradiva-award-winners/ RU POD now has its own Patreon page! Join https://www.patreon.com/renderingunconscious/ to support the podcast and receive EXCLUSIVE CONTENT every week including bonus material having to do with Rendering Unconscious Podcast and its guests, as well as musings, theorizing, and writing about all things psychoanalysis. You can also support RU at: Substack: https://vanessa23carl.substack.com Make a Donation: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?business=PV3EVEFT95HGU&no_recurring=0¤cy_code=USD or by joining me and Carl at our own Patreon where we post EXCLUSIVE CONTENT weekly about all things psychoanalysis, art & occulture. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl THANK YOU for your support! Rendering Unconscious has its own Instagram page! Follow @renderingunconscious https://www.instagram.com/renderingunconscious/ Join Julian on March 17 & 24 for a course on Sigil Magic online via Morbid Anatomy Museum: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/sigil-magic-with-julian-vayne-begins-march-17-2024 Join us on March 10 for Online Event · Modern Occultism & A Limitless Search by Mitch Horowitz, Occult Influences In Pound's Pisan Cantos by Katrina Makkouk https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events-tickets/modern-occultism-a-limitless-search-by-mitch-horowitz-occult-influences-in-pounds-pisan-cantos-by-katrina-makkouk Then in May join us for Harnessing the Magic and Creative Power of the Cut-up Method a la William Burroughs, David Bowie, Genesis P-Orridge, Led by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson, beginning May 19 https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/harnessing-the-magic-and-creative-power-of-the-cut-up-method-a-la-william-burroughs-david-bowie-genesis-p-orridge-led-by-dr-vanessa-sinclair-and-carl-abrahamsson-beginning-may-19 For more info visit http://psychartcult.org Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally: http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@renderingunconscious Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: http://www.renderingunconscious.org Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com His publishing company is Trapart Books, Films and Editions. https://www.bygge.trapart.net Check out his indie record label Highbrow Lowlife at Bandcamp: https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com Follow him at: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CaAbrahamsson Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carl.abrahamsson/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@carlabrahamsson YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@carlabrahamsson23 The song at the end of the episode is a clip from “At Stockholm” by Psychick TV and White Stains. Available at: https://psychictvwhitestains.bandcamp.com/album/at-stockholm Image: sigil by Julian Vayne

William Leonard Pickard is a former research associate in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, Harvard fellow in drug policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Deputy Director of the Drug Policy Analysis Program at UCLA. His 1996 prediction of the fentanyl epidemic was published by RAND in The Future of Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids. In 2015 Pickard published The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments, a 656-page autobiography that blends fiction and nonfiction. The book centers around six chemists in an international drug organization. One of the Six tells Pickard, the book's narrator, that the making of psychedelics is not just following a recipe or formula but requires "the requisite spirit ... the purest intent, a flawless diamond morality". He says it's the same spirit described in Thomas De Quincey and Jorge Luis Borges's short stories about Paracelsus, the 16th-century physician and alchemist of Basel who resurrected a rose from its ashes: "there could be no creation for lack of faith and the trust of gold". Writing while incarcerated, Pickard wrote the entire book with pencil and paper. In an interview with Seth Ferranti, Pickard recounted: "The Rose was handwritten in two years, without notes and based on recollection, but seemed too trivial to honor the reader. I destroyed the work in minutes, then began again. It took another three years to compose, then a year to edit the 656 pages." Readings of The Rose of Paracelsus were presented at the University of Greenwich in London in June 2017. Readers included British artist and Resonance FM radio host Simon Tyszko, SEED Restaurant founder Greg Sams and post-doctoral fellow in literature Neşe Devenot. In November 2016, British actor Dudley Sutton did readings of The Rose of Paracelsus at Reading Gaol, in Oscar Wilde's former cell. The Rose also has been reviewed by author and Psychedelic Museum founder Julian Vayne. In November 2017, readings from The Rose were presented at the Altered Conference Berlin, and in December 2017 The Rose was discussed on the major podcast The Joe Rogan Experience with Duncan Trussell. Original videos ⁠⁠here and here The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacrament --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theunadulteratedintellect/support

Rendering Unconscious episode 235. Steve Dee is a Systemic Psychotherapist working in the NHS within the field of mental health social work. He is the author of A Gnostic's Progress: Magic and the Path of Awakening and The Heretic's Journey: Spiritual Freethinking for Difficult Times. He is also the co-author (with Julian Vayne) of the book Chaos Craft. After a near miss with the Anglican Priesthood, he focused his energies on more occult pursuits that have included work within the east/west tantra group AMOOKOS and the Chaos Magic current. His current interest in Gnosticism represents an attempt to explore the way in which joys of heretical freethinking can be harnessed for the benefit of all. He is here to talk about his newest book Chaos Monk. He blogs at https://theblogofbaphomet.com https://youtu.be/pUkiGd1HreU You can support the podcast at our Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated! Join Steve Dee and Julian Vayne live via zoom at Treadwell's London on May 25th for Chaos Squared: https://www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/chaos-squared-julian-vayne-and-steve-dee-in-conversation Mentioned in this episode: New Camaldoli Hermitage: https://www.contemplation.com Join us Sunday, April 16th via Morbid Anatomy Museum, live via zoom – Westworld: Anton LaVey's Total Environments, Gamification and Ghosts in the Machines with Anders Lundgren and Caligula as a Dionysian Affirmation of Life with River, An Online Presentation: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events-tickets/westworld-anton-laveys-total-environments-gamification-and-ghosts-in-the-machines-with-anders-lundgren-and-caligula-as-a-dionysian-affirmationof-life-by-river-an-online-presenation Beginning September 10th via Morbid Anatomy Museum, live via zoom – Harnessing the Magic and Creative Power of the Cut-up Method a la William Burroughs, David Bowie, Genesis P-Orridge, Led by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson: https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/harnessing-the-magic-and-creative-power-of-the-cut-up-method-a-la-william-burroughs-david-bowie-genesis-p-orridge-dr-vanessa-sinclair-and-carl-abrahamsson Check out our previous discussion: RU153: STEVE DEE ON SYSTEMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY, NHS, CHAOS MAGIC, GNOSTICISM: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/art/ru153-steve-dee-on-systemic-psychotherapy-nhs-chaos-magic/ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally: www.drvanessasinclair.net Follow Dr. Vanessa Sinclair on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rawsin_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rawsin_/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@drvanessasinclair23 Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: www.renderingunconscious.org The song at the end of the episode is "Resonant" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy from the album of "Variation of chaos". https://petemurphy.bandcamp.com https://highbrowlowlife.bandcamp.com Music also available to stream via Spotify & other streaming platforms. Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Image: book cover

VYS0016 | We Created It By Talking About It - Vayse to Face with Ken Eakins - Show Notes Slightly intimidated but keen to take notes, in this episode Hine and Buckley interview Ken Eakins, host of the longest running occult podcast out there, Right Where You Are Sitting Now. As well as being a veteran podcaster Ken is also a film maker, Thelemite, former member of the OTO and is generally knowledgeable and well-read on all things weird. The conversation delves deep into topics such as the state of modern Occulture, the best way to start your own magickal practice and what Aleister Crowley has in common with the Kardashians... Recorded 23 January 2023. Ken Eakins Links Right Where You Are Sitting Now Podcast (https://sittingnow.co.uk/) Right Where You Are Sitting Now YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/@sittingnow) Right Where You Are Sitting Now on Twitter (https://twitter.com/SittingNow) Right Where You Are Sitting Now on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/sittingnow/) Hanged Man Films (http://www.hangedmanfilms.com/) Hanged Man Films on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/hangedmanfilms) Ken Eakins on Instagram (http://instagram.com/keneakins) Coincidence Control Network (https://sittingnow.co.uk/category/ccn/) Other Links Right Where You Are Sitting Now (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30966940364&searchurl=kn%3Dright%2Bwhere%2Byou%2Bare%2Bsitting%2Bnow%2Brobert%2Banton%2Bwilson%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1) by Robert Anton Wilson Out There Radio Podcast (https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/qarjw-35e0a/Out-There-Radio-Podcast) - one of the earlier weirdcasts Right Where You Are Sitting Now Interviewing Out There Radio (https://sittingnow.co.uk/episode-one-finally/) DisinfoCast (https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/ckngv-346b6/The-DisinfoCast-Podcast) - The Disinformation podcast John C Lilly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly) - John C Lilly's Wikipedia Page Right Where You Are Sitting Now Interview with Jon Ronson (https://sittingnow.co.uk/episode-10-taming-wolfie-with-jon-ronson/) John Zorn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zorn) Mike Patton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Patton) Secret Chiefs Three (https://secretchiefsthree.bandcamp.com/) The Great Beast: The life and magick of Aleister Crowley (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31398625453&searchurl=kn%3DThe%2BGreat%2BBeast%253A%2BThe%2Blife%2Band%2Bmagick%2Bof%2BAleister%2BCrowley%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title11) - critical biography of Aleister Crowley by John Symonds, currently out of print The Magical Record of the Beast 666 the Diaries of Aleister Crowley (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31199920938&searchurl=kn%3DTHE%2BMAGICAL%2BRECORD%2BOF%2BTHE%2BBEAST%2B666%253A%2BThe%2BDiaries%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1) Edited and annotated by Kenneth Grant and John Symonds, also currently out of print Remembering Aleister Crowley (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22754395471&searchurl=ds%3D20%26kn%3DRemembering%2BAleister%2BCrowley%2Bby%2BKenneth%2BGrant%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1) by Kenneth Grant The Power of Myth (https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-power-of-myth-joseph-campbell/3018609?ean=9780385418867) by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers - “Follow your bliss and don't be afraid... doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.” Augustus Sol Invictus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Sol_Invictus) - Wikipedia page for the far right fuckwit and white nationalist in part reponsible for the violence which claimed three lives at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virgina Mysterious Middle East YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/@MysteriousMiddleEast) The Magical Revival (https://www.treadwells-london.com/product-page/the-magical-revival-pb-kenneth-grant)by Kenneth Grant Aleister Crowley And The Hidden God (https://www.treadwells-london.com/product-page/aleister-crowley-and-the-hidden-god-hb-kenneth-grant)by Kenneth Grant Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic (https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/condensed-chaos-an-introduction-to-chaos-magic-phil-hine/1481272?ean=9781935150664) by Phil Hine Julian Vayne on Twitter (https://twitter.com/JulianVayne) Right Where You Are Sitting Now Interview with Julian Vayne (https://sittingnow.co.uk/episode-50-julian-vayne-gets-higher/) Six Ways (https://www.aidanwachter.com/books) by Aidan Wachter Right Where You Are Sitting Now interview with Andrieh Vitimus (https://sittingnow.co.uk/episode-24-voodoo-dumps-and-chaos-magick-with-andrieh-vitimus/) Illuminates of Thaneteros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminates_of_Thanateros) - Wikipedia page for the Illuminates of Thaneteros Right Where You are Sitting Now (https://sittingnow.co.uk/episode-73-ozark-magic-with-brandon-weston/) - Ozark Magic with Brandon Weston Watkins Books (https://www.watkinsbooks.com/) - World Famous Occult Bookshop in London Sigil Engine (https://www.sigilengine.com/) - a digital art project by creative team Darragh Mason and David Tidman. Penny Royal (https://www.pennyroyalpodcast.com/) The Lovecraft Investigations (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06spb8w/episodes/downloads) - Modern adaptations of Lovecraft Stories by BBC Radio 4 Phil Hine on Twitter (https://twitter.com/PhilH86835657) Pieces of Eight (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pieces-Eight-Chaos-Essays-Enchantments-ebook/dp/B01J9REBIQ) by Gordon White - Use your discretion Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31328969062&searchurl=kn%3Dstarships%2Bgordon%2Bwhite%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title3) by Gordon White - Use your discretion James Wasserman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wasserman) - Wikipedia Page for James Wasserman, occult author, ultra conservative Thelemite and Trump enthusiast The Wasteland (https://marcovisconti2393.medium.com/the-wasteland-504de7a40ee8) by Marco Visconti - An article about why he left the OTO Fitzcarraldo trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWeb7i8IjYs) Aguirre, the Wrath of God Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJDuicFyJPg) Klaus Kinski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Kinski) - Wikipedia Page Right Where You Are Sitting Now - Cults, Conspiracies & Secret Societies with Arthur Goldwag (https://sittingnow.co.uk/episode-38-cults-conspiracies-secret-societies-with-arthur-goldwag/) The Gateway Process - Vice Article (https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9qag/how-to-escape-the-confines-of-time-and-space-according-to-the-cia) The Gateway Process - CIA Analysis and Assessment (https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf) Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts (https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/modern-magick-twelve-lessons-in-the-high-magickal-arts-donald-michael-kraig/1806576?ean=9780738715780) by Donald Michael Kraig Right Where You Are Sitting Now - Modern Magick with Donald Michael Kraig (https://sittingnow.co.uk/episode-32-modern-magick-with-donald-michael-kraig/) Magic: An Occult Primer (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31157499912&searchurl=kn%3DMagic%253A%2Ban%2Boccult%2Bprimer%2Bby%2Bdavid%2Bconway%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2) by David Conway Aleister Crowley's Four Books of Magick: Liber ABA (https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/aleister-crowley-s-four-books-br-of-magick-liber-aba-aleister-crowley/6082815?ean=9781786785190) by Aleister Crowley Magick Without Tears (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30586755043&searchurl=ds%3D20%26kn%3DMagic%2BWithout%2BTears%2Bby%2Baleister%2Bcrowley%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2) by Aleister Crowley Kenneth Anger on IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001910/) Alejandro Jodorowsky IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0423524/) A Dark Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-S3JqJZJ3s) - Horror movie about the Abramelin ritual Rune Soup Podcast (https://runesoup.com/category/podcast/) - Gordon White's podcast - Use your discretion Astonishing Legends Podcast (https://www.astonishinglegends.com/) Project Archivist Podcast (https://projectarchivist.podbean.com/) The Magician and the Fool Podcast (https://themagicianandthefool.podbean.com/) Live from Chapel Perilous with Leroy and Maz (https://livefromchapelperilous.podbean.com/) Living Thelema Podcast (https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/living-thelema-64545) - David Shoemaker's Podcast Tanis Podcast (http://tanispodcast.com/) The Black Tapes Podcast (http://theblacktapespodcast.com/) The Secret History of Twin Peaks (https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-secret-history-of-twin-peaks-mark-frost/3365313?ean=9781447293866) by Mark Frost Limetown Podcast (https://twoupproductions.com/limetown/podcast) Serial Podcast (https://serialpodcast.org/) Archive 81 Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibxKEqxARkE) Twin Peaks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7O1SQm1j5s) - I don't believe that anyone who has read this far into these show notes hasn't seen Twin Peaks Buckley's Civil War Ben Horne Tweet (https://twitter.com/stephenjbuckley/status/1613229449734160386?s=20&t=yvzlJD2iBKq7mdPlSISCYQ) Fire Walk With Me - Extended Blue Rose Cut Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWNTuEP-uQI) Twin Peaks: The Return Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-fjMcdsfgo) Nicolas Winding Refn IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716347/) Copenhagen Cowboy Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KBA_8tyI7U) Brighton Pier (https://www.brightonpier.co.uk/) - The one and only place to take Aleister Crowley should he ever turn up at your door Special Guest: Ken Eakins.

Join the movement to reclaim your spirituality: https://discord.gg/bPy4VcCTMm We're joined this week by eminent occultist Julian Vayne. Julian is a British independent scholar and author with over three decades of experience within esoteric culture: from Druidry to Chaos Magic, from indigenous Shamanism through to Freemasonry and Witchcraft. Growing up in the Britain of punk and then rave culture Julian immersed himself in the philosophy and techniques of magic. His journey into group ritual practice began within the Western Esoteric Tradition when he was 16. Since then he has worked in ceremony with practitioners from many different lands and lineages. Julian is a senior member of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros and widely recognized as one of Britain's leading occultists. To connect with Julian for readings, celebrants or any of his other work, check out his website here: https://julianvayne.com For those in London, Julian also occasionally hosts talks, events, ceremonies and workshop at Treadwells. Ready for more? Follow Mystai in all your usual places:

Meet Julian Vayne, a British independent scholar and author with over three decades of experience within esoteric culture: from Druidry to Chaos Magic, from indigenous Shamanism through to Freemasonry and Witchcraft.In this episode Julian discusses:Role of psychedelics sociallyRituals and Ceremonies and their structural understandingPsychedelics learning vs healingDifference between space holding and research with psychedelicsAnimism, metaphors, spirits, and the techniques of energy work possible in sitting workEleusinian mysteries and the cultures of the pre-colonial Americas Magic in Psychedelic Medicine Bridging research with sacrednessChallenges within the current psychedelic training programsPossibility psychedelic futuresWebsite: julianvayne.comSocial Media handles: @julian.vayneInspiration:https://fungiacademy.com/sacred-space-holder-program/https://www.breakingconvention.co.uk/Awaken The Medicine Within - Retreats awakenthemedicinewithin.comAwaken The Medicine Within - Membership, Courses, and Community Get our 3-Day FREE trial 

When I discovered (well, I was actually made aware of it through a friend) Steve Dee's latest book "Chaos Monk", I was immediately taken in by the title. That combination seemed so intriguing: How would Chaos magic and monastism be part of the same narrative? But when you listen to Steve you will soon find out that his own life experience shows us very well those links. His book is a deeply personal one, and so is this talk. How does monastism work in the 21st century? Where do Magic and monastism - or rather the lessons we can take from it - create a possibility to regain our balance in a world that seems completely out of balance? Going on the quest that Steve proposes to us could be one of those possible paths to walk. Enjoy the episode! Steve Dee is the author of A Gnostic's Progress: Magic and the Path of Awakening, The Heretic's Journey: Spiritual Freethinking for Difficult Times and most recently Chaos Monk . He is also the co-author (with Julian Vayne) of the book Chaos Craft. After a near miss with the Anglican Priesthood, Steve focused his energies on more occult pursuits that have included work within the east/west tantra group AMOOKOS and the Chaos Magic current. His current interest in Gnosticism represents an attempt to explore the way in which joys of heretical freethinking can be harnessed for the benefit of all. His professional background is within the field of mental health social work and he currently works as a Systemic Psychotherapist.   Here you will find Steve's books on Amazon Steve Dee's personal blog Music played in this episode Given that in this episode we speak about traditional occultism as well as Eastern influences, I thought it would be a nice idea to play some Traditional Buddhist music.  1) AJIKAN - Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin (Track starts at 6:56) 2) THE FOUR GREAT VOWS     THE THREE REFUGES - The Congretation Of Cha'an Meditation Center (Track starts at 53:19) 3) DORJE PHURBA - Orchestra Of The Khampagar Monastery (Track starts at 1:38:29) Intro and Outro Musicespecially written and recorded for the Thoth-Hermes Podcast by Chris Roberts

In this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison answer your questions! This is the first of what will be many Q&A episodes, so if you like the show and want Reid and Steve to answer your questions, email them to psychfrontiers@novamind.ca (1:54) Introduction to the topic(4:36) What are the pros and cons of legalizing psychedelic therapy?(13:22) Is there a preferred therapy modality to use with psychedelic therapy?(17:58) Episode on the essential qualities of a psychedelic therapist(21:46) What should you do/not do while on magic mushrooms(22:24) Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony, by Julian Vayne(24:16) The Psychedelic Handbook, by Rick Strassman(31:32) What resources can you share for psychedelic integration?(38:48) Psychedelics and methylene blue (42:45) Does ketamine help with bipolar depression?(49:19) Can you fully heal your mind through psychedelic work vs staying on antidepressants?(55:00) What is your biggest life advice?Email us questions and feedback at psychfrontiers@novamind.ca Learn more about our podcast at https://www.psychedelictherapyfrontiers.com/Learn more about Novamind at https://www.novamind.ca/Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drstevethayer/https://www.instagram.com/innerspacedoctor/https://www.instagram.com/novamind_inc/Disclaimer: The content of this podcast does not constitute medical advice or mental health treatment. Consult with a medical/mental health professional if you believe you are in need of mental health treatment.

Thanks for your patience to wait a week longer than usual for this new episode! This episode is actually a very special one as I have the pleasure to welcome Mogg Morgan as my co-host. Mogg has been the publisher of Mandrake Press for many years and recently we aired an episode of the show where he talked about himself and his work. This time we will be having a wonderful discussion with our guest, author and practitioner Nikki Wyrd on quite a few pretty fascinating topics. Nikki holds a degree in ecology and has written ‘The Book of Baphomet' together with Julian Vayne in 2012 which was published with Mandrake Press, she has contributed to many periodicals and collections of poetry and authored theses and academic papers on subjects such as psychedelic culture and magical thinking and philosophy. In this episode Nikki will let us know how the path was laid out in front of her with her great-grandmother and grandmother reading fortune-teller cards and using a crystal ball. She will tell our audience how she cultivated an interest in mythology and religious and philosophical belief systems as well as in psychedelic mushrooms, Carlos Castaneda's and Robert Anton Wilson's work and how she soon found these topics intertwined in a perfect match. As Nikki was the head of the British Isle section of the IOT for quite some time we will go deep into concepts of Chaos Magick, discuss Crowley's role within it, share some anecdotes about Simon, the Goth, and touch upon ‘Liber Null & Psychonaut' by Peter Caroll on the way. Our guest will also elaborate on women in magick in general and within the IOT specifically, shed some light on the grade system within this order and let us know how divination, invocation, evocation, conjuration, illumination are all integral parts of serious studies of the occult. In the end we will be talking a bit about the future of magick in general and Nikki's projects in this context, including a book on standard chaos monastic practices to be published within days, teachings online and in person, launching her new website and hopefully much more writing. Nikky Wyrd's homepage The Universe Machine Psychedelic press Breaking Convention IOT Blog Mandrake (Mogg Morgan's publishing company) Music played in this episode This week's music is dedicated to psychedelic rock for a good reason (see the title of the episode). As I am myself not really a specialist of the genre, I though I offer you WIKIPEDIA'S thoughts on it: Psychedelic rock is a rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music incorporated new electronic sound effects and recording effects, extended solos, and improvisation.Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often applied spuriously. Originating in the mid-1960s among British and American musicians, the sound of psychedelic rock invokes three core effects of LSD: depersonalization, dechronicization, and dynamization, all of which detach the user from reality. Musically, the effects may be represented via novelty studio tricks, electronic or non-Western instrumentation, disjunctive song structures, and extended instrumental segments. Some of the earlier 1960s psychedelic rock musicians were based in folk, jazz, and the blues, while others showcased an explicit Indian classical influence called "raga rock". In the 1960s, there existed two main variants of the genre: the more whimsical, surrealist British psychedelia and the harder American West Coast "acid rock". While "acid rock" is sometimes deployed interchangeably with the term "ps...

Steve Dee is a Systemic Psychotherapist working in the NHS within the field of mental health social work. He is the author of A Gnostic's Progress: Magic and the Path of Awakening and The Heretic's Journey: Spiritual Freethinking for Difficult Times. He is also the co-author (with Julian Vayne) of the book Chaos Craft. After a near miss with the Anglican Priesthood, Steve focused his energies on more occult pursuits that have included work within the east/west tantra group AMOOKOS and the Chaos Magic current. His current interest in Gnosticism represents an attempt to explore the way in which joys of heretical freethinking can be harnessed for the benefit of all.  He currently blogs over at : https://theblogofbaphomet.com This episode is available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/dg_KA31gtzw Visit http://psychartcult.org for links to Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult residency at Morbid Anatomy Museum, online, Sundays in September. https://www.morbidanatomy.org/events Ornette Coleman at The Golden Circle: https://www.bluenote.com/spotlight/ornette-coleman-trio-at-the-golden-circle/ Sacred Intent by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Carl Abrahamsson: https://store.trapart.net/details/00176 Watch Anton LaVey: Into the Devil's Den: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/intothedevilsden/375129601 Pre-order Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan: https://www.innertraditions.com/books/anton-lavey-and-the-church-of-satan Mary Wild's Projections series at the Freud Museum, London: https://www.freud.org.uk/event/projections-marilyn-monroes-screen-persona/ You can support the podcast at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Thank you so much for your support! Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair: http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: http://www.renderingunconscious.org Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 The song at the end of the episode is “A Thin Garden” from the album Loyalty Does Not End With Death by Carl Abrahamsson and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Portrait of Steve Dee

Julian Vayne is a British independent scholar and author with over three decades of experience within esoteric culture: from Druidry to Chaos Magic, from indigenous Shamanism through to Freemasonry and Witchcraft.Growing up in the Britain of punk and then rave culture, Julian immersed himself in the philosophy and techniques of magic. His journey into group ritual practice began within the Western Esoteric Tradition when he was 16. Since then has worked in ceremony with practitioners from many different lands and lineages.Julian is a co-organizer of the psychedelic conference Breaking Convention, and a Trustee of The Psychedelic Museum Project. He facilitates psychedelic ceremony, as well as providing one-to-one psychedelic integration sessions and support. In 2017 he published the celebrated book Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony.Today Julian is the author of books, essays, journals and articles in both the academic and esoteric press. He sees his work as part of the process to help re-imagine an earth-centered, non-dogmatic, open-source spirituality. He shares his practice through mentoring, workshops, online teaching and retreats.Julian's website: https://julianvayne.comTopics: psychedelics, magick, healing, therapy, community, culture•••Music: Royal Fern by Green House (https://green-house.bandcamp.com)Support the Podcast: Single Donation: http://ko-fi.com/brianjamesPatreon: http://patreon.com/medicinepath Coaching & Books: http://brianjames.ca Yoga Courses: https://vimeo.com/brianjamesyoga/vod_pagesUse code MEDICINEPATH or link below for 15% off the Shamanic Yoga series: https://vimeo.com/r/334h/MFJHQkFEVk

Jasper Degenaarsis is on a mission to share and empower the global community with the magical wisdom of sacred mushrooms and the archetypes they bring forth for healing. Nestled in the lush green lands of Guatemala is the Fungi Academy HQ, a space Degenaars envisioned for journeying, learning, growing, creating, cultivating, and intentional community living. An extension of this Psilocybin empowering community is the Sacred School Of Mycology; An online space where people connect globally to learn the art of sacred mushroom cultivation and become skilled psychonaut's through psychedelic journeywork courses. With the growing consideration around normalising/legalising the use of psychedelic medicine, this conversation between two chief mushroom men couldn't have landed at a better time. Mase and Jasper get into the realities and beauty of community living, how to responsibly grow and hold space for people journeying with sacred mushrooms, the emergence of the psychedelic 'industry', and staying connected while living in a capitalist world and honouring the financial part of a successful business. This conversation really highlights the beauty and healing our magical fungi friends are bringing into the world. Tune in!    "I've had mushrooms that I know came from big-ass laboratories, and they didn't feel nice to me. I don't resonate with that at all. But I do resonate with the mushrooms myself or my friends grow. Because we put in our intentions, our magic, our prayers, our grace, and our thanks. That's a big part of it". - Jasper Degenaars   Mase and Jasper discuss:   Sacred mushrooms. Reimagining education. Psychedelic censorship. Psychedelic journeywork. Why quality products matter. Decriminalisation of psychedelics. Clinical application of psychedelics. Mycorrhizal sphere (aka. the wood wide web). Growing Psilocybin as an individual vs big labs. Psychedelics for PTSD, depression and healing. The power of online psychedelic integration circles.   Who is Jasper Degenaars? Jasper Degenaars is the CEO of Fungi Academy and the co-founder of the Sacred Mycology Online School. The first fungi-focused online school that teaches individuals how to grow, and work with Psilocybe cubensis anywhere in the world. He has taught over 1000 people how to successfully grow all kinds of mushrooms. Born and raised in The Netherlands he knows the potential of a legal psychedelic landscape where the cultivation and consumption of Psychoactive substances are not punished by law. He believes that Sacred Mushrooms have the potential to deepen our connection with nature, ourselves, and our communities.   CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON APPLE PODCAST    Resources: Tiktok Twitter Youtube Facebook The Fungi Academy Sacred Mycology School Fungi Academy Instagram Jasper's personal Instagram Julian Vayne/Getting Higher Book SUPERFEAST (discount code for cultivation course)   Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast? A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher, CastBox, iHeart RADIO:)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Mason: (00:00) All right, let's go.   Jasper Degenaars: (00:02) Yeah, excited. Thanks for having me on, Mason.   Mason: (00:05) Pleasure. Jasper, how are you, brother?   Jasper Degenaars: (00:08) I am actually really good today. I just came from a weird stomach thing, combined with a couple sessions of Kambo. So for a couple days I was feeling pretty weak and just recharging my batteries, listening to audio books. But today, I woke up and I had so much energy and I got so many things done and spent some time next to the river, so today was a good day.   Mason: (00:29) Nice. Yeah, I mean, it is a good day, you're lucky. Normally I ask everyone in a segment called up your guts, and I ask every guest to explain what's going in their guts and what their bowel movements are like. But we've just decided not to do that. So you're getting off today.   Jasper Degenaars: (00:44) Sweet.   Mason: (00:44) Yeah and it seems like it would have been a bit of a mess going in there.   Jasper Degenaars: (00:48) Yeah, yeah that would be like the whole podcast.   Mason: (00:51) We're sparing you, everybody. No more up your guts, and we're going to go more into the psychonaut, psychedelic, mushroom space. I'm really looking forward to this. We've chatted about mushrooms, of course. Everyone that, they ask me like, "Oh, what do you do?" And I'm like, "I sell medicinal mushrooms." And they're like, "Not those kinds of mushrooms, hey?" I have to have that chat and have that dad joke thrown at me every day. But you, we've got that. We've talked about clinical mushrooms in a clinical setting, but never in the context of what you're doing. Maybe I've introed you slightly, but I'd love for you to give everyone a bit of a spiel of what's going on over in Fungi Academy. Fungi Academy? Do you say Fungi or Fungi?   Jasper Degenaars: (01:41) I say Fungi, because it's a fungus. But in Dutch it's like Fungi. In Spanish it's Fungi. It doesn't really matter.   Mason: (01:50) Must be my Spanish blood. Fungi.   Jasper Degenaars: (01:53) Yeah, probably. What we do at Fungi Academy, we're based in Guatemala, that's where our high headquarters is at. But our community is basically worldwide. We teach people about all kinds of mushrooms. Edible, medicinal, and what we call the sacred mushrooms, or what most people refer to as the magic mushrooms. My expertise is mainly in cultivating and teaching people about beneficial properties. I have a lot of learning about ethnomycologies, so traditional uses of any kind of mushroom. And here in Mesoamerica, it's obviously the sacred or the psychedelic mushrooms, they used to consume up to 38 different species of psilocybe alone, here in Central America.   Jasper Degenaars: (02:36) Besides a fungal education centre, or like mushroom school, however you want to call it, we're also an intentional community. So we live with a bunch of people together, we create art. Right now, it is visionary art, it is making this epic mural. We grow mushrooms together. We make music together, and basically live together with a bunch of people. This is why I think it's really interesting to live in a community, because it's basically a psychedelic experience all day every day, because you get faced with, it's a house of mirrors, right? The psychedelic experience is a house of mirrors, but living with the same people, and confronting archetypes that come up and play with each other. So we can deal with these on a day-to-day basis is very nurturing and very healing, and often a lot of people ... Got to burp.   Mason: (03:23) Definitely.   Jasper Degenaars: (03:26) See, that's the gut thing.   Mason: (03:28) Totally. Mi casa, su casa. Yep.   Jasper Degenaars: (03:30) Okay. Yeah. That archetype of connection is very mycelium-like, right? Mycelium is not one organism, it's many, many organisms working together. We, as humanity, we are destined to do the same thing. Unfortunately, our western society has bred us to be in this individualistic mindset of, it's us against the world. Or if you're married, it's me and my partner against the world. But we're tribal people. We're meant to live in groups. I really think that is the future for us, especially if we're looking at whole life humanity. It's like, right now, you're born, you grow up in your family with your parents and there you have two adults teaching you. In traditional cultures, hunter-gatherer cultures, or even small farm towns, you have many adults teaching you the ways. Your uncle as well, and your uncle is maybe a really good shoe maker or something.   Jasper Degenaars: (04:33) If you're old right now the state takes care of you. But in the past, that would've been your community. We're really getting more and more people warmed up for these bigger communities that are also taking shape, where people really want to live their whole life, raise a family, grow old, and this kind of thing. Often, this goes hand in hand with sustainability, right? Because if you live in a community, you want to be able to support your neighbours and your loved ones with food and medicine. If you know how to grow mushrooms, you can grow food and medicine. It's a super powerful skillset to have.   Mason: (05:08) Yeah it's cool. The intentional community thing, it's such a beautiful conversation. You can see people dive into it just thinking, "This is just going to instantly be bliss, and I'm sure it'll just all naturally happen. You're on audio, there's a big shaking of the head. But you brought up a couple of things. Just very quickly, I think it leads into work with mushrooms or other psychedelics. You can see, if you're in a house of mirrors constantly, which is whether you're in a community, whether you're in a business, whether you're living even in a suburb, it's a neighbourhood that has interactions. You're getting these reflections. You've got to be willing to do the work and change. And look at what's coming at you in the mirror. Every time I've heard of a community not working, not panning out so well, it's when the way that it systemically works is, a capacity for people who aren't willing to actually look at the reflection, take on that capacity to change, come back to that part of them, maybe come back to their own true nature.   Mason: (06:10) But then continue to evolve, and actually really change. Whether that's changing the mannerisms, whether beliefs are able to evolve and change, you need to really get malleable. I don't think people realise just how malleable and adaptogenic you need to get when you're living in a community, when you go and start doing work, inner world, or inter dimensional work with psychedelics, all that kind of stuff. I think this leads in. I'm sure you've seen, and maybe not, because maybe you guys are actually good facilitators. But you're in the psychedelic world, you can almost see, like living in a community, you can see people that may be in a loop. You can see the loop and people, it actually gets really egoic, and people just want to dominate and they don't actually want to change.   Mason: (06:56) Same with whether it's some kind of therapy, or some kind of psychedelic work, you can just loop. You're not actually willing to go through and change, and really get uncomfortable in that new space. I'm curious how much you sit and hold that space. I can just feel that energy from you, talking about the community, and I thought I'd just jump right into it. Because it's always the piece that's not missing, people talk about it. It's just the hardest one, I think, to nail in this work.   Jasper Degenaars: (07:26) Yeah, it's very challenging, right? Because when those stuck energies start to happen, or these loops start to happen, often, and especially regarding men in the community, confrontation needs to happen. There needs to be a moment where you both sit and confrontation doesn't have to be violent, right? Where you both vocalise your perception. So how do you experience it? It always goes from I statements. For example, I feel not seen when I just cleaned the kitchen, often it's about the kitchen. Doesn't matter if you live with some flatmates or a bunch of hippies, it's always about the kitchen, you know?   Mason: (08:03) It's always about the dishes in the sink and the kitchen and the crumbs.   Jasper Degenaars: (08:06) Yeah.   Mason: (08:08) [crosstalk 00:08:08].   Jasper Degenaars: (08:09) But a good example would be like, "I don't feel seen when I just worked hard to clean the kitchen for everybody, and you come and you cook, and you leave it like shit, and I don't feel appreciated." That's like sharing your reality and your experience. Then you often come with desires. Like "I would really appreciate for next time if I clean the kitchen, that you just clean your shit after it." This way, this is a very basic example, right? But most of the times when you always work from I am statements, share your experience, and then come up with requests. Often what works really well, as well, in these kind of confrontations, is repeating. If, for example, this person that does not clean the dishes, after this person just cleans the whole kitchen, it would be like, "I see, you don't feel seen or appreciated when I come into a clean kitchen and make a mess, basically."   Jasper Degenaars: (08:59) Repetition of what the other person has said is a very powerful tool to create not only an understanding but also an empathy within ourselves. Yeah most of the time, this is a lot of work. Luckily, to an extent, right now, we've been living with the same group of people due to COVID for quite a little bit longer, so we understand each other in lots of ways. But yeah, it goes with a lot of talking and communicating and expressing needs and desires. It's like living in a partnership, basically. A romantic partnership, with a bunch of people, because you want everybody's needs to be met. And you want everybody to thrive and to be happy, because we're all here for the same goal, because we love the mission and we sometimes call the over soul of the community, right?   Jasper Degenaars: (09:42) Because as a community member, you can not only think of yourself, or what you think is good for the community, but you really have to start understanding what is good for the common consensus of the community. Yeah, right now, for me, it's an extra challenging time with our main community leader, Oliver Merivee, passing away in December. We were also running the online school together. Now a lot of things came onto my shoulders, and we're currently in the process of finding, really, somebody that can not only hold space for these potential conflicts, but also gets all the logistical things of the space done, and that makes sure that there's enough food for everybody. Because right now it's very spread out, but I used to be more the manager, together with Oliver, the moment one falls away and you have to take more on your shoulders, it's very challenging.   Jasper Degenaars: (10:39) Right now, I've actually decided to step a little bit away from the physical community. Also since there's a lot of people that have lived there for a longer time, so I can give away a lot of the responsibility. But yeah, it's the way that I want to live, but it's not always the easier, like you said. It's not always singing Kumbaya, and yeah, living in paradise. But it is living in paradise, and I've grown so much from it. It's unbelievable how much I've grown as a communicator, as a person, as somebody that can listen. Actually mostly, I learned to be a better listener form being in a community.   Mason: (11:16) Yeah, and they're things you will take with you for the rest of your life. Everything I hear, you're like, all right, you sit back and you get the dominance of your ego out of the way, you learn some skills, and you sit back and you see what emerges. Even though there's one person that might have this solid idea, it's like anything. It's like, I have an idea of the spiritual being that I want to evolve into. Then if you get too attached to it, you don't actually move. You keep looping. Same with the community, how you want it to be, you can sit back, and you trust, and you see what emerges by getting yourself into a place where your virtues are coming out, rather than you just wanting to dominate a win or avoid being dominated, and avoid conflict, and all those kinds of things. And you have to get that uncomfortable evolutionary phase and go, "Oh, this is who I'm going to become now. This is actually where I need to be now."   Mason: (12:04) And it's like, it's not what it looked like, what that younger self thought it was going to be. But it takes balls. It also takes balls for you guys to go after this mission. I'm curious, I'm sure it's an evolving mission. I'm sure it's got more of an evolving feel rather than just the words that I'll ask you for. But yeah, what is it? What's bringing the cohesion, and that mycelial connection between you all there?   Jasper Degenaars: (12:34) Yeah. So our mission actually is empowering a global community to share the magical fungal wisdom in many ways, as a society, and as humanity. We have so much to learn from all these archetypes from the mushrooms. I think the last conversation we talked about that they are creating abundance for everybody around them. They are literally taking the trash, the bad things in the ecosystem, so trees can flourish. And if trees flourish, animals will flourish. They're all doing it together, right? They're connecting the trees to what some people all the mycorrhizal sphere, also known as the Wood Wide Web. They're connecting, and they're creating harmony and unison in these ecosystems. That's really what inspires us.   Jasper Degenaars: (13:22) I really see that also as the lessons of the sacred mushrooms, right? I was actually talking to quite an influential figure in the psychedelic space as well. He had a very similar idea of how psychedelic "industry" is evolving, because he saw this beautiful symbiotic network where everybody is collaborating and right now a lot of us see capitalism as a place for competition. But actually, the world is so big, and especially in the online realms, there's so much room for collaboration on all sides. I, personally, see this in myself, and I've heard this from many other people, that that's one of the big lessons of the sacred mushroom in a journey. I need to work more together with other people. How can I help smaller organisations that are doing something similar to what I'm doing? And how can I call in help from people that are a little bit further ahead?   Jasper Degenaars: (14:15) Yeah, that's the most powerful thing that I, every day, get from the mushrooms. And yeah, mushrooms are epic. Most of us here know how to cultivate them, love cultivating. Some are really way more interested in applying some of the newer ways that are coming into micro-remediation. They're really thinking, how do we apply this on small scales to develop this technology, so we can develop on big scales? It's really about mycology and mushrooms, and community and psychedelics. But it's also mainly about learning. We are all about learning anything. Especially regarding the natural realms. If you're just surrounded by other people that are focused on growing as an individual by becoming, for example, a better listener, but also growing as an individual by gaining a skill or gaining more knowledge so that they can share that knowledge with other people, it's very inspiring.   Mason: (15:15) Yeah. Everything, because right now, my main community, my little micro one in my family, but then business, you know I was putting so much time in the business. When I was your age, I thought I'd be in a community when I was my age. But running around the forest naked. But instead I'm upgrading to a collar, at the moment, as I get into our winter rather than my Bond singlet. And wearing shoes more often. But nonetheless, everything is saying there, it's the exact same in the community I'm feeling here. But I'm interested to hear a little bit more, because this is something I talk about and have talked about quite a lot in collaboration with businesses that are doing something similar.   Mason: (15:56) Sometimes, I'm not ragging, I like a little bit of competition. I'm not ragging on people that come in, especially at this late stage of the industry, and they feel they really need to elbow their way in. And they've got a little bit of an, I don't know, survival instinct going on, that they need to quickly stamp on that person. There's a lot of backstabbing starting to happen, even in the medicinal mushroom space. And it's going to happen because we're humans. But I do see more and more the presence of that integrity of like, there's enough for everybody. Just those little acts of always being available to help someone who's emerging, coming up, sharing resources.   Mason: (16:39) Also, having boundaries in that. I'm interested to hear a little bit more about your process. You guys are getting to a particular size now, how have you experienced the collaboration with people that are bigger? What was your personal journey in setting your expectations of what is an appropriate collaboration, an appropriate connection, versus one that was an unrealistic connection to make? I don't know if you've got much to share, but I'd love the people listening to this podcast to get the insight of what's going on in our minds constantly as there is a bit of capitalism there, or there's a bit of hierarchy there, and there's finances, and all those kinds of things going, how to stay connected really deep into the ground at the same time, while we're honouring that financial part of the business.   Jasper Degenaars: (17:34) That's a really good question. In general, I reach out, that's the main thing. That's one of the reasons why we have the mycophile of the week feature in our newsletter. Because I was like, how can I just connect more with other people that are doing epic stuff? And maybe give them a little bump, right? Especially, our main platform is our Instagram. Then a lot of people that are smaller, yeah, of course, they can get a bunch of new followers and a bunch of new spotlight from just being on that. In general, I feel, especially the people that are working in mushroom cultivation, are beyond generous and helpful. Sometimes a little bit too much. That they're like, "Oh my God, this person is amazing, they should totally come and be your master cultivator." Then they come, and we've had this once quite recently.   Jasper Degenaars: (18:20) It was like, okay, this person is definitely an epic human being. I don't know if they're a master cultivator, but they really wanted to help. Sometimes they're like, too generously wanting to help can also come into a little bit of a flaws. But I, personally, am quite an open book with many things, and I'm always very curious to see how different peoples' approaches ... It happened a couple times that people said something, that they wouldn't do something, then they would do something. It was kind of like, my ego or my head, I don't really know, I was like, "You said something that they wouldn't do it, and now they did it." And now that's kind of our competition.   Jasper Degenaars: (18:59) But then again, that is only my reality. Because in their reality, they just did the thing that they were most excited about, and they probably thought was best for their business. But in the meantime, the connection, these people are still really warm and especially when "disaster" happened and our Instagram got completely blocked out two weeks ago, everybody jumped in. Okay, well we also reached out. It was like, "What can we do? Can we feature? Do you know any people in the media? We need to talk about psychedelic censorship." It really felt that those moments, you really feel the community of businesses coming together.   Jasper Degenaars: (19:40) I feel if you are in a geographical same location, then it might be a little bit more challenging, because you can actually get to a stage where there's too much competition. Where you've saturated the market. But because we're mainly working in the online realm, there's so much to discover. There's so many more people, all these verbs today, coming into the psychedelic space, and the mushroom space as well. Everybody wants to connect with somebody different. That's kind of how I see it. This is a word that people kind of hate marketing. But I see marketing as storytelling. Right? But all of our storytelling is different because we all come from different backgrounds, and we all have a slightly different way of seeing how we can change the world. But it doesn't mean that we can't coexist together. That's the main thing that I've been really looking into right now.   Jasper Degenaars: (20:34) The moment that somebody comes in, like for example, I just got word of an impromptu psychedelic conference in Denver, and nobody in the psychedelic community there knew anybody that was organising it, so they just didn't go. That's the thing. Because the psychedelic community is so tight-knit that it's really easy to connect with the "big players" of this community.   Mason: (20:58) Big players, yeah.   Jasper Degenaars: (20:58) And the moment that somebody else comes in with big money, I think this is a marijuana company, everybody's just like, "No, this is not aligned with what we really care about, and it's not featuring any of the people that we think should be featured in these conversations." I think that's kind of where a lot of the psychedelic industry's going towards. I think a good example is, for example, Compass Pathways. They are the big Darth Vader of the psychedelic industry right now, because they're trying to patent holding hands, soft furniture, and psychedelic ceremonies with a therapist. It's just, yeah.   Mason: (21:34) Really?   Jasper Degenaars: (21:35) Yeah, they're really trying. They're suing people, and they're doing absolutely horrendous stuff. But the whole community right now hates them basically. I think hate is a big word, but everybody, this proves about them, if we talk about how we're not wanting to see this psychedelic business and enterprises and culture evolving, we all use Compass as a great example of how not to do this. I don't know if that's ever reversible, right? Because if all the people that you talk to have something negative to say about Compass, who would still invest in Compass? Who would still want to sit with any of the psychotherapists trained by Compass? Long-term, those smudges don't fade, as long as the whole community has similar values and one organisation doesn't have the same values. It's really hard to break a community.   Jasper Degenaars: (22:29) It's really easy to break an individual organisation. But if there's a community of organisations with the same goal in mind, it's really hard to break through that, I think.   Mason: (22:38) It's interesting when you see the emergence of, let's say a right-brained community. And then you see the inevitable emergence of a dominated left-brain community. It happened in Chinese Medicine, I've talked about it quite a bit on the podcast where it's like Taoist Shamanic Earth-bound Herbalism. Up until, we see, about 400 AD, you see the commodifying left-side brain, ultra-organising. It's almost like left kind of open-ended politics and the right kind of really structured type of politics, going to the extremes. It's an interesting one to navigate, when you're on one side of the fence. It's a hard one to hold cohesion between those two inevitables. Especially when you're in the midst of the real trademarking and real industrialization of something. And you can see it goes so far away from its centre.   Mason: (23:41) I mean, yeah, it must be interesting. We've got our own experience of it in the tonic and medicine mushroom world. But with the psychedelic, it must bring up lots of confusing feelings and some very good ... What word am I looking for? Some good material for really going, "This is happening." How are we going to now navigate this new world, now that this has become a hot shit topic that everyone wants to get in on?   Jasper Degenaars: (24:19) It almost makes you wonder, right, do these people even take the medicine? Or are they just seeing this massive boost that cannabis had in the last couple of years, and they just think that psychedelics are the new cannabis, and they want to invest, and they want to be the first, and they want to elbow their way in? Because I just can't imagine, after fighting for that patent, and then they would sit in ceremony, that they must get some message that this is now the way to do it. You know?   Mason: (24:47) Some people are here to play different roles, I guess. Because you brought up marketing. I think one of my favourite marketing books, I think the name is Red Ocean Blue Ocean Marketing. Do you know that book?   Jasper Degenaars: (25:09) It does sound familiar, but I don't think I've read it.   Mason: (25:11) It's just classic, red ocean is when you think there's a certain amount of the market share. And now, we divide the market share between us, and that mentality is okay when there's not huge players. Then all of a sudden, big players start coming in and it's like, hang on, now we're going to really need to fight, and get bloody over that market share. Whereas if you can keep on evolving, and you can go over into the blue ocean, where you are allowing the emergence of new markets and new possibilities, and you've got a foot working your way in, getting attention from the people who are yours in that red ocean, hopefully without actually spilling blood. Then you keep on going with your own core values and you allow your blue ocean market to continue to emerge.   Mason: (26:05) I do like business, even though I think it's ... Anyway, I'm doing a talk this weekend about ethical enterprise, they've called it, at Renew Fest. I'm basically going subversive, I want to talk about the bullshit story we tell ourselves about business is going to save the world, and all this crap. All this shitty justification. But for all of that, I do enjoy business, even though I don't identify as a businessman, really I'm in one. And I am objectively one. I do like the dojo of it. I'm really interested to see where this goes for you guys, especially when you're holding such a sacred space, and then you see such a commodifying ... Yeah. I get the emotion. Because the gravity of what's happened to Taoist herbalism, it being connected so deeply not just to a theory of the elements.   Mason: (27:00) But meditating with and experiencing the wild, never-ending transformation and changing of nature within ourselves, within the micro, within the macro, within the micros within us, that have been in the macros, so on and so forth. It's so deep and such an intimate connection. When you see a system come in and go, "We need to be able to sell this." And they go robotic and they're like, "Bee boop boop. Is this yang, is this these other five elements, learn. Do not think about them, do not feel them, just repeat." It's hard. It really gets you in the fucking heart. I can imagine for you guys, it being so fresh. It's really fresh, this commodification.   Jasper Degenaars: (27:48) Yeah.   Mason: (27:49) Yeah. It must be wild.   Jasper Degenaars: (27:52) It is quite wild. To go back a little bit into this idea of ethical business and stuff like this, a word that kept coming back to me is quality, right? You're talking about traditional Chinese Medicine and herbalism. There's only this black and white ying/yang idea, they're the only two things. But that's not quality to me. That's like looking at [inaudible 00:28:13] as just not enough to me. You have good enough in business, but you also have not enough. Some people like that. But the people that are really interested in the quality experience, either by having amazing medicinal mushroom tools and herbs, to your disposal, by amazing companies like SuperFeast.   Mason: (28:38) [crosstalk 00:28:38].   Jasper Degenaars: (28:38) Or you want to have an epic learning experience ... Yeah. Well a lot of my Australian friends are kind of stoked that I was going to be on here. So you've got to take a little bit of credit of what you've accomplished in these last years, right? The ego gets in the way sometimes. But sometimes, these are also good reminders that we're on the right path. These are all positive affirmations, and we can tell ourselves positive affirmations, but we can also get positive affirmations from the outside world. To go back a little bit in this idea of quality, right, because we spend so much time in really thinking about how do we learn as individuals? How do I learn in the best way? Often that comes with humour, and it comes with easy ways to remember quite complex topics.   Jasper Degenaars: (29:23) Like somebody, for example, explains an adaptogen. Like a car that has to go up and down the hill. But then an adaptogen makes you go on cruise control. Somehow, that made sense to me. Then I started to remember it like that.   Mason: (29:37) That's cool.   Jasper Degenaars: (29:39) Together, we live in such a visual age with Instagram and all these other lights that are coming into our eyeballs. Together with, they just changed the name, but director of creativity, basically, Holden Davis, he's actually an Australian, and he's one of the best videographers, directors, I've ever had the blessing to working with. So we not only create something that's fun and engaging, but it's also beautiful to look at, and really the quality of what we are about, that speaks for itself. If somebody wants to have a less quality course, or wants to do a four hour course with an old lady behind a desk filmed on her phone, the kind of workshop, that's not what we're about. I really think that's the blue ocean that we're all creating for ourselves, is really doing the thing that we would like to have in the world.   Jasper Degenaars: (30:35) I think especially online education is so archaic, or education right now is archaic. Especially online. Why? I had a super interesting seminar, it lasted eight hours on the Michika, they call themselves, and they're a sacred mushroom use. This man was just having a really old PowerPoint presentation, and would take 20 second breaks. That's maybe tolerable in a university setting. But online, I'm not going to ... I'm sorry, this is my jam. This is what I absolutely love to learn. But this way of absorbing the knowledge is just not the way that I want to absorb that knowledge. It's the same with medicinal mushroom supplements. I don't know if that's a good word, supplements, or working with these amazing allies that create these beneficial compounds and energies.   Jasper Degenaars: (31:25) If I really want to collaborate with them, I want a mushroom that's grown in their natural environments. Maybe even in the time of year that they like to grow, and sourced ethically. I don't want anything mass produced. I don't want some mycelium grown on grain. Because I just want something that's good for me, and that I like working with. Again, that's where this idea of quality comes in. There's even this old German proverb, it's like, "I can't afford to buy cheap because then you have to keep buying it."   Mason: (31:55) Cool.   Jasper Degenaars: (31:55) I think what is really arising from this non-commercialistic or non-mass production movement in many ways, as some people exclaim it to be zero waste movement, which is very similar in many aspects. It's like, I just don't want to buy something that's not going to last. Because that's A, not sustainable for the planet. And that's not creating a nice experience for myself, and that's why I'm getting this thing in the first place. There's many different ways of looking at business and collaboration. I think this is why podcasts and what we do with Instagram Live is such a cool way to collaborate with people, right? Because you can share each others' stories which, again, marketing with each others' audiences, and then everybody's happy.   Jasper Degenaars: (32:40) Because we have an amazing conversation, your audience gets to know a little bit more about mushrooms and possibly Fungi Academy, and maybe one of those people will be like, "Fuck, Fungi Academy sounds like an epic place, I need to go to Guatemala." Because that can happen. And then an individual's life is changed. I think that is really the beauty of the age of the internet that we live in. And we just have to understand that internet, a lot of it is also not quality, right? Most Instagram is not quality. So consume quality in all shapes and manners and support locally. Because locally there is often more quality.   Mason: (33:13) A couple of things to sort out, I love how the Germans have a proverb for everything .   Jasper Degenaars: (33:22) Of course.   Mason: (33:23) It's like I've got a couple of German mates, and it is just endless giggles for me, hearing the sayings and the traditions that just kind of, "Yes, we have a tradition for that." You talked about marketing in this type of conversation. Talking about that side of whether it's herbalism or mushroom cultivation or usage that goes towards, say, the left brain of commodification and structure and sending a system out there, having an aspect of that organisation, utilising maybe the technology and you can feel that go into a black and white kind of sphere, while staying connected to that right brain, real nice and chaotic style of marketing that keeps you connected to the essence. You can see that collaboration between those two ways of being, and it's really, those develop a real nice insight there.   Mason: (34:21) Now, the work there, of Fungi Academy, I can really see you guys, I can see a similarity between the Taoist style of herbalism and the Traditional Chinese Medicine, the 1950s Maoists kind of coming in, they created a new westernised pathology, talking about western disease states and how to treat them, with various points and formulas. I can see how you guys now talk about the teaching of cultivation of the sacred mushroom on an online course, teaching people where to access the spores. I can see you're in this big boom, where the clashing could be, because you're right in the middle of people wanting to institutionalise and completely own the capacity to administer mushrooms. I've heard it from practitioners going, "You really should only do this from a trained practitioner."   Mason: (35:22) It's like, "Well, that's a very left-brained black and white, you're ultimate in this kind of sphere, ultimate republican way of thinking about it." Whereas, how did we get here? Same with herbalism. People are like, "No, no, only practitioners trained in these universities are allowed to administer herbs." It's like, "What about the last 10,000 years of people gaining a less institutionalised way of bringing those herbs into their lives, into the community, with a certain amount of wisdom?" That's what you're bringing out with the mushrooms. I can really see that world that you're inhabiting now of making sure that this doesn't get completely institutionalised and that the fear around having your own sovereignty and using of a medicine, and the fear that we have of even going down the track of going, "Maybe, I could learn about this, and I could responsibly grow or hold space for people journeying with the sacred mushroom."   Mason: (36:26) That's what you're kind of, I guess, by bringing that beautiful light, too, I'd love to hear your thoughts and the journey around that.   Jasper Degenaars: (36:34) Thank you for seeing us so clearly. And yeah, we're really about decentralising this movement, and I think psychotherapists or clinicians say like, "You have to do it in a safe environment with somebody with a paper from a specific university and you have to lay on the couch, and you have to listen to a pre-curated playlist accepted by the government." Sure, there's going to be a space for that, for the people that really need it. But that's not how I got into it. That's not how most people got into it. I've had crazy healing experiences. I kind of got shivers right now thinking about me and my friends, just walking through the park. Because in the Netherlands, you go to the store, you get some truffles these days, and you go hang out in the park or something.   Jasper Degenaars: (37:21) I was blessed enough to live in a quiet nature-surrounded area in the Netherlands. For us, the park was actually ... There's wild horses, and there's actually seclusion from some traffic. I was not prepared. I didn't think about setting at those times, I was a young 18 year old. But I had a lot of fun. Then afterwards, I felt happy, and I felt lighter. I think everybody should have those experiences. I felt really confident in my experiences because I like learning. So I went to [inaudible 00:37:50] and I started reading so many peoples' experiences. I started figuring out a couple things. It's always going to end, that's the main thing. You're never going to trip forever. Just drink water, make sure you find a safe spot. Make sure you have a way out, or something. Especially if you go in nature. And control your dose.   Jasper Degenaars: (38:14) Especially as a young person, I was actually surprised that I've had so many just extremely good experiences. This goes hand in hand with the cultivation, right? I started cultivating because I just didn't want to buy truffles all the time, and they were like 15 bucks. But then I could buy these mushroom grow kits, and they're like 40 bucks, and you get enough mushrooms for basically a lifetime, and for your friends. So I thought, this is way more economically viable for me to have these amazing experiences. Then I just got captivated, enthralled by this experience of seeing them pin for the first time. Then every day, they grow a little bit more. Then you just have this beautiful, happy flush of mushrooms. It made me so happy, that I kept wanting to do it.   Jasper Degenaars: (38:58) That kind of ties in with the idea that the moment, for example, psilocybe cubensis the mushroom that most people cultivate because it's by far the easiest will become legalised everywhere in the world. There's going to be mass production. That's what happened in the Netherlands. That's still happening in the Netherlands, to an extent. It's happening in the United States right now. I've had mushrooms that I know come from big-ass laboratories, they don't feel nice to me. I do not resonate with that at all. But I do resonate with the ones I grow or my friends grow, because we put in our intentions and our magic and our prayers and our grace and our thanks.   Jasper Degenaars: (39:37) The moments, not even before the last stage. I talked to another sacred mushroom cultivation teacher, he's based in the UK and his name is Darren Le Baron. He said for him, the ceremony starts when he goes to the store and he buys the grain that he's going to give the mushrooms for food. That's what I thought was really beautiful. Well, for me it starts the moment that I germinate the spores, and then the spores become mycelium, and then I'm going to give the mycelium a bigger home where they have more food and then when they're ready, I'm going to give them their ultimate food source. Often, we actually do a little prayer. I play music, there's mushroom jazz, I think mushrooms love jazz. Makes total sense to me.   Jasper Degenaars: (40:20) I've had really beautiful experiences. It's funny, most people, for example, don't like the taste of mushrooms. But I've grown mushrooms that tasted delicious. Which is dangerous, don't grow mushrooms that are delicious. But yeah, the main idea is that it's a quite easy skill to get a hold of. Spores are accessible everywhere in the world. If everybody knows how to grow mushrooms, then there's no need for a big industry to pop up, because everybody can have a shoebox in their home. It's really easy, like I said before, to grow so much that you don't know what to do with it. If 10% of the population knows how to do that, everybody in the world has enough mushrooms because it's really easy to grow so much.   Jasper Degenaars: (41:07) And the decriminalisation, right? Because if everybody knows how to grow mushrooms, what, is the government just going to arrest 40% of the population? That's not going to happen, you know? On the other hand, there's also going to be less space for these massive, massive industries. Because it's such a beautiful process. And with most psychedelics, you can't really easily build it on personal relationship with your medicine. Some people can grow ayahuasca, you can grow San Pedro. If you have patience, you can grow peyote. If you're a really good chemist, you can make LSD, but that's out of the question for most people. But growing mushrooms, or even getting a mushroom grow kit like you can buy in the Netherlands, and then having that experience of seeing them grow and putting the intention and harvesting them, I think is accessible to everybody.   Mason: (42:00) If it's decriminalised, you can see those big labs, there are going to be people that just love the mechanical, organised pharmaceutical nature. It will find its natural place in the ecosystem, and it will naturally have its market. Then, it's got the opportunity for people. They come in, they just maybe discover it that way, they're prescribed it that way, and it's like someone going from a big medicinal mushroom from this huge company, grown on grain. Actually I want something now that's grown in the wild, that's [inaudible 00:42:33], they have a powder or move from a tablet to a powder. Then potentially, they move to, hang on. I've got all these medicinal mushrooms in my backyard that I can go and harvest.   Mason: (42:44) People can fluctuate and move through that spectrum. That's why criminalization is just an absolute crock of shit. It's just trying to artificially control, which is what we do, an ecosystem. Eventually, the ecosystem's going to buck its back legs and kick you off. One way or another, we know that's going to happen.   Jasper Degenaars: (43:07) I like to tell a story, actually it's quite relevant. It warmed my heart so much. Because with our students, we started doing these online integration circles for people that have had psychedelic experiences. One of our students is actually a lady, and I think she's at the end of her 50's. And she hadn't done psychedelics for 20, 30 years. But she had to call. So she signed up for our mushroom cultivation course and psychedelic journey work course. And what I really loved is that she obviously didn't have anybody in her community that's like, "Yo, can I buy magic mushrooms?" Because she was doing the working thing, and yeah. So she decided to take that into her own hands, and she grew her own mushrooms from spores, and then she had her first psychedelic experience in 30 years.   Jasper Degenaars: (43:51) Now, she feels completely connected to her creativity. She feels so empowered. Because she had this calling, she decided to take action, and she did it herself. That's also the power, especially before decriminalisation. Right? There's a lot of places where it is decriminalised. But some people really want to call in this medicine, and if you don't know a drug dealer, if you don't know how to forage, where are you going to get mushrooms these days? I think that's also a big power of learning how to grow mushrooms yourself, if you're not reliant on finding some shitty guy on the corner that maybe will sell you some bad stuff, or having to really hunt for something you're not completely certain of.   Jasper Degenaars: (44:36) I think before, the widespread thing ... I'm not encouraging anybody to do anything illegally. But I think it is where some of the power and how some of this movement and changing can definitely happen.   Mason: (44:53) For sure. Yeah. I'll just tell everyone, please don't reach out and ask where to get mushrooms in Australia.   Jasper Degenaars: (45:01) No, I don't sell mushrooms. No selling.   Mason: (45:02) Or with Jasper anywhere in the world. Just to put it out there. But I like the fact that you're mentioned, because quite often, the way that we're programmed is it's a bunch of hippies, running around, irresponsibly taking drugs. You've already mentioned it's like, hang on, there's a few principles and a little bit of wisdom and common sense. But if that's out there in the community, we know how to ensure that you've got the odds in your favour to have a beautiful experience and that you're safe. It doesn't take much. It does not take much to have a beautiful, deep experience that's really, really safe.   Mason: (45:42) But it's beautiful to see that, getting out there. Let's talk about that space, and what you see has been the major healing to people, having journeys. Being called to the medicine. What do you see being that particular intention that someone has, or a particular stage of their life where that resonance and that connection with the medicine when it comes up? What do you see is the teaching that people are really being called to? And how is it done with this mushroom?   Jasper Degenaars: (46:11) That's a really good question. I think why are people mainly called to it, in our lives we have experiences that create patterns in our system that are not necessarily aligning with who we are destined, or who we naturally are. These things are called traumas, and they're quite hard to overcome. For example, I think my personally, when I was 18 and I first started experimenting with these things, I never intended to get over my depression to help with these mushrooms. But I really liked altering my state of consciousness, and one day, my parents were out of town for the weekend or something, and I bought ... This is before I started cultivating. This is actually the first really big journey I had by myself. I bought a big one, it's actually like a little container of truffles.   Jasper Degenaars: (47:09) I went home, and I ate all of them together with some bread and, I think, peanut butter or something. I didn't like the taste of truffles. I put up the Lion King, just a way for it to come up. Because I was just thinking, I'm going to laugh, I'm going to see crazy things, I'm going to have a good time. And I just saw so much of myself in Simba. I was like, "Oh man, I'm spending too much time with Timon and Pumba in the jungle, I need to step up my game and become a little bit more serious. I need to become the prince that I'm destined to be." Or something like that. I really felt a connection. I had just started crying for so long of the beauty of life, and how gifted ... Not gifted, but I'm a little lost for words here. But how lucky I was, I was born in the Netherlands, and that I had all these opportunities.   Jasper Degenaars: (48:04) I decided to really make a big change in my life afterwards. I was going to take care of this body of mine, and I was going to be nicer to people, and be more out there, and develop the things that I'm good at developing. That's when I started to grow mushrooms, because I really wanted to, yeah, explore that. I feel that that was a healing of a pain that didn't make me believe in myself. I think that completely got washed over. Fast forward many years later, almost two years ago, when we first moved to this property with Fungi Academy, and we did a big group ceremony, and I was addicted to the spliff, my man. Not weed, not tobacco, but together, oh my God. I got so addicted.   Jasper Degenaars: (48:52) I was like, "How can I shake this addiction?" I'd stop for many months, and then I went back into it. How can I shake this? I came in with this journey, and I had five grammes. The classic Terence McKenna hero's dose, whatever you want to call it. I asked the mushrooms, why am I doing this to myself? Why can I not stop? Then without force or anything, the mushrooms just showed me where it originated. I got picked on when I was 13. But then I was able to see the pain that the people that were picking on me were going through. I saw, didn't meet their parents ever. But I saw that their parents were also causing them pain, and they needed to reflect that pain on somebody else, and I was able to forgive them. And I was able to forgive myself.   Jasper Degenaars: (49:39) Then boom, next thing you know, two years later, and I'm not addicted anymore. I'm even at the stage where I can have one or two puffs, and I'm not wanting a lot more than that. I think a lot of us that are called to the mushrooms are looking to heal parts of themselves that are not aligned, that are blocking their complete alignment with themselves. Besides that, I also see it's a good wake up call. For example, another personal example, because that's the easiest for me. I kind of subconsciously repress anxiety. But that's not naturally good. But when I'm on a big psychedelic journey, I often feel immense anxiety. Sometimes, I can't leave my bed for the first 30 minutes that it's really coming on. I just need to feel that. I just need to let it out of my system and my body, and I feel lighter.   Jasper Degenaars: (50:33) And I feel more myself. I have more of an open heart, and I feel I can be more myself for other people and show up more for other people. Those are the two basically main ones, is healing and nice, like we've talked about at the beginning of the conversation, right? That house of mirrors, a nice, little reflection. Like hey, where am I going? What am I doing? Is this actually aligned with the things I find really interesting? They're mentors and teachers. They will be that for my whole life.   Mason: (51:04) How do you teach people about a way to have a relationship, a friendship, a mentorship, whatever it is with the mushroom? Do you have conversation around like, again, there is a crazy correlation between tonic herbs and the work that you're doing, just and I can see where the terminology I assume would go. In the beginning, like let's say Terence McKenna, hero dose. Every now and then, it's like a mega dose. When I started, I was like, two high heaped tablespoons a day of chaga and reishi, for two years. Then I did a 10 day fast on reishi. I'm pretty sure I will never have to do that again in my life. But maybe, I might have a big corner to turn. I go, "Yeah, you know what? Yeah, that hero dose or that megadose comes into relevance."   Mason: (51:53) Maybe when you start out, you've got a deficiency of jing or whatever it is. And you go hard on jing herbs for two months. Then once a year or twice a year, you may have that feeling towards a particular herb and you go hard to build yourself up. But then, where you land, eventually, is a really responsible maintenance dose of small amount of herbs, consistently, and you don't really need them or rely on them to give you those feelings that you got to begin with, because your lifestyle, your food, your little bit of herb, the way you're living, is keeping your organs flowing. Therefore, you kind of can't feel that big hit of energy anymore from the herbs, because your energy's already moving.   Mason: (52:43) How do you have that conversation in the world of psychedelics and mushrooms? Where do you see dependencies come up? Where do you see people not respecting the fact that their body wants to have more of an immersion, but they're too scared to go into that? How does that whole world look?   Jasper Degenaars: (53:05) It's a very good question. It's a challenging place to navigate. Because it depends. Everybody is very different. Some people are very sensitive to the medicine, and some people are not sensitive at all. I even keep meeting more and more people that the mushrooms have stopped working in its entirety, which is very fascinating to me. Because I've become more sensitive over the years. If I would do five grammes now, yeah, that would be a very big dose for me compared to what it was two years ago, for example. I feel it's like, really important that everybody needs to tune in with what their state of mind is.   Jasper Degenaars: (53:44) Dependency is not ever something that I really see happening with psychedelics, because they're not always pleasurable. They will show you your dark side. Especially if you start, I say this a lot, but "abusing them." Because if you just use them too much, it's amazing to take psychedelics at a festival sometimes. But if you take it all the time at festivals, they're going to show you some not pleasant experiences. I remember for example, the last day of a festival, I had a little bit of LSD, and I couldn't talk to anybody. That was a good lesson for me. That is not what I want to do at a festival. I want to connect with these people. I don't want to be in my own world, and confused, and not being able to talk.   Jasper Degenaars: (54:26) I really encourage everybody to tune in with themselves. If you're uncertain, don't do it. If you're called to the medicine, and you want to work with the medicine, and you want to face that fear. Even if, because uncertainty and fear is not the same thing. If you're like, "Well I really want to do this, but I'm scared." That's what I experienced with my first Kambo session this Saturday. I was like, "Oh my God, I really want to do this, but I'm scared as fuck." Okay, then I should probably do this. But if there's uncertainty ...   Mason: (54:53) This coming Saturday? Or last Saturday?   Jasper Degenaars: (54:55) No, it was last Saturday. So yeah. I had another one on Tuesday, and it was less scary, and it was really beautiful.   Mason: (55:01) Yeah, second Kambo is so much. I found it much more approachable.   Jasper Degenaars: (55:10) Yeah. Actually I found it a little bit [crosstalk 00:55:13].   Mason: (55:13) [crosstalk 00:55:13].   Jasper Degenaars: (55:13) But yeah, the first one was actually, I completely surrendered, right? To go back into this idea of really tuning into what you want, I think it's really important to really listen to your guts. Even with Kambo, we can use this example as well. The medicine woman I was working with was asking me, "What number is coming to your mind?" That's how it is. Do your research. Kind of understand, what an average of two grammes does to a person of my weight and height? What do those five grammes do to this person? And start with something that you think you're going to be comfortable with. You can always take a booster dose. That's the beautiful thing with mushrooms, right? If you feel it coming up after 45 minutes, you get the gut feeling. It's like, "I think I can have more." Have more. That's the simplicity of this.   Jasper Degenaars: (56:07) I do this all the time. I start with a smaller dose, then after 45 minutes when I'm like, "Yeah, I feel comfortable, I feel like I can face this a little bit deeper." I'll have some more. I think that's the beauty. If you're not comfortable, if you don't know how you're going to respond, have somebody close to you that's experienced that's actually there to look after you, and maybe to take like half a gramme, or even 0.2 or something, a micro dose, so they're tuned into the same energies. But you go deeper. That's really what I experienced.   Jasper Degenaars: (56:41) As somebody that has a lot of solo journeys, if somebody is right next to you, and you feel safer, you feel safe with this person, your whole body just relaxes. You're allowed to go deeper into this space. I think those are the big lessons. Listen to your guts, ask for help, and do ... I think knowledge is power with everything. If you're not feeling certainty, maybe read more about how the ancient Michika were taking these sacraments. Read about the Shamans in Siberia, how they used amanita muscaria, you know? There's never enough information, at least for me, information gives me confidence. If you're called to something, and you really want to do this, confidence is key in mushroom cultivation but also psychedelic exploration.   Mason: (57:33) Do you guys cover this in your course? Psychedelic, is it journey work?   Jasper Degenaars: (57:38) Yeah, so we actually teamed up with Julian Vayne, I don't know if you're familiar. He's one of the best psychedelic teachers I've ever encountered. He's a super well spoken, amazing storyteller. Has written over 30 books on psychedelics and magic and Paganism, and these kinds of things. He wrote one of the best psychedelic books that I've ever read, not written but read. No, that's the explorer's guide. I'm a little bit like ... The name [crosstalk 00:58:13].   Mason: (58:12) What's his name?   Jasper Degenaars: (58:14) Julian Vayne, and Getting Higher.   Mason: (58:16) How do you spell Vayne?   Jasper Degenaars: (58:16) Getting Higher.   Mason: (58:18) Oh yeah, cool.   Jasper Degenaars: (58:19) Julian Vayne, V-A-Y-N-E. Getting Higher, that's it.   Mason: (58:24) The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony?   Jasper Degenaars: (58:27) It's super short, it's super powerful, and we just go a little bit deeper into this with the course. Together with, we had a brother create a whole psychedelic soundtrack for the course, and the cinematography. It's like a journey in itself. But then you learn about journeying, and yeah, it's super well done. It comes with great tips, it comes with journaling prompts. It comes with hot to set up a space, what kind of music is often appropriate for these kinds of ceremonies.   Mason: (59:00) Dude, it's such a good offering. Connecting, the certification of becoming a certified psychonaut. Just learning how to put on that uniform and take off.   Jasper Degenaars: (59:15) Yeah.   Mason: (59:17) Just again, as I get older, you realise, wow, that really is a dimension. Like any dimension, you can really learn that landscape. I think that's where for me, being a bit younger, jumping around. I've never really had what I'd call a negative experience, or anything happened that was untoward with my psychedelic journeys. But I definitely can see coming out the back-end I was like, I didn't really have that facilitation of the dimensions I was going into with Ayahuasca, with San Pedro, there wasn't as much of a community with an understanding of that terrain. Not that it's bad. It's just taken me a few years to land all the experiences. It's just really sweet to see, like a course ... How long does a course take? It's like 12 videos, right?   Jasper Degenaars: (01:00:18) Yeah. I think it's like 12 15 to 20 minute videos.   Mason: (01:00:23) Great.   Jasper Degenaars: (01:00:24) Yeah, it's basically like two, three weeks. We like that people can watch it at their own pace, and it comes with a 70 page workbook with more reading material and checklists. I actually just accumulated some playlists that I'm going to put in as well. Dear brother, latest ancestor, Oliver Merivee made amazing psychedelic journey playlists that have made me go so much deeper as well. I think the playlists are actually already on the website as a freebie for people.   Mason: (01:00:59) I saw that.   Jasper Degenaars: (01:00:59) If they want to check out the playlists, that's a really good way to connect with a very dear, past brother of mine. If you want to go deep, it's wow. I still cry thinking about the last songs in that playlist. It's just ridiculous what kind of emotions music comes up to. It's all based on the four matrices of Stanislav Grof, I don't know if you're familiar. But the idea that every psychedelic journey is the four stages of birth. So first you're in the womb, you're chilling, floating. Then you get pushed through and suddenly your whole world is changing, everything you've known before is just changing. You're getting pushed through. Then you're getting to the moment of birth, the almost coming out. Then the last stage is the actual coming out of your mother. That you hear her voice, and all these kinds of things.   Jasper Degenaars: (01:01:52) So a playlist that's tuned into those ideas, I think Stanislav Grof was on the right track, and Oliver made a very, very good playlist. I think one thing that people think, intense music actually brings up these emotions sometimes that we need to feel. It's not always pleasant. But I'm not hitting a big dose of mushrooms to necessarily have a consistent experience. I come in with wanting to get something out of that experience, to learn something about myself that makes me a better person, or makes me a better version of myself is a better way to put it.   Mason: (01:02:32) Yeah. And you can judge or consider where you're at, and how healthy and sound you are, in that capacity. How wide your container is, in being able to go into a more uncomfortable space. I feel you on that, and that's the whole integration thing. If you up the IQ of what it takes to land an experience, then you don't just have your container sitting there, constantly filling up and going for another journey. When what you need to do is really assimilate and then if you go through that assimilation process and you're actually evolving, changing your mind, and you're leaving behind attachments of your belief systems and your dogmatic way of seeing the world and yourself and everyone else.   Mason: (01:03:16) Then your container becomes nice and empty again, maybe even a little bit bigger, and you can go even get a little bit more uncomfortable. Yeah. [inaudible 01:03:23] man.   Jasper Degenaars: (01:03:24) I think that's even a meme. You're a man of memes, and there's a meme of this person coming out of a cave, and it's like, "I'm going to have a psychedelic experience." Behind him is this big, sludgy monster, it's like all the past experiences you have not yet integrated, right? Often, integration is often about talking about your experience. Sharing th

Hey everybody! Episode 50 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Julian Vayne. Julian was introduced to me through a mutual friend. Julian is an independent author and scholar on esoteric traditions including shamanism and entheogens. It was a real pleasure for me to sit down with Julian and pick his brain on a number of different subjects. We got into myriad topics including the occult, esoteric traditions, plant medicines, individual versus collective processes, and optimism for the future of humanity. I find Julian to be a scholar in the true sense of the word, a student of many traditions, and he has a beautiful ability to weave them together and find through-lines that join them. He is also a natural teacher and I imagine you all will learn a lot from this episode, much as I did. As always, to support this podcast, get early access to shows, bonus material, and Q&As, check out my Patreon page below. Enjoy!"Julian Vayne is a British independent scholar and author with over three decades of experience within esoteric culture: from Druidry to Chaos Magic, from indigenous Shamanism through to Freemasonry and Witchcraft…Julian is a senior member of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros and widely recognized as one of Britain's leading occultists.In the 1990s Julian edited Britain's best selling pagan newspaper Pagan Voice and in 2001 published one of the first books of the modern psychedelic renaissance, Pharmakon: Drugs and the Imagination. In addition to exploring traditional sacred medicines, Julian's work includes the first published accounts of the entheogenic ritual use of ketamine and several novel psychedelic sacraments…Julian is a co-organizer of the psychedelic conference Breaking Convention, and a Trustee of The Psychedelic Museum Project. A founding member of the post-prohibition think-tank Transform, Julian sits on the academic board of The Journal of Psychedelic Studies, and has been a visiting lecturer at several British universities. Julian facilitates psychedelic ceremony, as well as providing one-to-one psychedelic integration sessions and support. He is the author of the celebrated Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony. Since 2011 he has been sharing his work through The Blog of Baphomet.”Fo Julian's full bio, visit: https://www.universewithinpodcast.com/podcast/julian-vayneFor more info about Julian and his work, visit: https://julianvayne.com/Share the show, Subscribe or Follow, and if you can go on Apple Podcasts and leave a starred-rating and a short review. That would be super helpful with the algorithms and getting this show out to more people. Thank you.For more information about me and my upcoming plant medicine retreats with my colleague Merav Artzi, visit my site at: https://www.NicotianaRustica.orgSupport this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/UniverseWithinDonate directly with PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/jasongrechanikMusic courtesy of: Nuno Moreno (end song). Visit: https://m.soundcloud.com/groove_a_zen_sound and https://nahira-ziwa.bandcamp.com/ And Stefan Kasapovski's Santero Project (intro song). Visit: https://spoti.fi/3y5Rd4Hhttps://www.facebook.com/UniverseWithinPodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/UniverseWithinPodcast

Today I'm having a conversation with Julian Vayne, author, occultist and psychonaut. We talk about all things magick, ritual and of course, the daimon. I really love Julian's down to earth, approachable nature and I hope you enjoy our chat as much as I did! To find Julian online, visit https://julianvayne.com BOOK AN ASTROLOGY READING: https://thecreativeintrovert.com/astrology Subscribe to Cat's channel so you can always stay up to date on her latest free videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeqiJ1yNr3178b-VIY2WCmQ?sub_confirmation=1 Say hi to Cat on social: Instagram: http://instagram.com/creativeintro Twitter: http://twitter.com/creativeintro SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/creativeintro BECOME A PATRON + GET AWESOME REWARDS!! For hundreds of years, creatives have been supported by patrons and all-round good eggs who want to see more magic in the world. I love supporting my fellow creatives, and I make no secret of asking for support from those who appreciate my work. Every penny helps this labour of love go on, and with every milestone reached, I can throw more of myself and resources into making the Creative Introvert and all my offerings better and better. So what do you get in return for becoming a patron? Other than the fuzzy feeling of knowing you've helped support a creative, you can also choose from the following rewards: **$5/month = Monthly Creative & Business Tips Report** For $5 a month, I'll send you an in-depth email report outlining the key creative and business opportunities based on the astrology of the month ahead. Each month I will cover: - The main creative highlight / opportunity - How to work with the lunar phases this month - What to watch out for (what not to do this month!) - And more! **$10/month = Monthly Astrology Meetups + Moon Circles** Monthly Astrology Forecast Meetups are held online, on Zoom. I will go through each of the prominent transits for the month ahead, and we can discuss the astro-weather and how to best navigate it. We can also look at your own birth chart and see how specific transits might play out for you! Creative Moon Circles are also held each month on Zoom, on the Full Moon. I take you through what each month's Full Moon can mean for you creatively (we can also look at your birth chart!) and will provide you with several journal prompts to guide your "moonth" ahead ;) **$15/month = The Creative Introvert Academy** This is the tier for creatives who are serious about building a business they love, on their terms! You get access to my entire library of premium courses, Masterclasses, templates, cheat sheets and all the bonus goodies. Otherwise known as, The Creative Introvert Academy, this includes content on topics ranging from marketing your creative work, increasing confidence, getting clients in a way that feels good to you and so much more. **$25/month = Personalised Monthly Astrology Report** At the end of each month, I'll send you a recorded personalised astrology forecast for the month ahead. These video reports will take into account your unique birth chart, as well as the current planetary weather. I'll also incorporate tips specifically for your current creative projects and pursuits! **$75/month = 1:1 coaching with Cat!** Not only do you get all the perks from other tiers, you get a monthly 1:1 chat with Cat! We can do a proper coaching session, discuss your astrology transits or just have a chat about our favourite introverted pastimes - 100% up to you to use these calls as you like. SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/creativeintro #TheCreativeIntrovert

In our journey from the Roots of Malkuth, we rocket into Yesod, celestial Sefirot connected to the Moon. The Moon represents illusions, timing, emotions, intuition, sex, and the subconscious. Gain a peak about the fey (fairies). Jump into the shadow wilds with Andrieh Vitimus, Zachary Lui & their guest Julian Vayne (author of the Book of Baphomet and other several noteworthy books) as they have a conversation at the Lunar Gate.

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com PROGRAM NOTES: Guest speakers: Kat Lakey, Alexa Lakey, Julie Holland, Julian Vayne, and Ralf Jeutter Today we continue our reading of Leonard Pickard’s novel, The Rose of Paracelsus. Chapter 4 is read by author and occultist Julian Vayne who was also featured in our introduction to this series. The reading of […]

Interested in deepening your relationship with psychedelics and with life? This podcast with a renowned speaker in the psychedelic space, Julian Vayne. We explore creative ways to engage with psychedelics and psychedelic ceremony, the ceremonial psychedelic setting and how both the containers of experience prepared and the insights derived from such psychedelic journeys are deeply intertwined with life. We not only discuss ceremonial psychedelic use with plant medicines or "psychoactive drugs" but we also dive into the psychedelic culture, magic rituals, set and setting, psychedelic preparation and the importance of play in all of this. If you're interested in LSD, psilocybin-containing magic mushrooms, ayahuasca, MDMA, mescaline or sacred cacti, 5-MEO DMT, DMT, Salvia Divinorum or any other psychedelic drug for spiritual exploration, healing or transformation this is the episode for you. This is not encouraging you to go out and take drugs but rather to exercise safety and caution if it's what you are planning or considering doing anyway. Check out the YouTube channel for videos that'll help you solidify your intention to cultivate conscious growth and you'll be notified when new content is out to help you reflect and take meaningful action in life: https://www.youtube.com/todaydreamer?sub_confirmation=1  Julian wrote the book "Getting Higher - The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony" and gives some great insight into the importance and useful techniques when it comes to mindful preparation and conscious action when it comes to both psychedelics and life. He has worked at a Museum of one kind or another for many years and his historical references are truly mind-bending. He has been an occultist for decades and shares an interesting perspective on "magick" and the imagination.  You'll find Julian's amazing work here: https://julianvayne.com/ Julian Vayne's magical blog: https://theblogofbaphomet.com/ Julian Vayne's book - Getting Higher - The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony: https://www.amazon.com.au/Getting-Higher-Manual-Psychedelic-Ceremony/dp/0992808871 ......................................................  Subscribe to the Today Dreamer Podcast for more episodes like this!  Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/today-dreamer/id1460017520  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nIF12acmAES3SLffBWfSk?si=dMhaBEKZR1qmYZ6iP9JpcQ

Interested in deepening your relationship with psychedelics and with life? This podcast with a renowned speaker in the psychedelic space, Julian Vayne. We explore creative ways to engage with psychedelics and psychedelic ceremony, the ceremonial psychedelic setting and how both the containers of experience prepared and the insights derived from such psychedelic journeys are deeply intertwined with life. We not only discuss ceremonial psychedelic use with plant medicines or "psychoactive drugs" but we also dive into the psychedelic culture, magic rituals, set and setting, psychedelic preparation and the importance of play in all of this. If you're interested in LSD, psilocybin-containing magic mushrooms, ayahuasca, MDMA, mescaline or sacred cacti, 5-MEO DMT, DMT, Salvia Divinorum or any other psychedelic drug for spiritual exploration, healing or transformation this is the episode for you. This is not encouraging you to go out and take drugs but rather to exercise safety and caution if it's what you are planning or considering doing anyway. Check out the YouTube channel for videos that'll help you solidify your intention to cultivate conscious growth and you'll be notified when new content is out to help you reflect and take meaningful action in life: https://www.youtube.com/todaydreamer?sub_confirmation=1 Julian wrote the book "Getting Higher - The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony" and gives some great insight into the importance and useful techniques when it comes to mindful preparation and conscious action when it comes to both psychedelics and life. He has worked at a Museum of one kind or another for many years and his historical references are truly mind-bending. He has been an occultist for decades and shares an interesting perspective on "magick" and the imagination. You'll find Julian's amazing work here: https://julianvayne.com/ Julian Vayne's magical blog: https://theblogofbaphomet.com/ Julian Vayne's book - Getting Higher - The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony: https://www.amazon.com.au/Getting-Higher-Manual-Psychedelic-Ceremony/dp/0992808871 ...................................................... Subscribe to the Today Dreamer Podcast for more episodes like this! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/today-dreamer/id1460017520 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nIF12acmAES3SLffBWfSk?si=dMhaBEKZR1qmYZ6iP9JpcQ

https://www.lightingthevoid.comLive Weeknights Mon-Fri 9 pm, PacificOn The Fringe FMhttps://thefringe.fmJulian Vayne is a British occultist with over three decades of experience of esoteric culture: from Druidry to Chaos Magick, from indigenous American shamanism through to Freemasonry and Wicca. During this time Julian has written for numerous underground esoteric journals, contributed to various collections of essays, led workshops, retreats and facilitated a wide range of group ceremonies.DJ Steezy Stevie https://www.steezymusic.com/Music by Chronox at https://www.chronoxofficial.com

This week Josh sits down with Chaos Magician and psychonaut Julian Vayne.Discussed this week: Chaos Magick and why Josh is embarrassed to invoke Mr Spock, How can psychedelics affect magical workings, and how Julian became a psilocybin research guinea pig.Ken's mic broke, so he'll be back next episode...so professional here.Main theme by Simon Smerdon (Mothboy)Music bed by chriszabriskie.comJulian Vayne Bio (via: Blog of Baphomet)Julian Vayne is an occultist and the author of a number of books, essays, journals and articles in both the academic and esoteric press. He is a freelance consultant, often working in museum and heritage settings, and lives in Devon. His name is most closely associated with the approach to occultism known as chaos magick. Julian is also an initiated Wiccan, member of the Kaula Nath lineage and Master Mason,  

Christina and Julian discuss the early days of Pagan gatherings and how they found their ways into various occult societies. They talk about the satanic abuse panic of the early 90's and how it has effected them personally as well as the wider community. Julian Vayne is an occultist and author of numerous books, essays, journals and articles in both the academic and esoteric press. A regular speaker at events, and facilitator of retreats and workshops, his work is informed by chaos magic and lineages within Wicca and Tantra. Julian is a co-organizer of the psychedelic conference Breaking Convention, and sits on the academic board of The Journal of Psychedelic Studies.

In this episode we welcome Julian Vayne to discuss psychedelic entities, the purpose of ritual in relation to psychedelics and the significant case for psychedelics as medicines. Julian Vayne is an occultist and author of numerous books, essays, journals, 'zines and articles in both the academic and esoteric press. A regular speaker at events, and facilitator of retreats and workshops, his work is informed by chaos magic and lineages within Wicca and Tantra. Julian is a co-organizer of the psychedelic conference Breaking Convention, and sits on the academic board of The Journal of Psychedelic Studies. Julian facilitates psychedelic ceremony, as well as providing one-to-one psychedelic integration sessions and support. He is the author of the celebrated Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony. Since 2011 he has been sharing his work through The Blog of Baphomet and is the curator of the Youtube series My Magical Thing. The thumbnail art is by the great visionary artist Alex Grey whose work we briefly touch on. Those of you of a certain age and with excellent music taste will recognise his work from the Tool album art for the album Lateralus. If you like the show and want more Spirit Box in your life, join the Patreon and the podcast Discord. SHOW NOTES: Julian's Website: theblogofbaphomet.com/category/julian-vayne/ Julian's books: amzn.to/2BN8sQ7 My Magical thing: www.youtube.com/channel/UC6TWW-5KTelMMe4xW77TpFQ Alex Grey: www.alexgrey.com Video samples from www.videvo.net/profile/joseph2/ KEEP IN TOUCH? TWITTER - twitter.com/spiritbox3 CONTACT - www.darraghmasonfield.com/contact SUPPORT - www.patreon.com/spiritbox PAYPAL - www.paypal.me/dmfphoto MUSIC - Obliqka --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spirit-box/message

Support Lorenzo on Patreon.com Guest speakers: Leonard Pickard, Ralf Jeutter, Nese Devenot, Julian Vayne, and Nikki Wyrd PROGRAM NOTES: Today’s podcast features a reading of Chapter 1 of The Rose of Paracelsus by the author, Leonard Pickard. Additionally, there is commentary by Ralf Jeutter, Nese Devenot, Julian Vayne, and Nikki Wyrd. This podcast was produced […]

We talk with Julian Vayne about his book Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony. you can find out more about Julian and his books at theblogofbaphomat.comSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TPSpodcast)

Getting Higher is a manual for exploring the use of psychedelic substances in the contexts of spirituality, self-transformation and magic. This is the psychonaut's essential guide. The techniques presented here work whether you're a scientist or a shaman; there's no requirement to believe in anything other than the wonder of your own neurochemistry and the value of the psychedelic experience. Getting Higher describes the psychedelic triangle of Set, Setting and Substance. It suggests strategies to hold and enhance the psychedelic experience; from games to play when you are high, through to complete entheogenic ceremonies. It will help you to intelligently explore the territory of both traditional sacred plants and modern magical molecules. Getting Higher is a toolbox for technicians of the sacred; ideal for both novices and experienced psychonauts. Inspired by the wisdom of ancient cultures, and informed by the latest advances in psychedelic science, this book is a powerful ally for all those following the Medicine Path. Julian Vayne is an occultist and the author of numerous books, essays, journals and articles in both the academic and esoteric press. While his name is closely associated with chaos magic Julian is also an initiated Wiccan, member of the Kaula Nath lineage and Master Mason. Over the past 30 plus years he has participated in group ceremony with a variety of druids, shamans and others as well as sharing his own practice through public workshops, retreats and networks of practitioners including The Illuminates of Thanateros. He is a leading contributor to theblogofbaphomet.com and co-director of The Psychedelic Museum psychedelicmuseum.net.   You can find my website at  www.myalienlifepodcast.com and our latest downloads are always at iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher at podbean.com and everywhere else fine podcasts are found…...and please follow me and like me on Facebook and Twitter... My alien life is written and produced for broadcast at Studio 254 in the Northern Rocky Mountains..    The music you've heard tonight is produced and created by ELEON. ELEON is changing the face of New Age with what can only be describes as "Epic Chill" on Heart Dance Record's first Electronic release. You can find all ELEON’s work online at HEART DANCE records, Facebook...   Thank YOU for listening to tonight's amazing podcast. I am Cameron Brauer and this is my alien life!

Julian's blog: http://theblogofbaphomet.com Julian on Facebook: http://facebook.com/julian.vayne Deep Magic retreats: http://facebook.com/deepmagicbeginshere Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony: http://psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/getting-higher-psychedelic-julian-vayne My personal site: http://stephenreid.net/ Follow me on Facebook: http://facebook.com/stephenreid321

Eyup listeners! Have you been waiting for an episode on psychedelics? Don’t worry, it’s here! This week Elle is joined with Julian Vayne, the author of “Getting Higher: A Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony”. Together they find out What’s the Crack with Julian’s amazing book, the psychedelics renaissance, the difference between synthetic and natural psychedelics, sex and psychedelics and more!So, what are psychedelics? Are they the key to a world free from war? Are synthetic psychedelics superior to natural? Can psychedelics help with addiction? And what's Nixon got to do with it?Check out Julian’s book here: https://psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/getting-higher-psychedelic-julian-vayneAnd more about Julian's work here: https://www.facebook.com/deepmagicbeginsherehttps://theblogofbaphomet.com/ENJOY!P.s. slowly slowly getting better at Skype... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Julian Vayne is the author of “Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony”. The book is a manual for exploring the use of psychedelic substances in the contexts of spirituality, self-transformation and magic. If you’re an occultist and a psychonaut, this is your guidebook, this will show you how to blend your practices together to take yourself to the next level, quite literally. Julian and I will dig deep into some of these ancient ritual psychedelic practices and how to pair them with music and dancing and singing and sex. And as you will with a guy who also co-wrote a book called The Book of Baphomet, we will absolutely tie that into this as well. So if this sounds like the cup of hallucinogenic tea you want to drink from, by all means please partake. But get that mindset right and find yourself a comfortable space, because this psychedelic pod is about to cast a triangular spell of love, truth and awareness. RESOURCES “Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony” by Julian Vayne from Psychedelic Press “The Book of Baphomet” by Julian Vayne & Nikki Wyrd on IndieBound The Blog of Baphomet   PATREON Please do take a moment to check out our Patreon campaign. We call it Coda. Four levels of support. Bonus content. Free shit. Click here to check it out.   DONATE If recurring monthly support via Patreon isn’t your thing, we do accept one time-donations via PayPal, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple. Every little bit helps. Click here if you’re interested.   MERCH We recently released our first t-shirt. Check it out on our website or at our Etsy shop.   SOCIAL Twitter Instagram Facebook Tumblr MUSIC Vestron Vulture - “I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)”   PRODUCTION & LICENSING This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. Executive Producers: Mike K., Erick, Jason N., Matt A.   REMINDER Love yourself. Think for yourself. Question authority.

Guest speaker: Julian Vayne PROGRAM NOTES: Today’s Salon2 podcast features the return of Lex Pelger who interviews Julian Vayne, an author and oculist. They about the history of drugs and magick – especially in the underground London scene. Vayne also highlights some of the important ideas from his new book on creating psychedelic ceremonies. This […]

A chat with occult writer and drug geek Julian Vayne about Baphomet, the (sur)reality of spirits, evolution, ritualizing entheogens, and his new book Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony. https://theblogofbaphomet.com/  

  Julian Vayne wrote a book called Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony. We talk about ideas such as how to create an authentic & meaningful ceremony, techniques for getting more from the psychedelic experience, and rituals we take for granted in our everyday life. We also talk about what to do if, during one of these ceremonies, you feel you are in fact Jesus himself. It was fun!  Check out Julian's book: https://psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/getting-higher-psychedelic-julian-vayne INSTAGRAM:  TWITTER: www. FACEBOOK:   Intro song: "Lovin' Your Neighbour" by Phat Bollard Check Them out:  And buy their music! https://phatbollard.bandcamp.com   More at  

In this episode I speak with Julian Vayne, author of Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony. Julian shares with us his insights for crafting the ideal psychedelic experience. Moreover, he talks about the value of techniques for exploring consciousness that span many cultures and are independent of the underlying belief systems, such as the power of... The post #008: Hacking the Ideal Psychedelic Ceremony with Julian Vayne appeared first on Hacking The Self.

Julian Vayne is an occultist and the author of numerous books, essays, journals, and articles in both the academic and esoteric press. While his name is closely associated with chaos magic Julian is also an initiated Wiccan, member of the Kaula Nath lineage and Master Mason. We talk magical traditions, self-transformation with psychedelic, religious history, and the nuances around cultural appropriation in the neo-shamanic and nonaboriginal cultures of the modern world. We also talk about different activities or games we can play while tripping to endow a greater sense of meaning in not only our psychedelic adventures but in our daily lives as well. Full Show Notes at bit.ly/ATTMind55 Become My Patron On Patreon SUPPORT ONE-TIME (PayPal)   Episode Breakdown Disambiguating "magic", "self-transformation", and "spirituality". The legitimacy of the recreational use of psychedelics. The root of, and dissociation from, ectasis in religious history. The herding of the mind. Neoshamanism and cultural appropriation. The principle of ceremony and how to make your own. Welding (chaos) magick to craft meaning in psychedelic experiences. The importance of PLAY!!! (and games to play while tripping). Differences/similarities between magick & Jungian depth psychology.  

This week we’re joined by expert occultist Julian Vayne, author of the psychedelic manual Getting Higher. Julian shares with us his psychedelic experience, and how he thinks traditional rituals have influenced the modern psychedelic ceremony. We discuss the most important factors in setting up a ceremony to produce the most positive results. For a full summary and show links: https://thethirdwave.co/julian-vayne Help support our podcast on Patreon! www.patreon.com/thethirdwave  

Author Julian Vayne Joined me from The U.K. to talk about his new book, Getting Higher: The Manual Of Psychedelic Ceremony.    We talk about exploring psychedelic substances in a responsible set and setting. The psychedelic triangle, using strategies to enhance and go deeper within the experience or playing games for fun.    Whether you're using psychedelics to have fun, or for self-transformation or spirituality, or magic, there's something in his book for you.    It's the official psychonauts guide to the galaxy inside. Give it a listen and Check out the links below for access to all of  Julians Work.   https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Higher-Manual-Psychedelic-Ceremony-ebook/dp/B071NKZFXB/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494209257&sr=8-1&keywords=getting+higher   http://psypressuk.com/2017/05/01/getting-higher-psychedelic-ceremony/   https://theblogofbaphomet.com/tag/julian-vayne/   https://psychedelicmuseum.net/   https://www.facebook.com/julian.vayne   http://www.breakingconvention.co.uk/   https://vimeo.com/210684370   https://vimeo.com/user5040610

Live Tue. April 4th, 2017 8pm EST on Para-X-Radio.com Andrieh Vitimus and Jason M. Colwell welcome Julian Vayne back to the show! We are  having Julian return to discuss his latest book Getting Higher: The Manual Of Psychedelic Ceremony. Julian Vayne is an occultist and the author of a number of books, essays, journals and articles in both the academic and esoteric press. He is a freelance consultant, often working in museum and heritage settings, and lives in Devon. His name is most closely associated with the approach to occultism known as Chaos Magic. Julian is also an initiated Wiccan, member of the Kaula Nath lineage and Master Mason. He’s written several books including, Thats what I call Chaos Magic 1 & II, PharmaKon: Drugs and the Imagination, Magic Works and more.  He has been a  huge supporter of the Witchcraft Museum in the UK and has been a practicing and acclaimed  magician and speaker  for decades on the topic of consciousness, sacrament and magic. See more of Julian’s work at: theblogofbaphomet.com Julian will be appearing at: http://www.breakingconvention.co.uk/ June 30 – July 2, 2017!

Live Tue. April 4th, 2017 8pm EST on Para-X-Radio.com Andrieh Vitimus and Jason M. Colwell welcome Julian Vayne back to the show! We are  having Julian return to discuss his latest book Getting Higher: The Manual Of Psychedelic Ceremony. Julian Vayne is an occultist and the author of a number of books, essays, journals and articles in both the academic and esoteric press. He is a freelance consultant, often working in museum and heritage settings, and lives in Devon. His name is most closely associated with the approach to occultism known as Chaos Magic. Julian is also an initiated Wiccan, member of the Kaula Nath lineage and Master Mason. He’s written several books including, Thats what I call Chaos Magic 1 & II, PharmaKon: Drugs and the Imagination, Magic Works and more.  He has been a  huge supporter of the Witchcraft Museum in the UK and has been a practicing and acclaimed  magician and speaker  for decades on the topic of consciousness, sacrament and magic. See more of Julian’s work at: theblogofbaphomet.com Julian will be appearing at: http://www.breakingconvention.co.uk/ June 30 – July 2, 2017!

  After months of drought, Josh smokes too much reefer and exposes how little he knows about life outside the US while talking to author and occultist Julian Vayne about drugs, being thankful, a new system for voting, and how to get high off a bottle of soda pop. STUFF WE TALK ABOUT: Psychoactive Substances Act, Miracle berries, Cake, Phil Hine digging for gold, Erik Davis' Techgnosis, astral projection, MAPS, UNM's psychedelic research, Francis Crick (debunked, like a boss), brain-to-brain interfacing. READ JULIAN: The Blog of Baphomet Chaos Streams 01 Books by.. WATCH JULIAN: Scroll of Thoth appearance Psychedelic Museum Project

Julian Vayne has a deep well of knowledge in the occult, magic, and psychedelics. He is the author of getting higher and has spent years researching the occult and is an initiated Wiccan, spent times with Shamans and has produced many academic and esoteric articles and retreats to share his wisdom. In this podcast, we touch on a variety of topics including - What does occult mean? - Learn the truth about Free Mason's - What is Magic and how to use it - The two most important things about magic - Learning to shift seamlessly between beliefs, perspectives and states of consciousness - The truth about the use of psychedelics, the benefits and dangers and how to use them responsibly - Scientific research on LSD and MDMA www.mattbelair.com & www.patreon.com/mattbelair Donate: bit.ly/mattbelair Support by Doing an Act of Kindness for Someone Today! Subscribe: Podcast: goo.gl/1euQe7 YouTube: goo.gl/Mz7Ngg   Download a Free Guide to Lucid Dreaming E-Book and Guided Hypnotic Experience: www.mattbelair.com/luciddreaming   About Me: ======== Master your mind, body, and spirit with Matt Belair and world-renowned leaders today! This unique show features candid conversations with experts in personal development, spirituality, and human optimization. Each episode is another key to help you unlock your infinite potential and assist you on your path to self-mastery! You will discover the best tips, tools, and technologies to master your mind; plus the science, principles, and practices to master your body. Finally, you will dive into the deepest depths of yourself, life, the universe and the pursuit of discovering who you really are, and consciously creating the life of your dreams! Explore timeless spiritual lessons and ancient teachings. Let go of any limitations and discover all of the tools to dramatically improve your health, well-being, and mindset! mattbelair.com/bio/ May Love, Joy, Passion, Peace, and Prosperity fill your life! Namaste

Colleen and James converse with IOT member and co-author of the Book of Baphomet, Julian Vayne.

Julian Vayne and Nikki Wyrd are the authors of The Book of Baphomet and the proprietors of theblogofbaphomet.com. Together we examine the iconography of the famous 19th century drawing of Baphomet by the French mystic Eliphas Levi. Julian and Nikki then go into the ideological significance of the concept of the god who they state represents the crux of universal balance. Links to their books and blog can be found included in the listing for this episode of THE GREAT WORK, and also in the new books section of the site.

Julian Vayne has worked within a number of spiritual systems which emphasis the role of sacred sexuality and desire. These include Wiccan, Thelemic and Tantric styles of magick. He teaches at Arcanoriumcollege.com and has written numerous books and articles, most recently 'Magick Works' which includes accounts of entheogenic sex magick and work with the erotic African-syncretic goddess Pomba Gira. He also works as a museums consultant and was a prime mover in an award winning project which aims to help young people explore issues around love, sexuality, gender and sexual health.

Julian Vayne has worked within a number of spiritual systems which emphasis the role of sacred sexuality and desire. These include Wiccan, Thelemic and Tantric styles of magick. He teaches at Arcanoriumcollege.com and has written numerous books and articles, most recently 'Magick Works' which includes accounts of entheogenic sex magick and work with the erotic African-syncretic goddess Pomba Gira. He also works as a museums consultant and was a prime mover in an award winning project which aims to help young people explore issues around love, sexuality, gender and sexual health.