The Entheogenic Evolution

This week we take a deep and detailed dive back into the topic of entheogenic religion and psychedelic spirituality with author, Matt Zemon, who is also the executive director of the Council on Spiritual Practices. Matt's here to share all about his new book,  Ordinary Mystics: Psychedelics, Faith, and the Reclaiming of Direct Spiritual Experience . We cover a lot of territory from the primacy of...

Book 3 of Tales of Aurduin, The Alchemist and the Eagle, comes to a stunning cliff-hanger conclusion this week with chapter 36, "The Gathering." Pulled by a mysterious force people from across the world of Aurduin gather in the center of the world at Jeaniaurduin with the certain knowledge that the God Child, Miraanni, is about to return from her year's embodiment within the earth. The religion fo...

My guest this week is Alan Romano, LCSW, who is an author and certified psychedelic therapy provider in Florida. He's here to share about his new book,  Healing Beyond the Limits of the Isolated , wherein he develops and explores his novel approach of Functional Systems Regulation Theory .  As his book has many interesting and provocative details and accounts of his own, often trying, experiences,...

With chapter 35, "The Martyr," we're now at the penultimate chapter of book 3 of  Tales of Aurduin ,  The Alchemist and the Eagle.  In this chapter the arrangement made between Nuya and Jao comes to it's bloody fulfillment as Nuya is sacrificed in a Jolao Grand Lucidium ritual which the empire plans to use as a propaganda tool, yet also serves to galvanize the growing resistance and Ohada's passio...

I've got a lively conversation for you this week with my 3-way with Hewkii and Flammeus, who invited me back on their show for the third time. We cover a lot of territory with music, ontological questions about dreams vs reality, identifying what "spirituality" is, how nondual experiences on ketamine are different from nondual experiences with 5-MeO-DMT, how truly strange and bizarre Salvia divino...

My guest this week is Brad Sterner of Inekawa healing center and foundation where the focus is on transformation and nondual self-realization via ayahuasca. While ayahuasca is more commonly associated with Amazonian shamanism, spirits, and alternate realities (dualism), for Brad, it's all about nonduality. We dive in deep in our conversation about how and why this is a different approach to this a...

Here's the next exciting installment of  The Alchemist and the Eagle  audiobook. In chapter 34, "The Sack of Tuko-Go," the resistance takes a bold chance of taking the battle to the outskirts of the Jolao Empire at the city of Tuko-Go. The only problem is that the Empire is letting it happen for their own purposes ... Only two chapters left to go with this book of the  Tales of Aurduin series. The...

My guest this week is author, philosopher, and environmental lawyer, Tam Hunt, here to share all about his newest book,  The Hippies Were Right - About Consciousness and Everything Else.  We had fascinating and wide-ranging conversation about consciousness, reality, ontology, phenomenology, panpsychism, AI, Burning Man, 5-MeO-DMT, and so much more - truly an episode for those who are interested in...

We cover a lot of territory in this week's interview with Internal Family Systems therapist and author, Joshua Pritikin, discussing his new 460+ page book,  Religion Unburdened by Belief: The Way of Open Inquiry . Having entered both the worlds of IFS and psychedelic experience only recently in life, Joshua was inspired to create an engaging book that asks big questions about human experience, exp...

The other month I was contacted by Jonas who was inspired to share his story of post-5-MeO-DMT energetic challenges here on the podcast in response to my oft-repeated comments that people are going into experiences with 5 inadequately informed about the potential challenges. Jonas wanted to make his experience available here on the podcast so that others might learn from his experience and underst...

I'm joined this week by returning guest, Ian Benouis, who's here to share the latest scientific developments around the molecular identification of psilomethoxin, 4-HO-5-MeO-DMT, the unique sacrament from The Church of the Sacred Synthesis. We discuss the recent findings as well as the court cases the church has launched to defend themselves against their detractors. You can learn more about The C...

In this week's episode we meet the man behind the camera for the international hit film, "Fantastic Fungi," and the creator of the nature documentary series, "Moving Art," Louie Schwartzberg. Louie shares about his early psychedelic experiences and how they informed his passion for nature photography, time-lapse, film making, and providing the audience with a profound sense of awe and wonder with...

My guest this week is venerated elder in the psychedelic community, Dr. Richard Louis Miller, who joins me to discuss his newest book,  The Adverse Effects and Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelic Medicines - A Guide to the Risks and Rewards of Using Psychedelics in Therapy.  The fundamental premise of the book is that those who promote use of psychedelics for therapy need to have honest accountin...

Here's more from Aurduin for you with chapter 27 from the audiobook of  The Alchemist and the Eagle, "The Agreement." Nuya, now separated from her sister, Ohada, is being held captive on a remote island in the heart of the Jolao Empire, but there meets an unexpected ally in Nataali who convinces her that she should reveal the secrets of the resistance movement to Jao ... Also, I've got another sho...

This week I'm joined by Suzi Kalypso, founder of The Temple of Eden in southern California, which she started 5 years ago as a bufo (5-MeO-DMT) church, but has since expanded into a multi-sacrament entheogenic church and also provides facilitation training, integration, and community events and support. In this lengthy interview we learn of her struggles with addiction and her journey into psyched...

The other month the world got to watch as Bryan Johnson live-streamed his 5-MeO-DMT experience with Enfold that made use of "The Leckie Protocol," which combines vaporized with injected 5-MeO. Steve Rio suggested we have another conversation about it given the widespread interest, and I was happy to have him join me back on the podcast. We had another great, lengthy conversation about the protocol...

My guest this week is Alan Waugh, author, healer, retreat leader, and medicine man. Alan joins me to discuss his new book,  Alchemical Ayahuasca, as well as share his story of leaving England as a young man, listening to his inner guidance, emerging from chronic depression, and his entry into the world of psychedelics and shamanic healing. Alan has a number of websites where you can find out more...

My guest this week is Dr. Jeff McNairy, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica. In our conversation Jeff shares about the founding of Rythmia, what it means for the ayahuasca center to be medically licensed, why they prefer large group ceremonies, what they mean when they claim everyone gets a "miracle," and more in this lengthy interview. You can lea...

My guest this week is Scott Stanley, founder of the Arizona Yage Assemble ( AYA ), and the North American Association of Visionary Church, NAAVC.org . Scott's mission is to protect religious freedom, practice, and association as well as access to psychedelic sacraments. To that end he's founded the aforementioned groups to help create collective action and strength in numbers. We talk all about it...

My guest this week is one of the co-authors of the new book,  Psychedelic Therapy: A Revolutionary Approach to Restoring Your Mental Health and Reclaiming Your Life,  Will Van Derveer, MD. Will joined me from his home base in Colorado the other month to discuss psychedelic therapy from a medical and mental health perspective as it continues to make its way into the mainstream and is radically chan...

Best-selling author and couples therapist, Jonathan Robinson, joins me this week to share all about his newest book,  Ecstasy for Couples. Jonathan tells us that, as a profession couples therapist, he found that holding therapy sessions with couples while they are experiencing MDMA is far more impactful than standard talk therapy, and provides immediate and lasting results. He tells us all about i...

My guest this week is Dr. Tracy Scott, founder of Revela Retreats in Costa Rica where she offers healing and transformation with iboga. In this in-depth conversation we get into Tracy's journey from medical school to west Africa where she was initiated into Bwiti tradition, her call to start serving iboga, and how she works with clients at Revela to offer safe and medically grounded healing with i...

This is my last bit of sharing from my recent trip to Iceland. In this episode, I'm sharing a recording of my standard "intro talk" that I formerly gave to my clients before undergoing nondual energy work with 5-MeO-DMT. I gave this talk to my students as a model for how a practitioner can prepare a new client for the unique properties of working with 5-MeO and also how facilitators can detail the...

This week I'm happy to share with listeners my recent public talk from The White Lotus in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Sunday Jan 18th, 2026. Int his 2.5 hour long talk I cover a lot of ground around the topics of 5-MeO-DMT, nonduality, energetic processing, personal transformation, liberation, and why I consider working with 5-MeO-DMT a fundamental human right as a direct access point into the universa...

My guest this week is author and integration guide, Deva Arani, who joins me for her very first podcast interview of her career. In this conversation we explore her entry into the world of psychedelic medicines coming from the world of competitive long-distance running, how she approaches integration with clients, and the messages and topics explored in her two new books,  Integration Alchmey  and...