The Entheogenic Evolution

Last week Hewkii (Helgi) and Flammeus invited me back on their show to talk about my time in Iceland, the work with 5-MeO-DMT I was doing there, and also give Helgi an opportunity to share about his experience of working with my students. This lengthy and engaging conversation is already available on their YouTube Channel , but we wanted to do some cross-pollination, so here it is for my audience....

I'm joined this week by Morocco-based French podcaster and Youtuber, Ali Nuit. Ali is all about exploring research chemicals from the widely-known to the obscure and is also found of various psychedelic cocktails. We get into it all in this lengthy conversation. If you speak French, you can enjoy Ali's YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@Nuit

In this episode I'm sharing the audio of a video I created on the topic of 5-MeO-DMT reactivations. I'm sharing this here as an example of the content of my upcoming 5-MeO-DMT Integration Specialist Training course with Mindscape Institute where we comprehensively cover the phenomenology of both the direct experience of 5-MeO-DMT as well as the ongoing energetic processes and events (such as react...

To kick off the first episode of 2026 and my 19th year of podcasting, my guest is recent Ph. D. recipient, Azul DelGrasso, who wrote his dissertation at the California Institute of Integral Studies about 5-MeO-DMT. We had a lengthy conversation about it a few months ago to help him celebrate being perhaps the first person in the world to earn his Ph. D. by writing about 5-MeO-DMT.  Also on the 5 f...

We conclude the 18th year of the Entheogenic Evolution Podcast with some zany, mind-bending fun with a representative of Mindcom, a Division of Octocorp ... For anyone out there who's been listening to this weekly podcast for 18 years ... you're amazing! Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy this end-of-the-year episode and I'm looking forward to your continued listening as we enter the podca...

My guest this week is Christian Rasmussen from AMENTARA (formerly MN Nice Ethnobotanicals) to discuss amanita mushrooms, blue lotus, kava, and more. We get into dosage, experience, and why Christian feels that amanita is the most demanding experience of them all. Visit them online here: AMENTARA.com  

I've got a husband and wife team as guests this week on The Entheogenic Evolution Podcast - Stephan and Amber Kerby of Mindscape Institute. They've just released their co-authored work,  The Embodiment Protocol: A Practical Guide to Awakening with 5-MeO-DMT,  which is now available as paperback and ebook on Amazon. As this is Amber's first time being interviewed on the podcast, we devote a great d...

My guest this week is psychedelic comic book creator, Daniel Moler. We had a very engaging and wide-ranging discussion about psychedelics, representational art, the nature of story telling, super heroes, fascism, and the joy of creating good old fashioned physical objects such as will be produced with Daniel's Crowdfundr campaign to produce copies of his latest offering, "Psychonaut 5." Find out m...

My guest this week is Clementine Kruczynski who uses a unique "private law" and "private trust" approach to establishing legally protected entheogenic churches. While I've featured lawyers who seek to apply Religious Freedom Restoration Act legal exemptions for creating entheogenic churches, Clementine promotes an entirely different route and is thus sharing with the listening audience a new way o...

My guest this week is founder of Enfold, a full-service 5-MeO-DMT facilitation program near Vancouver Canada that specializes in 5-day protocols with both vaporized and injectable 5-MeO-DMT. We had an excellent conversation that, for me, highlights many of the things that I like to encourage with 5-MeO-DMT facilitation. To learn more about Steve's work, visit the website Enfold.org  

My guest this week is author, Gillian Lepisto, sharing all about her new illustrated compendium of entheogenic and psychedelic plants, mushrooms, and more from around the world, Entheogenic Earth . We get into book and it's many subjects as well as the story behind the book and what inspired Gillian to launch this project. 

My guest this week is Luke Jensen, vet and founder and CEO of NeuroEnlightenment.com . Luke combines the cutting-edge technology of qEEG brain scans and neurofeedback to help those suffering from trauma to optimize the healing potential of psychedelic therapy with ayahuasca and huachuma. In this conversation, Luke shares his own path to healing and transformation and how he conducts his work in Pe...

As promised, here's Part II of my short and whimsical audiobook,  God's Handbook for Operating Human Vehicles - a No Nonsense, No Strings Attached Approach to Universal Being.  After next week's interview, I'll be continuing with sharing of  Tales of Aurduin  with volume III of the series,  The Alchemist and the Eagle between interview episodes . If you've missed any of book I or II, you can find...

This week I've got another new addition to my "Psychedelic Oregon" series with Mike Kirkwood, proprietor of Shrooms Cafe, right here in my hometown of Ashland, Oregon. At this unconventional cafe, paying members can partake of low doses of psilocybin mushrooms, as allowed in the Oregon Psilocybin Program, and then stick around and enjoy a social event or musical performance. Mike and I talked all...

Before starting in with volume three of  Tales of Aurduin ,  The Alchemist and the Eagle,  I thought we'd take a fun, cheeky diversion into my quirky (and short) audiobook of  God's Handbook for Operating Human Vehicles - A No-nonsense, No Strings Attached Approach to Universal Being  (also available in full-color fractal art print and ebook versions). I've broken it up into two parts. Here's Part...

My guest this week is psychedelic integration guide and facilitator, Julian Bermudez, who joined me last month from his home in Portland, Oregon. Julian shares raw personal details of his own experiences with trauma and healing through psychedelics, which has deeply informed his approach of how he works with clients. You can learn more about his practice at his website, psychedelic-integration.net...

My guest this week is Heather Smith who runs The Moxie School in Asheville, NC (not to be confused with my home town of Ashland, Or!). At the Moxie School, Heather focuses on training individuals in the use of Internal Family Systems Therapy in conjunction with Psychedelic Assisted Therapy. This conversation adds to the growing body of interest in how these two work together and compliment each ot...

Tom Hatsis has just released his latest book, Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance , and he joined me for a detailed conversation about it last week. In this book, Tom takes a critical eye on various ways that the "culture wars" have impacted the contemporary psychedelic movement where, in his assessment, narratives and ideologies have created divisivene...

My guest this week is Shannon Brown, sound healer and organizer of the four-day free online event, "Sacred Sounds Summit," which starts today, June 23rd. In this interview Shannon not only tells her personal story of turning to sound healing via psychedelic experience, but also all about the event, what inspired it, and what participants can expect. You do need to register to participate in this f...

My guest this week is Dr. Tracy Townsend, founder and facilitator at Meadow Medicine in Portland, Oregon, which provides legal psilocybin services. We had a great conversation about not only how the program and facility run, but also what inspired Tracy to turn from conventional medicine to psychedelic therapy. Also, as mentioned in the opening, my next guest will be Shannon Brown, who has organiz...

Author Elina Teboul is my guest this week, discussing her new book,  Feminine Intelligence: How Visionary Leadership Can Shape Business for Good. As a business leader, Elina found her own perspective deeply transformed by therapeutic work with psychedelics, and she doesn't shy away from sharing about her experiences and perspective in her book. While American culture has taken a radicalized shift...

Stephan Kerby, director of the Mindscape Institute , comes back on the podcast to share all about his new book, Trauma-Informed 5-MeO-DMT Facilitation: An Educational Manual , which we produced together expanding on materials used for the class of the same name with the institute. In this conversation we discuss not only the content, but also the process of how the book came about, what it offers,...

Author and psychedelic therapist, Ashley Booth, returns to the podcast after many years to share about her new book, Quieting the Storm Within: An Illustrated Introduction to Your Parts Through Internal Family Systems and Beyond . Going beyond the scope of the book itself, much of our conversations focuses on how and why IFS is being used in conjunction with psychedelic therapy and integration. He...

This week the play and musical, "Ayahuasca Inside Out," debuts at the NY Fringe Festival, opening on Monday, April 14th, and running through the 20th. To help hype up the event, I had a great conversation with Loren Crea Abbade and Anthony Hidalgo to tell us all about it last week to get this out in time to mark their opening day and celebrate how what originated as a birthday surprise ended up as...

I'm welcoming Mario Garnier back onto the podcast this week. Mario is one of the founders of the World Bufo Alvarius Congress, held for several years in Mexico City. He's now running a mens' retreat program in Mexico called " Bufo Camp ," so I thought it would be a good time to bring him back on the podcast to share all about it. Mario also recently created an AI-generated conversation about Bufo...