Adventures Through The Mind

🥰  Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon 💌 Stay In Contact Through Signing Up For James' Newsletter Video Episode   👈 Jerónimo Mazarrasa is Program Director at The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service (also known as ICEERS), which is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming society's relationship with Traditional Indigenous Medicines. H...

Facilitator Chad Charles discusses the dangers of excessive 5-MeO-DMT use in participants and facilitators, as well as how to notice when people need help. ... This is a clip from 'Building Best Practices In The Underground Subculture Of 5-MeO-DMT | Chad Charles', Adventures Through The Mind Podcast, episode 113 FULL INTERVIEW Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify Watch in Video Read the show notes W...

🥰 Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon 💌 Stay In Contact Through Signing Up For James' Newsletter Video Episode  👈 Dr. Mikael Palner  is an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Research at the University of Southern Denmark, studying the biological correlates of maladaptive neuropsychiatric diseases—such as anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress...

Justin Townsend of MycoMeditations retreat center in Jamaica discusses psilocybin-induced psychotic states and how to respond to them. In particular, how to differentiate between what he calls a "normal psychotomimetic response" and a psychotic episode; and how knowing the difference is important in supporting people undergoing these experiences, safely. ...   This is a clip from 'The Business and...

Become a Patreon to Receive Exclusive Content Stay In Contact Through Signing Up For James' Newsletter   EPISODE DETAILS Nicholas P. Money is Professor of Biology and Western Program Director at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is an international expert on fungal biology and author of popular science books that celebrate the microbial world including his most recent, Molds, Mushrooms, and Med...

Dr. Oliver Grundmann talks about kratom's adverse effects, including addiction risks, constipation, nausea, and potential liver toxicity. He emphasizes that liver concerns are rare, dose-dependent, and often complicated by other factors like alcohol use, while stressing the need for better product regulation. ...   This is a clip from 'All About Kratom | Dr. Oliver Grundmann'-  ATTMind Podcast Epi...

Full Show Notes And A Video Version Of This Episode Can Be Found At Jameswjesso.com Become a Patreon to Receive Exclusive Content Stay In Contact Through Signing Up For James' Newsletter This episode features an interview with Jeffery Lando , an experienced filmmaker who recently directed the psychedelic-themed movie "Lissa's Trip". Our discussion explores the intersection of psychedelics, artific...

Adventures Through The Mind is an interview-based podcast focusing on psychedelics . It is hosted by Canadian author and public educator, James W. Jesso. Thanks for listening. Enjoy.   SUPPORT THE PODCAST Become a member of my Patreon:  https://patreon.com/jameswjesso Toss me a tip on PayPal:  https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS Toss my a Tip on Ko-Fi:  https://ko-fi.com/jameswjesso B...

Chris Bache, the author of LSD and The Mind Of The Universe, talks about the value of psychedelic integration and how ego inflation is one of the greatest risks of psychedelic work. ...   This is a clip from Global Collapse, Spirituality, and The Birth Of The Future Human | Chris Bache, Ph. D. -  ATTMind Podcast Episode 142 Watch in Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upd2JpIq_F8 Full Epis...

In this episode of the podcast, we interview deep ecology teacher and rainforest activist John Seed. Together, we discuss the importance of altering our sense of self such that it includes the natural world, the role psychedelics can play in that process, and how, even if the world as we know it burns and collapses, life itself will thrive through it all as it always has. We also talk about the ph...

In this episode of Adventures Through the Mind, we interview Nick Sun, stand up comedian, former psychedelic facilitator, and now the author of "No Mo Trippin" . We discuss Nick's personal experiences with psychedelics, including his high usage and how it led him to both become a facilitator and to stop facilitating; his criticisms of Western psychedelic culture; the concept of spiritual bypassing...

We welcome Greg Wrenn to the show to share his experience of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) and how it was that his explorations of coral reefs and journeys with Ayahuasca turned the tide on his lifelong struggle with the condition. Additionally, as both his experience of and healing from cPTSD is intertwined with his journalism on climate science, we also explore how the ecologica...

Nolan Williams, MD joins to talk about brain injury, ibogaine, and the incredible results of his study (conducted at Ambio Life Sciences Center ) on ibogaine for treatment of traumatic brain injury, "concussions" in particular. We also talk about ibogaine as an oneirogen; the cardiac risks of ibogaine; how ibogaine compares to other treatments methods for brain injury, including other psychedelics...

In this episode of the podcast, we explore the present day legal and political conundrum psilocybin mushrooms are facing as they sit on the verge of a significant change in their criminal status; the historical impact of mushroom tourism on the indigenous cultures that work with psilocybin; how that history is impacting those cultures today; and how all of this is influencing the complex political...

Led by the inspiration of a cephalopod now extinct 66 million years, Sky Otter and I explore what is means to live our lives in alignment with life, creatively, and with heartbreak, grief, endings, and death as not only necessary parts of the process, but gifts that can deepen, enrich, and guide our limited days. Some of the topics we explore include ammonite as example of death and creative chang...

Alexander Beiner joins us to explore how psychedelics can help us make sense of the meta-crisis. This includes topics like complexity tolerance and the overwhelming deluge of information in modern digital life; "How" and "why" we solve a problem is as important as the "what" of the solution itself; the mythological impact of sci-fi narratives on identity and perception; and whether AI will become...

Travis Cartwright and Marie Zak are clinical herbalists from Althaea Herbals, an apothecary in Nelson, BC, Canada. They join us on the show today to talk about herbalism as a way of being in the world, as well as a clinical practice. We also explore why herbalism is not just a plant replacement for pharmaceuticals; how an animistic worldview can empower us to cultivate a direct and living relation...

This episode is with Mijal Schmidt and presents a rather robust exploration of what psychedelic integration is and the specifics of what an ayahuasca integration requires. We talk about the importance of good preparation, and what that looks like; various integration practices and activities; the most common challenges in integrating ayahuasca experiences, including integrating HUGE experiences an...

Acacea Lewis is our guest for this episode of Adventures Through The Mind. Our interview explores a number of vignettes into her scholarly explorations of psychedelic mushrooms throughout human history, and especially in various African traditions. But the two main thematic arcs we travel in the interview are the work of the late Kilindi Iyi and the value and potential of high dose psilocybin expe...

Dr. Eve Maram is a clinical and forensic psychologist and a certified Jungian Analyst in private practice in Orange, California. She joins us to share her perspective on schizophrenia, of it as a condition wherein the organizing function of the ego is overwhelmed by the turbulence waters of the unconscious (a statement that will be well flushed out in the interview); but we also go deep into her m...

Dr. Adele Lafrance joins us to explore psychedelics and the healing power of Love. Our conversation begins with an exploration of emotional processing and how difficulties and deficiencies in emotional processing both our mental health, our relationships, and our general wellbeing. We then step into psychedelics and the role they play in supporting our emotional processing capacities. From there w...

Here is a short but important update to the Podcast release schedule. TLDR: Rather than every two weeks, podcasts will now be released every 4 to 6 weeks for the next few months in order to allocate more time to writing a book: a follow-up to my first book, Decomposing The Shadow: Lessons From The Psilocybin Mushroom    --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST — ► Donate monthly on Patreon: https://patreon.com/ja...

Rachel Harris, PhD joins us to talk about her new book, Swimming In The Sacred Swimming in the Sacred  offers a revelatory look into the past half-century of psychedelics use via in-depth interviews Harris conducted with women elders who have worked underground guiding sacred entheogenic journeys to cultivate insight, healing, and spiritual development.     Specifically, we talk about working with...

Today's episode is a bit of a lateral step from psychedelics specifically as we are going to talk about bipolar with Sara Schley, the author of the highly-acclaimed memoir BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum.  We talk about bipolar as a spectrum and the different variations of bipolar disorder; why it is that so many people with bipolar are misdiagnosed and the issues this p...

This episode features Matthew Baggott of Tactogen Inc. and will explore entactogens, which are drugs like MDMA, 2C-B, and Methalone. We start with setting a basic framework for what an entactogen is and a few example drugs, before exploring the complexities in their various effects, mechanisms of action, and both the legislative and technical process of the development of novel or new entactogenic...