End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)

Maja is a practicing Oracle and Witch who performs public rituals and educational lectures.  Maja's interest in Alchemy, magic and the esoteric sciences spans her entire lifetime.  She has studied Biochemistry, oriental medicine, martial arts and acupuncture, and earned her Masters Degree in Transformational Psychology.  She worked for 11 years as the librarian of Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Res...

Dr. Kaberi Kar Gupta is a Research Affiliate at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the Founding Director of the Urban Slender Loris Project.  While completing her PhD in anthropology (from Arizona State University) studying sexual behavior in non-human primates, and in subsequent conservation work in India and the US, she conducted extensive field research in remote locations includ...

Professor Boris Gershman has been on the faculty of American University since 2012.   He earned his PhD in Economics from Brown University.  His primary research focuses on the deep determinants of long-term economic growth and development and the economics of culture.   Professor Gershman's recent work has been published in Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of...

Shailly Agnihotri is the founder and executive director of the Restorative Center in New York City.  Previously, she spent more than 20 years as an attorney, and has developed an expertise in criminal justice through working as a prosecutor (Orleans Parish), teaching (Georgetown Law) and as a public defender (New York City).  She has come to understand the power for individuals and communities to...

Professor Bartke is the Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology at Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois, USA.  The focus of his research is on genetic and hormonal control of aging in mammals.  His current work is aimed at identifying mechanisms that link reduced growth hormone action with delayed aging and extended longevit...

Stephen Edred Flowers is a former American Professor, scholar, runologist, runosophist, and proponent of occultism, Odianism, esoteric runosophy, and Germanic mysticism.  He has over three dozen published books and hundreds of published papers and translations on a disparate range of subjects. In this episode, we discuss his newly published work:   The Magian Tarok , which explores the historical...

Leia Friedman is a teacher, writer, and permaculturist.  She is the host of the Psychedologist: Conscious Positive Radio," co-founder of the Boston Entheogenic Network, a psychedelic integration support provider, and an activist.  Her work focuses on phenonmena related to the human experience of consciousness through the lens of social and environmental justice.   Here website and podcast can be f...

Erika Buenaflor, M.A., J.D., has a master's degree in religious studies with a focus on Mesoamerican shamanism from the University of California at Riverside.  A practicing curandera for over 20 years, descended from a long line of grandmother curanderas, she has studied with curanderx in Mexico, Peru, and Los Angeles and gives presentations on curanderismo in many settings, including UCLA.  She l...

Tara Rose is the host of the Green Goddess podcast, a divinely guided media project which explores sacred medicine, philosophy and the evolution of consciousness.  She brings a deep love for Pachamama to her work as an initiated medicine woman, facilitating kambo frog medicine ceremonies to purify and raise the vibration of consciousness on the planet.  Tara is based in Portland, Oregon where she...

Tom Hatsis writes and speaks on psychedelic and entheogenic history.  He is the author of  Microdosing Magic: A Psychedelic Spellbook, The Witches' Ointment:  The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic and  Psychedelic Mystery Traditions:  Spirit Plants, Magical Practices, Ecstatic States .  He has appeared on the GaiamTV shows  Pychedelica and  Open Minds with Regina Meredith,  and has articles publ...

Susan L. Brooks is the Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and a Professor of Law at the Drexel University Kline School of Law in Philadelphia, PA.  She joined the faculty during the law school's inaugural year to develop and oversee all the experiential and public service aspects of the curriculum.  Professor Brooks teaches Family Law as well as innovative courses on holistic representation,...

Grizz shares his wisdom of plant medicine and is passionate about helping people connect deeper to this ancient knowledge of the plants through his apprenticeship program and Facebook page:   https://www.facebook.com/plantsong/ . Grizz also runs the popular and informative page "Way of The Mystic Curandero & Shamanic Practices:"  https://www.facebook.com/SacredSpaceTeachings/ My own two cents:  Gr...

Dr. Tarrant is a licensed psychologist and board certified in neurofeedback.  He is the director of the NeuroMeditation Institute (NMI) and author of the book "Meditation Interventions to Rewrite the Brain."  His research focuses on exploring brain wave changes that occur as a result of contemplative practices, technological interventions, and altered states of consciousness.  He is a regular pres...

Chris Bennett has been researching the historical role of Cannabis in Spiritual Life of Humanity for more than a quarter of a century.  He is co-author of  Green Gold of the Tree of Life: Marijuana in Magic and Religion (1995); Sex, Drugs Violence and the Bible (2001);  Cannabis and the Soma Solution (2010); and Liber 420: Cannabis Magickal Herbs and the Occult (2018).   He has also contributed ch...

Natasha explores the rich folk history and ancestral practices of Eastern Slavic magical rites and Russian sorcery.  Her new book:  Slavic Witchcraft: Old World Conjuring Spells & Folklore explains how this tradition has only a thin Christian veneer over its pagan origins and how the Slavic pagan gods and goddesses acquired new lives as the saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church.  She details how t...

Professor Cleo McNelly Kearns, is an independent scholar in the fields of modern literature, philosophy of religion, and anthropology and is currently a Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College.  She has published extensively on issues in continental philosophy, feminist theory and aesthetics.  Her work now focuses on global shamanism and on the comparative study of sacrificial rituals across many cu...

Dr. Joye originally graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas.  Her lush biography includes adventures in New York City with Andy Warhol and the Factory Scene, being the subject of a Maplethrope portrait, and hanging out with Alan Watts.  Her adventures in supersensible perception led her to expand her engineering background and towards work with John Lilly exp...

Michael is the host and writer of the Third Eye Drops show/podcast that has over 1 million downloads.  He is a polymorphous polymath who dreams of a "technodelic community where wonder, laughter and creation are core commandments."  Follow him on  Twitter  where most recently he tweeted thus and so: "If you don't actively struggle for the things you want, you'll be slowly consumed by circumstances...

Ben is a sex worker, feminist porn performer, certified permaculture designer, certified tantric counselor, author, film maker, and recording artist.  He finds healing and empowerment through sacred loving arts, ecological gardening, shamanism, ecstatic trance dancing, martial arts, and open source technology.   His ongoing short film series,  Sexorcism the Tantric Opera , was launched in 2017.   ...

Noah Lampert is the host of the Synchronicity Podcast, founder of the Mindpod Network, musician, and web developer.  He has served as the director of Web Operations for the Ram Dass--Love Serve Remember Foundation and is the owner of CRVD Media.   In this episode, Noah dives deep into the experience of Synchronicity, why it is important to honor the experience, and its mystical significance.  Noah...

Jasun Horsley is an English cultural critic, metapsychologist, conspiracy researcher, and podcaster.  He is the author of several books:   Seen and Not Seen, Prisoner of Infinity, and The Vice of Kings:  How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse. Jasun spent his early life fleeing from a sense of unreality and has been trying to get to the bottom of it ever...

Lorenzo Hagerty's professional career is as diverse as they come:  attorney, consultant to Fortune 500 companies, electrical engineer, hot air balloon pilot, Naval officer, Internet/Java promoter, motivational speaker, and multimedia software developer.  Hagerty was president of Success, Inc., which provided sales training and network marketing courses to other companies, and he founded Dynasty Co...

I heard Dr. Kate describe her journey on the local NPR Station's version of the Moth Radio Hour.  When she finished, there was not a dry eye in the audience.  There is no spoiler alert, I'll let her tell her story.  I do like foreshadowing though, and there is a white swan along the way named Athena.  And the story ends well.  And if you or anyone you know ever encounters a swan responding to the...

Singer, Songwriter, Composer Caleb Smith (aka Mista Smyth) is the lead singer and co-founder of Black Queen, "A tribute to Queen."  Rumor has it that Black Queen has the largest world-wide following of any Queen tribute band with a straight African-American frontman:-).  And of course, we at the End of the Road stridently adopt all rumors.  Be sure to check out Caleb's original five full length al...

Abdi Assadi, M.S., Lic. Ac. is a spiritual counselor and acupuncturist is his 34th year of clinical practice in New York City.  His work centers on helping his clients use their disease and dysfunction as a doorway to spiritual serenity.  Through his decades of practice, he has learned that identifying and integrating the human shadow--those disowned or repressed puzzle pieces of self that wreak h...