End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)

Dr. Espi teaches and practices medicine in the Psychiatry Department of Rush Medical College in Chicago.  He has more than 20 peer reviewed publications on many aspects of Psychiatry including:  akathisia due to drugs, metabolic syndrome, inflammation, dissociative symptoms, the cinema, and the history of Psychiatry.  He is the founding member of the Journal of Humanistic Psychiatry and the author...

Matt is a multimedia artist, musician, inventor and sculptor.  He was a founding member of the dark ambient band  Lab Report that included such diverse musicians as Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Lydia Lunch and Chris Connelly.  Schultz also invented the A.T.G. or Anti Tank Guitar and utilized this instrument with the  Lab Report  and  Pigface .  In total, Schultz has appeared on over 29 cds with 9 sol...

Elihu Genmyo Smith is the zen teacher of the Prairie Zen Center in Champaign, Illinois, and one of the co-founders, with Charlotte Joko Beck, of the Ordinary Mind Zen School.  He is the author of " Everything is the Way: Ordinary Mind Zen,"   (Shambhala Press 2012).  Elihu has practiced Zen for over thirty-five years, beginning as a student of Soen Nakagawa and Eido Tai Shimano, then he trained wi...

Professor Roberts discusses his new book which is an exploration of "mind design" technologies and practices--MindApps--that boost intellectual capacity and enable new ways of thought and action.   By way of background, Thomas Roberts earned his Ph. D. from Stanford and taught for many years at Northern Illinois University.  He taught the world's first and longest running catalog listed psychedeli...

Intro Music:   "Town to Town" from the upcoming Chickadee Sermon release scheduled for later this year.  Mike and Olivia share their journey and love of music.  Topics covered: concert, festival and venue  management and promotion, benefit concerts, the Grateful Dead tribe, The Route 66 music festival, block parties, Donnie's Homespun, cultivating local and regional acts, The String Cheese Inciden...

Jimmy Tebeau is a professional musician performing in the nationally touring, festival promoting Grateful Dead Experience:  The Schwag.  Jimmy also had a four year stint as the bassist for the JGB (Jerry Garcia Band).  Recently, he started hosting a two hour talk show on KKID 92.9 in Rolla, Missouri.  In this free flowing and unedited episode of the live talk show we discuss:  Joseph Campbell and...

Omar is a retired military veteran and leads a multidisciplinary team of professionals that provide legal sacred medicine experiences in Mexico focusing on the shamanic and therapeutic use of mushrooms, peyote, changa, and temazcal ceremonies.  "Integration Retreats," provides clients with all inclusive retreats that include medicine ceremonies, on-site professional therapy-based integration, skil...

Semina is a multidimensional artist and practitioner of many skills to navigate myriad realities including but not limited to:  lucid dreaming, astral travel, entheogens, meditation, somatic meditation, hypnagogic states, grounding, balance, third eye visions, Kundalini energy, brain wave entrainment, binaural beats, precognition, interaction with entities, ORMUS, and much much more.  She hosts an...

For more than 40 years, Schwartz has studied the nature of consciousness.  He is the author of more than 175 books, technical reports, and papers.  In addition to his experimental studies, he has written numerous magazine articles for the Smithsonian, OMNI, American History, American Heritage, The Washington Post and The New York Times.  He is also an award winning novelist, "Awakening," "The Visi...

Though Ayahuasca is used as a traditional spiritual medicine in ceremonies among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin, it is starting to make inroads into the heartlands of America.  I have yet to encounter a more evocative spokesperson for this medicine than Lara. Lara embodies the restorative potential that Ayahuasca creates in healing past traumas and in harmonizing life with its spiritua...

Timothy is the founder of the Infinite Transition, a healing protocol based on the healing modality Theta-Healing that is designed to help individuals heal themselves physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.  In this episode, Timothy discusses his own journey through suicidal depression and how working with Theta-Healing and other practices transformed his life.  Currently based in Reno...

Jeremy plays professional basketball in the European League.  But to my mind, his superpower is not his slashing drive to the basket or pull-up jumper, but his relentless heart-based gratitude practice which lights up the room (not to mention the court).  Jeremy is the host of the "Always Loading" podcast, is on Youtube and Facebook under his name and Instagram @always_loading.  Get in early--I'm...

Celeste is more things than I will be able to describe.  She is an oracle, fortune teller, witch, and "affirmation empress"--indeed, affirmations spring from her like rapidly chanted poetic mantras chaneled from some complex divine source.  But there is more!  Her nom de plume is Janette Odell, and under that moniker, she and her husband Jerry have penned several erotic novels describing the myste...

Donalee brings conscious leadership, spirituality and mastery to individuals and organizations through her coaching, Mastering M.E. and Leadership Mastery Programs.  In her words, "mastery," refers to one's ability to apply and practice a new skill or task with repetition and attention to detail so it becomes programmed into an operating system.  Once this is achieved the subconscious will automat...

Professor Liechty teaches in the Department of Social Work at Illinois State University.  This year he was named as a College of Arts and Science Distinguished Lecturer for the 2018-19 Academic Year which is the highest honor awarded by the College based on faculty scholarship.  In this podcast, we discuss the following subjects:  the historical and contemporary relationship between social work an...

By day, Matt is an Astrophysicist and Educator.  However, Matt's long standing interest in how spirituality, shamanism and other indigenous practices shape the relationship of societies to nature, time and the cosmos translate into fascinating research about how cosmographies, heterotopias, and usage of entheogenic substances allow access into realms inaccessible to the scientific method.  Matt's...

Larry is an expectation coach, inspirational speaker, and featured expert of an Evansville, Indiana, CBS talk show.  In his new book which is a #1 New Release on Amazon, titled "Where's My Pizza," Larry finds success in life not only enjoying the slice but in learning the recipe, both literally and figuratively.   Speaking of recipes, I'm still waiting for Larry to share his mother's cornbread rec...

Jewels and Phoenix Rose discuss their journey and creation of Infynite Gold, which had its genesis and continued development in non-ordinary states of consciousness.  In their words, Infynite Gold combines "ORMUS Elements and Scalar Frequencies, utilizing skincare as a delivery system."  "Jewels Dela Tierra, the founder of Infynite Gold, has been a practicing Vibrational Therapist for over 22 year...

Byron Gaist has a Ph. D. in Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Essex in the UK, with an emphasis on Jungian analytical psychology.  He has also completed psychotherapy training in the person-centered approach and the use of guided imagery in music therapy.  He is the author of "Creative Suffering and the Wounded Healer: Analytical Psychology and Orthodox Christian Theology".  He works f...

This presentation was given last month at the IL. CPA conference.  Please email  nokoan@hotmail.com  to receive the powerpoint slides which accompany the presentation. 

Sherry is a school teacher, community theatre actress, poet, songwriter, and heaven forbid (lol) Catholic mystic.  In one of my favorite episodes, we discuss (with her husband Dan) her extraordinary experiences of grace and non-ordinary states of consciousness.  The songs she wrote and sang on this podcast can be found at her YouTube page under her name.

Bridgetta's inexhaustible energy propelled her though journeys starting with acting (she appeared in a number of movies and TV shows starting in her childhood) to dance (she was a backup dancer with Britney Spears) to modeling (for Harley Davidson and many others), to spiritual radio and TV (she has her own podcast called Soul Sexy Radio) to certifications in Yoga, Hypnosis, Herbalism, Massage, Br...

Robin is a holistic psychotherapist and Psychedelic integration therapist specializing in treating trauma and addictions.  Her work is inspired by her own journey. She practices in Sacramento, California.   More information about her inspiring work can be found at https://psychedelic.support/ network/robin-kurland-west-ma- lmft/  or on Instagram @nestinggroundhealing

Kara is a Transformational coach and Energy Healer whose works have been featured in Self, New York Yoga & Life, Any. Body_Co. and the Dodo.  She has spent the last seven years working through grief, sexual assault, trauma, and other past struggles to ultimately transform and release the past.  In this episode, we discuss her journeys, practices, and mindsets she developed to help her clients find...

Dr. Naiman is a clinical assistant professor of medicine and the sleep and dream specialist at the University of Arizona's Center for Integrative medicine.  By merging scientific with psychological approaches, Dr, Naiman has become a leader in integrative approaches to sleep health.  His works have been featured in Time, USA Today, Prevention, Readers Digest, NPR, Allure, the Huffington Post and m...