End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)

Russell Sturgess has been described as a thought leader in Western Mindfulness.  This is based on the idea of an approach to  mindfulness that had roots in the west, as opposed to the more commonly known eastern practice that emerged from Buddhism.  In 2007, he lived in southern Italy for a year while he researched and wrote his first book  Metanoia , which presented the thesis that a western appr...

Renee's moving story is  found on her website,  https://www.reneelynnspirit.com/ , which I will excerpt here: "How do you go from having Tony Robbins' business partner (who was mentored by Warren Buffett's billionaire business partner) reaching out and insisting YOU are literally "the only one who can help him," and go from working with the world's top creators:  Hollywood TV and film directors, c...

Inbaal is an Israeli-born British psychic and Wiccan Priestess.  She has been seen on television programs such as  Big Brother's Little Brother, House Busters,  and  Most Haunted.    Her work has also been featured by various publications including:  GQ, The Times, Elle, News of the World, the Daily Mail , and many others. We had a great time celebrating Halloween with her as she provided an onlin...

Dr. Dupuis is Social Anthropologist and Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Durham (U.K.) and a member of  the "Hearing the Voice" program.  "Hearing the Voice"  is a large interdisciplinary study of voice-hearing featuring an international research team of academics from anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, history, linguistics, psychology, theology, c...

Safa Roberts (Soi Kete in Shipibo) has been deeply involved in the study and practice of energetic healing for over 15 years.  Originally certified in Pranic Healing, she has since studied with many teachers of various modalities to broaden her repertoire of skills.  She has been working with her Shipibo maestro to learn energetic healing directly from the plants and brings this highly specialized...

Ido Hartogsohn is a scholar, artist, and activist in the field of psychedelics.  His work explores the role of the collective set and setting in shaping psychedelic experiences for human cultures.  Hartogsohn is the founder of the world's first Psychedelic Video Museum.   His book American Trip: Set, Setting and the Psychedelic Experience in the 20th Century appeared with MIT press earlier this ye...

Carole J. Obley has been the bridge between heaven and earth in over 10,000 group and individual readings.  She is the author of four books on mediumship and healing, spoken on radio and TV, and been the subject of numerous newspaper articles.  She has also published articles on spiritual and metaphysical subjects and taught numerous workshops at Lilydale, N.Y., the largest US center for Spiritual...

Despite being raised on an intellectual processed diet of reductionist cognitive science, engineering and bastardized East-West spirituality, Dave Oshana somehow managed to liberate himself by getting Enlightened through embodied movement and comedy.  He plans to drag a few more to the end zone before retiring.   See what the buzz is about at:   https://enlightenment-transmission.com/ Have a great...

Drew's amazing journey has taken him from recovery to work as a mental health counselor and professor to the owner of a holistic healing center.  He spent  half a year traveling around the United States in an RV and has ventured all the way from the Himalayan foothills to the Peruvian Amazon to Thailand where he currently resides.   You may find that you share a similar wavelength.  Here is how yo...

LP Kindred is a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer of Speculative Fiction at the intersections of Black and Queen Identities.  Kindred is also active in BIPOC Speculative Activism as an Associate Editor at Escape Pod, programming committee member at FiyahCon/Ignyte, and teaching/organizing with Voodoonauts.  When not procrastiwriting, LP can be found singing, eating good food, watching bad tv, pretending t...

Dr. Joe Anderson teaches in the Social Anthropology Department at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland).  We cover a lot of ground in this podcast including his work with "The Men Who:" a collective group of men "to talk to, listen to, care for and support and help one another in a safe, dynamic and positive space."   We also touch on his research specializing in the Anthropology of the United St...

Professor James Riley is a Fellow of English Literature at Girton College, Cambridge, focusing on modern and contemporary literature, popular film and 1960s culture.  He co-edited  The 1960s:  A Decade of Modern British Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2018).   He also makes films and performs spoken word poetry. In this podcast, we focus on his recent work  The Bad Trip:  Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End o...

Jason came to work at the ayahuasca healing center Temple of the Way of Light (Peru) in 2012.  After working with ayahuasca extensively, he began the process of dieting plants.  He dieted in the Shipibo tradition and began working with maestro Ernesto Garcia Torres in 2013.  Through a long apprenticeship and training, involving prolonged isolation, fasting, and dieting of plants, he was eventually...

Matthew Schultz is a multimedia artist, musician and educator.  He is a founding member of the dark ambient band Lab Report and the industrial band Pigface.  He is the creator of the hermetic order of The Division and The Mandala Project. In his new memoir,  The Dark and the Light:  Trauma, Addiction, Shamanism and Ayahuasca,  Matthew not only shares his experiences with sacred medicines and indig...

Erika Buenaflor, M.A., J.D. has over 20 years practicing as a curandera, mentoring with curanderx and shamans in the Maya Yucatecan jungle, Peru, and Los Angeles, and studying Mesoamerican Curanderismo in academia at UCLA and UCR.  She has a master's degree in religious studies with a focus on Mesoamerican shamanism and curanderismo.  Erika comes from a grandmother lineage of women healers, her gr...

Hillis Pugh is an author, teacher, speaker and energy facilitator working with modalities such as Psychic Mediumship, Reiki, and Lemurian Light Energy to co-create a deeper connection to the Soul. He is the author of  Awaken with Gratitude, a blog and book of channeled inspirational stories and original poetry.  The blog and book show the path of how we can open our minds to experience the gift of...

Professor Thomas B. Roberts returns to discuss the new anthology he edited:  Psychedelics and Spirituality:  The Sacred Use of LSD, Psilocybin, and MDMA for Human Transformation, 3rd Ed.    In this book, more than 25 spiritual leaders, scientists, and psychedelic visionaries examine how we can return to the primary spiritual encounters at the basis of all religions working with entheogens.  This g...

Lynette Allen is a medicine woman, who uses the sacred plant medicine Cacao, ritual and meditation to bring alignment and grounding to earth. Women come from all over the world to sit in her  A Woman's Blessing retreats and ceremonies, where they are honored for their personal journeys and encouraged to thank the girl they used to be, acknowledge the woman they are now and see the women they are y...

Mike began studying Buddhism with a Tibetan lama in 1966, becoming an upasaka of the Kagyud lineage in 1970.  In order to augment his Buddhist studies, he acquainted himself with Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Mandarin Chinese.  Mike has lectured at the Museum of Asia and the Pacific, Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Wisconsin...

Michael Telstarr is a world renown remote viewer.   He also holds seven world records in Escapology.  He was the youngest person to perform "Houdini's Water Cell Torture Escape" at the age of seventeen.  He attended the Monroe Institute and completed the Gateway and Trainer's program.  He also attained his Remote Viewing Certificate in Coordinate, Extended, and Masters of Remote Viewing with David...

Stanford-based Neuroscientist Dr. Marianne Reddan returns to the End of the Road to discuss her recently published study:  "Touch and Social Support Influence Interpersonal Synchrony and Pain," released in April in the Journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.   A link to her study can be found here:  https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/doi/10.1093/scan/nsaa048/5821245 More informatio...

Drew is a US Army Veteran and former law enforcement officer who served two tours in Iraq.  He experienced debilitating PTSD, Depression, and Suicide attempts before he encountered plant medicines including ayahuasca, huachuma and others.   He recounts his journey in his new book  I Am Perfect And So Are You:  One Man's Journey to Oneness  which was just released.  This book is not so much a memoi...

The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo is a Dutchborn/LA-based creator of cosmic, comedic, and contemplative content.  He is a psychonautic explorer whose work finds expression through visual art, written and spoken word, music, film, and performance.  He "utilizes wit, wordplay, and a 6th sense of humor to explore where the limits of language meet the fringes of reality."   He is also the host and creato...

John Evans and Marcy Johnson offer the Sancti Center which provides practices and training in the Eastern and Western Mystical and Esoteric practices.  Honoring his unique heritage of a Christian Reverend Father and Japanese Buddhist Shamanic Mother, John can apply unique blends of martial arts, healing traditions with esoteric teachings to enable others to grasp their own personal power and utili...

Dr. Patrick MacManaway is a third-generation practitioner of the psychic and healing arts working with people, projects, businesses and places.   Patrick graduated in Medicine at Edinburgh University and then took apprenticeships in both Western and Eastern approaches to traditional Geomancy and working with landscape energy.  He is the Past-President of the British Society of Dowsers, a  Founding...