The Ancient Futurist

In this episode of The Ancient Futurist Podcast, I sit down with Father Seán ÓLaoire, a former Catholic priest, mystic, author, clinical psychologist, philosopher, and mathematician with a very colorful journey, which he’s dedicated to exploring and integrating various cultural philosophies and mythologies, including spending 14 years working with the Kalenjin people in Kenya. Seán brings a unique...

After a long hiatus, TAF podcast is back 🌀 In this episode of the Ancient Futurist Podcast, I dive deep with Carl Hayden Smith, who shares his groundbreaking experiences as "Patient Zero" in Imperial College London's extended-state DMTx research , where he became the first person to complete all five doses in the pilot phase. A respected researcher, consciousness explorer, and director at Noonaut...

On this episode of the Ancient Futurist Podcast, I dive in with my good friend, fellow Louisiana swamp native, and former Christian pastor Mike Tharpe to discuss his journey of deconstructing Christianity and paving a new path for himself towards his personal spiritual and intellectual freedom. Mike has an extremely interesting and meandering journey through Louisiana upbringing, attending bible s...

On this episode of the Ancient Futurist Podcast, I have a multifaceted chat with my friend and renowned filmmaker, Ben Stewart. We first met while spending a week together drinking ayahuasca in Costa Rica, during which we experienced 3 very profound ceremonies. Ben's incredible filmmaking work has left him well-researched in a variety of topics and this conversation spans the gamut. We dive in...

On this episode of the podcast, I sit down with former NFL player Joe Hawley. Joe has an inspiring story of deep transformation stemming from his decision to leave the dream in order to live the dream. After choosing to voluntarily leave the NFL to seek deeper purpose, he embarked on a mission of self-discovery that led him to plant medicine, meditation, community, vanlife, and much more. Unsuppor...

Megan Bhatia and I met a while back at Soltara Healing Center in Costa Rica, and instantly recognized our shared curiosities surrounding many aspects of the human experience. We had so many interesting conversations that I really wanted to bring her on the podcast to dive into some of these topics. Megan views everything through the lens of relationship, and she has a fascinating framework surroun...

On this episode of The Ancient Futurist Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Andrew Gallimore for a psychedelic conversation that won't disappoint. We deep dive on the fascinating and mysterious world of DMT, discussing the importance of furthering our understanding of encounters with extradimensional intelligences, emerging technologies designed to map out the psychedelic worlds, and the neurochemist...

As a society, we are beginning to recognize a widespread disconnection from our bodies and nervous systems. After a few episodes that largely revolved around understandings of the mind and consciousness, I was excited to sit down with Steven Jaggers to dive into the innate intelligence and 'hidden' mechanisms within the body. From anxiety medications and antidepressants, to things as simpl...

This very special episode of the podcast features Jim McCarty, one of the three people responsible for the Law of One material - a framework of reality like no other I've discovered. There are many different things that can be gathered and contemplated from the information within this material. It ties together the teachings of quantum physics, astrophysics, non-dual mystical traditions, conscious...

5-MeO-DMT is considered by many to be the most reliably profound and paradigm-shifting psychedelic compound. It consistently produces reality-shattering experiences of total oneness with all that is - a total loss of one's sense of subject/object relationship with reality. The mind seems to expand into infinity and the nature of consciousness itself becomes apparent as an often undeniable felt sen...

Welcome to the first episode of the Ancient Futurist Podcast. For this one, I dive in with a good friend and amazing human, Melissa Stangl. Years after leaving corporate scientific America to live and work in the Amazon studying the profound healing effects of plant medicines, Melissa co-founded and is presently the COO of Soltara Healing Center (soltara.co), a Shipibo-led ayahuasca center in Cost...