Universe Within Podcast

Hey everybody! Episode 203 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Alan Scheurman. Alan and I sat down and spoke about his background, his work with psychedelics, how an encounter with ayahuasca and peyote changed his worldview and opened him to spirit, his work with initiation and the Shipibo, critiques of modern practice and the Psychedelic Renaissance among many other things. Alan has...

Hey everybody! Episode 202 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Aviaja Rakel Sanímuinaq Kristiansen. I think this one of the more beautiful conversations I’ve had on this podcast. Rakel is a shaman of the Inuit people of Greenland. I think she speaks beautifully from a place of a deep experience knowledge of what she has discovered for herself, in her own journey of being born into a...

Hey everybody! Episode 201 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Adam Butler. Adam and I sat down and had a really interesting conversation about his background, his struggle with depression and how that led him to DMT, what DMT is and how it helped him, the space and entities that are encountered there, his views on healing and the work he is doing. He has a genuine passion for this w...

Hey everybody! Episode 200 of the show is out. This episode is a podcast I was interviewed on called The Psychedelic Podcast hosted by Paul Austin. Paul has a great podcast and I was happy to be invited on. We spoke about my work, ayahuasca, tobacco, dietas, lineage and deeper aspects of this work. Paul has been involved in this work and field for a number of years so he led a great interview. I h...

Note: For the english version, click here: https://youtu.be/eVJtU4hDnl8 Hola a todos! Ya está disponible el episodio 200 del pódcast. En este episodio conversé con Jacques Mabit. Jacques es el fundador de Takiwasi, el centro de medicina tradicional amazónica más antiguo y reconocido del Perú. Conozco el trabajo de Jacques desde hace muchos años, prácticamente desde que comencé a dedicarme a este c...

Hey everybody! Episode 199 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Jacques Mabit. Jacques is the founder of the oldest and most renowned traditional Amazonian medicine center in Peru, Takiwasi. I have know about Jacques for many years, ever since I started doing this work. In 2013, I visited Takiwasi and was given a personal tour there. I was very impressed with their space, staff, and s...

Hey everybody! Episode 198 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Matteo Politi. Matteo is an independent researcher who has specialized in pharmacology, phytotherpay, naturopathy, amongst other things, and for a number of years has been doing research at the renowned Peruvian Amazonian Medicinal center Takiwasi. We sat down and spoke about his background, the pharmaceutical industry, p...

Hey everybody! Episode 197 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Dr. Jeff McNairy. Jeff is the Chief Medical Operator at Rythmia, one of the larger and more well-known ayahuasca healing centers. I knew some about Rythmia but not a lot and it was a pleasure to have Jeff come on and share about his journey and vision of Rythmia, his background in medicine and psychology, his many paths o...

Hey everybody! Episode 196 of the show is out. This episode is a podcast I was interviewed on called The Evolving Man Podcast hosted by Ben Goresky. Ben has a great podcast I was happy to come on his platform and speak about my work with tobacco and trees. He is involved in similar fields and so has a good knowledge of these subjects and was able to lead a really good interview and bring out some...

Hey everybody! Episode 195 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with White Walking Feather, also known as Rob in the Pagé family. WWF is a deeply fascinating man. I was very grateful he came on the show to share his story and wisdom. After struggling in life he found a calling of what it meant to be a truly free person. He emancipated himself from the system of governance that seeks to con...

Hey everybody! Episode 194 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Robert Gourlay. Robert is a scientist, in, I think, the best definition of that word, someone who is an innovator, a pioneer, a philosopher, and who looks at the world through a holistic lens. He has dedicated his life to the study of water and how structured, negatively charged water supports and helps humans and life to...

Hey everybody! Episode 193 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with my friend Jessica Begin. I have known Jessica for many years since we met working together at the Amazonian Shipibo ayahuasca center, The Temple of the Way of Light . Jessica has dedicated her life to a deep spiritual curiosity and calling. For many years, she has apprenticed with a well-known and respected family of Ship...

Hey everybody! Episode 192 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Paul Austin. I was recently on Paul’s podcast, Third Wave, and was happy to welcome him on mine. We sat down and spoke about his background, being raised in a very religious family and how his early experiences with psychedelics began to shift his worldview, his work with micro-dosing, practitioner training, religion, pla...

Hey everybody! Episode 191 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Dr. Kelly McCann. Dr. Kelly McCann is a board-certified physician in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, trained in Functional, Integrative, and Environmental Medicine. I was really happy to have Dr. Kelly on and share in her life’s journey, her study of medicine, her holistic view of health, and her very beautiful integrat...

Hey everybody! Episode 190 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Natasja Pelgrom. We sat down and spoke about her background, how at 14 years of age she had an experience with mushrooms that shaped her life, her work in the field of psychedelics, the power of ritual, initiations, the sublime, and psychedelic facilitation. I enjoyed speaking with Natasja and feel she speaks from a place...

Hey everybody! Episode 189 of the show is out. This episode is a podcast I was interviewed on called Ayahuasca Podcast hosted by Sam Believ. Sam runs an ayahuasca center in Colombia and we’ve gotten to know each-other and I was happy to come on his podcast for an interview. We spoke about a lot of topics in this plant medicine world such as my time in Peru working at an ayahuasca center, my work w...

Hey everybody! Episode 188 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with my friend Marta Wanderlust for her second appearance on the podcast—the first was five years ago, back in episode 16. Since then, Marta has become a mother of two, and this conversation centers largely on motherhood and the birthing process. We explore the parallels between birth and plant medicine ceremonies, birth as an...

Hey everybody! Episode 187 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Dr. Nathan Bryan. Dr. Bryan is a doctor who has spent much of his life studying the effects and benefits of the molecule nitric oxide and its relationship to health. We spoke about how he first came to know it, the correlation and potential causation of a lack of nitric oxide in various health conditions, ways to improve...

Hey everybody! Episode 186 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Luis Eduardo Luna. Luis is one of the luminaries in the field of plant medicine as has a career that spans nearly seven decades. He has worked alongside and learned from some of the greats such as Richard Evans Schultes, R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hoffman, Pablo Amaringo, the McKenna’s, Dolmatoff, and many more. We spoke ab...

Hey everybody! Episode 185 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Dr. Aaron Hartman MD. Dr. Hartman has a really grounded and holistic approach to health and I really enjoyed our conversation. We spoke about his background, medical school, his his interest in functional medicine, the journey that he embarked on helping to heal his daughter, diagnosis, chronic disease, environmental toxi...

Hey everybody! Episode 184 of the show is out. This episode is a podcast I was interviewed on called Beyond the Courage hosted by Robert Canis. Robert has a really good podcast about holistic healing and I was happy to join him. We spoke about a lot of different aspects of my path and he also really focused on iboga which is not something I speak much about. It was a good interview and Robert did...

Hey everybody! Episode 183 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Thoryn Stephens. Thoryn is the CEO and founder of Brain. One which is doing really interesting work in human optimization. We sat down and spoke about his life, how, as a young man, he came across huachuma in Ecuador and how that had a transformative impact on him, various other plant medicines, consciousness, BCI and AI,...

Hey everybody! Episode 182 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Dr Darren Schmidt DC. Dr Schmidt was recommended to me, and I really enjoyed some of his content on YouTube. We sat down and spoke about a variety of topics, including agriculture, nutrition, health, subsidies, detoxification, parasites, RFK, medicine, and a lot else. I think Dr Schmidt is doing great work at sharing more...

Hey everybody! Episode 181 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Simon Borg-Olivier. Simon was recommended to me by a listener of the podcast and I was very happy to connect with him. We spoke about his varied life and journey and really focused on his lifelong practice of yoga. Simon has a very nuanced and rooted view of this practice and much more than just sitting on a mat. We spoke...

Hey everybody! Episode 180 of the show is out. This episode is a podcast I was interviewed on called Beyond the Pills hosted by Josh Rimany. I was really happy with the interview. It was fairly concise and covered a lot of aspects of my work, predominantly with tobacco and tree medicines. We also spoke about ayahuasca, dieta, and some of Josh’s insights as well. I hope you all gain from this episo...