Riancarnation

Kevin Feeney, PhD, joins me for a conversation

He is a cultural anthropologist and lawyer currently working as a Program Director and Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies – Social Sciences at Central Washington University. His primary research interests include examining legal and regulatory issues surrounding the religious and cultural use of psychoactive substances, with an emphasis on peyote and ayahuasca, and exploring modern and traditional uses of the Amanita Muscaria mushroom, with a specific focus on medicinal use and preparation practices. 

His research has been published in many journals such as the International Journal of Drug Policy, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs and many more. He is a member of Chacruna’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants, and recently joined the Board of Advisors for Psyched Wellness, a Canadian health supplements company emphasizing medicinal mushrooms.

This episode is largely around Amanita Muscaria. Topics like Microdosing, interesting medical history, potential in helping those with autism due to ibotenic acid being somewhat an analog to glutamate in the brain, and so more more. We chat about cultural uses a bit, though in the shownotes there’s a link to another podcast with Kevin that does a great dive more on the cultural history and use of Amanita around the world.

We also talk about both the excitement of the mainstreaming of psychedelic therapy and our worries and hopes for the future.

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• His book, Fly Agaric: A Compendium of History, Pharmacology, Mythology & Exploration

• Autism on Acid (always best to try to find these books not on Amazon but they are there too)

• Amanita Cultural History podcast episode

• Psyched Wellness Amanita Tincture “Calm”

• Kevin’s Research Gate Page

• My Patreon

• Iboga Episode
  
  
• Salvia Episode

Master Shaman Hamilton Souther joins the show

Hamilton Souther is a Master Shaman, and Founder of the Blue Morpho Tours, an Ayahuasca and Plant medicine Retreat Centre in Peru. Hamilton is also Co-founder Gaia Labs and Source Independent Entertainment (SIE), and Full Stock NFTs. Hamilton is a visionary leader, speaker, author and international leader for Amazonian Sustainability and Conservation. 

This was one of my favorite conversations so far on the show, and one of the best I’ve had around AI, the processes that seem to be taking place with technology in a larger sense.  

He has a really amazing background, which if you haven’t heard much of you may want to check out a handful of other podcasts with him in it! He’s also been on quite a few other podcasts recently talking about some of these trends of technology also that are always amazing and insightful.

Mistake in the intro, I called the Navajo Codetalkers ‘codewalkers’ by mistake.

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• Blue Morpho Academy - train with Hamilton to become a master facilitator and guide for people’s journey’s

• Blue Morpho Tours - Hamilton’s amazing and professional ayahuasca/plant medicine retreat centre

• My Patreon

• Carl Sagan Flatland Video

Shaboy (PhD), joins me on the show

Shaboy is a meditation instructor, reiki master, and spiritual teacher living in Japan. He has an honorary pHD from the dean OIUCM - Medicina Alernativa (UN) for his work in alternative therapies and spiritual psychology. He became a Rieki master in 2002, an EFT practitioner in 2011, a yoga teacher in 2009, and has recently qualified as a Breathwork guide with the Breathwork Alliance. Psychedelics and entheogens have also played a huge role in this, and it’s synthesis into these paths. Part of his current work includes helping people prepare, integrate, and feel safe during LSD and DMT trips. 

He and his wife have operated their own healing retreat center in Japan for about 20 years called Healing Natural, bringing Reiki, EFT, meditation and Breathwork to thousands of seekers. In addition to his own center, he has participated as a guest meditation teacher and therapist for several other retreats, temples and workshops.

He’s sat for two years with a Zen master in Japan and masters of Tibetan, Thai and Srilanka lineages. He spent years doing deep yogic practices for 4-5 hours a day, and has participated in multiple 10 day silent fast retreats. He has experience in a broad range of healing modalities from energy work, massage therapy, aroma therapy, breathwork, acupuncture and homeopathy. 

He’s coming to Vermont in August to lead a retreat!
Join him from August 10 to 13th, email address is below to get in touch

The complete retreat course includes up to 4 weekly Hopkins/Griffiths Protocol online classes and 4 Weekly online integration sessions. Up to 2 free private counseling/EFT sessions if required. Specifically selected supplements proven to assist physical and mental condition before and after the retreat

Apologies for sounding like I’m in a tube a bit during the intro!

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Email: luminous-psy@proton.me

Luminous Warriors Retreat Discord

@Shaboy on DMT World

@.shaboy on Discord

My Patreon

Full story about Ram Dass giving LSD to Neem Karoli Baba

Michael Garfield joins the show

This was an interesting and wide ranging conversation. We spoke of people and community as social molecules, time loops, AI and technology, and the need to come together in community towards some of the challenges facing us collectively, and much more. Also, brief appearance of Michael's daughter on the show for a moment!

Michael is an incredible polymath. He is a visionary artist and live painter, a fantastic musician, podcast host (Future Fossils and until just recently Complexity Podcast for Sante Fe Institute), science communicator, writer and soon to be author, and all around sponge of knowledge for seemingly everything.

Michael is working on a project likely to become a book from integrating what he’s learned from his time at the Sante Fe Institute, and exploring how the science and philosophy of the Jurassic Park franchise (books, films, games, rides) sheds light on and entangles with the evolution of AI, VFX, biotech, and other monsters of modernity since JP’s first edition back in 1990.

He’s also working on a new album called The Age Of Reunion, and has been making some great AI music videos with some of his work, so check that out. 

And please! Everyone go check out his Martian Arts EP. One of my favourite pieces of music, it’s one piece of music over 5 or 6 tracks and about 30 minutes long, but is one of the best ambient pieces for journeying with psychedelics I’ve found. Some of Michael’s other music has been used in official MAPS MDMA therapy playlists also. 

The painting in the circle in the Podcast art is Beija Flor by Michael Garfield

• Michael’s Link tree for all his stuff (music, art, etc)

• Future Fossils Podcast

• Complexity Podcast

• Medicine of Woman painting from my dream premonition

• Future Fossils Ep 117 on Time Loops

• Time Loops book

• Martian Arts EP by Michael Garfield

• Guitar Assisted MDMA Therapy by Michael Garfield

• Michael's Substack

• My Patreon

Matt Semke, the artist behind Catswilleatyou joins me on the show.

Matt is an amazing multidisciplinary artist who has potentially the longest running daily art streak of any artist on the planet, with over 6000 days straight of posting his new art pieces online. He’s a VR artist, AR artist, digital artist, physical artist/painter, NFT Artist, and so much more. He works to really push the boundaries on art and tools that can be used for art.

He has created his own art metaverse with I believe somewhere around 1-10% of his collection available to look at (and interact with to purchase) in an art metaverse that is like being inside one of his paintings.

He has physical pieces to NFT pieces, and NFTs that he sends you physical pieces with that have AR/Animation/music elements on them.

Catswilleatyou piece in the cover art: Let Us Summon The Egregore (I believe actually based off of a conversation in my discord server)

• My Patreon
• Master page with links to buy his art, see his VR, different NFT marketplaces, everything
• Website: www.catswilleatyou.com
• Metaverse here. Password is 'none'
• VR Art tools:
  • Vermillion VR (Multiplayer)
  • Gravity Sketch
  • Open Brush
  • BrushworkVR
  • PaintingVR

Alex Maas of The Black Angels joins the show

The Black Angels have been my favorite band almost immediately since I heard them about a decade ago, so this was an incredible episode for me.

The conversation starts off talking about the Levitation music festival and how my Indigenous Web3 organization, 400 Drums, may do some work with them to help bring some Indigenous artists and representation to the event.

After the little transition, the second half of the conversation is all around music and medicine, where these can tap us into, and the source and flow of inspiration.

Tamara Goddard joins us for part of the conversation around Levitation. She’s a Co-Founder of 400 Drums and CEO of Four Our Future Indigenous Economics. She’s an amazing artist from the Saulteau Nation in BC, and I definitely need to do an episode with just her in it

Though we talk a bunch about Iboga and microdosing, as well as kratom, these are plants that are important to exercise caution with. Iboga has many effects on the heart and is recommended you have a EKG before going through a large dose or microdosing with iboga because of potential consequences. 

Check out Episode 4 of my podcast for more info on ibogaine

Directions to See a Ghost by The Black Angels just turned 15! This is a really great album to check out if you haven’t heard much of this band. And have a new album out called Wilderness of Mirrors.

And remember, “The Black Angels challenge you to question authority and think for yourself”

Songs played in episode:

Slip Into - Alex Maas

Snake in the Grass - Black Angels

Links:

Levitation.fm

Luca his solo album

The Black Angels

MIEN

Kyle Espenshade is back for another great conversation.

Kyle is a SOMA Breath Master Instructor, Healing Tao Qigong instructor, Transformational Coach, music producer, and ecstatic dance DJ, with over a decade of experience in internal alchemy arts. He is the founder of Soma Alkhemy, a syncretic system of holistic healing and transformation for the modern day spiritual seeker which combines ancient alkhemy practices from both eastern and western traditions with modern technology and scientific understanding.

We talk about psychedelics but largely from an angle of what it's pointing you towards rather than just the fleeting experience itself. How you can seek further what you've been shown but through your own body rather than just the ingestion of external chemicals.

We also go deep around Hermes and The Emerald Tablet, and his work he's been doing to align the body-based Eastern systems with some of the more Mind-based Western occult systems

He does online sessions also! If you're interested at all, check out his website below and you can find the link to sign up. Intro sessions, weekly group sessions and longer monthly session are available plus his new course! 

• Website: www.somaalkhemy.com 

• Emerald Key Course: https://www.alkhemy.academy/courses/emerald-key

• Darkness Retreats (audio essay of Erick Godsey’s experience)

• DERO the private blockchain network

• Bittensor AI

Trent Stephens joins the show after another year away. I have some more episodes coming up so let’s hope I don’t have such an extended break again.

Trent is many things. He lives on a somewhat self sustaining farm, studied as an eco tour guide, has worked to become essentially a self trained full stack developer, he’s working with web 3 and VR to facilitate some amazing project ideas he's had that we talk about on this episode. He’s also a Realtor, outdoorsman and survivalist, extreme sport enthusiast, a family man and more.

We weave a lot of ideas in this episode, about consciousness, expectation and belief, and how to navigate this in ourselves. The later half of the show is around the intersection of education, AI and VR, some of what Trent is working on, and many other good nuggets.

Unfortunately, a few seconds of audio were clipped out in a few parts from the recording program

Find Trent on different platform:

-@phatyfoods - Twitter

-T.rex Ophora on other platforms, or Uncle Festers Nephew

-Join his Continuing the Conversation discord HERE

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You Are Two video to expand further on some ideas in the intro rant

Bittensor AI Platform

Auphonic AI Audio Program was used to help make Trent's mic hearable after a weird glitch

Weird Studies Podcast Episode 143: On UFOs shoutout for that Henri Bergson quote in his book Matter and Memory while I was in the middle of writing that intro. Interesting timing.

Geese in Flight Facing Left by Benjamin Chee Chee is the Ojibwe art piece I mention

Companion Plants is the cactus greenhouse Trent mentioned

Centre for Non Violent Communication

Jesse Shwaluk joins me after nearly a year away from the show! After a decade of close friendship I thought it was worth getting one of our conversations out. Jesse is a massage therapist near Vancouver, BC.

In this episode, we go on a deep dive on meditation and our experiences going to 10 day silent Vipassana meditation retreats.

Stay tuned after the episode with Jesse, there's an extra few minutes talking about one of the worst experiences of my life, a bad trip off of a cannabis edible after coming back from my first retreat, definitely stick around to hear that.

Find Jesse on instagram @sheepotato

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- Jesse mentioned Andrew Huberman and his Huberman Lab Podcast

- Video I had one of my first mystic experiences to - Live Nerve Stretch Kundalini Yoga

- My Vipassana retreat write up

- Dhamma.org, the Vipassana retreat website. There's a directory with centres all over the world.

- The full episode where my bad trip story was pulled from

Lucas is a biodynamic farmer living in Vermont. Working in these ways with understandings of permaculture has given him the inspiration for his own journey and inner work. He is a Holotropic Breathwork instructor after having studied under Stan Grof and Tav Sparks.

Lucas is also a Warm Data Host, training under the International Bateson Institute. They do some online sessions called 'People Need People' which he invited me to participate in and it really made me want to get him on the show.

I've known Lucas for a few years online but we had never really connected until we decided to record an episode. This is one of my favorite conversations on the show yet so I hope you enjoy.

Megan Kelleher is the wife of Tyson Yunkaporta that we mention in the show, definitely check out Sand Talk!

https://batesoninstitute.org/

Instagram: @biodellic

Book mentioned: LSD and the mind of the Universe by Chris Bache

Notes:

Here2Help Community non profit crowd funding: gf.me/u/zidf3z

Here2Help Community 18 minute podcast

Coinbase: coinbase.com/join/bevan_sm?src=android-link

Shakepay: https://shakepay.me/r/6MA6SZH

HackenAI: https://in.hacken.ai/Sibxcf4U6XwHKEfN7

Background art by Furybean

Stephen Favasuli is the owner of Dream Herbally, focusing on herbal blends to help increase overall dream clarity and recall.

He has given listeners of this show a chance to try his blend for 10% off through the month of February with the promo code 'RIANCARNATION'. www.dreamherbally.com

This tea is excellent for cannabis users to help bring their dreams back too.

We talk about psychedelics and altered states, dreams, and the way they weave a trail for us to find the things we truly value in our own lives. 

Find him on Instagram: @dreamherbally

Books mentioned:

DMT Dialogues
Love Everyone by Pavarti Marcus
Conscious Dreaming by Robert Moss

Non profit: www.here2helpapp.com 

Monday breathwork events: https://here2helpapp.com/breathwork-events-with-soma-alchemy-and-here2help-community/ 

Here2Help Podcast episode: https://anchor.fm/knct-ubc/episodes/Campus-knct--UBC-S4E2---Here2Help-w-Rian-ep3j2q

Background art by the incredibly talented Furybean! 

Alex the host of the DMT World Podcast joins me on the show this week.

Alex is a team member at DMT World, a father, and has many projects on the go. This episode does get heavy at some points.

Alex is a war veteran and we talk a lot around that, what brought him there, his own healing journey through psychedelics, and his letting go of previous mental states that held him in negative patterns.

This is a really inspiring conversation so it was great being able to speak with Alex and have him be so open about his journey of what he’s had to go through to arrive at the healing he’s at, and his commitment to helping more people heal and come through their own challenges.

Find him online

ALX8721 on YouTube and DMT World

alex@dmtworld.net

My episode on the DMT World Podcast: https://dmtworld.net/dmt-world-podcast-interview-with-the_rev/

Check out my collaborative community Non-Profit:

www.here2helpapp.com

Background art by Furybean

Zoe Helene joins me on the show this week. 

Zoe is an artist and cultural activist who founded the environmental feminism collective, Cosmic Sister (@CosmicSister), in 2007, to advocate for women, wildlife, wilderness and wildlife, and for our natural right to work with nature’s psychedelic medicines—our “co-evolutionary allies.”  She coined the term "Psychedelic Feminism" to describe a sub-genre of feminism, and believes that a true balance of power across the gender spectrum—globally—is the only way humans (and non-humans) will survive. 

In this episode we talk much around archetypal psychology looking at ancient Greek myths and understandings, and the importance of language and culture. 

Zoe recommends Christine Downing for a powerful feminist view of Greek Mythology and more. 

Catch her talk at MAPS Canada Lecture Series 'Examining the Psychedelic Renaissance' on Tues Nov. 24.

@cosmicsister on Instagram and facebook

http://www.zoehelene.com/

https://www.linktr.ee/CosmicSister

My first repeat guest!

Back from the first episode, Caleb Tipple joins me this week.

Caleb is a good friend of mine I’ve known for a few years through the wonder of the internet (I said 7 years in the intro it's probably only been 5). He’s a therapist who’s been really engaged in Somatic Experiencing modalities the last few years. He’s really given me a lot of information around somatic modalities and the nature of this kind of work and I find it unbelievably fascinating.

We talk a bit about Caleb's experience using Somatic modalities for himself and in his work. Much of the rest of the episode is around re-engaging with beliefs that we were brought up with, and using psychedelics as a tool to look at these ideas. We were both raised Christian and wanted to talk a bit about our experiences of letting go of previous prescribed beliefs, and re-engaging with these aspects of our life as we've matured.

Caleb is able to do some work online with people, so if you’re at all interested in any of this, please reach out to him at caleb@calebtipple.com

@calebconsciousness on Instagram though he doesn't use it much.

Background art by Furybean and photo by @allisonrenee.art

Thomas Hatsis joins me on the show.

Tom is an author, lecturer, and historian of witchcraft, magic, Western religions, contemporary psychedelia, entheogens, and medieval pharmacopeia.

Tom has an incredible mind for facts around the historical uses of different psychoactive plants and herbs, even teaching himself Latin to be able to read and translate from primary texts to really understand the practices and minds of those in the past and ancient world.

Some topics in the episode are around ancient psychedelic history, different ritualistic use of these compounds, and hear about his book set to be published next year 'LSD The Wonderchild: The Golden Age of Psychedelic Research in the 1950’s.'

You can find his Psanctum Oddcast and library of psychedelic books, articles, journals, etc at www.psanctum.org 

Also check him out below:
www.psychedelichistorian.com
Insta: @psychedelichistorian
YouTube: Psychedelic Historian 

For information on my Non-Profit Community App
www.here2helpapp.com
Insta: @here2help.app

Charlotte Jackson joins me on the show

Charlotte is a clinical counselor who’s worked in Mental Health and Substance Use for over 15 years. She is a therapist with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) involved with the Phase III studies with MDMA, and becoming clinical supervisor of the MAPS clinical trials in Europe.

She studied under Dr. Ingrid Pacey of the Phase II MDMA MAPS studies.

We talk a lot about MDMA in this episode, including the use of MDMA for therapy, what separates this from trying to do this on your own or at a rave, what the therapeutic protocol entails and much more.

There's a lot of useful and practical information in this episode so I hope you enjoy.

You can connect with her on her website below.

www.charlottejackson.ca

The email to sign up for the Vancouver MDMA PTSD trials 

maps.trial.bc@gmail.com 

And there is a website as well at www.mdmaptsd.org for the other locations.

The Non-Profit App I mentioned I'm working on is called Here2Help!

Find us online at www.here2helpapp.com or on Facebook (@here2helpapp) and Instagram (@Here2Help.App) 

Caitlin Moakley joins me on the show

Caitlin is the founder of Soil and Spirit, a consultation business she started for personal care brands, herbalists, ethnobotanists and more to make an impact on a local and global level on the ingredients that are put into products.

She is also a core member of of the psychedelic and environmental feminist group, Cosmic Sister, and works in the Cannabis industry in Massachusetts with Agrify working on vertical farming and indoor grow technology. 

We talk about altered states of consciousness, ayahuasca, cannabis, and how stories help us heal individually and as a collective.

Check her out below

www.soilandspirit.net

@Soilandspirit on Instagram and Facebook 

Also check out @cosmicsister on Instragram, Facebook and around the web.

This weeks conversation is with the wonderful Leah Day.

Kyle is a certified SOMA Breath Instructor, helping others access their full potential and access their inner 'Soma' using the power of the breath.

He studied breathwork with Wim Hof and later Anthony Abbagnano, founder of Alchemy of Breath, where he was able to dive deeper into the process of healing with a six week Hero’s Journey, following Joseph Campbell’s outline for psychological development and personal transformation. He eventually came upon SOMA Breath, where he seemingly found the holistic system he had been dreaming about putting together himself, and became one of the first SOMA instructors

Kyle has developed Soma Alchemy, combining everything he has learned over the years into a holistic health and wellness practice for the modern day spiritual seeker. Soma Alchemy gives you the tools to overcome challenges and blockages such as stress, anxiety, trauma, fatigue, and dis-ease by showing you how to balance various aspects of the Body, Mind, and Soul through ancient practices of Meditation, Dreamwork, Breathwork, Yogic Bodywork, and Shamanic Diet. He is also the manager of the SOMA music label, Breathe In Beats. His song Nature's Spirit is at the end of the episode 

He does online 'initiations' every Monday, or group meet ups every Sunday.

kyle@alchemysoma.com

Kyle's Soma Alchemy website

Here2Help App I mentioned I'm working on

Michael Stuart Ani joins me for the 10th episode!

He is the author of the incredible book we talk much around called The Ghost Dance: An Untold History of the America's. He's also co-founder of the Amazonia Foundation in 1991, and has recently started the non-profit the Talking Plants Foundation, as well as another project called The Healing Garden we talk about in this episode. He's helped fight epidemics in South America, especially with the Yanomami, and is engaged in work in a similar vein with Covid 19.

This conversation to me really strikes deep into the heart of what this podcast is about in a big way. Michael's story is almost like the alchemical transformation of the individual in order for the collective to go through the needed changes for life to continue.

This episode is about some of the mythic history of the America's, The Ghost Dance, prophecy, and what it means for the times we're going through right now. He also dispels many myths around indigenous plant medicine use, like Maria Sabina and what she said around synthetic psilocybin. 

Follow him on Facebook or Instagram for great videos about what's going on in the jungle and elsewhere

Instagram: @theghostdance
The Talking Plant Foundation is his non-profit
The Healing Garden is his work he's doing with medicinal plants during epidemics.

Contact me if you're interested in a PentaPipe!