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Dreaming can be a form of overnight therapy, helping us creatively problem solve and process difficult emotions. Unfortunately, we chronically disrupt our sleep with too much screen time, alcohol, and caffeine, and not enough sunlight and exercise. Would you like to build better habits so you can tap into the healing power of dreamwork? Then check out today’s pod to help you design your newest rest ritual.

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For our hundredth episode I asked myself, “What does the MUD\WTR fam need most right now?” We’re creative, curious and care about our well-being, as well as the world around us. But even with all our mindfulness, we still make mistakes and have vices we haven’t been able to shake. We break our hearts trying to force ourselves to change before we have the time, energy or skillset to make different choices. For this special episode, I want to show you how to be more compassionate so you can stop the self-flagellation and remove any obstacles to being your best self.

What are your life-draining habits? 

What are you not ready to change?

What obstacles can you remove to create a state of readiness for change?

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Our consciousness exists within—and is shaped by—space and time, our parents and peers and the larger culture. We can invite ourselves to notice what we include in our awareness, what we leave out and how our contexts impact us. In that awareness, we can develop a value system, which helps us define our sense of self. Once we design where we place our attention, we can shape our experience; then our lives begin to change.

Do you have a consistent reflective practice?

What do you include in your awareness? 

How does what you notice shape your experience of yourself, the past, the present and what you want for your future?

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Change is hard, it can stress us out and disrupt our routine. It takes energy and sometimes giving up on a new habit is a guilty relief because we have a chance to recover from all that effort. But failing is part of the practice. So how do you pick yourself back up and try again? If you need a spotter, I got you, with six steps to a more compassionate, and realistic, approach to change.

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Do you spend most of your time feeling indecisive, second-guessing yourself and stressing over the smallest decisions? Chill. That just means you’re a human being responding to a world that’s been turned upside-down. Still, we need to be able to figure out what to make for dinner, which jobs to turn down and who to build community with.  In today’s episode, I offer some general guidelines for how to make more satisfying decisions—big or small.

Sara

:microdose host

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We all have core needs, but each comes with its own potential benefits and costs. We build towards stability, but crave variety; in order to create authentic connection, we need our individual integrity. To create a life of purpose and meaning, we need to find our personal balance between these complementary, yet contradictory motivations. Luckily, some wise guides have created a map of the six core human needs to show us how we can choose our own adventures. 

Sara

:microdose host

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Hollywood loves to sell us the romance of friends falling in love with each other.  But how do you go from friends to lovers when you don’t have writers and directors telling you what comes next? In today’s episode, I give you a script to follow when your best friend starts giving you butterflies so you have a shot at your own happily ever after.

Sara

:microdose host

Relationship Anarchy Smorgasbord

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After serving 14 years in prison, 90 days of which were in solitary confinement, Chris Buroughs is now the director of Garden 31, a group that works to localize food production in San Diego's low income neighborhoods by training new farmers with a focus on formerly incarcerated men and women as well as those suffering from substance abuse issues.

MUD\FILMS’ new ‘Rituals’ series explores the enduring daily habits of people we admire. 

In ‘The Importance of Ritual: From Prison to Leading a Fulfilling Life,’ the formerly incarcerated urban gardener Chris Burroughs uses routine and nature to expand his world … instead of making it smaller. Chris is up and at ’em before the sun comes up, bringing his body, his mind and his dog into total alignment. 

Watch the film on YouTube.

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Tired of people throwing their emotional garbage in your driveway, leaving you to clean up the mess? If you’re done letting other people trash your energy, listen to today’s episode for a practice that will help you clear out what’s not yours, fill back up with the good stuff and protect you from the racoons of other people’s problems.

Sara

:microdose host

Exercise:

1. Know what’s yours, and what’s theirs. If it’s theirs, clear it out.
   
   
2. Fill yourself back up with you—your thoughts, emotions and dreams.
   
   
3. Practice re-centering: Turn the static down, get outside in the open air and do whatever you need to create more space in your body.

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Sex and drugs are two of the most powerful tools we can use to alter our consciousness. Separately, they hold the power of transformation and healing. Because of this, they’re hotly-debated, steeped in stigmas and assumptions, and heavily regulated. So if sex and psychedelics can shake up the status quo on their own, what happens when we combine them? How can we do so with intention?

Exercise:

What’s your ideal set and setting? 

If you’re exploring sex and psychedelics with a partner, do you and the other person have compatible intentions? 

Have you explicitly communicated what your intentions are?

Need help? Try the “Wheel of Consent” exercise by Betty Martin:

https://bettymartin.org/videos/

https://brittaloved.com

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This is your Captain speaking, Welcome to the 14th Installment of Dream Stream, A Podcast dedicated to the Holographic Labyrinth known as dreaming. Together we can uplift the collective conscious and blast off into a higher dimension. If you want your dream to be featured on the show, type it out and send it to my email dreamstreampodcast@gmail.com Support the show here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dreamstream 

Kevin Iso came over to my apartment to talk about shrooms. I know I've lost site of what it's like to be new to magic mushrooms, so I had Kevin come in to tell that side of it. He just started taking psychedelics so he was the perfect guest for this. 

Thank you ZipRecruiter.com/skeptic for sponsoring this episode of Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank. visit ZipRecruiter.com/skeptic next time you need a job filled. It's way easier than doing it yourself.

My upcoming road schedule:

Tickets at arithegreat.com

Montreal - July 25-28

Edinburgh - Aug 2-26

Shroomfest - Aug 25-27

Austin - Sept 19-22

Phoenix ATC Fest - Oct 25-28

Iceland - Nov 16

Brighton - Nov 19

London - Nov 21 & 22

Manchester Nov 23

Dublin - Nov 25

Brussels - Nov 26

Amsterdam - Nov 27

Stockholm -  Nov 29

Stavanger - Nov 30

Berlin - December 2

Copenhagen - Dec 4

Oslo - December 5

The gang shares their seemingly endless lists of some of their favorite things. They also watched the documentary "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead", and give their thoughts. Kim Kardashian's butt comes up, as well as Lady vs. The Jock: Supplementation.

Duncan Trussell invited me over to his sweet ass apartment to talk about magic mushrooms. I needed someone for a shroomfest episode this year and as soon as I realized I was gonna be in LA, I thought, "Oh! Duncan!" He's like a spirit guide for this stuff. So knowledgeable on the subject and so smart in his analysis. I hope everybody has a great #shroomfest. Be safe. Start looking for mushrooms for next year now. They stay good in a ziplock in the freezer. Happy Shroomfest!

Shroom takes embryos to new dimensions

During development, the planar polarized distribution of Rho kinase and Myosin II helps Drosophila germ-band cells intercalate so that the embryo extends along its anterior-posterior axis. Simões et al. reveal how Rho GTPase and the actin-binding protein Shroom combine to regulate the localization of Rho kinase and actomyosin contractility during axis elongation. This biosights episode presents the paper by Simões et al. from the February 17, 2014, issue of The Journal of Cell Biology and includes an interview with first author Sérgio de Matos Simões (formerly at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York and currently at the University of Toronto). Produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. See the associated paper in JCB for details on the funding provided to support this original research.

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Brendon Walsh had me over to his place in the cool part of town and we talked about drugs for a while. Good, old fashioned, drugs. The kind our forefathers had in mind when they killed the Indians over the last of the heroin. Brendan was still bombed off the night before's relaxation cookie, so he shouldn't be held accountable for anything he says or forgot to say.

Frazer Smith shares his story of how he went from being a radio god to how he lost it all. It's a really interesting tale. And I had my friend David Taylor cohost with me because he knew a lot of Frazier's stories already and I wanted his help guiding it.