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This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is June 6, 2016, and we are talking with Dr. Julie Holland, psychopharmacologist, psychiatrist, and best-selling author of several books. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Thanks for listening. Topics: Julie’s origin story: how did she get...

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is April 24, 2016, and we are discussing the Neuroscience of Partying with Caitlin Thompson of Entheozen. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Thanks for listening. Topics: Caitlin’s Burning Man talk, “The Neuroscience of Partying” Nutrition ...

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is May 24 2016, and we are discussing Building Entheon with Alex and Allyson Grey. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Thanks for listening. Entheon is a place to discover the divine within Why build a psychedelic temple? BuildEntheon.com –...

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is April 3rd, 2016 and we’re talking about Entheogenic Comedy. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Thanks for listening. We’re delighted to be talking with Matteson Perry, writer and performer based in Los Angeles. We start with a quote from Bill...

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is February 21, 2016, and we are discussing Sacred Plant Retreats with our guest, Maxwell Wieland of Munay Medicine in Peru. This is Part 2. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Thanks for listening. Topics: Munay Medicine – what’s the vision,...

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is February 21, 2016, and we are discussing Sacred Plant Retreats with our guest, Maxwell Wieland of Munay Medicine in Peru. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Thanks for listening. Topics: Max has been in a working relationship with wachuma...

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is February 28, 2016, and we are discussing Psychedelic Medicine Trials with a participant in a recent psilocybin study, Kirk Rutter. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Thanks for listening. Special thanks to our guest on today’s show, Kirk...

Today is January 24, 2016, and we have for you a microdose of Alex & Allyson Grey. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Thanks for listening. We’ll begin with a quote from the New York Times: "Alex Grey's art, with its New Age symbolism and medical-illustration finesse, might be described as psychedelic realism, a kind...

Today is January 24, 2016, and we are discussing why we make the show. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Thanks for listening. Submit your comments for the show by text or voice message and send to [email protected]. Entheogen: What is it Quick recap on genesis What is the point? Information Community Personal...

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is January 7, 2016, and we are discussing A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Thanks for listening. We discussed this film and interviewed its producer, Robert Barnhart back in August 2015 before the...

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is December 14th, 2015, and we are discussing the Zendo Project with special guest, Sara Gael, Harm Reduction Coordinator for MAPS. Find the notes and links for this and other episodes at EntheogenShow.com. Sign up to receive an email when we release a new episode. Follow us @EntheogenShow on Twitter and like EntheogenShow on FaceBook. Our guest, Sara Gael, has been involved with the Zendo Project since its...

Kevin and Earth reminisce about Burning Man 2007, the “Eclipse/Man-Burn-Early Year” What was Burning Man like in 1995? Fire tells the story of a Burning Man purist in 1995 who had stopped going since there were people there she didn’t know “radical self-reliance” and community reliance Earth asks Kevin: “did you carry out your own poop?” When they moved to California in 1994, Earth worked remotely for his dad’s tech company; what was working remotely like in 1994? Earth started New College in...

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within. Today is December 9, 2015 and we are very excited to feature a special interview. This is the first half. It is our great pleasure and honor to welcome Earth and Fire Erowid! For context, Joe reads a quote from Michael Horowitz, personal archivist for Timothy Leary: “Powerful descriptive writing about personal drug experiences mimics the effects of the drugs themselves. Reading Aleister Crowley on how hashish aided his...

Erowid’s mission: “Documenting the complex relationship between humans and psychoactives.” Thanks to Earth and Fire Erowid for their hard work over the last two decades. Our personal experience with the page: Joe got Erowid blocked from his corporate job 15 years ago Erowid helped 17 year-old Brad avoid jail time Erowid helped Kevin get through high school and college The accurate, honest information from Erowid vs. the limited, outdated info supplied by anti-drug programs. Informing...

We would like to thank our 3,000 monthly subscribers for listening to the show. We want to hear from you! Visit EntheogenShow.com and subscribe to our newsletter to receive show notes by email when new episodes are posted. Get in touch on Facebook or Twitter. And spread the word about Entheogen! And check out our first Entheogen T-shirts! Show your support of Entheogen and start a conversation at the same time. teespring.com/entheogen This episode we are grateful to be joined by special...

Holotropic Breathwork was developed by Stan Grof, an early researcher and practitioner of LSD Psychotherapy, as a substitute for LSD when the substance was outlawed. Topics: "Holotropic Breathwork"? What is it like to experience of a Holotropic Breathwork workshop? Yoga Nidra guided meditation Pranayama "Iceman" Wim Hof's method of teaching people how to control their immune system response Further: Pineal gland as "director" of other glands? Glands secrete hormones, which regulate...

On the first anniversary of Entheogen, to kick off Season 2, we decide to discuss the cultural phenomenon of Burning Man, where the show was conceived. Kevin wonders if setting the stage for a more intentional journey – gathering a group, making a circle, and expressing intentions collectively – empowered him to go further this time Kevin shares the itinerary of his (initially) "hard trip" at Burning Man – well into the spiritual realm, dosage-wise – revisiting and redeeming the journey he...

This is Entheogen. We talk about tools for generating the divine within. It's June 29th, 2015. We're talking about microdosing. James Fadiman http://www.npr.org/2015/06/27/418032035/limericks http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/03/21/james-fadiman/ http://www.themorningnews.org/article/the-heretic http://www.alternet.org/drugs/microdosing-new-low-key-way-use-psychedelics http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/microdosing-a-new-low-key-way-to-use-psychedelics/ ...

We are honored to be joined by Robert J. Barnhart, producer of A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin. For historical context, we review the groundwork laid in the 1980's by organizations such as the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and Heffter Research Institute. Robert serves on the Boards of Directors of both organizations. Basic research began as early as the 1940's and continued through the '50's and '60's, until Nixon's Drug Control Act of 1970 when...

This is Entheogen: three human beings discussing generating the divine within while still being human beings. In this episode, recorded on June 22, 2015, we are honored to be joined by Dr. Carl Ruck, professor in the Classical Studies department at Boston University. Ruck is credited with coining the term Entheogen to describe neurotropic substances. Ruck explains the importance of the term entheogen as distinct from neurotropic and other terms which may be used in scientific literature...

This show we are joined by special guest, Ingo, to explore the topic of how psychedelics can change one's personality. Ingo explains how in traditional psychology, one's personality typically doesn't change after the age of 30 years. And yet in his experience, he has grown more as a person since he began using psychedelics than ever before. How does a psychedelic experience change one's personality? In the peak entheogenic experience? During the afterglow? Cumulatively over the years? Ingo...

Wild Daga a.k.a Lion's Tail: any relationship to Rooibus tea? tastes similar, pairs very well Dan discusses his inspiring journey of self-healing using medicinal plants Kevin wonders about mixing various herbs Blue Lotus: calming, narcotic effect, lucid dreaming, Dan recommends combining with mugroot Tolerance; addictive potential Kana Flower: alertness, focus, faster perception of senses; correlation with the development of human consciousness? Kevin recommends smokeableherbs.com Dan...

- Grof began studying LSD in 1956 when Sandoz shipped a big box of LSD-25 ampules, with a mysterious description of the history of its discovery by Albert Hofmann, and offering two suggested avenues of research: first, to induce a experimental state of psychosis in normal people, and secondly as an unconventional educational tool, to induce this state in the therapist to better understand the "psychotic" state. Grof had been feeling dissatisfied with modern psychology and lack of results,...

- Roland Griffiths, trained as a behaviorist and holding senior appointments in psychiatry and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, is one of the nation’s leading drug-addiction researchers. Pollan quoting Griffiths: “There is such a sense of authority that comes out of the primary mystical experience that it can be threatening to existing hierarchical structures. We ended up demonizing these compounds. Can you think of another area of science regarded as so dangerous and taboo that all...