podcast Posts

Kingdom Come

This talk is called Kingdom Come, which for me evokes this quality of what is the kingdom. And for me, working with the medicines, and particularly 5-MeO-DMT, has revealed the kingdom within, whether you judge that to be Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, zero point source consciousness. The kingdom does lie within, underneath the egoic mind.

Lectures, Print, Psychedelics

We Go Together

The group mind has been a theme in psychedelia all the way back to the Merry Pranksters in the 1960s. Indigenous cultures often take medicine to journey together not just to heal–but to vision, explore and create.

Lectures, Print, Psychedelics

The Next Step

At the height of the first wave of psychedelia in the 1960s, Ken Kesey promoted the idea of the “Next Step”, which at the time he envisaged as “Beyond Acid”.

Lectures, Print, Shamanism

Ayahuasca Shamanism

What is shamanism and how is it relevant in the 21st Century? How does ayahuasca fit in with all this, and why is it booming as a business – and as a spiritual movement?

Audio, Lectures, Shamanism

The Divine Invasion

Is the sudden popularity of 5-MeO-DMT from the Sonoran Desert Toad medicine part of a process of ego dissolution culminating generations of plant work? Like the plants, have we been groomed to receive the light?

Audio, Lectures, Spirituality

The Universe Makes Diamonds

What if the cultural chaos of these times was part of a natural process, just as when nature turns coals into diamonds from the intense pressure? As philosopher Henri Bergson has famously said, is the “universe a machine for making gods?”