#33 - A Paul Revere for the Psychedelic Renaissance | Jamie Wheal (Flow Genome Project)

When the search for the Grail Castle becomes the prison of Hotel California, we need some tough love to wake the woke. Luckily Jamie Wheal is here with a midnight message for the 11th hour: Drop the digital narcissism and become a home grown human… before it’s too late. Jamie is the Executive Director of the Flow Genome Project and co-authored Stealing Fire in 2017. At the time, he saw the major threats to the Psychedelic Renaissance as primarily commercialism and militarization. Today, it might be hedonic narcissism that upends our collective awakening. Jamie’s message is tough love for those of us in the Ibiza-Bali bubble, but he also offers actionable advice including getting into a flow state for service, creating a hedonic calendar to reduce cognitive risk, and doing a 10-day Wilderness First Responder training for personal transformation. We can’t just wake up, we also have to grow up and show up! Which is why, after recording this podcast, I have personally committed to doing a Wilderness First Responder training so I that I can leverage my love of transformational experiences to become someone a little more useful to everyone else. LINKS Stealing Fire: http://www.stealingfirebook.com/ Flow Genome Project: https://www.flowgenomeproject.com/ Wilderness Medical Training with NOLS: https://www.nols.edu/en/about/wilderness-medicine/ MENTIONED ON THE PODCAST Alice Walker: Temple of my Familiar: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005NY4QE4/ Alice Walker: Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E512148 Jesse Estrin: Explorations of intersectionality and healing https://jesselondonestrin.com/ Erik Davis: https://techgnosis.com/ Douglas Rushkoff: https://rushkoff.com/ Tim Wu: https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/timothy-wu Robert Anton Wilson: http://www.rawilson.com/ The Body Keeps the Score: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G3L1C2K/ The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm (Lewis Dartnell) https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm-ebook/dp/B00DMCV5YS Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life (Neil Strauss) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001NLL9P0