Guest speaker: Rak Razam PROGRAM NOTES: Today's podcast features a talk given by Rak Razam this year at Byron Bay, Australia. Rak is an ‘experiential’ journalist, who writes about the emergence of a new cultural paradigm in the 21st century. Rak is the author of the critically acclaimed book Aya Awakenings: A Shamanic Odyssey and the companion volume of interviews, The Ayahuasca Sessions. In this podcast he discusses the Gaian process underway spearheaded by ayahuasca and other plant entheogens healing and cleansing us humans, preparing us to return to the "Garden", and the sudden popularity of 5-MeO-DMT Sonoran Desert Toad medicine. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Rak Razam (home page) Aya Awakenings (trailer HD) Ayahuasca Retreats Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary - Official Trailer #1 Bay Area Release Info with Direct links to ticket sales Film opens Friday July 10th at the following theaters: San Francisco - Roxie theater: Berkeley - The Elmwood: Sebastopol - Rialto: San Rafael - The Smith Rafael Film Center: Eugene Center for Ethnobotanical Studies We are a crowd-sourced, social enterprise dedicated to supporting  plant-based, non-profit health and well-being as a viable, sustainable, and growing option to corporate based, for-profit, pharmaceutical options. Casualties of the State (trailer) Why watch "Casualties of the State," a feature-length drama-thriller: