THIRD EYE DROPS

Rollie Peterkin is an author, former Wall Street bond trader, professional MMA fighter and current world-traveler.   His book, The Cage, Escaping the American Dream is available now.    For more - rolliepeterkin.com   For a full write-up and mind melds - THIRD EYE DROPS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lorenzo Hagerty is an author, podcaster, entrepreneur and liver of many lives (check out his incredibly eclectic bio).  His show, The Psychedelic Salon, offers an extremely comprehensive collection of verbal serenades from disrupters and visionaries like Timothy Leary, the Alex Grey, Sasha Shulgin and many others. It’s definitely one of my go-to sources for brain-melting content. Peruse their library if you haven’t! We've also got the wonderful whimsical genius of Bruce Damer back on the show. Bruce is a researcher at UC Santa Cruz focused on origin of life related work and he’s most definitely got the gift of poetic yarn-spinning and man, does he have plenty of yarns to pull from!  For a full write-up and more, head to THIRDEYEDROPS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technology is the sharpest double-edge sword mankind has ever forged. Depending on which reality tunnel you view the metaphorical cyber-sword through, it will either free us of death, and give us cybernetic superpowers, or birth ruthless AI overlords who will farm us for energy matrix-style, while sedating us in a hypnotic VR twilight.   Or, maybe a little bit of both.  It’s all worth exploring and considering, which is why we’ve got futurist, writer and founder of the Transhumanist political party, Zoltan Istvan on the show. zoltanistvan.com THIRDEYEDROPS.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome wonderlings! As our guide on this week's ride, we welcome another ridiculously intelligent, well-spoken open-minded multidisciplinary mind freak, Alexandre Tannous.  Alexandre has everything you want, the academic and research credentials, the musical background (he could easily show up somewhere with Zeppelin and you’d be like, oh yeah this guy’s in the band, no doubt). But more importantly, he’s done the subjective inner-work by traveling the world, participating in indigenous shamanistic ceremonies, steeping himself in history and mysticism and so much more.  To dig further head to Alexandre's site For a full write-up and more mind melds- THIRDEYEDROPS.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Curious comedian, Shane Mauss has appeared on Conan, hosts the Here We Are Podcast and tours the country doing stand up.  Silver-tongued polymath, Michael Garfield is an artist, musician and speaker based out of Austin. For more on our guests, a full write-up, and more mind melds, head to THIRD EYE DROPS.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Xian is Creative Director and founder of TIMEWHEEL, a record label, website and artistic platform. He also creates music in the vibey sea of digital deliciousness known as Something Fiction.   For more, THIRDEYEDROPS TIMEWHEEL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Physicist and philosopher Tom Campbell began researching states of consciousness with Bob Monroe (Journeys Out Of The Body, Far Journeys, and The Ultimate Journey) at Monroe Laboratories in the early 1970s where he and a few others were instrumental in getting Monroe’s laboratory for the study of consciousness up and running. These early drug-free consciousness pioneers helped design experiments, developed the technology for creating specific altered states, and were the main subjects of study (guinea pigs) all at the same time. Campbell has been experimenting with, and exploring the subjective and objective mind ever since. For the past thirty years, Campbell has been focused on scientifically exploring the properties, boundaries, and abilities of consciousness. During that same time period, he has excelled as a working scientist, a professional physicist dedicated to pushing back the frontiers of cutting edge technology, large-system simulation, technology development and integration, and complex system vulnerability and risk analysis. Presently, and for the past 20 years, he has been at the heart of developing US missile defense systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Campbell began researching states of consciousness with Bob Monroe (Journeys Out Of The Body, Far Journeys, and The Ultimate Journey) at Monroe Laboratories in the early 1970s where he and a few others were instrumental in getting Monroe’s laboratory for the study of consciousness up and running. These early drug-free consciousness pioneers helped design experiments, developed the technology for creating specific altered states, and were the main subjects of study (guinea pigs) all at the same time. Campbell has been experimenting with, and exploring the subjective and objective mind ever since. For the past thirty years, Campbell has been focused on scientifically exploring the properties, boundaries, and abilities of consciousness. During that same time period, he has excelled as a working scientist, a professional physicist dedicated to pushing back the frontiers of cutting edge technology, large-system simulation, technology development and integration, and complex system vulnerability and risk analysis. Presently, and for the past 20 years, he has been at the heart of developing US missile defense systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dennis McKenna, an ethnopharmacologist known for his research on psychedelics, joins Bruce Damer, a life origin researcher and NASA collaborator, for a fascinating dialogue. They navigate the profound connections of their shared history, explore the intersection of psychedelics and scientific creativity, and discuss the importance of personal engagement in exploring consciousness. They also reflect on the challenges of psychedelic research in medicine and the potential of transformative experiences in understanding life and the cosmos.

Erik Davis is an author, scholar and lecturer. His book, Techgnosis Myth Magic and Mysticism In the Age of Information draws novel, fascinating correlations between technology and mysticism.   Michael Garfield is an intellectual and all-around silver tongue-tipped spear of information. He also writes for websites like Big Think, creates art and music and is just generally bordering on star child territory.    For more, head to thirdeyedrops.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices