Adventures Through The Mind

For the November Edition of ATTMind Radio, I am happy to introduce Malcolm Saunders to the show. He is a prolific food educator, chocolate maker, and the owner and visionary behind The Light Cellar, which is considered to be one of the premier superfood stores in North America. I have known Malcolm for many years now and his work has had an important impact on my own life, it is an honour to have him on the show. Topics Discussed: “foodSCOPE” Malcolm’s model for creating a personally meaningful diet. Raw Foods and diet diversity. Saturated Fats and the history of Canola. Problems with Standard American. Craving for junk fulfillment of internal, psychic Emptiness. Slowing down. Fasting. Simplifying and training yourself for intuitive eating. Aredveda and diet’s effects on subjective consciousness. Superfoods in general. Problems with the 1st world’s role at the top of the globalized food economy hierarchy. How to seek ‘good’ and high-integrity sources of rare or medicinal foods. CHOCOLATE - the problems with the so-called “raw” movement, mycotoxins, and the experiential potentials of chocolate as a ceremonial substance. Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp38   Support The Podcast PayPal Donation Patreon Other Options (including bitcoin)

This episode welcomes TEDx alumni Erica Wohldmann. She is is a scientist and a passionate environmentalist with a joint Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and cognitive science from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is also currently a Professor of Psychology at California State University, Northridge. We have her on the show today to talk ReWilding. If you have heard of reWilding yet, here is a great place to start. We talk not only about what reWilding is but also dip into the human cognitive relationship to nature, the role immersion to nature plays in our psychological and physiological health, and some tips to get yourself started. We also touch on agriculture, playing in the dirt, talking to plants, and the church of the forest.  Of course, no talk on reWilding would be complete without discussing the broken food shed in North America and its influence on degenerative diseases and obesity! Enjoy.   Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp37   Support The Podcast PayPal Donation Patreon Other Options (including bitcoin)

I am happy to introduce, Daniel Waterman. He is a philosopher, artist, writer, and Ayahuasca provider based in the Netherlands. He is also the author of Entheogens, Society & Law.  Daniel and I met up in the Netherlands to record this conversation in his living room. The recording taps into the conversation just as Daniel begins to speak about the implications of a major turning point in his journey with Ayahuasca just after 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. Daniel carries the conversation in poignant and poetic forms from there as we touch on the larger context around his book Entheogens, Society & Law, death and rebirth, religious morals and ethics and their place in law, DMT entities and 'Meaning', E-Prime, and what it means to find relevant questions. This is a beautiful journey with a very well-spoken and insightful man who has a lot to offer us. Enjoy. (ep. originally titled "Entheogens, Society & Law")   Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp36   Support The Podcast PayPal Donation Patreon Other Options (including bitcoin)

Another episode of ATTMind Radio has come to fruit and I am happy to announce the guest is Jef Baker. From his bio: Jef is a Cultural Studies and Communications graduate from Southern Cross University. His thesis ‘A Thread in the Vine-The Deep Ecology of Contemporary Ayahuasca Discourse’ played an important role in his rediscovering the plant medicine path. Jef’s research interests are now centred on exploring the ritual aspects of the psychedelic experience and how entheogenic plants inform people’s notions of self, agency, identity and community in postmodernity. A particular focus is how the integration process is critical in bringing about pragmatic change at the personal, cultural and social levels. Jef Baker and I initially met online and when I was blessed with the opportunity to be in Sydney, Australia to give a talk for the Sydney Spore, he and I met up for falafel and conversation. Starting with a discussion around the underlying themes and conflicts within the larger online Ayahuasca discourse, we quickly transition into discussing the somewhat elusive puzzle of what it means to 'integrate' one's psychedelic experiences. In particular, we discuss the role of community engagement and the difference between a change in perspective and a change in behavior.   Support The Podcast PayPal Donation Patreon Other Options (including bitcoin)   Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp34 Support The Podcast  

While touring Australia, I had the opportunity to sit down with Sebastian Job, Ph.D. Him and I originally met in 2014 through Rak Razam while we are all in Peru to study and work with the plant traditions down there. He joins us to talk about his path from studying the psychology of racist Russian nationalists to the sociopolitical significance of entheogens. We discuss his personal journey with plant dietas, entheogens and the potential they hold as allies in advancing our local and global sociopolitical context, and his advancement of Terrence's McKenna's Stoned Ape Theory, which he calls Stoned Cyborg Theory (yes it is as awesome as it sounds, however not nearly as far out as you'd think). It was a gift to have some a well read and articulate guest to the show and I'm sure you will enjoy this one.   Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp33 Support The Podcast PayPal Donation Patreon Other Options (including bitcoin)

So you want to be enlightened? Well, here are 17 questions and answers about enlightenment from the professor, author, and host of The Entheogenic Evolution, Martin Ball Ph.D. Unlike other episodes of the podcast, this is not an interview between Martin and I. It is a reading of one of his essays. It was initially released on his podcast a few years ago, which is where I first heard it. Unfortunately, when I tried to find it in order to share it with some friends, I found it out it had been taken down. I felt this an important piece of work and thus messaged Martin and was granted his permission to release it through ATTMind Radio. It offers some highly relevant, albeit tough to swallow, information for people in spiritual culture. I was also given a bunch of Martin's artwork to play within the video. Although my video editing skills are amateur at best, his art is fresh. Enjoy the journey.   Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp32 Support The Podcast PayPal Donation Patreon Other Options (including bitcoin)

The somewhat painful emergence out of the "Just Say No" fallacy of the Nancy Reagan DARE moment is underway at the cutting edge of festival and nightlife culture. In its place, Harm Reduction has come to the forefront as the next wave of drug education. But more than just drug education, Harm Reduction is a public health philosophy that basically says "people are gonna do risky things, might as well give them real, evidence-based information to at least make informed choices, so as to minimize risk". On this episode of ATTMind Radio, we feature Paul Brooks. He is a journalist and founding member of Calgary Party Safe, a not-for-profit harm reduction organization. He is also manager of a popular downtown club in Calgary, Alberta, Communication Director for Bass Coast Music Festival, and a super great guy. He is on the show to explore not only the philosophy and evolution of harm reduction but some practical information about staying safe when sampling psychoactives.   Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp31 Support The Podcast PayPal Donation Patreon Other Options (including bitcoin)

Yarrow Willard, Clinical/Master Herbalist, co-visionary of the Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary and self-proclaimed 'Herbal Jedi" is this episode's guest. He joins us to explore the potentials of plants and the natural world in training the material and non-material potentials residing in each of us. Topics explored in the episode include: how to learn from plants. microdosing wild plants, epigenetics and health through the generations, the role plants play in our material and non-material health, cultivating biological resilience, branched polysaccharides and the fungal kingdom, training the microbiome, the current state of human domestication and how we can start to free ourselves. Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp30 Support The Podcast PayPal Donation Patreon Other Options (including bitcoin)

Chris Bennett is a long-standing Cannabis activist and historian. He is also the man behind Vancouver's premiere herbal entheogen shop, Urban Shaman Ethnobotanicals. He is a prolific writer on the topics of Cannabis in politics and activism, as well as its ancient history. He is the author of Cannabis and the Soma Solution and Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible. He joins us on the show to talk about the role Cannabis played in the early Abrahamic religions as the fabled Kaneh Bosm. Clearing up very old misinformation and carrying us from the historical origins of humilities relationship to Cannabis all the way the pending national legalization of Cannabis in Canada. A wealth of extremely interesting and transgressive information, Bennet has got something special ATTMind Radio.   Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp29 Support The Podcast PayPal Donation Patreon Other Options (including bitcoin)

Mike Zaremba talks floating. No sight, no sound, no gravity, total disconnection with the sensory experience of the outside world, floating is a gateway to states of awareness that may most of us never knew were possible. Floating, (aka Floatation therapy or Sensory Deprivation) is a healing and altered state technology that is rapidly growing around the world. Our guest for this episode is Mike Zaremba. He is the co-owner of The Float House, Canada's most prolific floatation center, and the host of the podcast Vancouver Real. He joins us to talk the science, history and esoteric possibilities of Floating and its interwoven relationship to psychedelics.   Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp28 Support The Podcast