End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)

Dr. Joe Anderson teaches in the Social Anthropology Department at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland).  We cover a lot of ground in this podcast including his work with "The Men Who:" a collective group of men "to talk to, listen to, care for and support and help one another in a safe, dynamic and positive space."   We also touch on his research specializing in the Anthropology of the United States, group identities, national belonging, gender identify, gun culture and a host of other subjects including how plant medicine intersects with all of the above.  Lots of interesting stuff.   And by the way, Joe is an awesome Yoga teacher. For more information about "The Men Who:" and Joe, you can find his academic CV at: http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/people/recent_graduates/dr._joe_anderson For information about "The Men Who:" or to start your own local chapter, please see:  https://www.instagram.com/themenwho_/?hl=en You can find information about Dr. Joe's Yoga practice at:  https://www.instagram.com/yoga_joe_edinburgh/?hl=en Have a great week!   

Professor James Riley is a Fellow of English Literature at Girton College, Cambridge, focusing on modern and contemporary literature, popular film and 1960s culture.  He co-edited The 1960s:  A Decade of Modern British Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2018).  He also makes films and performs spoken word poetry. In this podcast, we focus on his recent work The Bad Trip:  Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties. For more information about Dr. Riley's work, please see his academic website: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/James.Riley/ or his blog: http://residual-noise.blogspot.com/ Have a great week!  

Jason came to work at the ayahuasca healing center Temple of the Way of Light (Peru) in 2012.  After working with ayahuasca extensively, he began the process of dieting plants.  He dieted in the Shipibo tradition and began working with maestro Ernesto Garcia Torres in 2013.  Through a long apprenticeship and training, involving prolonged isolation, fasting, and dieting of plants, he was eventually given the blessing to begin working plants.  After working for some time as a tabaquero, he was eventually given the ability to administer diets; to share in the tradition from which he had learned and which has taught him so much.  He has been living, learning, and working in the jungle since then.  He currently works at the Temple of the Way of Light as a facilitator of ayahuasca ceremonies and has run diets there and elsewhere in Peru.  In the last seven years he has helped guide over a thousand people in ceremonies.   Jason is also a former actor (check IMDb for more info), certified in the Yoga Alliance and in Ashtanga with Richard Freeman.  He learned Qigong from Jung-Ping Yuan and went to Wudang, China to learn Taiji.  He has practiced many martial arts such as Judo, Aikido, and spent a year in Thailand learning Muay Thai from Master Pi Kob.  He also became an avid practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from Victor "Shaolin" Ribeiro and Marcos "Loro" Galvao. As we discuss in this podcast, Jason is also the host of a wonderful new podcast called "The Universe Within".    For more information about Jason and all his activities see his website: https://www.universewithinpodcast.com or here for his dieta information:  https://www.nicotianarustica.org Have a great week!

Matthew Schultz is a multimedia artist, musician and educator.  He is a founding member of the dark ambient band Lab Report and the industrial band Pigface.  He is the creator of the hermetic order of The Division and The Mandala Project. In his new memoir, The Dark and the Light:  Trauma, Addiction, Shamanism and Ayahuasca, Matthew not only shares his experiences with sacred medicines and indigenous rituals but also bizarre stories from his childhood and years dealing with addiction and how he found recovery.  Schultz details traveling the world and working with many different healing modalities.  He has worked extensively with Lakota and Mayan elders and was gifted their wisdom and practices as well as being named Path Keeper by both cultures.  He is a water pourer for sweat lodges, a sacred pipe carrier and worked as an Ayahuasca facilitator around the world.   For more information, or to order this awesome new book, please see:  https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-dark-and-the-light#/ Have a great week!      

Erika Buenaflor, M.A., J.D. has over 20 years practicing as a curandera, mentoring with curanderx and shamans in the Maya Yucatecan jungle, Peru, and Los Angeles, and studying Mesoamerican Curanderismo in academia at UCLA and UCR.  She has a master's degree in religious studies with a focus on Mesoamerican shamanism and curanderismo.  Erika comes from a grandmother lineage of women healers, her great-great grandmother was a well-known and sought out curandera in Chihuahua, Mexico.   She is the author of Cleansing Rites of Curanderismo, Curanderismo Soul Retrieval (see podcast episode 91) and The Sacred Energies of the Sun and Moon which is the subject of this podcast. For more information about Erika and her wonderful offerings, please see her website:  https://www.realizeyourbliss.com/ Have a great weekend!

Hillis Pugh is an author, teacher, speaker and energy facilitator working with modalities such as Psychic Mediumship, Reiki, and Lemurian Light Energy to co-create a deeper connection to the Soul. He is the author of Awaken with Gratitude, a blog and book of channeled inspirational stories and original poetry.  The blog and book show the path of how we can open our minds to experience the gift of gratitude in every waking moment of our lives.  Hillis teaches that gratitude allows the flow of love and abundance into our lives when recognized.  The clairvoyance of his writing allows him to flow freely from within, creating a sanctuary to channel messages of love, light and appreciation of others along the journey.   Hillis also has a relationship with the sacred plant medicine ayahuasca. For more information about Hillis, I encourage you to explore his website:  https://hillispugh.com/ Have a great weekend!

Professor Thomas B. Roberts returns to discuss the new anthology he edited:  Psychedelics and Spirituality:  The Sacred Use of LSD, Psilocybin, and MDMA for Human Transformation, 3rd Ed.    In this book, more than 25 spiritual leaders, scientists, and psychedelic visionaries examine how we can return to the primary spiritual encounters at the basis of all religions working with entheogens.  This groundbreaking work contains contributions form Albert Hofmann, Huston Smith, Stanislav Grof, Charles Tart, Sasha Shulgin, Brother David Steindl-Rast, and many others. Professor Roberts earned his Ph.D. from Stanford and taught for many years at Northern Illinois University.  He taught the world's first and longest running catalog listed psychedelics course beginning in 1981.  Professor Roberts is a founding member of MAPS, and former visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins.  He originated the celebration of Bicycle Day. His full CV can be found here:  https://www.innertraditions.com/author/thomas-b-roberts or here:  https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-B.-Roberts-Ph.D./e/B00MD4IUXA%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share This new anthology can be purchased here from the publisher Inner Traditions:  https://www.innertraditions.com/author/thomas-b-roberts Cover art for this podcast "MerKabala" provided by the awesome The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo.  More information about this denzien and information about his many works can be found here:  https://www.theungoogleable.com/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-133-professor-thomas-roberts-the-anthology-of-psychedelics-and-spiritualitysacramentsthe-intersection-of-entheogens-and-religion Have a great weekend!

Lynette Allen is a medicine woman, who uses the sacred plant medicine Cacao, ritual and meditation to bring alignment and grounding to earth. Women come from all over the world to sit in her A Woman's Blessing retreats and ceremonies, where they are honored for their personal journeys and encouraged to thank the girl they used to be, acknowledge the woman they are now and see the women they are yet to become. Her 20 year career has seen her write 5 books, she is a presenter on TV and radio, a broadcaster and an international speaker on the rise of the feminine (both in corporates and for the good of the feminine/masculine balance).  She was once labelled the UK's leading life coach for Women and has a Podcast "A Woman's Blessing" where she talks to women about their most difficult life situations and HOW they got through--inspiring women who are going through change, trauma or difficult life transitions In her last 4 years, Lynette has been on a radical life transition which took her from working the the European corporate world empowering women, to ditching her heels, all her suits and corporate clients--and swapping them for plant medicine, ritual and ceremonies where she continues her work on a more grounded soul level to support the feminine to rise at this time in the planet's evolution. Right now, she can be found living on the edge of the jungle in Bali.  I encourage you to connect with her at her website:   https://www.awomansblessing.com/lynette-allen This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-132-lynette-allen-a-womans-blessingsacred-ceremonies-and-ritualscacaoalignmentempowerment Have a great weekend and be safe!

Mike began studying Buddhism with a Tibetan lama in 1966, becoming an upasaka of the Kagyud lineage in 1970.  In order to augment his Buddhist studies, he acquainted himself with Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Mandarin Chinese.  Mike has lectured at the Museum of Asia and the Pacific, Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  His work has been published in the Fortean Times, Time and Mind:   The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness, and Culture, Psychedelic American, and the Psychedelic Press UK.  In January 2016, Mike received the R. Gordon Wasson Award for outstanding contributions to the field of entheobotany.  He currently serves on the advisory board of the Psychedelic Sangha, a group of psychedelically-inclined Buddhists, based in New Your and he teaches at the Dharma collective in San Francisco.   In this episode, we discuss his book The Secret Drugs of Buddhism:  Psychedelic Sacraments and the Origins of the Vajrayana, a second edition of which was recently released.  The book may be ordered by clicking on this link: https://www.synergeticpress.com/shop/secret-drugs-of-buddhism-psychedelic-sacraments-and-the-origins-of-the-vajrayana/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-131-michael-crowley-entheobotanythe-synergy-of-buddhism-and-psychedelicsthe-secret-drugs-of-buddhism   Have a great weekend!

Michael Telstarr is a world renown remote viewer.   He also holds seven world records in Escapology.  He was the youngest person to perform "Houdini's Water Cell Torture Escape" at the age of seventeen.  He attended the Monroe Institute and completed the Gateway and Trainer's program.  He also attained his Remote Viewing Certificate in Coordinate, Extended, and Masters of Remote Viewing with David Morehouse. Michael continues to dazzle audiences in his private shows and public appearances as a master of mentalism.  In these programs, he bends spoons and keys, and levitates objects. For more information about his many offerings, please see: https://www.michaeltelstarr.com/home.html Have a great weekend!