Multiple (and Subtle) Bodies: Entheogenic Incorporation in the Santo Daime Tradition (Part 1)

Every Santo Daime ritual, at least to a certain extent, is mediumistic in that the Daime is said to embody the consciousness of a vastly intelligent and compassionate divine Being, a Being that, for Santo Daime practitioners, is equated with the transformative Light and redemptive Love of the Christ.

Romancing the Toad

I traveled to Mexico City last month to attend the World Bufo Alvarius Congress (WBAC), bufo alvarius. The gathering in Mexico City July 27-29, 2018, was the first of its kind to assemble in one room a few hundred people who had all experienced this sacred medicine.

Crisis and Ceremony

Drinking ayahuasca is like letting the forest and all the laws that govern it into your body. This medicine shows you what is really there, who you really are, what this really is. If you’ve been telling yourself stories or spackling over holes, the jig is up as soon as you enter the circle.

Doing the Plant’s Bidding: Reflections on the Congreso de Plantas Sagradas en Las Américas

Could plants have a different, more complex set of desires beyond the proverbial task of being fruitful and multiplying? Could it be that somehow, via the mysterious matrix of molecular manipulation, plants could express ulterior, unknown desires?

We Don’t Know Sh!t | Dennis McKenna ~ ATTMind 67

Chances are if it wasn’t for Dennis McKenna and his brother Terence, none of us would have ever tasted the magic at all.

How the Shamanic Medicine Iboga can Resolve and Heal Childhood Trauma

The journey itself is an adventure through the timeless realms of consciousness and the cosmos, looking at the entire library of information about one’s life, and making corrections and connections to rewrite the present by re-integrating the past and understanding the future.

A Loving Criticism of Terence McKenna

In this video, I explore some of the criticisms of Terence McKenna that have been showcased on my podcast, as well as my own thoughts on him and his ideas.

DMT and the Mainstreaming of Psychedelics | Rick Strassman MD ~ ATTMind Ep. 65

Rick Strassman MD is on the show to touch on how he feels about the impact his work with DMT has had on psychedelic research and the psychedelic subculture. We also talk god, prophecy, and even politics.

Building a Modern Eleusis

The Second Psychedelic Revolution is instinctively creating modern mystery schools, and these movable temples of music, dance, and art are the closest things our society has to true portals to transcendence.

Integrating Ayahuasca (and “her” voice in your head) with Rachel Harris Ph.D.

What does ayahuasca integration mean and how do we do it? This is the question our guest for this episode, Rachel Harris Ph.D., has been exploring intensely through research, clinical practice, and her own direct experiences.