A Paul Revere for the Psychedelic Renaissance
Life is a Festival #33: Jamie Wheal (Flow Genome Project)
Photo by Mark Kuroda, Kuroda Studios
When the search for the Grail Castle becomes the prison of Hotel California, we need some tough love to wake the woke. Luckily Jamie Wheal is here with a midnight message for the 11th hour: Drop the digital narcissism and become a home grown human… before it’s too late.
Jamie is the Executive Director of the Flow Genome Project and co-authored Stealing Fire in 2017. At the time, he saw the major threats to the Psychedelic Renaissance as primarily commercialism and militarization. Today, it might be hedonic narcissism that upends our collective awakening.
Jamie’s message is tough love for those of us in the Ibiza-Bali bubble, but he also offers actionable advice including getting into a flow state for service, creating a hedonic calendar to reduce cognitive risk, and doing a 10-day Wilderness First Responder training for personal transformation.
We can’t just wake up, we also have to grow up and show up! Which is why, after recording this podcast, I have personally committed to doing a Wilderness First Responder training so I that I can leverage my love of transformational experiences to become someone a little more useful to everyone else.
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3: From Seeking the Grail Castle to Trapped in Hotel California
13: Step 1 is to start in a psychosexual partner relationship
18: Music, Mountains, Mushrooms and Marriage
27 Instagram culture and extractive tourism
37: Tangible tools to become a Home Grown Human
42: A sneak preview of Jamie’s 10 Suggestions for Becoming a Home Grown Human
50: “False certainty with undo you” The Chapel Perilous as a metaphor for tryptamine space
55: Why you should take a Wilderness Medical Training
102: The Hedonic Yoga of Becoming
114: How to create a hedonic calendar
127: Why we are uniquely ahistorical and ill-prepared for what’s coming environmentally
134: Not just waking up, but growing up and showing up
140: What is transformational culture in service of?
Graphics Designed by Andy McErlean
Theme song ““Peculiar Colors” [Manjumasi]“ by dj atish