Life is a Festival #101: Aaron Orsini
Aaron Orsini has leveraged his own experimentation of self to become a masterful steward of a vibrant community for nuerodivergent people.
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Life is a Festival #100: Benjamin
For the 100th episode of Life is a Festival, I’m honored to bring you this conversation with my dear friend and spiritual teacher Benjamin.
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Life is a Festival #99: Richard Schwartz
Does your inner world sometimes feels like a squabbling family, always reacting to the outside experience and to itself? You’re not alone. In fact there’s an entire style of therapy that specifically seeks to bring harmony to our Internal Family Systems.
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Life is a Festival #97: Alex Ebert
A robust history of the dark side of New Age thought and how we can refestivalize our spiritual culture.
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Life is a Festival #96: Jamie Wheal
Recorded on Clubhouse, Jamie helps us understand the worrying prevalence of dark triad personality types in transformational communities.
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Life is a Festival #94: Dr. Molly
How to protect yourself from pseudo-shamanism, bad medicine, and neurotoxicity.
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Life is a Festival #93: Dr. Joseph Barsuglia
A PhD neuropsychologist explains spiritual initiation through the lens of the Bwiti tradition in Africa and the plant medicine iboga.
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Life is a Festival #92: Erik Davis
Erik Davis, wizard of weird, returns to the show to address “conspirituality” and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against it.
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Life is a Festival #91 Jan Blake
Jan Blake, one of Europe's most renowned storytellers teaches the medicine of myth through six tales.
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Life is a Festival #90 Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score)
Attachment wounds can be more difficult to treat than acute trauma but psychedelics can help reimprint the feeling of being a lovable child.
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Life is a Festival #89: Sasha Baibarin and Boris Ryabov (Steamology Institute)
Sasha and Boris are powerful steam masters bringing a traditional Russian banya all the way to Black Rock City.
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Life is a Festival #85: Camille Barton
Camille shows us how to unravel the legacy of colonization in our bodies through psychedelics, grief work and somatic healing.
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Life is a Festival #84: Eamon Armstrong
A repod from my interview on Eric White’s show theEWpodcast where we discuss techniques for mental wellness and how to see depression as a teacher.
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Life is a Festival #83: Ashoka Finley
We need to compost the old world, not simply run away from it. Ashoka is here to teach us how to build the infrastructure of care for the new world that we know is possible.
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Life is a Festival #82: Jordan Hall
Jordan teaches us how to make sense and find our footing to meet the world’s complex challenges.
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Life is a Festival #81 [In Community]: Andrew Murray Dunn (Siempo)
Through his exploration of gender and his dedication to humane technology, Andrew is walking the edge of culture and community.
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Life is a Festival #73: The TeaFaerie (Erowid)
The Teafaerie has facilitated psychedelic peer support at festivals since her work with Rock Med in the 90s, and boy does she have some stories to tell.
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Life is a Festival #72: Zhenevere Sophia Dao (The MogaDao Institute)
Zhenevere Sofia Dao returns to the show to share, for the first time, the story of her transgender emergence during sixteen months of silence in the Jemez Mountains.
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Life is a Festival #71: Mohawk the Educator
Cognitive liberty is a beautiful thing and all drug users should have the right to experiment safely.
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Life is a Festival #69: Nahko
In light of a series of allegations concerning predatory behavior by Nahko, I have decided to remove this episode from my catalogue pending an accountability process.
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