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by James W. Jesso
Adventures Through The Mind is an interview-based podcast hosted by Canadian author and public educator, James W. Jesso. Although the show topics range---from spirituality, mental health, and emotional maturity; to love, relationships and sexuality; to history, philosophy, and neuroscience---there are two underlying themes that intersect them all: psychedelics & the mind. James W. Jesso is the author of Decomposing The Shadow: Lessons From The Psilocybin Mushroom and The True Light Of Darkness, both about his experiences exploring the potentials of psychedelics.
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- 6 days ago14 min
MiCRO:16 — The Attention War: How Screens Are Hijacking Your Consciousness | Carl Hayden Smith
Is your attention being trained the same way an algorithm is trained? In this micro, Carl Hayden Smith joins me to unpack what he calls the attention war: how algorithms and short-form media shape the brain toward ADHD-like patterns, whether you have ADHD or not. We also talk about what surfaces in the mind after a few phone-free days, and why Carl believes AI's real danger isn't sentience, but a mass hallucination of it: one that's already changing how we see ourselves. Watch this MICRO on YouTube This is a clip from 'Hyperhumanism: Reclaiming Our Humanity in the Age of AI | Carl Hayden Smith', Adventures Through The Mind Podcast, episode 198. FULL EPISODE Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch/Listen on Spotify Listen on Overcast Watch on YouTube Read the show notes MORE AI & TECHNOLOGY EPISODES The Future of Visionary Art in an Era of AI ~ Psychedelic Café 11 How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the Meta-Crisis | Alexander Beiner ~ ATTMind 185 Connect with Carl Noonautics The Museum of Consciousness Cyberdelic Nexus Support the Podcast Become a Patreon member Donate via PayPal All support options Stay in Touch Newsletter Instagram: @attmindpodcast EPISODE TIMESTAMPS Cold open: are screens training our brains toward ADHD? McLuhan's "the medium is the message" Is technology leading us, or are we leading it? Losing wifi in Egypt, and realizing how addicted we are to data "It is an attention war": algorithms harvesting consciousness Gen Alpha, dumbphones, and phone-free tree apps Will AI's fake-everything problem make us abandon screens? Outsourcing cognition to AI, reclaiming the felt experience Attention seeds consciousness: seeing the world through memes "Designed to be like gambling machines" A phone-free hike, and what surfaced in the mind that night TV as "the opium of the masses," and a life review Jaron Lanier: "AI won't destroy us, it will make us insane" Machine learning vs. sentience: AI's "mass hallucination" Should the machine be the artist, or should we keep that role? Outro: about this clip and the full episode with Carl Hayden Smith
- 3 weeks ago1h 46m
Peyote Is Disappearing (and the Law Designed to Protect It Is Part of Why) | Leonardo Mercado, The Peyote Lorax ~ ATTMind 209
Leonardo Mercado, known as The Peyote Lorax, joins me for Episode 209 to talk about the ecological and legal crisis threatening peyote, the sacred cactus at the center of Native American Church ceremonies. We get into peyote's collapse in its only natural range, the contradictions inside the federal exemption that governs who can legally possess and cultivate it, and the Seed to Ceremony conservation project Leo is building through Morningstar Conservancy in Arizona. 🌀 Episode Show Notes and other Relevant Links 🏜️The Morningstar Conservancy: https://morningstarconservancy.org/ The Peyote Lorax's website: https://thepeyotelorax.com/ Check Out Leo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepeyotelorax/ Buy some art from Leo: https://morningstarconservancy.org/shop FULL TOPICS BREAKDOWN BELOW ... 🤩 EPISODE SPONSOR AMENTARA is a credible source of legal psychoactive plants and extracts, most notably, Amanita Muscaria mushrooms—the red mushroom with white spots that shows up in folklore, Christmas imagery, and old shamanic traditions. Check them out at: https://www.jameswjesso.com/amentara Use the promo code ATTM22 for 22% off your first order ... SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon *** Huge thanks to my patrons on Patreon! In particular, my $23+ patrons; Andreas D, Ian C, Dan G, and Eliz C With a special thanks to Paul S. for their generous one-time donation Other options Toss me a tip on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS Toss me a tip on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/jameswjesso More Options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support Connect with Me: https://linktr.ee/jameswjesso ... Episode Breakdown Opening Interview begins Peyote as a desert food, not a psychedelic The teepee ceremony and the fire chief Leo's early vision quest and the capsule story Where peyote grows and why that matters How peyote's wild population collapsed The Native American Church and the legal exemption Why peyote still isn't listed as endangered The peyote carve-out in decrim bills and why it backfires Ad Break: Amentara The federal exemption as an exertion of dominance The 25% Indian blood rule and who gets left out Patreon Thanks Would full decriminalization help or hurt wild populations? What realistic legislative change would look like The Peyote Lorax: how Morningstar Conservancy began The Seed to Ceremony program How you can support peyote conservation Outro
- Jun 19, 202621 min
MICRO:15 — Ibogaine: the one drug that stops opioid addiction in a single session, and can also kill you ~ James W. Jesso
Ibogaine is regularly categorized as a psychedelic — but that label may be misleading in ways that matter. In this micro, James offers a crash course in what ibogaine actually is: where it comes from, how its unusual pharmacology works, what it does to the mind, and why it holds a position in addiction medicine that no other drug on earth can claim. The risk profile is part of the picture too. This is a clip from 'Psychedelics in Research & Practice | James W. Jesso', Adventures Through The Mind Podcast, episode 200 FULL EPISODE Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Watch on YouTube Read the show notes MORE IBOGAINE EPISODES Treating Traumatic Brain Injury with Ibogaine | Dr. Nolan Williams ~ ATTMind 188 Ibogaine Medical Subculture | Jonathan Dickinson ~ ATTMind 003 SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon Other options Toss me a tip on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS Buy some merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ More Options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support Connect with Me Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jameswjesso.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-w-jesso-64361812b/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/attmindpodcast/ Newsletter: https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter Substack: https://substack.com/@jameswjesso Telegram Channel: https://t.me/jameswjesso EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND TIMESTAMPS — What is ibogaine? — An oneirogen, not a psychedelic — Closed-eye visuals and the life review — Pharmacological complexity: the "14th century key" metaphor — Duration and physical challenges of the experience — Cardiac risk: the only psychedelic that can directly cause death — Encountering ancestors and the Bwiti tradition — A brief history: from West Africa to underground use — Stopping opioid addiction in a single session — The current treatment landscape — Reversing traumatic brain injury: the Stanford research — Brain de-aging and multiple sclerosis potential — Outro
- May 28, 20261h 12m
The Food Mushroom That Makes You See Little People | Colin Domnauer ~ ATTMind 208
You can buy Lanmaoa asiatica at a food market in Yunnan. Cook it thoroughly and it's just a bolete. Undercook it, and roughly 12 to 24 hours later you may spend the next three to seven days seeing hyper-realistic miniature people moving through your environment — documented across three independent cultures, mechanism completely unknown. Ethnobotanist Colin Domnauer (Dentinger Lab, Natural History Museum of Utah) is one of the few people actively trying to understand why. Colin and I get into what's actually documented about Lanmaoa asiatica — the three independent cultural accounts, the unusual onset and duration, and what the phenomenology of the hallucinations themselves suggests about mechanism. We talk about why this mushroom has received almost no formal scientific attention, what studying it would even look like, and what it might reveal about how psychedelic effects are produced in fungi more broadly. There's also a lot we just don't know — and we sit in that honestly. 🌀 Episode Show Notes and other Relevant Links 📚 Read Colin's Article on Lanmaoa asiatica - The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans Follow Colin on Instagram: @eating_gaia — where he posts research updates and mushroom photos The Dentinger Lab at the Natural History Museum of Utah — for anyone interested in pursuing research in the field FULL TOPICS BREAKDOWN BELOW ... SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon *** Huge thanks to my patrons on Patreon! In particular, my $23+ patrons; Andreas D, Ian C, Dan G, and Eliz C Other options Toss me a tip on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS Toss me a tip on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/jameswjesso More Options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support Connect with Me: https://linktr.ee/jameswjesso ... Episode Breakdown Opening Ad Break Interview Begins From Astrophysics to Ethnomycology: An Unusual Path Into Psychedelic Research Discovering Lanmaoa Asiatica: The Hallucinogenic Bolete of Southeast Asia Lilliputian Hallucinations: The Psychiatric Phenomenon of Seeing Tiny People Seeing Little People for Days: Cultural Attitudes & the Duration of Effects Delirium or Psychedelic? What fMRI Data & Eyewitness Reports Reveal More Real Than a Dream: The Uncanny Stability of These Hallucinations Mushrooms, Fairies & Ancient Folklore: The Deep Connection to Little People Patreon Thanks Is This Mushroom Dangerous? Safety Data from ~1,000 Hospital Cases Hunting for the Active Compound: Why It's Not Psilocybin or Ibotenic Acid Ad Break Are There More Hallucinogenic Bolete Species Around the World? Why Psychoactive Compounds Evolve in Nature Future Research, a 3rd-Century Taoist Text & How to Follow Colin's Work Follow up links and socials Outro
- May 11, 202615 min
What Psychedelics Actually Do to Your Mind (And Why Nothing Else Compares), James W. Jesso - MICRO:14
Psychedelics don't just "alter" your state — they can dissolve the self, surface the unconscious, and open the door to mystical experience. Your host, James, shares what's actually happening. ... This is a clip from 'Psychedelics in Research & Practice | James W. Jesso ~ ATTMind Podcast 200" FULL INTERVIEW Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen/Watch on Spotify Watch on YouTube Read the show notes SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon Other options Support Once on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS Toss Me a Tip on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/jameswjesso Buy Some Merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ More Options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support Connect with Me Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jameswjesso.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.instagram.com/attmindpodcast/ X: https://x.com/jameswjesso Newsletter: https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter Substack: https://substack.com/@jameswjesso Telegram Channel: https://t.me/jameswjesso
- Apr 17, 20262h 1m
Spiritual Healing, IFS, and Emanuel Swedenborg | Falconer, Odhner, and Jonathan Rose ~ ATTMind 207
This episode of the podcast is going to explore an intersection of psychotherapy and spirituality. Specifically, we are going to be exploring the intersection between Internal Family Systems, spiritual healing, and the work of 16c Christian philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Our guests are Bob Falconer, Chelsea Odhner, and Jonathan Rose. What You'll Learn About: 📚 Introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the teachings of Emmanuel Swedenborg 🔗 The intersection and synthesis between these two systems of thinking 🧠 Fundamental metaphysical concepts: the nature of the mind and the nature of the self ✨ The relationship with the divine, including concepts of heaven, hell, freedom, and salvation 🔓 The structure and porosity of the mind, including the mind being populated by a multiplicity of beings, both internal and external 🩹 Practical application: working with these beings to heal trauma and cultivate a better life 🌀 Episode Show Notes and other Relevant Links 📚 BUY THEIR BOOK: Opening the Inner World: Spiritual Healing, Internal Family Systems, and Emanuel Swedenborg. FULL TOPICS BREAKDOWN BELOW ... SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁 Watch and Subscribe on Youtube *** Huge thanks to my patrons on Patreon! In particular, my $23+ patrons; Andreas D, Ian C, Dan G, and Eliz C Other options Toss me a tip on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS Toss me a tip on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/jameswjesso Buy some merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ More Options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support Connect with Me Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jameswjesso.bsky.social Twitter/X: https://x.com/jameswjesso LinkedIn: https://www.instagram.com/attmindpodcast/ Newsletter: https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter SubStack: https://substack.com/@jameswjesso Telegram Channel: https://t.me/jameswjesso Integration Coaching: https://www.jameswjesso.com/jesso-private-skype-sessions/ ... Episode Breakdown Opening Interview Begins: introducing our guests, James' Swedenborg connection Who Swedenborg was: scientist turned mystic What IFS is: mind as many parts, not one Chelsea bridges both worlds via healing path Understanding healing as a spiritual journey IFS is secretly spiritual: Self as divine link Salvation etymologically means health and healing Mind as multi-levelled household with a head Self can never be damaged, even by deep trauma Divine inflow and the protection of our freedom Porosity of mind: What if the voices in your head aren't yours? Heaven hell as states chosen by what we love Levels of mind correspond to levels of heaven and the different spirits we are in contact with The Citadel Of The Mind model underlying mental illness Distinguishing inner parts from dark entities Angels respect freedom; demons seek control Hidden demons gain power only through our fear Psychedelics as portal to spiritual porosity Learning to sober navigate the psychedelic nature of spiritual reality Closing: what one thing should list
- Mar 21, 20261h 47m
All About DMTx (extended-state DMT) | Hayley and Kevin of Dream Mind Labs - ATTMind Podcast 206
This episode is going to be a deep dive into extended-state dimethyltryptamine, otherwise known as DMTx. Our guests for this episode are Hayley Mann and Kevin Thorbahn, who run Dream Mind Labs one of only a handful of places in the world where DMTx is available outside of clinical trials. They are on the show to talk about: 🧬 What DMTx is and how it works 🌀 What people experience during a DMTx session 🙋 Why people choose to undergo the experience ⏱️ How long people stay in for 💡 What people get out of the experience 🏥 Where DMTx may fit in the growing psychedelic medical and personal use landscape ⚖️ The legal situation in Colorado that allows them to legally run Dream Mind Labs ⚠️ The dangers present in undergoing DMTx 👽 The nearly universal experience of encountering and communicating with entities or aliens 🔫 The "DMT laser thing" 🎵 The role of music and sound during a DMTx session 🤯 Some of the weirder things they have experienced as facilitators This was a super interesting interview for me, and I found Haley and Kevin very easy and joyful to talk with. It was easily one of the most at-ease and "myself" I have felt in an interview in a long time, and I look forward to sharing it with you now. Enjoy! 🌀 Website and Episode Show Notes ✉️ Connect with Dream Mind Labs FULL TOPICS BREAKDOWN BELOW ... 🤩 EPISODE SPONSOR AMENTARA is a credible source of legal psychoactive plants and extracts, most notably, Amanita Muscaria mushrooms—the red mushroom with white spots that shows up in folklore, Christmas imagery, and old shamanic traditions. Check them out at: https://www.jameswjesso.com/amentara Use the promo code ATTM22 for 22% off your first order ... SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon 🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Sub and Review on Spotify 👁 Watch and Subscribe on Youtube *** Huge thanks to my patrons on Patreon! In particular, my $23+ patrons; Andreas D, Alex F, and Eliz C With a special thanks to MP Society for their generous one-time donation. Other options Toss me a tip on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS Toss me a tip on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/jameswjesso Buy some merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ More Options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support Connect with Me Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jameswjesso.bsky.social Twitter/X: https://x.com/jameswjesso LinkedIn: https://www.instagram.com/attmindpodcast/ Newsletter: https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter SubStack: https://substack.com/@jameswjesso Telegram Channel: https://t.me/jameswjesso Integration Coaching: https://www.jameswjesso.com/jesso-private-skype-sessions/ ... Episode Breakdown Ad (Amentara) Opening Interview Begins The legality of DMTx and other psychedelics in Colorado DMTx, what it is and how it works How long people stay in the DMT experience The level of intensity people go
- Mar 6, 202612 min
MICRO:13 - Integrating Spontaneous Spiritual Awakening Experiences, with Jessica Corneille
Research Psychologist Jessica Corneille discusses the complex integration process that follows spontaneous spiritual experiences—particularly the disorientation, vocational tension, and identity shifts that can arise when a transformed worldview no longer aligns with one's work or social context. The conversation explores the emergence of spiritual crisis during integration, the importance of non-hierarchical support spaces, and how connection, community, and spiritual literature (including reflections on Alan Watts) can help individuals rebuild a coherent sense of self and purpose after awakening. ... This is a clip from 'Spontaneous Spiritual Awakenings: Qualities, Causes, and Consequences | Jessica Corneille ~ ATTMind Podcast 171" FULL INTERVIEW Listen on iTunes Listen/Watch on Spotify Watch on YouTube Read the show notes SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon Other options Support Once on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS Toss Me a Tip on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/jameswjesso Buy Some Merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ More Options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support Connect with Me Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jameswjesso.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.instagram.com/attmindpodcast/ X: https://x.com/jameswjesso Newsletter: https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter Substack: https://substack.com/@jameswjesso Telegram Channel: https://t.me/jameswjesso
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Adventures Through The Mind is an interview-based podcast hosted by Canadian author and public educator, James W. Jesso. Although the show topics range---from spirituality, mental health, and emotional maturity; to love, relationships and sexuality; to history, philosophy, and neuroscience---there are two underlying themes that intersect them all: psychedelics & the mind. James W. Jesso is the author of Decomposing The Shadow: Lessons From The Psilocybin Mushroom and The True Light Of Darkness, both about his experiences exploring the potentials of psychedelics.
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