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Hosted by James W. Jesso · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 246 episodes
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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.
James W. Jesso hosts Adventures Through The Mind, a society show with 246 episodes published.
In this Adventures Through The Mind micro, I explain what MDMA is and why it makes us feel love. I explain why MDMA is an entactogen rather than a classic psychedelic, and how it floods the brain with serotonin. I also d
This episode of the podcast is going to explore what actually happens inside psilocybin assisted therapy, from the first conversation to the last integration session. Specifically, we are going to be walking the entire a
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-l
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 pe
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 pha
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 miniatu
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 'Psy
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 w
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 pl
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 whe
Thomas Hatsis joins us for episode 205 to discuss his new book Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance. Together we discuss some pretty divisive topics: the distinction between so
Dr. David Katz is a board-certified specialist in Preventive Medicine/Public Health. He is on the show to talk about the paper is was author on, titled, "A multiscale inflammatory map: linking individual stress to societ
Psychedelic historian Tom Hatsis outlines why the "mushroom Santa hypothesis" is not based in any historical fact and why. Happy Holidays! ... This is a clip from 'Debunking The Mushroom Santa Hypothesis | Tom Hatsis ~ A
Charley Wininger returns to Adventures Through The Mind to discuss How To Host An MDMA Group Roll Our discussions starts with a quick general overview of MDMA before shifting into a thorough exploration of group rolls—wh
Dr. Mikael Palner discusses how psilocybin microdosing alters synaptic plasticity in rats and how these brain changes align with shifts in stress resiliancy and compulsive behaviors. He then discusses how these data line
Author and psychotherapist Marc Aixalà is on the show to talk to us about psychedelic integration. What You'll Learn About: 💡 -- What psychedelic integration actually is, what it offers, and why it matters ⏰ -- When and
East Forest (Krishna-Trevor Oswalt) is a musician and documentary filmmaker exploring the intersection of music and psychedelic consciousness. He joins us on this episode of Adventures Through The Mind to talk about what
Ed Prideaux discusses the the phenomenon of "Psychedelic Flashbacks" and how they relate to Hallucinogen Perception Persisting Disorder, also known as as HPPD. ... This is a clip from 'Hallucinogen Perception Persisting
We are doing something special in celebreation of episode 200. Instead of an interview, I recorded a straight-talk lecture on psychedelics. Together, we are going to explore what psychedelics are; why they are so interes
Mycologist Alex Dorr unpacks the hidden world of fungi—from their billion-year origins to their vital partnerships with plants. He explains how mushrooms cycle life and death, build soil, store carbon, and sustain entire
Chelsea Odhner
1 appearance on this show
Jonathan Rose
author of The Well-Tempered City · His Glory Crypto
1 appearance on this show
David Katz
specialist in Internal Medicine, Preventive Medicine/Public Health, and Lifestyle Medicine · Charlesbank Capital Partners
1 appearance on this show
Marc Aixala
Author of Psychedelic Integration: Psychotherapy for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness · ICEERS Support Center
1 appearance on this show
Carl Hayden Smith
psychonaut and hyperhuman theorist · The Museum of Consciousness
1 appearance on this show
Jordan Gruber
JD
1 appearance on this show
Colin Domnauer
Dentinger Lab, Natural History Museum of Utah
1 appearance on this show
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Adventures Through The Mind is hosted by James W. Jesso. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 246 episodes.
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