A Paul Revere for the Psychedelic Renaissance

Life is a Festival #33: Jamie Wheal (Flow Genome Project)

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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TIMESTAMPS

  • 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

Personal Growth, Burning Man, Community, Death, Festivals, Harm Reduction, Leadership, Mental Wellness, PsychedelicsEamon ArmstrongFlow Genome ProjectJamie Wheal, Flow Genome Project, Stealing Fire, Psychedelic Renaissance, Top 10 of 2019Comment