Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
Healing Veterans with Plant Medicine
Life is a Festival #108: Jesse Gould (Heroic Hearts)
With the rapid fall of Afghanistan, veterans in our communities need our care and support now more than ever.
Real Reciprocity in Psychedelics and Beyond
Life is a Festival #107: Sutton King (Journey Colab)
What is our responsibility for kinship and reciprocity as we explore the healing power of plant medicine?
Ayahuasca for Healing Ancestral Racial Trauma
Life is a Festival #105: Tony Moss
A mighty deep dive on Ayahuasca healing for post traumatic slave syndrome.
An Open-Source Operating System for Transformational Culture
Life is a Festival #104: Jamie Wheal
Jamie’s new book "Recapture the Rapture," is your invitation to the sexual yoga of becoming a homegrown human.
The Yang Container
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.
Love All Your Parts
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.
Healing New Age Narcissism Part 2 (Clubhouse Show)
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.
Healing New Age Narcissism Part 1 (Clubhouse Show)
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.
Stay Safe, Psychonauts (Live from Clubhouse)
Life is a Festival #94: Dr. Molly
How to protect yourself from pseudo-shamanism, bad medicine, and neurotoxicity.
Medicine or Meds? How to Manage a Spiritual Emergence
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.
A Vaccine for Conspirituality
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.
The Transformative Power of Folktales
Life is a Festival #91 Jan Blake
Jan Blake, one of Europe's most renowned storytellers teaches the medicine of myth through six tales.
Yes, Psychedelics Can Help Heal Attachment Trauma
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.
Masters of Steam
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.
Decolonize Your Body
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.
Musings On Mental Health
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.
Power & Privilege in Intentional Communities
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.
Finding Sovereignty in a Mad World
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.
Edgewalking Gender, Technology, and Community
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.
Trip Sitting America
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.