Join depth psychotherapist and Jungian scholar, John Price, in an exploration of extraordinary stories and phenomena that lurk beneath the surface of normal and everyday life. Listen in as John interviews experts, dilettantes, sinners, and saints to explore their professional and personal perspective on the underlying purpose of the mysteries which lurk within the seemingly mundane nature of day-to-day life. John received his Master’s degree in clinical psychology and his Doctorate degree in ...
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114: Cynthia Brix and William Keepin – Gender Reconciliation, Consciousness, and Cultural Healing
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Interview begins: 5:03In this episode of The Sacred Speaks, we explore the profound spiritual and social dimensions of gender with Rev. Cynthia Brix and Dr. Will Keepin, pioneers in the field of gender reconciliation and equity. Cynthia, an interfaith minister and wellness expert, and Will, a former quantum physicist turned healer and spiritual see…
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113: Barry Taylor: Music, Mysticism, and Modernity
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Interview begins @ 3:11In this episode, I sit down with Barry Taylor to explore the intersections of rock 'n' roll, counterculture, and spirituality. Barry shares his early experiences in the vibrant world of music and discusses how these experiences opened up a new language for understanding the invisible aspects of our world.Highlights of this ep…
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112: Pete Holmes and Barry Taylor – The Art of Transgression: Comedy, Rock, and Spirituality
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Interview begins @ 6:04In this episode, comedian Pete Holmes meets theologian and former AC/DC road manager, Barry Taylor, for the first time, despite Pete having referenced a profound quote from Barry in his work for nearly a decade. The conversation kicks off with Pete diving into Barry's storied history with rock & roll, setting the stage for a …
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111: Ellen Petry Leanse – The Brain and Beyond
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111: Ellen Petry Leanse – The Brain and Beyond by John PriceAutor: John Price
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110: Greg Wrenn – Mothership: A Journey of Identity, Ecology, & Ayahuasca
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Interview begins @ 5:18In this episode, we dive into the compelling journey of Greg Wrenn, author of the ayahuasca eco-memoir Mothership. Greg begins by sharing a poignant excerpt from his book that ties back to an early memory of his mother, illustrating the profound impact of growing up with an emotionally dysregulated parent. His memoir not only…
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109: Ross Ellenhorn – The Art of Drawing a Life, Play, and the Gift of Being a Human
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Interview begins @ 5:03In this episode of The Sacred Speaks, we explore the pioneering work of Dr. Ross Ellenhorn, a visionary dedicated to reshaping mental health care. Dr. Ellenhorn introduces us to his unique "hospital without walls," a concept that challenges traditional mental health treatments and seeks to destigmatize the way we approach psy…
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108: Anne Lamott & Neal Allen – Love and Taming the Inner Critic
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Interview begins @ 5:58Annie Lamott and Neal Allen invite us into the heart of their relationship, where creativity, curiosity, and vulnerability intertwine. Annie introduces Neal's latest book, "Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic," while Neal shares insights into Annie's newest work, "Somehow: Thoughts on Love." As we delve into their dynamic, we…
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107: Dimitri Mugainis - A Journey Beyond Addiction: Healing, Psychedelics, and Harm Reduction
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Interview begins @ 4:06In this episode Dimitri Mugianis shares his captivating journey from a tumultuous early life marked by drug use as a means to alleviate pain and delve into alternate states of consciousness, to a life-transforming encounter with iboga. This African sacrament catalyzed his confrontation with trauma, miraculously eradicating hi…
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106: Lisa Marchiano - The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Feminine Energies
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Interview begins @ 4:08In episode 106 of "The Sacred Speaks" podcast, John and guest Lisa Marchiano dive into the complex realms of anger, manipulation, rage, and their inherent values for the feminine in our conversation as we discuss her book, The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Feminine Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire. Our conversation sta…
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105: Becca Tarnas – The Imagination and The Red Books of Tolkien & Jung
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105: Becca Tarnas – The Imagination and The Red Books of Tolkien & Jung by John PriceAutor: John Price
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104: Stephen Aizenstat - The Imagination Matrix
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Interview begins @ 4:00In this episode of "The Sacred Speaks," embark on an exploratory journey with Dr. Stephen Aizenstat, diving into the depths of the inner self. Our dialogue begins with the concept of the inner journey, ignited by curiosity, as seen through the lens of Dr. Aizenstat. A masterful storyteller, he intertwines compelling narrative…
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103: Richard Rohr – The Quest for the Grail
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Interview begins @ 9:25Father Richard Rohr explores his experiences with men and men's work. Growing up in a Catholic seminary surrounded by males, he became acutely aware of both the beautiful and neurotic facets of masculinity. His time working in an Albuquerque jail exposed him to the ways men suffer and express their pain, which deepened his un…
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102: Connie Zweig – Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path
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102: Connie Zweig – Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path by John PriceAutor: John Price
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101: Miriam Volat - The RiverStyx Foundation, Ecology, & Indigenous Wisdom
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Interview begins @ 4:37Join your host John Price as he welcomes Miriam Volat, the co-director of The RiverStyx Foundation, co-director of the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund, and Executive Director of IPCI. Together, they engage in an eye-opening discussion that bridges the gap between ecology, indigenous traditions, and the Sacred.Episode Ov…
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100: James Hollis – The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves
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The interview begins @ 6:24In this enlightening conversation with Dr. James Hollis, renowned Jungian analyst, we dive deep into the psychic underpinnings of our religious traditions and explore the profound concept of the soul. Using Jung's understanding of God as a starting point, we traverse the labyrinth of depth psychology, examining not religi…
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99: Béa Gonzalez – Invocation and Sophia Cycles
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Interview begins @ 4:00In this episode, we explore the enriching journey of Bea Gonzalez, an accomplished novelist, and facilitator of a depth-oriented women's collective. Known for her innate ability to weave stories, Bea intertwines feminine wisdom with a holistic approach to understanding the world, as demonstrated in her widely acclaimed work o…
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98: Thomas Moore – The Eloquence of Silence
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Interview begins @ 3:29Join us for a profound exploration of spiritual emptiness with Thomas Moore. Our conversation traverses the concept of kenosis, a process of spiritual emptying present in both Greek antiquity and Eastern philosophies. We challenge the notion of a 'purpose-driven' life, suggesting instead a life led by openness and spontaneity…
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97: Mary Cosimano: Tales of love and heart-centered guidance at Johns Hopkins
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Interview begins @ 3:30In Episode 97 of The Sacred Speaks, Mary Cosimano begins with the question, "What is suffering?". Renowned for her heart-led approach, Mary aims to connect those she works with to their heart centers, facilitating a deeper understanding of their own experiences. Throughout our discussion, Mary shares her personal encounters w…
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96: Rachel Harris – Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground
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Interview begins @ 3:53In this enlightening episode of The Sacred Speaks, host Dr. John Price converses with Dr. Rachel Harris, who shares insights from her latest book, "Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground". Dr. Harris illuminates her interview process with 15 veteran female guides from the psychedelic underground, reve…
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95: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton – Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth
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95: Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton – Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth by John PriceAutor: John Price
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94: Hunt Priest & Jessica Felix Romero – Ligare: Psychedelic Christians
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Interview begins @ 6:02In this episode of The Sacred Speak podcast, we explore the potential of the Christian church as a sanctuary for psychedelic healing. Our guests, Hunt and Jessica, seek to reconnect the worlds of psychedelics and organized religion, addressing the misinformation that has driven them apart for the past 50 years. They assert th…
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93: Edward Bever – Magic in the Modern World
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Interview begins @ 6:17In this episode of The Sacred Speaks, we delve into the multifaceted world of magic, exploring its neurological, spiritual, and cultural aspects. Dr. Bever, provides insights and expertise throughout our discussion. We begin with the question, "what is magic?" and Dr. Bever offers a definition of magic and shamanism, setting …
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92: Jeffrey Kripal – The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities.
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Interview begins @ 5:00Scholars who investigate paranormal, religious, philosophical, metaphysical, and other similar topics fall under the umbrella of the humanities. However, many professors are hesitant to delve into topics that cannot be explained through empirical data or scientific methods. Cultural historian and scholar of religion at Rice U…
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91: Richard Rohr– The Universal Christ; ego development, forgiveness, & non-dual consciousness
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91: Richard Rohr– The Universal Christ; ego development, forgiveness, & non-dual consciousness by John PriceAutor: John Price
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90: Murray Stein – Jung’s Red Book For Our Time
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Interview begins @ 4:43The Red Book, also known as Liber Novus, is a manuscript created by Carl Jung between 1914 and 1930. It is a highly personal and symbolic work that documents Jung's exploration of his own psyche through active imagination and dream analysis. The book contains a wealth of material, including paintings and calligraphy, that Jun…
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89: Miles Neale – Coming down from the mountaintop
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Interview begins @ 8:08Today Dr. Miles Neale and Dr. John explore “ego death”, and a few issues with this language, we continue discussing the nature of the ego, the Buddhist frame for soul, returning from the mountaintop or a break-through experience, nondualism, Miles reveals several of his transcendent experiences and also a personal experience …
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88: Stephen Gray–How Psychedelics Can Help Save The World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out
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Conversation starts @ 4:36In this episode I meet with Dr. Stephen Gray to discuss his latest book, How Psychedelics Can Help Save The World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out. We begin by noting the cultural and individual issues that that psychedelic medicine is positioned to treat, we continue with the ways that we have lost our mythic an…
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87: Wouter Hanegraaff – Hermetic Spirituality and The Historical Imagination
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Conversation starts @ 5:47Hermes Trismegistus was believed to be one of the wise men of his time, and a study of his texts reveals, not a general philosophy, but a spiritual path for initiates who seek to achieve gnosis by direct acquaintance of the true nature of reality as we experience it. Dr. Wouter Hanegraaff begins this analysis by guiding us…
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86: Sean Manseau – A.P. Psychedelics: Going Beyond Set and Setting to Achieve Visionary Virtuosity
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Conversation starts @ 6:31We begin with a discussion of Sean’s shift of consciousness during a psychedelic experience at a young age wherein he could map his experience onto what the traditions of chaos theory and Aldous Huxley’s perennial philosophy explained. Following this experience and at the suggestion of a professor of mysticism, Sean follow…
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85: Michael Winkelman – Shamanism: A Biobsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness & Healing
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Conversation starts @ 8:25How can we understand traditional accounts of visionary experience in terms of the neurophysiology of our brain? What are the scientific bases for shamanism and healing, cross-culturally, throughout history beginning with the Byzantine era to today? These are several questions posited by Dr. Winkelman within the first few …
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84: Bill Barnard – Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Spirituality and The Santo Daime Tradition.
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Conversation starts @ 4:15The Santo Daime, a syncretistic tradition including parts of indigenous South American religion, African folk traditions, and Catholicism, is a new religion as of the early 20th century. All of this to say that in this conversation, we are invited into a deep dive to explore the nature and formation of religion in general …
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83: Dennis McKenna – Religion, Medicine, Science, & The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss.
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Conversation starts @ 7:26This conversation begins with a discussion of the banisteriopsis vine (ayahuasca) featured in the background. We explore Dr. McKenna’s first adventure down to South America to study and explore psychedelics used in the Amazonian medico-religious process. This endeavor would eventually connect him with several elder medicin…
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82: Jose Leal – Psychotherapy, Religion, & Fairytales
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Conversation starts @ 4:31We begin our conversation exploring José’s background, and with the likes of Dr. Andew Samuels and Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés as mentors, his intellectual, professional, and spiritual orientation ranges from depth psychology and meditation to attachment and spiritually integrated psychotherapy. First up is one of José’s pa…
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81: Sarah Kielt Costello – Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World
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Conversation starts @ 6:29“Ecstasy, trance, and soul flight … these powerful and potentially transformative elements of ancient experience have long been left to the fringes of archaeological research.” Dr. Sarah K. Costello and John begin with a question exploring the often unconscious issue of projecting modern perspective onto antiquity to suppo…
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80: Christopher Hobbs – Medicine, Mushrooms, and Herbs
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Conversation starts 5:45Growing up within a family lineage of community herbalists and healers, Dr. Hobbs leads us through his orientation to healing and medicine starting with an overview of medical and healing systems, in particular the intersection between eastern and western medicine. The central question that Dr. Hobbs asks is: “What is medici…
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79: Bernardo Kastrup – Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics
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Conversation starts 8:36We begin by exploring Dr. Kastrup’s history with Jung and philosophers in the 19th and 20th centuries and very quickly move into antiquity through the classicist Peter Kingsley. We discuss the layers of meaning in writing throughout our cultural history, common misunderstandings of texts, positivism of the 19th at 20th centu…
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78: Jeffrey Kripal - Esalen: America & the Religion of No Religion
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Conversation starts @ 8:15What happens when the place where expansive, meaningful, transcendental, and just simply weird conversations becomes just as important and meaningful as the conversations that began there? Esalen. We begin our conversation exploring the birth and development of The Esalen Institute and then the boundaries of the geographic…
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77: Miles Neale – Gradual Awakening, Jung, & Psychedelics
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Conversation starts @ 5:38Dr. Miles Neale offers us his breadth of knowledge about psychology, Buddhism, suffering, and psychedelics. We begin this conversation with Miles describing his early training, teachers, and practice as he traces the path of his development as a psychotherapist and teacher of Buddhism. Dr. Neale emphasizes a multidisciplin…
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76: Mark Arey & Tony Bossis – Psychedelics and Religion: Winter Solstice Christmas Special
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Conversation starts @ 7:50This conversation begins by exploring the ground-level of psychedelics and it broadens to other aspects of the relationship between religion and psychedelics, continuing through the psychedelic renaissance, science and the sacred, consciously bringing these sacraments into the broader culture to heal and support those who …
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75: Athena Laz –The Alchemy of Your Dreams: A Guide to the Art of Lucid Dreaming and Interpretation
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Conversation starts @ 4:10This conversation begins by exploring the Dr. Laz’s early history with dreams and lucid dreaming, hypnagogic dreams, why we dream, how to approach dreams and dream work, Tibetan Buddhism and dreaming, lucid dreaming and heightened consciousness, lucid dreaming and ego control, the paranormal and dreaming, symbolic and lite…
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74: Connie Zweig – The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul
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Conversation starts @ 3:01In this episode, John interviews author, book editor, meditation teacher, and psychotherapist, Dr. Connie Zweig. We begin by exploring Connie’s history with meditation and the value and importance that she places on maintaining a practice in order to be present with the often overwhelming affect of inner work. She cites th…
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73: Mark Ryan – A Different Dimension: Reflections on the History of Transpersonal Thought
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Conversation starts @ 5:00In this episode, Dr. Price interviews Dr. Mark Ryan, and we begin with a quote from Dr. Ryan’s book defining transpersonal psychology. “Our individual ego, our sense of a personal self, and the psyche that sustains it, is imbedded in an interconnected cosmos; our personal psyche reaches into, and is penetrated by, a collec…
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70: C. Michael Smith – Jung & Shamanism in Dialogue
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Conversation starts at: 6:57Dr. Price and Dr. Smith begin the conversation with the definition of shamanism, and continue with Carlos Castaneda’s influence of shamanism in North America – noting the controversy surrounding the word of Castaneda, the mystical in the literary, Toltec principals and lineage, the complexities and ultimate mystery of re…
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72: Mark Plotkin – Plants of the Gods; Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice
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Conversation starts at - 6:25In this episode, Dr. Price interviews Dr. Mark Plotkin, one of the world’s renowned ethnobotanists who has studied traditional indigenous plant use with elder shamans (traditional healers) of Central and South America for much of the past 30 years. In this conversation we explore traditional Amazonian medicine, the grea…
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71: Claire Villarreal– Tantra, Tibetan Buddhism, & Shamanism
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Conversation starts at: 5:05In this episode Dr. Price interviews Dr. Claire Villarreal. Claire is an expert in teaching Tibetan Buddhism, meditation, and Tantra. We discuss the relationship between the social self and the self empty of all that is not self, the connection between spiritual practice and psychedelics, what happens when the threads of…
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69: Anthony Bossis – Consciousness, Death, Meaning, & Spirituality
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Conversation starts at: 5:38We begin this conversation acknowledging the dynamic between biological reductionism and mystical experience within the ever-growing field of psychedelic assisted therapies. The conversation continues by exploring consciousness, spirituality, the nature of religion, the expanding field of end of life care and psychedelic…
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68: Mark Arey – The Book of Revelation & Answer to Job
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We begin the interview by exploring Mark’s work as a translator and the artfulness of translation by grounding our discussion in one of his books, Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation, originally written in Greek. Within minutes, Mark states that religion fulfills one or two purposes: to control or to transform – our conversation explores the latter.…
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67: Thomas Hatsis – The Witches’ Ointment: The Secret History of Psychedelic Magic
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Through this conversation, Thomas and John discuss ego loss, a historical overview of witches, the sociological aspects of witches, the science of history, anachronism, the history of the devil, interpreting ancient texts and techniques to filter modern bias, demons of antiquity, illness and the spiritual, syncretism defined, goddess worship in ant…
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66: Marguerite Mary Rigoglioso – The Mystery Tradition of Miraculous Conception
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Through this conversation Dr. Rigoglioso and John discuss subjects ranging from the myth and history of immaculate conception, the goddess and the underworld, the autonomy of the archetype, various consciousnesses, living the archetypal journey of the gods, the literal and the symbolic, the ontological reality of the gods, the nature of divine birt…
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65: Carl A. P. Ruck – The Road to Eleusis; The Myth of Christ
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65: Carl A. P. Ruck – The Road to Eleusis; The Myth of ChristDr. Carl Ruck and I begin our conversation discussing the book The Road to Eleusis, wherein “the classist” Dr. Ruck and coauthors R. Gordon Wasson, “the mycologist,” and Dr. Albert Hoffman, “the chemist,” released a controversial theory that psychoactive entheogenic sacramental ceremonies…
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