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Dr. Donald Hoffman returns to the mind meld to chat about the illusion of reality, the transcendent geometry defining the laws of physics, why consciousness is the fundamental nature of reality, and why there will never be a theory of everything.

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Don Hoffman is a Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine. His chief areas of inquiry include perception, the illusory nature of reality, free will, and the development of a scientific model for consciousness. He's also the author of The Case Against Reality.

Check out Don's TED Talk (which is a great primer for this conversation).

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Author, meditation facilitator, host of The Astral Hustle podcast, and friend, Cory Allen returns to the mind meld! 

We talk philosophical honesty, whether or not we're connected to a cosmic mind, why mystery is the highest form of truth, the difference between fate and destiny, why altering your context is magical, and more!

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Contemplative psychotherapist, Dr. Miles Neale returns to the mind meld! We riff on the power of pilgrimage, how symbols transform the mind, initiation rites, the magic of trust, Carl Jung, and more! 

Check out his course on the gradual path here.

His book, Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human is available now.

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Sarah Fay enters the mind meld!

Sarah is an award-winning author and mental health advocate working to improve how we think and talk about our mental health by moving the conversation away from simplistic diagnoses and toward a deeper understanding of our mental and emotional lives. Her personal experience of being diagnosed with six different mental health disorders and finding no relief led her to investigate the diagnoses we receive and to write her journalistic memoir Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses.

In this mind meld we riff on the chemical imbalance myth, the surprising healing power of uncertainty, the problem of psychological pathology, why the mind is not a break/fix piece of machinery, the power of routine, and more.

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Autodidactic mythologist, psychology extraordinaire, and Myths That Make Us host, Erick Godsey returns to muse about the importance of keeping the psyche (soul) alive, leaving room for doubt, the importance of initiation, wild hope, and more! 

Catch his podcast, The Myths that Make Us 

Jump into his latest offering, The Dharma Journal

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Author and journalist, Scott Carney returns to the mind meld

Scott has written for outlets like Wired, Men’s Journal, Playboy, and many others. His work has also taken him to some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of the world.

Scott's latest book, The Vortex is available now!

In this mind meld, we riff on information warfare, the best and worse parts of human psychology, recognizing your own bias, the insane story of his new book, The Vortex, and much more!

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Steven Kotler is a New York Times-bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. Steven is also a tremendous fiction author. Be sure to pick up his latest, a technodelic sci-fi thriller called The Devil's Dictionary. 

In this mind meld, we riff about changing your mind through empathy and meditation, why we need new language to build a better future, plant, animal, and planetary consciousness, and more! 

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James McCrae returns to the mind meld!

James (also known by his Instagram handle, wordsarevibrations) is a poet, meme artist, and the author of How to Laugh in Ironic Amusement During Your Existential Crisis, which is available now.

In this mind meld, we muse about why reality isn't a simulation, practical advice on creative expression, the power of mindfully creating and wielding personas, and more!  

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Dr. Jahan Khamsehzadeh enters the mind meld for a classic wonder dip! We talk cosmic consciousness, personal evolution, mystery traditions, the transformational power of altered states, and his new book The Psilocybin Connection 

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Phil Cousineau is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, story consultant and editor, travel leader, and inspirational speaker on myth in the modern world. He even studied and collaborated with the great Joesph Campbell.

In this mind meld, we riff on the enduring power of myth, what it's like to work with Joseph Campbell, the impact of sacred travel, how to practically apply myth in our own lives and minds, and much more!

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Actor, comedian, and author, Josh Peck enters the mind meld to talk addiction, destiny, stoicism the lie of conventional success, and the importance of finding a spiritual dimension to life

Josh's new book Happy People Are Annoying, is out now.

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Dr. Jennifer Heisz is a neuroscientist with expertise in brain health. She’s an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University and directs the NeuroFit Lab. Her new book, Move the Body, Heal the Mind is out. In this one, we riff on how exercise can treat anxiety and depression, prevent dementia, improve focus, aid in creativity, and more!

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Author, meditation facilitator, host of The Astral Hustle podcast, and friend, Cory Allen returns to the mind meld. 

Cory shares powerful advice to his younger self. We also riff about the power of myth, Joseph Campbell, why destiny is still an important concept, life itself as an artistic act, and more!

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Author, podcast host, and consciousness adventurer, Jennifer Sodini returns to the mind meld to muse about the wild weird world of magic. Is it real? If so, how, and what does it mean? How do we navigate it skillfully?

We also brush up against famous occult figures like Aleister Crowley and riff on our obsession with the esoterically-charged Netflix series, Archive 81.

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The wise and whimsical, Sarah Zucker returns!

Sarah is a mythopoetic and psychedelically informed artist and writer who's been featured in the New York Times Magazine, CNBC. 

In this one, we riff on the balancing child-like wisdom and whimsey, why myth and history are indispensable tools for sense-making, why we all have multiple identities, and more!

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Psychologist, Dr. Ido Cohen returns to the mind meld!

In this mythopoetic psychological deep-dive, we riff about the importance of mythological thinking, organizing your psychic gods, the divine child, the dangers of Peter Pan syndrome, meeting the wise old man archetype, and more.

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Journalist, Ethan Lou enters the mind meld to talk informational erosion, his strange trip to North Korea, why Bitcoin is psychedelic, and more.

His book, Once a Bitcoin Miner is available now.

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Dr. Ethan Kross enters the mind meld!

Dr. Kross is an American experimental psychologist, neuroscientist, and writer who specializes in emotion regulation. He is a professor of psychology and management at the University of Michigan and director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory there.

Pick up his book, Chatter here.

In this mind meld, we muse about making peace with the voice in our heads. Dr. Kross shares specific techniques we can use to interface with our inner-chatter skillfully.

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Artist, musician, and podcaster, Colin Frangicetto returns to riff about how art alters reality, the emerging dimension of the digital, why the metaverse could be both a blessing and a curse, and more!

Colin Frangicetto is a musician, podcaster, and artist most well-known for playing in the band Circa Survive. Dive into Colin's world here.

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Contemplative psychotherapist, Dr. Miles Neale returns to the mind meld to riff on trusting the darkness, avoiding the fool's elixir, ancient mystery traditions, and more.

Check out his new course on the gradual path here.

His book, Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human is available now.

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What do Carl Jung, Plato, ancient mystery temples, and transcendent experiences have in common? They all point toward an unspeakable truth you have to experience to believe. In this mind meld, we riff about all of the above and more. 

Cory Allen is a mindfulness facilitator, author and podcast host of The Astral Hustle podcast, and friend.

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Ever-mercurial comedian, artist, and podcaster, Ramin Nazer returns to the mind meld!

Ramin returns for another sprawling mercurial wonder-dip. In this one, we riff about weird Christmas rabbit holes, galactic neurosis, why nothingness and infinity are both absurd, and more!

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Sonic wizard, East Forest returns to the mind meld!

Trevor 'East Forest' Oswalt is a unique bird in the Wild West aviary of electronic-chamber music, bridging the digital and natural realms. His fundamental mission is to create sonic architecture for listeners to explore their inner space.

In this mind meld, we muse about psilocybin and its ascension from hushed tones, underground therapy, and personal experimentation to serious medicine. We also unpack the philosophical and spiritual connotations of the psychedelic renaissance, and much more

Check out East Forest's latest endeavor Journey Space

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Legendary anthropologist and author, Dr. Jeremy Narby enters the mind meld to talk plant medicine, indigenous wisdom, plant consciousness, the archaic revival, and more.

Get Jeremy's new book Plant Teachers here.

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Author, mindfulness facilitator, host of The Astral Hustle podcast, and friend, Cory Allen returns to the mind meld. 

In this one, we muse about the importance of simplicity, the beauty of changing your mind, why returning to seat of your experience is of the utmost importance, recognizing B.S., agnostic spirituality, and more

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Author, entrepreneur, podcast host, and consciousness adventurer, Jennifer Sodini returns to the mind meld to muse about why the essence of the human soul is an open-ended question, the power of perhaps, Robert Anton Wilson, how spirituality is evolving, the high weirdness of biblically accurate angels, and more!

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Fountain of knowledge and healing, Dr. Dan Engle returns the mind meld!

Dr. Dan Engle is a psychiatrist with a clinical practice that combines aspects of regenerative medicine, psychedelic research, integrative spirituality, and peak performance. 

Dr. Engle is the author of The Concussion Repair Manual: A Practical Guide to Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries, as well as his new book, A Dose of Hope: A Story of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy.

He's also lived in the jungle with Ayahuasca shamans and explored his consciousness more thoroughly than almost anyone I know. 

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James McCrae returns to the mind meld!

James (also known by his Instagram handle, wordsarevibrations) is a meme artist and the author of How to Laugh in Ironic Amusement During Your Existential Crisis, which is available now! 

In this mercurial mind meld, we riff on the metaverse, the approaching singularity, Terence McKenna, cryptocurrency, and some speculation so scintillating and dubious that I don't even think I should write it here.

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Autodidactic mythologist, psychology extraordinaire, and Myths That Make Us host, Erick Godsey returns to muse about his recent mystical epiphany, the importance of reflecting on death, why initiations are like death practice, why technology must assist our spiritual evolution, the importance of recognizing and balancing mythological archetypes in our own psyches, and more.

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Jump into his latest offering, The Dharma Journal

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Harvard Astrophysicist, Dr. Avi Loeb enters the mind meld! 

Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University, chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy, founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative, and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center. He also heads the Galileo Project, a systematic scientific search for evidence of extraterrestrial technology. In fact, Avi believes we may have already captured evidence of intelligent alien life.  

Avi's latest book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth is available now wherever you purchase books.

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No, this title isn't just clickbait. I’ve undergone what I guess I’d call a disruptive, life-quaking adventure. What follows is a loose, to-the-point riff recalling the tale.

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Dr. Amishi Jha enters the mind meld to sharpen your focus, recontextualize mindfulness, and define enlightenment. 

Dr. Amishi Jha is a professor of psychology and the director of the contemplative neuroscience program at the University of Miami. She researches the neurology of attention and the effects of mindfulness training. Her new book, Peak Mind is out now.

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Artist, podcaster, and novelty-wielder, Michael Garfield, returns to the mind meld to muse about the catch twenty-two of personal authority, Kant's definition of enlightenment, why we may be living in a time of false enlightenment, 'meta dialogos,' and more! 

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Autodidactic mythologist, psychology extraordinaire, and Myths That Make Us host, Erick Godsey returns to the mind meld to muse about the myth of truth, the power of dialogue, how bias masquerades as intuition, one of the most mind-melting thought experiments ever conceived of, why eternity is terrifying, and more.

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Artist and Musician, Colin Frangicetto returns to riff about future nostalgia, why existential ambivalence is a sign of success, and why our souls might be trapped in a lower-dimensional slice of reality.

Colin Frangicetto is a musician, podcaster, and artist most well-known for playing in the band Circa Survive. Dive into Colin's world here.

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Sarah Stein Greenberg is the executive director of Stanford d. School and the author of the new book, Creative Acts for Curious People. 

In this mind meld, we muse about sense-making through creativity, bringing order to chaos through art, the "transcendent aesthetic," and more.

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Contemplative psychologist, Dr. Miles Neale and sound therapist, Phil Jacobs enter the mind meld to pull the psychic sword from the stone.

In this one, we muse about the importance of internalizing mythological images, contemplative Buddhism, how to integrate through story, why the archetype of alchemical transformation reaches across cultures and more.

Miles is a student and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, having studied the path for over two decades. His book, Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human is available now.

Phil Jacobs is a sound therapist and Chinese Medicine practitioner with decades of experience in creating transformative containers through sound.

Stay tuned at this end of this mind meld for a guided sound bath meditation by Miles and Phil.

For more information on Miles' contemplative studies course, go here.

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James McCrae enters the mind meld!

James (also known by his Instagram handle, wordsarevibrations) is a meme artist and the author of How to Laugh in Ironic Amusement During Your Existential Crisis, which you can preorder now. 

In this one, we riff about the evolution of creativity, the importance of maintaining a romantic, spiritual disposition, the intersection of ancient wisdom and memes, and much more

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Author, meditation facilitator, host of The Astral Hustle podcast, and friend, Cory Allen returns to the mind meld. 

We riff about the self as a stone, mythopoetic drift, mindfully minding your own business, the pitfalls of personal development, and more!

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Sergey Young is a longevity investor and visionary on a mission to extend the healthy lifespans of 1 billion people. He's also the author of The Science and Technology of Growing Young, which is available now.

In this mind meld, we muse about techno-optimism versus techno doom, how it's possible to live to the age of 200, and why mind-blowing longevity breakthroughs are closer than you think.

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Psychologist and bestselling author, Dr. Lisa Miller enters the mind meld to riff on how to awaken your brain, depression, the nature of consciousness, why a spiritually engaged life is a better life, and more.

Lisa Miller, Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and the Awakened Brain. She's a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Columbia University. Dr. Miller is also the Founder and Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology.

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Psychotherapist and Psychedelics Today co-founder, Kyle Buller returns to the mind meld!

We riff on the importance of levelheadedness, the nature of dreams, the well of weirdness and synchronicity that surrounds conspiracy theories, why teaspoons of change are sometimes preferable to full-blown leaps of faith, Carl Jung, James Hillman, and loads more!

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• Setting Sun Wellness
• Psychedelics Today

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Psychologist Dr. Ido Cohen returns to the mind meld!

In this one, we riff about the healing power of the numinous, Carl Jung, why it's important to microdose terror, the mythopoetic symbolism of space travel, and more!

• Dive into Ido's course here.
• Follow his psychological sangha, the Integration Circle on Instagram

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In this live mind meld from Austin, we riff on the science of wonder, how awe and mystery make us healthier, why humans thrive when they balance the mystery and the mundane, responsibly mixing philosophical spices, and more!

Jennifer Sodini is the author of Amenti Oracle and Everyday Amenti she's also an entrepreneur, podcast host, and consciousness adventurer.

Mike Brancatelli is a comedian and host of the Mikeadelic podcast which you can hear here.

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Yogi and musician, Liam Wilson shares the powerful story of his beautiful and devastating trip to Nepal. We also muse about real Yoga, the hidden patterns in all of the world's transformational paths, psychological archetypes, the healing power of wonder, psychedelic awe, and much more. 

Liam Wilson is a yogi and metal musician best known for playing in bands like the Dillinger Escape Plan and Azusa.

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"Sacrifice is not destruction; sacrifice is the foundation stone of what is to come."

-Carl Jung

Autodidactic mythologist, psychology extraordinaire, and Myths That Make Us host, Erick Godsey returns to the mind meld to muse about the importance pain, why believing in destiny is a powerful tool, why we should care what other people think, and why humans might be the bleeding edge of god god-ing.

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• Jump into his new offering, The Dharma Journal

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My wonder brother Colin Frangicetto returns to riff about Terence McKenna's 'Novelty Wave Theory,' the importance of leaping without a net, how our perception of time is a compass for how we should and shouldn't be spending our lives, and more!

Colin Frangicetto is a musician, podcaster, and artist most well-known for playing in the band Circa Survive. Dive into Colin's world here.

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Author, entrepreneur, podcast host, and consciousness adventurer, Jennifer Sodini returns to the mind meld to muse about UFO phenomena, why things only get stranger, why the future is impossible to predict, how creativity sustains the mind, and more!

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Comedians Shane Mauss and Ramin Nazer return for a mirth-filled mind meld on spiritual bypassing, the persistence of dogma, moon conspiracies, the relationship between the amusing and the profound, and more.

Their new podcast, Mind Under Matter is available wherever you listen to pods.

Teleport here for all other things Ramin and here for Shane.

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Dr. Kile Ortigo is a psychologist and author of the book Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide for Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration.

In this mind meld, we muse about the art integration, shadow work, the role of myth in personal development, the psychedelic therapy revolution, and more.

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