2018

Naropa Sabine talks about Shakti, self-formation, rural ashrams, and growing up with a Tantric guru for a dad.

Designer and snowboarder Sijay James talks about archaic revivals, neotribal design, mountain flow, and falling with style.

I talk to Mark Pesce about faith, fantasy, science fiction, and disruptive tug of future tech

Scottish poet and novelist John Burnside talks about Henry Miller, sexual braggadocio, Taoism, and the flight from society.

Alt-lit novelist Tao Lin talks about Terence McKenna, degenerate humans, feeling happy (or not), and his new non-fiction book Trip.

Ken Layne, of the Desert Oracle magazine and podcast, talks about Joshua trees, desert Christianity, and the mysterious (and smelly) Yucca Man.

Authors and editors Marcus Boon and Gabe Levine talk about art practice, tikkun, self-care, and crafting community.

Anthropologist Bia Labate talks about peyote politics, the bureaucratization of psychedelics, and working with indigenous leaders on her recent “Sacred Plants in America” conference.

I join Richard Doyle and playwright Victoria Stewart to talk pink.

I talk with my old pal Ed Phillips about reverie, misery, consciousness culture, and the ethics of being real.

OG chaote Joe Max talks about punk-rock sorcery, woozily successful Cthulhu invocations, feral intensity, and fear.

I talk to Phil Ford and J.F Martel about the weirdness of studying the weird.

Independent scholar Bruce Rimell provides a cognitive science perspective on psychedelic entities and visionary beings in his meaty new book They Shimmer Within.