2018

In a solo outing, I reflect on Burning Man in light of my first return to the event in nearly a decade.

Kali devotees Usha Harding and Swami Bhajanananda talks about their Laguna Beach temple, the perfume of practice, Western pujaris, and the challenge of commercial yoga.

Underground researcher and psychedelic activist David Nickles talks about the DMT Nexus, the Statement on Open Science for Psychedelic Medicines, MAPS, and the trouble with for-profit psilocybin companies.

Ethnobotanist Dale Millard talks about sangoma healers, animist science, ayahuasca, and the broad-spectrum healing properties of harmine.

Burning Man writer Mitch Mignano—aka Raven—talks about existential humor, the Cacophony Society, pranking your fears, and the sacred clowns of the Sun Dance ceremony.

Religious studies professor Dustin Atlas talks about ancient skepticism, Buddhism, Robert Anton Wilson, and the taste of honey.

A podcast interview I gave about psychedelics, spiritual practice, and marketing spirituality.

Gnostic scholar Matthew Dillon talks about religious mourning, the Nag Hammadi library, sex magick Jesus, David Icke’s lizards, and the power of the archons as an allegory of contemporary reality.

The new Techgnosis audiobook is primed for acoustic space.

Journalist Adam Fisher about virtual reality, fumbling the future, the cyberculture underground, ibertarianism, and his rich oral history of Silicon Valley Valley Of Genius

A 2005 talk on the practice of having a spiritual practice, with my wife Jennifer Dumpert.

Michael Pollan talks about awe, trip reports, the mental health crisis, and the reception of his new book How to Change Your Mind.

British music scholar Owen Coggins talks about drone metal mysticism, amplifier worship, metal humor, and sonic pilgrimage.

Writer Miranda Mellis talks about uncanny climates, thinking with fables, “don’t know” politics, and the entanglement with the nonhuman.

Anthropologist Joanna Steinhardt about DIY mycology, psilocybe politics, PF Tek, and psychedelic naturalism.