2018

Plant scientist Monica Gagliano talks about courage, plant spirits, rigorous experiments, and cosmic glitches.

A podcast conversation with Chad Lott and Marc Kate about philosophical pessimism, cosmic horror, gnostic views, and the great state of Louisiana.

A podcast chat about High Weirdness, Zen, and ontological anarchism

Mark Dery talks about Surrealism, cultural criticism, and his fascinating new biography of Edward Gorey.

Talking with Michael Garfield about our meltdown reality.

Comic Books, 70s childhoods, Stranger Things, chaos magick, and the hidden connection between Sylvester Stallone and Arthur Rimbaud

More on reality, liquified

With “Dopesmoker,” Sleep sealed the tomb of an entire genre.

The legendary psychonaut Kilindi Iyi talks about African martial arts, high dose psilocybin work, Dr. Strange, and the metaphysics of darkness.

How a marriage of animism and skepticism might help us navigate the breakdown of consensus reality.

Canadian writer Peter Limberg talks about Stoicism, philosophical sandboxes, making uncertainty sexy, and navigating the conflicts between today's meme tribes.

Psychedelic therapist Julie Megler talks about integration circles, hierarchy vs. community, ketamine, and somatic work.

Poet and journalist Nicholas Powers talks about festival politics, race and psychedelia, dreads, tokenism, and Burning Man.

Bay Area artist Lindsay Tunkl talks about confronting death, therapy as art, pre-apocalypse counseling, and the role of humor in it all.