Keep Psychedelics Weird
Host Eamon Armstrong and I stretch out on this, the 23rd episode of his podcast
Desert Oracle Radio
Taking to the desert airwaves to plumb the voids between the stars.
How the World Got Weird
My conversation with Ali Beiner about weirdness, awakening, and the shake-down of consensus reality.
PKD and High Weirdness
After discussing High Weirdness with my old pal Miguel, I rant for a while about conspiracy theory.
A Brief History of Queer Psychedelia
From Gerald Heard to the Black Leather Wings
Summer Pause
Erik reflects on a decade of podcasting, the work of conversation, the uncanniness of our moment, and the publication of High Weirdness.
Liminal Mind
Jennifer Dumpert talks hypnogogia, collaborative dreaming, iPad scrying, and her book Liminal Dreaming.
Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation coach Michael Taft talks about Deconstructing Yourself, hardcore dharma, Buddhist modernism, and the problem of the achievement self
Queering Psychedelics
Psychedelic researcher Dr. Alexander Belser talks about the Mystical Experience Questionnaire, the diversity of psychedelic trips, queer spiritualities, and the idea of “coming out of the psychedelic closet.”
Sacred Matter
Philosopher of religion Mary-Jane Rubenstein talks about wonder, horror, animism, the multiverse, and Hawaiian telescopes.
Patterns of Transformation
Experience designer Ida Benedetto talks about transformative games, trespassing, sex parties, funerals, and queer spirituality.
Decriminalize Nature
Activists behind the Decriminalize Nature initiative talk about decriminalizing entheogens in Oakland.
Feral Poetics
Poet Janaka Stucky reads and talks about burlesque horror, mystical language, shame, prophecy, and DMT.
Meditation Apps
Technology researcher Rebecca Jablonsky talks consciousness hacking, information ecologies, and the dangers of outsourcing awareness.
Whispers of the Demon
"The garden of forking paths is really a one-way labyrinth, a plunge into a single conundrum that is swallowing us up."