Episode Details

Despite chaotic outside circumstances, I have been blessed with bountiful gifts this year. I moved to the greener pastures of Austin, Texas, with my better half, Alyson Charles. We purchased a home, and I expanded my business. I’ve never felt healthier, happier, or lighter than I do right now. 

Of course, as many of you know, it wasn’t always like this. I spent the best part of 25 years obliterating my body with drugs and alcohol and the past 25 years putting myself back together again. I’ve tried just about every spiritual modality out there. 

Still, nothing comes close to the breakthroughs I made during intentional psychedelic experiences, which is why I chose to close out the year reflecting on my recent talk at the recent MeetDelic conference in November. This episode pieces together my journey to sobriety, how I reconciled with my “sober” identity to cross the portal of psychedelics, and why intentional plant ceremonies have proved to be great medicine for my growth. 

03:00 — Review of 2021

• Escaping programing
• Moving to Texas, renovations + reflections 
• My plans to create a food forest 
• Eloping in Vegas 
• My obsession with Alive Water (FYI: now they deliver to Texas!) 
• How to find your nearest spring (findaspring.com)
• The Water Wars Trilogy: Part I - Part II - Part III
• Expanding my business, podcast, and launching Gilded
• The medicinal ceremonies of this year 

24:20 — The Bondage of Addiction

• Abstinence as the way out 
• The phenomenon of craving (“my drug of choice was more”)
• Where addiction and trauma meet 
• Tracing the origins of my destructive drug voyage
• The Shrooms of Doom: that fateful night on mushrooms
• 1987: the year I got sober 

01:02:35 — The Spectrum of Sobriety 

• Finding emotional and mental sobriety 
• Healing dysfunctional patterns 
• The moment I recognized psychedelics as a tool for growth 
• The great INscape 
• Why taking Ayahuasca made me more sober than ever 
• Finding a spiritual experience in sobriety 

01:41:48 — Peak States of Psychedelics 

• Facing resistance and ego death with 5-MeO-DMT
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