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031: Dr. Julie Holland

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within.

Today is June 6, 2016, and we are talking with Dr. Julie Holland, psychopharmacologist, psychiatrist, and best-selling author of several books.

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Topics:

• Julie’s origin story: how did she get interested in this area of research

• Julie took MDMA with Rick Doblin on the last day it was legal: June 30th, 1985

• “Cancer of Yang” – Jeremy Wolff’s phrase (Julie’s husband)

• Vaginal administration of cannabis to avoid the liver from edible ingestion, 11-OH-THC

• Edibles: Julie emphasizes the need to wait two hours before re-evaluating dosage

• Overmedication of society

  • “Do you ever overeat and then feel bad about it?” Big pharma’s answer: strong, long-lasting amphetamine daily.

• Medical and Recreational Entheogens

  • “Recreation is therapeutic”

• THC, CBD and Terpenes

• Some people don’t want to get high from their medicine.

• Munchies mitigation tip: don’t start eating.

• Punishment doesn’t work with addiction

• Pornography and the “new normal”: no pubic hair vs. “very bushy” 70’s

Julie’s Books:

• Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking, The Sleep You're Missing, The Sex You're Not Having, and What's Really Making You Crazy
• Ecstasy: the Complete Guide
• The Pot Book
• Weekends at Bellevue

030: The Neuroscience of Partying with Caitlin Thompson of Entheozen

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within.

Today is April 24, 2016, and we are discussing the Neuroscience of Partying with Caitlin Thompson of Entheozen.

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Topics:

• Caitlin’s Burning Man talk, “The Neuroscience of Partying”
• Nutrition
• Leaky gut syndrome
• Mood disorders
• Neurotransmitters
• Serotonin in the gut
• Are entheogens a food? Some supplements turn into neurotransmitters downstream. Where’s the line?
• 5-HTP, L-Tryptophan -> Serotonin/Melatonin/DMT
• Importance of co-factors – vitamins, minerals, e.g. B vitamins
• General function of entheogens in the body

029: Build Entheon with Alex and Allyson Grey

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within.

Today is May 24 2016, and we are discussing Building Entheon with Alex and Allyson Grey.

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Topics:

• Entheon is a place to discover the divine within
• Why build a psychedelic temple?
• BuildEntheon.com – Almost to the stretch goal of $200K
• Entheon is a 12,000 sq ft building, three floors including a gallery of international visionary art
• Prehistoric artifacts document early cultures who made art and had a relationship with entheogens
• “It’s important for our psychedelic sacramental culture to have evidence that in our generation there were people who valued love, unity, spirituality, and peace over commerce and war.” - Allyson Grey
• LSD is derived from ergot fungus, which shares similar characteristics with psilocybin mushrooms.
• Allyson recommends Robert Barnhart’s movie, A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin. (We have interviewed the producer and discussed the film on Entheogen.)
• Visit BuildEntheon.com to support the campaign! Check out the amazing original works of art and other rewards.

028: Intro to Entheogenic Comedy with Matteson Perry

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within.

Today is April 3rd, 2016 and we’re talking about Entheogenic Comedy.

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We’re delighted to be talking with Matteson Perry, writer and performer based in Los Angeles.

We start with a quote from Bill Hicks.

Matteson has a humorous memoir coming out on May 24.

Topics:

• Comedy as an Entheogen
• Laughter is an involuntary response, requires no thought.
• Some people are just funny. Even just adjusting a mic stand.
• Andrew Dice Clay
• Jerry Seinfeld’s theory of comedy: getting an audience to laugh at joke is like getting them to jump across a ditch
• George Carlin
• Steven Wright a.k.a. Bucky Goldstein
• Mitch Hedberg: “I used to do drugs…. I still do, I used to too.”
• Jon Stewart, carrier of Carlin’s torch
• Missed satire: the Steven Colbert effect.
• Comedy is tragedy avoided; or, comedy = tragedy + time
• Storytelling as quasi therapy
• Lincoln jokes vs. JFK jokes
• When you laugh so hard you cry
• The Psychedelic Yawn can yield entheogenic tears, discussed in episode 025: Psychedelic Medicine Trials with Participant Kirk Rutter.
• “Kids” movies: entheogens for everyone!
• In Living Color, Kevin’s “gateway drug” into Entheogenic Comedy.
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective