Nov 6, 2020
Bett Williams and I explore a
number of issues facing the modern politically switched on
psychedelic person. We do so with special reference to the damaging
impact of social media technologies on our perceptions,
identity, and behavior; cultural appropriation within
psychedelic ceremony building; and the Dark Side of leftist
psychedelic politics. All of which grounded in a discussion around
what it means to live psychedelically, as a psychedelic person in
relationship with the psilocybin mushroom.
For context, this
interview was recorded a couple months ago and it’s actually just a
coincidence (or accidental synchronicity) that it is being released
during the week of the 2020 US presidential election. I'm
definitely holding a particular curiosity as to how much the ideas
discussed in this episode will be relevant or illuminating to the
events that are going to follow in the next coming weeks. But that
is a topic for larger wanderings beyond the podcast. I will leave
it to the r/ATTMindPodcast subreddit.
In the meantime, though, enjoy
this interview with Bett Williams
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EPISODE BREAKDOWN
- There is no psychedelic without culture
- The satanic trinity of Facebook Reddit and Instagram
- How mushrooms can help us break out of social media
reality
- James’ first psilocybin experience
- Social media becomes our mind : our mind becomes social
media
- “Psychedelics and the internet go hand in hand”
- The importance of discipline with psychedelic practice
- Building ceremony culture as a non-indigenous person
- How culture defines what comes of our psychedelic
experiences
- Are mushrooms have wisdom or do they just connect us to
wisdom
- “The mushroom contains multitudes”
- The mushroom experience is build by our relationship to
them
- Mushrooms revealed the ego saturation of social justice outrage
politics
- What does it mean to engage politics
‘psychedelically’?
- The politics of the history or Maria Sabina
- Getting beyond party line politics to appreciate the good work
being done
- Bett Williams’s criticisms on Micheal Pollan
- Growing mushrooms | What it means to be in
relationship with the mushroom
- Respecting the risk being taken by those who grow and provide
psychedelics
- Respect your drug dealer!
- The potential (and failings) of the psychedelic left to be
leading the political conversation in a good way
- The moral obligation of breaking unjust laws
- There is something gained by psychedelic being
illegal
- The unknown unknowns of the history of traditions
- Will more people eating more psychedelics help us with the
crisis we are fading?
- What it means and what it takes to live a psychedelic
life
- Psychedelic mushrooms are serious work, but won’t work if you
take it too seriously
- How to live life with psychedelics without hurting
yourself
- Working out your buffalo problem
- How does age impact our ability to access depth with
psilocybin
- The wild kindness