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Wild Entheology is a platform for you to discover interesting and authentic conversations about psychedelics as an aid for self-improvement, psychological healing, and spirituality. Your hosts, Kaylee and Will, are both psychology students who aim to become psychotherapists. They've been involved in psychedelics and self-improvement for a decade and hope to bring you all the wisdom and education that they've uncovered for themselves.
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Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
In this episode, we discuss a paper titled The Entropic Brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging with psychedelic drugs, by Robin Carhart-Harris and co.(Link Below). We focus on the underlying mechanisms that sustain our normal waking consciousness, how this changes on psychedelics, and how this is change can be healing and spiritual. We hope you enjoy :)
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0:10 - Introduction of topic, follow us on social media
4:04 - Psychoanalysis - The perception of it historically and the value of interpreting psychedelic experience through this lens
7:26 - What is entropy and how does it relate to consciousness?
12:34 - What criticality is and how the system behaves when this point of entropy is reached
21:55 - Distinction between primary and secondary consciousness and the concept of the ego
26:42 - The developments in the brain that caused the change in consciousness and why they are evolutionarily advantageous
29:24 - The default mode network - what it is, the functions it serves, and the speculation of it as the physical counterpart of the ego
37:52 - Other mechanisms that maintain our secondary consciousness
46:00 - The drawbacks of our evolutionary developments
51:41 - Based on these mechanisms, how are psychedelics healing? What makes it a spiritual experience?
1:12:55 - Why insights feel so real on psychedelics and the potential pitfalls of interpretation
Link to the paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
In this episode, we go deep into how you can integrate Stage Blue of Spiral Dynamics. You don't need to listen to our previous SD episodes to understand this one. Simply put, SD is a model of societal and psychological development. Stage Blue is the stage where law, order, and authority come into being to help bring cohesion to an emerging civilization. As such, it is about the roles and the responsibilities that come with them that allow us to belong to our group. Listen to find out how to make conscious the roles you have no idea you play. We hope you enjoy!
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Spiral Dynamics book - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1405133562/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_5DC84S45R73A2QH03RWB
Actualized.org Spiral Dynamics series - he starts with an overview, and then goes on from Purple through to Yellow.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23aDNBvn_2g
Show Notes
0:10 - Welcome. You don't need to fully understand Spiral Dynamics to listen to this.
1:01 - Background on the model of spiral dynamics. Everything is a holon.
6:40 - Will's intention behind doing these Spiral trips and the 3 main questions he aims to answer.
8:25 - What Stage Blue is responding to. The beginning of the balancing act between security and freedom.
13:04 - How Blue values create the conditions for higher stages to emerge and the problems with the excesses of Blue.
18:33 - What it means to integrate Blue and what a healthy Blue looks like.
21:23 - How setting an intention for a trip allows you to have a foundation to tie back all of the information and sensation you are receiving in the trip.
24:17 - How Blue obsession with order comes about on a personal level and the creation of the need to belong to something.
32:16 - What triggers Blue and the extent some will go to in order to protect their group.
34:24 - The definition of a role as an interpretive lens through which we transform how reality currently is into how reality should be.
40:26 - Bringing roles into the light of awareness not to destroy them, but to understand where they come from, how they are helping us, and how they are hurting us.
44:32 - How roles define our priority bias through shaping how we interpret reality. The discomfort of stepping out of old roles and into new ones.
49:40 - The necessity of going back and integrating the earlier stages and the need to honour each stage.
53:50 - Guiding questions for doing the psycho-archaeological work of Stage Blue.
57:00 - The freedom of calling roles into question and deciding that they are or are not for you. Pubic hair and parenthood.
1:08:44 - How our roles become coping mechanisms and coping mechanisms become roles.
1:16:34 - The process of coming to understand yourself, new perspectives on integration, and how psychedelics can help us glimpse higher levels and the path forward if that is our intention.
1:29:16 - Ending on gratitude. Everything is perfect.
As is always the case, psychedelics are not a toy. Please use them responsibly. We can only speak to our own psychological and spiritual evolution, we cannot speak to yours. If you have mental health issues please seek a professional. There is no shame in getting help and you will never be judged for your problems. We wish you the best in life and in mental health.
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
In this episode we talk about NoFap. If you don't know, NoFap is an internet community based around quitting porn and masturbation as a result of addictive or other self-destructive behaviour. It's certainly a controversial topic, and we try to imbue it with nuance by addressing what we consider to be a very real issue and then attempting to interpret it through the lens of sex positivity. Whether you're onboard the NoFap train or not, this episode will likely challenge your beliefs so we invite you to venture forth with an open and compassionate mind. We hope you enjoy.
Check out Will's youtube channel on porn addiction recovery - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSowHmBwUltSPGLoxYoQ8NQ
Have issues with porn addiction? Sign up for a free consultation - https://www.willcameron.org/booking
During the podcast Will mentions that children as young as 6 are watching pornography. This is found at the following link on page 233 of the pdf (232 on the bottom left). At 35th place is PornHub, being viewed by children 6 - 14 years of age.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/76266/childrens_2014_report.pdf
Show Notes
00:00 - Introduction and caveat on sex positivity
03:00 - Porn addiction? Is it a really an addiction?
06:40 - The "super powers" of NoFap
14:20 - Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction, fact or fiction?
21:18 - Australian beetles and the arousal-shame association
27:50 - Why the pain? Where is this pain coming from?
33:20 - Homosexual Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
44:50 - With all of this being said, realize that young children are watching porn
51:18 - The issue is not exclusive to men and boys
56:20 - The negatives of the NoFap community
1:01:20 - Reintroducing sex positivity to the conversation
1:10:07 - The distinction between pornography and erotic art
As is always the case, psychedelics are not a toy. Please use them responsibly. We can only speak to our own psychological and spiritual evolution, we cannot speak to yours. If you have mental health issues please seek a professional. There is no shame in getting help and you will never be judged for your problems. We wish you the best in life and in mental health.
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
In this episode, we discuss our differing experiences at a psychedelic meet-up we attended together. Where Will reflects on how he has developed through a lot of his social anxiety, Kaylee talks about how she felt trapped in hers in this situation. We discuss methods for working on social skills, where and when anxiety originated in our lives, and how talking through our experiences helps to identify where the problems lie and how we can work on improving. We also discuss the value of and caution with recreational use of psychedelics.
Check out Will's youtube channel on porn addiction recovery - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSowHmBwUltSPGLoxYoQ8NQ
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Show Notes:
1:10 - Introducing the topic and Kaylee experiencing resistance to having this discussion
3:43 - Based on childhood experiences, you have expectations of how people perceive and treat you, but these beliefs need to be open to update. What it looks like to be progressing out of those beliefs and healing. What does it mean to be healed from things that happened to us?
9:18 - Kaylee recounts her experience of anxiety at the meetup. Reflecting on the context of the event and how it activated her social anxiety and what could have been done better.
12:31 - An Integral perspective as anxiety relates to stage purple, anxiety as narcissistic, and how withholding yourself from the world does a disservice to all
15:07 - How speaking to the anxiety is the way out of it. The more anxious you become, the more congruent you have to be with that anxiety
17:47 - To stay or to go? When to sit with the experience as a form of exposure therapy without making the exposure a new trauma.
19:10 - Is "talking about it" always the answer? The difficulty of communicating and the complexity of human communication.
28:43 - How "Cool" and knowledgeable people can activate anxiety by making you feel worse in comparison.
31:15 - The creativity and cognitive ability involved in having a high level conversation compared to the solid block feeling of anxiety.
33:08 - Will's experience of social anxiety in the past and attaching to a social anchor. Seeing anxiety on the hierarchy of needs - you have to feel safe and secure before being able to get to a flow state through conversation and connection to others.
38:38 - The reinforcement of characteristics of anxiety in childhood and questioning the label of 'introvert' that Kaylee has given herself. People pleasing, hypervigilant self-monitoring, and lack of authenticity make being around people exhausting.
46:45 - Recognizing the exchange of energy and reinforcement in situations where Kaylee does experience a sense of flow and authenticity. When we are ourselves we invite others to do the same. Our differences are what makes connections so valuable.
51:49 - How the ability to be authentic in a relatable way allows you to find people who align with that and acts as a filter for those who don't. It's okay for people not to like you.
59:53 - How psychedelics can help change our conditioned behaviors by breaking down the ego, which is the thing that keeps us in those anxious narratives that holds us back from connecting to others.
1:01:15 - Discussing the experience of using psychedelics recreationally. How do we integrate the acute affects of psychedelics where we feel the dissolved ego, lack of fear, and connection to others? Importance of remaining open-minded and discerning, and the need for education.
1:22:50 - Talking about our experiences of anxieties helps to break down those walls that are keeping you from being who you want to be.
As is always the case, psychedelics are not a toy. Please use them responsibly. We can only speak to our own psychological and spiritual evolution, we cannot speak to yours. If you have mental health issues please seek a professional. There is no shame in getting help and you will never be judged for your problems. We wish you the best in life and in mental health.
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
In this episode we have a deep conversation about Christianity and entheogens with Sasha T. Sisko. Sasha is a non-binary student of ethnopharmacology, author, podcast host, integration coach, independent researcher, and an advocate for social justice. They are also the author of the amazing book Graced by Nature, a powerful account of the legal battle for the religious freedom to use entheogens and of Sasha's own personal story with entheogens. Please check out their book and we hope you enjoy our conversation.
As is always the case, psychedelics are not a toy. Please use them responsibly. We can only speak to our own psychological and spiritual evolution, we cannot speak to yours. If you have mental health issues please seek a professional. There is no shame in getting help and you will never be judged for your problems. We wish you the best in life and in mental health.
You can find Sasha on
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SashaSisko
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SashaSisko
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/sashatsisko/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SashaTSisko/
Buy Graced by Nature here: www.Amazon.com/dp/B092W13F8R
Check out Will's youtube channel on porn addiction recovery - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSowHmBwUltSPGLoxYoQ8NQ
Have issues with porn addiction? Sign up for a free consultation - https://www.willcameron.org/booking
Show Notes
00:00 - Introducing Sasha T. Sisko
04:35 - What does Christianity mean to you in light of your entheogen use?
16:00 - There are progressive elements of Christianity, even within Leviticus, but we still need to see it through a modern lens
35:00 - Environmental stewardship and the Bodhisattva Vow
46:00 - How has your spiritual practice changed from your Christian upbringing?
58:00 - The hypocrisy of how religious freedom laws are enforced, and the potential power of the religious freedom defense
1:03:57 - Do you feel there is a space for recreational use of entheogens?
1:10:50 - The potential for spiritual experiences at festivals
1:13:14 - What might legality look like?
1:22:24 - Do you believe that entheogens bring one in touch with an Absolute Reality?
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
In this episode Kaylee discusses the long process that the integration of our psychedelic trips require. As an example, she discusses what she has been (and still is) going through with integrating a mushroom trip she did February, 2020. Integrating through making changes in your life is not an easy part of the psychedelic experience, but it is the most rewarding. She shares her history of struggling with eating disorders and the messiness of the time since this trip while giving herself credit for all of the growth and progress she has made and celebrating life as it is now.
Check out Will's youtube channel on porn addiction recovery - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSowHmBwUltSPGLoxYoQ8NQ
Have issues with porn addiction? Sign up for a free consultation - https://www.willcameron.org/booking
As is always the case, psychedelics are not a toy. Please use them responsibly. We can only speak to our own psychological and spiritual evolution, we cannot speak to yours. If you have mental health issues please seek a professional. There is no shame in getting help and you will never be judged for your problems. We wish you the best in life and in mental health.
Integral Entheogens (Ep. 6: William Edmiston) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4HjtpfVWfg
Show Notes
- 2:07 - Topic of the day - the long and arduous process of changing your life through integration of lessons from psychedelic trips
- 4:20 - Kaylee's history with eating disorders and the main internalizations that contributed to the development of this problem
- 13:25 - How these internalizations affected romantic relationships and the influence of puberty
- 21:41 - Relationship styles and the effects of these choices - Isolation from women and lack of identity.
- 31:14 - How an emotionally healthy relationship helped in the healing of some unhealthy ideas about herself, but still having the feeling that there was a flaw in her own foundation that needed separate healing
- 33:27 - The eating disorder as evolved to being its own demon, the insidious nature of addiction, and mental commitment to doing it alone.
- 39:09 - Leading up to her first mushroom trip ever. Amazing experience, but a lack of integration lead to even darker times.
- 47:47 - Isolation and identity crisis leading up to the mushroom experience in February. Finding peace and strength through the catharsis of mushrooms.
- 53:09 - The lessons that came through during reflections on the trip
- 59:31 - Ideas for how to integrate these lessons. Not so simply applied to life. Going from open relationship to no relationship.
- 1:13:17 - Learning to be healthily interdependent. Opening up to parents, reaching out to friends, emotionally investing in other relationships.
- 1:22:40 - Developing identity and healing relationship to the feminine through connection with sensuality, intuition, and nature
- 1:33:40 - The wildness of psychedelics and the need to preserve that throughout the medicalization and normalization of them. You are more than your productivity and your problems.
- 1:41:29 - Where she is at now - developing meaningful friendships and still working on growth and healing
- 1:53:08 - A final piece of advice for anyone struggling or trying to change
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Note: you do not need to listen to Stage Purple to understand anything in this podcast.
In this episode we talk about Stage Red and how it can help you reclaim your own power. As an example, we discuss Will's recent mushroom trip in which he realized that becoming powerful is often about facing the ways in which we disempower ourselves. Although there were other realizations, in light of the MeToo movement we thought it best to discuss the realizations he had about his relationship to women. We hope you enjoy.
As is always the case, psychedelics are not a toy. Please use them responsibly. We can only speak to our own psychological and spiritual evolution, we cannot speak to yours. If you have mental health issues please seek a professional. There is no shame in getting help and you will never be judged for your problems. We wish you the best in life and in mental health.
Check out Will's youtube channel on porn addiction recovery - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSowHmBwUltSPGLoxYoQ8NQ
Have issues with porn addiction? Sign up for a free consultation - https://www.willcameron.org/booking
Integral Entheogens (Ep. 6: William Edmiston) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4HjtpfVWfg
Show Notes
- 1:28 - This episode may trigger you!
- 2:25 - Brief overview of Spiral Dynamics
- 7:22 - The life conditions that give rise to Stage Red psychology
- 17:33 - What value does such a worldview have in today's world?
- 25:48 - The nice guy persona as a rejection of power
- 40:09 - Kaylee shares her thoughts on unwanted attention from men
- 42:58 - Dealing with unconscious drives and how they influence personal power
- 50:00 - The triangle of power and the value of alignment
- 57:20 - Audacious authenticity and self-honesty while respecting other's boundaries
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
In this episode we have our good friend Francis on to talk about his experience using DMT. Although he isn't against the use of psychedelics, the experience itself has led to him choosing to step away from them despite the fact that he believes they made him a better person. This speaks to the value of caution when using psychedelics. Education, preparation, and integration are extremely important when using these powerful medicines. We hope you enjoy
Check out Will's youtube channel on porn addiction recovery - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSowHmBwUltSPGLoxYoQ8NQ
Have issues with porn addiction? Sign up for a free consultation - https://www.willcameron.org/booking
As is always the case, psychedelics are not a toy. Please use them responsibly. We can only speak to our own psychological and spiritual evolution, we cannot speak to yours. If you have mental health issues please seek a professional. There is no shame in getting help and you will never be judged for your problems. We wish you the best in life and in mental health.
Integral Entheogens (Ep. 6: William Edmiston) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4HjtpfVWfg
Show Notes
- 0:00 - Introduction and Announcements
- 3:54 - Why did you decide to do DMT when you did?
- 12:48 - The experience itself and the intensity of DMT
- 22:38 - Totally not chill DMT Joker
- 30:04 - The difficulty of interpreting these experiences
- 39:05 - The Many-Worlds Hypothesis, Black Hole Consciousness, and epistemic humility
- 51:48 - How was your life affected by the experience?
- 56:28 - Are you open to doing psychedelics again despite the trauma?
- 1:04:58 - The wisdom of stepping away from psychedelics
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
In this episode, we discuss why someone should want to self-develop, and how that actually differs from self-improvement. We unpack what it is, why it's important, how someone can do it, what the pitfalls are, and finally, how psychedelics can be used for it. Just an important distinction, at one point we say that self-development is a higher order category that can be broken down into self-development and self-love. Upon further consideration the higher order category is better described as self-love, and the two elements are self-development and self-acceptance. We hope you enjoy.
Check out Will's youtube channel on porn addiction recovery - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSowHmBwUltSPGLoxYoQ8NQ
Have issues with porn addiction? Sign up for a free consultation - https://www.willcameron.org/booking
As is always the case, psychedelics are not a toy. Please use them responsibly. We can only speak to our own psychological and spiritual evolution, we cannot speak to yours. If you have mental health issues please seek a professional. There is no shame in getting help and you will never be judged for your problems. We wish you the best in life and in mental health.
Why Self-Develop? Show Notes
- 1:10 - A caveat on personal responsibility and systemic oppression
- 4:20 - What exactly is self-development/improvement? Is there a difference?
- 41:15 - Why does it matter? Why should you even want to self-develop
- 1:00:55 - How do we actually change our beliefs?
- 1:16:00 - Finding happiness despite systemic oppression, Victor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning is a great example.
- 1:23:40 - What are the pitfalls of self-development?
- 1:43:45 - What role do psychedelics play in self-development?
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
In our first ever interview we talk with James W. Jesso. He is an author and public educator whose work focuses on the topic of psychedelics. He has published two books on the healing power of psilocybin mushrooms, Decomposing the Shadow and the True Light of Darkness. He is also the host of the popular podcast, Adventures Through The Mind.
Check out Will's youtube channel on porn addiction recovery - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSowHmBwUltSPGLoxYoQ8NQ
Have issues with porn addiction? Sign up for a free consultation - https://www.willcameron.org/booking
We discuss the power of psychedelics to heal the shadow, both in a personal context and in a relational context. We talk about how to create a space for healing that respects all parties, as well as how to bring our own lessons back into our lives and in our relationships.
You can find James at:
He is also on twitter and instagram @jameswjesso
And on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jameswjesso
As is always the case, psychedelics are not a toy. Please use them responsibly. We can only speak to our own psychological and spiritual evolution, we cannot speak to yours. If you have mental health issues please seek a professional. There is no shame in getting help and you will never be judged for your problems. We wish you the best in life and in mental health.
Show Notes
- 1:10 - 4:30 - Intro and definition of the shadow
- 5:45 - The difference and benefits one gets from tripping solo versus with others
- 22:10 - Recommendations to navigate the complex and potentially uncomfortable experience of sharing the vulnerable psychedelic space with other people when you are used to doing solo trips
- 38:10 - How can we deal with relational shadow elements if they come up within the psychedelic experience
- 57:45 - How to bridge the experiences you have in the psychedelic experience that have to do with a particular person to your relationship with them in your normal state
- 1:03:10 - What are some of the concrete ways we can work on integrating the lessons from our trips?
- 1:09:00 - Is it necessary to have a support system or another person to help when integrating a psychedelic insight?
- 1:13:19 - How can psychedelics aid in healing the collective shadow?
- 1:24:37 - What distinguishes between a challenging psychedelic experience as beneficial that should be pushed into and a challenging psychedelic experience that is potentially damaging and unnecessary?