Primal Nature – Détails, épisodes et analyse

This is our second published conversation. Barak remains a kind of phenomenon, a creative force who channels curiosity, compassion, and insight in often surprising ways. Unique, gentle, and sincere. Today our conversation delves into the dimensions of time and consciousness, compassion and service to others, the development of models and language to better understand oneself, shamanism, cultural maturity, the various layers of human experience, psychedelics, dancing, and more. 

Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain.   

We offer therapy for individuals and couples, as well as workshops, retreats, and expeditions in select locations throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa. 

www.primalnature.eu

Insta: @existential.hormesis

Maybe the best way to describe Barak is as a kind of phenomenon, a creative force who channels curiousity, compassion, and insight in often surprising ways. He is a keen observer and playful participant. Unique. Gentle. Sincere. Today our conversation dances around the limits of thought and emotion, feeling and intelligibility; trauma, awareness, agency, psychedelics, spirit, demons, individual uniqueness and some of the deeper substrates of what we like to call reality. This felt at times like a game of existential tag. 

Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain. 

We offer therapy for individuals and couples, as well as workshops, retreats, and expeditions in select locations throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

www.primalnature.eu

Insta: @existential.hormesis

Maci is a skilled and insightful therapist focused on helping couples harness the growth potential of Awakened Intimacy.  As she says, “We become more intimate and self-aware on this path because of challenges, not despite them. And we embrace the difficulties of erotic coupling with a curious and open heart.” Today we talk about sex and intimate relationships as a vehicle for growth, tapping into the body’s memory and somatic intelligence, practices to cultivate passion and presence, tantra, open relationships, awareness, and much more.

You can find Maci here:

www.passionandpresence.com

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Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain. 

We work primarily with people who have reached the limits of what rational analysis can offer in terms of healing or growth; our practice is centered on cultivating deeper relationships between feeling and understanding, body and mind, human and nature.

We offer therapy for individuals and couples, as well as workshops, retreats, and expeditions - in select locations throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

www.primalnature.eu

Insta: @existential.hormesis

Victor Manuel Fleites is an insightful explorer of movement and refreshingly unfettered lover of nature, known mainly as Tarzan. He has been climbing trees since he was a child in Cuba, and over the years has gradually built up a practice he calls Tarzan Movement, inspired by his observation of our simian relatives. Today we talk about finding peace, non-intellectual ways of knowing, learning by imitation, transforming fear, and much more.

You can find Tarzan here:

Web: https://tarzanmovement.wixsite.com/tarzanmovement

IG: @tarzan_movement

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPW3Ea8cs1U

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Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain. 

We work primarily with people who have reached the limits of what rational analysis can offer in terms of healing or growth; our practice is centered on cultivating deeper relationships between feeling and understanding, body and mind, human and nature.

We offer therapy for individuals and couples, as well as workshops, retreats, and expeditions - in select locations throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

www.primalnature.eu

Insta: @existential.hormesis

Rafe is a deep thinker, mover, and practitioner of parkour in nature. He is the founder of Evolve Move Play, a practice of “movement training for humans” based out of the Pacific Northwest US. Today we cover movement, body, mind, parkour, advice for developing an ecology of practice, the hero’s journey toward a meaningful life, and quite a bit more. 

You can find Rafe here:

https://www.evolvemoveplay.com/

IG: @rafekelley

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Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain. 

We work primarily with people who have reached the limits of what rational analysis can offer in terms of healing or growth; our practice is centered on cultivating deeper relationships between feeling and understanding, body and mind, human and nature.

We offer therapy for individuals and couples, as well as workshops, retreats, and expeditions - in select locations throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

www.primalnature.eu

Insta: @existential.hormesis

Sam Friedman is a pioneering researcher at the Broad Institute dedicated to using machine learning to map the salient features of human health. Today we talk about his recent studies of psychedelics and the human mind; we cover his insights into the various axes along which psychedelic experience can be understood; the ontological status of our altered states; the dimensions of meaning; the future of humanity; machine learning, and more.  

You can find Sam here:

Website: http://samwell.info

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lucidtronix

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fOi-AjQAAAAJ&hl=en

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Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain. 

We work primarily with people who have reached the limits of what rational analysis can offer in terms of healing or growth; our practice is centered on cultivating deeper relationships between feeling and understanding, body and mind, human and nature.

We offer therapy for individuals and couples, as well as workshops, retreats, and expeditions - in select locations throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

www.primalnature.eu

Insta: @existential.hormesis

Bjorn Olson is a red-blooded Alaskan explorer, film-maker, carnivore, activist, and deep thinker. Today we talk about life as he lives it, adventuring far beyond the limits of what many might think possible.

You can find him here:

Website:

mjolnirofbjorn.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGFhGkMCDAikQYJA0fWj8_Q

Insta:

https://www.instagram.com/fatbikebjorn/

FB: 

https://www.facebook.com/bjorn.olson.3

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Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain. 

We work primarily with people who have reached the limits of what rational analysis can offer in terms of healing or growth; our practice is centered on cultivating deeper relationships between feeling and understanding, body and mind, human and nature.

We offer therapy for individuals and couples, as well as workshops, retreats, and expeditions - in select locations throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

www.primalnature.eu

Insta: @existential.hormesis

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Sources mentioned or alluded to during our conversation include:

Allan Savory

Dr. Michael Yellowbird

John Zerzan

Christopher Ryan

L Amber O'hearn 

Dr. Anthony Chaffee

Barbara Savage is the founder of the Tribal Trust Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting indigenous cultures from around the world through a wide variety of projects and initiatives. Barbara shares some of the unique experiences she's amassed over 26 years working in remote locations with some of the world's last surviving hunter-gatherer cultures, and we hone in more specifically on her seemingly supernatural connection with many of the shamans she's encountered in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

https://tribaltrustfoundation.org/

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Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain. 

We work primarily with people who have reached the limits of what rational analysis can offer in terms of healing or growth; our practice is centered on cultivating deeper relationships between feeling and understanding, body and mind, human and nature.

We offer therapy for individuals and couples, as well as workshops, retreats, and expeditions - in select locations throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

www.primalnature.eu

Insta: @existential.hormesis

This is basically a trip report from my first ultra marathon. 5 months ago the longest distance I had ever run was 21km; last week I did 93km, and next month I'm going for 180km. My physical training has been minimal, like maybe 25km per week of running on average. I've been focused instead on the psychological and the physiological, pushing to train my body-mind for the impact of the experience.

I'm not an expert in ultra running by any stretch of the imagination, and I don't provide much in the way of tangible advice here; I am, however, a connoisseur of altered states of consciousness, which are I think at the root of the ultra experience...and arguably the essence of human nature. This is the perspective that I wish I had found while I was preparing. 

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Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain. 

We work primarily with people who have reached the limits of what rational analysis can offer in terms of healing or growth; our practice is centered on cultivating deeper relationships between feeling and understanding, body and mind, human and nature.

We offer therapy for individuals and couples, as well as workshops, retreats, and expeditions - in select locations throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

www.primalnature.eu

Insta: @existential.hormesis

Amal Graafstra is a biohacker, engineer, entrepreneur, and deep thinker about our species' increasingly integrated relationship with technology. He is CEO of Dangerous Things and Vivokey, two pioneering companies dedicated to developing tech implants for general use.

Today we talk about some of the specifics of the technology currently developed and dive deep into the practical, ethical, and existential implications of those that are soon to come. He provides a unique perspective on the movement of which he is at the forefront.

dangerousthings.com 

vivokey.com

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Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain. 

We work primarily with people who have reached the limits of what rational analysis can offer in terms of healing or growth; our practice is centered on cultivating deeper relationships between feeling and understanding, body and mind, human and nature.

We offer therapy for individuals and couples, as well as workshops, retreats, and expeditions - in select locations throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

www.primalnature.eu

Insta: @existential.hormesis