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Adventures Through The Mind

James W. Jesso

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Religion & Spirituality

Frequency: 1 episode/17d. Total Eps: 248

Adventures Through The Mind (ATTMind) is an interview-based podcast focusing on topics relevant and related to psychedelic cultures, psychedelic research, and psychedelic medicine. It focuses on supporting the personal and cultural integration of psychedelic experiences in a functional and healthy way; and always holding a curiosity towards immediate and valuable relevance to a person's lived life "The psychedelic experience really shines when we find a way to integrate what we've learned from it into our daily lives. My desire to help that with that integration on a personal and cultural level is why I make Adventures Through The Mind" ATTMind is hosted by Canadian author and public educator, James W. Jesso. James W. Jesso is the author of Decomposing The Shadow: Lessons From The Psilocybin Mushroom and The True Light Of Darkness, both about his experiences exploring the potentials of psychedelics.

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MICRO: Projection of the Golden Shadow, with Justin Townsend

Episode 211

Friday, September 18, 2026 • Duration 07:56

Justin Townsend of MycoMeditations explains the "golden shadow" and why psychedelic facilitators need to be well-trained to hand that projection back rather than take it on.

The dark shadow is the unsavory stuff we don't want to admit to: the shame, the disgust, the fear. The golden shadow, however, is the beautiful stuff about ourselves: our strengths, our creativity and our capacities for success. However, the golden shadow can get buried and projected just as much as the dark shadow.

The way it shows up is as a kind of intense admiration for someone else. Putting them up on a pedestal, viewing them with all these beautiful qualities of ourselves that we're unable to see in ourselves. This could be a retreat leader, a therapist, a celebrity, or a guru.

In this clip from episode 170, Justin walks us through how projection of the golden shadow can happen in psychedelic therapy and the problems that his can cause for both the participant and the facilitator when that facilitator is not ready and willing to refuse that projection and instead help their participant integrate it.

CHAPTERS

(00:00) What the shadow and the golden shadow are
(01:39) Spotting the projection, in retreats and in public
(02:14) The facilitator's job, and how followers build a guru
(04:31) Slow boil: how good people become the villain
(6:54) Outro

***This is a clip from 'The Business and Practice of Psilocybin Therapy in Jamaica | Justin Townsend ~ ATTMind 170', Adventures Through The Mind Podcast, episode 170***

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Psilocybin Therapy, Start To Finish | Dr. JJ Pursell ~ ATTMind 210

Episode 210

Friday, August 7, 2026 • Duration 01:42:21

This episode of the podcast is going to explore what actually happens inside psilocybin assisted therapy, from the first conversation to the last integration session.

Specifically, we are going to be walking the entire arc of a legal psilocybin therapy engagement through the lens of naturopathic medicine: preparation, the session itself, integration, the risks, and how to tell whether any of it is right for you. Our guest is Dr. JJ Pursell.

What You'll Learn About:

🌿 What naturopathic medicine actually is, and how its root-cause approach differs from the conventional model
🍄 What psilocybin is, and what "psilocybin therapy" legally means in Oregon (which is far less than you'd expect)
🛋️ Inside a session: the service centre, the eye shades, the music, the waves, and what a facilitator is and is not there to do
🔄 Why she requires every client to commit to integration work before she'll agree to work with them at all
💧 What "alleviating suffering" really means, why it isn't the same as feeling good, and why the hardest material is usually the most useful
⚠️ The real risks: the bolt response, prolonged psychosis, cardiac contraindications, HPPD, and coming out the other side feeling worse
🚩 How to find a facilitator you can trust, the red flags to walk away from, and how to know when it's the wrong time entirely

🌀 Episode Show Notes and other Relevant Links

📚 Check out JJ's book Psilocybin Therapy: Understanding How to Use Nature's Psychedelics for Mental Health
USA: https://bookshop.org/p/books/psilocybin-therapy-understanding-how-to-use-nature-s-psychedelics-for-mental-health-dr-jj-pursell/7796363e51a70603
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MiCRO:16 — The Attention War: How Screens Are Hijacking Your Consciousness | Carl Hayden Smith

Episode 209

Friday, July 24, 2026 • Duration 14:41

Is your attention being trained the same way an algorithm is trained?

In this micro, Carl Hayden Smith joins me to unpack what he calls the attention war: how algorithms and short-form media shape the brain toward ADHD-like patterns, whether you have ADHD or not. We also talk about what surfaces in the mind after a few phone-free days, and why Carl believes AI's real danger isn't sentience, but a mass hallucination of it: one that's already changing how we see ourselves.

Watch this MICRO on YouTube

This is a clip from 'Hyperhumanism: Reclaiming Our Humanity in the Age of AI | Carl Hayden Smith', Adventures Through The Mind Podcast, episode 198.

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Peyote Is Disappearing (and the Law Designed to Protect It Is Part of Why) | Leonardo Mercado, The Peyote Lorax ~ ATTMind 209

Episode 209

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 • Duration 01:46:31

Leonardo Mercado, known as The Peyote Lorax, joins me for Episode 209 to talk about the ecological and legal crisis threatening peyote, the sacred cactus at the center of Native American Church ceremonies.

We get into peyote's collapse in its only natural range, the contradictions inside the federal exemption that governs who can legally possess and cultivate it, and the Seed to Ceremony conservation project Leo is building through Morningstar Conservancy in Arizona.

🌀 Episode Show Notes and other Relevant Links

🏜️The Morningstar Conservancy: https://morningstarconservancy.org/
The Peyote Lorax's website: https://thepeyotelorax.com/
Check Out Leo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepeyotelorax/
Buy some art from Leo: https://morningstarconservancy.org/shop

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MICRO:15 — Ibogaine: the one drug that stops opioid addiction in a single session, and can also kill you ~ James W. Jesso

Episode 208

Friday, June 19, 2026 • Duration 21:52

Ibogaine is regularly categorized as a psychedelic — but that label may be misleading in ways that matter. In this micro, James offers a crash course in what ibogaine actually is: where it comes from, how its unusual pharmacology works, what it does to the mind, and why it holds a position in addiction medicine that no other drug on earth can claim. The risk profile is part of the picture too.

This is a clip from 'Psychedelics in Research & Practice | James W. Jesso', Adventures Through The Mind Podcast, episode 200

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The Food Mushroom That Makes You See Little People | Colin Domnauer ~ ATTMind 208

Episode 208

Thursday, May 28, 2026 • Duration 01:12:54

You can buy Lanmaoa asiatica at a food market in Yunnan. Cook it thoroughly and it's just a bolete. Undercook it, and roughly 12 to 24 hours later you may spend the next three to seven days seeing hyper-realistic miniature people moving through your environment — documented across three independent cultures, mechanism completely unknown. Ethnobotanist Colin Domnauer (Dentinger Lab, Natural History Museum of Utah) is one of the few people actively trying to understand why.

Colin and I get into what's actually documented about Lanmaoa asiatica — the three independent cultural accounts, the unusual onset and duration, and what the phenomenology of the hallucinations themselves suggests about mechanism. We talk about why this mushroom has received almost no formal scientific attention, what studying it would even look like, and what it might reveal about how psychedelic effects are produced in fungi more broadly. There's also a lot we just don't know — and we sit in that honestly.

🌀 Episode Show Notes and other Relevant Links

📚 Read Colin's Article on Lanmaoa asiatica - The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Follow Colin on Instagram: @eating_gaia — where he posts research updates and mushroom photos
The Dentinger Lab at the Natural History Museum of Utah — for anyone interested in pursuing research in the field

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MICRO:14 - What Psychedelics Actually Do to Your Mind (And Why Nothing Else Compares), James W. Jesso

Episode 207

Monday, May 11, 2026 • Duration 15:35

Psychedelics don't just "alter" your state — they can dissolve the self, surface the unconscious, and open the door to mystical experience. Your host, James, shares what's actually happening.

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This is a clip from 'Psychedelics in Research & Practice | James W. Jesso ~ ATTMind Podcast 200"

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Spiritual Healing, IFS, and Emanuel Swedenborg | Falconer, Odhner, and Jonathan Rose ~ ATTMind 207

Episode 207

Friday, April 17, 2026 • Duration 02:01:01

This episode of the podcast is going to explore an intersection of psychotherapy and spirituality.

Specifically, we are going to be exploring the intersection between Internal Family Systems, spiritual healing, and the work of 16c Christian philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Our guests are Bob Falconer, Chelsea Odhner, and Jonathan Rose.

What You'll Learn About:

📚 Introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the teachings of Emmanuel Swedenborg
🔗 The intersection and synthesis between these two systems of thinking
🧠 Fundamental metaphysical concepts: the nature of the mind and the nature of the self
✨ The relationship with the divine, including concepts of heaven, hell, freedom, and salvation
🔓 The structure and porosity of the mind, including the mind being populated by a multiplicity of beings, both internal and external
🩹 Practical application: working with these beings to heal trauma and cultivate a better life

🌀 Episode Show Notes and other Relevant Links

📚 BUY THEIR BOOK: Opening the Inner World: Spiritual Healing, Internal Family Systems, and Emanuel Swedenborg.

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