Eric Brown is the Director of the spiritual-psychedelic retreat Apotheosis and Core Steward of the site HighExistence.com. His writing can also be found at EdgeofBeing.substack.com. He lives at the intersection of psychedelic therapy, individual awakening, cultural architecture, and cryptographically-secure protocols.
❶ Call to Adventure
1:11 Eric's Background
12:15 Transitions to his current path
16:25 40 year corporate career "minor variations of the same job"
20:05 White rabbit moment
23:00 First psychedelic experiences
27:10 You got everything you wanted... but empty
28:50 Eric's early experiences? "Recreation vilified"
❷ Trials of Transformation
36:40 First ayahuasca retreat in Costa Rica with a shaman
43:45 Agnostic day before, what about day after?
47:30 Gnosticism, direct experience or religion?
53:00 Outline uses for various plant medicines
59:00 Mushrooms & ayahuasca feel like "engaging with something else"
1:01:00 Bufo alvarius / 5-MeO-DMT
1:09:25 Remembering/forgetting dynamic (what about the return?)
1:16:10 What's been helpful for integration? Rituals
❸ Integration of Worlds
1:22:10 Regular habits or routines?
1:28:00 Lessons from the ancients
1:35:25 New grand narrative needed for the meaning crisis? Serious play
1:42:00 Comedy improv
1:45:35 Natural instinct for play
1:47:30 Hero100 phoenixculture.earth/hero100
1:52:30 What is the meaning of life?
1:56:40 Serious about capacity for playfulness
1:58:10 Parting thoughts
🚩Links to Eric 🚩
edgeofbeing.substack.com/
www.highexistence.com/author/...
/ itsericbrown
apotheosisretreat.com/
phoenixculture.earth/hero100
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4 мар 2023
