• The curiosities about psychedelics that guide my work.
• The neurobiological action of psilocybin
• Dissolving the distinction between self and other
• connecting with a timeless divine
• What holds us back from connecting
• Predictive modeling and the nature of reality
• Early life Trauma/wounding/heartbreak
• Attachment theory (secure, avoidant, anxious-ambivalent)
• Weaponized love
• The fundamentally coercive and traumatic nature of modern society
• Tight models and cultivating response flexibility
• Primal panic in the face of a loss of love
• Psilocybin’s capacities to help us feel, express, resolve and reconsolidate early life trauma models
• COEX systems and cumulative emotional charge
• Psilocybin and emotive-psychosynthesis
• The difference between lessons and learning
• How a psilocybin experience can reorient your prioress in the world towards a greater focus on the quality of our relationships

It's 920 today, which means it's September, which means that us here in the global north are watching summer turn to autumn.

Here in Ontario, that means the leaves begin to change and fall, often in a transformation from deep green and into gorgeous oranges, yellows, and reds. This has already begun around me, but I will not get to see too much of it.

I fly to Australia on the 12th of October for a small speaking tour over the course of two and a half weeks. It's a tight trip, especially given that I only arrived home from my month-long speaking tour in the UK on the 5th of September. But, I am SO EXCITED to be going back to Australia (tour details here). I am also excited that my flight home will come with a 2 week stop on the Westcoast of Canada, where a piece of my heart still remains. I will be there for the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference, this year as a speaker! (buy tix through this link and I will earn a small commission).

This has been a wild summer so far. Not just in the wonderous opportunities to speak (including FOXNEWS!) blending with the heavy workload of prepping multiple talks as well as podcasts to release while I am out of the office for long periods. Also, because there have been some tragic events unfolding in the larger psychedelic scene. If you have been following the show recently, you know I am talking about Tobias.

My colleague, friend, and alumni of the podcast committed suicide during a psychedelic-related psychotic episode. Somehow it landed upon me to report on this tragedy and all that surrounded it (some very complex and strange nuances). This took a heavy toll on me for a few weeks but lightened after that episode went out. That said, the repercussions of the event have traveled with me and out into the broader culture as well. Strange times.

It has been a big summer for me, and it is about to continue into the autumn. I will be easing into winter soon, with some fun new (secret) projects in the mix to pepper the space around the biweekly podcast releases.

ALSO, there have been many, many people signing up for the newsletter since the last one I released. If you are new here, welcome! Thank for actually opening and reading this. I look fondly to periodically inoculating your inbox with rad content.

Ok, that's all for me folks.

Thanks heaps for reading this to the end and for continuing to follow and support me on my journey in and through this (very) psychedelic life.

Hope to see you in Australia or Vancouver.

With care,

James