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TryptaMind A sampling of songs from my new 2012 album, "TryptaMind" - the perfect soundtrack for all your Dynamic Movement and Transformation dance parties! For more music and to download tracks, visit my new music page on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Martin-Ball-Psychedelic-Music/215575185191681 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digesting the Spirit Molecule For the first episode of 2012, I give a nondual analysis of the accounts of DMT experiences as recounted by participants of Rick Strassman's study in Mitch Schultz's film, "The Spirit Molecule." DMT experiences are seen as existing on a spectrum from dual (distinctions between subject and object/self and not-self - ie, from the perspective of the ego) to recognition of the full nature of the self as nondual and without separation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music and Poetry Night at the EE Music by JAM (www.jessalynnandmartin.com) and poetry by me, with a very special WTF!? moment Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God's Handbook for Operating Human Vehicles A no nonsense, no strings attached approach to universal being. The full text for this podcast is available at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/67794108/God-s-Handbook-For-Operating-Human-Vehicles Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MWB@BM2011 Here's my talk from Friday morning at Sacred Spaces Village for Burning Man 2011. The talk was entitled "Entheogens as the Ultimate Rite of Passage into Unitary Consciousness." Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Burnal Equinox Edition Hey Burners! Only six months to go! In celebration of the Burnal Equinox, I'm officially announcing the release of my new book about Burning Man, "Tell it to the Mystic Toad: What Participants at Burning Man Confessed at the God Box Theme Camp" as well as my other new book, "The Entheological Paradigm: Essays on the DMT and 5-MeO-DMT Experience and the Meaning of it All," plus a couple songs from my new CD, "Kaleidoscopic." Stop by www.martinball.net for more info on my new releases. Ha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MWB at MAPS Catalysts Conference Here's my talk from the Dec 11th MAPS Catalysts Conference in LA - direct from my iPod to the podcast. Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MWB at Science and NonDuality Conference, 2010 Here's my talk from the 2010 Science and Non-Duality Conference in San Rafael, California. The topic of my section was "Entheogens as a Portal" and here I share about my experiences with 5-MeO-DMT and its implications for understanding non-dual, or unitary, experience - my favorite topic! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rick Doblin, MAPS - Part 2 Here's the rest of my conversation with Rick Doblin from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Be sure and check out the upcoming MAPS conference in LA this December: www.maps.org/catalysts Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rick Doblin, MAPS Part 1 of my interview with Rick Doblin from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (www.maps.org) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mitch Schultz - DMT: The Spirit Molecule - The Movie With my first new interview in over a year, we've got Mitch Schultz, producer and director of the new film, "DMT: The Spirit Molecule," a documentary about dimethyltryptamine and the research conducted by Rick Strassman. You can get more info on the film by visiting www.thespiritmolecule.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EntheoRadio Interview with MWB Here's a re-posting of my interview from EntheoRadio with Trevhar Hughes. Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tryptamine Summer An episode of announcements and new music. New book of art, "Tryptamine Visions," new essay on Reality Sandwich, "Terence on DMT," Mystic Garden Party "Entheogenic Forums," Johns Hopkins Psilocybin and Mystical Experience survey, new website, "The Entheological Paradigm" and groovy new music by yours truly. Some links: www.entheological-paradigm.net, www.zazzle.com/martinwball, www.realitysandwich.com, www.mysticgardenparty.com, www.csp.org/hopkins/survey Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Process An experiential demonstration of the process . . . After several months off, it's a pleasure to bring you this episode. I've been giving it much thought, and have concluded that I'm basically done "explaining" things on the podcast, for the time being. For now, I'd much rather demonstrate. For those looking for further explanation, I invite you to take a look at my new site, "The Entheological Paradigm: Humanity's Guide to Reality" at www.entheological-paradigm.net And for those looki ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Medicine Show Perhaps my last show . . . ? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Sonic Experience Less talk this week and more direct experience with a mix of some new music and an older piece to help you relax into your true energetic nature. Find a comfortable spot, turn up the sound, and let go! This week's cover art is an image of a "Mandelbulb," a 3-D mandelbrot fractal. You can see more images at http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html#renders Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Entheological Paradigm in Action This week I address the subject of how the Entheological Paradigm, as explained in my book, Being Human, could be applied to society at large, especially in the area of education. Topic to most likely be continued in future podcasts . . . Also, our cover art this week is by Maureen "Mo" Murphy. You can find more of Mo's artwork at www.lucidkin.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Liberation through Unknowing This week I discuss the idea of transcending personal identity as constructed by culture, religion, politics, etc. through entheogenic awakening and why such an experience is merely the beginning of coming to know yourself and therefore a liberation through unknowing. More art by Sandeep Chandran from www.visionarytemple.com for the cover art this week as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opening to Energy with Entheogens, Part 2 We get deeper into the topic of how to explore energy with entheogens and why this kind of work can only be done with entheogens. Also features a re-podcasting of the limited edition "psychedelic artifact" as an example of expressing energy vocally as part of the process of getting to know one's energy. This week's cover art is by Sandeep Chandran of www.visionarytemple.com, where he has more psychedelic art for viewing and purchase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opening to Energy with Entheogens, Part 1 This week I distinguish the methods of working with entheogens to explore energy from the practices of meditation and the dualism of shamanism and entheogenic religion as discussed in my new book, Being Human: An Entheological Guide to God, Evolution and the Fractal Energetic Nature of Reality Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introducing Being Human Happy to be back after a month off and introduce my new book, Being Human, An Entheological Guide to God, Evolution, and the Fractal Energetic Nature of Reality - a book that can change your life and change the world! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God's Signature in Fractal Anatomy Checking in with y'all post-Burning Man and sharing the idea of God's Signature in Fractal Anatomy =) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Becoming God with Ford, Part 1 My guest this week is Ford, author of the new book, Becoming God (www.becominggod.org). Ford discusses the fractal nature of reality, the nature of the self, and transcendence of the ego in the context of mystical awakening and contemporary science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Goldman and Santo Daime, Part 3 We wrap up our epic talk with Jonathan Goldman this week. We discuss the actual court case, the ruling, and what that means for the legal status of DMT containing sacraments in the U.S. ** Minor correction: It's www.denizentv.com, not .net! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Goldman and Santo Daime, Part 2 We continue our talk with Jonathan Goldman from the Church of the Holy Light of the Queen. This week, we discuss how Santo Daime came to the U.S. and how the recent court case got started. Next week, the big conclusion with a win for Religious Freedom! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Goldman, Santo Daime, and Religious Freedom An historic interview with Jonathan Goldman, Padrinho of the Church of the Holy Light of the Queen in Ashland, Oregon. Jonathan led the court case against the federal government to recognize his church members' right to drink Daime, which contains DMT. Part 1 of a 3 part series. This week, Jonathan explains the origins of Santo Daime and his involvement with the Brazilian religion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The God Molecule with James Oroc, Part 2 More 'Roc! Also, a brief appearance by Hal of the Temple of Awakening Divinity to talk about Oroc's upcoming presentations here in Ashland, Oregon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5-MeO-DMT, the God Molecule with James Oroc, Part 1 This week I talk with James Oroc, author of the new book, Tryptamine Palace, all about my favorite medicine, 5-MeO-DMT. The conversation goes into all kinds of realms including the Akashic field and zero-point energy. Fun! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Conversation with Robert Forte, Part 1 Robert Forte, editor of the book "Entheogens and the Future of Religion" is my guest this week. This interview was originally recorded several months ago. Robert and I discuss his background and teachers such as Eliade and the role of Timothy Leary. I also open with a brief discussion of the interpretation of archetypal energy patterns in the visionary state. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Entheology and the Open Current Finally! I reach the end of my ongoing monologue with a wrap up of the main ideas and suggestions for how to cultivate human freedom and responsibility from an entheological perspective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living in Reality, Part 3 This week I take on the sacred cow of 2012 and rough it up a little Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living in Reality, Part 2 I continue with the same critical evaluations of systems of thought as last week, with the primary topics this week being Gnostic Christianity and Tibetan Dzogchen. I critique Gnostic dualism and disdain for material reality and critique Dzogchen as not recognizing the ontological status of mathematics and math-derived scientific knowledge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living in Reality and Human Responsibility If our task is to be ourselves, then our responsibility is to live in reality, for we cannot be ourselves if we cannot distinguish between reality and fantasy. To that end, I begin a multi-part discussion of human systems of belief and thought, analyzing from the perspective I've been articulating over the past month. We begin with scientific materialism, the Anthropic Principle, and Christian faith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmogenesis and the Liquid Crystal Evolution, Part 2 I pick up right where I left off last week and bring us up to the present, along with a possible answer to the question of "Why?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmogenesis and the Liquid Crystal Evolution This week I begin to articulate my theory of everything, starting with a basic discussion of some of the fundamental principles of philosophy of science, metaphysics and ontology. To be continued next week and possibly beyond . . . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your Personal Interface This week I go a little deeper into who/what we are and how to "tap in" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bio-Energetics of Being It's time for REALITY 101! Here we go!!!!!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Light as a Feather This week I share a personal breakthrough of working with a feather . . . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Conversation with Bill Richards from Johns Hopkins, Part 2 We continue our talk with Bill Richards and I officially announce my trip to Peru with Richard Grossman for this summer. We're looking for adventurous individuals who would like to join us for a two-week exploration into Ayahuasca and the sacred medicines of Peru. Stop by at www.martinball.net for details and an application. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Conversation with Bill Richards from Johns Hopkins, Part 1 This week I interview Bill Richards, one of the lead researchers at Johns Hopkins University in their studies on psilocybin and mystical experience. I also remind everyone to get their tickets to the 5th annual Amazonian Shamanism Conference in Iquitos Peru and mention my name and podcast to help get me down there! www.soga-del-alma.org Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Entheogenic Reformation, Part 2 with Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D. We continue our conversation with Thomas B. Roberts with further updates on the Santo Daime trial in Oregon. Also I discuss the 5th Annual Amazonian Shamanism Conference www.soga-del-alma.org - mention my name and the podcast when you buy your ticket and a small portion will go to help to pay my airfare to get me down to Peru to speak at the conference =) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Entheogenic Reformation with Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D. Our guest this week is Thomas B. Roberts, discussing his ideas of the Entheogenic Reformation, the Single State Fallacy, and Academic, Artistic and Religious Freedom regarding entheogen use. Also, we continue with the Gaianbotanicals.com raffle and I share a couple passages from Albert Hofmann's and Ann and Alexander Shulgin's essays in the book, Entheogens and the Future of Religion, by Robert Forte. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Am Water . . . A personal attempt at answering my rhetorical question from last week Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Healing with Dr. Richard Grossman, Part 2 We continue our conversation with Dr. Richard Grossman discussing sound healing and ayahuasca Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sound Healing with Dr. Richard Grossman, Part 1 We start off the new year with a talk with Dr. Richard Grossman about his work with ayahuasca and sound healing. Part 1 of a 2 part talk. You can visit his website at www.soundjourney.com. Also, this episode features Dr. Grossman's music (didjeridu, gongs, jaw harps). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roland Griffiths, Part 2, and the Great Entheogenic Evolution Sweepstakes! We continue our conversation with Roland Griffiths from Johns Hopkins Medical School discussing psilocybin and mystical experience. Also, Hal helps out with announcing the winner of the Entheogenic Evolution Sweepstakes and we discuss how to integrate mystical/entheogenic experiences after the journey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mushrooms, Mysticism and Medicine - Roland Griffiths, Part 1 Part 1 of a conversation with Roland Griffiths from Johns Hopkins Medical School discussing their research programs with psilocybin on mysticism and cancer anxiety treatment. To volunteer as a research subject, visit www.cancer-insight.org Also, we continue the great Entheogenic Evolution sweepstakes! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Salvia Divinorum from A-Z with Daniel Siebert, Part 1 Daniel Siebert shares everything you've ever wanted to know about Salvia divinorum. In part 1, Daniel talks about the Mazatec Indians and their use of salvia and psilocybin mushrooms. Also, this week I'm happy to say that early release copies of my new book, The Entheogenic Evolution: Psychedelics, Consciousness and Awakening the Human Spirit is now available in paperback and PDF. You can order a copy at www.martinball.net or www.lulu.com/kyandara Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mycelium Messiah - John Rush discusses his new book, Failed God Dr. John Rush discusses the evidence of entheogen use in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity - and yes, he says Jesus is a mushroom - along with his new book, Failed God: Fractured Myth in a Fragile World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Energetic Body of God - an Entheogenic Perspective This week I read an essay from my forthcoming book, the Entheogenic Evolution, where I propose a metaphysics of energy that might explain everything from physical objects to consciousness and living beings. Curious? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Was Jesus a Mushroom? Interview with Jan Irvin, part 2 We continue our conversation with Jan Irvin from GnosticMedia.com about early Christianity and psychedelic mushrooms Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Was Jesus a Mushroom? Interview with Jan Irvin, part 1 This is the first in a two-part discussion with Jan Irvin from GnosticMedia.com about John Allegro's research indicating that Jesus was not an actual person but rather a psychedelic mushroom. Jan is the co-author of the book Astrotheology and Shamanism, is the co-producer of The Pharmacratic Inquisition, and is the author of the forthcoming, The Holy Mushroom. All are available at www.gnosticmedia.com (an earlier version of this episode that had some sound level problems has now been corr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DMT Energetics and Out of the Garden, Part 2 This week I read from my new essay on DMT Energetics and we continue our conversation with Rev Brad Carrier about entheogens and religion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Temple of Awakening Divinity This week we visit once again with Hal and learn about the Temple of Awakening Divinity, which uses 5-MeO-DMT as a ceremonial sacrament Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inner Paths to Outer Space, Part 2 Our conversation with Dr. Rick Strassman continues this week with topic ranging from the importance of psychedelic states in the Old Testament to Strassman's vision for the Cottonwood Research Foundation (www.cottonwoodresearch.org) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inner Paths to Outer Space with Dr. Rick Strassman Rick Strassman shares thoughts on DMT, UFO's, aliens, spiritual realities, psychedelic research and more with a reading of the transcript of the recent interview I did with Strassman in New Mexico. Part 1 of a two-part episode. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May I have some more Ayahuasca, Please This week we enjoy a few more clips from the audio documentary, "In Search of the Divine Vegetal," along with some select readings from Ralph Metzner's book, "Ayahuasca: Hallucinogens, Consciousness, and the Spirit of Nature Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shaking Shamans and Ayahuasca This week I read a few selections from Bradford Keeney's book, "Bushman Shaman," and preview excerpts from the new audio documentary, "In Search of the Divine Vegetal" by Ayasmina Flores about ayahuasca Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Universal Heart This week I talk about the Universal Heart - that connection we all have to the ultimate, how it relates to our personal hearts, and how working with entheogens allows for deeper connection and healing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Shaman Behind the Drum Part I of a 2 part episode with an amazing interview with Timothy White, editor of Shaman's Drum magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mystical Mushrooms This week I discuss the recent study by Johns Hopkins university on the mystical experiences generated by psilocybin mushrooms Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shamans, Mystics, and the Law, part 2 This week I continue the discussion from the previous episode, focusing more on the legal issues surrounding the use of entheogens as a spiritual or religious practice. I talk about the Constitution, the Supreme Court, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, The Native American Church, and the recent decision regarding the UDV's religious use of hosca. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shamans, Mystics and the Law The first part of a 2 (or more?) part talk about shamans, mystics, and the law. What is direct spiritual experience? How is it different from religion? Is direct spiritual experience protected by the law, and if not, why? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sage of the Shamans It's all about Salvia divinorum this week, plus news about Rick Strassman's Cottonwood Research Foundation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Soundstructures in Hyperspace - DMT vs Salvia Divinorum Does sound create structures in hyperspace while in the psychedelic state? Terence McKenna talks about DMT and creation through sound and I relate my own experiences of Salvia divinorum and sound. Also features information about the new webcast TV show of the Entheogenic Evolution on EQ.TV (www.eq.tv). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DMT and the Mystic Toad Bufo Alvarius, the Sonoran Desert Toad, the only animal known to secrete an entheogenic venom of 5-MeO DMT, is the topic of this week's talk. Features readings from Oroc's "Tryptamine Palace" and an interview with Hal, a Man of the Toad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website