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Adventures Through The Mind

Adventures Through The Mind is an interview-based podcast hosted by Canadian author and public educator, James W. Jesso.

Podcast · By James W. Jesso · English · Official site

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6
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Sep 18, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 18, 2026

    MICRO: Projection of the Golden Shadow, with Justin Townsend (opens the original)

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    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

  2. Episode · Sep 2, 2026

    The State Of The Psychedelic Renaissance | Shelby Hartman ~ ATTMind 211 (opens the original)

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    This episode is going to explore the state of the psychedelic movement right now — the money, the policy, the ethics, and the stories that are not getting told. Specifically, we are going to be exploring what is actually happening across the so-called psychedelic renaissance: the for-profit pharmaceutical track, city and state level decriminalization, the unregulated market selling products that mostly do not contain what they claim to, the biopiracy question that almost nobody in mainstream med

  3. Episode · Aug 14, 2026

    MICRO: Why MDMA Feels Like Love (And When That Becomes a Problem), James W. Jesso (opens the original)

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    In this Adventures Through The Mind micro, I explain what MDMA is and why it makes us feel love. I explain why MDMA is an entactogen rather than a classic psychedelic, and how it floods the brain with serotonin. I also discuss how it raises our sense of safety, lowers our sense of danger, and drops the emotional boundaries we normally hold, which is what made it work in couples therapy. Finally, I cover the PTSD research, and why MDMA with someone new can leave you holding an intimacy you have n

  4. Episode · Aug 7, 2026

    Psilocybin Therapy, Start To Finish | Dr. JJ Pursell ~ ATTMind 210 (opens the original)

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    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 a

  5. Episode · Jul 24, 2026

    MiCRO:16 — The Attention War: How Screens Are Hijacking Your Consciousness | Carl Hayden Smith (opens the original)

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    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 YouT

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