This is one of my favorite podcasts this year. When I met musician and psychonaut East Forest, it was immediately apparent he was one of those people I would always call friend. We talk about the horrible perfection of existence--all the love, all the pain and everything in between. I...
Cyrano de Bergerac is not just a fictional character in a movie or a play. Cyrano is an ideal, an archetype, and a teacher for how I want to live and how I want to die. He always has been, as much as any living example. He is one who...
Human beings are guided by stories more than information. Jason Harris is CEO of Mekanism, a creative agency that focuses on this power of storytelling. But the art of storytelling can be soulful or manipulative, and it’s often a fine line. Jason has spent his life working to make soulful...
We are all going to die. The question is whether we allow the fear of death to detract from our opportunity to live we’re here. In this weeks AMP Books, I read an excerpt from Daniele Bolelli’s Not Afraid where he really brings this point home at an existential level....
I sat down with my good friends Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and kickboxing legend Joe Schilling for an instant classic podcast. It may surprise you to hear how these elite combat athletes use psilocybin, and long term heat exposure to help find their flow state. Cowboy and Joe open up about...
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran is a book that I have been familiar with for years. When I first read it, I struggled to grasp the magnitude of its teachings. Some of the concepts of justice didn’t quite resonate with my younger self. As I have re-read it, it has...