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Meditation, Exploring Spiritual Traditions, and the Wisdom of Plant Medicine

July 16, 2024
Featuring: Jon Reiss

In this episode, Joe interviews Jon Reiss: critically acclaimed filmmaker, author, and host of the Plantscendence podcast, which tells people’s psychedelic stories and is beginning its second season soon.

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In this episode, Joe interviews Jon Reiss: critically acclaimed filmmaker, author, and host of the Plantscendence podcast, which tells people’s psychedelic stories and is beginning its second season soon.

He talks about his early days of directing Nine Inch Nails and Type O Negative videos, and how Plantscendence was born after he realized that the conversations he was having with people about their most transformative experiences were perfect for a podcast. He discusses his first psychedelic experience with ayahuasca, how microdosing is helping him today, and his realization that people can get to these big experiences in many different ways.

He discusses:

  • The two episodes of Plantscendence that stand out the most to him
  • Using the term, ‘plant medicine’
  • His 30 years of meditation practice and how it likely helped him to integrate his first psychedelic experiences
  • The concept of plant intelligence and how plants can stop you from being a “consciousness tourist”
  • Kabbalah, Kashmir Shaivism, non-duality, and his Shaktipat experience

and more!

Links

Plantscendence.com

Jonreiss.com

8above.com

Apple Podcasts: Plantscendence

Spotify: Plantscendence

YouTube: Type O Negative – Christian Woman (Official video)

Imdb.com: Have a Good Trip

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, by Michael Pollan

Goodreads.com: Alan Watts’ quote

The Ethical and Ecological Considerations of Inhaling Bufotoxins from Incilius Alvarius, by Malin Vedøy Uthaug

Oneacreproject.org

Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics, by Gary Zukav

Wikipedia.org: Kashmir Shaivism

Wikipedia.org: Shaktipata

Plantscendence: #1 Vera Sola: Iboga Unlocks Musicianship

Plantscendence: #7 Doris La Frenais A Life Transformed

Wikipedia.org: Mark Pauline

PT443 – Swimming in the Sacred: The Wisdom of Underground Female Elders, featuring: Rachel Harris, Ph.D.

Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia, Revised and Expanded: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings, by Rob Brezsny

*Amazon links are affiliate links, meaning that Psychedelics Today will receive a percentage of the sale

Jon Reiss

In this Episode

Jon Reiss

Jon Reiss is a critically acclaimed filmmaker, author, and media strategist. He began his film career at the fabled Target Video, where he shot seminal punk bands, including Black Flag, X, Iggy Pop, Throbbing Gristle, and The Cramps. Reiss then filmed and edited a series of videos documenting Mark Pauline’s Survival Research Laboratories. After directing numerous music videos, including, notoriously, “Happiness in Slavery” for Nine Inch Nails, he directed the feature films, “Bomb It,” “Better Living Through Circuitry,” and “Cleopatra’s Second Husband.” Through his company 8 Above, Jon has worked with numerous filmmakers, companies, and organizations that are looking to connect with audiences and distribute their work in the digital landscape. His experience releasing “Bomb It” with a hybrid strategy was the inspiration for writing, Think Outside the Box Office, the first step-by-step guide for filmmakers to distribute and market their films. He has given workshops and spoken at conferences and festivals throughout the world. He helped create and run the IFP Filmmaker Lab for 10 years, and recently launched a 6-Month Distribution Intensive.

Plantscendence socials: Instagram / TikTok / Facebook / X / YouTube

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