Let’s enter a mind-altering world where a mushroom can change your life and save our species.

In this reality-bending episode you’ll learn:

• how I almost lost my mind during an ayahuasca ceremony
• the role that psilocybin mushrooms can play in personal development
• what a healthy partnership with plant medicine looks like

The full text, images and references can be found here: https://open.substack.com/pub/jjvandevyver/p/can-magic-mushrooms-evolve-human

• (00:00) - Introduction
• (02:06) - The night I lost my mind
• (08:13) - A seed is planted
• (14:54) - Drugs are bad
• (20:20) - An Easter Journey
• (30:28) - A whole new world
• (36:47) - Ayahuasca Curandero Initiation Course
• (46:28) - Lost in my mind
• (51:01) - The work begins
• (54:27) - Facilitation
• (01:04:02) - The journeys ahead
• (01:14:12) - On the next episode
• (01:14:46) - Acknowledgements

A huge thank you to:

• Storm for your feedback on an earlier draft
• Leigh and Lesanne for encouraging, shaping and reviewing this series
• Phillip-Jan van Zyl for his beautiful piano collection “Spiral”
• Louise for guiding my way to inspired creativity
• My partner Ash for your love and support throughout this project
• The incredible plants and facilitators who shaped my journey
• The many wonderful humans who inspired these words through our conversations.

I'll see you in the wilderness.