Dante is an accomplished athlete and seasoned psychedelic explorer, committed to pushing the boundaries of both body and mind. Today we talk about his background as an MMA fighter, the pivotal role psychedelics played in reshaping his path, ultra-running, injuries, his upcoming 500-mile challenge, men's work, guiding others through inner transformation, and more. You can find Dante on Instagram @buffalowarrior - Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain. We off...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Dr. Matt Wall is a psychologist, neuroscientist, and fMRI specialist at Perceptive and Imperial College London, where he researches the neurological dimensions of cannabis, psychedelics, sex hormones, addiction, and more. Today we talk about various aspects of his work, including the current state of brain research on psychedelics, the promises and limitations of fMRI and related technology, what’s “really” going on during the psychedelic experience, and more. You can find Matt here: https://pro...
May 22, 2025•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Chris is an author, speaker, and storyteller who has spent years exploring the art of living with less. His approach is humble, insightful, direct, and necessarily simple. Today we talk about his personal journey into minimalism—starting with material possessions and expanding into the day-to-day realities of professional life, including the inner realms of thought and emotion; how his message has evolved to resonate with those who need it most, how we might be able to escape the frenetic busyne...
May 13, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Tim is a father, husband, traditional bow hunter, and multidisciplinary movement coach who you might know as Move Like Human. Today we talk about moving in nature, creating community, navigating the chaos of the internet and social media, fatherhood, adventures in the Kalahari, and more. You can find Tim here: www.timmatz.com Insta: @movelikehuman Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain. We offer training and therapy for individuals and couples, as well as wo...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Boyan explores life from a non-dual (non-)perspective, moving along his path toward unity while guiding others to move along their paths as well. We met through the online primal training course, where we have delved into many of the themes we discuss today: movement and stillness, body and mind; suffering, resilience, mindfulness, and more. You can find Boyan here: https://www.boyanm.com/ https://www.facebook.com/boyan.mv https://insighttimer.com/boyanm/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/boyan-milouc...
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 37
This is our second published conversation. Barak remains a kind of phenomenon, a creative force who channels curiosity, compassion, and insight in often surprising ways. Unique, gentle, and sincere. Today our conversation delves into the dimensions of time and consciousness, compassion and service to others, the development of models and language to better understand oneself, shamanism, cultural maturity, the various layers of human experience, psychedelics, dancing, and more. Primal Nature is a...
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Maybe the best way to describe Barak is as a kind of phenomenon, a creative force who channels curiousity, compassion, and insight in often surprising ways. He is a keen observer and playful participant. Unique. Gentle. Sincere. Today our conversation dances around the limits of thought and emotion, feeling and intelligibility; trauma, awareness, agency, psychedelics, spirit, demons, individual uniqueness and some of the deeper substrates of what we like to call reality. This felt at times like ...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Richard Whall is Senior Lecturer in Human Movement, thoughtfully exploring ways to develop our physical intelligence and define what it might actually mean to be physically educated. Today we talk about the biotensegrity model and how it helps us to conceptualize the bodymind as a unified whole; we talk about the difficulties faced when trying to capture the complexity of these matters in scientific language, how personal practice can inform more abstract investigation, and more. X: @MoveTrainRe...
Jul 22, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Jason leads a nomadic life, traveling through Europe with his homemade bike and guitar; with uncommon grace he manages to balance gentle thoughtfulness and raw grit, with many other qualities besides. I picked him up on the side of the road when he was in a tough situation, and we ended up sharing a few days together on the farm. Today we talk about his travels and what drives him to move; we share stories about the ways in which we have each found solace in the challenges unfettered nature prov...
Jun 18, 2024•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Soten is a dedicated practitioner and teacher of meditation, as well as avid long-distance runner. He was the first person to sign up for the first ever Persistence Race, in which we will be running 150km through the Kalahari with the world’s last remaining persistence hunters. Today we talk about his meditative path and how it intersects with long-distance running, psychedelics, and more; we discuss his exploration of ancestral wisdom and the body as a vehicle for transcending the various menta...
Apr 16, 2024•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Agnieszka & Prash are the co-founders of Enosis Therapeutics, a company that has created a VR tool which allows us to create and interact with our own inner worlds in a uniquely tangible way. Today we talk about applications for psychedelic therapy, integration, sharing access to our mental space, technology as a tool for improving the human experience, controversies, and much more. You can find Enosis here: https://www.enosistherapeutics.com/ Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psyche...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Today I am interviewed by James Lambert, the guest on the previous episode. We talk about life, work, and some of the glories as well as the challenges of being. If you'd prefer to watch us you can find the interview on James' YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw3Z0TDdzNM Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain. We work primarily with people who have reached the limits of what rational analysis can offer in terms of healing or growth; our ...
Mar 31, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 30
James Lambert is a personal trainer, life coach, doorman (US: bouncer), and recently retired bareknuckle boxing champion. His presence is a unique combination of calm, humility, and thoughtfulness paired with the focus, dedication, and strength necessary for success in a world of oftentimes brutal combat. Today we talk about his life, his work, and his perspective on many matters ranging from love to anger to transcendence. You can find James here: web: https://jameslambertcoaching.co.uk/ IG: @j...
Mar 15, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Ocean is an itinerant explorer of realms both physical and spiritual, combining a critical mind with a unique openness to the power of the natural world. She works with a mixture of modalities learned from indigenous traditions and many years of direct experience in nature. Today we talk about living in the wild, going barefoot, plant medicine, communing with the spirit realm, rites of passage, and more. You can find Ocean on Instagram @bare.tobefree Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psy...
Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Matt Rossano is a prolific evolutionary psychologist with a unique and compelling view on what makes us human. Today we talk about the role of ritual in religion and community both secular and nonsecular, the evolution of our species and our societies, experiencing the supernatural vs. explaining it, our various efforts at living a good life, and more. You can find Matt through his website: https://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/mrossano/ Recent papers are available under “recent public...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Maci is a skilled and insightful therapist focused on helping couples harness the growth potential of Awakened Intimacy. As she says, “We become more intimate and self-aware on this path because of challenges, not despite them. And we embrace the difficulties of erotic coupling with a curious and open heart.” Today we talk about sex and intimate relationships as a vehicle for growth, tapping into the body’s memory and somatic intelligence, practices to cultivate passion and presence, tantra, ope...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Victor Manuel Fleites is an insightful explorer of movement and refreshingly unfettered lover of nature, known mainly as Tarzan. He has been climbing trees since he was a child in Cuba, and over the years has gradually built up a practice he calls Tarzan Movement, inspired by his observation of our simian relatives. Today we talk about finding peace, non-intellectual ways of knowing, learning by imitation, transforming fear, and much more. You can find Tarzan here: Web: https://tarzanmovement.wi...
Jan 08, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Rafe is a deep thinker, mover, and practitioner of parkour in nature. He is the founder of Evolve Move Play, a practice of “movement training for humans” based out of the Pacific Northwest US. Today we cover movement, body, mind, parkour, advice for developing an ecology of practice, the hero’s journey toward a meaningful life, and quite a bit more. You can find Rafe here: https://www.evolvemoveplay.com/ IG: @rafekelley -- Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Sp...
Dec 31, 2022•1 hr 59 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Sam Friedman is a pioneering researcher at the Broad Institute dedicated to using machine learning to map the salient features of human health. Today we talk about his recent studies of psychedelics and the human mind; we cover his insights into the various axes along which psychedelic experience can be understood; the ontological status of our altered states; the dimensions of meaning; the future of humanity; machine learning, and more. You can find Sam here: Website: http://samwell.info Twitte...
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Bjorn Olson is a red-blooded Alaskan explorer, film-maker, carnivore, activist, and deep thinker. Today we talk about life as he lives it, adventuring far beyond the limits of what many might think possible. You can find him here: Website: mjolnirofbjorn.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGFhGkMCDAikQYJA0fWj8_Q Insta: https://www.instagram.com/fatbikebjorn/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/bjorn.olson.3 -- Primal Nature is a podcast and center for psychedelic therapy in rural Spain. We w...
Oct 26, 2022•2 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Barbara Savage is the founder of the Tribal Trust Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting indigenous cultures from around the world through a wide variety of projects and initiatives. Barbara shares some of the unique experiences she's amassed over 26 years working in remote locations with some of the world's last surviving hunter-gatherer cultures, and we hone in more specifically on her seemingly supernatural connection with many of the shamans she's encountered in Africa, Asia, an...
Oct 09, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 21
This is basically a trip report from my first ultra marathon. 5 months ago the longest distance I had ever run was 21km; last week I did 93km, and next month I'm going for 180km. My physical training has been minimal, like maybe 25km per week of running on average. I've been focused instead on the psychological and the physiological, pushing to train my body-mind for the impact of the experience. I'm not an expert in ultra running by any stretch of the imagination, and I don't provide much in th...
Oct 02, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Amal Graafstra is a biohacker, engineer, entrepreneur, and deep thinker about our species' increasingly integrated relationship with technology. He is CEO of Dangerous Things and Vivokey, two pioneering companies dedicated to developing tech implants for general use. Today we talk about some of the specifics of the technology currently developed and dive deep into the practical, ethical, and existential implications of those that are soon to come. He provides a unique perspective on the movement...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Neil Harbisson is the world’s first cyborg, neither human nor machine but a hybrid mix. Since 2004 when he got an antenna implanted in his skull he can perceive color as sound, receive phone calls directly to his head, listen in on the ultraviolet radiation of outer space, and more. He is part of a small community of experimental artists pushing the bounds of what it means to be human, sometimes reluctant spokespeople for a life in which biology and technology are inextricably intertwined. Today...
Jul 11, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Eric Harbour is a researcher at Salzburg University dedicated to exploring the role of breath in exercise, in all of its facets. Here we discuss his recent paper Breath Tools, in which he outlines the key parameters of breath and their effects on training, performance, and the enjoyment of exercise through physiological and psychological pathways. Specifically he describes the importance of rate, depth, nasal vs. mouth, active exhale, sync, strength, and hold. Listen in if you want to dive deep ...
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Part 3. The near future is unlikely to look remotely similar to anything this planet has ever experienced before. Bioengineering extends beyond regenerating limbs or custom-order brains; eventually it means that humans take the reins in directing the course of evolution. Dr. Michael Levin builds on our previous conversations and talks about the practical applications and complex philosophical implications of his work in greater depth. Mike is a researcher, entrepreneur, and brilliantly heterodox...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Part 2. Dr. Michael Levin builds on our previous conversation, centering more specifically on the moral and ethical implications of our rapidly approaching enmeshment with robotic and AI systems, crossing the Rubicon into an unknown future. We explore the relevant issues through the lens of biological continuity, explain in greater depth in part 1. Mike is a researcher, entrepreneur, and brilliantly heterodox thinker; officially, he’s a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University. ...
May 14, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Dr. Michael Levin is a researcher, entrepreneur, and brilliantly heterodox thinker; officially, he’s a developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University. More than that, he is an intrepid explorer of some of the most profound questions in both science and philosophy; widely read and deeply thoughtful, a prolific writer and eloquent speaker. What more could you ask for? His groundbreaking work illuminates a revolutionary understanding of everything from genetics to AI, cancer to free will...
May 02, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist with unique expertise, both scientific and experiential. Her career is dedicated to understanding how our brains create our perception of reality, and her work was radically deepened and transformed by a stroke that took out the entire left hemisphere of her brain for 8 years. This experience, chronicled in My Stroke of Insight , informs her unique commitment to moving beyond abstract scientific knowledge to apply her findings directly, i...
Mar 21, 2022•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Ana Forrest is an internationally-recognized pioneer in yoga and emotional healing, and the creatrix of Forrest Yoga. Jose Calarco comes from a long history of shamanism, the arts, music and healing, and co-directs Forrest Yoga. Together Ana and Jose create an experience that extends far beyond what people typically mean when they say "yoga" -- it is a unique ceremony of healing and discovery, an exploration of what in aboriginal tradition might be called dreamtime. Today we speak about the orig...
Jan 26, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 12
