Episode description

Sky Otter (Bill Pfeiffer) joins us to talk about Deep Ecology, the problematic place we are in as a planet, and the profound healing potential still available to us, personally and collectively, through coming back into ecstatic communion and relationship with the Earth.

• Deep ecology, alienation, and spiritual activism
•  The value of a spiritual connection to the earth
• The trauma of disconnection, perpetuated
• A civilization of misery and violence
• Hatred against our greatest villains
• Jeff Bezos is a hero (and a villain)
• The profound grief of collapse; the profound miracle of being alive
• What do we do about this? Deep Ecology
• Skepticism and the separate-self
• Changing our perceptual apparatus towards Connection and Mystery
• A moving quote from John Seed
• Finding balance in facing collapse
55 Feeling the pain of the earth; community holds the grief
• Doing the best we can, even though it's nearly impossible
• The role of psychedelic plants in healing our disconnection from nature
• A ceremonial community of psychedelic practice is vital
• Ceremonial maturity in our psychedelic practice
• Befriending our parts through psychedelic mushrooms
• Are psychedelics “tools”?
• The fungi open us up to the ongoing revelation of nature.
• Links to more of Bill/Sky’s work
• Landscape Shamanism (course)
• Bill’s dream for your life

• Decomposing The Shadow: https://www.jameswjesso.com/decomposing-the-shadow/
• The True Light Of Darkness: https://www.jameswjesso.com/true-light-darkness/