Welcome to the edition #3 of this newsletter. The mycelium network in my life has produced some astounding fruiting bodies both in IRL and online onchain. More on the latter further down incl. context for my new online course: Blockchain for Beginners.
Shroom Season
Ok, the most exquisitely delicious Chanterelles are not psychedelic, but picking, washing and cooking them is like a psychedelic experience for me. Ping me for some pro tips (they grow in our forest, so I had plenty of small batches to experiment with). The dream is to live where liberty caps also grow within walking distance...
Medicine report: the god bomb
After an 8 months hiatus from psychedelic medicine I decided to go much deeper on the so-called God Bomb: cannabis-oil x ketamine. (I had 4-5 journeys with increasing dosages over the course of a year before). WOWOW. Imagine the dissociative out-of-body experience of ketamine combined with the highly somatic in-the-body experience of THC oil. The result feels like some kind of emergence; even though I understand the properties of both compounds, I couldn't imagine what both together created. I had a few k-hole experiences before, but this was something else entirely.
Did I feel like God? Yes. Can I put it into words? No.
This visualisation is reasonably close to how it all felt. I had no such visuals though.
Setting: early evening, fasting after lunch, THC 2 hours before the ketamine, darkness, silence, no music, no movement at all. The material that surfaced was astounding...I won't go deeper here, so if you are interested in my report, dosage, safety precautions and integration ideas, let's Zoom. It goes without saying: this is for experienced psychonauts only and don't do this ever ALONE!
What I have been up to re Psychedelics & PMFC
As you know, most of your success comes from taking a long-shot. Two years ago I gave candid and compassionate feedback to Joost Breeksema one of the Executive Directors of the Open Foundation. Their flagship conference, ICPR (Interdisciplinary Conference of Psychedelic Research) draws a diverse and awesome crowd every two years in Haarlem, NL. It is a great conference, as far as this centralised event formats go. Yet I left the premises in 2022 feeling that we (the psychedelic professional space) can do better - and that a decentralised unconference part would mirror mycelium network a lot more. Biomimicry. I followed-up several times, and they finally said yes - yes to my audacious idea to facilitate an Open Space afternoon on day one, focussed on business people and policy makers. Ping me for free tips if you want to run such format in your organisation or at an event.
It was a full-blown success and I am always amazed by the outcomes people create when they are given liberating structures. The photo above is me on main stage warming up the space with some energisers.
The Psychedelic Map For Change in 2024
- Third Wave Course
After a few small IRL workshops at Regens Unite last year, Paul Austin invited me to deliver a 3-part live online seminar for Third Wave. I was real chuffed that some people found my 90 mins teaching in module 1 inspiring (Passcode: 8ssdtv5?). In module 2 Ruth Veda guided participants to anchor their conscious connected breathing onto the Realms of Reality, one of core components of the map. Module 3 was about integration using the stellar 17 journalling questions from the Presencing Institute, founded by Theory-U researcher at M.I.T. and fellow German emigrant Otto Scharmer.
- Six-Part Article
After getting several nudges this year to write a book about the map, I decided to start with a series of articles. Before you click on the links below, bit of context: one of the intentions to write these was to test a potential re-branding:
from: Psychedelic Map For Change to: Map for a Higher Civilisation
Did you notice the word crypto above in Part 1 ? I am deep into this space, especially into higher. ↑ is a headless brand which is only possible via blockchain-based coordination; owned by no corporation, but everyone who wants to contribute. This emergence of organisational life form is highly aligned with my work on the PMFC.
Wait, where is Part 6?
I am not ready to write this yet...if you actually read the first five parts you'll get a few hints about the reason (reading time in total 23 Min).
Spoken NFT
If you only have 85 seconds, here is a vocal outburst of mine in a local forest with birds in the mix. You can also mint this as an NFT for 2 dollars, just to show some appreciation.
Migrating onchain
As Ally Beiner writes in his brilliant book The Bigger Picture, Psychedelics like magic mushrooms or DMT are great tools to prepare you us what's coming: parts of our lives will move into the metaverse with AI clones of yourself and blockchain-based cameras and robots to notarise reality (so that you know whether a photo is real aka issued by the owner/author or a deep fake). The latter is perhaps the most audacious project in the crypto space I have come across to-date.
I bake much smaller bread and have started with small experiments onchain, and I have also largely left web 2 social media and spend most of my time on farcaster instead. The only Boomer Platform I still use is Linkedin and I have just shared my reasons for my migrating much of my on-screen life onchain there.
PMFC and Crypto?
100% - but that's for another newsletter
My new course: Blockchain for Beginners
On a related note, I was pulled to create this weekend course next. One of my VP-level clients asked me to deliver a workshop in-house. It was such a surprise success that I felt compelled to open it to the public - including you, dear reader. If you click this link you get a 10% discount based on the price of $150.
