Gnostic Media podcast with Jan Irvin

[GnosticMedia]

I posted an annoucement here last week, but I thought I'd post a thread in this section, which I seem to have missed before.


I've just released a new podcast today:

Gnostic Media Podcast #004 – The 2012 Meme. Fact or Fiction? An Interview with Professor John Hoopes.

In this show we investigate a modern mystery and phenomenon that has recently swept the world. It can be found discussed at large conventions for $300 for an admission ticket - where the so-called experts gather to promote their ideas of this field of study - and also in popular books, movies, radio shows, and TV programs.

I'm talking about 2012 and the history of the Mayan Calendar. But did 2012 really come from the Maya? Or from charlatans? What is fact, and what is fiction? And what is religion? Most of you will be surprised.

I interview John Hoopes, Director of the Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, and Associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He earned his doctorate from Harvard University in Anthropology, 1987.

Whether you're a believer or not, this is one show you just can't miss!

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Download:
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Gnostic Media Podcast #003 An interview with Dr. Martin Ball

In this episode I speak with Dr. Martin Ball about the spiritual use of entheogens, especially mushrooms and Salvia Divinorum, as well as religious vs. spiritual freedom. Do you think you have religious freedom? You’d better hear this show!

Martin Ball earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies with an emphasis on Native American religions and shamanism from UCSB (University of California, Santa Barbara) in 2000. He is the author of three books on entheogenic spirituality: Mushroom Wisdom, Sage Spirit, as well as the forthcoming The Entheogenic Evolution. Additionally he has authored an original fantasy series, Tales of Aurduin, and is also the host of the weekly podcast, the Entheogenic Evolution. His books, music, and original artwork can be found at his website. www.martinball.net

Download:
http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/enclosure/2008-11-03T21_21_13-08_00.mp3


Gnostic Media Podcast #002 - an Interview with Prof. John Rush. Was John Allegro's the Sacred Mushroom and the Cross correct?

Today I interview Professor John Rush regarding his new book Failed God: Fractured Myth in a Fragile World. This is the first academic book since the publication of John Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) that argues Allegro was correct - and provides ample support for the mushroom foundations of Judeo-Christianity. This is a very interesting interview, so don’t miss it!

John Rush is Professor Anthropology, Sierra College, Rocklin, California. He teaches Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion, Physical Anthropology, and Physical Anthropology Lab. He’s
Naturopathic Doctor and Medical Hypnotherapist in Private Practice. His specialty areas of study are Human Communication, Systems Theory, and Symbolism; Cults (He participated in a cult for three years – asked to leave); Tattooing and Scarification (He’s gone through 400 hours of tattooing); Herbs both medicinal and hallucinogens (He maintains a large herb garden full of legal magical herbs.); Clinical Anthropology – the use of anthropological concepts/models in clinical settings. His books include: Witchcraft and Sorcery: An Anthropological Perspective of the Occult, 1974; The Way We Communicate, 1976; Clinical Anthropology, 1996; Stress and Emotional Health, 1999; Spiritual Tattoo, 2005; The Twelve Gates, 2007; Failed God, 2008.

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http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/enclosure/2008-10-28T14_02_00-07_00.mp3


Gnostic Media podcast #001 - An Interview with Prof. Carl A. P. Ruck and Richard Andrew Grove

For this episode I’m going to play a recording that I did back in April of this year, 2008. I went with Richard Andrew Grove of 8thestate media and Paul Verge of Divergent Films to the home of pioneering entheogenic researcher, Professor Carl A. P. Ruck of Boston University. Professor Ruck co-authored Persephone’s Quest with Gordon Wasson, he also co-authored Apples of Apollo with Clark Heinrich and Dr. Blaise Staples. He’s the author of the book Sacred Mushrooms of the Goddess, Secrets of Eleusis, and more recently he co-authored The Hidden World, Survival of Pagan Shamanic Themes in European Fairytales. In this episode we’ll discuss the entheogenic rites of the Eleusinian mysteries, John Marco Allegro’s research in The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, and Ruck’s upcoming books.

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http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/enclosure/2008-10-23T11_40_29-07_00.mp3

[sancho23]

Hey man, there's a Reality Sandwich article about your new book, did you see it yet?

http://www.realitysandwich.com/psilocybin_sacrament

[GnosticMedia]

Hey man, there's a Reality Sandwich article about your new book, did you see it yet?

http://www.realitysandwich.com/psilocybin_sacrament


Trippy... because I haven't shipped out any copies of the book yet, and I don't know who she is.

She's got the info right... funny that it's on Pinchbeck's site though.

[GnosticMedia]

Released this week:

Podcast #005 - Psychedelics, The Scientific Evidence. An Interview with Dr. Charles Grob

Description:
Charles S. Grob, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine and Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He conducted the first government-approved study of MDMA, and was the principal investigator of an international biomedical psychiatric research project in the Brazilian Amazon of the brew, ayahuasca. He is currently conducting an investigation of the effects of psilocybin on anxiety in cancer patients. Dr. Grob has published numerous articles in medical and psychiatric journals and collected volumes, and is the editor of Hallucinogens: A Reader. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute.



Upcoming interviews:

Podcast #006 - Prof. Neil Whitehead, Dark Shamans (11-24-2008)
Neil Whitehead, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Graduated from Oxford University in 1984 - Ph.D. in Anthropology.

• 2005 Terror and Violence - Anthropological Approaches . (ed with Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart, Pluto Press).
• 2004 Violence . (SAR Press)
• 2004 In Darkness and Secrecy. The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia. (ed. with Robin Wright) Duke University Press .
• 2004 Nineteenth Century Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910; South America , (ed.). Chatto & Pickering.
• 2003 Histories and Historicities in Amazonia, (ed.). University of Nebraska Press.
• 2002 Dark Shamans. Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death. Duke University Press.
• 2001 Beyond the Visible and the Material, (ed. with Laura Rival). Oxford University Press.



Podcast #007 - Dr. James DeMeo - Saharasia - Sexual Suppression and the origins of human violence (12-01-2008)
James DeMeo, Ph.D., formally studied the Earth, atmospheric, and environmental/social sciences at Florida International University and the University of Kansas, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1986. At KU, he openly undertook graduate-level natural scientific research specifically focused upon Wilhelm Reich's controversial discoveries, subjecting those ideas to rigorous testing with positive verification of the original findings. DeMeo has undertaken field research in the arid American Southwest, Egypt, Israel, sub-Saharan Eritrea, and Namibia, Africa. His published works include dozens of articles and compendiums, and several books, including Saharasia, The Orgone Accumulator Handbook, On Wilhelm Reich and Orgonomy and Heretic's Notebook. He is also co-editor for the German-language compendium Nach Reich, and editor of the journal Pulse of the Planet. DeMeo served on the Faculty of Geography at Illinois State University and the University of Miami, is a former Research Associate of the American College of Orgonomy, and is on the Advisory Board for the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC), and the Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA). He founded the Orgone Biophysical Research Lab and Greenspring Center in rural Ashland, Oregon, holding the post of Director since 1978.

Podcast #008 - The 2012 Meme, Part 2. An Interview with John Major Jenkins. (12-08-2008)

In our continuing investigation, John Major Jenkins will be given the platform to voice his agreements and disagreements with Prof. John Hoopes (Podcast #004), regarding the Maya Calendar and 2012. In this interview Jenkins roles up his academic sleeves and shows his stuff.

Podcast #009 - MAPS - The Multidisiplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. An Interview with Rick Doblin, Ph.D.

In this interview Rick Doblin tells all. How he started his research, what psychedelic studies are underway, what victories have been won, and where research is headed.

Podcast #010 - On the Gnostics - An interview with John Lamb Lash. (12-15-2008)

Comparative mythologist, author and teacher John Lash is one of the foremost exponents of the power of myth to direct and shape an individual’s life, as well as history itself. Described as the true successor of Joseph Campbell, John is a teacher of world mythology, Tantra, Buddhism, Gnosticism, the pre-Christian Mysteries, alchemy, astrology, and naked-eye astronomy. He had traveled widely throughout the world and lived in Japan, the UK, Greece, Norway, France, Spain and Belgium. He lives in Europe.

John’s published works:

The Seeker’s Handbook: The Complete Guide to Spiritual Pathfinding (Crown, 1991)
Twins and the Double (Thames & Hudson, 1993)
The Hero - Manhood and Power (Thames & Hudson, 1995)
Quest for the Zodiac (Starhenge Books, 1999)
Not in His Image (Chelsea Green Publishing, November 2006)


Podcast #011 - LSD Studies - An Interview with Dr. Stanislav Grof. (12-22-2008)

In this show I interview the father of LSD and psychedelic research, Dr. Stanislav Grof. Just how deep does the rabbit hole go?

Podcast #012 - Ayahuasca and Meso-American studies. An interview with Prof. Marlene Dobkin de Rios (12-29-2008)

In this show pioneering researcher, Prof. Em. Marlene Dobkin de Rios, will be given the proper platform to voice her studies to others in the academic community regarding her findings of entheogen use in Maya, Inca and other Meso-American cultures. The academic community largely dismissed her findings in the 1970s and 1980s, but this time around the academics will have to answer as why they did not incorporate her research sooner.

[GnosticMedia]

Some errors in that last post, and I couldn't edit it, so here is the updated post for current and future podcasts:

Released this week:

Podcast #005 - Psychedelics, The Scientific Evidence. An Interview with Dr. Charles Grob

Description:
Charles S. Grob, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine and Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He conducted the first government-approved study of MDMA, and was the principal investigator of an international biomedical psychiatric research project in the Brazilian Amazon of the brew, ayahuasca. He is currently conducting an investigation of the effects of psilocybin on anxiety in cancer patients. Dr. Grob has published numerous articles in medical and psychiatric journals and collected volumes, and is the editor of Hallucinogens: A Reader. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute.



Upcoming interviews (These are approximate release dates):

Podcast #006 - Prof. Neil Whitehead, Dark Shamans (11-24-2008)
Neil Whitehead, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Graduated from Oxford University in 1984 - Ph.D. in Anthropology.

• 2005 Terror and Violence - Anthropological Approaches . (ed with Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart, Pluto Press).
• 2004 Violence . (SAR Press)
• 2004 In Darkness and Secrecy. The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia. (ed. with Robin Wright) Duke University Press .
• 2004 Nineteenth Century Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910; South America , (ed.). Chatto & Pickering.
• 2003 Histories and Historicities in Amazonia, (ed.). University of Nebraska Press.
• 2002 Dark Shamans. Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death. Duke University Press.
• 2001 Beyond the Visible and the Material, (ed. with Laura Rival). Oxford University Press.



Podcast #007 - Dr. James DeMeo - Saharasia - Sexual Suppression and the origins of human violence (12-01-2008) - Part 1
James DeMeo, Ph.D., formally studied the Earth, atmospheric, and environmental/social sciences at Florida International University and the University of Kansas, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1986. At KU, he openly undertook graduate-level natural scientific research specifically focused upon Wilhelm Reich's controversial discoveries, subjecting those ideas to rigorous testing with positive verification of the original findings. DeMeo has undertaken field research in the arid American Southwest, Egypt, Israel, sub-Saharan Eritrea, and Namibia, Africa. His published works include dozens of articles and compendiums, and several books, including Saharasia, The Orgone Accumulator Handbook, On Wilhelm Reich and Orgonomy and Heretic's Notebook. He is also co-editor for the German-language compendium Nach Reich, and editor of the journal Pulse of the Planet. DeMeo served on the Faculty of Geography at Illinois State University and the University of Miami, is a former Research Associate of the American College of Orgonomy, and is on the Advisory Board for the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC), and the Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA). He founded the Orgone Biophysical Research Lab and Greenspring Center in rural Ashland, Oregon, holding the post of Director since 1978.



Podcast #008 - Dr. James DeMeo - Saharasia - Sexual Suppression and the origins of human violence (12-08-2008) - Part 2
The continuation of my interview with Dr. James DeMeo.


Podcast #009 - The 2012 Meme, Part 2. An Interview with John Major Jenkins. (12-15-2008)

In our continuing investigation, John Major Jenkins will be given the platform to voice his agreements and disagreements with Prof. John Hoopes (Podcast #004), regarding the Maya Calendar and 2012. In this interview Jenkins roles up his academic sleeves and shows his stuff.


Podcast #010 - MAPS - The Multidisiplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. An Interview with Rick Doblin, Ph.D. (12-22-2008)

In this interview Rick Doblin tells all. How he started his research, what psychedelic studies are underway, what victories have been won, and where research is headed.

Podcast #011 - On the Gnostics - An interview with John Lamb Lash. (12-29-2008)

Comparative mythologist, author and teacher John Lash is one of the foremost exponents of the power of myth to direct and shape an individual’s life, as well as history itself. Described as the true successor of Joseph Campbell, John is a teacher of world mythology, Tantra, Buddhism, Gnosticism, the pre-Christian Mysteries, alchemy, astrology, and naked-eye astronomy. He had traveled widely throughout the world and lived in Japan, the UK, Greece, Norway, France, Spain and Belgium. He lives in Europe.

John’s published works:

The Seeker’s Handbook: The Complete Guide to Spiritual Pathfinding (Crown, 1991)
Twins and the Double (Thames & Hudson, 1993)
The Hero - Manhood and Power (Thames & Hudson, 1995)
Quest for the Zodiac (Starhenge Books, 1999)
Not in His Image (Chelsea Green Publishing, November 2006)


Podcast #012 - LSD Studies - An Interview with Dr. Stanislav Grof. (01-05-2009)

In this show I interview the father of LSD and psychedelic research, Dr. Stanislav Grof. Just how deep does the rabbit hole go?

Podcast #013 - Ayahuasca and Meso-American studies. An interview with Prof. Marlene Dobkin de Rios (01-12-2009)

In this show pioneering researcher, Prof. Em. Marlene Dobkin de Rios, will be given the proper platform to voice her studies to others in the academic community regarding her findings of entheogen use in Maya, Inca and other Meso-American cultures. The academic community largely dismissed her findings in the 1970s and 1980s, but this time around the academics will have to answer as why they did not incorporate her research sooner.

[sonofjack]

I just discovered the site and the podcast about a week ago.

i had to buy the book
http://www.theholymushroom.com/

hasn't arrived yet, but i can't wait to read it

[GnosticMedia]

I just discovered the site and the podcast about a week ago.

i had to buy the book
http://www.theholymushroom.com/

hasn't arrived yet, but i can't wait to read it

All orders went out Monday and today, so you should get it any time.

Thanks for your support. I really appreciate it.

[GnosticMedia]

Now available for download:

Podcast #006 - Dark Shamans - An Interview with Prof. Neil Whitehead
http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/

In this show we take a journey to the dark side - the dark side of shamanism - in our interview with Prof. Neil Whitehead, who was the victim of a Kanaima, or dark shaman attack in Guyana.

This show focuses on countering the New Age presentations of "shamanism" in western culture, and seeks to create balance, as well as educate about the dangers of dark shamanism - and the ignorance thereof.

Neil Whitehead is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He graduated from Oxford University in 1984 with a Ph.D. in Anthropology.

His books include:

Hans Staden’s True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil ed. By Neil Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier, June 2008

Terror and Violence - Anthropological Approaches (ed with Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart, Pluto Press), 2005.

In Darkness and Secrecy. The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia. (ed. with Robin Wright) Duke University Press, 2004.

Dark Shamans. Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death. Duke University Press, 2002.

[ggw_bach]

Hi Jan,

listening to podcast 11 right now. You're doing a great job. Great guests, and the 90 minute format gives you adequate room to really explore a subject. They are like mini-treatises on the subjects at hand. Truly powerful education.

enough gushes,

thx and take care.

[GnosticMedia]

Released podcasts:

#001 Prof. Carl Ruck (Boston U.) - New evidence in support of John Allegro

#002 Prof. John Rush (Sierra College) - John Marco Allegro's research - new evidence

#003 Martin Ball, Ph.D. (Oregon State) - religious vs. spiritual freedom

#004 Prof. John Hoopes (U. of Kansas) - The 2012 Meme, debunking the 2012 new age movement.

#005 Dr./Prof. Charles Grob, M.D. (Harbor UCLA Medical) - Psilocybin studies in cancer patients

#006 Prof. Neil Whitehead (U. of Wisconsin) - Dark Shamanism – debunking new age ideas of shamanism.

#007 Dr. James DeMeo, Ph.D. - Saharasia - the origins of human violence and patrist religion

#008 John Major Jenkins – (independent) The 2012 Meme, part 2 – further debunking the New Age 2012 movement; defending some points against Dr. Hoopes.

#009 Dr. James DeMeo, Ph.D. - Saharasia Part 2- the origins of human violence and patrist religion

#010 Rick Doblin, Ph.D. (MAPS and Harvard Kennedy School of Law) - psychedelic studies – The FDA is now allowing a flood of new research.

#011 John Lamb Lash (independent) – On the Gnostics. Disproving the Christian origins of the Gnostics.



Upcoming:

#012 (Jan. 5) Dr. Stanislav Grof, M.D. (World’s leading LSD researcher) - LSD studies, holotropic breathing, synchronicity studies.

#013 (Jan. 12) Dr./Prof. Roland Griffiths (Johns Hopkins U) – Psilocybin studies – proving the religious experience of entheogens – new cancer studies with psilocybin.

Dr. Dennis McKenna – Ethnobotany and new research

Judith Anne Brown – Daughter of John Marco Allegro – the re-printing of The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross – debunking the attacks on Allegro.

Ernest Werner – former minister of 50 years, former Cornell University Chaplin’s staff. Questioning the historicity of Jesus

Stephen Buhner – botany - Sacred and Herbal healing beers – the study of psychoactive brewing in ancient shamanic cultures.

Prof. Michael Winkelman (Ariz. State) – Supernatural as Natural – A Biocultural Approach to Religion – editor of journal Time & Mind.

Prof. Bart Dean (U. of Kansas) – Shamanic use of Tobacco.

[GnosticMedia]

Hi Jan,

listening to podcast 11 right now. You're doing a great job. Great guests, and the 90 minute format gives you adequate room to really explore a subject. They are like mini-treatises on the subjects at hand. Truly powerful education.

enough gushes,

thx and take care.


Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying them. I hope others do too.

[sancho23]

Oh yeah, keep 'em coming man!

Also, you should think about getting some outro segment/music to put to your show. I always dislike when it just ends abruptly!

I'd offer any talents I've got to the cause but judging by your intro segment it seems you've got it well covered!

[GnosticMedia]

Oh yeah, keep 'em coming man!

Also, you should think about getting some outro segment/music to put to your show. I always dislike when it just ends abruptly!

I'd offer any talents I've got to the cause but judging by your intro segment it seems you've got it well covered!


The reason I don't always use music is because my show is so long sometimes. I'd rather give the guests that time than music. It just takes up too much bandwidth when most of my shows run 1.5 to 3 hours in length.

[sancho23]

Well we only do like a 1min musical outro with a voiceover for BLiTA, so you could do something short like that.

And yeah, I thought my show was the longest psychedelic podcast out there, ranging from 90-120 min, but damn dude you got the top spot on that one! :D

[GnosticMedia]

http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1106869/460%3E_1482000.jpg

A 2.5 hour whopper of an interview.

In this episode I interview Dr. Stanislav Grof, the world's foremost expert on LSD research, as well as one of the original founders of the field of Transpersonal Psychology.

Is everything you know about LSD and other psychedelic drugs mass hysteria and propaganda?

This is one of the most eye-opening interviews I've done to date.

Stanislav Grof’s professional career has covered a period of over 50 years in which his primary interest has been research of the heuristic and therapeutic potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness. This included initially four years of laboratory research of psychedelics - LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, and tryptamine derivatives - (1956-1960) and fourteen years of research of psychedelic psychotherapy. He spent seven of these years (1960-1967) as Principal Investigator of the psychedelic research program at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, Czechoslovakia. This was followed by seven years of research of psychedelic psychotherapy in the United States.

The first two of these years, he worked as Clinical and Research Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University and in the Research Unit of the Spring Grove State Hospital in Baltimore, MD. The following five years, he held the position of Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. In this capacity he headed for several years the last surviving official research project of psychedelic therapy in the USA.

From 1973 until 1987, he was Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he developed jointly with his wife Christina a powerful non-drug form of self-exploration and psychotherapy that they call Holotropic Breathwork. They have used this method in workshops and in professional training in North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. They have also worked with many individuals undergoing spontaneous episodes of non-ordinary states of consciousness, psychospiritual crises or “spiritual emergencies.”


Download:
http://gnosticmedia.podomatic.com/enclosure/2009-01-04T23_31_00-08_00.mp3