Sophia Rokhlin is an author, speaker and nonprofit organizer dedicated to supporting the conservation of Indigenous wisdom and territories. Sophia is a co-author of When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance (Watkins, 2019), and her research has been featured in publications including the New York Times, PBS, the BBC and others. She has worked with the Environmental Justice Atlas mapping grassroots activism related to commodity extraction ...

Stephen Harrod Buhner has been called an Earth poet, bardic naturalist, and an herbal philosopher, as well as one of the most accomplished writers on medical herbalism in the United States. He is the multiple-award winning author of 23 books, a score of memoir and fictional short stories, and numerous nonfiction articles. He is a tireless advocate for the reincorporation of the exploratory artist, independent scholar, amateur naturalist, and citizen scientist in American society - especially ...

Claudia is a social scientist whose research examines the medicalization of psychedelics' and the broader decriminalization movement. We talk about the dynamics of legalization, decriminalization, and corporatization of psychedelics. More personally, we examine the enormous benefits of psychedelics used in group settings, the importance of rules and creating a safe container for healing, working with trauma and depression, how we view our long term growth from plant medicines, sp...

We're back! Pardon the brief hiatus. The world is changing! I am changing! You are changing! But lets forget that for a moment to produce and consume more content. Yay! In this episode I speak with Kai Cameron, who at the age of 20 grew disillusioned with going to college and decided to volunteer at an ayahuasca retreat for 6 months. He also did Ayahuasca with his mom when she came and visited him. Wow. I find it super interesting to talk to people who are exposed to cerem...

My guest this week is Carlos Tanner, the director of the Ayahuasca Foundation! In 2003, after hitting a rock bottom moment involving heroin addiction, Carlos visited the Amazon to drink ayahuasca. The experience was so transformative that he 1. never did heroin ever again and 2. moved to Peru to study with a curandero for four years, sleeping on a dirt floor with no running water. Eighteen years later, Carlos runs the non-profit Ayahuasca Foundation, a school which teaches the Shipibo...

This episode of Ayahuasca Anonymous is brought to you by Unleash Your Inner Pussy: How to Conquer Your Goals and Dominate Your Life, the revolutionary workshop hosted by Thorax Carnitine. Thorax earned his bachelors in Sports Management from the University of Brussels, his Ph.D in bro science from the Boston Institute of Anatomy, worked as a consultant for the Cleveland Browns 2017 season, pioneered the High Gluten, Zero Carbon Diet, and has appeared on Joe Rogan over 7 times. My...

This episode of Ayahuasca Anonymous is sponsored by The United States of America. Use offer code '#JESUSISMYSTOCKBROKER' to get 20% off a footlong hotdog at Costco. My guest this week is Sinclair Fleetwood. Sinclair is the former manager of an ayahuasca retreat center, a psychedelic integration coach, and not shy about plant medicine! No need to go anonymous on this one. Sinclair shares her story of finally breaking a decades long cycle of substance abuse, addiction, ...

For the first episode of Ayahuasca Anonymous I'm joined by Mark, who I volunteered with in Ecuador for 3 months at a plant medicine retreat. Last name withheld so corporate bigwigs can't deny him jobs! Mark has a very relatable story of finding himself stuck in life. After a decade of "living it up" in New York City's underground music scene, he was burnt out. He left the city to be a 'normal' person', and instead found himself lost in a stable but boring job, feeling trapped by life. ...