Awoke(cast) - Podcast about the intersection between activism, politics and spirituality

Peeps here's the podcast episode.  It was recorded 4 years ago but I never broadcast it and fucking hell, it feels more relevant and necessary  today then it did then ! So this is its big fat overdue debut!!!

  In my conversation with Jeremy Weate the centre director of Tabula Rasa Retreat, we discuss the Iboga tree which is central to the Bwiti  spiritual practices in West-Central Africa mainly Gabon Cameroon, and the Republic of the Congo and its use in expanding consciousness.  

Jeremy describes politics today as "operational, tactical, negative nihilism. The solutions we need will not begin with a reactionary responses, or emerge from a  self righteous, pristine martyrdom perspective of "oh no how dare you ! How dare you think this"?  he says. In our conversation he talks about the fact that we require operational consciousness, but  stresses how important it is that we get out of it sometimes: "it’s a filter that can be removed and exposed to higher levels of reality. Culture and history, advertising and marketing forms a second layer, the way we think about the world filtered by this and they are insidious as fuck!"  Jeremy believes that  plant allies and plant technology are effective ways of re-setting, of accessing these other states of consciousness that  "allow you to get beyond the ego, relax into a different rhythm of being, a non intentional, indeterminate state  that’s where we begin and where we have to get to. Who knows what the intentions are, or the program? That’s the thing that comes after that".

Weate talks about the idea that  10 or 12 thousand years ago what is today North America was the centre of an advanced culture and his belief that our contemporary capitalist culture will be one day seen as a blip!

I found this convo fascinating and am delighted to share it here with ye. Have a listen and lets discuss. Really keen to hear your thoughts on this one !

Image: Dancers at Ebando in Gabon