I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. Today we're going to spend the time inside the mind of an artist. My guest today is a filmmaker and a musician Ben Joseph Stewart. Ben traveled as a child across the world in an army family and then he began performing music at the age of 16.

Before his touring rock group, Hyrosonic, before they disbanded Ben had already Rock Group Hierosonic.

Before they disbanded, Ben had already

launched his third full-length documentary

with a global viral attention. So that's three documentaries and a rock band and

virality across the world. Mainly I believe it's because he shows topics that were on people's mind and he addressed them brutally honestly.

Most recently he launched a 14 part series called Psychodellica and soon after hosted a his

own talk show if you want which was called Limitless on gaya.com to talk about the same topic.

After a 2020 release of the magic plant, a documentary that is regarding cannabis and health, Ben immediately released

DMT Quest, which was about the brain's ability to produce DMT, a well-known drug on its own, and produce other hallucogens in general.

And then in late 2021, just very recently, he released another documentary on Aubrey Marcus's week-long darkness emergence.

So basically documenting life in the darkness, interesting for a visual artist that builds documentaries that was called

Awake in the Darkness. My interest in Ben's work is not just in any one of his

productions but rather in the way he sees the world.

And I have been introduced to Ben through my very dear friend Josh Trent,

which if you haven't heard our recording here on

Slomo just around a month ago, you definitely have to listen to Josh.

And I listened to Josh's conversation with Ben preparing for this and I'm expecting that we will go in places that are completely all over the place.

Most of Ben's work is around consciousness and

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