Ep. 588 – Your Extraordinary Mind with Zach Leary
Mindrolling with Raghu Markus
Be Here Now Network
4.7 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Zach Leary returns to Mindrolling to discuss his upcoming book on navigating the psychedelic boom of the 21st century.
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This week on Mindrolling, Raghu and Zach chat about:
- What propelled Zach to write his new book
- The explosion of psychedelic use in the 21st century
- Zach’s personal history as the son of Timothy Leary and a close friend of Ram Dass
- Laura Huxley’s book on her father Aldous Huxley, This Timeless Moment
- The film, Dying to Know, about Tim Leary and Ram Dass
- The origin story of LSD in the book Tripped by Norman Ohler
- MAPS work in redefining the modern age of psychedelics
- Pros and Cons of the medical movement in psychedelic research
- The benefits of practice coincided with psychedelics for inner expansion
- The necessity of integration after a psychedelic experience
- Psychedelic research into neuroplasticity and transforming trauma
Check out this MAPS page, where you can see a video of Ram Dass and Laura Huxley reading This Timeless Moment together
About Zach Leary:
Zach is a speaker, writer, Dharmic realizer, and psychedelic advocate. He is also a journey facilitator at Evolution Retreats and Heroic Path to Light. Zach hosts the MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) Podcast where he explores an incredible treasure trove of audio archives sourced from the amazing talks, presentations, and panels that have taken place at past Psychedelic Science conferences and other unique events.
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“I see far more success in the psychedelic sphere with people that have something to augment the experience with. If you go back to your desk on a Monday morning and are just unaware of these transformations and not making any effort to tap in, it will fade. I think it's an essential ingredient that you need to make it successful.” – Zach Leary
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. It's Ragu, Marcus, and I'm back with mind rolling, and I'm here with an old old friend, Zach Leary, Zach. |
| 0:24.7 | Welcome. |
| 0:25.4 | Ram, Rom, Rom, good to see you. |
| 0:26.9 | Great to see you as well. |
| 0:29.7 | So we have some stuff to talk about. |
| 0:35.3 | We want to mention, of course, Zach has a new book. |
| 0:38.8 | It's going to come out next month, right? |
| 0:40.6 | Not shortly. |
| 0:41.8 | April 29th on, and sounds true. |
| 0:45.2 | It's called Your Extraordinary Minds, Psychedelics in the 21st Century, and How to Use |
| 0:50.1 | Them. |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah, no, there's some great information in the book that's certainly appropriate for anyone |
| 0:58.6 | thinking of delving into that area. |
| 1:04.8 | What prompted you? |
| 1:05.8 | I mean, it's kind of a silly question since your father is Tim Leary, but what did prompt you to put this together after all these years? |
| 1:14.9 | Yeah, after all of these years. |
| 1:16.3 | Well, look, I mean, there were a few different ways to answer that for sure. |
| 1:21.7 | One, you know, I can be the very kind of human pragmatic answer, Ragu, is sort of like, well, that was the next |
| 1:29.3 | thing that I needed to do. |
| 1:31.0 | You know, that was kind of the next logical step for this place that I occupy in the, |
| 1:35.7 | in the psychedelic community as facilitator or a teacher, you know, I do all these things. |
| 1:41.7 | So there's that. |
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