Psychedelic Sounds
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Today we venture into the transformative world of psychedelic therapies and healing sounds as East Forest joins me for an insightful discussion. We explore his documentary "Music for Mushrooms" and its profound emotional resonance with audiences. East Forest reveals his creative journey of blending music and psychedelics for over 15 years and shares his exciting vision for future live shows. Discover the deep connection between music, psychedelics, and spiritual growth. Visit our podcast page for episode notes, East Forest's works, and additional resources.
0:00 - Introduction to the show
02:05 – East Forest’s journey
05:38 – Writing music for mushroom guidance
12:35 – Lack of awareness of the role of music in psychedelics
16:24 – The power of music, even without the psychedelics
19:35 – Ram Dass
21:46 – Music is speaking through metaphor and feeling
24:59 – Two ways of creating music
27:32 – Lot of new people emerging in this space lately
31:27 – Filmmaking
37:51 – ‘I could lay here for another hour’
41:51 – Thank you & contact
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between. |
| 0:05.0 | For 15 years, Krishna Trevor Oswald, better known as East Forest, has been at the forefront of the subcultural movement that views music and psychedelics as powerful healing tools. |
| 0:19.0 | When his publicist reached out to me to be on the show, I was so excited |
| 0:23.9 | because I've listened to East Forest music before in meditation, in journeys, and just |
| 0:30.2 | frankly, when I'm taking a bath. And it is so powerful and moving to be in that music to help |
| 0:37.3 | you achieve an altered state or just to be in that music to help you achieve an altered state, or just to be in the |
| 0:41.1 | music and enjoy yourself. But I was really looking forward to this interview, and we talk about |
| 0:46.6 | music and psychedelics and how he composes his music to mirror the arc of the psychedelic journey. |
| 0:53.3 | We talk about where the state of psychedelics is |
| 0:55.5 | today and where he sees himself moving forward in this space, including his new movie that was |
| 1:02.5 | just recently released called Music for Mushrooms. So with that, I bring you today's episode of |
| 1:08.6 | Life, Death, and the space between. |
| 1:21.2 | Welcome East to Life, Death, and the Space Between. |
| 1:23.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:47.4 | So for those who don't know you or know your work, as soon as your publicist, as soon as I got the email from your publicist, I was excited because I've been listening to your music for a long time. I've been integrating your music into my own personal journeys. And I've been using it for meditation. So it was a very exciting moment for me to actually be able to meet you. Tell us about your fascinating journey into the music of mushrooms or |
| 1:56.7 | psychedelic journeys in general because it's used. I mean, any Johns Hopkins list, you look at anything, your music is right there. |
| 2:05.6 | It was 15 years ago that I started making music for myself to journey to. |
| 2:12.8 | And that was, you know, it was coming out of a place of where things were falling apart. |
| 2:19.7 | I was living in New York City. |
| 2:22.0 | And so it was more like there was an opening by this like collapse externally in the world, but also internally for myself. |
| 2:29.9 | And I just needed, I just really wanted to make something for me that could help guide a journey for me. |
| 2:36.8 | And it was inspired by some journeys I'd had in the past where I kind of stumbled into these moments with mushrooms and music that were really, really powerful and important. |
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