PT530 – Meditation, Exploring Spiritual Traditions, and the Wisdom of Plant Medicine, with Jon Reiss
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Joe interviews Jon Reiss: critically acclaimed filmmaker, author, and host of the Plantscendence podcast, which tells people's psychedelic stories and is beginning its second season soon.
He talks about his early days of directing Nine Inch Nails and Type O Negative videos, and how Plantscendence was born after he realized that the conversations he was having with people about their most transformative experiences were perfect for a podcast. He discusses his first psychedelic experience with ayahuasca, how microdosing is helping him today, and his realization that people can get to these big experiences in many different ways.
He discusses:
- The two episodes of Plantscendence that stand out the most to him
- Using the term, 'plant medicine'
- His 30 years of meditation practice and how it likely helped him to integrate his first psychedelic experiences
- The concept of plant intelligence and how plants can stop you from being a "consciousness tourist"
- Kabbalah, Kashmir Shaivism, non-duality, and his Shaktipat experience
and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome back to Psychedelics today. This is Joe Moore coming here from |
| 0:16.5 | Bracken Ridge, Colorado. Today on the show, we have John Reese, who is a longtime documentary filmmaker, |
| 0:22.9 | also made a whole mess of music videos. He's an LA-based individual doing a new podcast called |
| 0:31.3 | Plantcendance, and it's very different from what we do here. So we're here to talk about |
| 0:37.4 | psychedelics, this new podcast project, and yeah, how John got here and what he's up to with that project. |
| 0:44.1 | So I hope you enjoy this episode. |
| 0:46.8 | I certainly did a lot in common with John's thinking. |
| 0:50.8 | And I'm very excited to have a relationship with him now. |
| 0:53.6 | So thank you all for tuning |
| 0:55.1 | into psychedelics today. We will see you on the other side. Hi everybody. Welcome back to |
| 1:02.2 | psychedelics today. Joe Moore here, joined by John Reese. How are you today, John? I am excellent. |
| 1:08.1 | Thank you for asking. Very excited to be here on the podcast, of which I am a fan. |
| 1:13.0 | I love that. I think when your work came across my desk, I was like, yeah, whatever. And then I pulled up your wiki, and I was like, oh, oh, okay. This is a really interesting person. And not only your kind of background in film, |
| 1:29.2 | but you worked with some people I'm huge fans of. |
| 1:32.6 | People should go check out the wiki, |
| 1:34.2 | but I'll say this for the first time on the show. |
| 1:35.9 | You did a music video with one of my all-time favorite bands, |
| 1:40.9 | typo-negative. |
| 1:41.8 | Really? |
| 1:42.3 | I thought you were going to say nine-inch nails, perhaps. But I've been two videos for typo-negative, typo negative. Really? I thought you were going to say nine inch nails, perhaps, |
| 1:44.8 | but I've been two videos for typo negative, actually. Which ones? I did my girlfriend's girlfriend |
| 1:51.4 | and Christian woman. Oh, brilliant. Brilliant. And, well, we can go down a rabbit hole here, |
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