Sauna Sagas Sauna Sagas

In this episode I explore the field of emotional biology and the science behind how emotions are the scaffolding to idiopathic disease. How Entheogens are being shown to modulate the epigenetic component of illness status.

Coming back to some old texts while in a whirlwind of instability. Awakening to a better understanding of the Bardo Thodal and how it flavors my ambition to coping towards ambiguous loss.

Recognizing The Shadow in myself and in the collective to then explore how I can integrate the darker parts of my psyche. Why understanding my potential to be a monster allows for a higher understanding of my thoughts and actions

Finding comfort in a Ram Das lecture that reintroduced how a hierarchy of needs is attached to a false conditioned persona. How investment in this process can lead to separateness.

Exploring the emotional tension with a high and terrifying dose of cannabis. Treating this process as an extreme ritual to jumping into very uncomfortable and necessary spaces in facing what I’ve been denying. How learning to self love calmed a high state of anxiety on the upswing of the experience.

Here I explain the buildup and philosophy around my jiu jitsu program that helps new students integrate into academy’s more prepared.