Rupert Radio

Blake Rupert

Rupert Radio is a field journal for the ideas, tools, and experiments shaping how we think, work, heal, invest, create, and live. Hosted by Blake Rupert, the show moves across psychology, technology, philosophy, mental health, productivity, and human development with curiosity, discernment, and a bias toward what works in real life.

  1. May 20

    #13 - Updating the Nervous System: Sam van Ginkel on Memory Reconsolidation and Deep Change

    SHOW NOTES Blake speaks with Sam van Ginkel about experiential therapy, memory reconsolidation, and why insight alone often fails to change our deepest patterns. The heart of the episode is memory reconsolidation: how old emotional learnings update when activated and met with a new, disconfirming experience. OUTLINE (0:08) – Completing the Emotional Arc: Why suffering changes us differently when it is witnessed, held, and supported. (0:11) – Beyond Talk Therapy: Why being in the experience can reach places explanation cannot. (0:15) – The machinery under evidence backed counselling modalities of IFS, AEDP, Somatic Experiencing, and Coherence Therapy: The mechanism linking several experiential approaches. [IFS — https://ifs-institute.com/] [AEDP — https://aedpinstitute.org/] [SE — https://traumahealing.org/] [Coherence Therapy — https://coherencetherapy.org/] (0:17) – Updating the Rules Your Nervous System Still Lives By: Experiential therapy as a way of changing implicit emotional learnings. (0:21) – The Inner Game of Therapy: Why change often happens better through direct experience than instruction. [The Inner Game of Tennis — https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/905.The_Inner_Game_of_Tennis] (0:25) – The Rider, the Elephant, and the Limits of Insight: Why the logical mind can understand while the emotional system still refuses to believe. [The Happiness Hypothesis — https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96884.The_Happiness_Hypothesis] (0:31) – Learning to Speak Elephant: The shift from managing symptoms to addressing the emotional learning underneath them. (0:32) – Memory Reconsolidation, Without the Jargon: How the brain can unlearn an old emotional pattern. [Unlocking the Emotional Brain — https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17054323-unlocking-the-emotional-brain] (0:37) – A Live Demo Begins: Blake offers a real trigger around authority, frustration, and feeling controlled. (0:41) – Turning a Trigger Into a Target: Sam clarifies the desired change before going deeper. (0:49) – Symptom Deprivation: Using the possibility of removing a reaction to reveal what it protects. (0:52) – Under the Anger: The conversation moves from heat and confrontation toward grief, tenderness, and the need to be seen. (0:55) – The Younger Part Behind the Adult Reaction: Blake connects the authority trigger to earlier emotional learning around agency and self-worth. (1:03) – The Change Engine: Activation, Mismatch, New Learning: A practical breakdown of memory reconsolidation. [Unlocking the Emotional Brain — https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17054323-unlocking-the-emotional-brain] (1:08) – Where to Start With Experiential Therapy: Resources for therapists and clients interested in experiential work.

    1h 13m

  2. May 17

    #12 - The Random Show with Andras Lenart: AI Therapy, Tesla, Nicotine, and Knowing What to Trust

    Show Notes (0:04) Internal Discernment: Intuition vs. outdated coping. (0:06) Expansive vs. Contractive: Testing internal signals. (0:13) Pulling Away Feels Like Freedom: Avoidant impulses and protection patterns. (0:20) Reading the Body: Tension, aliveness, constriction, and capacity. (0:24) Pattern Recognition: Using hindsight to see recurring relationship moves. (0:31) Work, Mental Health, and Growth: Vocational mental health, mentorship, and skill-building. (0:33) Goal, Plan, Do, Review: Clarify, test, act, update. (0:37) Why Vague Goals Fail: The cost of underspecified targets. (0:40) Updating the Bullseye: Why partner lists can miss the deeper feeling. (0:47) AI-Augmented Psychotherapy: Supporting therapists without replacing relationship. (0:49) Burnout and Better Tools: Where clinical AI may safely help. (0:51) BCACC and AI: Guidelines for safe AI use in counselling. [BCACC AI Guidelines by Candice Alder: https://bcacc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/BCACC_AI_Guidelines_March_2025.pdf] (0:52) EHR Documentation Tax: Why records may be AI's lowest-hanging fruit. (0:57) Reflective Dialogue Companions: LLMs as clinical brainstorming partners. (1:03) Syllabus to Calendar: Turning course dates into an importable file. (1:05) Custom Writing Workspace: Blake's ChatGPT project for correspondence. Prompt: Act as my Communications Strategist and Writing Partner. Draft, refine, and tighten professional correspondence. Prioritize scannability, clear structure, short sentences, and skimmed points. Keep the tone friendly, sincere, professional, collaborative, and open-ended. Add subtle quirks only when they improve clarity. Avoid overpromising or committing on my behalf. Do not use dashes in place of other punctuation. (1:07) Claude, ChatGPT, and the Yes-Man Problem: Tone, speed, UI, pushback, and sycophancy. (1:11) AI Workbook Designer: Personalized learning materials that help. (1:13) Socratic Learning With LLMs: AI as an active learning partner. (1:15) NotebookLM and Study Tools: Turning source material into quizzes, podcasts, flashcards, and active study. (1:16) Personalized Mentor Model: AI tutors and The Diamond Age. [The Diamond Age: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age] (1:18) Tesla and RoboTaxi: Why self-driving may matter most. (1:24) Why Robotic Hands Are Hard: Dexterity, feedback, force, and messiness. [da Vinci Robot Peels a Grape: https://www.froedtert.com/videos/da-vinci-robot-peels-grape] (1:30) Chinese EVs: Batteries, costs, and production quality. (1:36) Supply Chains, Drones, and Geopolitics: Hardware capacity as power. (1:37) Depressed Assets and Cockpunch: Tim Ferriss's NFT project after the hype cycle. (1:43) Winston's How to Speak: Communication, attention, and presentation design. [MIT OCW: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-tll-005-how-to-speak-january-iap-2018/] (1:47) Nicorette as a Focus Tool: Low-dose nicotine, focus, ADHD, and route of administration. (1:52) Guardrails Against Habituation: Rules and spacing to reduce dependency risk.

    1h 54m

  3. 03/02/2024

    #11 – Integrating Life's Transformative Moments w/ Mitch Earleywine, PhD

    Show Notes This is a conversation with Dr. Mitch Earleywine. Mitch Earleywine, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology trained at Columbia University, Indiana University, and the Jackson VA Medical Center. He has over 20 teaching awards, including the Teacher of the Year Award from the University of Southern California and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from the State University of New York. He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including dozens focused on psychedelics and their impact, addressing everything from how clinicians can improve their practice to ironing out methodical concerns. Over ninety of his papers address issues related to minoritized individuals. He’s also authored edited books address drugs of abuse, substance use problems treatment, subjective effects of psychoactive substances, and humor. He’s made media appearances as an expert consultant for Netflix series “Rotten,” the History Channel documentary “Marijuana: A Chronic History,” as well as an NPR. OUTLINE: Here are timestamps for the episode with references mentioned (00:00) - Conversation Highlights (00:55) - Introduction (03:16) – Conversation start. Taking risks as a professional (08:37) – Introducing "Integration" and Wise Interventions - https://www.wiseinterventions.org/ (15:11) – Defining Integration - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00221678221085800?journalCode=jhpa (21:20) – Earleywine's protocol for integration (27:28) – Cultivating relationships as a healthy move - https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/psymed.2023.0020. (33:46) – Lessons from Earleywine's dad (38:08) – Supporting questions for folks who are integrating (41:49) – Oceanic Boundlessness (46:30) – Trim tabs and treating depression (57:50) – Choosing identities, importance of selecting values (1:04:49) – Earleywine's relationship to buddhism and non-duality - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water (1:13:53) – Are mindfulness and non-duality the same thing? Thoughts Without a Thinker, an introduction to buddhism for a western audience, by Mark Epstein https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37082.Thoughts_Without_A_Thinker (1:24:00) – Advice for counsellors, therapists and clinicians (1:10:55) – Does buddhism suggest we shouldn't have desires? (1:16:46) – Should we avoid suffering? There is no good or bad (1:21:20) – Thoughts Without a Thinker, by Mark Epstein Great book if you only read the introductions to buddhism intended for a western audience. Ignore the author's outdated claims about psychology, neuroscience or anything Freud related https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37082.Thoughts_Without_A_Thinker (1:28:11) – Power of intentional reflection combined with simple steps (1:40:43) – Introduction to 5-MeO-DMT with Aga Postawska - https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/670e439e/lessons-from-a-world-class-psychedelic-facilitator-w-aga-postawska (1:41:01) – Treating End of Life Anxiety with Psilocybin with Thomas Hartle - https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/f3d91148d12243c9/treating-anxiety-with-mushrooms-side-effects-include-improved-quality-of-life-w-thomas-hartle (1:44:01) – Roland Griffiths, Psychedelic Science pioneer - https://tim.blog/2022/12/08/roland-griffiths/ (1:48:26) – Don't Wake and Bake: Morning use predicts cannabis problems - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-35741-009 Have you served as a trip sitter (someone who's sat with and supported another person undergoing a psychdelic experience) and want to help Mitch with his research by participating a quick and easy zoom call, you can reach Mitch and his team at 420research@gmail.com Thanks for tuning in! Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

    1h 54m

  4. 08/06/2021

    #10 – Becoming a Psychedelic Counsellor w/ Adrian Oberg

    Show Notes This is a conversation with Adrian Oberg. Adrian is one of the first professionals to go through a Canadian Health Approved training to become a psychedelic clinical counsellor. Adrian works as a harm reduction professional and integration specialist who has been holding space for transcendent experiences for the past 6 yrs. He is the director of Victoria Association of Psychedelic Studies as well as the Celium, a volunteer based harm reduction organization. OUTLINE: Here are timestamps for the episode with references mentioned (00:00) - Intro (01:04) - Welcoming Exercise (16:14) – The value of "check ins" (20:16) – Training to be a legal psychedelic counsellor https://www.therapsil.ca/ (30:00) – How to establish connection and support others (34:10) – Client centered care https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person-centered_care (42:40) – Adrian's history with psychedelics (48:47) – The war on drugs and against people of color https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004642370/jay-z-the-war-on-drugs-is-an-epic-fail.html (52:01) – Studying psychedelics at school (54:00) – Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) https://mapscanada.org/ (1:01:40) – The importance of honesty (1:04:28) – Adrian's relationship with these medicines (1:06:50) – Potential for healing and growth (1:10:55) – Does buddhism suggest we shouldn't have desires? (1:16:46) – Should we avoid suffering? There is no good or bad (1:21:20) – Thoughts Without a Thinker, by Mark Epstein Great book if you only read the introductions to buddhism intended for a western audience. Ignore the author's outdated claims about psychology, neuroscience or anything Freud related https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37082.Thoughts_Without_A_Thinker (1:25:13) – Surrendering to the experience in a good way, and the buddha's notion of the third path or the middle way (1:32:33) – Do our hangups all come from childhood trauma? Already Free, by Bruce Tift. Excellent book on finding contentment and fulfilment in all moments https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12400671 (1:49:00) – Adrian book recommendation Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52036.Siddhartha Thanks for tuning in! You can connect with Blake Rupert on Facebook or Twitter at @blakerupert_ Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

    1h 59m

  5. 06/15/2021

    #9 – Nature Connection and Mentoring w/ Stephanie MacKay

    Show Notes Stephanie MacKay, founder of Fianna Wilderness School - https://fianna.ca/ This conversation is an exploration of nature based mentorship! We focus on the reasons someone might want to participate in a nature school and explore take aways that can help folks learn wherever they are in life. OUTLINE: Here are timestamps for the episode with references mentioned. (00:00) Highlight (00:40) Intro (02:00) Welcoming Exercise (09:03) – What is Nature Connection and Wilderness School? Wilderness Awareness School: https://www.wildernessawareness.org/ Forest Schools: https://forestschoolassociation.org/what-is-forest-school/ (16:01) – A typical day at Wilderness School (24:56) – Mentorship (31:05) – Public school systems connection to factories Sir Ken Robinson Ted Talk on Education: https://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U?t=13 Factory model school wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_model_school (34:15) – Field guides, resources for learning about nature (36:28) – Coyote Mentoring super power for learning and teaching (46:10) – Wilderness Awareness School, Duvall Washington: https://www.wildernessawareness.org/ (47:02) – 3 Tools for mentoring: Trickster, Questioning and Didactic (48:00) – Art of Questioning Jon Young: https://www.jonyoung.online/ (50:11) Lasting lessons and the Google Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_effect (55:22) – Shine Edgar Quote: https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co/episode/2e64a1b6/sound-healing-music-medicine-and-more-w-shine-edgar (56:44) – The value of risk (1:05:30) – Rights of passage and Initiation (1:15:20) – Sit Spot, aka the shortcut to nature connection (1:29:55) – Liminal spaces Thanks for tuning in! You can connect with Blake Rupert on Facebook or Twitter at @blakerupert_ Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

  6. 04/26/2021

    #8 – Using Psychedelics, Tips For Patients and Facilitators w/ Deus Fortier

    Show Notes The following is a conversation with Deus Fortier. Deus is a plant medicine facilitator who leads workshops in Mexico and does other forms of transformational coaching in Vancouver, Canada. To find out more about him go to https://www.deusfortier.com/ or https://www.thesomaheart.com/ Show Notes: (1:00) Starting a meeting with presence. Grounding, gratitude, and intention (2:44) Example of establishing a container, a welcoming ritual (9:51) Introducing Deus Fortier (11:00) Long term growth. Value of preparation and integration (13:05) Are Psychedelics for growth or healing? Potential limitations of western science in evaluating psychedelic healings Rak Razam on 5-MeO-DMT: https://youtu.be/0PtZ-58xZjQ (18:40) Bufo and 5-MeO-DMT Deus's partner Aga's episode https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/670e439e/lessons-from-a-world-class-psychedelic-facilitator-w-aga-postawska (19:15) How to prepare for optimal psychedelic outcomes Somatic Scan. https://www.mindfulnessmuse.com/mindfulness-exercises/increase-somatic-awareness-with-a-body-scan-mindfulness-exercise Also an introduction to Somatic Work. Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma, by Peter Levine and Ann Frederick - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384924.Waking_the_Tiger (27:00) Tips for solo psychedelic trips (31:30) Devon Christie, of Numinus Wellness. Emphasis on somatic experiencing for psychedelic processes https://numinus.ca/team/dr-devon-christie-md-ccfp (30:09) Spotlight of attention and addressing difficult sensations https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/d0244d42/psychedelic-buddhism-how-to-quit-suffering-w-andras-lenart (32:15) Science vs Spirituality Observational Studies: https://www.iwh.on.ca/what-researchers-mean-by/observational-vs-experimental-studies#:~:text=Observational%20studies%20are%20ones%20where,two%20types%20of%20observational%20studies. Initiative to collect data on psychedelic therapies https://www.quantifiedcitizen.com/ (35:44) Entourage effects. How psychedelics are both therapeutically potent as well as holistically powerful across "many dimensions of our beings simultaneously" https://psychedelicreview.com/the-entourage-effect-in-magic-mushrooms/ (40:33) Psychedelics eliciting "Mystical Experiences" that participants rate as 1 of their top 3 life experiences, research by R. Griffiths of John Hopkins University https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press_releases/2006/griffithspsilocybin.pdf (43:09) What should people avoid when going into a psychedelic experience? The importance of intentions (48:20) The basic don'ts (50:10) Examples of great psychedelic practitioners. The benefit of letting go, having support, and acknowledging whatever is true in the present moment (56:05) The value of having a facilitator, and group vs solo settings (1:01:19) The size of groups, 2:1 ratio of participants to facilitators (1:03:13) Research showing group therapy and solo therapy may have equal healing outcomes https://societyforpsychotherapy.org/individual-vs-group-psychotherapy/ (1:07:57) Role of Music in psychedelics You can also check out https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/2e64a1b6/australian-digeridu-master-and-plant-medicine-guide-shine-edgar The range of your sensory awareness, aka the Umwelt: https://eagleman.com/science/sensory-substitution/ And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygRNoieAnzI Medicine Songs, South American Icaros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icaro (1:16:21) Modern medicine songs for Westerners https://www.youtube.com/user/BeautifulChorus And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(Jon_Hopkins_album) (1:18:00) Deus's Mentors: Satyen Raja: https://acceleratedevolutionacademy.com/ Chris Austen Fletcher: www.9Rings.ca www.HalfmoonHaven.ca www.WholeFamilyHealing.ca Trevor Yelich: https://www.numasomatics.com/trevor-yelich Dana Lynne Andersen: danalynneandersen.com awakeningartsacademy.com Paramahansa Yogananda: https://www.yogananda-srf.org/ "Authobiography of a Yogi" Blackfoot First Nations, Blood tribe of Southern Alberta: https://blackfootconfederacy.ca/ (1:22:15) What personality traits or practices are encouraged across different self development frameworks? Somatic scans David R. Hawkins: "Power Vs. Force" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19795.Power_vs_Force "Letting Go: The Pathway To Surrender" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16098910-letting-go?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=g4b6jAJyIJ&rank=1 John Vervaeke's 52 part series free on YouTube called "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY (1:27:15) Board game recommendations Pandemic: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic And Gloomhaven, fantasy RPG : https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/174430/gloomhaven (1:31:28) Imagination is one of the most important qualities we can cultivate Laura Dawn of the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast, on creativity, curiosity and imagination: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/0748f66c-d090-43f8-a683-865b426d0f99 (1:38:10) Passive and active integration (1:40:30) Radical accountability, honesty of practitioners (1:45:20) Psychedelics as Jetpacks or Hiking https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/4075495e/quit-suffering-with-psychedelic-buddhism-hiking-vs-jetpacks Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

    1h 52m

  7. 04/06/2021

    #7 – Sound Healing: Music, Medicine and More w/ Shine Edgar

    Show Notes The following is a conversation with Shine Edgar. Shine is a renowned didjeridu master, sound healer and plant medicine guide with 30+ years of experience. He is also worked as a nurse and trained as a permaculture designer. (3:22) Western Australia Indigenous Group, Noongar https://tinyurl.com/yhk3bmhz (3:30) The Dreaming, how the world is sung into being. How to find your personal purpose https://tinyurl.com/2cz9fwfs (4:45) Noongar elder and Shine's mentor, Maxine Fumagalli. Maxine was an accomplished artist, poet, healer and teacher (7:23) Didjeridu for sound healing (20:06) "Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth", by Francoise Bourzat and Kristina Hunter https://tinyurl.com/743n3f29 (22:40) What to look for in a psychedelic guide (25:48) How music and sound forms our reality (26:00) Plants responding to music https://tinyurl.com/jfsh3znz (30:10) Music and Psychedelics, for recreation or growth? (33:55) Safety in ceremony, the advantages of staying on a mat or bed, at night (37:24) The importance of listening! Tips to improve your listening https://tinyurl.com/t5h547us (41:31) Songlines or Dreaming Tracks, maps that are sung https://tinyurl.com/y48w3j67 (49:27) Self Mastery (51:56) Tips for Self Mastery, becoming masterminds (59:00) Instruments overview (59:25) World Music Masters: Mamady Keïta, Master Drummer from Guinea. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakastani Sufi devotional music composer (1:03:20) Exercises for growing musicians (1:09:33) Being Nothing. Self acceptance and right effort. Particles vs. Waves, how things are solid or potentiality (1:17:28) The power of making the other band members sound great, not just yourself You can find more about Shine at: www.shinelikethesun.ca or reach him on facebook under Shine Edgar Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

    1h 21m

  8. 03/07/2021

    #6 – Quit Suffering With Psychedelic Buddhism: Hiking vs Jetpacks

    Show Notes Vancouver Psychedelic Meetup is pleased to bring you a talk by Blake Rupert. Blake shares his insights at the intersection of psychedelics and Buddhism. He will explore how we might integrate practices, enhance our epistemic and ontological foundations, and deeply ground ourselves in the unyielding present. Blake will consider how this knowledge can allow us to alleviate suffering, discover our true freedom, and surf the uncertainty in our lives. Blake is an accomplished mentor who combines a Buddhist practice with psychedelic insights and nature-based wisdom. He has a BA from Dalhousie where he doubled majored in psychology and philosophy, studying topics like consciousness and the feasibility of producing thinking machines. Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

    1h 3m
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Rupert Radio is a field journal for the ideas, tools, and experiments shaping how we think, work, heal, invest, create, and live. Hosted by Blake Rupert, the show moves across psychology, technology, philosophy, mental health, productivity, and human development with curiosity, discernment, and a bias toward what works in real life.

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  • Creator
    Blake Rupert
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    13
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