Furthure
by Haley Maria Dourron
Latest episode
Psychedelics in the Wild with Daniel Kruger, PhD
Psychedelics in the Wild with Daniel Kruger, PhD
About this podcast
The Furthure Podcast explores the far reaches of the human experience from missions to Mars to skydiving to blowing one's mind with psychoactive substances. These conversations offer insight into how these extreme experiences showcase the human spirit and just might teach us how to live our everyday lives a bit better. Hosted by Haley Maria Dourron.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 23 episodes
- Psychedelics in the Wild with Daniel Kruger, PhD · 1 h 0 min · Season 3 Episode 3Daniel Kruger, PhD, is an expert on the real-world impact of psychedelic use and community-based research. Although a lot of times people get blown away by psychedelic headlines…
- Lexicons of the Ineffable: A Conversation with Josie Kins, PsychonautWiki Founder · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 2One of the most systematic and comprehensive systems of documenting the effects of psychedelics and other psychoactives wasn’t made in academia, but was crafted by some drug…
- Dissociatives Nervewing has known and (Ab)used · 2 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 1Nervewing may be the closest thing the field of psychonautics has seen to a Shulgin of dissociatives. Having cataloged an extensive repertoire of 253 unique substances ingested…
- Can Psychedelics Pass the Placebo Test? with Balázs Szigeti, PhD · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 10The structure of clinical trials is generally not the most interesting thing in the world. But for psychedelic science, going through the “gold standard” double-blind…
- Conversations with Amazonian Plants: Ayahuasca & Beyond with Rebekah Senānāyaka, PhD · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 9Rebekah Senānāyaka, PhD, is an anthropologist and a certified explorer, having spent a combined total of 27 months of fieldwork in the heart of the Amazon, often living in a…
- Exceptional Experiences with Psychedelics and Beyond with Dr. David Luke · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 8This is one of the most fun and wide-ranging conversations I’ve had on Furthure in a while — and one of the weirder ones. Dr. David Luke, author of Otherworlds: Psychedelics and…
- The Varieties of Psychedelic Somatic Experience · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 7Dan Grossman takes us on a tour of a very uncharted—but important—aspect of psychedelics’ effects: somatic experiences. We discuss the role that weird and wacky, “energy-like”…
- Running Further with Ultrarunner Ria Xi · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 6Ria Xi is taking running further than many people could even conceive of as possible. She is planning a 20,000-km (~12,427-mile) run from the edge of Russia to Portugal. She has…
- Macrodosing Awe with Sean Goldy, PhD · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 5How often do you feel amazed—or experience a sense of wonder? When was the last time you looked up at a tree, even in an ordinary park, and felt awe? Sean Goldy, PhD, a…
- Acid Hype: The Past & Present of Psychedelics & the Media · 1 h 1 min · Season 2 Episode 4Psychedelics have long been a hot topic. But in the early days of psychedelics, back in the 1950s, even mainstream media outlets were enthusiastically covering research on a…
- Meditation Gone Wrong with Dr. Willoughby Britton · 1 h 4 min · Season 2 Episode 3Dr. Willoughby Britton tells her journey from a meditation evangelical to a meditation skeptic. She discusses how stumbling into cases of people getting worse from meditation…
- Your Memory on Drugs with Manoj Doss, PhD · 1 h 41 min · Season 2 Episode 2Manoj Doss, PhD, has been known as a force of skepticism in psychedelic science and a critic of psychedelic neuroimaging. But he is also an expert on one often overlooked—but…
- Psychedelic Communities in the Bible Belt? · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 1Lisa Gezon, an anthropologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, joins Furthure to share her experience investigating what many may consider an unlikely cultural group –…
- Psychedelic use in the wild & the power of science communication with Maria Bǎlǎeț, PhD · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 10Maria Bǎlǎeț, PhD is a cognitive neuroscientist who has explored how the use of psychedelics “in the wild” might impact both cognition and mental health. She discusses her…
- When Extracting Demons with Ayahuasca Gets You Stabbed · 60 min · Season 1 Episode 9There are some unique occupational hazards to being a psychedelic facilitator. One you might not hear much about is getting stabbed by a client while extracting their astral…
- Good Chemistry, Bold Science: Dr. Julie Holland on MDMA & Schizophrenia · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 8Julie Holland, MD is launching a groundbreaking trial on the safety of MDMA in people with schizophrenia—something she has been working toward for nearly 40 years. She shares…
- What's it like to be a Buddhist Nun? · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 7In this episode, Sophie Jacobs, author of The Intuition Experiment, tells us about her time studying in a Theravada monastery to be a Buddhist nun. We discuss what catalyzed her…
- Lasers, DMT, and Simulation Theory: A Conversation with Danny Goler · 2 h 13 min · Season 1 Episode 6Danny Goler is in the process of making a documentary about his discoveries involving DMT and lasers and what this might mean for simulation theory. His work is rapidly gaining…
- Tripping Towards Transcending Death: Existential Psychology with Alex Sielaff, PhD · 1 h 24 min · Season 1 Episode 5In this episode, Alex Sieleff, PhD, delves into how we live with death and how psychedelics, along with other altered states of consciousness such as breathwork, can help us make…
- A Positive (yet nuanced) MDMA Story · 1 h 19 min · Season 1 Episode 4MDMA-assisted psychotherapy did not get approved by the FDA. This shocked many, and the critiques surrounding the trial varied substantially in their constructiveness. Still, it…
