Primal Movers Podcast
27 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -A series of conversations about what it means to be human. Seen through the lens of subjective and embodied experiences from guests throughout the world, this podcast asks questions relating to the intersection of science, culture, physical practice, psychedelic experience, philosophy of the senses, ecology and mysticism. Each week guests will share their observations and insights into questions of relevance to the contemporary society we live in and the future we may imagine. Some episodes will be recorded solo - my own thoughts and experiences on practicing creativity and forging conscious meaning - and some with my good friend DJ Murakami for the Emptiness Lab. Thanks for listening!
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The Emptiness Lab Ep. 25: Max Shank - The Pursuit of Physical Freedom
July 07, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 52.9 MB"...Having the boredom and the space... as long as you don´t sedate yourself with some pacifier is where you gain the most perspective on what you really care about " Max Shank is a well-known figure in a variety of physical practice communities world-wide. Chances are you´ll have come across one of his many videos, blog-posts, social media tutorials or even read one of his training books and been to a course. Having spent his entire adult life training and coaching in many disciplines fro...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 24: Shane Mauss - Comedy, Science & Psychedelics
May 31, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 69.5 MB.. "Our ability to be able to research things from other animals points of view... is such a great way to pop out of ourselves a bit and see things a little more objectively and bring out that alien anthropologist point of view. It´s something scientists do well, comedians do well and psychedelics do well..." Shane Mauss is a comedian, podcaster, science and psychedelic enthusiast and modern day explorer of human nature. I´ve followed Shane´s wide-ranging corpus of material for some years n...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 23: Elish Le - Tapping into Primordial Okay´ness
May 19, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 81 MB.. "Curiosity is our natural ground state. That which is in wonder, but seeking no answers " Elish Le is a fascinating guy walking the walk of life. Based in Brooklyn, NY, Elish guides people looking to enhance their well-being by focussing on their direct experience. Using physicality, meditation techniques, sound, silence and plant medicines, Elish utilizes a wide range of tools that have helped illuminate his own journey to offer up new possibilities and perspectives for his clients. D...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 22: Akira the Don - Creating Your Epic Story
May 03, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MB... "If you're living a story, it may as well be the best story... it´s a good framework for navigating your life. And it works across space and time allowing you to collaborate with other adventurers in the epic story" Akira the Don returns for the 1 year anniversary podcast! Back in April last year, during the start of what has turned out to be an eventful year globally, we sat down to kick off the podcast with the great DJ, producer and creator of the Meaningwave to talk life stories. Ho...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 21: Dylan Eddy - Finding Meaning in Experience
April 21, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 63.2 MB"... If it´s useless, I probably know how to do it!" Dylan Eddy is an artist, surfer, climber and adventurer. He is one of our guides at the Emptiness Project, leading groups through the vast open spaces and enclosed rock formations at Joshua Tree National Park. In this conversation, DJ & I ask Dylan about his childhood growing up in a van on the beaches of southern California with his father. How did these formative years provide meaning through experiences of nature and freedom to take th...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 20: Tyler Stone - Making Conspiracies Fun Again
April 06, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 73.5 MB"... We´re getting to the point where we have to start to vet all the information we´re looking at. We have to make decisions as adults while still respecting that other people are allowed to believe or not believe some of this shit too" Tyler Stone is a storyteller. He´s a former gym owner, a strongman athlete, a longtime podcaster and a hilarious guy. Some of you may be familiar with the StrongFit Podcast where Tyler and Julien Pineau discuss all things training, nutrition, philosophy and...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 19: Brandon Quittem - Bitcoin & the Psychedelic Archetype
March 23, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB"... The mycelial archetype appears to be embedded into our species. Over time, network based structures continually appear whether due to embedded wisdom or blind luck. These Mycelial inspired network technologies, once discovered, seem to persist due to their antifragile nature" Brandon Quittem is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker and passionate Bitcoiner. His articles have been read by more than 2 million people online including a fascinating exploration of the parallels between Bitcoin a...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 18: Ryan Mintz - Belief, Higher Intelligence & Freedom
January 29, 2021 13:00 - 2 hours - 82.9 MB"... I developed my Freedom Teachings Systems to support the new wave of conscious men and women in accessing, healing and integrating their higher dimensional aspects of self" Ryan Mintz is not your typical new-age spiritual guide. Describing himself as a "multidimensional catalyst and mentor", Mintz aims at helping people deprogramming subconscious beliefs and "soul alignment" through an array of practical methods, strategies and techniques. Don´t worry, we get deep into some of these dur...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 17: DJ Murakami - On Human Experience
December 27, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 52.2 MB"...But what if you find something new that you can add to the collective and then we could have a little jump in growth, a little evolution?" DJ Murakami is the kind of guy I´d first call if I happened to wake up on the floor of a blood-stained motel room somewhere along a desolate Nevada highway with a Russian hitman holding a 45 to my head. I know he´d drop what he´s doing to try and find a way to help, or at least put me at ease with a subtle joke in the moments before I´m plastered to...
Solomon Islands Diaries 1: Phenomenology of Experience
December 14, 2020 13:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBBetween 2009 - 2011 I was lucky enough to spend an extended period of time in the remote Western Pacific archipelago of the Solomon Islands. I was there as a PhD student conducting ethnographic fieldwork, but mostly, I was there living and learning the local way of life. This is the first in what will for sure become a series of talks about my experiences there. The islands very much shaped the way I look at not only physical practice, but human nature itself - our interactions with our envi...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 16: Dr. Ben Sessa - MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy
December 03, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MB"We need to find a way to hold on to the beauty and magic and wonder of these substances but we have to find a language and a mechanism to make them accessible because it´s the current situation that´s exclusive and inaccessible. It´s what I´m doing. Medicalizing is increasing accessibility and inclusivity, not reducing it." Dr Ben Sessa (MBBS BSc MRCPsych) is a consultant psychiatrist based in the UK and one of the world´s leading psychedelic drug researchers. Sessa specialises in Child an...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 15: Brandon Chien - Psychedelic Fitness
November 28, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 51 MB"You do have a big responsibility (as a trainer) because you're a container - and you have to wash your own container first" Brandon Chien is a coach looking to find meaning and build resilience in life through an open, fluid and inquisitive set of physical, mental and spiritual practices. In this wide-ranging conversation, we speak about some of his experiences as a trainer, athlete, mentor and explorer of consciousness. Strength and endurance are often concepts that become easily compartm...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 14: Daniel Lucchini - Deep Awareness / Honest Expression
November 20, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MB"Once you have time and space for yourself, you can offer that out to someone else" Daniel Lucchini is a curious guy. Recently, he ran for 24hrs (for this charity - donate here!) to see how his body and mind would respond. He looks to experience for lessons, and follows the sensations that emerge. In this conversation, Dan talks about his run, his eating, his meditation and his outlook on life as a chance to learn and spread joy. As a successful strength & conditioning coach based in Sydn...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 13: Dr. Rachel Harris - Ayahuasca, Movement & Psychotherapy
November 09, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 49 MBPsychologist Rachel Harris, PhD is the author of Listening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD and Anxiety. She was in private practice for thirty-five years working with people interested in psychospiritual development. During a decade working in research, Rachel received a National Institutes of Health New Investigator’s Award and published more than forty scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals. She has also consulted to Fortune 500 companies and the United Nations...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 12: Dr. David Luke - Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience
October 30, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBDr David Luke is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Counselling, University of Greenwich, London. Luke is currently module leader of the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience, which has been running since 2009, and also teaches on the Introduction to Psychology, and Criminology and Forensic Psychology modules. He is currently Honorary Senior Lecturer, Centre for Psychedelic Research, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, and is a lecturer ...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 11: Dr. Kate Pate - Ayahuasca & PTSD
September 22, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBDr. Kate Pate is a neurophysiologist and combat trauma medical researcher based in Colorado. Her research career began over 13 years ago, borne out of a fascination with the brain, but specifically the brain-body-breath connection. In addition to the neural control of breathing, Kate has conducted research in the fields of neurotrauma, arthritis, cancer and radiation biology, human performance, mental health, and military (combat trauma) medicine. Work aside, Kate comes from a military famil...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 10: Mike Jay - The History of Psychedelics
September 13, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBMike Jay is an English author and cultural historian whose subjects include science, medicine, drugs, madness, literature and radical politics. The author of Artificial Paradises, Emperors of Dreams, The Atmosphere of Heaven, This Way Madness Lies and Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic, his critical writing on drugs has appeared in many publications, including The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The International Journal of Drug Policy. He sits on the editorial board of the ad...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 9: Andrew Serrano - Myconaut
September 02, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 51.2 MBAndrew Serrano is a strength trainer and competitive powerlifter based in Long Beach, California. With a deep fascination for many aspects of human performance, his career has seen him work for supplement companies, athletic training facilities, private studios, big-box gyms, physical therapy clinics and of course, personal clients. All the while, Andrew is experimenting with ways to optimize his own personal health and performance, without getting confined to particular methodologies and th...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 8: Bjarte Hiley - A Meditation on Reality
August 24, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBBjarte Hiley is a specialist at facilitating the transformation of people´s relationships to themselves and life through movement. He is the founder of Daomove, a method he developed to invite people into a deeper contact with their embodied experience, and let themselves be moved into bold action from that place. What Is The Daomove Practice? It is a space where you can explore yourself and the completely unique expression that lives inside you. A space for exploring what happens in you as...
Facing Human: Vernon Deck - Photography, Sailing, Freedom
July 23, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBIf you´re into snowboarding and know some Volcom team riders, chances are the epic photographs you see on the magazines and posters are taken by Vernon Deck. Born in New Zealand and actually growing up pretty close to where I spent every summer, Vernon is a freelance outdoor action photographer who travels the world chasing the snow, and more recently, the waves, living aboard his 37ft yacht. I got to know of Vernon´s story via his fantastic Youtube channel "Sailing Learning By Doing". What ...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 7: David Weck - Deep in the Spiral Pt. 1
July 01, 2020 12:00 - 2 hours - 83.2 MBDJ & I first became intrigued by David Weck a few years ago due mainly perhaps to his irreverence and deeply passionate approach towards human movement. We took a drive down to the WeckMethod Lab in San Diego to meet him and find out more. Well, to say David gave us a solid introduction to his method is an understatement! We´ve long talked about recording a conversation that goes beneath the surface of his often extravagant social media profile. Who is this guy really? What makes him tick? H...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 6: DJ Murakami - The Psychedelic Narrative
June 04, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBWe all possess an endless array of behavioural inclinations. As humans, the choices we make and the actions we take are interwoven into the tapestry of the stories we share - with ourselves and others. During times of fear and uncertainty, we look for guidance through stories that emerge as a collective psyche of awakening to who and what we are. We absorb what is near and dwell upon what emerges at a distance. Then we make a choice to respond or react. Either way - through our contrasts of ...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 5: Ian "Uncle Creepy" McCall - Psychedelics & MMA
May 29, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBIan "Uncle Creepy" McCall is a retired American mixed martial artist who competed in the Flyweight and Bantamweight divisions of several prominent MMA promotions, including Ultimate Fighting Championship, Rizin Fighting Federation and World Extreme Cage fighting. He is also a former TPF Flyweight Champion. Currently, Ian is a psychedelic integration coach and enjoys stand-up comedy and podcasting. His mission is to give back to his sport by raising awareness around various psychological and...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 4: Dr. Matthew Johnson - The Science of Psychedelics
May 21, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBDr. Matthew Johnson is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Johns Hopkins and also Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center on Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, where he conducts both basic research and therapeutic studies with psilocybin and other psychedelic compounds. He is one of the world’s most published scientists on the human effects of psychedelics, and has conducted seminal research in the behavioural economics of drug use, addiction, and risk behaviour. ...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 3: Dr. Andrew Gallimore - DMT & Alien Information Theory
May 13, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBDr. Andrew Gallimore is a computational neurobiologist, chemist and pharmacologist with a deep interest in the relationship between psychedelic drugs, the brain, consciousness and structures of reality. Currently working in Japan at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Gallimore joins DJ Murakami and myself for a wide-ranging and mind-bending conversation about DMT, the nature of perception and possible intelligence-realms beyond our current comprehension. Such an epic chat this ...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 2: Michelle Janikian - Psychedelic Journalist
May 01, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBAuthor & journalist Michelle Janikian joins myself & DJ Murakami for a fascinating discussion on psychedelic culture, past and present. Michelle has written for various publications including Playboy Magazine and Merry Jane focusing on drug policy, trends, education and aspects of psychedelic culture. She also released her first book, Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion: An Informative, Easy-to-Use Guide to Understanding Magic Mushrooms in 2019. With the current resurgence in psychedelic cu...
The Emptiness Lab Ep. 1: Akira the Don - The Buzzing Controller
April 28, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBThe Wavelord Akira the Don joins myself & DJ Murakami for a wide-ranging discussion on the nature of meaning, truth, creativity, psychedelic thinking and music production. Be sure to check out Akira on all the social and streaming platforms https://www.akirathedon.com/ Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/TomMountjoy)