{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Personal Kosmology","title":"5-MeO-DMT, Ego Death, and a Medicine Without a Lineage | Joel Brierre","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5256,"description":"5-MeO-DMT, Ego Death, and a Medicine Without a Lineage | Joel Brierre\nJoel Brierre took LSD before school at 13. By 18 he had been through addiction to heroin, crack and crystal, had run with Washington, DC's criminal underworld, and had been in and out of jail. His first experience with 5-MeO-DMT came in a dope house where eleven people shared a two-bedroom apartment. In his words, there was no container.\nToday Joel is the founder and CEO of Tandava, a 5-MeO-DMT retreat center in Tepoztlán, Mexico, and of the F.I.V.E. Institute, which works on education, harm reduction, practitioner training and research.\nDevin and Joel trace the path between those two lives. It runs through yoga and meditation, teachers in the Caribbean, India and Mexico, and an ayahuasca ceremony with the Shipibo in which Joel was told the medicine wasn't his to serve, then shown 5-MeO-DMT as \"a medicine without a lineage.\" They explore what makes 5-MeO different from every other psychedelic, why the last thing the mind asks before letting go is whether it's safe to lose control, and why the people who can hold that space have usually been through crucibles of their own.\nIN THIS EPISODE\n• Growing up biracial with seeker parents, and why he says lighter skin kept him out of prison\n• Peyote ceremonies, a Wirrárika fire circle, and a rain ceremony in a drought\n• How 5-MeO-DMT differs from DMT, and what it means that there is no observer\n• The invented history of the \"ancient\" toad ritual\n• Why low-dose vape pens aren't safe\n• Raising capital during the psychedelic bubble\n• What a safe container looks like: screening, preparation, two facilitators, and integration that isn't damage control\n• Pairing ibogaine and 5-MeO, Eli Lilly's 5-MeO program, and the road to legal access\n• How to vet a facilitator\nCHAPTERS\n00:00 Cold open\n01:34 Meet Joel\n02:34 Seeker parents and a multicultural childhood in DC\n04:19 Early non-ordinary states and LSD at 13\n06:04 Addiction, jail and the underworld\n07:58 Yoga,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/kLXNCOLMRmPXStMTgWCjEZUlm9PaHyn73cAJMCAaEo4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81M2Nm/NTNmNTc4MmVmZjI4/YmVjZTEwMDFmNzU1/ZWFiZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}