{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Personal Kosmology","title":"What Death Taught Alli Schaper About How to Live","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4419,"description":"What happens when you stop looking outside yourself for the rules of how to live?\nAlli Schaper grew up wanting to do things right. She was religious, achievement-oriented, eager for approval, and eventually earned a master’s degree in accounting and became a CPA. But the path that looked right on paper slowly gave way to a much stranger one.\nToday, Alli is the co-founder and CEO of SuperMush, co-founder of the Microdosing Collective, host of Into the Multiverse, a psychedelic advocate, entrepreneur, and community builder.\nHer journey there was anything but linear.\nIn this episode of Personal Kosmology, Alli traces the experiences that changed how she relates to her health, career, spirituality, relationships, and ultimately death.\nYears of chronic health problems first forced her to question how much of her own wisdom she had outsourced to experts. Functional medicine and functional mushrooms opened one door. Psychedelics opened another, challenging beliefs she had inherited about drugs, consciousness, and God.\nBut one of the deepest transformations came through the sudden death of her father.\nThat loss pushed Alli more directly into questions most of us spend our lives avoiding: What happens when we die? Why are we so afraid of death? And what might our relationship with death reveal about the way we are living?\nFor Alli, mushrooms became more than a health product or psychedelic tool. They became a metaphor for life itself.\nIn a forest, fungi break down dead matter and return its nutrients to the soil. Death becomes the raw material for new life.\nAs Alli puts it: “Mushrooms are one of the best teachers ever of death.”\nHer story is also about learning what to do with the parts of ourselves that once seemed like liabilities.\nThe desire to be liked became an ability to connect deeply with people.\nA love of partying and socializing evolved into building communities.\nAchievement and perfectionism became tools she could use rather than rules she had to obey....","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}