In & Through: The Onaya Podcast

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” ~ Gustav Mahler. 

From Simon's misadventures with a not-so-traditional Shipibo treatment for tinnitus, to the connection between spirituality and madness, this episode is a ride through all things weird and wonderful at the fringes of spiritual scholarship with Julian Vayne.

Julian's obsession with group ritual practice began within the Western Esoteric Tradition when he was 16. Since then he has worked in ceremony with practitioners from many different lands and lineages, as a senior member of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros and widely recognized as one of Britain’s leading occultists.

Today, Julian is the author of books, essays, journals and articles in both the academic and esoteric press, including Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony (2017). He sees his work as part of the process to help re-imagine an earth-centered, non-dogmatic, open-source spirituality.

Julian is one of many experts on Onaya's new 6-month Psychedelic Mentorship Training programme, which Simon outlines at the start of this episode. For more information and to enroll in the next cohort, visit Onaya's website and use the code 'INTHROUGH10' for a special 10% discount.

What is In & Through: The Onaya Podcast?

In & Through by Onaya transcends paradigms at the intersection of science, spirituality and psychedelic medicine.

In eclectic conversations navigating psychological growth, spirit entities and everything in between, Onaya welcomes wide-ranging guests including neuroscientists, musical healers and Shipibo curanderos.

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Your main host is Onaya's founder Dr Simon Ruffell, a psychiatrist and research psychologist with a PhD in Amazonian ayahuasca and a student of Shipibo curanderismo.

Onaya is dedicated to bridging the gap between traditional indigenous knowledge and modern science, including a not-for-profit research arm that studies ayahuasca and other Amazonian plant medicine practices. We offer one-to-one support, consultancy and accredited courses that combine shamanism and biomedical science to facilitate holistic individual and collective healing.

For more information, please visit https://www.onaya.io/ or join our mailing list.

*** For a special 10% discount to our 6 Month Psychedelic Mentorship Training, head to our website and use the code 'INTHROUGH10' ***

Co-producers: Robbie Redway and Caspar Montgomery
Music: United Freedom Collective