Published: May 12, 2020, 1 p.m.
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In this episode, Kyle and Joe interview Eamon Armstrong, host of the Podcast, Life is a Festival. In the show, they talk about Eamon\\u2019s Iboga experience, the festival culture, rites of passage, ethics and more.
3 Key Points:
- Eamon Armstrong is the host of Life is a Festival, a podcast promoting a lifestyle of adventure and personal development through the lens of festival culture.
- Maya is an intelligence platform for psychedelic therapists to manage their clients and their protocols.\\xa0
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Rites of Passage can look different for everybody, they can look like going to Africa to be initiated in an Ibogaine ceremony, to attending Burning Man.\\xa0
Show Notes
About Eamon
- Eamon is the host of the Podcast, Life is a Festival
- It\'s not about festivals, it\'s about how to make life like a festival
- Eamon is very passionate about mental wellness
- After graduating college, he felt very lost
- He was throwing mushroom tea parties, making electronic music with his friends
- The key to throwing a mushroom tea party is to have people drink less mushrooms than they think that they\'re drinking, everyone just thinks they are tripping harder than they were
- He went to Burning Man in 2010
- He started working in social media for Burning Man\\u2019s off playa events
- Psychedelics and harm reduction became core to their editorial voice
- He worked closely with Psychedelic Peer Support, Zendo, Kosmicare, etc
Ibogaine Experience
- Eamon attended an Iboga retreat in Gabon, Africa, and he says it was more about the retreat than the Iboga
- He was in the chamber for 5 days, and he was alone in it
- This retreat was in the Bwiti religion
- He really went there for a full sledgehammer experience
- He felt he had some addicted aspects that were hindering his sexual experiences
- Iboga goes to the root of the trauma and shows you where the addictive pattern of behavior is
- Iboga has a long integration period
- Iboga is a root, and he consumed it in a form of a tangled nest
- He felt very blasted open from the experience
- Iboga took him directly to his anger
- \\u201cWe have in our modern Western Culture, a lot of lost, young people\\u201d - Eamon
- \\u201cThe value of a rite of passage, is that you are confronted with certain things that you can\'t get to on your own\\u201d - Eamon
- The fact that you can die in an Iboga experience, is part of the initiation
Rites of Passage
- Burning Man isn\'t a rite of passage, but it can be used as a rite of passage
- Burning Man is a temporary experience in civic living, it is not orchestrated by elders
- There is a growing topic on psychedelic parenting, and taking psychedelics with children
Maya
- Maya is designed in partnership with psychedelic practitioners & ceremony leaders
- Maya is an intelligence platform for psychedelic therapists to manage their clients and their protocols
- Ethics in psychedelics are so important right now
- This does not replace the therapist, it\'s everything the therapist needs to support their clients in healing
- \\u201cThe ecosystem itself will thrive when we are all working in service to each other\\u201d - Eamon
- \\u201cIf you want to be a part of the cool kids, and the cool kids are doing it ethically, then you have to do it ethically\\u201d - Eamon
Final Thoughts
- The soul is the most beautiful thing
- \\u201cPsychedelics as medicine, treat society, beyond individuals\\u201d - Eamon
Links
Eamon Armstrong Website
Life is a Festival Facebook Group
Maya
Maya Health Facebook Page
Psychedelic Therapy Podcast
Psychedelic Therapy Podcast by Maya Facebook Group
About Eamon Armstrong
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Eamon Armstrong is the creator and host of Life is a Festival, promoting a lifestyle of adventure and personal development through the lens of festival culture. He is the former Creative Director and public face of Chip Conley\\u2019s industry-leading online festival guide and community Fest300, where he was a global community builder. Eamon\\u2019s belief in the transformational power of psychedelics led him to take part in a traditional Bwiti initiation in Gabon, and to become a trained Sitter with MAP\\u2019s Zendo Project. Eamon is a passionate advocate for mature masculinity and offers public talks and workshops from mythopoetic men\'s work to stand-up comedy on integrating masculinity.
Headshot Photo Credit: GBK Photos\\xa0
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