East Forest - Mycelium and Melodies: The Interplay of Music and Mushrooms for Healing (Ep 1)

In this episode, Xochitl and musician, East Forest, engage in a deep conversation about the transformative power of music, psychedelics, and ancestral healing. They discuss the importance of creating safe spaces and how it enables individuals to embrace play and thereby encounter expansion. The conversation touches on ancestral trauma, the role of indigenous perspectives in plant medicine work, and the process of making music as a tool for healing and transformation.

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(00:00) Sacred Psychedelics

(00:45) Who is East Forest?

(02:48) The overture: A beautiful beginning

(04:35) Inviting more Indigenous voices into the psychedelic eco-system

(09:16) The importance of visibility for Indigenous peoples

(13:07) Sacred ancestry and its connection to plants, spirit, and the Earth

(14:20) East Forest as Xochitl's Podcast Mentor

(17:44) Psilocybin as a catalyst on East Forest's spiritual path

(19:20) Opening Sacred Space

(23:36) What the mushroom spirit has taught East Forest

(25:35) It's all about the music

(29:39) The lesson is practice

(33:30) The laws of nature

(35:13) The meaning behind the song "Can't Fall Out of Love"

(36:46) The ancient code of plant medicines

(39:19) Music inspired by mushrooms

(47:37) Using plant medicines to heal ancestral trauma

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(51:01) Healing as a service to our ancestors are not incarnate

(52:45) Inheriting ancestral blessings

(54:48) Healing the ancestral burden of impatience

(58:23) Ancestral blessing of ambition

(01:01:31) The role of expansion and play in authenticity

(01:07:07) Music as a psychedelic support tool

(01:13:26) East Forest's upcoming mushroom documentary

(01:17:01) East Forest's history of holding ceremony

(01:21:21) East Forest's new album "Burn" with Peter Broderick

(01:22:49) A final reminder: Just keep walking

(01:23:40) Closing sacred space

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