From psychedelic medicine to the art of deep listening, East Forest explores how creativity can inspire meaningful change.
Today’s episode dives into Music for Mushrooms, a narrative feature film exploring art and introspection’s transformative potential in a world aching for healing and connection. It features interviews with artists, academics, and cultural experts in psychedelics, science, music, and beyond, with voices like Ram Dass, Hanifo Nayo Washington, Jon Hopkins, and more. Watch for free with director commentary on the East Forest YouTube channel: East Forest
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This time on the BHNN Guest Podcast, East and Jackie explore:
- The collaborative process of filmmaking
- Creating something that inspires people
- Music as the language of emotion
- Healing from the inside out
- How psychedelic medicine can stimulate us to change our actions in everyday life?
- Training ourselves to listen deeply
- Profound spiritual experiences through nature, plant medicine, and sound
- How music becomes a doorway to the non-dual, opened by our attention to the experience
- Playing with mantra-like experiences through looping in music
- Navigating information sickness and burnout
- Following bliss through the things you’re curious about
“The first of your senses that comes online in the womb is hearing. The first thing you sense is your mother’s heartbeat resonating continuously. That’s why the drum or four-on-the-floor dance music rhythm in general can entrain our brain because it goes way back to our sense memory of safety, the original womb, of source.” –East Forest
About East Forest:
East Forest is a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and ceremony guide. Since 2008, East Forest’s “lush” (Rolling Stone) and “blissful” (NPR) music has blended ambient, neoclassical, electronic, and avant-pop to explore sound as a tool for inner journeys and consciousness expansion. Known as the first musician to collaborate with Ram Dass, he’s now working on the feature-length film Music for Mushrooms, a narrative documentary showcasing the transformative power of psychedelics, music, and community.
About The Host, Jackie Dobrinska:
Jackie Dobrinska is the Director of Education, Community & Inclusion for Ram Dass’ Love, Serve, Remember Foundation and the current host of Ram Dass’ Here & Now podcast. She is also a teacher, coach, and spiritual director who brings two decades of mystical studies and 15 years of expertise in holistic wellness. As an inter-spiritual minister, Jackie was ordained in Creation Spirituality in 2016 and has also studied extensively in several other lineages – the plant-medicine-based Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, Sri Vidya Tantra, Western European Shamanism, Christian Mysticism, the Wise Woman Tradition, and others. Today, in addition to building courses and community for LSRF, she leads workshops and coaches individuals to discover, nourish and live from their most authentic selves.
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