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Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke

Dr. James Cooke

Join neuroscientist Dr. James Cooke as he explores consciousness, science and spirituality with scientists, philosophers, spiritual practitioners and key figures in the psychedelic renaissance.

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24:24

Order & disorder | Living mirrors #75

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/12/01

On today's episode I share some thoughts on individual and societal suffering and their basis in the denial of disorder.

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43:49

Chris Timmermann on a contemplative & scientific...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/11/24

Chris Timmermann is a neuroscientist based at Imperial College London's Centre for Psychedelic Research. He completed his PhD in the same centre where he investigated the effects of dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, on the human brain. Today we talk about how we can take both a scientific and contemplative approach to understanding the DMT experience.

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24:26

AMA: Depression, ayahuasca, understanding our...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/11/23

Ask questions for the next AMA via patreon or the YouTube channel membership community: Topics (in order addressed): Depression, podcast recommendations, ayahuasca, understanding our motivations, self care & helping others.

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53:07

Sarah Rose Siskind on comedy, psychedelics & science...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/11/17

Sarah Rose Siskind psychedelic comedian and science comedy writer. She hosts a monthly comedy show in New York City about Psychedelics and other drugs called Drug Test. She was the lead comedy writer for StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, a TV show on National Geographic, and has written comedy for an artificially intelligent robot called Sophia at Hanson Robotics. Sarah is the co-founder of Hello SciCom, a company that combines science communication and comedy to help people in science communicate

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53:22

Darren Le Baron on psilocybin mushrooms, horticulture...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/11/10

Darren Le Baron is an organic horticulturist, food enterprise tutor, educator, and event organizer based in the UK. He is a keen mushroom cultivator and has been growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms for over a decade. He teaches an online Shroomshop Master class where he teaches the art of mushroom cultivation and he is the mycologist in residence at London’s Somerset House. Darren is also a qualified Permaculture teacher and facilitator and supports businesses and communities in creating

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18:56

Absolute perspectives and the overview effect |...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/10/27

In this episode of the podcast I share some thoughts on absolute perspectives and the overview effect.

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59:14

Ruth Kinna on Anarchism | Living Mirrors #70

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/10/13

Ruth Kinna is a professor of political philosophy at Loughborough University in the UK. She gained her doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford and, since 2007, has been the editor of the journal Anarchist Studies. She has published many academic papers and books for the general reader, including Anarchism: A Beginner's Guide and The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism. Today we discuss the intellectual tradition of anarchism in general as well as particular

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01:06:24

Matt Segall on the pan-experientialist process...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/10/06

Matt Segall is an Assistant Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) where he teaches courses on process philosophy and German Idealism. He received his doctoral degree from CIIS in 2016. His dissertation was published as The Physics of the World Soul and it offers a synthesis of the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and the work of the German Idealist philosopher Friedrich Schelling. He also blogs regularly at footnotes2plato.com and has a youtube channel by

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01:00:42

James Hollis on the psychology of men | Living...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/09/29

James Hollis is a Jungian psychoanalyst, author, and public speaker. After gaining a PhD from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey in 1967 he worked for 26 years as a lecturer in the Humanities. In 1977 he retrained as a Jungian psychoanalyst at the C. G. Jung Institute, in Zürich, Switzerland. For many years he was Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas and was the Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington until 2019. He still runs a private practice as a

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58:22

Andy Letcher on Deep ecology, Animism & Dark Green...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/09/22

Andy Letcher is a writer, lecturer, and musician with a doctorate in ecology from Oxford University, and a second doctorate in religious/cultural studies from King Alfred's College, Winchester. He is currently a senior lecturer in ecology and spirituality at Schumacher College and is an expert on contemporary alternative spiritualities, especially modern Paganism, neo-shamanism and psychedelic spiritualities. He is the author of the book Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom and has

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27:41

5-MeO-DMT & NN-DMT | Living Mirrors #66

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/09/15

This week on the podcast I discuss 5-MeO-DMT & NN-DMT.

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01:33:28

Mellody Hayes on individual and societal...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/09/08

Dr. Mellody Hayes is a physician, writer and speaker, who focuses on psychedelic medicine. She is a graduate of Harvard and UCSF medical school, and was a cofounder of Decriminalize Nature, a leading force behind psychedelic decriminalisation. Her writings have been published in Scientific American and Los Angeles Times and she’s been behind multiple projects in the psychedelic space including a ketamine clinic that provides psychedelic psychotherapy. We discussed the role of psychedelics in

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01:01:07

David Berceli on recovering from trauma through...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/09/01

David Berceli is an expert in trauma intervention and conflict resolution. He is the creator of the Tension & Trauma Release Exercise program and is the founder and CEO of Trauma Recovery Services. He has a background in social work, psychotherapy and therapeutic body-work and spent two decades living and working in the Middle East and Africa, providing trauma relief workshops and designing recovery programs for international organizations. Today we talk about the embodied nature of trauma and how

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01:08:45

Mike Jay on Mescaline | Living Mirrors #63

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/08/11

Mike Jay is a writer who has written extensively on the history of science and medicine, with a particular focus on psychoactive drugs. His books on the subject include Emperors of Dreams: drugs in the nineteenth century, High Society: mind-altering drugs in history and culture, and Mescaline: A global history of the first psychedelic.

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01:03:20

Bia Labate on global psychedelic culture & ayahuasca...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/08/04

Bia Labate is an anthropologist who specialises in the study of psychoactive substances, drug policy, shamanism, ritual and religion. She has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the State University of Campinas in her native Brazil and is author, co-author and co-editor of over 20 books as well as many peer-reviewed articles. She has organised many important conferences in the psychedelic space and is the founder and chief executive of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. She is

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01:10:27

Anil Seth on the neuroscience of consciousness |...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/07/21

Anil Seth is a professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and a leading expert on the neuroscience of consciousness. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness and is also the co-director of both the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research’s program in Brain, Mind, and Consciousness. He has a new book coming out called Being You.

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01:03:31

Gay Hendricks on growing through self love, breathing...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/07/14

Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, writer, and teacher in the field of personal growth. After completing his PhD at Stanford he went on to become a professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Colorado. With his wife Kathlyn he founded The Hendricks Institute which offers seminars and workshops on the topics that we discuss today. Gay has authored dozens of books by himself and with Kathlyn, including Learning to Love Yourself, Conscious Breathing, Conscious Loving the Big Leap and most

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01:38:13

Karl Friston on the Free Energy Principle,...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/07/04

Karl Friston is a theoretical neurobiologist and Professor of Neuroscience at University College London. He is also an honorary consultant at UCL’s Queen Square Institute of Neurology and is a fellow of both the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society. He is also the most cited neuroscientist in the world. As an undergraduate at Cambridge University he studied natural sciences, with a specialism in physics and psychology, and went on to train as a psychiatrist. He first rose to prominence

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29:07

Mental health and existential stress | Living Mirrors...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/06/23

In this episode I explore mental health and its relationship to stress.

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01:24:38

Jussi Jylkkä on the concrete and ineffable nature of...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/06/09

Jussi Jylkkä is a philosopher and psychologist based at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. In 2008 he completed a PhD in philosophy at the University of Turku on the relationship between language and reality. He then began studying the hard problem of consciousness and had a transformative mystical experience. After becoming frustrated that he couldn’t express this insight in words, he moved to study psychology and, in 2017, he completed a second PhD at Åbo Akademi University, this time in

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