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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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Suffering in society, domination & the US Capitol...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/01/09

Suffering in society, domination & the US Capitol siege

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56:09

Marcela Ot’alora on using MDMA to heal trauma |...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2021/01/06

Marcela Ot’alora G. is a psychedelic psychotherapist and artist. Marcela has worked as a therapist in the clinical trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for PTSD, spearheaded by MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. She recently served as the principal investigator for MAPS’ phase two and phase three trials for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. She also trains and supervises the psychedelic psychotherapists of the future. Today we talk about MDMA-assisted

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55:18

End of 2020 reflections | Living Mirrors #31

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/12/31

End of 2020 reflections

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52:41

Lawrence Millman on Arctic Mushroom Shamanism and...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/12/23

Lawrence Millman is an adventurer, writer and mycologist. He is the author of many books, including Northern Latitudes, Lost in the Arctic, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, Fascinating Fungi of New England, Mushroom Apocalypse, Giant Polypores and Stoned Reindeer and most recently Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore. His work has also appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic Adventure, the Atlantic Monthly and Sports Illustrated. He has won numerous awards and has been anthologized in the

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59:20

Jerry B Brown on psychoactive mushrooms in Christian...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/12/16

Jerry B Brown is an anthropologist, activist and author. He received his doctorate in Anthropology from Cornell University in 1972 and, until 2014, served as founding professor of anthropology at Florida International University in Miami. Here, in 1975, he started offering a pioneering course in "Hallucinogens and Culture". More recently he has performed field work exploring the possibility that psychoactive mushrooms may have played a hidden role in Christianity and their use is depicted in

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01:02:57

Joseph Goldstein on vipassana & the experience of...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/12/09

Joseph Goldstein is a meditation teacher and author and was one of the key figures in introducing mindfulness meditation to the west. He is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS), with Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg, where he is a currently a resident teacher. He has written many popular books on Buddhist meditation including The experience of insight, One Dharma and Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening. He is the lead teacher on the Ten Percent Happier meditation app and

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01:20:56

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz on Jewish mysticism & the value of...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/12/02

Zac Kamenetz is a rabbi, community leader, and aspiring healer. He holds an MA in Biblical literature and languages from UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union and received rabbinic ordination in 2012. Zac is also the founder and CEO of Shefa, a non-profit dedicated to integrating safe and supported psychedelic use into the Jewish spiritual tradition. Our conversation today focuses on Jewish mysticism and the promise of psychedelics for reviving the importance of direct spiritual experience

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01:12:45

Charles Eisenstein on human civilization & the story...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/11/25

Charles Eisenstein is an author, activist and public speaker. His work relates to the intersection of spirituality, ecology, economics and the history of human civilisation. His books include The Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics, Climate—A New Story and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible. Our conversation ranges from understanding how human civilization developed to the point of crisis it’s now in through to what we can do to move into a sustainable future.

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01:25:13

Rupert Spira on Advaita Vedanta & the non-dual nature...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/11/18

Rupert Spira is an internationally renowned teacher of a direct method of spiritual self enquiry called Advaita or non-duality which has its roots in ancient Hinduism. He holds regular meetings and retreats in Europe and the US and is the author of 6 books including The Ashes of Love, The Nature of Consciousness and Being Aware of Being Aware. He is also a notable artist who works in the medium of pottery. Our conversation focuses on the core insight of non-duality and the nature of reality.

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01:05:53

Michelle Baker Jones on psychedelic psychotherapy and...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/11/11

Michelle Baker Jones is an integrative psycho-therapeutic counsellor in private practice and is also a lead therapist at Imperial College’s psychedelic research team where she as worked on studies exploring the therapeutic potential of psilocybin for depression. She also co-facilitates a monthly Psychedelic integration group based in London and offers individual integration sessions for people who are struggling to process Psychedelic experiences. Today we speak about her research into using

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01:07:15

Brian Muraresku on whether the ancient Greeks and...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/11/04

Brian Muraresku is the author of the new book The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name. Brian initially trained as a classicist gaining a degree in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit from Brown University and since then, as a member of the New York Bar, he has been practicing law internationally for fifteen years. In 2016, he became the founding executive director of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation, whose work has been featured by CNN, ESPN, VICE and The Washington Post. In

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01:28:00

B. Alan Wallace on Dzogchen teachings & the...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/10/28

B. Alan Wallace is a highly respected meditation teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and is a leading voice in discussions on the relationship between science and Buddhist philosophy. In 1971, he moved to India to study Tibetan Buddhism, medicine and language. In India he was ordained by the Dalai Lama and spent fourteen years as a monk where he studied with and translated for several highly respected lamas. In 1984 he studied physics at Amherst College and went on to gain a PhD from Stanford

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01:11:12

Fritjof Capra on the systems view of physics, life...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/10/21

Fritjof Capra is a world-renowned physicist, systems theorist, educator, activist, and best-selling author. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966 and spent 20 years doing research in theoretical high-energy physics in many respected universities including at the University of Paris, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Imperial College London and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of

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01:54:09

Françoise Bourzat on traditonal Mazatec psilocybin...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/10/14

Françoise Bourzat is counsellor trained in Somatic Psychology And body-centred psychotherapy. And she works as a guide for people working with expanded states of consciousness for healing. She now trains others to be therapists and facilitators and teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She trained for twenty years in the indigenous Mazatec tradition of healing with psilocybin mushrooms and is the author of the book Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and

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28:12

Dr. James Cooke on the place of consciousness in the...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/10/07

Following the publication of the Living Mirror theory of consciousness I discuss my thoughts on the place of consciousness in the natural world and the unique difficulties our species has faced in thinking about consciousness. You can read the paper at www.DrJamesCooke.com/Consciousness

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01:17:09

Dennis McKenna on the place of psilocybin & DMT in...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/09/30

Dennis McKenna is an ethnopharmacologist with a special interest in naturally occurring psychedelic substances. He was a cofounder of the psychedelic research non-profit the Heffter Research Institute where he is director of ethnopharmacology. With his brother Terrence he authored the classic books The Invisible Landscape and the Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide and more recently he has written books including a memoir titled The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss. Our conversation focuses on the

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01:27:52

Bill Richards on psychedelic research, psilocybin &...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/09/23

Bill Richards is a psychedelic researcher with a special interest in the religious and spiritual experiences occasioned by psychedelics, which he details in his book Sacred Knowledge. Bill was a key figure in psychedelic research in the 60s and 70s and was instrumental in initiating the current renaissance in psychedelic research that began in the early 2000s. Today we talk about the research in this area, all the way from the 60s to the present day, as well as mystical and visionary experiences and

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52:44

Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion on the climate...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/09/13

Gail Bradbrook is an environmental activist and co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, a global environmental movement that focuses on the use of nonviolent civil disobedience to create change in how governments are responding to the current climate and ecological crises. She has a background in science with a PhD in molecular biophysics and integrates both scientific and spiritual perspectives into her work on systems change. We discuss the work Extinction Rebellion is doing, the psychospiritual

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01:04:32

Erika Dyck on the origins and history of psychedelic...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/09/09

Ericka Dyck is a Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. She is a leading expert on the wave of psychedelic research that occurs in the mid-twentieth century and the books she has written and edited include Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from clinic to campus, Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphrey Osmond, and A Culture’s Catalyst: Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada. In today's conversation we explore the

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01:26:37

Robert Wright on understanding buddhist philosophy...

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke ·

2020/09/02

Robert Wright is a journalist, bestselling author and is currently a Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Meaningoflife.tv and the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Bloggingheads.tv. His books include The Moral Animal, The Evolution of God, for which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize, and Why Buddhism is True which is the topic that we focus on today.

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