Altered Mates
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Altered Mates is a arts podcast hosted by Altered Mates. It has 33 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.
Altered Mates is a podcast where two mates, each fascinated by altered states, meet to discuss the psychedelic experience and its implications for society, culture, health, science, and philosophy. Alejandro is novelist and a teacher of english and psychology. Tobias is an academic and a lecturer in social work and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Our conversations are always grounded in our own direct experiences with a range of ‘altered’ states of consciousness. Hero of the podcast, William James, suggests that, “Our normal waking consciousness… is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different… No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.”You could say that we are trying to construct a better account of our universe, and we are taking James’ advice to heart, by seriously regarding th
arts ·en-us ·33 episodes
Episode 33: On Conspiracy: A preliminary discussion
Episode 32: Chakras, Jung, and Avatar: The Last Airbender
Episode 31: Robert Anton Wilson, Consciousness Change and the 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness
Episode 30: Where are my minds? On the Left Brain / Right Brain Divide
Episode 29: “We are the Weirdos, mister”: on The Craft
Episode 28: On Synchronicity
Episode 27: On the Borderline (Part Two)
Episode 26: On the Borderline (Part One)
Episode 25: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Episode 24: MORE Sex Secrets of the Black Magicians EXPOSED!
Episode 23: Sex Secrets of the Black Magicians EXPOSED: On Magical Thinking
Episode 22: Ayahuasca and The Fear
Episode 21: On Ayahuasca
Episode 20: Surrender!
Episode 19: A Glimpse of Eternity
Episode 18: Coming out of the psychedelic closet
Episode 17: The Big Lez Show — Choomah Island 2
Episode 16: On “Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good”
Episode 15: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Episode 14: Reflection & Intention
Episode 13: Confrontation with the Unconscious: Part Two — Psychosis in Jung’s Psychology
Episode 12: Confrontation with the Unconscious: Part One — Psychedelic Experience and Psychosis
Episode 11: Giving LSD to kids! (…to treat severe childhood schizophrenia)
Episode 10: Czech, mate! Psychedelic Research in Communist Czechoslovakia
Episode 9: From Pepe Silvia to Geshinka: the curious domains of psychosis
Episode 8: Monsters & Masculinity: delving further into the Jungian Shadow
Episode 7: Jung, The Shadow, and A Wizard of Earthsea
Episode 6: F-ing the Ineffable: William James, Mysticism, and the Psychedelic Experience
Episode 5: Big Self Energy: Psychedelics & the IFS Model
Episode 4: Understanding ourselves through Internal Family Systems
Episode 3: ...but take it!
Episode 2: Take it easy, dude...
Episode 1: Challenging psychedelic experiences
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