Henry Kandel, my former professor who is currently working on integrating yoga practices into hallucinogenic states used for healing, joins the Rainy Night Radio to discuss altered states of reality. This podcast discusses the similarities between lucid dreaming and drug induced mindstates, and their link to mental health and spiritual practice. We cover a broad range of topics ranging from drug prohibition, lucid dreaming as a form of practice, and the benefits and lucid dreaming and drug induced mind states, to what altered states of reality say about the concept of reality itself.Article with statistics referenced in podcast on people surveyed after experiences with “bad trips” on psilocybin: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5551678/pdf/nihms884924.pdf“The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”https://selfdefinition.org/tibetan/Tenzin-Wangyal-Rinpoche-The-Tibetan-Yogas-Of-Dream-And-Sleep.pdfOther articles on psilocybin in clinical trials:“Efficacy and safety of psilocybin-assisted treatment for major depressive disorder: Prospective 12 month follow-up”https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/02698811211073759“Psilocybin-assisted group therapy for demoralized older long-term AIDS survivor men: An open-label safety and feasibility pilot study”https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-5370%2820%2930282-0“Long-term follow-up of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for psychiatric and existential distress in patients with life-threatening cancer” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/0269881119897615

Look into the void of death with guest Sebastian Sahlman as we paint a picture of death and how it exists in life. This episode covers how death ties into religion, society today, and the human psyche and other great fears we have. Whether hoping for advice on how to deal with the death of a loved one or dealing with your own impermanence, there are methods we talk about that you can use to begin building and sustaining a healthy relationship with death.

Guest Ronan Kim-Breeze joins the Rainy Night Radio to discuss his "turbulent relationship with forgiveness" and share the realizations he's had as a result of several intense and defining experiences. In this podcast we discuss the true beauty of forgiveness, and trace out the path to reaching both forgiveness of ones self and forgiveness of others. This podcast will hopefully help one develop techniques for dealing with traumatic experiences and give one tools for gaining love, understanding, and compassion in situations where we subconsciously resort to anger and other strong emotional reactions. (TW: This episode briefly covers intense topics such as suicide, drug usage, violence, and sexual assault.)

Special guest Miles Gantcher joins the Rainy Night Radio to reflect on and discuss childhood and the passage of time. This podcast is a deep dive through a variety of different topics under the main focus of ones perception of time and how it changes as they grow older, the value of childhood, and how to come to terms with and make the most out of time and it's passing. Topics brought up include morality, societal problems and harmful ideologies, religious beliefs regarding time and the process of living, and much more. This episode will hopefully spark thought and insight into how to allow time to pass more freely and peacefully in ones life, and how to live with greater acceptance of the world and lack of regret. (Part 2 out of 2)

Special guest Miles Gantcher joins the Rainy Night Radio to reflect on and discuss childhood and the passage of time. This podcast is a deep dive through a variety of different topics under the main focus of ones perception of time and how it changes as they grow older, the value of childhood, and how to come to terms with and make the most out of time and it's passing. Topics brought up include morality, societal problems and harmful ideologies, religious beliefs regarding time and the process of living, and much more. This episode will hopefully spark thought and insight into how to allow time to pass more freely and peacefully in ones life, and how to live with greater acceptance of the world and lack of regret. (Part 1 out of 2)

Dive into what boredom really is with special guest Dashiell Beber-Turkel, digital artist, the co-head/founder of Saint Ann's Schools' "Philosophy Club" and an expert on being boring. In this podcast we cover the beauty of what boredom really is, why it is viewed negatively by society, and how to cope with the negative emotions that come up when we are "bored." This podcast also dives into two methods of Buddhist meditation: Samatha and Vipassana, and will address the distinct benefits and usages of both types.