In this shorter podcast (~ 40 minutes) Eden and I speak about his work at Aspen T.R.E.E. in Aspen, Colorado.  Eden is the Founder and Executive Director of Aspen Tree. Here is their mission and vision statement.

OUR MISSION IS TO...

Empower Youth and Build Community with Solution-Oreinted Education that connects People to Place, inspiring a Positive Bond with their Food-Shed and Enviornment!

OUR VISION IS TO...

Make Aspen a model "sustainable / regenerative" community, and support others in doing the same.

  Aspen TREE from Aspen Tree on Vimeo. Aspen T.R.E.E Ethan Roland - AppleSeed Permaculture CRMPI - Colorado Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute Scott Pittman Triple Bottom Line - Wiki Music - The Long Goodbye by Flatwound

“The vine has spread her tendrils across the world and a genuine archaic revival was underway. My bags were packed, South America beckoned, and the ancient mysteries of the rainforest awaited. I wanted in on it…”
– Rak Razam

This is the 45th episode of the show released to the web on January 9th 2014.

This show features Rak Razam, a new guest to the show. Rak is a freelance journalist, author, film maker, and podcaster from Australia doing a lot of work covering the entheodelic community or psychedelic medicine communities around the world.

I just finished watching Rak’s newly released film “Aya:Awakenings”. It is a stunning film that pulls from Rak’s Book that is Titled “Aya: A shamanic Odyssey” and was newly released as “Aya: Awakenings – a Shamanic Odyssey”.

In this show we cover subjects all over the map including how the western magical practitioner may approach this area and practice.

How Shamans see Ayahuasca functioning on the health and healing of individuals.

Some of the metaphysics or cosmologies surrounding Ayahuasca Shamanism and much more. This was an amazing show to record, and I can't wait to turn some more people on to his films. Rak will be touring North America with the film starting with New York on Jan 16 2014 and He’ll be in Boston on January 21.

Roy Ascott -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ascott

Jan Irving -  http://www.gnosticmedia.com/

Film Review by Benton Rooks - http://realitysandwich.com/215752/rocketship-into-the-void-on-aya-awakenings

http://www.aya-awakenings.com/

http://www.rakrazam.com

On Demand Film - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ayaawakenings

Book - http://www.amazon.com/Aya-Awakenings-Shamanic-Rak-Razam/dp/1583948007/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389305112&sr=1-3&keywords=rak+razam

DVD - http://www.amazon.com/Aya-Awakenings-DVD-Rak-Razam/dp/1583948163/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1389305112&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=rak+razam

Rak Twitter - https://twitter.com/rakrazam

Film Twitter - https://twitter.com/AyaAwakenings