Listening
The Podcast.
Where these ideas meet actual life — marriage, fatherhood, money, exhaustion, politics, psychedelics, and the strange business of trying to build something soulful while still existing inside the same insane world everyone else is navigating.
I want the conversations to have texture — smart and strange and funny and honest. I want them to show the work touching reality. Not polished couple-branding, not spiritual performance, not another show where people talk about consciousness like they do not still get weird around money and passive-aggressive around household labor.
This new project is unnamed — the title is still TBD — and currently in the works. In the meantime, the archive of Mikeadelic — the long-form podcast I hosted from 2016 to 2024 — is still up and worth a listen.
The Signal
A living signal from inside the work.
2016 — 2024
Mikeadelic.
From 2016 to 2024, I hosted Mikeadelic, a long-form podcast exploring psychedelics, consciousness, comedy, culture, spirituality, cognitive liberty, masculinity, mythology, music, and meaning-making. It was not a polished interview show in the conventional sense. It was a place for living questions — sometimes funny, sometimes strange, sometimes raw, sometimes philosophical, sometimes completely off the map.
That chapter taught me how to follow living ideas in public conversation. This chapter is about bringing those ideas closer to home: into writing, fatherhood, marriage, sessions, gatherings, and the search for more soulful ways of living together.
Over the years, I spoke with authors, comedians, researchers, musicians, psychedelic educators, harm-reduction workers, anthropologists, spiritual teachers, cultural critics, and people trying to understand what it means to stay human in an increasingly disorienting age. A sampling, organized loosely by territory:
Culture, Civilization & Meaning
Charles Eisenstein, Christopher Ryan, Daniel Pinchbeck, Daniele Bolelli, Thaddeus Russell, Michael Garfield, Jeremy Johnson, Gordon White, Miguel Conner, TK Coleman
Psychedelics & Harm Reduction
Dr. Andrew Gallimore, Dr. Joe Tafur, Chris Kilham, Hamilton Souther, Julian Vayne, Casey William Hardison, Ismail Ali, Mitchell Gomez, Lorenzo Haggerty, Thomas Hatsis, Michelle Janikian, Tricia Eastman, Larry Norris
Mind, Spirituality & Transformation
Cory Allen, Michael Phillip, Jennifer Sodini, Neeraj Naik, Adam Aronovich, Eric Godsey, James McCrae, Noah Lampert, Shems Heartwell
Comedy, Media & Cultural Weirdness
JP Sears, Shane Mauss, Jessa Reed, Ramin Nazer, Robbie Martin, Grimerica, No Simple Road, The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo
Music, Art & Creative Life
East Forest, Savej, Equanimous, Mark Pontius, Laura Dawn, Luke Schroeder
The point was never to become a conventional interviewer. The point was to follow living questions with people who had touched some strange edge of reality — through art, research, ceremony, comedy, music, philosophy, politics, healing, or direct experience — and see what became clearer in the conversation.
Listen to the ArchiveFeatured Conversation
Why Ancient Wisdom Got It Right
Archetypes, Platonism & Reality with Michael Philip of Third Eye Drops
Mike and Michael Philip explore archetypes, fate, free will, the soul's calling, Neoplatonism, ritual, aesthetics, Jung, Hillman, and what ancient wisdom traditions can still offer modern life.
Watch on YouTubeFeatured from the Mikeadelic Audio Archive
Christopher Ryan: Why Are We Civilized to Death?
Author of Sex at Dawn and host of Tangentially Speaking
A conversation about the price of progress, the human costs of civilization, modern alienation, and whether another way of living is possible.
From the Archive
Charles Eisenstein on gift, culture, collapse, and the deeper grammar of change.
In Development — Title TBD
The New Project.
Emerging — first episodes taking shape
A new, still-unnamed show — built with Jenna from inside actual married life. Marriage, fatherhood, money, exhaustion, and the daily attempt to build something soulful — conversations with texture, from inside the actual attempt rather than above it.
It matters that these conversations come from inside the attempt, not from the safety of an individual imagination looking down from a distance. There is more credibility in the friction than in the polish.
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