Ep. 235 – From Psychedelics to Mindfulness with Louie Schwartzberg

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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Kornfield, Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Jackkornfield, Buddhism, Spirituality, Jack Kornfield

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Fantastic Fungi's visionary director, Louie Schwartzberg, joins Jack to explore the profound connection between psychedelics and mindfulness.

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“You can’t separate psychedelics from life.” – Jack Kornfield

In this fresh conversation, Jack and Louie spelunk the depths of:

The connection between psychedelics and spirituality
Psychedelics as a gateway to wonder, curiosity, and the sacred
How tripping on psychedelics informed Louie’s filmmaking
Albert Einstein and psychedelics as the intersection between art and science
The universe and life as a constant transformation of light energy
Buddha’s “Flower Sermon” and Zen Master Suzuki Roshi’s “Beginner’s Mind”
Jack “exchanging maps” with famous LSD researcher, Stanislav Grof
Studies showing the combination of psilocybin mushrooms and Louie’s time-lapse nature imagery as a powerful therapeutic tool for helping addiction and PTSD
The importance of “set and setting,” community, and integration
How psychedelics actually fit into the Buddhist precepts
Honoring biology and the feminine aspects of nature
The gifts of sacred attention and loving awareness
Finding beauty wherever you are, and how Louie’s films heal by sharing patterns of nature for the soul to connect with

This conversation was originally recorded on 3/29/24 by Banyan Together – an online mindfulness community started by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. To join the community and learn more, visit BanyanTogether.com

“A lot of the work I do is to make the invisible visible. And that’s the perfect description of what a psychedelic journey is like, making the invisible visible.” – Louie Schwartzberg

“We live in a culture that’s almost defined by the absence of the sacred. And so we feel this yearning, this intuitive wish to connect—whether it’s going high in the mountains, or making love, or taking psychedelics, or meditating.” – Jack Kornfield

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0:59.6	Most every Buddhist teacher of my generation got started with psychedelics. You name them and I'll tell you they were
1:08.6	dripping. But there was something more important. We were looking for something. We live in a culture that's almost defined it sometimes by the absence of the sacred. And yet we feel that this kind of yearning this intuitive wish to
1:27.4	connect whether it's going high in the mountains or making love or taking
1:31.3	psychedelics or meditating.
1:33.0	And I was drawn, yes, I was in 8 Ashbury in the 60s and took my share of acid.
1:38.0	But I was drawn to go to a Buddhist monastery because I wanted to understand and I could feel from the
1:45.6	psychedelics as many of the founding features of current Buddhist Western Buddhist
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