{"podcast":{"title":"Neon Galactic with James Faulk","slug":"neon-galactic-with-james-faulk-6985223","podcast_index_feed_id":6985223,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f7423cd4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/neongalactic","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/41383133/41383133-1760022369958-f6cfde5c2bb54.jpg","author":"James Faulk and KEET-TV","episode_count":166,"summary":"Interviews and such with fascinating folks on the leading edge of discovery around topics like UAPs, UFOs, NHI, Consciousness, psychedelics, NDEs, mysticism, psi, philosophy, technology, shamanism, esotericism, magick, meditation, and more. It’s time to re-enchant ourselves and realize the limits and pitfalls of strict materialism.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T00:21:53.652702+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/neon-galactic-with-james-faulk-6985223"},"episode":{"title":"The New Shaman: How LSD gave Christopher Bache the keys to the cosmos","slug":"the-new-shaman-how-lsd-gave-christopher-bache-the-keys-to-the-cosmos","published_at":"2026-05-20T03:05:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/neon-galactic-with-james-faulk-6985223/the-new-shaman-how-lsd-gave-christopher-bache-the-keys-to-the-cosmos","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/neon-galactic-with-james-faulk-6985223","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-faulk/episodes/The-New-Shaman-How-LSD-gave-Christopher-Bache-the-keys-to-the-cosmos-e3jkgc2","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f7423cd4/podcast/play/120258370/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-20%2F424514256-44100-2-ac13a116e3f01.mp3","summary":"If you’ve ever wanted a detailed map of spiritual reality and a breakdown of how the individual soul fits within the broader context of being and becoming, this is it. On this episode, co-host David Stuss and I sit down with author and philosopher Christopher Bache to discuss his work in psychedelics and how those protocols presented him with a detailed experience of spiritual reality. Bache is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University. He’s also an adjunct faculty member for the California Institute of Integral Studies. He’s also the author of “LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven,” and “Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind.” The experiences he describes took place over 20 years, and were produced by Bache’s therapeutic protocol of LSD, ingested in 73 massive doses of between 500 and 600 micrograms. In this interview, Bache describes how his efforts expand on the work of famed researcher Stanislav Grof by demonstrating that during profound states, individual consciousness can expand to encompass the entire human species, allowing access to collective trauma and memories. Bache defines his distinction between cosmological exploration and spiritual awakening, emphasizing that his high-dose psychedelic work was focused on understanding the universe's deep structure rather than attaining personal enlightenment. The conversation further covers his experiences with collective suffering, death and rebirth cycles at different consciousness levels, and his vision of humanity undergoing a transformative "diamond soul" awakening that would create a fundamentally new type of human being capable of unified action. To learn more: https://chrisbache.com —---------------------…","meta_description":"If you’ve ever wanted a detailed map of spiritual reality and a breakdown of how the individual soul fits within the broader context of being and becoming…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5522,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/neon-galactic-with-james-faulk-6985223/episodes/the-new-shaman-how-lsd-gave-christopher-bache-the-keys-to-the-cosmos/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/neon-galactic-with-james-faulk-6985223/the-new-shaman-how-lsd-gave-christopher-bache-the-keys-to-the-cosmos.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}