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The Psychedelic Origins of Life (Part 1) | Interview with Bruce Damer | ATTMind Ep. 49

2,618 views · Published 9 June 2017 · 1:13:25 · Indexed 27 September 2026

Channel: Adventures Through The Mind | James W. Jesso · 2017 · Education

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Part 1 begins with a storytelling performance from Lightning In A Bottle festival outlining the origins of life. The talk, titled Fire In The Sky originally released via Bruce's podcast The Levity Zone. The story is followed by a Q&A exploring the details of the talk and expanding on several of the elements of planetary and human evolution. We also talk of Bruce's support of the counter culture, psychedelics, and what he calls "endotripping". Part 1 ends at the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Check out Part 2: https://youtu.be/uJlRDMSmXfM

**BIO**

Bruce Frederick Damer, Ph.D. (born 31 January 1962) is a Canadian-American multidisciplinary scientist, designer, and author. Dr. Bruce Damer collaborates with colleagues developing and testing a new model for the origin of life on Earth and in the design of spacecraft architectures to provide a viable path for expansion of human civilization beyond the Earth."

This man's resume is extensive and beautiful. From helping to lay the foundations for multi-user digital interfaces in the early 90s, to designing spaceships for NASA, to bringing forth what is "perhaps the first "end-to-end" model proposed for life's origins." Not only that but he is also a strong, public supporter of the counter-cultural movement. Once personal friends, with Terence McKenna, Bruce is an incredible storyteller and has come on the show for this special 2-part episode to share the story of the origins of life on planet earth---from start dust through the primordial soup and first homo sapiens all the way to dropping LSD at transformational music festivals.

Full Show Notes at http://bit.ly/ATTMind49

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Part 1 begins with a storytelling performance from Lightning In A Bottle festival outlining the origins of life. The talk, titled Fire In The Sky originally released via Bruce's podcast The Levity Zone. The story is followed by a Q&A exploring the details of the talk and expanding on several of the elements of planetary and human evolution. We also talk of Bruce's support of the counter culture, psychedelics, and what he calls "endotripping". Part 1 ends at the Eleusinian Mysteries.

**Listen To Part 2:**

Part 2 picks up where we left off in part one and Bruce tells us the story of Eleusis and how this all relates to LSD at the foundations of the western civilization. Following that story, we shift gears and begins to discuss Bruce's other area of work and research: Space technology, life on Mars, and interplanetary travel.

https://youtu.be/uJlRDMSmXfM

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