I’m delighted to offer you an interview with a beautiful multidisciplinary artist, producer, and ceremony guide, East Forest. He has just released "Music for Mushrooms," a feature-length narrative documentary showcasing the transformative power of psychedelics, music, and community. Since 2008, East Forest’s “lush” (Rolling Stone) and “blissful” (NPR) music has blended ambient, neoclassical, electronic, and avant-pop to explore sound as a tool for inner journeys and consciousness expansion.

East Forest’s approach promotes non-religious, accessible spirituality. He's a faculty member at the Esalen Institute and has collaborated with institutions across social justice, mental health, science, music, and creative fields, including Google, Johns Hopkins, UCSF, Stanford, and TED.

In this episode, we discuss the power of music and mushrooms in the process of maturation and evolving as human beings. We also invite you to sign up and watch “Music for Mushrooms” online on December 12th, as well as to listen to the” Official Documentary Soundtrack” on your favorite streaming platform.

What is Covered:

• - East Forest’s background as an artist and consciousness explorer

• - Building spiritual resilience at the time of collapse and learning to sit with uncomfort

• - The story behind the creation of the “Music for Mushrooms” documentary

• - The transformational power of music as a bridge to higher consciousness space

• - Why the potential of music has been overlooked today when it’s all-present everywhere

• - East Forests relationship with psychedelics and what he has learned from it

• - Being in the driver’s seat as opposed to surrendering to the flow of life

• - When and where you can see “Music for Mushrooms”

• Resources:

• - Access our ’21 days of Expansion’ Audio Activation Process gift: ⁠https://nickyclinch.lpages.co/podcast-gift-21-days/⁠

  - Learn more about the “Music for Mushrooms” documentary https://musicformushrooms.com

• - Watch the “Music For Mushrooms” Trailer - https://youtu.be/8zC-FwDBdBQ

• - Follow East Forest on IG: http://instagram.com/eastforest

• - Follow East Forest on YT: http://www.youtube.com/eastforestmusic

• - Listen to East Forest’s music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0okmfBroVgFuvvljnUbqPW?si=GmLomL_ZQTGtCSXYBw4Dzw

  - Visit my website: https://nickyclinch.com/

  - Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicky_clinch/

  - Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickyclinchmaturation

  - Let's connect on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nicky-clinch-surrender
  

Currently, I’m going through a major transition in life. My old world is in the process of dissolving and completing, while simultaneously birthing the new one. In this phase of in-between, we are still with one foot in the old world that no longer fits, and one foot in the new world and the future. The experience is uncomfortable and awkward, but it is one that all of us have to go through multiple times during our lifetime.

So in this episode, I’m going to unpack a little this state of in-between, why it is necessary in order to create a new future, what learning and awareness we can gain from it, and how we can get closer to honesty and alignment with the truth of our heart.

What is Covered:

-The transition that is currently happening in my life

-Why the in-between phase is the only way to create new reality

-The necessary work of completion of the old before we fully step into the new

-Why is it that we don’t tell ourselves the truth?

-The power of the survival mind and why we perceive freedom as threatening

-Understanding the heart as the home to truth

-The process of maturing from the original heartbreak to returning to the heart

-A journaling exercise to explore your untold truths

Resources:

-Access our ’21 days of Expansion’ Audio Activation Process gift: https://nickyclinch.lpages.co/podcast-gift-21-days/

-Visit my website: https://nickyclinch.com/

-Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicky_clinch/

-Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickyclinchmaturation

-Let's connect on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nicky-clinch-surrender

I’m delighted to welcome Mark Groves, a Human Connection Specialist, founder of Create the Love, host of the Mark Groves Podcast, and co-author of Liberated Love onto the show. Mark's work bridges the academic and the human, inviting people to explore the good, the bad, the downright ugly, and the beautiful sides of connection.

In this episode, Mark shares his journey of maturation that led him and his wife to co-author a wonderful book that I read in one take. We discuss emotional maturation, emotional regulation and co-regulation that overcome codependency patterns, the importance of friction in a relationship, the immense impact of parental influences on our sense of being, as well as why emotional maturation is so important when running a business.

What is Covered:

-The relationship experience that led Mark on the path of emotional exploration and maturation

-Why our emotional journey always leads back to the relationship with parents or caregivers

-Why it’s said that love and trauma are next door neighbours

-How relationship friction enables us to grow in love

-Transformation from codependency to co-regulation in a relationship

-The importance of emotional maturation in parenthood

-The connection between money, love and intimacy

Resources:

-Access our ’21 days of Expansion’ Audio Activation Process gift: https://nickyclinch.lpages.co/podcast-gift-21-days/

-Mark’s Websites: https://markgroves.com/ + https://createthelove.com/

-Liberated Love by Mark Groves and Kylie McBeath https://markgroves.com/book

-Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/0807014273/

-How Emotions are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett https://www.amazon.com/How-Emotions-Are-Made-Secret/dp/0544133315

-The Mark Groves Podcast: https://markgroves.com/podcast/

-Find Mark on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@markgroves

-Follow Mark on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/createthelove

-Visit my website: https://nickyclinch.com/

-Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicky_clinch/

-Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickyclinchmaturation

-Let's connect on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nicky-clinch-surrender