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Caving for Wild Magic with Sean Dunne and Cass Greener Jul 3, 2025
Documentary filmmakers Sean Dunne and Cass Greener, fresh from Psychedelic Science, talk about Wild Magic — their new film (scored by Noah) about real people who found the mystical through suffering — and why independent cinema…
Kerry MacLean Dec 30, 2021
Children's book author Kerry MacLean — mother of comedian Kelly MacLean and a student of Chogyam Trungpa since age 15 — shares her illustrated book "A Peaceful Piggy's Guide to Sickness and Death, Sadness and Love," written in…
Unwell with Bill Patrick Jan 6, 2021
DJ Bill Patrick, fresh off launching the podcast Unwell with co-host Austin, talks pandemic shaming versus personal responsibility, the crypto vortex — including the DeFi scam that cost them thousands and how Bitcoin exposes your…
Into The Body with Duncan Heywood Dec 22, 2020
Woodstock bodyworker Duncan Heywood traces his path from intuitive massage on a Sebastopol farm through clairvoyant training at the Berkeley Psychic Institute to massaging clients up to the moment of death, explaining how…
We're All Dead with Ramin Nazer Oct 8, 2020
Artist Ramin Nazer returns to unpack the Neville Goddard-flavored idea that we're all already dead — that dream worlds are the higher-dimensional real reality and waking life is a stubborn place we keep haunting until we remember…
Death and Destruction Aug 6, 2020
A solo transmission recorded from a boat off the coast of Turkey during the August 2020 Lionsgate Portal, reframing death and destruction — Kali, Anubis, the tarot Death card — as necessary energy for killing off the parts of…
Remembering The Dream May 20, 2020
A freewheeling solocast built on the idea that life is a lucid dream you agreed to complete: reality restructures itself to conform to your beliefs, psychedelics are 'placebos' we collectively empower, and your real job is…
Death and Rebirth with Lacey Free Apr 9, 2020
Shadow witch and intuitive reader Lacey Free, calling in from a one-room cabin in the Colorado woods during the early weeks of COVID lockdown, reads the pandemic as a collective death process — old patriarchal structures…
Death and Resurrection Dec 30, 2019
A solo New Year's transmission on death as transition: the Ten of Swords marks the collective shift into 2020, a story of a grumpy Ram Dass at a 2014 retreat buffet becomes a reminder that even saints are human, and a listener…
Sacred Spaces with Alexis Readinger Nov 22, 2019
Architect Alexis Readinger, founder of the Los Angeles design firm Preen, explains how she tunes into clients' unspoken intentions to create sacred hospitality spaces — and previews her boldest project yet: designing spaces for…
Death, Comedy and Realizing Your Dreams with Chris Calogero Aug 1, 2019
Comedian Chris Calogero, who created the podcast Mourning Coffee after finding his roommate dead in 2015, talks with Noah about grief, mortality, and dealing with loss as a comic.
The Return of Jack Carroll Returns May 30, 2019
British comedian Jack Carroll returns for a wide-ranging talk on why sports fandom became one of Noah's unlikeliest spiritual teachers, why nihilism reads like a kid announcing Santa isn't real, and how the intellect is losing…
DEATH and DYING with Death Doula Jill Schock May 23, 2019
Death doula Jill Schock (deathdoulaLA.com) explains her "round table death plan" practice, terror management theory (Ernest Becker, Sheldon Solomon's The Worm at the Core), and how post-Civil War embalming and the funeral…
Death and Money with Kelly MacLean Jan 25, 2018
Comedian and writer Kelly MacLean, an associate producer on a death-and-dying documentary tied to whenyoudie.org, returns to trade notes on the two great taboos: money and death.
Ep. 70 - High Times with Sean Dunne Feb 15, 2017
Documentary filmmaker Sean Dunne (VeryApe.tv) returns for a stoned, in-person conversation at his Greenpoint apartment ranging from music as sacred vibration (Hazrat Inayat Khan's mysticism of sound) to learning instruments in…
Ep. 68 - Fear as an Ally with Mel Stephens Feb 1, 2017
Comedian Mel Stephens, host of the podcast Fear-Based Life, traces her all-consuming fear of death to a honeymoon dream of dying alone in a black void where she couldn't find her husband, and Noah Lampert answers with Tibetan…
Ep. 64 - Skillful Means with Roshi Joan Halifax Jan 4, 2017
Zen teacher and pioneering end-of-life caregiver Roshi Joan Halifax joins Noah for a conversation on skillful means, the throughline of her Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe.
Ep. 48 - Kelly MacLean [Tao of Comedy] Sep 22, 2016
Comedian and podcaster Kelly MacLean, raised by students of Chogyam Trungpa, traces how her brother's sudden death in a car accident turned her interview show The Tao of Comedy into a grief project, and why comedians make the…
Ep. 42 - David Silver Redux Aug 11, 2016
Filmmaker David Silver, the show's first repeat guest, returns for a sprawling conversation that pairs Tibetan Buddhist teaching on death with the 2016 US election.