Susan Joy Rennison is a geophysics lecturer specializing in the emerging science of space weather. In this interview she discusses recent discoveries in astrophysics and the plasma-electrical universe, mythology, politics, and the energy grid.

Alan Shoemaker is the founder of the Amazonian Shaman Conference held in Iquitos, Peru each year. He runs a company that specializes in ayahuasca tourism. Here he talks about the spiritual tourist boom, his founding of the ayahuasca church Soga del Alma, and the global ayahuasca community.

Ron Wheelock trained for many years with indigenous curanderos in Peru. In many ways he epitomises the new breed of Western shamans following indigenous wisdom. Here Ron discusses how he got involved with ayahuasca and was called on the path of shamanism, his experiences with DMT and the spirit world, and treating Western ayahuasca seekers.

So there I am sitting in the dark, exposed to the naked raw emotion of true love as Maria sings to me, and when she is finished there's a pregnant pause like she's waiting for me to speak. For a second my tourist reflexes kick in and I think she wants something, dinero, that I've been drawn back to the level of buy and sell. But she doesn't ask for money. That's not what the mother does.