Musings on Psychedelics & Becoming YouTube Famous | Your Mate Tom (2020)

Your Mate Tom join us for Season 1 (2020) of Birdsong.

Your Mate Tom is a world travelling documentary filmmaker who takes a brutally honest and practical approach to grounded spirituality & psychedelics.

With roughly 230,000 youtube subscribers on his channel Yourmatetom, and several millions views on multiple videos, his down-to-earth approach has been well received by psychonauts and psychedelic enthusiasts within the youtube community.

He’s also the host of the Yourmatetom podcast, which you can find on all platforms that host good podcasts!

Tom's YouTube Channel:    / @yourmatetom  

 

TIMESTAMPS:

[2:05] Reminiscent connections

[6:00] Sacredness, duality, non-duality

[7:13] Hermeticism’s law of polarity

[8:27] Practical and grounded spirituality

[10:12] Shadow work and Jungian psychology

[13:17] The dark abyss of Tom’s Iboga experience

[14:36] Differing approaches to psychedelic use

[17:15] Shifting from meditation to prayer

[18:10] Dipping Tom’s toes back into psychedelics

[20:50] Exclusively taking psychedelics in a ceremonial context

[23:47] Musings on the preparation process before psychedelics

[28:50] Being a warrior in a garden, rather than a gardener in a war

[29:36] From plant-medicine-peace-and-beauty to Chilean-anarchic-revolutions

[33:00] Strange meditations practices and sitting for 365 days straight

[35:26] Shamanic spirit worlds versus reductionist mechanistic perspectives

[40:00] Paul Chek, AlfaVedic, Walter Russell and the Electric Universe

[43:08] YouTube censorship… what’s going on with Yourmatetom’s channel?

[48:37] The modern day technological witch hunt

[50:07] The Wild West of YouTube

[52:52] Decentralization and the path forward?

[55:05] Reconciling tech time and investing in the big monopolies of social media

[59:12] Memorable collabs and opportunities from being a YouTuber

[1:03:00] Biblical learnings and the “Western Cannon”

[1:05:40] Ceremonial and ritual practice in Tom’s life

[1:09:07] Youtube fame - how has this affected Tom’s life?

[1:10:50] What does Tom wish he knew when he first started YouTubing?

[1:11:42] Dealing with the haters and navigating social media

[1:19:45] Future projects and shining the light of self awareness