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Scott Goolsby emerges from his writing as a modern-day seeker who transforms profound personal suffering into deep spiritual insight. He candidly recounts a harrowing battle that stripped away the familiar rhythms of life. What begins as a medical ordeal gradually reveals itself as a spiritual teacher—reshaping how he relates to his body, his expectations, and the very meaning of normalcy.

“As burdensome, depressing, and annoying as it has been, CVS, Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome, has also been one of the greatest spiritual teachers I have ever had. I have learned acceptance. I have acknowledged that this is how my life is now, and, unless I want to be miserable and fight a losing battle, I must accept it.”

“I have also learned patience. I must be patient with myself and with my body. Sometimes I have to cancel plans. Both important and unimportant plans. The disease doesn’t care what they are. But it’s here and I must be with it now. The plans can either wait or go on without me.”

“In many ways, CVS has given me a lot of freedom. It has made room for and called me to fully put in to practice the spiritual teaching of Buddhism, yoga, and Advaita Vedanta that I have been studying most of my life. It has given me new respect for the body, and a much greater appreciation for good health.”

In “Encounters with Ketamine”, Scott steps into the realms of consciousness-shifting medicine. After over two decades of depression and anxiety, he embarks on six guided ketamine infusions. These sessions, he shares, are nothing short of mystical—powerful visits to a crystalline, light-infused inner landscape where suffering transforms into a celebration of joy, universal love, and the dissolution of self.

Together, these two deeply personal accounts reveal a man who integrates suffering and healing, medicine and mysticism. Scott’s journey is both raw and luminous—showing how chronic illness and psychedelic therapy can become conduits to embodied wisdom, leading to resilience, spiritual presence, and the ongoing discovery of self beyond suffering.

In our conversation with Scott Goolsby, we explore the often-overlooked shadow side of spiritual seeking—the emotional turbulence that can arise on the path. Scott spoke candidly about the waves of depression, disillusionment, and raw vulnerability that contrast sharply with popular notions of constant peace or bliss. His journey reveals that true transformation often involves moving through darkness, not around it—and that the path to awakening is rarely linear, tidy, or without pain.

Scott Goolsby’s Website:

https://www.scottgoolsby.com

Encounters with Ketamine:

https://www.scottgoolsby.com/encounters-with-ketamine/

Papaji’s profound teaching. “Stop the Search”

https://www.scottgoolsby.com/the-power-to-stop/

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Steven Martyn - The Sacred Gardener

M.A. (traditional plant use), B.F.A. honours, artist, farmer, wildcrafter, builder, teacher, writer, visionary.

Steven has more than thirty years experience living co-creatively with the Earth, practicing traditional living skills of growing food, building and healing. Steven created Livingstone & Greenbloom in 1986, Toronto’s first green landscaping company.

In 1996, he created the Algonquin Tea Company, North America’s premiere bioregional tea company. He has given talks and run workshops internationally for more than twenty years and taught plant identification and wilderness skills at Algonquin college for 11 years, and at the Orphan Wisdom School for eight years. In 2014, Megan and Steven started the Sacred Gardener Earth Wisdom School. Steven released his first book The Story of the Madawaska Forest Garden in 2016, his second, Sacred Gardening in June 2017 and The Roundhouse in 2022.

“After passing from my body when I was 19 I saw what my life purpose was, and that I had fallen well short. I was given back my body to fulfill a very specific purpose in this life. Since that time forty some years ago I have spent my life spreading the green gospel and bringing people back to be healed by our Great Mother Earth. I spent many years teaching traditional plant use and many more de-programing colonial thinking, opening peoples minds and hearts to a sacred relationship with land, and specifically with the plant people. I practice and teach forms of sacred agriculture and “wildculturing” that our ancestors have practiced since the Paleocene, that generate such abundance the land easily feeds our family, school and friends.”

His new book is Gnosis, and he says,

“In Gnosis we enter a silence so deep and still space is created for the animate world around us, to step up and tell us their story, how they birthed us, protected us, nurtured us and continue to do so. Our culture came about from our divine marriages to beings from other dimensions, from fire, to the materials of our arts; like agriculture, healing, ceramics, weaving, writing and mathematics, the origins of everything in our culture is sacred. The hope is that by getting back to these foundation stones of our culture we can rebuild a sacred reality once again as our ancestors did.”

Steven Martyn's book - GNOSIS:

https://www.amazon.ca/Gnosis-Growing-Culture-Reclamation-Marriages-ebook/dp/B0FBHRFXB3/

The Sacred Gardener website:

https://sacredgardener.ca

The Sacred Gardener Workshops and Events:

https://sacredgardener.ca/workshops-events-2/

The Sacred Gardener Videos and Audios

https://sacredgardener.ca/listen-watch-read/

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Welcome to The FUN Layer — where joy isn’t just an emotion, it’s a practice.

The FUN Layer exists as a fundamental aspect of the human nervous system, though it can be obscured by thoughts, emotions, and reactions. People, therefore, often find it challenging to bring FUN into conscious awareness. The FUN Layer Course provides tools and techniques to both access and deepen within the FUN, making it accessible in every moment. The practices are ever-evolving, based on Improv principles, Unified Mindfulness techniques, and a grab bag of whatever arises in the moment. Join Amy and Certified FUN Layer Facilitator Gary in the vast, joy-filled effervescence that is the FUN Layer!

Perfectly Okay Website: perfectlyokay.org

For more information about The Fun Layer contact Gary Falk: falkgw@hotmail.com